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Yellow Throated Toucan Tail Is Nearly Square Bill
936 wordsToucan is the Brazilian name for a bird of the family, Ramphastidae, with approximately 42 different species of the bird. These peculiar birds belong to the order Piciformes, whose members have feet with the first and fourth toes reversed and are all cavity nester's. The toucan is an unusual looking bird, characterized by an enormous but light-weight bill, that has many useful qualities. Most species, posts a brilliant solid or multi-colored bill. They live in the tropical and subtropical forest...
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U S Supreme Court Board Of Education
873 wordsOne man, Thurgood Marshall, has impacted millions of children and adults across America. Thurgood Marshall was an American jurist, civil rights leader, and associate justice of the U. S. Supreme Court (Encarta Marshall, Thurgood). He was involved in many famous cases, such as Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, in which this report will mostly be about. This famous case dealt with racial imbalances in schools in the United States and the lack of equality children in Southern schools faced at...
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Tom Couldn't Stand Demaine Oil Man People
969 wordsOut of the five main characters in the Great Gatsby, I disliked Tom Buchanan the most (however his wife Daisy was a close second). He just didn't seem like he was a nice person, and he also seemed extremely self-absorbed. I don't believe that he and I would choose the same values that we would consider important in guiding our lives. One of Tom's important values is wealth. He was very rich and thought that it made him superior to other people. He enjoys showing off his possessions, " I've got a...
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Character Analysis Of Hero Atticus Finch
1,456 wordsTo kill a Mockingbird, an acclaimed novel, by Harper Lee is recognized throughout the world. Having read her novel, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1960 soon after its publication, I was compelled to consider the novel in greater depth but was particularly intrigued to examine the character of Atticus Finch as a hero. Maycomb, a fictional town in the Southern States of America plays host to the novel during the period of 1933 - 1935. To Kill a Mockingbird follows a lawyer and his family prior to...
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Fourteenth Amendment Supreme Court
1,013 wordsPlessy decided to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court of Louisiana, but that court upheld Ferguson's opinion. Plessy then decided to take his case to the United States Supreme Court. In 1896, The Supreme Court of the United States found Homer Plessy guilty once again. Justice Henry Brown, the speaker for the eight-person majority, wrote: 'That [the Separate Car Act] does not conflict with the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery... is too clear for argument... A statute which impli...
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Opened The Door Poor People
1,137 wordsChef This epic tale of love and deception takes us back in time to the year nineteen hundred and eighty seven. Early one morning in London, England, we find ourselves in the kitchen of Chef. This sweet mouthwatering scent of Salisbury steak fills the room. This was to be the finest steak Chef had ever prepared. He planned to enter a contest with this masterpiece, the prize being a cruise to Greenland. To Chef, this was the land of paradise. He would be the only man there to seduce and womanize t...
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States Of America Emancipation Proclamation
1,071 wordsThe Afro-Americans and The Civil War By 'No officer in this regiment now doubts that the key to the successful prosecution of this war lies in the unlimited employment of black troops. Their superiority lies simply in the fact that they know the country, while white troops do not, and, moreover, that they have peculiarities of temperament, position, and motive which belong to them alone. Instead of leaving their homes and families to fight they are fighting for their homes and families, and they...
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Hand Held Video Game
1,247 words... Entertainment System, or the NES (Company History). The original designs of these systems were sleeker in appearance and the hand-controllers for the system used infrared technology. Nintendo wanted to separate themselves from their main competitor: Atari, which by 1985, had virtually ran themselves bankrupt by having too many bad games. Nintendo did not want their customers to be turned off by Nintendo's game system just because Atari couldn't manage well. So Nintendo identified various par...
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20 Th Century Museum Of Art
803 wordsMarcel Duchamp, was a French Dada artist, whose miniature but litigious output exerted a strong power on the expansion of 20 th-century avant-garde art. Duchamp was born on July 28, 1887, in Blainville, and was a brother of another prominent artist Raymond Duchamp-Villon as well as a half brother of another famous painter Jacques Villon. Marcel Duchamp began to paint himself in 1908. After creating several canvases in then popular genre of Fauvism, he started to do experimentation and the avant-...
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Underground Railroad Native American
726 wordsThe conductors often left a number of signs for the slaves to follow so they didn't go to houses that belonged to allies of the slave owners. A quilt on the clothesline showing the picture of a house with smoke coming out of the chimney was a sign of a safe station. A white ring of bricks around the top of a house's chimney was another sign of a good hiding spot. Shops that were safe often had a figure of a running man or woman on its sign. Other signs were used to guide the slaves, too. The sla...
