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    Art of embroidery in Palestine Culture is a description of a certain way of life‚ which expresses certain meanings and values‚ not only in art and learning but also in institutions and ordinary behavior. Raymond Williams suggests that‚ culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language (Williams 1976:76).Ultimately the word culture comes from the Latin word colere‚ meaning to inhabit‚ to cultivate‚ to protect and to honor with worship. From this word the word cultura

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    Dillard Audubon

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    approaches his flock’s peculiarity with a methodical and scientific view and is mostly amazed with the unusualness of the pigeons but Dillard’s experience of watching the flock of starlings expresses a spiritual and sensational side of bird watching. Audubon firsts writes the place where he saw the pigeons: "in passing over the Barrens a few miles beyond Hardensbug‚ I observed the pigeons." Also‚ Audubon immediately states the birds he saw and the direction of the flight‚ "from north-east to south-west

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    choice. Where would they go‚ the city? Uh no. so pigeon calls a meeting in the barn‚ I wonder how things are gonna go on in the farm….. Pigeon: Everything that is said in the barn‚ stays in the barn‚ right lamb! Lamb: Bahhhhhh! Pig: I think I speak for everyone when I say… I HATE FARMER DEAN Cat: why don’t we just kill the farmer? Lamb: umm can we come up with a more nonviolent way? Pig: lamb is right; we won’t stand a chance against the farmer Pigeon: wait a minute‚ why don’t we just run away

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    Flight By Doris Lessing In the short story "Flight" by Alice Lessing‚ it’s the story of an old man who raises homing pigeons for a hobby and who constantly worries about his last granddaughter‚ Alice‚ leaving and getting married tothe postmaster’s son‚ Steven. The old man is very overprotective and also possessive of his daughter.In a way‚ the grandfather is also jealous of Alice’s fiancé‚ Steven. The Old man argues with Aliceabout her behaviour when Steven is with her and he complains to his

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    The Story of a Man

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    PART 1... I wasn’t always like this. Well‚ I mean…I WAS‚ I guess. Maybe my eyes were closed. Maybe my eyes were just...lying. But the FEELING was always there‚ constantly bubbling in the dent of my chest. I always felt that my insides were too big for my skin. Like any minute my skin would start to separate and let out my organs and my bones‚ which were dying to escape. I was a water balloon‚ on the brink of exploding‚ saturating the hands of whoever was dumb enough to keep filling me‚ testing

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    Skinner Article

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    believed that each person is born a blank slate. He contributed the theory of operant conditioning. For example reinforcement strengthens behavior and punishment weakens behavior. Skinner developed this theory by conducting experiments on rats and pigeons in a “Skinner Box”. The theory of operant conditioning showed how the environment affects a person’s behavior. For example‚ a primary school teacher would use positive reinforcement to strengthen good behavior by using stars as rewards for good work

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    caught two fat pigeons and hold them in their trembling hands. As the poem continues‚ the boys eventually release the pigeons and watch as the birds fly far above their poverty-stricken community. Flores creates a hopeful tone to communicate that even in the midst of poverty‚ one can still hope for a different future freed from the strains of poverty. Throughout the poem‚ the reader is able to see how the boys’ lives are difficult and lonely due to poverty. However‚ as they watch the pigeons fly away‚

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    Sniffer is a short film about a man‚ who lives in a world where humans wear metal boots to weigh them down because they don’t react to gravity. The protagonist lives a monotonous life‚ arising from his sleep every morning to commute to work in a overcrowded bus‚ where his job entails testing deodorants by sniffing the armpits of various individuals‚ which is shown to be overweight. However‚ the ending of the film exhibit him realizing how dreary his life is‚ which triggered him unfastening his

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    CHAPTER 4 ANIMAL KINGDOM Animal Kingdom is characterized by multicellular‚ eukaryotic organisms. The cells lack cell walls. They ingest and digest food (holozoic)‚ hence they are heterotrophic. Higher forms show elaborate sensory and neuromotor systems. Majority of them are motile. Reproduction is mostly sexual and embryological development is present in them. About 1.2 million species of animals are described till now. The classification helps to assign a systematic position to newly described

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    Myron Levoy Summary

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    You are walking along an abandoned trail. Then‚ all of a sudden you see an injured bird that isn’t able to fly‚ or get food. What would you do? Would you keep walking‚ or save itś life. Well‚ Aaron sure saved a pigeon´s life. In the story‚ ¨Aaronś Gift‚¨ the author‚ Myron Levoy‚ portrays the idea of what someone would do for their family. It not only shows the ordinary life of a boy‚ but‚ what the life of a boy should look like. This story explains how to be kind‚ courageous‚ and thoughtful. Aaron

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