On a typical I-can’t-wait-for-this-day-to-end Friday morning‚ we were asked as a group by our prof to describe something that he will provide and by some luck‚ we got Skittles! And yes‚ I personally love sweets especially candies and white chocolates. I mean‚ who would not want to taste those brightly colored pack of sugars‚ right? Once you open a pack of Skittles‚ you will automatically smell the sweet aroma of the candies. And what I liked about these small and circular candies is its blend
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CDFR 4122 Learning Activity Format Identifying Information Planting A Rainbow Thursday‚ April 11‚ 2013 12:00pm Reading on Carpet/Activity at the tables 15 children (11 six year olds and 4 five year olds) Rationale- In this section you will explain the purpose of the activity and why it is appropriate for your children. A. Connection to prior learning and/or experience-Answer the two prompts below in terms of individual children and you whole class. a. Prior learning and prerequisite
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An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow What significant ideas relating to belonging are explored in your related text? In the 1969 poem “An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow” by influential Australian poet Les Murray many key themes are explored‚ for example belonging. Significant ideas such as acceptance and fear of both individuality and conformity are intensely critiqued in this poem by using a grown man to depict the fear of abnormality and segregation within society. Belonging can be perceived as a sense
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Today is not just a new day. Everyday I always ponder and wonder about a lot of things. Sometimes I think about yesterday and wonder if today will be a lot better than yesterday. Let me just share to you what I’ve thought of... I’ve thought of many names‚ and not all of them are pleasant. I am many things‚ but not all of them are good. Or so some of the mundane flocks might think. But I am who and what I am‚ and I have a duty to myself. Looking back to those years past I could almost
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Rainbow Lorikeet Trichoglossus moluccanus Classification Kingdom- Animalia Phylum- Chordata Class- Aves Order- Psittaciformes Family- Psittacidae Genus- Trichoglossus Species- T. molacanus Appearance The Rainbow Lorikeet has very bright plumage. The head is normally a dark blue. Its neck‚ belly‚ and upper part of the wings are green. The chest is reddish-yellow. The Rainbow Lorikeet is dimorphic‚ but it is difficult to tell the difference between a male and a female. Size The Rainbow Lorikeet’
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10 years ago on the 10th of July 1985 2 limpet mine bombs set by French DGSE agents on the Greenpeace flagship the Rainbow Warrior shook New Zealand’s history forever. A Portuguese Greenpeace crew member Fernando Pereira was killed in the explosions and it is a tragedy that New Zealand will never be able to forget. It all started when the Americans bombed Hiroshima to end the Second World War in 1945. America had also won the race to be the first country to hold the power of the atomic bomb. There
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“Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is a story literally exaggerated to its limit by showing‚ in the near future‚ what it means to be equal in every way by having people not being able to show any form of intelligence or creativity whatsoever. When Harrison Bergeron breaks the chains of government oppression‚ he dies for his failed cause. He dies because he chooses not to conform to the rest of his oppressive society. His parents‚ George and
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contamination of an ideal society. The short story‚ Harrison Bergeron‚ is in accordance to this‚ since the ideal of total equality is promoted to the point of handicapping the gifted and the talented. The story takes places in 2081‚ where a futuristic America exists in complete equality in every form. This constraint put on the citizens is an ideal characteristic for the government‚ but for the people it is a burden that diminishes their identity. Therefore‚ in Harrison Bergeron‚ author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. explores
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Benjamin Harrison Benjamin Harrison was born on August 20‚ 1833 on a farm by the Ohio River below Cincinnati. He attended Miami University in Ohio and read law in Cincinnati. Before completing his law studies‚ Harrison returned to Oxford to marry Caroline Lavinia Scott. She was the daughter of the college president‚ John Witherspoon Scott‚ a Presbyterian minister. On October 20‚ 1853‚ Caroline’s father performed the ceremony. They then moved to Indianapolis‚ where he practiced law and campaigned
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In the short story‚ “Harrison Bergeron‚” published in 1961‚ Kurt Vonnegut Jr. discusses equality in America in 2081. His story places you into a world where everyone is made equal in every way. Anyone with talents‚ like beauty‚ strength‚ and higher mental capacity are made handicapped by wearing massive weights‚ thought scattering headsets‚ and masks. These handicaps were set in place to create an equal world within the United States. While creating an equal society though‚ they are holding people
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