Body What is a chinchilla? The Chinese word for chinchilla means “dragon cat”. Chinchillas are exotic animals and are hard to describe. They look like a cross between a rabbit and a squirrel. They come from South America and have big ears‚ tiny front paws‚ dense fur‚ and a curled tail. They also have the softest fur on earth. Chinchillas are mammals and come from the Rodentia family and have a long life span. Their wild ancestors originated in the mountains of Argentina‚ Bolivia
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“A child who‚more than anything else‚ is a spontaneous observer of nature‚ certainly needs to have at his disposal material upon which he can work.” As our lives become more technologically advanced and driven many children have very little access to a natural habitat in their neighbourhood environment.Young children develop their sensory‚cognitive‚gross and motor skills while in relationship to the natural world.The function of the school is to supply children with interesting information and
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As he comes off the field‚ an athlete notices he has a subtle pain in his shoulder. Determined to finish out the season strong‚ he takes two tablets of aspirin in hopes of healing the beginnings of an injury. What the athlete does not know about the painkillers could affect him later down the road‚ especially if he upholds his mentality of constantly taking aspirin whenever he senses an injury in the making. Painkillers are drugs that simply mask the pain many people suffer from on a daily basis
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researches in the Antarctica‚ scientists have discovered a large crack in the ice. They are keeping a close eye on the ever-growing crack in an Antarctica ice shelf that will eventually lead to the iceberg’s formation. Although the detachment of these ice shelves is a natural process‚ scientists have observed that the iceberg that will come off will be larger than usual. The most important thing now is to analyze the causes and evolution of the crack in the face of the possibility that it may be linked to
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Elements of Montessori Education Montessori education is a child centric method of education that caters to the complete development of the child. The three key elements of the Montessori method are - The adult (Directress)‚ Prepared environment & Montessori materials. The adult (Directress) The Montessori directress plays an important role in the development of the child. She needs to offer the child what he needs‚ but unobtrusively & indirectly. She should stimulate the child to work for
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Skunk Hour by Robert Lowell and The Armadillo by Elizabeth Bishop are very similar poems. The two poems have the theme and title of an animal. One of the contrasts that I could pick out between the two poems is: The Armadillo depicts a creature who cannot understand the events destroying its life‚ whereas the speaker in Skunk Hour recognizes the events affecting its life. Using the skunk character as a descriptive element in his poem‚ Robert Lowell increases the space between the character and the
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The Rely Tampon The Rely Tampon‚ made by Proctor & Gamble‚ has been under public scrutiny for years for various reasons. Known mostly for their debated link to the deaths of thirty eight women from Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS) and for lawyers charges against them of "suppressing important data that may [have] enhance[d] medical understanding of TSS" (Fielding). The Rely Tampon has become a hot topic and one of the most famous tampons in our history‚ second only to Tampax. "It Even Absorbed
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Strategic Plan‚ p. 3) The owner works 7 days a week and performs many jobs from purchasing to stocking shelves. Kudler Fine Foods sees itself outside of competition. The customer’s satisfaction survey‚ conducted in 2011‚ indicated that 80% of customers find Kudler Fine Foods stores convenient for open hours and are pleased with atmosphere and décor inside the stores. The owner makes sure that the shelves are restored with the fines and fresh product‚ however only 40.3% of customers said that the quality
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are finding them. Big corporations are monopolizing organic farming and using the high expenditure rate as cover up to increase profit. The profits could be remarkable in organics‚ Rodale.com reports in the article “Hottest Products on Supermarket Shelves” (by Leah Zerbe) that‚ “the organic food industry grew nearly 5% last year‚” and “78% of all U.S. families are buying some organic products.” This small fact alone proves that organic farming is bound to become a very promising industry. The neon
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strategies used were to have trucks unload and stock shelves in the early morning so they did not get in the way of customers in the store or in the parking lot. They did not keep a large selection of items on the shelf‚ for instance‚ if you needed peanut butter‚ there was one brand of peanut butter in the store and it came in one size. They hired an outside contractor to warehouse there stock‚ deliver it to their stores and restock the shelves. This was a “central management of assortment” They
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