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African Americans Collective Memory
981 wordsIn the second exhibit, Cookin with Aunt Ethel, Wolfe uses satire to describe what characteristics contribute to making an African American person. He uses familiar phrases that trigger emotion from the memory of African Americans. Such as, Now you beat it really work it (Owen, p. 37). He was referring to the vigorous mental and physical abuse that African Americans were exposed to. Discard and Disown... And in a few hundred years once its aged and fully grown... ya put in the oven till its Black...
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Toni Morrisons Bluest Eye
1,549 words... as individuals. While talking about Pecola, Morrison always emphasizes the fact that she comes from lower social strata: She looked at Pecola. Saw the dirty torn dress, the plaits sticking out on her head, hair matted where the plaits had come undone, the muddy shoes with the wad of gum peeping out from between the cheap soles, the soiled socks, one of which had been walked down into the heel on the shoe (Morrison, p. 71). We can say that author strives to manipulate with readers mood, becau...
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Falling In Love Mixed Ancestry
1,007 wordsThe short story, Desiree s Baby, by Kate Chopin is about a woman who is abandoned as a baby and adopted and raised by a loving family. After she and her husband have a baby, and the baby has a dark complexion, her husband Armand accuses her of being of black descent and orders her to leave. The story ends with Desiree disappearing into the bayou with her baby. Ironically, Armand discovers a letter which was stuffed in the back of a drawer written by his mother, I thank God for having so arranged...
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Violent Movies Video Games
756 wordsDoes the Media Have an Effect on Our Society? I don t believe the violence we experience today is due to video games, movies, music, etc. I think it s due to the media. For example, if the media hadn t publicized the first couple school shootings so heavily, I know these kids, that did the shootings at Columbine, wouldn t have gotten the idea to do so. These boys just wanted to be known, and thanks to the media mission accomplished. Now the question is, if the media keeps covering this story on ...
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Mahatma Gandhi Karamchand Gandhi
1,239 wordsMahatma Gandhi whose real name was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, was born in 1869 at Porbandar in the state of Gujarat in India. His fathers name was Karamchand Gandhi and his mothers name was Putlibai. He was the youngest in the family of one sister and three brothers. Both his parents were deeply religious and frequently visited temples and took their meals only after daily prayers. In school Gandhi was a mediocre student who was quite an introvert. He was even afraid to talk to any student in t...
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Johns Wort Hypericum Perforated Disorders
381 wordsHypericum perforated, or, more commonly know as St. Johns wort is a perennial that has been used for centuries for many medical uses. The name Hypericum is derived from the Greek name for the plant hyperion. St. Johns wort gets its common name from the medieval times when it was harvested. The blooming period for this miracle herb peaked around June 24 th, which was St. Johns birthday. There was an old superstition about warding off evil spirits with St. Johns wort. If a sprig was placed under a...
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Herman Melville Moby Dick
1,693 wordsThere is a symbolic element in every great literary work, which makes the authors message more tangible and real to his readers. In Herman Melville's Moby Dick, one such element is the idea of the counterpane, or tapestry, of humanity, that is woven throughout the story as a symbol of the worlds multiculturalism. Melville develops this symbolism on at least three levels, proving that the world is indeed a counterpane of diverse cultures, races, and environments, in which we, while supremely uniq...
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Ultraviolet Rays Uv Rays
633 wordsThe ozone layer shields the earth from most of the harmful radiation and light comming from the sun. The ozone reflects and absorbs the ultraviolet rays that try to come in. Without this kind of protection, all living things will be effected by these UV rays. Skin cancer develops in most living mammals as a cause of an overabundance of the suns ultraviolet rays. The ozone layer is located in the earths stratosphere. The ozone layer is located from about fifteen-to-thirty kilometers above the ear...
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Adaptations That The Snow Leopard Adaptations That The Snow Leopards
675 wordsDescriptive and Behavioral Aspects of Snow Leopards The Snow Leopard is an endangered species, and lives among many other species in Asia. These leopards are medium sized cats and usually, males weight more than females. The average male weighs anywhere from 100 - 120 lbs. ; whereas, the average female weighs 75 - 90 lbs. They do not belong to the same genus as larger cats because they lack the ability to roar. Leopards do not have the fibro-elastic tissues in the throat that allow other cats to...
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Father Death Emily
897 words? Jane and Emily? Jane in? The Yellow Wallpaper? and Emily in? A Rose for Emily? were two women who were both driven to insanity by similar factors. Both women had very controlling men in their lives that greatly limited their social lives, causing the two women to suffer tremendously from loneliness. Jane and Emily also lived in very unhealthy environments; therefore, their home and town were not represented as secure places for the two women to grow and prosper. John? s ability to control Jane...
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