Yardbird Analysis

The inspiration to draw a peacock came from a memory of a visit to the Texas State Fair. I remember walking through the animal exhibit, and there in the midst of farm animals, I see the exotic peacock. It stood in contrast to its environment, here in an urban setting, in a plain beige cage, stood a magnificent creature; full of color with its feathers spread, sharing its glory with the boring surrounding.

James was introduced to the local clubs and Roller competitions in his early forties. He refers to the period before this time as his “backyard flying years.” “Before I met Larry Pridmore and acquired his pedigreed Pensom birds, a guy named Paul Porter, who was from Orangeburg, South Carolina, would come by my house every so often with his pickup truck carrying full crates of live poultry animals. This was the same guy that Tony bought the mother of Shooting Star from and called her the Orangeburg Hen. Anyway, when Paul came by, if I had any Rollers that I wanted to get rid of, Paul would trade me some. Most of these birds that I got from him were not banded. There were also few other local pigeon breeders that I bought or traded birds with,

After contacting the author Adam Rapp, Writer of Punkzilla , and Under the Wolf, Under the Dog, I was able to interview him for about an hour through Skype. I was able to ask him many questions in that time. Included in this is part one of the interview.

Westward expansion of the United States of America brought about significant changes in traditional life of indigenous American societies and had a significant effect on their future survival. This was clearly evident in James Welch’s novel, Fools Crow, as the Pikuni tribe in the Montana Territory struggle to deal with the effects of U.S. occupation. White Man’s Dog, later Fools Crow, goes through profound changes throughout the course of the novel as he himself comes to terms with foreign residence and lifestyle changes. White Man’s Dog, the son of a prominent Pikuni leader, journeys from a person who was shy and insecure to a fierce warrior that would later help his tribe

5. In this tale, what is meant by “marriage by purchase” and “elopement”? How are these practices viewed by the community here? Why do they accept Blue Bird? (see 104-105)

GQ: What was interesting about this chapter? What was interesting about this chapter is that It explain Humming Birds life after Tenochtitlan fell. She begs on the streets, becomes sickly and ends up groveling to Baltazar. This chapter seems to be about Hummingbird throwing away her pride. JWP: Reading this chapter Hummingbird starts with explaining how she was living. She explains that she worked as a washer, but the job made her sick. Then, she explains that because she was sick she had been fired, this made her have to beg and scrounge for food. Later the chapter tells about where she finally found a place to live, she finds this place with Baltazar. She is to work as a maid and mistress. Finally, the chapter ends on one of Cortez’s expeditions,

Helen Oyeyemi’s novel Boy, Snow, Bird deals with tendentious issues such as abuse, race, beauty, and mother daughter relationships. Many of these issues are blatantly illustrated throughout this story between different characters. Often more than one relationship deals with each of these issues, and most of these relationships deal with more than one issue at a time. That being said, some of the relationships deal with their issues and themes in a much more subtle way than others. One relationship in particular deals with issue very subtly, Charlie and Boy’s. Charlie and Boy grew up together in the same town, and he even asked her to prom, wrote to her, toke her to see fireworks (Oyeyemi 7-9). The two of them formed an unspoken sporadic romance. The relationship between Charlie and Boy acts as a window into the circle of abuse and abandonment, builds a foundation of feigning a position of power, and connects to the theme of beauty.

In the very first letter on page 1 where Birdy is talking a bought how he thinks the Iraqis will back down and drop there weapons and how they were going to win. Now on page 281 Birdy explains that if there is any wining in war it is that he knows that what he is fighting for is worth it. He talks a bought ho he was mad at his uncle Richie before not telling him story's.Now he understands why he didn't and Birdy said if he does have kids he would not want to tell them his story's

The articles “Reflections on Law, Culture, and Slavery” and “The Difference of Race” provide a substantial amount of insight into the culture, law, political, and social situations of Antebellum America. Many of these insights connect to the events and situations that occur within the book, “The Good Lord Bird”. The culture discussed in these texts reflects well with the culture portrayed within the book while some of it was not what Henry was exposed to and this has some implications.

The Eastern Bluebird is an endangered species. Many people do not know that this type of bird has been endangered. My group decided on this project because we feel a responsibility to protect these beautiful birds and we also want to let other people know how to shield and shelter them. As my classmates and I began researching this project, each person on our team was delegated specific responsibilities. Helen Stout worked on the nest building construction of these birds and we have handouts of the nesting box plans. We will also show the students the type of food to feed the bluebirds. I, Thanh Canfield, worked on the board to demonstrate the details about the project. Lupe has built the nest from wood for the sample. The steps we took in researching and implementing this project included browsing different websites on the internet for relevant information. We shared this information with each other via e-mail. We also contacted Pauline Tom, president of Texas Bluebird Society, to collect more information through the booklet.

What comes into your mind when you think about crows and ravens? Do you like them or despise them? Authors Terry Krautwurst and David Shaw offer their opinions about these fowl in the articles “Brain Birds: Amazing Crows and Ravens” and “A Soft Spot for Crows”.

In "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," I believe the author's theme is to look beyond outer characteristics. Just in the title itself, the author encourages or suggests that there is more than one way to look at one thing. The fact that the author chooses a blackbird for his multiple observations is ironic in that a blackbird has no distinctiveness in its appearance, in comparison to another type of bird, such as a peacock. The blackbird is just black with no variation in shades of color. How ironic that the author would write of thirteen ways of looking at such a plain, ordinary bird. For this reason, it is apparent the author is challenging the reader to look at such an ordinary part of life in many different ways. Such a varied study

The author of my novel is P.C Cast and Kristin Cast. The physical setting is the house of night. The temporal setting is at night. The author manipulates the time by making it seem like because they're vampires night means day and day means night. Yes the setting is critical to the story because she's a vampire the house of night is where they live. The tone of the story is serious. The theme was if you're meant to be something you'll be. Even though she was a vampire the protagonist was Zoey Redbird she was kind and humble. The antagonist is Aphrodite she was very mean and only cared about her popularity. “It's amazing here because of me”. “Yeah you heard me right, this place is cool because im cool”. The motive for the antagonist is to

The Firebird is a ballet written by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It is written in 1910 and was based on the fairy tales of Russian about a magic bird that can be both blessing and curse for the owner.

Though the mockingbird made beautiful music and was, in fact, the bat’s original creative inspiration, the mockingbird showed his true colors when the bat attempted to tell him his first poem. At first, he was so openly narcissistic that he finished the bat’s question and basically asked himself to sing his own work again, when really the bat had been wanting to show the mockingbird his poem. When he discovered the bat’s true question, he was so cocky as to say that bat’s can’t sing as well and hinted at bats not being able to compose as well either. Being the mockingbird that he was, he analyzed only the technical aspects of the bat’s poetry, and completely ignored what it meant emotionally. He looked down at any poetry but his own, which