In town at this time of day most people were on their way home, the streets were busy with the last colourful flush of the day. Behind the town, roads run up the mountain and the large houses with larger gardens walled and winding, continual and quiet on their way toward the mountain rising gradually, pastures turn to heather until eventually the clouds that were once so free and high come lower and lower and fade in colour and disappear, and you find they are all around you, draped on the land
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Civilization Day, by Ornette Coleman, was recorded September 9th, 1971. Coleman’s album Science Fiction consisted of a variety of songs that were very different, that included Civilization Day. Some important elements of what we’ve learned were evident in this song. The musicians combined collective improvisation with solo improvisation. He referred to this improvisational concept as harmolodics, a shortened form of the words harmony, melody, and motion. The alto sax, trumpet, and non-walking bass
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Animal Testing Many the big issues, for many years, has been about animal testing. The argument of is animal testing good or bad has been a bother for numerous amounts of people. Many people believe that animal testing is terrible because sometimes it causes animals to suffer and even die. Most scientist say animal testing is used to help the nation. They test different products to see if it's safe for humans to use. Many forget the benefits from animal testing and how much good it has done to
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should be banned? My view is, the responsibility is not only on the marketing, but mainly on the communication and education from the parents, and the response of the government to the endless marketing. In <Your trusted friends>, the author Eric Schlosser reports that “Many studies had found that young children often could not tell the difference between television programming and television advertising. They also could not comprehend the real purpose of commercials and trusted that advertising
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The Gentlemen of the Jungle "Peace is costly, but it's worth the expense." The theme of this text could be patience. How patient you can be before doing something for yourself or how far can you go for somebody else without getting anything? The story is about a man living in an animal world; he has a little hut in peace and quiet. One day there is a hurricane and Mr. Elephant seeks shelter at the man's hut, but with no room for them both, the elephant kicks the man out in the hurricane. This
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“The Stowaway” is a revolutionary story that presents a unique outlook on the age-old tale of Noah’s Ark. Told from the viewpoint of a bold, outspoken woodworm that sneaks onto the ship, the story defies the traditional telling of the classic flood story. Rather, the woodworm relates unheard of insight on the arduous trip within the ark, the humorous animals he experienced the journey with, and the untrue details that characterize the biblical story. However, the most remarkable information the woodworm
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Taibbi Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog#ixzz2fI9gEBD3 Follow us: @rollingstone on Twitter | RollingStone on Facebook Readers may recall an ugly story that broke earlier this summer, when New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman rebuked the news/business information firm Thomson Reuters for selling access to key economic survey data two seconds early to high-frequency algorithmic traders. The story strongly suggested that some Thomson Reuters customers were using
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Creature Farm starts on Manor Farm in England. After Mr. Jones, the careless proprietor of the homestead, has unsteadily closed the creatures away and gone to rest, the creatures all amass in the horse shelter to hear a regarded pig named Old Major talk. Old Major continues to share his fantasy of a world without men, one led by creatures. He brings up that the greater part of the misery continued by the creatures is the aftereffect of man. Mr. Jones compels the creatures to work too hard and after
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Tangerine Summary, Part 3 By Payton Osowski At the beginning of part 3, it finally gets so cold, that Mrs. Fisher asks Erik for his key to the storage unit, so she can get some winter clothes out. But he left it in his school locker, and can't bring it home until after school. She doesn't want to wait long, so she decides to see if any employees at the storage department have another way to let her in. Meanwhile, Paul gets to school, but only to find that a bunch of kids are absent. He tells Henry
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Life Sentence: What Did These Animals Do? What would you do if you were suddenly taken out of your home, taken away from everything you’ve ever known and put in a prison? This is how animals in man-made habitats feel, everything they’ve ever known has been taken away from them and they are trapped in an enclosure. Although putting animals in man-made habitats can save them from extinction, animals shouldn’t live in them because they are taken out of their natural habitat, nature parks cannot mimic
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