he hummingbird actually helps pollinate flowers. (National Geographic)
Birds live almost everywhere in the world. From the penguins at the South Pole to the Canadian Geese in the far north to the tiny finches and parrots of the jungle to the large and cumbersome Dodo birds in the Pacific, birds have adapted to whatever environment they are found in. Most birds live in an environments that have mild winters and summers, migrating by flying south in the winter to warmer climates and flying north in the summer, to find milder summers. (Sibley 5)

he largest bird is the ostrich of Australia, growing up to 9 feet tall, and the smallest bird is the bee hummingbird, which is only 2 1/2 inches long and weighs 0.06 oz. Hummingbirds can fly backwards and sideways, something that no other bird can do. he ostrich lays the largest eggs, which are up to 4.5 X…...

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The largest bird is the ostrich of Australia, growing up to 9 feet tall, and the smallest bird is the bee hummingbird, which is only 2 1/2 inches long and weighs 0.06 oz. Hummingbirds can fly backwards and sideways, something that no other bird can do. The ostrich lays the largest eggs, which are up to 4.5 X 7 inches around and weigh 3 pounds. Since the egg is so large, the incubation period for an ostrich egg is 42-50 days, which is more than twice as long as a chicken's egg (20-22 days). (Duncraft 2006)

One of the most unusual birds is the flamingo, which is pink to white in color, has orange eyes, grows to be four feet tall and has the longest tongue of any bird. It lives to be about 50 years old and eats crustaceans, insects and algae. It eats by putting its head under the water, observing everything upside down, and filters organisms from the water with its long tongue.

Birds eat in many different ways, from filtering water or catching fish, as the water fowl do, to diving from high in the air at small animals in the fields, killing them on the spot and eating the raw meat with their beaks. Each kind of bird is built to make eating whatever is in their diet easier. Birds that eat fish have large beaks. Pelicans can actually store many fish in their huge beaks. Birds that must find food in tiny cracks or holes have long, sharp beaks that they use almost like straws. Some birds have extremely strong beaks so that they can crack open their food, such as the parrot. Some birds have long legs so they can run fast or stand in shallow water without getting their bodies wet. Other birds, like the swift, have extremely tiny legs that do not hinder their flight as they swoop through the air after mosquitoes. Each bird has adapted

"A sense of impending catastrophe loomed in the air." (2) a paper calls this the second "Palestinian ar of Independence," but at first Raja Shehadeh can only think of the inconveniences this occupation causes him and causes his law firm's efforts that extend far beyond the confines of a single city. (3)
The book alternates moments of high comedy with death and tragedy. One comedic moment occurs early on when some friendly soldiers cheerfully ask the author if he knows of good lodging anywhere, like tourists who have accidentally had their hotel reservations cancelled. (4) "The two of them were very polite," observes the lawyer, approvingly (5) a young scholar, out of a job because of the occupation, works as an incompetent cleaner, breaking Shehadeh's valuable vase, but gluing it together and providing interesting conversation. (6)

At first, in the face of such tragedy and absurdity Shehadeh focuses on his duties…...

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Works Cited

Shehadeh, Raja. When the Birds Stopped Singing. New York: Steerforth, 2003.

Birds: Why do humans fantasize about the ornithological state of being? Refer to "The Birds" of Aritsophanes
To the human eye, birds can seem very much like human beings. Birds seem to behave intelligently, unlike most insects and reptiles, yet unlike mammals birds have the capacity of flight, and often of song as well. They also have exotic plumage that humans can only replicate by gathering feathers or manufacturing clothing. Thus, the sight of birds offers human beings a fantasy of escape and flight. The sight of birds enables humans to fantasize about creating another way of living, but in the context of something that still seems 'human,' and socially organized -- because birds still seem to engage with one another as friends and mates in ways that we engage with our fellow human beings on a personal, if not a political level.

In this vein, Aristophanes' play "The Birds" tells…...

However, animals or human intervention are often needed to achieve seed dispersal over long distances (Czarnecka, 2005). Hurricanes are also responsible for transport of seeds over long distances (Czarnecka, 2005).
Grasslands were found to consist of a mosaic pattern where dense clusters of a single plant form. This suggests that seed rain around the plant is the primary seed dispersal process at work in these areas (Czarnecka, 2005). Wind may help to spread species to new patches, but the primary seed dispersal mechanism would be likely to be seeds falling to the ground. Compared to brush lands, the dominant species were within the Carex family. The dominant species in the brush lands was Origanum vulgare. Seed dispersal by anemochore dominated in the grasslands, with nearly 43% of the plants using this methods exclusively. Among brush land plants, dispersal by plants that depended on animals for dispersal, either by eating the…...

