...standing in the back of the union by the fountain, and then I would play the guitar and sing out loud as if I were enjoying the nice weather. This would probably seem normal to most people, however, I don’t know how to play the guitar at all and I can’t sing worth anything. I figured the combination of my terrible abilities would make a great formula for gaining attention from other people. I recorded myself doing it so that I could remember what I sang about too. I also thought it would be great to sing about my observations of the people around me. I would sing things such as people looking like animals, or making fun of their clothes, or describing every move they make, or give them a story about their day and how it’s going. One time a tall white guy was walking past me by himself and my first reaction was that he looked like a giraffe, so I went with that. I sang loudly “hey tall guy with the red coat how are you today, when I first saw you, you looked like a giraffe to me, can you tell me giraffe man where I can find some good leaves on a tree, giraffe people are mad all the time that they cant fit through doors, they always hit their head and it gives their head soars, which is why they wanna be outside with the grass floors, lets hear the funny looking giraffe man’s ROARS!” This instance worked out great, I was happy I could play a good chord and come up with rhymes on the spot that worked out to be humorous. This guy’s name was Thomas and he thought that I was really...
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...All about Giraffes Stephanie Sprague ITT Technical Institute All about Giraffes Ever wonder about the different animals around the world? Ever wonder about their behaviors and features? This all has to do with zoology. Zoology is defined as the branch of biology devoted to the animals. Zoology can be viewed as a series of efforts to analyze and classify animals. Zoology basically explains everything having to do with the entire animal population. Zoology in an important field in the science world because it helps to explain all the different studies of animals. One important and what I feel is the greatest animal studied in zoology is the giraffe also known as Giraffa camelopardalis. The giraffe is the tallest animal averaging seventeen feet. Giraffes usually weigh about 2,500 lbs. Giraffes along with their extremely tall bodies have tongues usually fifteen inches long. Both sexes have two or four short, blunt, skin-covered horns. The coat has chestnut brown blotches against a brown background, markings that blend with the many different trees. As a giraffe ages, its color grows a darker brown. Each animal has a unique set of markings. Giraffes have keen sense of smell, seeing, and fantastic eyesight. A giraffe’s lifespan is up to twenty-six years in the wild and thirty-six years in captivity. Giraffes live on dry savannas and open woodland. They range south in the Sahara and in large numbers only in East Africa. Giraffes are herbivores, they eat mainly on leaves from acacia...
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...Giraffid Newsletter of the Giraffe & Okapi Specialist Group Note from the Co-‐Chairs Volume 7(2), December 2013 Wow – what a bumper issue and, of course, only befitting for the renamed Giraffid newsletter of the IUCN SSC Giraffe and Okapi Specialist Group (GOSG)! Inside this issue: It has been an exciting last six months and this issue brings you lots of stories and tall tales from across the African continent and beyond. From species conservation strategies and Red List updates, interesting wild and captive behaviours to translocations, hooves and DNA, this is truly a fully loaded newsletter. An inspiring read to keep us all going over the imminent festive season and a relaxing winter or summer break. Unusual sightings of wild giraffe behaviour 4 GOSG together with the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), the Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature...
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...English (Creative Writing) Tuesday, March 29, 2005 45 mins Shape Poem The Student will be able to: 1=Share and write more creactive ideas. 2=Describe different objects Papers Pens Charts Markers Colours OHP(OHT)for the presentation of sample poem(WB can be used too) PRESENTATION: The Teacher will ask the student following questions.(How many of you like butterfly/balloon? Why ou like balloons/butterfly? Do you love poems(yes/no) well,then lets try to write one. Teacher will show an example or two like of balloon(MY RED BALLOON IS LIKE AN AEROPLANE WITHOUT WINGS.IT FLOATS LIKE A BIRD IN THE SKY.A STRONG WIND MAKES MY BALLOON RUN FAST AND TO THE GROUND.POP!OHNO..PIECE OF RUBBER DRIFTING TO THE GROUND)Than SS will asked to choose shapes draw it and write a peom inside that shape) for production you can display all the shapes poems on the school board /bulletin board/soft board.. production stage could be considerd as evaluation Evaluation Lesson Plan Teacher Class Subject Date Duration Topic Objectives Material Needed Methodology Sonia Sham Dupte grades 3-4 language arts Tuesday, March 01, 2005 30 mins telling a story Students will learn how to use descriptive and imaginative language to tell a story. * Telling a Story pictures (allow each student to choose their own picture) * paper * pencils Discuss with students the structure of a good story. Stress that a good story has a beginning, middle, climax, and end. Read a sample story to the class. Have the class discuss what...
