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    leathery greenish-gray skin and spines along its back. It's about the size of a 4 year-old, and can stand/ hop around like a kangaroo. Most sites and books say that El Chupacabra is about the size of a small dog, and has wings. This website, says that it's three to four feet tall, and jumps around like a kangaroo. The picture on the site is a drawing, and looks like what someone would call an alien. The picture does fit the description they wrote about, but they don't have any real pictures. “‘That same description has weathered decades of scrutiny. First appearing in the late 1960s, alleged Chupacabra attacks picked up markedly in the mid-'90s, moving America's leading cryptozoologist, Loren Coleman, to term the animal "the single most notable cryptozoological phenomenon of the past decade.’" Coleman is the author of Cryptozoology A to Z.” "A mix of vampire and marauding, furry lizard, the Chupacabra has become one of the most common beasts studied under the general heading of cryptozoology, the study of animals that may or may not be real. No one has ever caught a Chupacabra, though plenty of eyewitnesses claim to have seen one. Descriptions vary. Eyewitness accounts during a rash of alleged attacks in 1995, many in Puerto Rico, described the animal as having a "reptilian body, oval head, bulging red eyes, fanged teeth and long, darting tongue," according to a report at the time in the daily San Juan Star." (Archer-Wills, paragraph 2) The Chupacabra has become one of the…

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    Loren Eiseley, American anthropologist, philosopher, and natural science writer, in his essay, “The Bird and the Machine,” juxtaposes life and mechanics. Eiseley describes the relationship between nature and technology, which is growing more prevalent in the modern world. He claims that technology is inferior to technology. His purpose is to illuminate that technology will never be able to replace the natural beauty of life or be capable of portraying the emotions of the bird and other living…

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    The purpose of watch dogs was to get more male role models involved with the children’s education. As many know, there is a surplus shortage of male teachers. Secondly, the is an alarming number of households that do not have a patriarch. To melee these serious issues the PTA formed the Watch dogs program. The program includes fathers, older brothers, uncles and grandfather of the students. Subsequently, in later years we have seen several husbands of the teachers of Bessie Coleman Elementary…

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    At the Rex Jazz and Blues Bar on 194 Queen Street West, The Sinners Choir performed in the genre of Americana, Free Jazz to an audience of around twenty-five people. Free Jazz was first introduced in the summer of 1960 when Saxophonist Ornette Coleman and his band recorded This is Our Music for Atlantic records. In the album, “Coleman reordered structural principles to offer the members of his group maximum melodic and rhythmic freedom,” (Anderson 2007, 1). He accomplished an improvised approach…

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    Bessie Coleman Bessie Coleman has influenced many African American teens from Texas by opening a flying school and teaching other black women to fly, being the first black woman to earn a pilot's license, and working to inspire black aviators. Bessie Coleman was born in Atlanta, Texas; she was the tenth of thirteen children. George Coleman, her father, was three quarter Cherokee Indian. Her parents worked as sharecroppers. (Carly Courtney, Disciples of flight) When she was 12 years old,…

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    blamed for managing in powdered cocaine, yet split was the neighborhood medication of decision. The captures were all the aftereffect of a covert operation by one cop, Tom Coleman, and his statement was basically the main proof sponsorship the charges. In any case, Coleman was…

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    For the past several months, creepy clowns have been terrorizing America, with sightings of actual clowns in at least 10 different states.These fiendish clowns have reportedly tried to lure women and children into the woods, chased people with knives and machetes, and yelled at people from cars. They've been spotted hanging out in cemeteries and they have been caught in the headlights of cars as they appear alongside desolate country roads in the dead of night.This isn't the first time there has…

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    findings challenged commonly held assumptions about the effects of social background on the levels and effectiveness of family-school partnerships. A number of research studies show that parental involvement in children’s learning activities positively influences their levels of achievement and motivation to learn (Epstein, 1992). Other studies confirm that families of higher socioeconomic background and higher levels of education have higher and more effective levels of parental involvement…

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