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Sylvia A

Bat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • the only mammals naturally capable of flight
  • Bats are mammals
  • Megabats eat fruit, nectar or pollen
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  • microbats eat insects, blood (small quantities of the blood of animals), small mammals, and fish
  • Mother bats usually have only one offspring per year
  • they are viviparous
  • Young microbats become independent at the age of 6 to 8 weeks
  • At the age of two years, bats are sexually mature
  • megabats not until they are four months old
  • A single bat can live over 20 years
  • Most microbats are active at night or at twilight
  • In Western Culture, the bat is often a symbol of the night and its foreboding nature
  • the rain interferes with their echo location
  • Only three species sustain themselves with blood.
  • Only 0.5% of bats carry rabies
  • Bats have very small teeth and can bite a sleeping person without being felt
  • Bats are closely associated with vampires
  • Bats are also a symbol of ghosts, death, and disease
  • Chinese lore claims the bat is a symbol of longevity and happiness
  • the bat is a trickster spirit
  • Bats rarely fly in rain
  • A measure of the success of bats is their estimated total of about 1,100 species worldwide, accounting for about 20 percent of all mammal species.
Sarah Yeakley

Easter Holiday History, Facts, Customs, Traditions - 0 views

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    the symbols of Easter and what they mean
Indigo o

Thompson Gale - Braille - 0 views

  • Born on January 4, 1809, Coupvray, France, Braille was accidentally blinded in one eye at the age of three. Within two years, a disease in his other eye left him completely blind.
  • Captain Charles Barbier invented sonography, or nightwriting, a system of embossed symbols used by soldiers to communicate silently at night on the battlefield. Inspired by a lecture Barbier gave at the Institute a few years later, the fifteen-year-old Braille adapted Barbier's system to replace Haüy's awkward embossed type, which he and his classmates had been obliged to learn.
  • In his initial study, Braille had experimented with geometric shapes cut from leather as well as with nails and tacks hammered into boards. He finally settled on a fingertip-sized six-dot code, based on the twenty-five letters of the alphabet, which could be recognized with a single contact of one digit. By varying the number and placement of dots, he coded letters, punctuation, numbers, diphthongs, familiar words, scientific symbols, mathematical and musical notation, and capitalization. With the right hand, the reader touched individual dots and, with the left, moved on toward the next line, comprehending as smoothly and rapidly as sighted readers. Using the Braille system, students were also able to take notes and write themes by punching dots into paper with a pointed stylus which was aligned with a metal guide.
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  • In his initial study, Braille had experimented with geometric shapes cut from leather as well as with nails and tacks hammered into boards. He finally settled on a fingertip-sized six-dot code, based on the twenty-five letters of the alphabet, which could be recognized with a single contact of one digit.
karen ponce

First Thanksgiving - Thanksgiving History - History.com - 0 views

  • In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast which is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. This harvest meal has become a symbol of cooperation and interaction between English colonists and Native Americans. Although this feast is considered by many to the very first Thanksgiving celebration, it was actually in keeping with a long tradition of celebrating the harvest and giving thanks for a successful bounty of crops. Native American groups throughout the Americas, including the Pueblo, Cherokee, Creek and many others organized harvest festivals, ceremonial dances, and other celebrations of thanks for centuries before the arrival of Europeans in North America. Historians have also recorded other ceremonies of thanks among European settlers in North America, including British colonists in Berkeley Plantation, Virginia. At this site near the Charles River in December of 1619, a group of British settlers led by Captain John Woodlief knelt in prayer and pledged "Thanksgiving" to God for their healthy arrival after a long voyage across the Atlantic. This event has been acknowledged by some scholars and writers as the official first Thanksgiving among European settlers on record. Whether at Plymouth, Berkeley Plantation, or throughout the Americas, celebrations of thanks have held great meaning and importance over time. The legacy of thanks, and particularly of the feast, have survived the centuries as people throughout the United States gather family, friends, and enormous amounts of food for their yearly Thanksgiving meal.
Sarah Yeakley

Easter Celebrations - Origin of Easter Eggs - 0 views

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    the origin of Easter eggs
Ashley Yoder

Joe Jonas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • In October 2008, Joe won an award for his flamboyant fashion at Los Premios MTV LatinoamĆ©rica 2008 in Guadalajara, Mexico for the "Fashionista - Male" of the year, an award given to artists recognizing their fashion and style.
  • . Joe has said that the rings symbolize "a promise to ourselves and to God that we'll stay pure 'till marriage,
  • . The brothers are all committed Evangelical Christians, their father is a former pastor, and they were homeschooled by their mother
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  • Acting career
  • In November 2008, it was reported that Jonas was dating 10,000 BC actress Camilla Belle. Jonas and Belle met on the set of the Jonas Brothers video for "Lovebug".
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    Joseph Adam Jonas
Minjie Kim

Behaviorism - 0 views

  • philosophical position that says that psychology, to be a science, must focus its attentions on what is observable
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      while most psychology is about what is not observable, this states that behaviorism deals with what is. ^.^
  • reflexology, and defined it as the objective study of stimulus-response connections
  • unconditioned stimulus and an unconditioned response -- a reflex
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  • neutral stimulus with the reflex by presenting it with the unconditioned stimulus
  • conditioned response
  • extinction
  • spontaneous recovery strongly suggests that the habit has been there all alone
  • first signal system is where the conditioned stimulus (a bell) acts as a ā€œsignalā€ that an important event is to occur
  • cond signal system is when arbitrary symbols come to stand for stimuli, as they do in human language.
  • The law of exercise
  • The law of effect.
Tucker Haydon

