How the giraffe got his long neck. A long time ago before giraffes had long necks they were mid –sized animals with hooved feet and strongly built bodies. People are always curious to know how giraffes got such a long neck and I know of a tale that will tell what happened. One day a giraffe named George was walking along when he smelled his favorite food the Acacia‚ only he couldn’t see it. George looked and looked until he noticed there was a fence blocking his way from finding his food
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“Giraffe’s Can’t Dance” Problem Solving: Following the story “Giraffe Can’t Dance‚” the children focus on the problems the main character faces‚ and the connected resolution that the character selects. After the teacher reads aloud the story‚ the students should be able to compare their different viewpoints of the story‚ and the plots utilizing story mapping to organize their thoughts. As a culminating project‚ students should be allowed to select a story character from the book to define the problem
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simply‚ is you open the fridge‚ put the elephant inside‚ and close the door. This solved‚ consider another riddle: • How do you get a giraffe into a refrigerator? Readers might be tempted to reuse the previous answer for this second riddle‚ but this turns out to be too simple. The correct answer is you open the fridge‚ take out the elephant‚ put the giraffe inside‚ and close the door. Now‚
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Priscilla Solis History 108 CRN 25469 A Women’s Journey Despite the growth of industry‚ urban centers‚ and immigration‚ America in the 19th century was still very rural. The “Cult of Domesticity” first named and identified in the early part of the century‚ the beliefs embodied in this “cult” gave women a central role in the family. Women’s god given role‚ it stated was a wife and mother. Pulling against these “beliefs” was the sense of urgency‚ movement‚ and progress in the industrial and political
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Judith Beveridge Poem Essay This essay discusses the value and merit of Judith Beveridge’s poems "Domesticity of Giraffes" and "Fox in a tree stump" and describes how each poem clarifies the value of life. Judith Beveridge is a well known poet whose poems portray moral values and meanings which are essential elements for Australian poetry. Two of her poems "Domesticity of giraffes" and "Fox in a tree stump" express these elements by clarifying the value of life‚ exploring humanity’s relationship
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and her appreciation for life in all. Through her two poems ‘the domesticity of Giraffes’ and ‘the streets of Chippendale’ these both communicate her ideas and values the strongest. One of Beveridge’s strongest values is of life‚ in ‘the domesticity of giraffes’ this is displayed from the first sentence of the second stanza. ‘I think of her graceful on her plain’ Beveridge puts herself into the poem‚ her thoughts of the giraffe in her natural state‚ gracefully running in the wild. The entire second
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Beveridge does this in three of poems. “The Domesticity of giraffes”‚ “Fox in a tree stump” and “The Two Brothers”. Through the use of repetition and personification she incorporates her feelings about cruelty towards animals and humans. She uses these techniques in all three of her poems. Poetry shows the reader a new way to look at familiar situations and in her poem “The Domesticity of Giraffes” she uses repetition to show the cruelty towards the Giraffe. This creates a feeling of annoyance towards
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human kind’s primal instincts shape their envrionment. Judith Beveridge’s Poem ’Domesticity of Giraffes’ also cleverly examines the treatment Women receive from their environment or society. Both Robert Frost and Judith beveridge represent people and their environments in unique and evocative ways through the use of allegories‚ tropes and poem structure. this is evident in ’Mending Wall’ by frost‚ and ’Domesticity of Giraffes’ by Beveridge. Frost uses extended metaphors with multi-layered meaning to them
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The height of the average adult male Giraffe is 16 to 20 feet and the height of the average adult female Giraffe is 15 feet. The average weight of an adult male Giraffe is 2‚600 lbs and the average weight of an adult female Giraffe is 1‚800 lbs. Giraffes are around for a long time. Most Giraffes live to be an average of 25 years. Fun Fact: When a Giraffe is stressed they tend to eat the bark off of branches.” Eastern Gorilla - The Eastern Gorilla
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GIRAFFES - Lee Downie “Four Eyes!” “Giraffe Neck!” “You stink” “You look like a boy” “Shut up ugly‚ I hate you‚ I hate you!” Kayla shouts to the boy living in the house on the opposite side of the street. Every morning just before lunchtime the kids would come out of their houses onto their porches and hurl insults at each other‚ making them hate each other more and more each day. A few weeks ago Kayla and Kyle were playmates but that all changed when Kyle threw Kayla’s cabbage patch doll onto
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