...The coniferous forest is located in Canada, Europe, Asia, and the United States. The temperature ranges from -40 Celsius to 20 Celsius. Average summer temperature is 10 Celsius. Yearly precipitation varies from 30 to 90 centimeters per year. Coniferous forest regions have cold, long, snowy winters, and warm, humid summers. They have well-defined seasons, and at least four to six frost-free months. There are two types of Coniferous forests: 1. Open, lichen woodland, which has trees, spaced far apart with lichen growing between them. 2. Closed forests, which have trees very close together and a shaded, moss-covered forest floor. The major aquatic zones of the coniferous forest are marine, freshwater, and brackish. The average salinity of marine is 3%, freshwater 1% or less, and brackish mixture of salt and fresh. Clear-cut logging is the biggest threat to the Coniferous forest. Replanting after logging leads to single-species conifer monocultures. Clear cutting accelerates soil erosion, degrades wildlife habitat and leads to the loss of biodiversity. The land is being cleared for ski slopes, landfills, housing, and new roads. In Canada, one acre of forest is cut every 12.9 seconds! Mining operations is another threat to the Coniferous forests because of the chemicals used in mining and the silt released by mining. Road construction destroys the forest and also acts as a barrier to wildlife. Roads isolate populations of species from feeding grounds, natural migration routes and...
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...other places in the book. But Mr. and Mrs. Cane, their little girl Lucy and their farmhands are fictitious and bear no intentional resemblance to any persons known to me, living or dead. Acknowledgements I acknowledge with gratitude the help I have received not only from my family but also from my friends Reg Sones and Hal Summers, who read the book before publication and made valuable suggestions. I also wish to thank warmly Mrs. Margaret Apps and Miss Miriam Hobbs, who took pains with the typing and helped me very much. I am indebted, for a knowledge of rabbits and their ways, to Mr. R. M. Lockley's remarkable book, The Private Life of the Rabbit. Anyone who wishes to know more about the migrations of yearlings, about pressing chin glands, chewing pellets, the effects of over-crowding in warrens, the phenomenon of re-absorption of fertilized embryos, the capacity of buck rabbits to fight stoats, or any other features of Lapine life, should refer to that definitive work. PART I The Journey 1. The Notice Board CHORUS: Why do you cry out thus, unless at some vision of horror? CASSANDRA: The house reeks of death and dripping blood. CHORUS: How so? 'Tis but the odor of the altar sacrifice. CASSANDRA: The stench is like a breath from the tomb. Aeschylus, Agamemnon The primroses were over. Toward the edge of the wood, where the ground became open and sloped down to an old fence and a brambly ditch beyond...
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...25000 images, and a large library of books and journals. MUSEUM EXHIBIT 1) Artifact Display On the second floor of the museum, a wide variety of the historic sources can be found. Among the displayed artifacts there are models of the early man, reconstructions of the bones of hominids, cave paintings, coffins of mummies from ancient Egypt, stone carvings, and remains of the Egyptian mummy known as Lemon Grove. The culture of the people of China, Egypt and the Kumeyaay people are dominant. Their traditions and way of life are represented by the paintings, jewelry, pottery, and other tools. 2) Exhibit Content The artifacts reveal peculiarities of the life of the ancient California inhabitants. In this section, featured are the ways of food gathering, pot making and pottery, art and basket making, ancient medicine, dress...
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...what socialisation is. To explain to the class fully we were more than told what the meaning was but also shown videos to show the extent of the meaning. We learned that feral children we raised with no or minimal human interaction which resulted in them growing up basically alienated from human culture or lacking in socialisation skills. The video clips we watched showed harrowing examples of stories about feral children. For instance Oxana a girl from the Ukraine who lived for years with a pack of wild dog, the video clip showed her on all fours acting like a dog. We also learned of girl called Genie who was held captive alone in a dark room from the age of 1 to 13 by her father. She rarely saw other human beings and was spoon fed soft food which she could barely survive on. When she was discovered she could not walk, talk or stand up and was not toilet trained. We then discussed how once she was rescued how she struggled to adapt to socialisation and now lives in sheltered accommodation. There were numerous other examples given with the authenticity of some open to debate but all came back to the same point that people need socialisation to learn how to be human The reason for showing us these video clips and giving us written example was to show us how important socialisation is in human development and the effects a lack of socialisation has on people. It was pointed out that for humans to learn socialisation skill they need to learn from others be it family, school or peer...
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...Every plant and animal species, no matter how big or small, depends to some extent on another plant or animal species for its survival. It could be bees taking pollen from a flower, photosynthesis of plants, deer eating shrub leaves or lions eating the deer. A food chain shows how energy is transferred from one living organism to another via food. It is important for us to understand how the food chain works so that we know what are the important living organisms that make up the food chain and how the ecology is balanced. Photosynthesis is only the beginning of the food chain. There are many types of animals that will eat the products of the photosynthesis process. Examples are deer eating shrub leaves, rabbits eating carrots, or worms eating grass. When these animals eat these plant products, food energy and organic compounds are transferred from the plants to the animals. Food Chains and Food Webs In the living world, every form of life is food for another. Food chains and webs show how food and energy are passed between species. Food Chain A food chain is a food pathway that links different species in a community. In a food chain, energy and nutrients are passed from one organism to another. Food Chains rarely contain more than six species because amount of energy passed on diminishes at each stage, or trophic level. The longest chains usually involve aquatic animals. In a food chain, an animal passes on only about 10 percent...