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References

Au, N., Corlett, R., & Hau, B. (2006). Seed rain into upland plant communities in Hong Kong, China. Plant Ecology. 186 (1), 13-22.

Czarnecka, J. (2005). Seed dispersal effectiveness in three adjacent plant communities xerothermic grassland, brushwood, and woodland. Ann. Bot Fennici. 42: 161-171.

Elsa, W., Lee, B. Hau, C., & Corlett, R. (2005). Natural regeneration in exotic tree plantations in Hong Kong, China.

Forest Ecology and Management. 212 (1-3), 358-366.

Question 3

If the water you drank leaked out of a tube in your stomach, your drinking would definitely change. Such a loss of water would trigger hypovolemic thirst, which is typically caused by bleeding, sweating, or other types of fluid loss. Here, "thirst is based on low volume" (Kalat 307). The water you drink is being lost out of the tube. As such, it is not filling the necessary level of water within the body, causing hypovolemic thirst to induce the individual to want to drink even more. Thus, if you had a tube letting water out of your body, you would still remain thirsty and would drink even more to try to compensate.

Question 4

Some women crave salt during pregnancy because salt helps the body retain fluids. Pregnant women need to retain more water in order to help the progression of the pregnancy. Since sodium retains water, this may be…...

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References

Kalat, James W. (2012). Biological Psychology. 11th ed. Wadsworth Publishing.

Know hy the Caged Bird Sings
One of the lasting moments in Maya Angelou's I Know hy the Caged Bird Sings is the explicit rape scene in the novel. In the story, the young narrator is raped by her mother's boyfriend. This moment in the book has been mislabeled as a form of child pornography, but anyone reading the story can testify that this is not a moment told in a way to stimulate in any way. The rape scene is a nightmare and the reader is put directly into the position of the poor, frightened child who cannot comprehend what is happening to her. The theme of the novel in its entirety is presented in these two scenes of violence; childhood is destroyed by adults. A conflict between the adult world and childhood innocence and how the destructive forces of the former forever destroy the latter.

There are two scenes…...

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Works Cited:

Angelou, Maya (2004). I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. New York: Chelsea

"Removing the N Word from Huck Finn: Top 10 Censored Books." (2011) Time.

Vermillion, Mary (1999). "Reembodying the Self: Representations of Rape in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings." Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: a Casebook. Ed. Joanne M. Braxton. New York: Oxford.

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Art is also powerful according to Vendler, capable of inspiriting interest and curiosity about other "aesthetic matters" including philosophy, history and other disciplines (Vendler 1). Vendler also states that the arts "are too profound and too far reaching to be left out of our children's patrimony" suggesting that the arts have a right in schools and should be considered as serious as other subjects including math or biology (Vendler, 2004; Field, 2004). Further, Vendler argues that the arts can teach individuals more about heritage than other subjects including philosophy and even history because the arts offer a picture of the way mankind was, has lived and may live in the future (Field, 2004).

Vendler suggests that people would be sleepwalkers as allace Stevens proposes in his poem "Somnambulisma" that wonder through life without conscious acknowledgment of their existence I they fail to participate in the arts and recognize the vital contributions…...

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Works Cited

Craig, Bruce. "Poet Helen Vendler Delivers Jefferson Lecture." National Coalition for History, 10(20): 2004, May. 10 October 2005: http://hnn.us/readcomment.php?id=34866&bheaders=1

Field, Kelly. "Jefferson Lecture: Harvard Poet Says History Is Not Essential To Liberal

Education." (2004- May). Chronicle of Higher Education, 10, October 2005: http://hnn.us/roundup/comments/5058.html

Gewertz, Ken. "The centrality of the arts." 2005. Harvard University Gazette, (17):1, 10

Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou, she illustrated her coming of age as an intelligent but unconfident black girl in the American South during the 1930s and afterwards in California during the 1940s. Angelou's parents' divorce when she was three years old and sent her and her older brother, Bailey, to stay with their paternal grandmother, Annie Henderson, which was rural Stamps, Arkansas. Annie, whom they call Momma, ran the only store in the black section of Stamps and became the most important moral figure in Angelou's childhood.
Within her book, there are many themes that are brought up throughout the course of the story. Since the book is about a black girl growing up during a time that blacks did not have equal rights, naturally, the major theme would be racism and segregation which can be related to modern society. Therefore, I Know Why the Caged…...

kill a Mocking Bird's Aticus Finch
Defined as one of the best novel of the 20th Century, and selling more than "30 million copies around the world" having it's translation in more than 40 languages (Flood), the book "To Kill a Mocking Bird" has been considered as a true reflction of the American society in 1936. The story revolves around the story of the racial differences that exist in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama. The story is being narrated by the six-year daughter of the lawyer Atticus Finch, Scout Finch. The main plot revolves around the trial of Tom Robinson, a black man who has been accused of raping a white girl, and is being defended by Atticus. The story from the point-of-view of the child continues to be narrated, despite being forbidden to attend the court proceedings, as they hide themselves in the colored gallery. Facing a town…...