Kookaburra info. - 0 views

  • Kookaburras (genus Dacelo) (or Cookaburras)
  • terrestrial kingfishers native to Australia and New Guinea
  • Kookaburras are best known for their unmistakable call, which is uncannily like loud, echoing human laughter — good-natured, if rather hysterical, merriment in the case of the well-known Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae); and maniacal cackling in the case of the slightly smaller Blue-winged Kookaburra (D. leachii)
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  • habitats ranging from humid forest to arid savanna
  • Kookaburras are carnivorous. They will eat lizards, snakes, insects, mice and raw meat
  • territorial, and often live with the partly grown chicks of the previous season. They often sing as a chorus to mark their territory.
  • eat babies of other birds and snakes, and insects and small reptiles. In zoos, they are usually fed food for birds of prey, and dead baby chicks
  • three mascots chosen for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney
Indigo o

Moon Type - 0 views

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      And in groups
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      All symbols are rotated
Catherine A.

Child development - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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      Now I understand why my new baby cousin sometimes cry when i carry her
  • The capacity to learn, remember, and symbolize information, and to solve problems, exists at a simple level in young infants, who can perform cognitive tasks such as discriminating animate and inanimate beings or recognizing small numbers of objects
  • Abilities for physical movement change through childhood from the largely reflexive (unlearned,involuntary) movement patterns of the young infant to the highly skilled voluntary movements characteristic of later childhood and adolescence
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  • Physical growth in stature and weight occurs over the 15-20 years following birth, as the individual changes from the average weight of 7 1/2 pounds and length of 20" at full-term birth to full adult size. As stature and weight increase, the individual's proportions also change, from the relatively large head and small torso and limbs of the neonate, to the adult's relatively small head and long torso and limbs.
  • Newborn infants do not seem to experience fear or have preferences for contact with any specific people.By about 8-10 months, they go through a fairly rapid change and become fearful of perceived threats; they also begin to prefer familiar people and show anxiety and distress when separated from them or approached by strangers
  • Dyslexia is a significant topic in child development as it affects approximately 5% of the population (in the western world). Essentially it is a disorder whereby children fail to attain the language skills of reading, writing and spelling commensurate with their intellectual abilities.
Aloysius Utomo

Panda - Enchanted Learning Software - 0 views

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      Size of pandas
  • Chinese people call the panda "Da xiong mao,"
  • "giant bear cat"
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  • symbol of peace in China
  • Female pandas are called sows
  • males are called boars
  • young are called cubs
  • Most bears' eyes have round pupils
  • giant panda, whose pupils are vertical slits
  • Pandas have very good eyesight
  • largest pandas grow to be about 250 pounds
  • 5.25 to 6 feet (1.6 to 1.8 m) long
  • weighs about 220 pounds
  • 40 pounds (18 kg) of food each day
  • Bamboo is very low in nutrition
  • cannot digest it very well
  • 12 hours every day
  • throat and stomach have extra-tough linings to protect them from the tough food
  • captivity (zoos and breeding centers), pandas eat bamboo, rice cereal, carrots, apples, and sweet potatoes
  • usually eat while sitting in an upright positio
  • strong teeth and jaws are very important to a panda's survival
  • Giant pandas have large molars (flat teeth used for crushing food)
  • few sharp teeth which they use to bite tough bamboo stalks
  • Pandas have 42 teeth
  • very thick, oily, woolly fur
  • two types of hairs
  • long, thick, coarse hairs
  • fur is waterproof
  • shorter, fine, dense underfur
  • endangered species
  • roughly 1,000-1,500 pandas living in the wild (in China)
  • 120 living in zoos and breeding centers around the world
  • extremely vulnerable to extinction because of humans
  • mostly shy, solitary animals
  • mostly silent, but they can bleat!
  • 11 different calls, four of which are only used during mating
  • live longer in captivity than in the wild
  • Unlike many other bears, pandas cannot walk on their hind legs
  • do not hibernate since their food is available all year long
  • During the cold winter months, giant pandas go to lower altitudes where it is a bit warmer
  • don't seem to have permanent dens
  • very slow reproductive rate
  • mate in the spring
  • give birth between 95 and 160 days after mating
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    lota facts
Christina T

Japanese history: Postwar - 0 views

  • After World War II had ended, Japan was devastated. All the large cities (with the exception of Kyoto), the industries and the transportation networks were severely damaged. A severe shortage of food continued for several years.
  • The whole operation was mainly carried out by the United States.
  • Over 500 military officers committed suicide right after Japan surrendered, and many hundreds more were executed for committing war crimes.
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  • A new constitution went into effect in 1947: The emperor lost all political and military power, and was solely made the symbol of the state.
  • Critics started to grow when the United States acted increasingly according to her self interests in the Cold War, reintroduced the persecution of communists, stationed more troops in Japan, and wanted Japan to establish an own self defence force despite the anti-war article in the constitution.
  • With the peace treaty that went into effect in 1952, the occupation ended. Japan's Self Defence Force was established in 1954, accompanied by large public demonstrations. Great public unrest was also caused by the renewal of the US-Japan Security Treaty of 1960.
  • After the Korean War, and accelerated by it, the recovery of Japan's economy flourished.
  • Japan's relations to the Soviet Union were normalized in 1956, the ones to China in 1972.
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