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Aboriginal (Bardi people) from the Kimberley area holding Aboriginal Shield and Boomerang

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If your Dick is pretty.

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One of many different beautiful species of birds that live here at southwest Red Cliffs reserve #NorthernCorridorHighway. Personally I love roadrunners, they are one of my many personal favourite animals that live here. I wanna share some cool facts about these fierce birds, did you know that the roadrunner is the state bird of New Mexico? A roadrunner nest is made of anything a male finds, such as sticks, lleaves and the skins of snakes! Sounds pretty hard core to me, speaking of snakes.. The roadrunner is so fast that it is one of the few animals that are quick enough to go toe to tore with rattlesnakes! They are like warriors, the Hopi and other Pueblo people believed that roadrunners were medicine birds and could protect against evil spirits. Their unusual X-shaped footprints are used as sacred symbols to ward off evil in many Pueblo tribes—partially because they invoke the protective power of the roadrunners themselves, and partially because the X shape of the tracks conceals which direction the bird is headed (thus throwing bad energy off track.) Stylized roadrunner tracks have been found in the rock art of ancestral Southwestern tribes like the Anasazi and Mogollon cultures, as well. Roadrunner feathers were traditionally used to decorate Pueblo cradleboards as spiritual protection for the baby. In Mexican Indian and American Indian tribes, such as the Pima, it is considered good luck to see a roadrunner. In some Mexican tribes, the bird was considered sacred and never killed, but most Mexican Indians used the meat of the roadrunner as a folk remedy to cure illness or to boost stamina and strength. Indigenous peoples of Central America have developed numerous beliefs about the roadrunner. The Ch’orti’, who call it t’unk’u’x or mu’, have taboos against harming the bird. Ch'ol Maya believe roadrunners to have abilities. It is known to them as ajkumtz’u’, derived from the bird's call that is said to make the listener feel tired.

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Just got done creating a coloring book for Conserve southern Utah red cliffs, I decided to donate a coloring book for southern Utah red cliffs reserve to help increase knowledge of the numerous endangered species that inhabit these beautiful lands. Please help me spread this and spread awareness of the illegal so called progress that the city if Saint George Utah is trying to do on federally protected land.

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Making a historical timeline of the America's for my daughter, meet Nezahualcoyotl! One of my personal favorite historical figures and hero!

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Vaasan Leipä mainoshahmo Vesan seikkailuja:

(Finna)

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some people read an awful lot, but don't read very well. deep reading is itself a skill. being able to untangle the threads of theme, subtext, characterization, narrative style, and more are all things that it takes time and intentional engagement to learn.

if you've ever watched a movie with your film buff friend and chatted about it afterwards, that friend might have pulled hours more of conversation out of the same 90 minutes of screentime, and wondered how the fuck they did that - it's not raw intelligence, it's a skill that's been honed. And I learned a lot about film from talking to friends who knew about film, and reading critique by film scholars

literature works exactly the same. so if you want to get more out of your reading, there are things you can do to train that. Find a book or short story you think you've got a pretty good grasp on, preferably from a widely read & respected author like Ursula K Le Guin or Ray Bradbury (if you're new at this don't swing for the Toni Morrison or the Samuel Beckett yet unless you feel very comfortable with the complexity of the text - the point is to develop a complicated new skill on good foundations). Then go to JSTOR, create a free account, and look up criticism on the story you've chosen. Find something that looks readable to you and at least somewhat interesting. Read that article, and look at what that writer got out of the same story you've read that you didn't get. Do you see the critic's points? Did they teach you something about the text? Go reread that story and see if the criticism has changed how you read it. Are you seeing more? Are you thinking about the implications of a line that you hadn't noticed before? Does the story feel richer now?

there are other more involved ways of finding criticism. Learning to use academic databases, going to your local library to do interlibrary loans, finding critical voices you appreciate; these are all useful subskills. Literacy isn't just being able to read words, it's being able to read words in context and think about what they tell you about the text, the author, or the time and culture in which the text was produced. Literacy is the skill of being able to look at the world with open eyes and think clearly about how its parts are connected. It'll change your life

briannyssey

this keeps getting shared around and ive seen some different tags responding differently so i just want to make some important clarifications and distillations

you don't have to read more deeply if you don't want to (but i'd recommend it, i genuinely think it makes you a better person)

if you want to learn to read more deeply, the resources are out there. try to find critical literature (that is, academic writing that analyzes the text) on works your familiar with so you can get a sense for how to do that analysis too

learning to deep read literature can help you deep read many areas of your life

writers tend to put a lot of work into their stories. if you learn to read that work you'll (probably) appreciate the stories you love even more. And if not, then you'll have developed your taste. This too is worth doing

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Mary Binney Wheeler Jagannatha ratha being readied for the procession, Jagannatha Ratha Yatra, Puri, Orissa, India Temples of Kalinga 2 Copyrighted 1977, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust Sri Lanka lecture, 79 South Asia Art Archive

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SANEST Strong bad fan

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new siege weapon employed by U.S. Military

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just remembered this video i found years ago where an almost identical situation happens. the way the energy in the room plummets when everyone realizes he’s just playing the song without any remixing. it’s unbelievable

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when i was a kid and i heard the word boysenberry i thought they were saying poisonberry and i was like WHY on earth would you make a pie out of poisonberries