...am going to analyze the short story “The Kangaroo”. The main themes in this essay is growing up, and becoming a man. It is a short story written by John Michael. This short story written by John Michael is told from a 3rd person subjective perspective, and is limited to the boy, who is the main character. This is caused by the way we see everything from the outside (camera view), but we still know what is going on outside of the boy’s head. The way you can see that it is a 3rd person narrator and not an omniscient narrator is because we only follow one characters development through the story. You can see that in this quote: - Blood poured from its nostrils. The boy was fascinated. It shows that we know how the boy feels about the kangaroo dying. The boy (who is the main character in the story) is developing pretty fast and a lot. He starts out with being a bit scared, and he does not want to kill the kangaroo. But the man who is hunting with him is trying to get him to shoot the kangaroo, and keeps telling him to do this. He is almost scaring him, saying that this is his only chance to do it. Even though the boy is scared, he still proceeds to shoot the kangaroo, but afterwards he feels empty. That is written in this quote: - He was empty as if his hears and his guts had been sucked out of the barrel of his gun. He starts to shoot more kangaroos because he wants to feel like a man, and impress the hunter that is teaching him how to hunt. The hunter is telling the boy to...
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...PLEASE READ THIS FIRST PAGE CAREFULLY. IT SHOULD BE DELETED WHEN YOU SUBMIT YOUR OUTLINE FOR GRADING. General Rationale This document contains the template for the preparation outline, which is required for your formal speaking assignments in this course. This document is intended to guide you and save you time in formatting your assignment correctly. Please use this template to create your outlines, paying careful attention to the expectations required for your assignment. General Writing Style 1. The entire outline, including the thesis statement, should be written in complete sentences. 2. The general purpose should be one of the four generally identified: to inform, to persuade, to entertain, or to commemorate. 3. The specific purpose should be written as a more detailed infinitive phrase. (An infinitive phrase begins with to added to a verb and an object. Here is an example: “To apply for a scholarship.”) 4. Questions should not appear on the outline; instead, you should use the space to answer such questions or to explain the reasoning behind your inquiry. You do not want to leave your professor doubting whether you know your material. You may, however, ask questions when you actually deliver the presentation. 5. When using research for subpoints and sub-subpoints, you should write enough of your interpretation of what the point means to demonstrate to your professor your understanding of the source. Use parenthetical citations to indicate which...
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...walked into the paddock. The boy lagged. [pic]'Don't walk behind me,' said the man. [pic]The grass glistened in the early morning sun. The boy stretched hard to keep up. The wet grass was cold on his legs. Grass seeds stabbed through his socks and prickled his ankles. Flat seeds stuck to his skin. The soft hairs on his legs were soon matted and tangled with the sticky dew and the seeds from the grass. [pic]The man stopped. He said, 'Watch'. [pic]He raised his rifle. It cracked and the first kangaroo flipped into the air and fell down. The second kangaroo froze, staring directly at the man. He fired. The second kangaroo flipped and fell in the grass. [pic]They walked to the bodies. The boy was slightly behind and on the man's left. As he walked his rifle wavered. [pic]'Watch where you point that,' said the man. [pic]The first kangaroo lay on its side with its head in a puddle of blood. Its forepaws were curled like small hands. It lifted its head to caress the boy with its large limpid eyes. he was surprised how peaceful it looked. The man squatted beside it. He poked its belly. He lifted its tail then dropped it so it fell like raw meat. [pic]'Dead,' said the man. 'Dead below the neck. It doesn't feel a thing.' [pic]The boy edged closer. He knelt to look for the hole where the bullet went in. The kangaroo swivelled its eyes, trying to watch both the man and the boy. Its throat was spongy with blood. [pic]The man put...
