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    them uses the other species as food. The Great Blue Heron is a majestic sight‚ which has subtle blue-gray plumage and lives in aquatic habitats. It often stands as it scans for prey or wades really slowly‚ but then‚ they can be as fast as a lightning to grab their food(fish‚ frogs‚ salamanders‚ lizarts‚ small snakes‚ and dragonflies). In this lab‚ we are going to model predation and the effects of changes in the environment on organisms-Blue heron feeding in a lake with several fish. Objective: The

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    Character: Orville Wright Orville Wright/Narrative Hook: Ever been on a plane well if you have thank me because I invented the first plane with my brother Wilbur and that was modified through the years to the planes we have now. Background info (birthplace‚ birthdate‚ any relevant childhood info.‚ relevant relationship info.‚ etc.): I was born on August 19‚ 1871‚ in Dayton‚ Ohio I was one of five children of my mother Susan Catherine Koerner‚ and my father Milton Wright‚ a bishop in the

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    ’A White HeronSummary Sylvia‚ a nine-year-old girl‚ is leading her wayward cow‚ Mistress Moolly‚ home. She lives on a farm with her grandmother‚ Mrs. Tilley. Mrs. Tilley took Sylvia in as her town home was too busy‚ and Sylvia was ‘afraid of folks.’ Sylvia has become part of the natural environment and feels at home in this ‘beautiful place’. Her grandmother acknowledges Sylvia’s kinship with the creatures around her. Sylvia is startled by a ‘boy’s whistle’‚ then approached by a ‘stranger’

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    Plot‚ characters‚ and theme page I read the novel Night by Elie Wiesel. It is about a young boy named Eliezer during the era of the Holocaust and is narrated through his words. He talks about his faith through the Jewish readings but is cut short when his teacher Moshe is deported. Moshe comes back and tells him the Gestapo shot them all down in a ditch and how he narrowly escaped. This sets up the story telling about the inhumane genocide of the Jewish people. After this‚ the Germans occupy Eliezer’s

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    - 1945 during World war 2 Nazies separated many family’s and put them in the concentration camps.In the story “Night” written by Elie Wiesel tells us about his experience and what him and his father witnessed during they were in the Concentration camp.Throughout the story Elies and many other Jews faith and beliefs change while they are in the concentration camps. The story “Night” is about a young Jewish kid name Elie that was put in concentration camp.Elies was taken to a camp called Auschwitz

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    “The Blood Red Night” By Lauren Tarshis shows how the Peshtigo Fire affected a family who lived in Peshtigo at the time of the fire. The article explains how the Kramer family wanted to stay behind to protect their house from the fire. However‚ they were unable to save it and they had to run away from the fire. After they left their house‚ the fire encircled them and they had to hide in a well until the fire stopped burning around them. Miraculously‚ no one in that family died‚ but many others

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    “White Heron‚” is a short story written by Sarah Orne Jewett or originally known as Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett. The story was published by Houghton‚ Mifflin and Company in 1886 in a collection of other short stories. The plot follows a young 8 year old girl named Sylvia and her grandmother on a small farm out in the woodlands. She comes face to face with a troubling predicament. Would she give up a beautiful endangered animal for her family or will she keep her loyalty to the White Herons secret

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    Smith 01 Peter Smith Professor Stone HUM 202 26 JAN 2013 Night Comes to the Cumberlands-Book Review Essay I recently read a book titled “Night Comes to the Cumberlands” written by a man named Harry M. Caudill. I chose this book for a couple of different reasons. The first is because after reviewing the book‚ I realized it was very thorough in how it covered the plight of the Appalachia people‚ it also goes into detail about how many different events from when his grandfather’s grandfather

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    Women’s Rights Judith Sargent Stevens Murray writes on the equality of men and women in 1790. Murray wrote this for the public and explains the difference between men and women and how women were degraded in 1790. Murray writes about how women were not allowed to accompany their husbands to certain places because they were not qualified enough and it made the feel inferior. A woman’s place was said to be in the kitchen or sewing. Murray is not bias in her writing but may be looked down on for speaking

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    “A White Heron” by Sarah Orne Jewett‚ is a short story that is a representation of the life within Maine. Jewett demonstrates the conflict Sylvia; a newly rural child faces when given the choice of pleasing the man she is attracted to or being faithful to the love she has for nature. Sylvia who knows the location of the White Heron; a unique bird‚ has to decided whether to place the love she has for nature above pleasing a hunter with the intention of stuffing the bird and adding it to his collection

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