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...populated mammal is the Whitetail Deer (Newman 83). You can't go anywhere in the Woodland area and not see a Whitetail Deer roaming around the land. Some other animals that live in the Woodland area are the Redtail Hawk, Great Horned Owl, and the Cottontail Rabbit (Newman 85). Of course there are also a lot of others but they are not as populated as the four listed. Most of the animals in the Woodland area eat wild berries and leaves and other animals to survive (Newman 89). The Redtail Hawk and the Great Horned Owl both eat off of other animals like the Cottontail Rabbit, Mice, and small birds, while the Whitetail Deer and the Cottontail Rabbit eat wild berries that are spread around the woodlands (Newman 90). Grassland Animals The Grassland area does not take up much of the land in the Shawnee Forest but still has the second most amount of animals today (Newman 46). Some animals that live in the Grassland area of the Shawnee Forest are the Coyote and the Bobwhite Quail. They are the two biggest animals in the grassland, but there are also others like the Ring Necked Pheasant and the Eastern Bluebird (Newman 48). The Coyote is the only largely populated animal that eats meat; the Coyote eats mostly other animals like rabbits and whatever else it can get even if it's a small bird or a chicken from nearby farms (Newman 49). The other animals in the grassland feed off of insects that hide out in the tall grass (Newman 50). Cropland Animals It is very common to see animals live near...
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...He also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Mickey Mouse along with 6 other of Disney’s creations also have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In total, 7/15 animated characters on the Hollywood Walk of Fame are infact Disney’s. Walt even received the nation’s highest civilian award, The Medal of Freedom, from President Lyndon B. Johnson. Even though many of Disney’s achievements cannot be given in awards, he is also credited with shaping the world of entertainment into what it is today. He is also responsible for creating “The Happiest Place on Earth” and being huge parts of countless children’s childhoods all over the world. In 1926, Universal Pictures was looking for a new creative Rabbit series. Walt, of course always looking...
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...all future generations. They are being dredged, which is ruining bottoms that contain life and important nutrients that feed fish and other aquatic species. The wildlife is starting to taper, there doesn’t seem to be as many rabbits around like there used to be and fish seem smaller. People are having their trees cut from the land for the money not for the purpose of making this world a better place to live. Technology will evolve, we need to evolve with it and provide a better place to live. We should not learn to accept what is given to us instead we should be looking at the “big picture”. Future generations are what we are living for and we don’t want to leave them with nothing. Chip Ward’s (2012) apology letter really has me thinking about how we take everyday things for granted. How would the world respond to waking up one day to no electricity? The world we know today would probably go into shut down. Thirty years ago who would of thought of having a phone in an automobile or devices we could carry around that tells us what the day is planned about. With the changing world we must change our habits and thinking too. Keeping or bringing new products or technology in is good as long as we are not just living for the minute and we are looking at what it will bring or hurt in the future. In Wards, (2012) apology he presents a bleak outcome for future generations. Some of his beliefs are a little out there. There is so much territory out there that has not been...
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...mean? Why even ask me that?” She answered so fast I didn’t even have a comeback like any other time. “You only bring me to a place I enjoy eating all the time when you have to tell me something,” I continued, looking at her with a serious face. Little ole me was trying to read her mind; it was never going to work. She was looking at me with this sad look on her face, at 7 years old it isn’t that hard to tell when your parents are upset. What is wrong? That’s all I kept saying to myself. “Is the food good?” She just keeps staring...
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...American Literature Journal Writing Tabish Jaleel Shaikh March 10(Saul Bellow- Seize the Day) Seize the Day was a comparatively easy read, and seemed like a very real life depiction of American life, from the eyes of the two generations, Tommy Wilhelm and his father, Dr. Adler. Comparing it to one of the first novels I read in this course, Death of a Salesman, I realize that Seize the Day also has the theme of the broken myth of the American dream embedded in the story. Also the title of the novel struck me at first, but I could not remember where I had read or come across this phrase before. Upon searching online, I remembered that it has its origin in one of the poems of a Latin Poet Horace, the word being “Carpe diem” in Latin. I remembered that I had read this back in high school, the stanza of the poem was: While we speak, envious time will have {already} fled Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future. It’s interesting how just a small phrase can carry so much meaning. Saul Bellow has very effectively depicted the philosophy of carpe diem by narrating a real life scenario of war stricken America where maximizing the utility of time is the very important. Although the theme of alienation and isolation is prevalent throughout the book through Tommy’s life events, Saul could not make me feel sympathetic towards Tommy. Tommy’s inability to judge himself, and be self-aware of his strengths and weaknesses causes his downfall. He is always...