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...outback is impossible, it thrives there. The uniqueness of Australian animals such as the kangaroo, koala, wombat, cassowary, dingo, kookaburra, platypus, Tasmanian devil wallaby and the echidna, make Australia a truly special place. Each of these animals has its own unique way of surviving and thriving. The Kangaroo is the most well known of these animals, and is the national animal of Australia. This marsupial got its name when the English settlers asked the aboriginals what the “jumping animal” was, and they answered, “kangaroo”, which means, “I don’t understand your question.” The kangaroo is a marsupial, which means that after a baby is born it spends several months in its mothers pouch developing more fully, since it is only one inch long when it is born. A baby kangaroo is called a joey, like all other baby marsupials. After about eight months in their mothers pouch, joeys climb out and start grazing by their mom’s side. These young kangaroos will only occasionally climb back into their mother’s pouches. Kangaroos graze like cows or horses on grasses, leaves and other small bushes and shrubs. They typically stay in small groups, but are sometimes seen in large groups called mobs. Down under, the adult males are called boomers, and the adult females are known as flyers. In its lifetime a kangaroo will NEVER stop growing. There are forty-eight different species of kangaroos, the wallaby is one of them, but six species of the forty-eight are extinct. The koala...
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...Translational Research C301 Cesarean Sections and Skin-to-Skin Erica Curry Western Governor’s University A.1. Identify and Describe a Current Nursing Practice within your Healthcare Setting that Requires Change. Willow Creek Women’s Hospital is located in Johnson, Arkansas. Willow Creek is a 38 bed hospital specializing in women’s health, including labor and deliver. Currently we practice skin to skin with our mothers and babies post birth for vaginal deliveries. Skin to skin is when an infant is put directly on the mother’s chest after delivery. The infant is dried off and assessed while on the mother’s chest. I work in the operating room and infants are taken to nursey after delivery. The mothers and infants are apart for two to three hours after delivery. I plan to initiate a skin to skin policy in the operating room during cesarean sections. Infants will stay with their mothers in the operating room and will have the opportunity to participate in skin to skin. A.2. Discuss why the Current Nursing Practice needs to be Changed. Approximately 30 percent of deliveries at Willow Creek are performed via cesarean section. Currently, when a mother has a cesarean section, mother and infant are separated for several hours immediately following birth. Separating mother and infant immediately after birth affects them both negatively. Mothers who experience skin-to-skin are more likely to exclusively breastfeed. Infants who experience skin-to-skin immediately...
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...Ecosystem of the Mojave Desert Bio/101 March 5, 2012 Ecosystem of the Mojave Desert The Mojave Desert is 54,000 square miles of its own special brand of diversity; it is one desert - rather than a series of separate entities. By becoming aware of the combined identity, appreciation and better understanding of the issues that affect the Mojave Desert can occur on a holistic level. Generally, at the edges of the Mojave are areas where dominant plant and animal species change from one to another and both, to various degrees may be possibly found on the fringes of the other. The Mojave Desert ecosystem evolves from plants and animals which are resources within each other. Adaption to the rough temperatures and little water, these ecosystems finds many ways to survive. This ecosystem plays host to a wide variety of plants and animals living in an environment that humans may think are harsh conditions. Many animals get their energy by eating plants, but desert plants give up the fruit of their production very reluctantly. Sharp spines, such as a cactus, discourage plant-eaters. The Mule deer avoids these obstacles by eating seeds, although safe to eat, they can be hard to find. Many are small and look like grains of sand. The plant's solar energy flows through the ecosystem as Mule deer, and other herbivores like jackrabbits, fall prey to carnivores like great horned owls, coyotes, bobcats, or snakes (Townsend, Harper & Begon, 2000). Survival in the desert cannot occur...
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...To many children who are familiar with the show Skippy is seen as a companion and friend that is ever true (Lein,2004). Nevertheless, in Australia kangaroos are wildlife which have been hunted and consumed as food for many years (Lein, 2004). So cattle’s are perceived as edible livestock ’s and horse and dogs are inedible and their consumption is forbidden in western culture. Religion and spiritual practices plays a massive role in our food preferences, each religion and culture has specific rules. Harris (1985) stated those who practice the Islamic religion are forbidden from consuming blood, pork and anything made out of pork and meat that has been derived from strangled animals. The Jewish religion also prohibited pork as it was stated in the book of Leviticus: “Every animal that parts the hoof and has the hoof cloven in two, and chews the cud, among the animals you may eat. . Yet of...
