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    Once upon a time‚ there lived a frog in Bingle Bog‚ who croaked all night long from the foot of a sumac tree‚ in his loud and unpleasant voice. All the creatures hated his “singing” but endured it as they had no other option. He was so stubborn and shameless that nothing from stones to insults to prayers could stop him from singing.  One night‚ a nightingale came to the tree and sang in such a beautiful‚ melodious voice‚ that it left the frog and all the other creatures dumbstruck. The whole bog

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    different than humans. First‚ the lungs in a frog have thin walls and are shaped like balloons. When frogs swim‚ they fill their lungs with air‚ which helps them stay buoyant while swimming. Frogs also do not have diaphragms compared to humans. They only breathe through their nose. They use muscles in their throat sacs to help move the air in‚ and then is pushed to the lungs. During this time‚ their mouth is closed. Body contractions allow the frogs to release carbon dioxide. When us humans breathe

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    tibo-fibula bone while leaving the it attached to the knee and heel. The muscle was consistently moistened by Ringer’s solution throughout the entire experiment. The Achilles tendon was removed at the heel of the frog. The tibiofibular bone was cut below the knee and the femur below the knee (Frog Skeletal Muscle Experiement). The baseline value of the force transducer was set to zero. This zeroing procedure was conducted at the start of each exercise. The force transducer was then calibrated for the

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    Poison Dart Frog

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    TOPIC : Frogs NARROWED FOCUS : Species of Frogs THESIS : There are over 4‚000 species of frogs but our focus will be limited to the Poison Dart‚ Wood and Darwin Frogs‚ which all belong to the Ranidae family. INTRODUCTION : Frogs belong to a group called amphibians which begin their lives in the water as eggs and then tadpoles and when fully developed they live on land. Three distinguishing elements such as: their habitat‚ size and the reason for the names given to them will be highlighted

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    high-tech exercise equipment‚ the jumping jack might be considered "old school." When Michelle Obama encouraged others to help her set a Guinness World Record in 2011 for the most people performing jumping jacks in a day‚ she not only became "Jumper in Chief‚" but she bestowed a certain modicum of cool on this most basic of calisthenics. The resulting buzz from fitness experts indicates that your PE teacher was on to something after all: Regularly performing jumping jacks imparts significant health

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    Journal Article Review Jumping Rope in Physical Education Settings This article by Susan B. Nye was written to educate all students that jumping rope is an activity that can be fun and enjoyable. The overall layout of this article I thought was well constructed. The article begins with background information about jumping rope and why it is important to incorporate jumping rope in the classroom as well as why it is considered a lifelong physical activity. Then the article shifts toward

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    Bungee Jumping or Skydiving Bungee jumping and skydiving are two adventurous activities that can be very exciting and enjoyable. In both cases‚ an adrenalin rush is produced by jumping from a great height in order to enjoy falling towards the earth with speed‚ but the experience of bungee jumping is actually very different from the experience of skydiving as you shall see. Bungee jumping makes use of an elastic cord‚ which is attached to the jumper using a harness. As you jump‚ the cord stretches

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    Currently‚ frog populations around the world are declining. Due to the nature of their life cycles and physiology‚ frogs are very sensitive to environmental changes. Frogs are born in the water as tadpoles. Frogs move onto land for their adult lives. This makes them vulnerable to changes in aquatic habitat availability. This also makes them vulnerable to changes in terrestrial habitat availability. Their aquatic habitats are drying out‚ in areas that are becoming more prone to drought. Frogs are also

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    and the Frog”‚ an adaptation of the classic fairytale “The Frog Prince” and is set in New Orleans‚ Louisiana during the 1920’s. In the movie Tiana has a dream about owning her own restaurant. She starts of as a waitress‚ working multiple jobs to help save the money to buy the mill. Lottie gives Tiana enough money to finish paying for the restaurant because she orders food. Naveen arrives with Lawrence and they find the Dr. Facilier‚ who transforms Lawrence into Naveen and Naveen into a frog. During

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    1) The story opens with two robberies at the narrator’s house. The first one was when her family home was robbed by their neighbour‚ Osita‚ a ‘lithe and handsome’ popular young man whose father was a professor. He took the VCR‚ TV and some American videos. The second robbery was committed by the narrator’s brother Nnamabia‚ while their parents were visiting the grandparents in another town. In this he faked a robbery‚ stole the mother’s gold jeweler and after denying that it was him‚ disappeared

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