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. The
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only man living in Pittsburgh who should be counting his grains at the end of the day‚ although no other had such attractive wares to offer as he. But he could not honestly sell young apple trees that would die on the long‚ slow journeys into the wilderness of the Northwest Territory‚ so he was obliged to discourage men from buying. Nevertheless he would have as busy as a day as any‚ just in being a brother to wayfaring man and beast. His nursery and orchard lay on the main traveled road‚ on
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“Annie Get Your Gun” is a musical‚ loosely based on the life of sharpshooter great‚ Annie Oakley. Written by with music by Irving Berlin‚ the courtship of Annie Oakley and Frank Butler is the main storyline. The Broadway show opened in 1946 and the Movie was produced in 19 . World War 11 had ended and women who were in factories and serving in the armed forces were returning home. Many people at that time wanted to restore the traditional role that women played in American society‚ that of wife
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Grade 10 Review For Final Exam - Solutions CHEMISTRY – CHEMICAL PROCESSES QUESTIONS 1. Briefly describe the tests for the following gases: (a) carbon dioxide turns limewater milky - precipitates (b) oxygen causes glowing splint to re-ignite (c) hydrogen causes burning splint to produce a pop sound. 2. Sketch a periodic table and label the main regions of the table. See pg 184 3. Draw Bohr diagrams for the following atoms: (a) boron (b) sulphur (c) calcium. [pic]
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How the Tiger got His Stripes In the beginning‚ the animals in the jungle had plenty of food. They all walked along the ground and had no need to search for anything. Then one day they suddenly discovered they were low on food. The larger animals ran out before the smaller ones. The Tiger was the first to go on the hunt. The bright orange fur did not camouflage well‚ yet none of the animals expected to be hunted to pickings were easy for the Tiger. The Monkey noticed the Tiger stalking him one
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Choose one of the prompts below for this assignment. Explain what the prophesy in “How the Coyote Got His Powers” means and relate it to another text or historical circumstance that shares the same story or theme. Think back to our class discussion of many characters from the Batman movies and comics as trickster and Coyote figures‚ as well as the similarities between the Exodus of the Jewish population from Egypt as inspiration. Avoid using these examples if you can and look for one of your
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The last day I saw my son his friends were at the hospital. The nurse told me Johnny did not want to see me but I demanded but I forced myself in the room. I do not know why he did not want to see me because I did not do something wrong his dad also did nothing did nothing wrong. Why does he hate me and his dad he never sleeps here too I wonder why. Also why was he gone for a week I am so confused. I knew that me and his dad should be stricter and hit him one more time if he was never home by 9:00
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Johnny Johnson never knew that he was special‚ in fact‚ he was taught to think the exact opposite. As a child‚ Johnny’s was neglected the love and affection that he deserved. Johnny’s parents told him that he was not going to go anywhere‚ or do anything with his life. It was not until Johnny was seventeen that he found out why. Johnny was adopted. Once Johnny found out that he was adopted he did everything that he could to find his true parents‚ but it was as if they had never existed. Johnny searched
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Johnny the Bagger Ethan Aaron Kiser Indiana University East Abstract This paper covers how Johnny the Bagger‚ an individual with down syndrome‚ left his personal signature on his occupation of bagging groceries. With grasping the incredible difference Johnny made I started to think how I could leave my own personal fingerprint on the customers to whom I come into contact with in my occupation. So I came up with the idea I would take them to lunch and build a
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Diamonds Thesis for Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Jared Diamond is on a mission to prove his thesis‚ "History followed different courses for different people because of differences among peoples’ environments‚ not because of biological differences among peoples themselves"(Pg 25). He writes many chapters filled with intriguing reasons to prove his thesis. It takes a lot of facts and countless arguments to prove something everyone thinks is true‚ wrong‚ and after reading the book‚ I think Jared completed
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