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...Just like that – Report to the court I will start out by giving you a short summary of the whole case. As I understand it the situation is as follows. The boy in this case Jamie and his father William, are out in the Australian wildness, to shoot kangaroos. Jamie tells me, that he is reluctant to use the riffle. However his father keeps pushing him to take the rifle and shoot his first kangaroo. I understand that he feels that his father is pushing him further than he wishes to go. The pressure leads to further shootings, and as I understand it, the boy feels that he loses control of himself. The next thing that happens is that the boy finds his father lying on the ground with a shooting wound in his back. At this point Jamie realizes that his father is dead. What happens after seems to be a little unclear. Jamie is not able to explain how he finds his way home. Evaluation of the psychological profile of Jamie. I have now spoken to Jamie for some hours. He appears to be unstable. He has been crying a couple of times. I don’t think he cries because he is scared, actually I think it’s because he wants to fool me, to think that he is a little innocent boy. In my opinion Jamie knows what he did, when he shot his father, it was not an accident. Jamie is a sly, but clever little boy. The relationship between Jamie and his father was actually not good. Jamie has some serious wounds on his back and legs. It looks like he's been beaten by a belt or something like that. His mother...
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...Vietnam National University - International School MKT370 CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR May 2014 Social Marketing Plan Group: Avengers Memebers: * Trần Công Anh Minh * Bùi Quỳnh Hoa * Nguyễn Quốc Thắng * Nguyễn Mỹ Linh Class: VISK2012B Social Marketing Program To Raise Awareness About The Use Of Water In Vietnam Executive Summary Facing the truth that water is running out in our planet because human kind have waste the water for many years so we decide to create a water filters. The function of this machine is recycling dirty water or water used for laundry to drink water. Normally, we reuse water instead of let it flow to sewers. We have planned to create two types of filters. The first type is used for single family which cost from 3.5 millions Vnd to 15 million. The second type is special designed for industry which costs from 150 millions VND to call for price. We use the IRO technologic for handling water. In the market segmentation, we categorized our potential customers into 3 different categories: middle class people, rich people and organization such as groups, construction companies. We try to sell an useful machine with a competitive and reasonable price. Public information about company through websites, social network etc… We plan to sell 100 first 3 months and try to expand our market share within 2 years. Table of Contents 1.0 Situation Analysis 6 1.1 Market Analysis 6 1.2 Implications...
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...AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINALS Dana Weaver Ant101 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Prof. Steven Sager Sept 2, 2012 In this paper, I will explain in detail how the kinship system works with the Australian Aboriginals. I will also explain how this system relates to how the live and interact in their society. I also want to compare their kinship system with ours here in America. The Aboriginals culture is a very complex and diverse culture. The Indigenous cultures of Australia are the oldest living culture in the world. “They go back at 50,000 years. ( http://australia.gov.au) They survived that long because of their ability to adapt to their environment and change over time. The Aboriginals are divided into small groups called clans. The clan’s usually had a common ancestor and they all considered themselves related.”(Australian.gov.au) Members of tribes distinguished themselves from each other through their dialects.” There were probably about 600 tribes within Australia in 1788, when the first Europeans arrived.” (indigenousaustralia.info)Tribes that spoke closely related dialects often grouped themselves together under the term of being a nation. “Australian Aboriginal kinship is the system of law governing social interaction, particularly marriage, in traditional Australian Aboriginal culture.”( wikipedia.org ) It is an integral part of the culture of every Aboriginal group across Australia. “The system of kinship put everybody in a specific relationship...
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...on the ground and ate fruits that had fallen from trees. The island was uninhabited and the dodo had no natural predators. Then Mauritius was colonised in 1638. Dodos were hunted for food and easy to catch because they were not afraid of people. New competitors were brought onto the island (including pigs, cats and rats). These competitors ate the dodos' eggs in their ground nests and also ate the dodo’s young. The last dodo was killed in 1681. Answer the following questions using information from the text: 1. What was the dodo? 2. Out of the four causes of extinction we have learnt about, which two caused the extinction of the dodo and why? 3. When did the last dodo die? Dinosaurs There are many theories as to how the dinosaurs became extinct. Keep in mind that there is no absolutely proven theory. Asteroid Theory According to this theory a large asteroid or comet collided with Earth about 65 million years ago. Scientists think that such a large collision would throw so much dust into the air that sunlight would not be able to shine and plants and animals would die. The dramatic changes in climate that resulted from this huge collision were too much for the dinosaurs. They were not able to survive. Volcanic Activity A huge increase in volcanic activity at around 65 millions years ago could have pumped so much ash into the air that it blocked out the sun killing the dinosaurs. Ice Age Some scientists...
