A bird serves as the poet's guide, bringing him into the garden, showing him around, and saving him from despair at not being able to reach the laughing children. ... This point is described as surrounded by flowers and birds, perhaps it can be found in the rose garden of the first section. ... This famous line juxtaposes a series of random things, but the effect is not the atmosphere of the melancholy characteristic of The Waste Land. ...

• Word Count: 2598
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Through the years, and probably through the centuries, teachers have struggled to make math meaningful by providing students with problems and examples demonstrating its applications in everyday life. As this classic joke shows, some strategies are more successful -- and more meaningful -- than othe...

• Word Count: 6364
• Approx Pages: 25
• Grade Level: High School

The shabano looks like a large round communal house, but in fact it is a coordinated series of individual houses (Chagnon 1997: 56). ... Generally the most common wild foods are two species of wild pig, several varieties of monkeys, tapir, armadillos, anteaters, alligators, deer, rodents, and birds (Chagnon 1997: 61). ... The abandoned garden sites are excellent hunting grounds, due to the fact that vegetation and fruit from the trees attract game. Birds, monkeys, deer, and tapir are hunted there (Smoles 1976: 155). ...

• Word Count: 3732
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

PSO is basically developed through simulation of bird flocking in two-dimension space. Bird flocking optimizes a certain objective function. ... Phase-1 algorithm Step1: Initialization: Initial searching vectors and velocities are generated randomly. ...

• Word Count: 3174
• Approx Pages: 13
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• Grade Level: High School

PSO is basically developed through simulation of bird flocking in two-dimension space. Bird flocking optimizes a certain objective function. ... Phase-1 algorithm Step1: Initialization: Initial searching vectors and velocities are generated randomly. ...

• Word Count: 3714
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

Webster's College Dictionary defines feminism as "a doctrine advocating social, political, and economic rights for women equal to those of men; a movement for the attainment of suck rights- (Random House, 2000: 484). ... Friendship is defined as " a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard, a person who gives assistance, and a supporter- (Random House, 2000: 525). ... Her daughter, played by Oscar-nominated Julia Roberts (Columbia Tristar, 1989), is the woman that longs for normalcy in her life, despite the fact that she will never fully gain this. ...

• Word Count: 2628
• Approx Pages: 11
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• Grade Level: High School

The Making of A New Writer How does a man with yellow tinted aviator glasses, a trademark cigarette holder, and khaki pants become one of the most influential writers of modern day? With arrogance, and 22 loaded guns at all times of course. This writer has been through many different paths in ...

• Word Count: 3077
• Approx Pages: 12
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• Grade Level: High School

Despite this fact, I can express my point of view in such a way that 31,999,999 yearly travelers cannot. ... The fact that the airport was forever changed was unfortunate, but what I have made no mention of yet is the utter truth that the airport was only half the fun. ... Thoughts like "What if a bird flies into the engine?...

• Word Count: 3686
• Approx Pages: 15
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• Grade Level: High School

Important Facts the smallest unit of life is the cell instructions for development are contained in DNA collectively, all of the chemical processes in a cell are called metabolism producers often obtain energy from the sun homeostasis refers to the ability to maintain a constant internal environment cells in domains archaea and eubacteria lack nucleii plants are multicellular producers an educated guess might be called a hypothesis science is based on evidence philosophy is not a step in the scientific method an atom is the smallest unit of substance that retains the properties of the subst...

• Word Count: 10700
• Approx Pages: 43
• Grade Level: High School

To Feed Or Not To Feed: That Is The Question SHARK!!! . . . What is the first thing that comes to mind when people hear that word. They probably think of a huge, man-eating, great white shark chomping on some unsuspecting swimmer. Why do people react to the word shark that way. Perhaps it is be...

• Word Count: 7237
• Approx Pages: 29
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• Grade Level: High School

For instance, the name of the abandoned sailboat is "Pajaro de Esperanza " "bird of hope. The bird of hope is the dove. ... This old man has survived not through divine assistance but rather through random chance; he and all the other survivors of the catastrophe are prophets of atheism, bearing witness to the absence of God from the universe. ...

• Word Count: 8991
• Approx Pages: 36
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The pacifist author Kurt Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse-Five in the late 1960's as the Vietnam War was ending. He used his own military experience from World War II to write this particular book. The main character is Billy Pilgrim who is actually Kurt Vonnegut himself. Vonnegut, like Billy Pilgrim,...

• Word Count: 5323
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School