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    The earth on the turtle’s back is the Onondaga myth that shows the relationship between nature and human. This story explains the origin of the world follow their belief that nature is the resource of all life. The writer makes to see through his imagination and an idea that nature has effects to human’s living‚ to use advantage together and dependence each together between nature and human. First‚ Nature has effects to human’s living. In this story chief’s wife dreams that the big tree was uprooted

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    Summary A land turtle navigates through a dry patch of ground toward a slanted highway embankment full of oat beards and foxtails. Resolute and unswerving‚ the turtle fights its way up the slope to the highway and begins to cross the hot pavement. A speeding car swerves onto the shoulder to avoid the turtle. Moments later‚ a truck purposefully clips the shell of the turtle‚ sending it spinning to the side of the highway‚ landing on its back. Eventually‚ the turtle rights itself‚ crawls down the

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    The Bible vs. The World on a Turtle’s Back The coming of man has always been ambiguous. Religion‚ ethnicity‚ and culture all participate in the coming of man. How mankind came into existence has many different versions‚ many of which lie in the Torah‚ Koran‚ and Bible. “The World on a Turtle’s Back” is the Iroquois belief of creation‚ divergent to “The Creation Story” from the Bible. Though these versions are about the same topic‚ they both differ on several accounts. “And God said‚ let there

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    Samantha Delgado Mrs. Shreiner English III: American Literature 9/27/13 When Turtles Walked Upright!? The Earth on Grizzly’s Back!? In the Native American origin myths “Earth on Turtle’s Back” by the Onondaga and “When Grizzlies Walked Upright” by the Modoc many cultural values are revealed. In both stories the indigenous people are able to give insight as to how they feel life begins and their religious beliefs. By doing so they reveal details about their tribes that otherwise would have remained

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    In “The Earth on Turtle’s Back” there is a generous attempt in helping the Chief’s wife. When the ancient Chief pulled up the Grand Tree‚ there was a hole in which the Chief’s wife fell in. The plot of the story was to simply help the woman that fell from the Skyland to step on ground in the waters. Many animals helped to dive into the deep waters to find earth. The setting of the story was in the Skyland’s and in the waters. The action was ordered from the woman falling into the waters. Two birds

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    ("The Earth on Turtle’s Back")‚ people began to realize that individualism could not be contained to one individual. Although the idea of individualism is set on the morals of one person‚ in order for their ideal world to come true‚ it needs to be shared with others. In The Earth on Turtle’s Back‚ if not for an individual who had a vision‚ the world would have not existed‚ if Skyland’s wife had not shared those ideas‚ it would not have come to past and there would have not been the new Earth. Many

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    there were some similarities. But come on now a Native American story could not be like a Sumerian story. “The World on the Turtles Back” was about a woman goddess who was pregnant with a child and hungry dinning on everything she asked her man to bring her bark from the forbidden tree. But then she fell through the ground. Then she started on creating the world atop a turtle back. The other story I read was an ancient Sumerian story about a world of gods. They did not agree at all with the choices

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    This I Believe In the novel “The Back of the Turtle” by Thomas King‚ the characters face an extensive amount of issues in their lives that define their character. Whether or not they handled these situations effectively? That’s another story: 1. In the prologue of the novel‚ the reader meets Gabriel Quinn walking down the beach to his death. He decides that the only way to cope with the mistakes that he made is to end his life. I do not think that Gabriel handled this situation very well‚ he

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    frame> <!-- END TAG --> | | Red-Ear Slider Turtles | | Home | | Introduction of the Red-Eared Slider Turtle | History and Taxonomy | Diseases and their cures | Feeding time! | Photo Album | Related Links | Contact Me | | | Diseases and their cures | | | | | | There are so many diseases a captive turtle can get.All of us as owners or breeders should know the most common ones.As we know turtles unlike many herptiles ‚dont give any signs of an illness so

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