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Kachemak Bay Area
1,594 wordsWhere the land ends and the sea begins By Jon Fra iman 034684507 Homer is the hub of the lower Kenai Peninsula of Alaska, an area incomparably rich in natural wonders and recreational possibilities. The Kenai Peninsula is an Alaska in miniature, a combination of mountain and meadow, coastline and island. The backbone of the peninsula is the Kenai Mountain Range, which separates the rolling hills and salmon streams from the Gulf of Alaska and cradles the 1,000 square mile Harding Ice field, a tra...
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Organization And Use Of Figurative Language
570 wordsAll poets have a certain structure in order for their poem to be understood in an artistic and unique way. Through the use of organization, diction and figurative language, the poem is composed in a creative manner. In The Great Scarf of Birds, by John Updike, the speaker is understood through the use of all these methods. When the poet begins to speak of what he remembers, he uses vivid colors to describe his surroundings and also his stage in life. Ripe apples were caught like red fish in the ...
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Lady Bird
430 wordsThere were four women that i enjoyed reading. One was Navy Regan. She was born on July 6, 1923 (some resources say 1921) in New York City. She as a former film and stage actress who became First Lady of the United States when husband, Ronald Regan, become President in 1980. She was First Lady from 1981 until 1989. She did campaigns such as Drug-Free Youth and Adopt Grandparent Program. Lady Bird Johnson was another I was interested in. Born Claudia Alta Taylor in Texas on December 22, 1912. She ...
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Ode To The West Wind
353 wordsIn Keats "Ode to a Nightingale" and Shelleys "Ode to the West Wind" both poets show much inspiration within their poetry. The bird in "Ode to a Nightingale" represents a supernatural being conjured up by the speaker. The wind in "Ode to the West Wind" inspires the speaker while serving as a "destroyer and preserver". In the poem, "Ode to a Nightingale" the reader sees that the poet draws his inspiration through hemlock which the poet had drunk and some kind of opiate. The poet speaks about dying...
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Fluorescent Colors
229 wordsFluorescence Makes for a Pretty Bird, Study FindsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Brightly colored feathers and clever mimicry make parrots appealing to people, but it takes a genuinely sexy glow to get other parrots excited, researchers said on Thursday. The research, done by British and Australian researchers, show the birds look to fluorescent feathers when choosing mates. Kathryn Arnold of the University of Glasgow in Scotland and colleagues at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia studi...
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Dillard's Passage
466 wordsAudubon and Dillard A small child views a painting, giggling to his mother how it looks like an elephant soaring throughout the galaxy. An hour later a middle age man views the exact painting only to acknowledge the abstract painting as a collage of miscellaneous shapes and colors. This view is much like the comparison between John James Auburn and Annie Dillard passages, revealing opposite and similar aspects on the subject of birds. Auburn's passage inhabits a sense of seriousness and monotone...
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Actual Bird The Poet
2,503 wordsCharles Brown, a friend with whom Keats was living when he composed this poem, wrote, In the spring of 1819 a nightingale had built her nest near my house. Keats felt a tranquil and continual joy in her song; and one morning he took his chair from the breakfast table to the grass-plot under a plum-tree, where he sat for two or three hours. When he came into the house, I perceived he had some scraps of paper in his hand, and these he was quietly thrusting behind the books. On inquiry, I found tho...
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Differences Between The Hawk And Other Birds
702 wordsMajor Groups of the Animal The major group that hawks belong to is the bird group. Hawkshave wings and feathers to fly. Which all are characteristics of birds. The hawk has eyes on the sides of its head so it can see all around, similar to a normal bird. The differences between the hawk and other birds is that the hawk is a bird of prey. 'Birds of prey'; or raptors make their living by hunting, killing, and consuming live animals. They are at the top of the ecological food chain which makes the ...
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Turkey Vultures
925 words... to day-old carrion. Only turkey vultures can locate food by smell; black and king vultures lack this ability completely. Once the scavenging birds find something dead in the wild, another set of unique abilities comes into play. Since decaying meat is not the most healthful of foods, turkey vultures have evolved into veritable detoxification plants. Not only can they eat food so rotten that it could kill most other creatures, they benefit people and the environment by preventing the spread o...
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Images Of A Cat
476 wordsJeffrey T. Fields Pretty Happy Literature: Form and Function Concerning Kinship of Cat and Bird: - This is the first poem I choose to write about. Briefly, it describes a cat (I think) devouring a bird that it has captured. And then talks about how the birds always fall for the cats old tricks, which are really not tricks but in fact just sitting there. He refers to the cat as idle hand on a keyboard awaiting inspiration. To be blunt, I am not sure where he is going with this one. I see images o...
