Is it true that american children study  "Johnathan Livingston Seagull" at school?
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I dunno about grade school but the book gained popularity in colleges when it came out in the 70s, so I'm sure it's still mentioned today.  I had to read Richard Bach's other book Illusions in college, and I read JLS afterwards on my own and loved it.
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There's also an interesting section on how birdsong matches some very intellectual Music Theory in the book Animals in Translation.  The conclusion seems to be that music might be a precursor to language in brain formation.\n\n(Check around page 278 on Look Inside at the Amazon link below, or search for "birdsong")
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Because your school district and your teacher are to lazy to locate a book that pertains to issues of today and that children can relate to.  To kill a mocking bird is a excellent book, but for an adult, not a school age student. there are tons of books out their that are more "in touch" with today's society and that kids will actually learn from because they liked reading it.  Sorry you're stuck, maybe you can get some help with the homework on here.
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The McGuffey readers are stilll available and I think are still used in some home-schooling curriculums.... \n\ngod bless
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A THOMAS JEFFERSON EDUCATION TEACHING A GENERATION OF LEADERS FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY by Oliver Van DeMille.  It is mainly on the differences in choices of education that is available to parents for their children--mainly homeschooling.  It does have a lot on how public and private schools came about and why.  I think it may have some references for your paper.  I hope so anyways.
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Interesting question!\n\nIn common usage, members of various gull species are often called sea gulls or seagulls. This name is used by laypeople to refer to a common local species or all gulls in general, and has no fixed taxonomic meaning!\n\nThe commonly applied misnomer of "seagull"--partly the result of that spiritual minibook entitled "Jonathan Livingston Seagull"--not all gulls are restricted to maritime habitats. In fact, Ring-billed Gulls (Larus delawarensis) are almost as likely to be found along major rivers and large lakes as on the oceanfront; they even breed in the Great Plains and in central Canada. Herring Gulls (L. argentatus), larger relatives of the ring-bills, also occur in similar habitats in ever-increasing numbers.\n\nRing-billed Gulls, Herring Gulls, and other species in their family (Laridae) undoubtedly are drawn inland in the Carolinas by easier pickings than they find along the shore. The ocean is bountiful in its contributions to the food chain, but huge coastal bird populations make it hard for younger gulls to gorge their gluttonous gullets. Unlike their more graceful cousins, the terns, gulls seldom do their own fishing, preferring instead to scavenge on flotsam, jetsam, and whatever roughage is thrown from fishing vessels when the shrimp catch is hauled on board.\n\nSome say that they should be called GARBAGE GULLS--NOT "SEAGULLS"
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Sure. Here's the assertion...\n\nStudents who use Yahoo Answers for school work are cheating.\n\n...and it's WRITE, not wright.
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This might help\n\nhttp://www.lakeland.k12.in.us/limabrighton/lb.html
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They're working on it. :-)\n\nWhat they do know:\n\n"The results [of a recent study] turned up [that] ... it bypasses the known brain circuitry for consciously analyzing and mimicking other people’s actions."\n\n"This might be part of a more general phenomenon of unconscious signals that serve to synchronize group behavior, the authors of the Neuroimage paper wrote. “Such synchronization could be essential for species survival and works without action understanding, like when a flock of birds rises to the air as soon as the first bird does so—supposably as it notices a predator.”"\n\nTry the article in the sources for more.
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your History Textbook Got Wrong, by James W. Loewen, is a critical review of the gulf between the best evidence available to historians and the evidence presented to American high school students in the twelve most popular history textbooks. It is the winner of the 1996 American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship.\n\nLoewen proposes that when history teachers elevate American historical figures to the status of heroes, they unintentionally give students the impression that these figures were part of an unattainable past. In other words, the history-as-myth method teaches students that America's greatest days are behind it. If textbooks and teachers were honest about historical controversies and the flaws of our nation's heroes, Loewen proposes that students would be left with the impression that America is a nation forever learning and improving and that our best days are ahead of us.\n\nThe work is unusual among books written for a popular audience in that it is very well sourced and actively encourages readers to explore the social science of history by reading the source material themselves. The book is now cited and recommended by a large number of American History professors.[
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This type of 'mental gibberish' is very indicative of the fundamental problems in the academic world of education.  Better to ask 'hard' questions that require real research, real thinking, and real opportunity for rational critiquing.  This type of question is sadly pathetic. It explains why American school children can't think, can't perform basic math, and are totally afraid of anything labeled 'science'.  But... they sure 'feel good about themselves' and 'their opinions'!
