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    Open Face Parallels

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    casting latch while holding the line with a finger to the rod. Then one would cast the line out by releasing the line at the pinnacle of the cast. Once the line reached the desired destination one needs to flip the casting latch back over to prevent “bird nesting” and reel in to prevent slack in the line. This process can be confusing and might take a while to adjust to make one’s casting accurate. This causes even experienced fisherman frustration now and then, but this reel offers versatility…

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    Norton and Company, 1991), 75. NRDC, n.d. Natural Resources Defense Council. Viewed on 6th May, 2014. Retrieved from http://www.nrdc.org/health/farming/ccc/chap4.asp Russell Greenberg, Bridging the Americas: Migratory Birds in Costa Rica and Panama (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, 1994), 4. Route to Kaizen, n.d. A Quest for Perfection. Viewed on 6th May, 2014. Retrieved from http://routetokaizen.com/2012/08/28/5-steps-to-personal-kaizen/ Queensland Government, n.d. Business…

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    trope in the book Son of Solomon is described as African Americans having flown back to Africa. In the book, Milkman poses the question to Susan, “‘When you say ‘flew off’ you mean he ran away, don’t you…’…’No, I mean flew…He flew. You know, like a bird. Just…

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    It was a normal day like any day in the year 3000 and little Evan was lonely, for he had no one to play with since all the other kids didn’t really like him. He appeared, from the point of from everyone around him, too smart for a 6 year old. The thing the kids didn’t know was that he had a photographic memory, so anything he saw he could recall perfectly at any given moment. Evan’s parents were mad scientist and always gave him books for him to read. They also lived underwater. So one…

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    when I came across a large metal dumpster and atop the pile of rubbish was a beautiful half eaten fish supper calling out my name. The dumpster was in a quiet alleyway which is good because it lowers the chances of getting ambushed by other hungry birds. I swooped down to collect my ready-made meal and then landed on the branch of a nearby tree, ready to enjoy my feast. As I opened the box, ready to begin my meal, I was astounded by how much food was inside. The box was filled to the brim with…

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    Homeless Bird Summary

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    Homeless Bird By: The book Homeless Bird is about a girl named Koly, Koly is around ages 14 or 15 and her maa and baap (mom and dad) are arranging her marriage, they’re an Indian family so their culture is different from ours; it’s different from ours in their culture the family of the soon to be wife has to send money to the husband's family and dress their daughter in her finest clothes, which she will be married in. They don't wear dresses like we do in America, they wear a dress called a…

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    expressing his feeling as Caged bird feels. Dunbar’s Caged Bird is peeking outside his cage and see a beautiful landscape with the sun shining bright. While Angelou’s Caged bird is so angry, she represented her poem with Caged bird singing with fearful trill. They both continue the poem by stating they knows the way the Caged bird feels. The Caged bird by Dunbar tone is frustrate and forceful at the same time as the bird is throwing itself against the bar of its cage, the bird struggle too…

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    The two passages “Caged Bird,” and “World’s Reward,” both have the same positive theme, and are very rich with symbolism. The theme for them is about freedom, the spiritual and physical meaning of it. For symbolism the stories relate to the slaves and slave owners of the 1600-1800 centuries. The theme in “Caged Bird,” and “World’s Reward,” is spiritual freedom is possible even in the midst of physical enslavement. In the passages the authors, Maya Angelou and James A Haney, keep the theme…

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    population has declined by over 2% per year between 1966 and 2015, resulting in a cumulative decline of 65%, according to the North American Breeding Bird Survey. Ground based nests are very vulnerable to predators. Many of the “usual suspects” of egg and nestling predators affect bobolink nests (including skunks, raccoons, foxes, and snakes). A surprising bobolink nestling predator is the white-tailed…

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    Red Room Symbolism

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    much like a nervous and shy bird. He said “I see intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close-set bars of a cage; a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high. You are still bent on going” (Bronte 119). But, one side Rochester give her authority only to be a listener rather than narrator that means he also want her to be cage bird, and obeyed him. Furthermore, physically, Jane is again compared with bird by Rochester when he took…

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