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...The imagery in the poem can be compared to that of childhood imagination, which is displayed when children play games or pretend, which involves role playing. The first stanza of the poem sets the stage concerning what is to follow in the poem. In stanza one, ‘shuffling about in a flutter of flour’ (line 2) describes the fidgeting and hyper-active movement of the speaker of the poem, who is a four year old boy. Through the eyes of this four year old boy, we are introduced to his younger brother Derek. In line one, Derek is described as dangling on the kitchen chair, from this, deductions can be made that he is so young that his legs do not even reach the kitchen floor. In line five, the word ‘perched’ is used to also describe how Derek is sitting on the chair. In line six, Derek is likened to a bird, which makes the adjective, ‘perched’, most apt as it is mainly used to describe the way birds rest. In line six, “His dummy twitters so he’s a...
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...selecting food as well as gathering and capturing food. (1136). It also states that ecologist study the cost and benefits of searching for and selecting certain types of food as well as the mechanism used to locate prey. (1136). Foraging behaviors also have other characteristics such as optimal foraging and whether or not the species is considered a generalist or a specialist. Every animal uses its own attack strategy when it comes to foraging behavior and their prey have their own technique on how to Lessing there changes of being eaten. Our textbook defines optimal foraging as the most efficient way for an animal to obtain food. You would think that animals just eat whatever they see and what’s available but this hypothesis is absolutely wrong. According to Darrell Ray, an American Biology teacher human also go through a phase of optimal behavior. Darrell did an experiment with his general ecology class involving a plate of cookies and broccoli. In his experiment he polled how many students would choose a cookie over broccoli. At the end of his experiment he asked his students why did the majority pick cookies over broccoli. There response was because of the taste. Optimal foraging theory suggests a different answer, and it lies in the economic principle of profitability.” Fats and sugars do taste good, as the students noted, but sugars have the added benefit of providing a rapidly available energy boost, while fats have high caloric density. () Grizzly bears...
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...Camels Camels are herbivores; they eat desert vegetation, such as grasses, herbs, and leaves. How do camels adapt to their environment? Camels have many adaptations that allow them to live successfully in desert conditions. Deserts are hot and dry. Winds blow sand all around, so a camel has long eyelashes. It has nostrils that can open and close. Why do camels have long eyelashes? The long eyelashes keep sand out of the camel's eyes. Thick eyebrows shield the eyes from the desert sun. Why does a camel have nostrils which can close? A camels nostrils can close so it doesn't get sand up its nose. Other Adaptations: 1. A camel can go a week or more without water, and they can last for several months without food. They can drink up to 32 gallons (46 litres) of water at one drinking session! 2. Camels store fat in the hump, not water. The fat can be metabolised for energy. 3. Unlike most mammals, a healthy camel's body temperature fluctuates (changes) throughout the day from 34°C to 41.7°C (93°F-107°F.) This allows the camel to conserve water by not sweating as the environmental temperature rises. 4. Camels feet are wide so they can walk on sand more easily. Their huge feet help them to walk on sand without sinking into it. 5. Camels have thick lips so they can eat the prickly desert plants with out feeling pain. 6. The colour of their bodies helps them to blend into their environment. 7. Camel's ears are covered with hair, even on the inside. The hair helps keep...
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...1.) -A: List and describe all five of Haidt’s moral foundations and explain how this line of research helps explain fundamental differences between liberals and conservatives. How do these differences help explain “culture war” attitudes? Haidt’s five moral foundations can be grouped into two separate foundations; individualizing foundations and binding foundations. Individualizing foundations include; harm/care and fairness/reciprocity. When searching for the best candidate foundations Haidt and Joseph looked for cases of moral concerns which existed across cultures which could be valid explanations of psychological mechanisms. Haidt referenced Trivers in saying “The widespread human obsession with fairness, reciprocity, and justice fits well with evolutionary writings about reciprocal altruism” and also...
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...watch her struggle to accept herself. Haven has a sister named Ashley who is 21 and engaged but is undecided when a high school boyfriend reappears into the picture. Haven’s parents went through divorce when Haven’s dad told them he was in love the weather girl at his news station. Haven is not a fan of the weather pet and dreads going to their wedding and wishes to stay with her mom who is struggling with the divorce. In this paper I am going to talk about Haven and how she is insecure about herself, her father’s second wedding, her sister and her previous love life, and last the return of Ashley’s past boyfriend who makes her question what she wants....
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...Exercise 1 Look t the picture and say what you can see in it. 1. There is a big kitchen in the house. 2. There is a dinner table in the kitchen. 3. There is a sitting room in the house. 4. There is a TV in the sitting room. 5. There is a sofa in the sitting room. 6. There are two bathrooms in the house. 7. There are three bedrooms in the house. 8. There are eight windows in the house. 9. There are three trees near the house. Exercise 2 Put in there is or there are. ________ _________ an elephant in the zoo. ________ _________ a tiger in the zoo. ________ _________ five monkeys in the zoo. ________ _________ zebras in the zoo. ________ _________ a giraffe in the zoo. ________ _________ pretty birds in the zoo. ________ _________ a peacock in the zoo. ________ _________ pink flamingoes in the zoo. Exercise 3 Put the food in the suitable basket. |Some bread, two eggs, three mushrooms, a bottle of lemonade, some cheese, five apples, an orange, four cucumbers, two tomatoes, a watermelon, a | |tin of tuna, a packet of biscuits, six sandwiches, two hamburgers, a piece of cake, some peaches | |[pic] |[pic] | |There is _______________in the basket. |There...
