My ethnographical research for this article consisted of three visits to the Consumnes River College Child Development Center for 40, 50, and 60 minutes. I observed children between the ages of 3 and 5 in unstructured play. ... The children I observed are still learning how to use verbal communication. ... In an interview, one of the children's instructors, Jenny Yerxa, said that the children use more non-verbal communication than adults. ... Before observing the children, I used to long to be that age again. ...

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The water, which was once a beautiful natural river, has now become polluted for merely economic purposes, which illustrates man's negligence. ... Humans allow their own innocent children to bear the suffering of centuries on their back. ... It showed that it is very common for society in Blake's time to sell their children to become sweepers. ... Blake describes Tom's dream: "And by came an angel, who had a bright key, And he opened the coffins, and set them all free; Then down a green plain, leaping, laughing, they run And wash in a river, and shine in the sun." This d...

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"Between the rivers." 1. Two rivers: Tigris and Euphrates 2. ... Kings lived in large palaces with wives and children C. ... A wife caught committing adultery was pitched into the river, unless her husband could pardon her. 9. ... Fathers ruled over their children I. ...

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For example, in one of the lines it says, "They attacked the towns and spared neither the children nor the aged nor pregnant women nor women in childbed, not only stabbing them and dismembering them but cutting them to pieces as if dealing with sheep in the slaughter house." ... I can't even begin to imagine what I would do if I had to stand there and watch what these barbarians do to these people especially the women and children. They raped the wives of the village rulers and took the newborn infants and threw them into the rivers to drown or be eaten by the sharks and other man eating ...

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If we use all the Earth has to provide today then our children's children will have nothing. ... If they cut down all the trees and grasses around their fields, the chemicals along with the soil run down to the rivers and streams and get washed away which pollutes the water and kills organisms in it. ... While I'm on the subject of rivers I feel it is also important that we talk about factories. ... Many companies just dump it straight into the rivers; others bury it. ...

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This shows the ignorance that all children experience throughout life. ... Huck leaning adventures takes place on the Mississippi River. Huck finds freedom on the river and it is there that he learned to choose between what is right and what is wrong, and the moral decisions of helping a runaway slave. ...

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This leaves Elizabeth the duty to take care of the younger children, and places to hold on Caroline's wish for Elizabeth and Victor to get married. ... He sees that the children would often save their food for their father and reserve none for themselves. ... The father kindly takes him in, but then the children come home. ... The creature is traveling when he came to a stop where a rapid river lies. ... She is walking along the path of the river when she slips and falls into the rapid stream. ...

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Greed is why millions of children were put to work for 14 hours a day in factories during the Industrial Revolution, working in horrible circumstances for next to nothing. ... Dionysus told Midas to wash his golden touch away in the river and now the soil along the riverbank has a golden gleam. ...

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His sons are actually just poor women's babies in Rosewater County that claim Eliot is the father of their children. ... And in the end he still goes against what his father wants and says that he wants to pass all his money to those poor women and children in Rosewater County. ... It showed how he was against those very rich people "dipping in the river of wealth" while so many " can't even get near the banks." ...

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By the beginning of the Christian era it had reached 250 million, and by the year 1650 CE up to half a billion(Internet Source)Reproduction resulted un having children which were perfect for doing farmwork, collecting dowry and starting family. ... These are places where people need children for work or if they don't want kids they have no way of getting contraception or to be informed about it, thus making the population grow at an alarming rate. ... DDT is a very active, broad-spectrum pesticide, particularly effective against beetles, moths and butterflies, flies, and mosquitoes, it c...

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The cows produce mountains of manure that contaminate rivers with nitrates (Robbins, 1997). 1. "60% of U.S. rivers are contaminated and it is the leading cause of birth defects" (Robbins, 1997, p. 69). ... We are taught this from our parents ever since we were children, so it is imprinted in our minds that this is okay and actually the right thing to do. ...

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Children would hear this story taught in their Sunday school classes in which God flooded the whole earth and the only one who survived was Noah and his family with a pair of every living animal on a big ship that we call the ark. ... For as many arguments there are that the flood was only a local flood or the Tigris river flooded more than usual there are just as many arguments by scientists about the validity of a worldwide flood and the catastrophic impact it had on the globe. ... Jesus referred to children all the time in his teaching. ...

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Bruce Perry says, "When children experienced neglect, they often did not develop the thinking/feeling parts of the brain resulting in an underdevelopment of the higher reasoning parts of the brain"(Neglect 10). ... Perry's research he also concluded that "The worst combination of maltreatment was when children experienced both neglect and trauma. ... While on his way, he rescues a girl from the river. ...

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Some African societies regard them as children or messengers of God, while others look upon them as His helpers (Gehman, 2005). ... This includes natural phenomena-hills, certain rivers, trees and the earth believed inhabited by the spirit..."... This proverb means that anyone born in Africa does not need to go to school to learn about the existence of the Supreme Being, but God's existence is known by all including children (Ekeke; Ekeopara, 2010)....

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When a river is dammed fish cannot migrate, and years of sedimentation render the dam useless in the future. ... For the human population to become more environmentally friendly, we must start with children and help them develop good habits. ...

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McKinley, who explained, "In hard summers, the newborn children were all eaten by the Kaura tribe in the neighborhood of Adelaide- (Here be Cannibals 1). ... Also, there was an essential belief held by some (like the Liverpool River natives) that through eating a dead relative or enemy who had a unique and desirable quality (great wisdom or clever hunter), the consumers would gain their attributes; "If they killed a fast runner, they ate part of his legs, hoping thereby to acquire his speed- (Here be Cannibals 2). ... Shortly after hearing rumors of cannibalism, reporters of EastWeek visited S...

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