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    talking about one of the smallest birds, the hummingbirds. He talks about her amazing ability to fly really fast and do amazing stunts, but everything came at a cost. Although, there hearts are amazing, they burn out much faster. In the end, they are the ones who end up leaving this world faster. On the other hand, we have the enormous blue whales who always stick with their partners and end up living for a much longer time than hummingbirds. Unlike hummingbirds,…

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    of this creature. The Booted Racket-Tail is a colourful, amazing bird. Another name for the Booted Racket-Tail is Racket-Tailed Puffleg. The scientific name for this bird is Ocreatus underwoodii. The Booted Racket-Tail goes under the category of hummingbirds. Keep reading to learn more! The body of a male Booted Racket-Tail is green. They also have two long, shiny blue tails that spin to make the bird go faster. They are called “rackets”. There are fluffy white feathers around the Booted…

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    An overview of most recent services and algorithms used by smart assistants - Google Now, Siri and Cortana Introduction <> The brain of Cortana is all in Bing, so Bing powers Cortana. All the cloud services and all you can find on Bing, Cortana knows; for that reason she becomes smarter and smarter every day. Actually, when the user is doing speech recognition, when the user is talking to his phone, the focus is only on what Cortana says, but the user assumes that she will understand,…

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    prepares us for these moments by using similar paragraphs starters. The paragraphs that pertain to the hummingbird or the whale begin with the introduction of a new body part or function.…

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    Doyle’s argument in this text is that the hearts of all living things contain their own story in side of them. Hummingbirds hearts are tiny and delicate, but made strong and fast. Their hearts show the roughness of a life as a hummingbird. A Blue Whale has a huge heart made for maximizing the rate of use of oxygen so it can linger under the sea for extended periods of time. The human heart is mid sized for the dealing of everyday life, and will show how it been treated through the body it lies…

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    proofs his thesis by talking about the power and delicate parts of the heart in different creatures. In the reading he breaks it into four different ideas. In paragraphs one through four he talks about hummingbirds. In paragraph one and two he talks about how the first white explorers found the hummingbirds and called them flying jewels. He explained that the hummingbird's heart beat very fast but is very delicate because when they don’t rest or get something to eat their heart might stop…

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    artwork so we will like to share with you what we know about her artwork. We chose artwork called self-portrait with thorn Necklace and hummingbird and this is a self-portrait that has lot of meaning to it or symbolic meaning. The artwork is shown above. The necklace shows her neck is bleeding. There is a black cat at the right side of the artwork. The hummingbird is hanging from the necklace. This expresses her feeling of calm, solemn and patiently enduring the pain. This artwork is not…

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    Shreeya Mamidipaka Mrs. Asselin Language Arts : ⅘ 22/3/16 Can’t Stop, So Live Life Fully In the story, “ Joyas Voladoras” by Brian Doyle, the main “characters” are the hummingbirds and the blue whales. This story is about hummingbirds, blue whales, the heart, and as well as the chambers. To summarise, “Joyas Voladoras” talks about the hummingbir and the blue whale’s life, as well as the importance of the heart and its chambers. In this story, Brian Doyle’s message is that we can’t stop our…

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    My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am. ______ Joan Jett You need an acoustic guitar but not an ordinary one. You need one which is the best acoustic guitar for you. Keep in mind that different people playing style, and tonal perception is different. A guitar which one is perfect for your friend may not be the best acoustic guitar for you. You have to find out one which is perfect for you. Let’s face the truth. Finding the best acoustic guitar is not easy. If…

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    Response Essay: "Song of the Humming Bird" by Graciela Limon Huitzitzilin; the name of the story’s protagonist and a word in the Nahuatl language that means Hummingbird. The book, Song of the Humming Bird, written by Graciela Limon was published in the year of 1996 and was accepted by the public as a sympathy opening story. In this book, we read about an elderly woman who lives in a convent in Mexico City in 1853 after living through the Spanish invasion over the Aztecs. She speaks to a new…

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