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Works Cited

Flood, Alison. Harper Lee breaks silence - just - for Mockingbird anniversary. 28th June 2010. 11th April 2012. .

Evolution of the Feather and the Origin of irds
THE EVOLUTION OF THE FEATHER AND THE ORIGIN OF THE IRD

This is a paper that explains about the origin of birds and the actual evolution of the feathers. The paper details about the way the feathers had first evolved and the way these birds had their origin. The common belief that the dinosaurs are the ancestors of these birds has been analyzed and the paper also deals with as to how the feathers of these birds would have developed.

The origin of feathers is unknown. Scientists have researched on this topic but none of the theories have even come close to being proved. In the past five years there have been efforts to answer as to the real evolution of these feathers. The mystery of the evolution of feathers is closely linked with the origin of birds themselves. The origin of birds has…...

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Bibliography

Martin, Larry D. And Czerkas, Stephan A. (September 2000) "The Fossil Record of Feather Evolution in the Mesozoic" American Zoologist, volume 40, issue 4,-page 687

Prum, Richard O. (January 23, 2003) "Paleontology: Dinosaurs take to the air" Nature, volume 421, pp.323-324

Sues, Hans-Dieter. (April 26, 2001) "Paleontology: Ruffling Feathers" Nature, volume 410, pp. 1036-1037

Hou, Lianhai; Martin, Larry D; Zhou, Zhonghe and Feduccia, Alan. (November 15, 1996) "Early Adaptive Radiation of Birds: Evidence from Fossils from Northeastern China" Science, volume 274

Pain in Non-Human Animal to HumansWhether or not nonhuman animals can experience pain happens to be a rather interesting topic in the realms of neurology, philosophy, medicine, as well as animal biology and behavioral ecology. However, it would be prudent to note that as Ferdowsian and Merskin indicate, unlike human suffering, the wide range of acute, recurrent, and chronic stressors and trauma on nonhuman animals is rarely evaluated (448). In this text, Ill concern myself with pain in birds. Special references will be made to poultry.From the onset, it should be noted that most studies in this realm appear to be mostly focused on the evidence of pain in birds from a physiological and behavioral perspective. Parallels could, however, be drawn between pain in birds and pain in mammals. This is more so the case in relation to both having a sensory system that is well developed and has the…...

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Works Cited

Ferdowsian, Hope, and Debra Merskin. “Parallels in Sources of Trauma, Pain, Distress, and Suffering in Humans and Nonhuman Animals.” Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, vol. 13, no. 4, 2011, pp. 448-468.

Gentle, Michael. “Pain issues in poultry.” Applied Animal Behavior Science, vol. 135, no. 3, 2011, pp. 252-258.

Machin, Karen. “Avian Analgesia.” Seminars in Avian and Exotic Pet Medicine, vol. 14, no. 4, 2005, pp. 236-242.

Bird-Headed Bas Relief
Balefully staring out from a fragmentary bas-relief panel of mottled grey-brown stone, the bird- or reptile- headed creature dominates this viewer's attention: it is an Assyrian religious carving of some sort, entitled "Bird-Headed Deity," dated to 885 BCE and found in Calah, Iraq. The mottling of the stone is inherent in its quality: to a certain extent, the artist seems to have placed the figure so that the mottling would settle like an aura around the creature's head. What remains of this broken engraving from the reign of Sardanapalus, or Assurbanipal II, the last recorded emperor of Assyria, coheres in the form of a loose and lopsided pentagon -- the shape itself of the broken panel is five-sided, but tilts up toward the right, and looks like home plate at a baseball game seen in extreme perspective. The panel itself is mounted on a concrete square of roughly…...

