Ducks

We used to call it the Vistas. Everyday afterschool my friends and I rode the school bus through Miami-Dade until we got to the vistas at Walden Pond. Walden Pond was a place located on county line road. The county line split Dade and Broward County from each other. The vistas at Walden Pond were surrounded by lakes and a very noisy highway. A barbershop and a corner store was right down the street, as well as the supermarket Winn-Dixie. Home to many people of different ethnicities and…

(-20*C) then the hair will freeze at temperatures above that while at the contest is open for the entire month of February. After checking in the contestants are led to the hot springs which then boost a temperature of 104*F (40 *C) even if they duck their heads under water their hair will still freeze that’s enough to let participants sculpt and forge their hair and take a few photos of…

The characteristics of both Alhambra’s Court of Lions and the gardens of the Villa Lante are similar in respect to them having a psychophysiological experience for the viewer/ user but also different in their meaning. Additionally, both gardens share similar features such as; water features, the concept of incorporating animalistic sculptures, and segmented parts both having a shared value in the meaning of different parts of the world. For this, I will explain their similarities and meanings of…

On Wednesday, February 15th, I observed one of the three 4th grade classes at Thomas A. Edison Elementary School in Port Chester, New York. There were twenty-four students in the class that day, 99% of the students were Hispanic, six of them were English Language Learners, eight of them had IEPs, and one child had a 504 plan due to a lost limb. Class started with their morning routine; Ms. Simmons greeted the children as they walked into the classroom, they hung up their backpacks in the closet…

During the early 1800’s much speculation occurred within the scientific community as to how life came to be, at this time scientists such as Andrew Knight, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, and Charles Darwin all had their own ideas concerning the diversity of life on earth. A few theories were based upon the thought that variation had been attributed to the amount of food that had been available to an organism; this is what Andrew Knight had originally thought. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck had a different idea…

Flack, Marjorie, and Kurt Wiese. The Story about Ping. New York, NY: [Viking], 1933. Print. Ping was an adventurous duck who lived on a beautiful wise-eyed boat on the Yangtze River. He liked his life on the riverboat just and liked his large family and his kind master. He didn't like to be the last in line to board the boat at night, for that unlucky duck got a loud spank. So what did Ping do when it seemed that he would be the last on line? What else but set out on his own to explore the…

1. What is the geographic distribution and habitat of Azolla? The geographic distribution of Azolla species around the world, some in North America, South America, Alaska, tropical and subtropical America, upper reaches of the Nile to Sudan, most Asia and coast of tropical Africa and in the Caribbean region. The habitat of Azolla is freshwater ditches, ponds, lakes and sluggish rivers of warm temperature and tropical regions. 2. What is unique about this fern? Why is it called ‘Azolla…

force them back. We both mouth to each other at the same time. ‘I’m sorry’ I turn and ran to the door and quickly unlock it before running out of the house. I hear running behind me and force myself to go faster. After running for a little bit I duck into an alley and pull out my stele and drew a Heightened Speed rune on the inside of my arm before I took off running again. I ran all the way from my neighborhood to the New York Institute. When I got in front of the Institute I didn’t…

program for monitoring and documenting avian mortality, timing of incidents, and bird species affected” (Approval). Syncrude did submit this protection plan before April 28, 2008 but did not hear back about whether it was approved on not before the duck deaths. The protection plan was rejected but Syncrude did not know this at the time of the deaths, Syncrude then had to resubmit a new waterfowl protection plan to be approved again (R. v. Syncrude Canada…

Levana x Aimery: Chilling like Villians Levana is throwing a small gathering on the sandy white Luna beach, but only for aristocrats and her top thaumaturges. Aimery is to accompany her at her side, since he is head thaumaturge. Natural sunlight shined on the beach through Luna's dome. Levana had her glamor up, as usual. She wore a flowy—and revealing—white sundress with shimmery silver and gold threading. The look was topped off with a matching silver and white sunhat and rhinestone sandals.…