More Little Known Facts About New Zealand

As promised here is more information about the Tuatara and some interesting facts about the rare birds only found in New Zealand.

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The Tuatara has eyes that can focus independently and they have two types of cells so that they can see both by day and by night. It also has a third eye on the top of its head but is only visible when it is born. They grow to be about 20 inches long and can weigh up to 2 lbs. Unlike the Kiwi bird where the female is the larger the Tuatara male is almost twice as big as the female.

The Tuatara eat beetles, crickets and spiders also frogs and the eggs of birds and lizards. They reproduce very slowly taking up to five years. Before they can even reproduce it takes ten years for them to reach sexual maturity. It also takes between 12 and 15 months from copulation to hatching depending on the temperature. The temperature also has an influence on whether the eggs will produce males or females. It is the warmer temperature that contributes most usually in the producing of males.

More Little Known Facts About New Zealand

The Tuatara average life span is 60 years although they can often live to be over 100 years old. They continue to grow for the first 35 years of their life. The courtship and mating ritual is quite unique, but that is for another article at another time.

New Zealand is the home to over 170 types of birds so we will only deal with some of the more interesting ones only found in New Zealand. The most well known is the Tiki Bird although because of its nocturnal nature it is rarely seen. You can see a photo of this rare bird on my site. The other one is the Pukeko again you can see a photo on my website. Other unusual looking birds are the Yellow Eyed Penguin also called Hoiho. Like the Kiwi they are also flightless. They have short stubby flippers and waterproof feathers. They are one of the three species that breed on the mainland of New Zealand.

Another rare bird is the Kakapo with only slightly more than one hundred of these unique birds in existence. It is now considered one of the rarest of birds. The story of their being is special and like the Tuatara is worthy of an article all of its own. Their breeding habit is so unusual it is totally dependent on the Kahikatea or Rimu Tree. These trees only bear fruit every two or three years.

The Kotare or more commonly known as the Kingfisher is a distant relative of the Kookaburra bird of Australia. It is believed that the first Kotare cane to New Zealand over ten thousand years ago. It eats skinks, spiders, earthworms and mice. It eats fish and have been known to also eat crab which it dashes against tree trunks to break them up. It then eats the peaces shell and all. It vomits the shell up at a later time.

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More Little Known Facts About New Zealand

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Various Types of Short Stories

As there are varieties of subjects, themes and art, there are various types of a short story. Some of the types are ancient tales, humor, satire, fantasy, biography, education, local color, and history. Lets us have a glimpse on each one of them in this article.

1. Ancient Tales

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It is the power of the utilization of the ancient form of the tale in the modern short story. Italian writer Giovanni Verga's The She-Wolf (1880), and Chinese writer Yeh Shao-Chun's Mrs. Li's Hair are remarkable examples.

Various Types of Short Stories

2. Fantasy

Fantasy stories are nothing but the fair combination of the old tales tradition and the supernatural details. The fine examples of such stories are British writer John Collier's horror fantasy Bottle Party (1939), Irish author Elizabeth Bowen's The Demon Lover (1941), and British author Saki's Tobermory (1911).

3. Humor

These types of stories are meant for producing surprise and delight. You will see that the most famous humorous tales and fables were written by the Americans. Mark Twain's The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1865), and Joel Chandler Harris's The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story (1894) are remarkable. There is serious humor in the works of Americans like Eudora Welty's Petrified Man (1939) and Dorothy Parker's The Custard Heart (1939).

4. Satire

The main purpose of satire is to attack the evils of society. There are writers who wrote stories of sober satire. Austrian author Arthur Schnitzler's Fate of the Baron (1923), and American Mary McCarthy's The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt (1941) are known for their somber satire.

5. Education Story

Such stories revolve around the education of the main character. The good example is American educator Lionel Trilling's Of This Time, of That Place (1944).

6. History

History types deal with a life story or historical event. Welty's A Still Moment (a 1943 story about naturalist John James Audubon) is fine example of story dealing with history event.

7. Local Color

These types of stories deal with the customs and traditions of rural and small-town life. You can enjoy the local color in the stories of George Washington Cable, Maria Edgeworth, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Mary Wilkins Freeman.

These are some of the types you may find in sort story genre. In recent times, stories have more local color, diversities in the representations, making use of dialects, and vernacular impressions. The story writes have been taking somewhat flexibility in writing stories as they wish.

