ANSWER QUICKLY AND WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST A Big Year
By Bob Kowalski

Would you go to the ends of the earth to see a bird? What if it were a really special bird: one with beautiful feathers, an entrancing call, or a silly dance? What if seeing that one special bird would allow you to win a contest?

If that contest doesn't get you on television or win you any cash prizes, would you still do it? For those who participate in the "Big Year," the honor of beating the previous record is the only reward they get or even want.

A "Big Year" is a year in which a person attempts to see as many different species of birds as possible within a particular region. For most in North America who participate in a "Big Year," this region is the lower 48 American states, plus Alaska, Canada, and a couple of French islands off the Canadian coast.

You may be thinking that looking at birds is silly, but just think about the numbers of the recent record holders and the commitment it takes to get these numbers. One recent "Big Year" winner managed to see 744 birds in one year, missing the record by just one bird. Big Year birders travel by train, plane, boat, car, bicycle, and of course, by foot. They can cover over 150 thousand miles to get numbers of sightings this high. They can also spend a small fortune.

Just to clarify, the birds these contestants are counting are the number that they see in a particular year. You see, the contest is based on an honor system. No pictures or other evidence is required as proof of a sighting. Most birders take great pride in their reputation and their abilities to see or hear and then identify a bird. Usually, important sightings of the rare birds needed to get counts in the 700s are visited by hundreds of birders. It is pretty hard to cheat your way to a record-breaking year, but in general, few are interested in cheating.

This honesty comes from the fact that most people who want to break such a record know the greatest rewards are not necessarily in winning. Such rewards are in being able to commit a year of your life to doing something you love. Rewards are found in seeing amazing, inspiring creatures like the California Condor or the Magnificent Frigate bird. Rewards also come in spending time with people who, like you, want to spend their time looking to the skies and trees for glimpses of emerald, crimson, or cerulean blue feathered jewels.

You don't have to be able to travel a continent to have a big birding experience though. Have a big month. Or a big weekend. Set a personal record, learn to identify the species that live in your part of the world, or try to learn the calls of just two species of birds. You will soon find looking at birds isn't such a strange way to spend your time.

Extra! Extra! Backyard Birding
Many schools, families, and young birders across the country participate in the "Great Backyard Bird Count." While not as long as a "Big Year," the "Great Backyard Bird Count" happens every year. It depends on birders and families across the country to watch feeders and other areas in their yards and count the number of birds they see. Unlike the "Big Year," the goal is not to see who can count the most birds. Instead, participants in this event work together to help bird experts get a good idea of how birds are doing. Participants are given checklists and enter their sightings on a website. Called a "citizen-science" project, this event is open to anyone, requires no travel, and happens every year over one weekend in February.
Why does the author include explanations for why people compete in a Big Year? (5 points)

Question 3 options:

1)

To convince readers birding is rewarding in many ways

2)

To imply birders should get more respect

3)

To suggest birders have strange hobbies

4)

To suggest readers may have similar reasons

It’s the first one

Explanation:

I saw it on the test today

answer: role of women in family

explanation:

women are the pioneers of nation. indian culture attaches great importance to women, comprising half of world’s population. according to a report of secretary general of united nations, women constitute 50% of human resources, the greatest human resource next only to man having great potentiality.

women are the key to sustainable development and quality of life in the family. the varieties of role the women assume in the family are those of wife, leader, administrator, manager of family income and last but not the least important the mother.

1. as a wife

woman is man’s , partner and comrade. she sacrifices her personal pleasure and ambitions, sets standard of morality, relieves stress and strain, tension of husband, maintains peace and order in the household. thereby she creates necessary environment for her male partner to think more about the economic upliftment of family. she is the source of inspiration to man for high endeavour and worth achievements in life.

she stands by him in all the crises as well as she shares with him all successes and attainments. she is the person to whom he turns for love, sympathy, understanding, comfort and recognition. she is the symbol of purity, faithfulness and submission and devotion to her husband.

2. as an administrator and leader of the household:

a well-ordered disciplined household is essential to normal family life. the woman in the family assumes this function. she is the chief executive of an enterprise. she assigns duties among family members according to their interest and abilities and provides resources in-term of equipment and materials to accomplish the job.

she plays a key role in the preparation and serving of meals, selection and care of clothing, laundering, furnishing and maintenance of the house. as an administrator, she organizes various social functions in the family for social development. she also acts as a director of recreation. she plans various recreational activities to meet the needs of young and old members of the family.

3. as a manager of family income:

woman acts as the humble manager of the family income. it is her responsibility to secure maximum return from every pye spent. she always prefers to prepare a surplus budget instead of a deficit budget. she is very calculating loss and gain while spending money. she distributes judiciously the income on different heads such as necessities, comforts and luxuries. the woman in the family also contributes to the family income through her own earning within or outside the home. she has positive contribution to the family income by the work. she herself performs in the home and uses waste products for productive purposes.

4. as a mother:

the whole burden of child bearing and greater part of child rearing task are carried out by the woman in the family. she is primarily responsible for the child’s habit of self-control, orderliness, industriousness, theft or honesty. her contacts with the child during the most formative period of his development sets up his behaviour pattern. she is thus responsible for the maintenance of utmost discipline in the family.

she is the first teacher of the child. she transmits social heritage to the child. it is from mother that the child learns the laws of the race, the manner of men, moral code and ideals. the mother, because of her intimate and sustained contact with the child, she is able to discover and nurture child’s special traits aptitudes and attitudes which subsequently play a key role in the shaping of his personality.

as a mother she is the family health officer. she is very much concerned about the physical wellbeing of every member of the family, the infant, the sickly child, the adolescent youth, senescent parent. she organizes the home and its activities in such a way so that each member of the family has proper food, adequate sleep and sufficient recreation. she made the home a place of quite comfortable and appropriate setting for the children through her talent. besides, she cultivates taste in interior design and arrangement, so that the home becomes an inviting, restful and cheerful place.

the mother is the central personality of the home and the family circle. all the members turn to her for sympathy, understanding and recognition. woman devotes her time, labour and thought for the welfare of the members of the family. for the unity of interacting personalities, man provides the temple woman provides the ceremonies and the atmosphere.

done

gg

explanation: