Character Sketch!!!! Turtle Wexler is a three-teen year old girl who lives in Sunset Tower in her closet. Turtle is a character in the “Westing Game” by Ellen Raskin. She loves to wear her hair in beautiful long braids which makes her look older than she originally is‚ and she usually wears a uniform. She has a sister named Angela Wexler who always makes Turtle annoyed because of how pretty she looks. Her mum is named Grace Wexler‚ she doesn’t really care about Turtle as much as she does with
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Michael Milosevich Professor DeGraffenreid English 102-WI2015-15103 25 January 2015 Leatherback‚ Loggerhead‚ or Just Turtle Kay Ryan’s Turtle on first read is nothing more than a poem about a stodgy turtle and it’s below average life‚ but the author is undoubtedly articulating life and how humankind struggle throughout each awakening day just to survive. Front page material screams murder‚ mayhem and the apocalypse to the multitude on a daily basis reinforcing what a challenge it is to exist
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Red-Eared Slider Turtle (Trachemys scripta elegans) inhabit freshwater lakes‚ streams‚ swamps‚ ponds and rivers. Male sliders become sexually mature when they are between 2 and 5 years old and are about 4 inches long. Females take longer to mature‚ reaching maturity when they are 5 to 7 years old and 6 to 7.5 inches long. Mating and courtship usually occurs between March and June. Slider turtles spend most of their time basking on rocks‚ logs near the water. Sometimes the red-eared slider turtles will be
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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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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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Theodor Geisel Seuss is an American author‚ and a political cartoonist who is also known under the pen name Dr Seuss. His works play an important role in children literature because of his simple vocabulary and rhyming lines. His style is known by its exceptional storylines and moral values‚ two aspects that are found in most of his works. He has written several children’s books that inspired children and adults all around the world. One of his remarkable techniques that he uses in his writing‚ is
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Joe Parise Coms 356 2/18/10 Static and Dynamic Composition In the film Turtles Can Fly we are introduced to a girl named Agrin. She is with a small child around the age of three named Riga. We see throughout the film that Agrin has a strange hatred for the child and wants to rid him from her life. As a viewer we are left to assume that the three-year –old Riga is Agrin’s son‚ a product of rape when her village was invaded. Ghobadi‚ the film’s director‚ uses one scene that really stood out
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In the 70’s‚ two research teams created the Big 5 Inventory. These teams were Paul Costa and Robert McCrae from the National Institutes of Health‚ and Warren Norman and Lewis Goldberg from the Universities of Michigan and Oregon. The purpose of this assessment was to define one’s personality traits without biasness from culture‚ language‚ or background. The 5 traits were founded throughout a combination of the teams’ research data (Potter‚ Big5). The Big 5 tailored a variety of traits and characteristics
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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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ABOUT THEM Hawksbill turtles are graceful saltwater reptiles‚ well adapted to life in their marine world. With streamlined bodies and flipper-like limbs‚ they are graceful swimmers able to navigate across the oceans. When they are active‚ Hawksbill turtles must swim to the ocean surface to breathe every few minutes. When they are resting‚ they can remain underwater for much longer periods of time. The hawksbill is a smaller sea turtle with a narrow head and 2 pairs of prefrontal scales in front
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