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...Cruelty can affect everybody, no matter their color, shape or size. During middle school, I would always get bullied because of my color, but no matter how hard I tried to act like I didn’t care it everyday it just seemed like it wouldn’t end. As time pass it now just wasn’t about my color it was about by accent; and the way I dressed. One thing that I would never get is why me, why did they tease me. At the beginning of middle school I thought everything was going to be fine I was going to make a tons of new friends. As time went by we all got to know each other and things went pretty good. Until one day the teacher decide to call on me I looked at her I had no idea what she was talking about; when I answered the question everybody inside...
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...Early Years Tyra Lynn Banks was born December 4, 1973 in Inglewood, California. She is the daughter of Caroline a medical photographer, and her father Donald Banks, a computer consultant. Tyra’s grew up with her parents being divorced. This happened when she was only 6 years old, but she says that she was too young for the divorce to even have much impact on her childhood. She also has a brother named Devin, who is five years older than her. When it came to who Tyra was going to live with, it didn’t come to much complication. She lived with her mother on weekdays and her father on weekends. She saw this as the good life she not only always had two birthday parties but also two Christmases, which meant double the presents, and double the love. Growing up, Tyra was often displayed around her family’s home in Inglewood living in her mother’s duplex and walking around her mother’s heels. She always role played with her mother as being a model. She was inspired to become a model from watching the weekly CNN program called “Style with Elsa Klensch” and “House of Style.” Although she first wanted to become a veterinarian and wanted to attend veterinarian school she was wined over by the modeling world. Tyra attended John Burroughs Middle School and graduated in 1991 from Immaculate Heart High School , a Catholic all girls school in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles. During her Middle School days she was somewhat of a mean girl in middle school. She was popular and always in...
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...The Lion King: A Live Theatre Report On February 12, 2015, the African savannah was packed up in a box- lions, hyenas, birds and giraffes included- and shipped to Memphis, Tennessee where it transformed the stages of the Orpheum theatre! The Lion King, an adapted musical from the book by Roger Allers and Irene Mecchi, is an exciting and relatable tale of a young lion, Simba, and his journey growing up as the next in line to be king of the savannah. The production takes the audience from the birth of the prince through his rambunctious, care-free childhood and follows all the struggles and triumphs he faces leading up to his crowing as king of the pride. The Lion King takes full advantage of the audience’s senses, and the theatre’s space....
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...is the application of size and its relevance to the animal kingdom. Randy Newman raised eyebrows and a goodly number of hackles three decades ago with his “Short People” ditty – “Short people got no reason, short people got no reason to live” he crooned, and the vertically disadvantaged got mad and the tall people laughed and the world went about its business of favoring size – in this case – when measured from head to toe. Mr. Newman’s parody was so radical that I suspect he was asking us to think, as opposed to expressing an opinion, and if so, he was and may still be more of a Buddhist than a bigot. But I speak not about the size of people here – but to animals of the more ordinary kind. I am not what you might think of as an animal lover. I’ve had some great dogs and a rather well publicized cat by the name of “Bob”, but on the whole I’ve become more of a life respecter than an inveterate petter of felines or canines. But there’s something about the size of a living thing that increases or diminishes my sense of caring and I’m not sure why that should be. Let’s start at the top of the size chart and see if you share this same bias: Elephants, giraffes, whales. Good vibes? Of course. Who couldn’t love them? They’re either smart, elegant with those long necks, or symbolic of benign power and strength. Would you ever want to kill one? Almost unanimously you’d answer in the negative assuming your name isn’t Captain Ahab or you don’t run a...
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...If deserts _have_ a fault (which their present biographer is far from admitting), that fault may doubtless be found in the fact that their scenery as a rule tends to be just a trifle monotonous. Though fine in themselves, they lack variety. To be sure, very few of the deserts of real life possess that absolute flatness, sandiness and sameness, which characterises the familiar desert of the poet and of the annual exhibitions--a desert all level yellow expanse, most bilious in its colouring, and relieved by but four allowable academy properties, a palm-tree, a camel, a sphinx, and a pyramid. For foreground, throw in a sheikh in appropriate drapery; for background, a sky-line and a bleaching skeleton; stir and mix, and your picture is finished. Most practical deserts one comes across in travelling, however, are a great deal less simple and theatrical than that; rock preponderates over sand in their composition, and inequalities of surface are often the rule rather than the exception. There is reason to believe, indeed, that the artistic conception of the common or Burlington House desert has been unduly influenced for evil by the accessibility and the poetic adjuncts of the Egyptian sand-waste, which, being situated in a great alluvial river valley is really flat, and, being the most familiar, has therefore distorted to its own shape the mental picture of all its kind elsewhere. But most deserts of actual nature are not all flat, nor all sandy; they present a considerable diversity...
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