The basic methodology of the research was a careful synthesis of existing theories and observations as a means of constructing an internally valid and consistent logical argument in favor of corporate taxation.
Results/Findings

Again, because this is not a true research article there are not exactly results or findings in the traditional sense of an experimental or observational piece of research. The analysis that the author provides constitutes the results or findings of this research; the reasons behind the need to tax corporations, which range from complex numerical issues to ethical and image/perception-based imperatives, are the "discoveries" made here. The author also explores the reasons that corporate taxation is frowned upon by some, explaining why this reasoning is flawed.

Author(s) Conclusion(s)

The author concludes by calling for an open-economy structure, explored and described in greater detail in previous sections, that would lead to an optimal corporate tax structure. The elements of corporate taxation…...

Leisure
Activity: Bird watching

Description: Bird watching entails spending time outside, either alone or in a group, with the express purpose of observing local avian life and behavior. The purpose of bird watching activities can be documentary in its approach, as in the cataloging of which birds were seen in a list. Alternatively, bird watching can consist of passive recreational activity in which simple observation and admiration of bird species is the goal. Some bird watching will entail the use of camera equipment. Because I am also a hobby/enthusiast photographer, I took my camera along every bird watching activity and therefore combined two of my favorite leisure activities into one. Additionally, bird watching will usually involve the use of binoculars. While some birds do not mind being close to people, most will fly away. Binoculars can also allow for the observation of raptors and birds of prey when they are soaring.

Bird watching…...

Blackest Bird opens on July 26, 1841 at midnight. A man, somewhat reluctantly and with a twinge of guilt, dumps Mary's dead body into the Hudson River. The killer audibly cries out, teeming with guilt as he wonders what have I done? "Oh Mary!" (Rose 11). Therefore, the killer knows Mary, and was likely either in love with her or a close companion. He could even be her relative.
Detective Jacob Hays is sixty-nine years old and in no mood to retire. He has long served the city of New York, as high constable. Known as Old Hays, he is obsessed with crime, and especially solving them. The murder of the as-of-yet unknown Mary captures his attention. hen he realizes that the body belongs not just to any Mary, but to Mary Rogers, Old Hays knows he's got a huge story on his hands. Mary Rogers is the locally famous socialite…...

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Works Cited

Rose, Joel. The Blackest Bird. New York: W.W. Norton, 2007.

"Who Killed Mary Rogers?" Retrieved online:  http://my.ilstu.edu/~ftmorn/cjhistory/casestud/rogers.html

1. The symbolism of the caged bird in Maya Angelou's autobiographical work, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings."
2. The theme of captivity and freedom in Harper Lee's novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird."
3. Analyzing the oppression and confinement of women in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper."
4. The symbolism of the birdcage in Henrik Ibsen's play, "A Doll's House," in relation to gender roles and societal expectations.
5. Comparing the experiences of the caged birds in Richard Wright's novel, "Native Son," and Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel, "The Handmaid's Tale."
6. Exploring the theme of captivity and liberation in Jean Rhys's....

The Enigmatic Duel: Comparing the Elusive Hedgehog and the Cunning Fox

Introduction
The realm of nature abounds with captivating creatures, each possessing distinctive traits and survival strategies. Among these fascinating animals, the hedgehog and the fox stand out for their contrasting yet intriguing qualities. This essay delves into a thorough comparison of these two creatures, exploring their physical attributes, behavioral patterns, and ecological roles, unveiling the profound differences and unexpected similarities that define their enigmatic existence.

Physical Disparities and Defensive Adaptations
Hedgehogs and foxes exhibit striking physical differences that reflect their respective adaptations to their environments. The hedgehog, with its diminutive size and globular....

1. The ethical implications of keeping birds in cages
2. The psychological effects of caging birds on their well-being
3. The role of caged birds in human culture and history
4. The impact of bird trafficking and illegal bird trade on caged bird populations
5. The importance of bird conservation and protection of endangered species in captivity
6. The relationship between pet birds and their owners in captivity
7. The challenges and benefits of bird rehabilitation and re-introduction programs
8. The symbolism of caged birds in literature and art
9. The rights of caged birds and the debate surrounding animal rights
10. The potential alternatives to caging birds for....

Part I: The Allegory of Freedom and Confinement

1. The Bird in the Gilded Cage: Exploring the Paradoxes of Liberty
- Dive into the complex interplays of freedom and confinement through the allegory of a bird in a gilded cage. Discuss how the bird's perceived freedom is juxtaposed against the limitations imposed by its gilded prison.

2. The Broken Winged Songbird: A Metaphor for Resilience in Adversity
- Examine the resilience of a bird with a broken wing, exploring how it finds strength and hope amidst adversity. Draw parallels to human experiences of overcoming challenges and finding beauty within brokenness.

3. Of Caged....