Giraffe

I remember waking up with a bloody face. As I entered junior high, my family had moved to a town that had a racist streak. On the first day of school I made a remark identifying myself as believing in civil rights. The statement’s consequences arrived several months later when I was beaten unconscious by a fellow white student. At that time, I had never had a black friend, but the madness imposed on African Americans stormed into my world with the physical intimacy of violence. What do we know,…

After being lifted from the plate and placed in the mouth, the poor pizza goes on a long journey through the digestive system and eventually is turned into waste after passing through the 6 primary organs of the digestive tract: the mouth, oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine and anus. The process of digestion starts when Bob the pizza is placed in the mouth. The main structures of the mouth are the teeth, tongue, salivary duct and oesophagus. Bob is killed, being chewed on by…

considerations of mate choice date back to Darwin (1871), when he proposed a mechanism know as sexual selection. This proposed mechanism can explain characteristics like plumage of peacocks, fight in elephant seals over females mate, longer neck in giraffes to exhibit dominance in females and so on. These characteristics contradict natural selection (survival of fittest). Sexual selection can be divided into two processes, namely intersexual and intrasexual selection (Buss, 1986). Peacock tail…

The day July the 15th marks a memorable day in my recent summer vacation with my family. The much acclaimed and desirable ‘Disney World in Orlando, Florida’ was the point of attraction. I was very excited and overwhelmed as I took all of my time and energy in preparing for this trip; I loved every moment of this wonderful experience as the memory still lingers on. Prior to this desired journey to Disney World, my sister Chelsea thought it would be a pleasant and a great idea to keep the Disney…

Bread and Circuses, a very effective form of authority throughout Roman history, were key contributing factors to the end of the Roman republic because they pacified the plebs to a point where they stopped thinking for themselves and allowed the government and politicians to become their lifeline for food, entertainment and the political direction of Rome. The Roman Bread and Circuses, wildly extravagant and free events, gathered masses of people to enjoy the violent and bloody spectacle of men…

This is one way in which energy is transferred between organisms in an ecosystem. The energy is used for a number of life processes. In a food chain only around 10 per cent of the energy is passed on to the next level. The rest of the energy passes out of the food chain in a number of ways: 1. via heat energy 2. is used for life processes (for example movement) 3. uneaten parts that pass to decomposers 4. is excreted and passes to decomposers. As less energy is transferred at each level…

Elements of a Lesson Plan - Suggested Answers | Age/level | Objective(s) | Time | Resources/materials | Classroom set-up | Warm-up | Process (the activity or task) | Assessments | Follow-up | Select the verb that is conjugated into simple present: Angela ________ carrots for her salad. (cuts) Which sentence is written in the imperative? (Listen to your parents.) Select the verb that is conjugated into present continuous: Rather than shoes, I _________ sandals. (am…