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...Kae Sclafani Ms. Johnson Biology 5 December 2012 Compare placental mammals, marsupials, and monotremes. Placental mammals, marsupials and monotremes are part of the phylum chordata. They are similar in some ways and different in others. These similarities and differences include their habitats, the way they reproduce, the food they eat, and adaptations they have. Placental mammals (humans, dogs, camels, etc.): Habitats: Placental mammals live in many different places around the world. Most of the time placental mammals will adapt to the environment they are in. Humans are an example of a placental mammal. They live all over the world and have adjusted their lifestyle based on the climate and resources available to them. Reproduction: Placental mammals reproduce through internal fertilization. The young are enclosed by a placenta. This placenta allows the young to remain in the uterus for a long time. The placenta connected to the uterus by an umbilical cord. The mother gives birth through her birth canal. After the young is born the mammal produces a new egg through the reproduction cycle. Food they eat: Placental mammals have to eat constantly to maintain their body temperature. When they are young they depend on their mother for food and drink. Some are herbivores and eat only plants. Examples of these animals are horses, pandas, and sloths. Some are carnivores and eat only meat. Examples of these animals are dolphins, tigers, and lions. Others are omnivores...
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...organisms 207 lab tutorial 3 Kidney functions: 1) a) Glomerular filtration rate : The glomerulus is known as a filtration center where majority of the blood vessels pump so they can take in nutrients and produce urine. The glomerular filtration rate provides us with the rate of blood flow through the filters in the kidneys. The rate is measured each minute, showing what has been filtered through. The GFR test informs people about their kidneys and if they are working well. The test is conducted by taking a sample of blood, and evaluating how much creatinine is in the body. The level of creatinine along with other factors measures the filtration rate. Healthy results should show that your body is filtering the creatinine well, because it is a waste that needs to be excreted. The GFR, about 125 mL/min (180 liters/day). b) Renal clearance: relates to how much volume of the plasma that is cleared of a compound per unit of time. An example would include, the kidney may filter and remove all of the urea in a 65ml of plasma in one minute. The kidneys help filter the blood and absorb nutrients in one flow, and release other parts as urea. c) Vasa recta: This includes a thin blood vessels which aligns from the efferent arterioles, that leave each glomerulus in the kidney ( nephron). The vasa recta are is what forms the u shaped loops next to the loop of henle. d) Simple effect: 2) List of large organic molecules through the kidney...
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...entire basis that scientific racism rests on. While this is not necessarily his main intent, he acknowledges it, at one point even saying “In short, Europe’s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume. Rather, it was due to accidents of geography and biogeography—in particular, to the continents’ different areas, axes, and suites of wild plant and animal species. That is, the different historical trajectories of Africa and Europe stem ultimately from differences in real estate.” He covers almost every field of science that he can to extensively answer this question of how the setting the society was put in, not the people themselves, ultimately decide the fate of it. He is masterful in his style of making the way our societies were built, and how much the geography of a place actually has to do with that society. His storytelling abilities are amazing, getting the reader fully invested in his book, and his talent as a storyteller shines in Guns, Germs, and Steel. Altogether, Diamond’s experience and wit ultimately make his style and voice an enjoyable...
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...found out that Malaysia Airlines (Malaysian Airline System Berhad) is the flag carrier ofMalaysia. Malaysia Airlines (MAS) operates flights from its home base, Kuala Lumpur International Airport and with a secondary hub at Kota Kinabalu andKuching. Malaysia Airlines operates flights in Southeast Asia, East Asia, South Asia,Middle East and on the Kangaroo Route between Europe and Australasia. It operates transpacific flights from Kuala Lumpur to Los Angeles, via Tokyo. Going back to the message of the article, it has been discussed that the Advertisement of Malaysia Airlines found customers and readers as arrogant, assertive, disinterested and pseudo-sophisticated. From the advertisement itself, the airline is so confident about what they want to convey and others start to look at it too much and uses such self-congratulatory tone. Even though they won several awards for its in-flight services for quite a while or merely 3 years as it was mentioned but the way they take it is very dismissive and arrogant type that they don’t consider what others may think that is why they were issued. The airline gives too much detail about how good they are and now they were being critics and now people find them not humble enough for their services even though Malaysians are good hearted people. Because of the outcome of their advertisement instead of people appraising them they started on giving bad feedbacks about it. Simply because of too much bragging as it may see. After these...
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