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...Russian – Armenian (Slavonic) University Institute of Humanities Department of Theory of Language and Cross-Cultural Communication Term Paper Title: Nonsense, Play and Folklore in Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll Student: Voskanyan Evgenia Supervisor: Yerevan 2015 Contents * Introduction: Lewis Carroll ………………………………………...………..….….3 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland * Folklore ………………………………………………………………….....….…….5 * Game of Nonsense …………………………………………………….…....……..7 * Wordplay and Quibble …………………………………………………..………..10 * Psychological interpretations of Alice in Wonderland …………………………13 Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There * Folklore …………………………………………………………………..………...15 * Contrariwise! ................................................................................................16 * Philosophical viewpoints in Through the Looking-Glass .……...…….……….19 * Conclusion: On the other side of the chessboard …………………………......21 * References .………………….………………………………………………...…..22 Lewis Carroll Come with us now on a journey to Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, the fairytales created by legendary Lewis Carroll. Being little known under the birth name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Lewis Carroll was a famous English writer and one of the founders of literary nonsense. Born in the Victorian Era to a family of a parson, he was raised according to the moral values of those...
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...Each year, more than 100 million animals - including mice, rats, frogs, dogs, cats, rabbits, rodents, monkeys, and birds - are killed in scientific laboratories in the U.S. each year. Animals are used for biology lessons, medical training, curiosity driven experiments, and chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics testing. Because of animal testing, many cures and treatments to an array of diseases and illnesses have been discovered. But too many animals are sacrificed each year. There are many reasons why animal testing is not necessary to the development of the human population. First, animals are killed and injured. As humans, we think that we are so much better than other animals that live and breath on this earth and that we should have more...
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...Whole Foods 365 An analysis of Whole Foods 365’s target market and probability of success in Las Vegas. By Justin Thornley Abstract This report will define Whole Foods 365’s target market. It will then describe that target market. Then the report will make an effort to analyze Whole Food 365’s ability to compete in the Southern Nevada market. Finally, we will look at its competitors and determine if a Whole Foods 365 would be successful. Primary Target Market To find Whole Food 365’s primary target market we will look at the locations of the stores that Whole Foods plans to open. We will then look at the demographics of those areas. The Whole Foods 365 website lists 3 locations with plans to open a stores at each location in 2016. The three stores are located in Los Angeles, CA, Lake Oswego, OR, and Bellevue Square, WA (1). In addition to the city names that the website listed addresses were also provided. * 2520 Glendale Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90039 * 11 S State St Lake Oswego, OR 97034 * 300 Bellevue Square Bellevue, WA 98004 Using the addresses above we can learn more about the demographics and markets Whole Foods 365 hopes to cater to. To do this, the Nielson lifestyle segmentation system will be used. This system allows users to input zip codes and receive demographic information about that area, including information about lifestyle and shopping habits. After analyzing the zip codes from the three stores I found some common demographic themes...
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...leaf junctures the debris of the winter's flooding; and sycamores with mottled, white, recumbent limbs and branches that arch over the pool. On the sandy bank under the trees the leaves lie deep and so crisp that a lizard makes a great skittering if he runs among them. Rabbits come out of the brush to sit on the sand in the evening, and the damp flats are covered with the night tracks of 'coons, and with the spread pads of dogs from the ranches, and with the split-wedge tracks of deer that come to drink in the dark. There is a path through the willows and among the sycamores, a path beaten hard by boys coming down from the ranches to swim in the deep pool, and beaten hard by tramps who come wearily down from the highway in the evening to jungle-up near water. In front of the low horizontal limb of a giant sycamore there is an ash pile made by many fires; the limb is worn smooth by men who have sat on it. Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray sculptured stones. And then from the direction of the state highway came the sound of footsteps on crisp sycamore leaves. The rabbits hurried...
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...Chapter 1: Into the Primitive Start Page 1 end page 13 unmber of pages 13 Gold just been discovered in in the Arctic. Californian people are rushing to the Northland, looking to gain some gold. Everyone is looking for strong and big dogs to carry them to the severe cold in the Arctic for their journey. Buck is a strong dog and the main character of “call of the wild” tale. Buck lives in the home of Judge Miller in Santa Clara Valley. Other dogs are present in the tale; however, Buck is the king of his domain. He escorts the Judge's daughters on walks; he hunts with Judge’s sons, carries his grandchildren on his back. Buck weighs around 140 pounds. He is not as large as his father was, but he carries himself like a king. Hunting and walking keep him fit. Buck doesn’t know what danger is waiting him. Manuel, a gardener's helper, who fall in debt, his salary can’t support his big family. One night, when the Judge and his sons are gone Manuel takes Buck on a walk. They arrive to a flag station where a man is waiting for them. Manuel sells Buck to a stranger for some dollars and when the stranger tries to grab the rope around his neck he flies violently at the man and bite the man’s hand; however Buck is thrown into the baggage car of the train. The man tells the conductor that Buck is being taken to San Francisco in order to cure him. Buck was hold into a brass collar and thrown into a cage. During the first night, Buck wonders why he is there. He wishes that the Judge come for...
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