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    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 of the king of the deities.

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    The World on the Turtle’s back is an appealing story written by an Iroquois; is about a woman and what could happen when if she did not do what she was supposed to do. But most importantly the story is to teach and inform the younger people how the people were in Native American times. One way he showed how they were is by using literary devices in his short story‚ or in other words: creation myth. First and foremost‚ the Iroquois use allusions to Native American tradition gender roles

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    Anuj Patel September 30‚ 2010 English 11 1st Period The Earth on Turtle’s Back & the Navajo Origin Legend Native Americans have great respect for the natural world. They believe that each creature has its own power by which it maintains itself and affects others. Each Native American culture has its own name for this power‚ but many Native American cultures recognize a Great Spirit- an invisible power that is the source of life and good for humans. Many of the animals that helped feed and

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    order to get information in reply. The most popular question that has been asked by a lot of people in the world today is‚ " how this world came to be ?" We’ve heard so many stories as to how this world came to be‚ some stories are religious‚ some are myths and some are the evolution story. Speaking of‚ " how this world came to be‚" the first story is about the christian’s belief on how this world came to be. It’s about Adam and Eve‚ the first man and woman that God created. In the story about Adam

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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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    The Iroquois

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    The Iroquois Vonda Matthews Cultural Anthropology July 7‚ 2013 Instructor: Rebekah Zinser Kinship is the cornerstone for how people within a society relate to others and race lineages. Many societies trace their lineage through the father‚ which is called patrilineal‚ or through the mother which is called matrilineal. The Iroquois nation traced their kinship through the matrilineal decent lines. Kinship directly relates to how family groups think‚ act and live along side each other. The culture

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    Turtles

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    Entries Breakouts The Turtle Experiment CHAPTER 5 18 Adding Units 19 Consistency INTRODUCTION 18 20 ONE A Complete Trading System 7 CHAPTER The Components of a Complete System 8 Stops 21 Markets – What to buy or sell 8 Turtle Stops 21 Position Sizing – How much to buy or sell 8 Stop Placement 22 Entries – When to buy or sell Alternate Stop Strategy – The Whipsaw 23 Benefits of the Turtle System Stops 24 8

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    The leatherback turtle is one of the most unique sea turtles; it ’s almost completely pelagic‚ migrates impossible distances and is the largest turtle in the world. And it ’s disappearing. The Endangered Species Act has put the Leatherback on the map‚ but the road to recovery is uncertain for this gentle giant. The plan covers the breeding populations within the US‚ and parts of Mexico‚ but most of the Central America‚ Southeast Asia and the Pacific Island populations are struggling and close

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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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    Iroquois Confederacy

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    IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY by Loretta Hall OVERVIEW The Iroquois Confederacy‚ an association of six linguistically related tribes in the northeastern woodlands‚ was a sophisticated society of some 5‚500 people when the first white explorers encountered it at the beginning of the seventeenth century. The 1990 Census counted 49‚038 Iroquois living in the United States‚ making them the country’s eighth most populous Native American group. Although Iroquoian tribes own seven reservations in New York

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