Various Types of Short Stories

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Benefits of Short Stories

A short story is a literary work that tells a series of event in a specific setting. These series of events are the product of the writer's powerful mind and imagination. They are the result of contemplations, and realizations done by the writer either during his gloomy or happy days. Short stories are the outlet of the writer's emotions. It is through short stories that a writer directly or indirectly expresses his ideals, beliefs and opinions regarding issues that continually confronting the society. Thus stories are written due to several purposes such as to inspire, to educate, to entertain and to provoke one's emotions.

Whichever the purpose of a particular story, one thing that is very much sure is that stories have lots of benefits to everyone.

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For children stories teach them moral lessons which will be planted in their young minds and that they can ponder upon as they grow older. Other than that, they help in the enhancement of children's imaginative thinking which leads to creativity. According to some experts, children are being trained to think imaginatively while listening or reading stories in accordance to how the writer describes the setting, characters, and events that took place in the story. More than that, children are taught to focus their attention to a specific topic so that if they will be engaged to more complicated brainstorming or emersions they won't have any difficulty. One thing more, their vocabularies will be developed. As a result,, this will help them develop their communication skills both in oral and written communication.

Benefits of Short Stories

For older person, stories especially with those that contain humor entertain people. Short stories would also provoke questions in the minds of people regarding life and society. Short stories enables them see realities even though the events in the stories did not happen in actual scenes; but there are several situations in life that can be related to those events. The readers are made to see and think of the realities in life. Another thing is that stories teach people to appreciate the beauty of life. This is because through short stories that the adventures of people are told. These characters are used to symbolize things in the real society. It is through them that writers relate the message they wanted their readers to grasp. Despite the fact that these characters shown in these stories don't exist in real life, their struggles can be compared to someone in real life.

Those benefits mentioned above are only among the many benefits of reading short stories. Seeing those benefits that stories can give, it is just correct to conclude that reading short stories is helpful to all.

Benefits of Short Stories

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Sexy Stories and Erotica - A Long History of Short Stories

THE REALITY OF FANTASY

Billy Joel got it right: sometimes a fantasy is all you need. Better than pornography, a juicy piece of literotica brings all the power of the imagination into play. A well-chosen phrase, simply hinting at the delicious naughtiness of the sexual experience, can be a far bigger turn on than all the blatant sex videos and pictures in the world.

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Sexy stories have a long and proud history dating back centuries. The 'Genji Monogatari' (Tale of Genji), often described as the world's first novel, was written in Japan in around the eighth century AD and is packed with lush and vivid eroticism. 'Rou Bou Tan' (Prayer Mat of Flesh) is another example of adult literature from ancient China. These sexy tales can be classed as the Hustler or the Playboy of their day.

Sexy Stories and Erotica - A Long History of Short Stories

Erotic literature has played an important part in the development of society because it acts as an escape valve. A sexy story is a means for escape, venting passions that would need releasing through other means. Tales of BDSM, humiliation, bondage and other risque acts provide a means of unleashing sexual tension in a totally harmless way.

Sadly, the powers that be haven't always seen the beneficial side of sexual fantasies. The classic adult novel 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' was banned for decades in many countries. Likewise, 'Sons and Lovers', also by DH Lawrence, was deemed too sexually graphic and became a forbidden text in both the UK and the USA. Ironically, the Modern Library selected it in 1999 as one of the classic novels of the 20th century.

Literotica is blossoming in the present day. In printed form, recent years have seen the emergence of adult novels such as 'Bedtime, Playtime' and 'The Velderet'. A recent search on Amazon shows around 250 sexy works that seek to further the fine tradition of writing about the exotic and erotic.

The web has spawned rich offerings of lush and lewd stories. A major trend seems to be taking established fictional characters such as Harry Potter and creating absorbing sexual and fantasy lives for them. The anonymity of the medium allows people to reveal their deepest and darkest yearnings without fear.

Yet erotica is definitely an art, and a literary genre. Some wrongly compare it to porn, but it is nothing like it. Not everyone can write erotica, and only a few manage to deliver awesome free sexy stories. There are many criteria to take into consideration, the balance, the style, the pace, the momentum...

Fantasy is from a universe that is not that easy to express in a clear and interesting manner!

Sexy Stories and Erotica - A Long History of Short Stories

A few websites are surfing on the erotica wave, such as Literotica (probably the longest established website of this genre) and Lush Stories, but there is also a little sexy stories website out there that is worth watching: My Pouty Lips

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