Reindeer

Russia, have as many as 1000 words for reindeer. The english language, however, has far less. This stark difference is due to the fact that languages are shaped by the people who use them daily. People who live in colder climates like northern Russia see reindeer more often and have more of a use for them , while someone in New York may have never seen them in their entire lives. Therefore, they would need more words to describe different attributes of reindeer, like the shape of their antlers,…

Australia has a wonderful christmas. Santa Claus in Australia is called Swag Man. Santa or Swag man changes into lighter clothes and switches his reindeer with six white boomers because of the hot weather in Australia.The christmas season goes from December 24th through January 6th. Sense the weather in Australia is warm around christmas many families go to the beach to have a christmas picnic. Swag Man changes into a blue singlet and baggy shorts. Christmas in Australia is very different…

Signature Assessment Purpose of Study Assessment is important for the teachers to do because they need to know where their students stand throughout the school year. “A formative assessment refers to focused and ongoing evaluations, like the scores on quizzes or the observation a teacher makes. A summative assessment comes at the end of a course of study, when students become accountable for their achievement.” Graves, M. & Juel, C. & Grave, B. & Dewitz, P. (2011). Teaching Reading in the 21st…

On the other side of the Great Schism is the Protestant Reformation. The Protestant Reformation occurred during the early sixteenth century. Religious reformers such as Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Henry the eighth all challenged the ideas, vision, and authority of the Catholic Church. This lead to years of war and persecution, but ultimately the development of the Protestant sect of Christianity. The philosophy behind Protestantism is holding the Christian ideals without practicing or…

experiences passionate feelings for him and chooses to wed him. In any case, Elsa does not acknowledge the marriage and loses control of her powers solidifying Arendelle. Elsa escapes to the mountain and Anna groups up with the worker Kristoff and his reindeer Sven and with the snowman Olaf to search out Elsa. They discover Elsa in her cold stronghold and she inadvertently hits Anna in the heart; now just genuine romance can spare her sister from…

However endearing the story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is, it is a story that blatantly captures a moment in time of palpable prejudices and inequality. Written by Montgomery Ward department store to sell appliances in 1939, it is a testament to what conditions were socially accepted as normal during that time period. Released as a movie in 1964, this story has an explicit lens of bigotry, inequality, and the importance of conforming to society. From the beginning of the movie with the…

think the Nightmare Before Christmas is a Halloween movie. All the presents were very creepy, the characters were scary and the decorations were still like halloween. This paragraph, will explain how all the decorations were scary. In the movie the reindeer were dead while flying. The fountain had a scary green color of water. It is scary because dead things and weird colors are halloween. In this paragraph I talked about how the decorations are scary. This paragraph, will explain how all the…

Anthrax is thought to be an ancient illness. While there is no way to be completely sure, as it was not referred to as anthrax at the time, many scholars date anthrax all the way back to 700 BC during the periods of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia (CDC, 2016). According to the CDC, “Many scholars think that in Moses’ time, during the 10 plagues of Egypt, anthrax may have caused what was known as the fifth plague, described as a sickness affecting horses, cattle, sheep, camels and oxen” (CDC, 2016)…

small and external relations mainly comes from interactions through the church. The Tsaatans are similar in this regard, their primary social structure is made up of the nuclear family and because of their nomadic lifestyle, traveling with their reindeer across the isolated taiga, they are unlikely to receive much external social contact other than from their shaman who helps connect them to the spirits that they worship. The Lolos Noirs are more social, living in village communities and having…

Folk tale analyses I decided to do the snow queen for my paper, I chose this story because I love Disney's Frozen and this story is where the inspiration for frozen came from.The snow queen is a story about two little kids who are best friends kai and Gerta who do everything together. They live right next door to each other and the have a garden that connects to their bedroom so they can just go out the window and plant flowers in their garden. One night the children went to Gertas…