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![]() In Chapter 3 of On the Origin of Species Darwin said animal lineages with more species should also contain more 'varieties'. Van Holstein said: "We are standing on the shoulders of giants. ![]() Northern giraffes have three subspecies that usually live in different locations to each other and red foxes have the most subspecies - 45 known varieties - spread all over the world. Some species contain subspecies - populations within a species that differ from each other by having different physical traits and their own breeding ranges. ![]() Her research could now be used to predict which species conservationists should focus on protecting to stop them becoming endangered or extinct.Ī species is a group of animals that can interbreed freely amongst themselves. ![]() Laura van Holstein, a PhD student in Biological Anthropology at St John's College, University of Cambridge, and lead author of the research published today (March 18) in Proceedings of the Royal Society, discovered mammal subspecies play a more important role in evolution than previously thought. ![]() Wabi sabi reibstein5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() And when you find yourself clapping your hands or tapping your feet, you know you’ve found poetry with a beat! READ more than 50 remarkable poems and songs. But either way, make no mistake, poetry is as vibrant and exciting as it gets. ![]() Sometimes it is obvious sometimes it is hidden. Poetry can have both a rhyme and a rhythm. Hip Hop Speaks to Children is a celebration of poetry with a beat. Hip Hop Speaks to Children: 50 Inspiring Poems with a Beat edited by Nikki Giovanni This ingenious collection will inspire readers to get up and move!Ģ. Together with Kristi Valiant’s dynamic illustrations, the poems create a window to all the ways dance enters our lives and exists throughout many cultures. The rhythm of each poem mimics the beat of the dances’ steps. ![]() Marilyn Singer has crafted a vibrant collection of poems celebrating all forms of social dance from samba and salsa to tango and hip-hop. Feel the Beat: Dance Poems that Zing from Salsa to Swing by Marilyn Singer illustrated by Kristi Valiant In honor of this, the library is featuring picture books about poetry! Not just for children, these books encourage a love of poetry in all ages and are excellent to either use in the classroom or to read for fun.Īll items on this list are available at the Perpich library. Poetic Picture Books from Perpich LibraryĪpril is National Poetry Month. ![]() ![]() Moreover, HNT claims that there is no hierarchy between needs and needs of both side can be satisfied together. This paper will assert that resources of conflict between Kurds and Turkey are unmet needs of two side, in this respect HNT argues that needs are not zero-sum and instead of ‘this or that’ perspective with perspective of ‘both of’ conflicts can be solved. Human Needs Theory (HNT) claims that unmet needs cause conflicts, and to solve conflicts needs must be satisfied. ![]() ![]() For decades, Turkey’s Kurds have had conflicts with the Republic of Turkish State for their identity needs, and Turkey has had same conflicts in the context of nation-building and security. This paper will explore one of Conflict Resolution perspective’s theory which is called as Human Needs Theory in the context of Turkey’s Kurdish question. ![]() June hur the silence of bones5/11/2023 ![]() This book is beautifully written, and moves at a brisk pace. ![]() ![]() Seol also finds signs that her brother is still alive and in the capital. Supposed to be “seen but not heard,” Seol exposes several important clues, enraging other officers who cannot handle an illiterate maid uncovering the truth before they do. While Seol tries not to overstep her position of damo, or servant, her natural curiosity gets the best of her and she meddles in the investigation. Placed in the police bureau, she assists in the investigation of a series of gruesome murders that are stumping lead Inspector Han. ![]() Can a poor, illiterate orphan girl in the late 1700s make a difference in the patriarchal and conservative society of Korea? Sixteen-year-old Seol’s parents have died, and as the youngest of three siblings, she has been sent to Hanyang, the capital of the southern province of the Korean peninsula, to work and to look for her long-lost brother who is assumed dead. ![]() If I'm Being Honest by Emily Wibberley5/11/2023 ![]() At first, Brendan isn't so quick to forgive, but slowly he warms to her when they connect over a computer game he's developing. Thus, Cameron begins her apology tour with Brendan, the guy whose social life she single-handedly destroyed. ![]() If she makes amends with everyone she's ever wronged, Andrew will have to take notice. To win him over, Cameron resolves to "tame" herself, much like Shakespeare's infamous shrew, Katherine. But when she slips up in front