1. Ducks are birds that are also called "waterfowls" because they are normally found in places with water like marshes‚ oceans‚ rivers‚ ponds‚ and lakes. This is because ducks love the water. Ducks can live from 2-12 years‚ depending on species. 2. Some species of ducks migrate or travel longs distances every year to breed. Usually they travel to warmer areas or where the water does not freeze so that they can rest and raise their young. The distance may be thousands of miles away.
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Isabella Bird: The Well-Educated World Traveler Isabella Bird is not a modern-day author; she lived in the 1800s‚ and traveled the world as a single‚ brave woman who wrote about her adventures in letters back to her sister in England. In A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains‚ Bird collected her travel letters from the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. She bought a horse‚ traveled alone‚ and found places to board at the local houses and farms along the way. Bird stayed at Estes Park‚ Denver‚ Colorado
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The birds joyously dance around‚ singing exaggerated paeans unto Pithetaerus‚ their sad excuse for a king. They start‚ what seems to be‚ an endless rambling frenzy of compliments that feed his growing ego. In Aristophanes’ play‚ The Birds‚ a comical scene is illustrated that brilliantly fuses together irony and humor. The use of hyperboles and rhyme shape Aristophanes’ satirical tone‚ which sends his audience into a state of gasping laughter. Although he uses poetic diction to define Pithetaerus
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follow that their father Atticus educates them about mockingbirds. Atticus is trying to help them understand that you do not hurt the innocent‚ you protect them. “…I’d rather you shoot at tin cans in the backyard‚ but I know you’ll go after birds‚ shoot all the blue jays you want‚ if you can hit ’em‚ but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” (Lee 119) It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird because they do not do anything but create beautiful music for others to enjoy. By killing a
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The Dodo Bird The dodo was a medium-large sized flightless bird that was discovered on the Island of Mauritius in the 1590s and was declared extinct less than a century later‚ in 1681. Because the dodo had a turkey-sized body‚ it is thought to have been most closely related to smaller birds such as doves and pigeons. The dodo inhabited the tropical forests on the tiny island of Mauritius that is situated in the Indian Ocean. Like the neighbouring island of Madagascar‚ Mauritius broke away from
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love A character that refuses to dominate anyone and offers himself to any person from his humble nature is a faithful servant of the world and all who belongs to it. I don’t think I have to explain what the historical context was in 1940‚ but is the filming year of The Great Dictator‚ one of the masterpieces of Charles Chaplin. We have seen‚ throughout history‚ that in difficult and tragic times‚ great personalities rise and bring out the best of themselves in order to give a lesson to the most
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Unit 1/Week 3 lesson Island of the Blue Dolphins Grade 5 subject: ELA SS SCI Math Preparation content objectives: Students will be able to read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it‚ using specific evidence when writing and speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. *Teacher’s can write or adjust content objectives’ to meet the needs of their students. language objectives: Through discussion and writing
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A Bird in the House Introduction A Bird in the House is a short story sequence written by Margaret Laurence. In her novel the author elevates the theme of physical entrapment. The title “a bird in the house” is full symbolism signifying a hidden soul of sorrow. In around eight interrelated written stories‚ Margaret Laurence recreates the world of Vanessa MacLeod a granddaughter of a tyrant woman who lived as perfectionist though under depression. Vanessa grows in a homestead that
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The Bird-In-The-Hand Theory The essence of the bird-in-the-hand theory of dividend policy (advanced by John Litner in 1962 and Myron Gordon in 1963) is that shareholders are risk-averse and prefer to receive dividend payments rather than future capital gains. Shareholders consider dividend payments to be more certain that future capital gains – thus a “bird in the hand is worth more than two in the bush”. Gorden contended that the payment of current dividends “resolves
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Love in L.A is a short story based on the traffic troubles a lower social class musician experiences in L.A. Dagoberto Gilb gives his reader a good example of the conflict between a lower socially classed person and an upper socially classed person.The Story starts off with an average musician named Jake who is stuck in Traffic. As the traffic slowly creeps Jake gets comfortable and turns up his music. Getting distracted he ends up hitting a beautiful Venezuelan woman Toyota. Of course‚ Jake ends
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