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Actually this is true.  The Hurricane Hunters, an air wing of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration routinely flies P-3 Orion and C-130 Hercules Aircraft into the eyes of hurricanes to do weather observations.  They also commonly report seeing birds in the eyes of hurricanes.
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TRUE Benjamin Franklin was not a proponent of the Eagle as the national bird. He believed the turkey was smarter, more representative of the country due to their numbers vs Eagles,. there were other reasons I just don't remember .He wrote a paper on the subject.\n\nDamn! Something just occurred to me. If a Turkey is the National bird, it would probably a protected species. Does that mean we would be eating eagle for Thanksgiving?\n\nActually, we now have a new, unofficial, National Bird. It is called the middle finger salute.
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This myth proposes that if you feed a gull an Alka Seltzer tablet it will swallow the offering and when the lethal charge gets into the stomach and dissolves, the expanding gasses will cause the bird to explode. Every year there is another story about some mean kids doing this. Oddly, it always involves New Jersey.\n\nAfter you stop giggling at the image of gulls exploding like flying land mines all over the Jersey shore, the unlikelihood of the myth starts to intrude. If it were true, it would be a big story. I can see the coverage now: Dan Rather in his safari jacket, standing on the windswept coast, hair blowing in the wind, gull feathers raining down in the background; PBS specials (who can resist the vision of a gull, cheerfully flying along and then suddenly exploding, right in front of the camera?); exposés in the tabloids.\n\nIf the body could not handle a little Alka Seltzer without an explosion, it wouldn't be legal to sell the stuff over the counter. If it caused gulls to explode, there would be a rash of reports every year. I do not know the physiological process by which the body processes a tablet swallowed whole (and I have no interest in trying), but I assume it involves, among other things, a fair amount of belching and a slightly gassy feeling. Actually, if I ate some of the stuff that gulls do, I would be thrilled to have a little relief, but they seem to do fine without it.
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The Bald Eagle is the national bird of the United States of America. Its national significance dates back to June 20, 1782, when the Continental Congress officially adopted the current design for the Great Seal of the United States including a bald eagle grasping arrows and an olive branch with its talons. Some states had earlier adopted the bird as a symbol; for example New York State did so in 1778.\n\nIn 1784, after the end of the Revolutionary War, Benjamin Franklin wrote a famous letter to his daughter from Paris criticizing the choice and suggesting the Wild Turkey as an alternative:\n\nFor my own part I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen the Representative of our Country. He is a Bird of bad moral character. He does not get his Living honestly. You may have seen him perched on some dead Tree near the River, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the Labour of the Fishing Hawk; and when that diligent Bird has at length taken a Fish, and is bearing it to his Nest for the Support of his Mate and young Ones, the Bald Eagle pursues him and takes it from him. \nWith all this Injustice, he is never in good Case but like those among Men who live by Sharping & Robbing he is generally poor and often very lousy. Besides he is a rank Coward: The little King Bird not bigger than a Sparrow attacks him boldly and drives him out of the District. He is therefore by no means a proper Emblem for the brave and honest Cincinnati of America who have driven all the King birds from our Country . . . \nI am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America . . . He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on. \nDespite Franklin's objections the Bald Eagle remained the emblem of the United States. Today it appears on many official seals in addition to the back of 25 cent coin.
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pl search a web site on education in U S A
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school paper huh. i don't believe in cheating. study your self. your are future kid. so study. make Americans proud.