of her crush, Andrew, any affection he may have had for her quickly fades. high school-she's beautiful, talented, and notorious for her brutal honesty. It's no surprise she's queen bee at her private L.A. ![]() Mean Girls meets The Taming of the Shrew in this romantic follow-up to Always Never YoursĬameron Bright's reputation can be summed up in one word: b*tch. ![]() The Alliance by Chris G. Wright5/11/2023 ![]() Wright, “The Ethical Authority of the Old Testament: A Survey of Approaches, Part 1,” Tyndale Bulletin 43:1 (1992): 101.)) But the complexity of the topic is met by Wright’s zeal when he describes “the great love-affair of my life with the ethical study and relevance of the Old Testament.” ((Christopher J. Wright notes that “the question of what authority the scriptures of the Hebrew Bible have for Christians and how they should be used for ethics is, and always has been, difficult and divisive.” ((Christopher J. ![]() Both the Cape Town Commitment and the larger body of Wright’s publications exhibit his passion for Christians to apply Scripture, in particular the OT, to a broad range of ethical issues, including matters within the socio-economic realm of secular society. ![]() Wright, an Anglican pastor and Old Testament (OT) scholar, is a key figure in the Lausanne Movement, including his role as the Chair of the Cape Town 2010 Statement Working Group, which drafted the Cape Town Commitment, the third major declaration of the movement, following the 1974 Lausanne Covenant and the 1989 Manila Manifesto. ![]() ![]() Wright is one of the leading evangelical voices today addressing the theology of the church’s mission. ![]() Bliss Montage by Ling Ma5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Shen Fever is a metaphor for the emptiness of corporate and consumer culture, where people perform various office tasks mechanically even though their frontal lobes no longer function. They set tables and they try on clothes, as they did in life-but this time, without meaning. That book-eerily foreshadowing COVID-was about a zombie-like plague called Shen Fever which leads its victims to run through their old routines over and over again. Ma’s first novel, Severance, published in 2018, explored similar themes. Ma’s characters-and Ma herself-struggle with the possibility that the only way to escape expectations is to embrace paralysis. Those lives, though, often feel less like liberation and more like stasis. Ma’s protagonists are all fascinated with the possibility of using narrative to fall out of narrative they each try to follow some odd quirk of storytelling into an alternate story and an alternate life. “Fiction can be a space for an alternate self,” an English professor informs a class in “Office Hours,” one of the stories in Ling Ma’s new collection Bliss Montage. The author’s latest collection tries to escape the market and literary clichés-but is this a cliché in itself? ![]() Oroonoko sparknotes5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Interest in Oroonoko has increased since the 1970s, with critics arguing that Behn is the foremother of British female writers, and that Oroonoko is a crucial text in the history of the novel. Published less than a year before she died, Oroonoko is sometimes described as one of the first novels in English. She began writing prose fiction in the 1680s, probably in response to the consolidation of theatres that led to a reduced need for new plays. īehn, often cited as the first known professional female writer, was a successful playwright, poet, translator and essayist. Behn's text is a first-person account of Oroonoko's life, love, rebellion, and execution. The eponymous hero is an African prince from Coramantien who is tricked into slavery and sold to European colonists in Surinam where he meets the narrator. Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave is a work of prose fiction by Aphra Behn (1640–1689), published in 1688 by William Canning and reissued with two other fictions later that year. ![]() ![]() ![]() He called Bletchley Park '"the geese who laid the golden eggs and never cackled". Winston Churchill had been interested in military intelligence from the First World War. ![]() The four were known as the "Wicked Uncles". The memo was signed by Alan Turing and Hugh Alexander (head and deputy head of Hut 8) and Gordon Welchman, and Stuart Milner-Barry (head and deputy head of Hut 6). ![]() Four senior heads of sections ("Huts") and their deputies wrote to Churchill, who had visited "BP" on 6 September 1941, where he made a speech saying he appreciated their work. Their requirements were small, but as a small (and secret) organisation their management did not have priority. 1941 memorandum from Bletchley Park to Winston ChurchillĪction This Day was a 1941 memorandum sent to Winston Churchill personally, as the Bletchley Park (BP) codebreaking establishment was short of staff in some critical areas. ![]() |