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California Condors
811 wordsCalifornia condors are the largest birds in North America. They may weigh up to 25 pounds and have wingspans of 9 1/2 feet. California condors have bare heads and necks, dull gray-black feathers, and blunt claws. They have a triangle-shaped patch of white, visible only when airborne, that adorns the underside of their wings. California condors can soar on warm thermal updrafts for hours, reaching speeds of more than 55 miles per hour and altitudes of 15,000 feet. Normally, California condors do ...
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Birds And Sea
2,124 wordsPalomo 1 Michael Palomo American Literature Professor Sanchez May 9, 2000 Walt Whitman: An American Poet The ability to pinpoint the birth or beginning of the poet lifestyle is rare. It is rare for the observer as it is for the writer. The Walt Whitman poem Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking is looked at by most as just that. It is a documentation, of sorts, of his own paradigm shift. The realities of the world have therein matured his conceptual frameworks. In line 147 we read "Now in a moment...
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Non Avian Theropods And Early Birds
1,989 wordsAs promised, here are the derived characters with which Gauthier (in his 1986 paper) unites Archaeopteryx with modern birds, outside of all other theropods (with Gauthier's original clarifier's in parens) [and with my editorial comments in brackets]: Premaxilla e elongate, narrow, and more pointed anteriorly, with longer nasal processes [similar condition in bullatosaurs, and in the non dinosaurian Megalancosaurus, but unique to Archie and later birds in Maniraptora]. Maxillary process of premax...
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Few A Bird
496 wordsDickinson Explication #130 This poem speaks of the final summer days of the year, possibly coming after the initial fall cool down. The speaker begins by saying "These are the days when Birds come back-A very few-a Bird or two-To take a backward look", referring to the few remaining birds in the last of the warm days of the year. She then describes these days as deceptive, comparing them to that of June, "A blue and gold mistake". In the third stanza she begins by saying "Oh fraud that cannot ch...
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Turkey Vultures Use Thermals
1,639 wordsTurkey Vultures Vultures are large birds of prey closely related to hawks and eagles. They are divided into New World vultures and Old World vultures, both belonging to the order Falconiformes. The New World vultures, in the family Cathartidae, consist of seven species in five genera. Among the New World vultures include the Cathartes aura, also known as the Turkey Vulture. Scientists say that turkey vultures are shy, inoffensive birds. Some researchers have discovered that the bird is very help...
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Form Of Meditation On A Ravaged Landscape
754 wordsShai lesh Patel Cancer Alley "The poisoning of the American south by Richard Misrach" " Since the late '70's, Richard Misrach has been known for his large format, eight by ten inch color photographs of the Nevada desert. His epic series of 18 Cantos or groups, of photographs range from lyrical to political. The west was a vision or absolute purity, Misrach tries to temper that reverence with the truth about mom's occupation of the land. In 1999, Misrach accepted a commission from Atlanta's High ...
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Western Australia Kinds Eucaliptus
1,048 wordsAustralia, smallest of continents of the Earth, is allocated with an exclusive originality of the nature. It is continent of relicts, ancient natural objects and unique fauna. In a relief of the country the surfaces which have not changed since times of the tertiary period that is connected with features of formation of a relief inherent only in thus continent were kept - since time of branch from pramateric Pangea the Australian plate drifted on the south practically not influence any tectonic ...
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Tom And Mr And Mrs Cooper
779 words"The Birds", written by Daphne du Maurer, is a short story that will be compared with the movie The Night of the Living Dead. There were many differences between the two. Diversities such as themes, plot, setting, characters, endings and any changes. In The Night of Living Dead, There was radiation on one of Venus's atel lites and it has turned regular people into zombies. Anyone who was not affected by it could be eaten by the zombies and they themselves will soon turn in to them. The main char...
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Development Of Feathers In Birds
2,478 wordsSpeculation about the evolution of birds began in the eighteenth century when de Mail let claimed that they had arisen from flying fish (Stahl, 1974). The earliest known member of Aves is Archaeopteryx, first found in the Late Jurassic rocks of Bavaria, and it is now known that birds are the second most direct (surpassed only by the more obvious reptiles) descendants of the dinosaurs but as yet there has been no universally accepted theory of their exact ancestry. Currently two major hypotheses ...
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Evolution Of Flight From The Ground
734 wordsINTRODUCTION The evolution of flight in birds is recognized as the key adaptive breakthrough that contributed to the biological success of the group. The evolution of flight in birds has even contributed to the advancement of the human race; humans were inspired to try and conquer the air themselves after observing these animals. There are two main competing theories for the evolution of flight in birds: the Arboreal Hypothesis and the Cursorial Hypothesis. This essay will argue for the Arboreal...
