Am looking for a short motivational story about a dragonfly and the stages he goes through before he can fly>
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Could it be either of the following?\n\n"My Life As A Dragonfly: Swimmer to Flyer"; A children's book on the dragonfly life cycle. \nhttp://www.sonic.net/dragonfly/sawtooth.html\n\nDragonfly Story\nhttp://powell.colgate.edu/wda/Waterbug_dragonfly_story.htm
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Try "Fighting the Odds: The Marilyn Gambrell Story"\nhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0461692/
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Try www.bluedragonfly.org or www.anorexicweb.com
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Try\nwww.monsters.com
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[For whatever it's worth, I’ve tried recasting it, trying my best not to change the way you wanted to say what you wanted to say, relocating some of your ideas for a more unified presentation, better impact, all the while remaining consistent with your preference for the present tense. The paragraph breakdowns are more for consistency, flow and visual impact. Please verify your quotes; make sure they're verbatim and punctuated as they are in the book. Here goes:]\n\nFear is one of the most powerful emotions that control the way a human being acts in certain circumstances. It contributes to one’s instability and, ultimately, to irrationality.\n\nWilliam Golding’s “Lord of the Flies” is all about fear and its irrational consequences. It sheds light on that kind of fear that may not be of something physical at all. It is the irrational fear of fear itself, the big horrid “Beast of Fear” with claws, eyes, and teeth lurking inside us. It is the fear we prefer to ignore. In “Lord of the Flies,” it is the fear which leads to irrational acts.\n\nIn “Lord of the Flies,” the boys fear almost everything they see and hear on the island, assuming them to be beasts. As the novel progresses, their fear of the unknown beast becomes exceedingly powerful their attitudes towards it become increasingly irrational. Terror paralyzes their minds, leaving them too weak to face the truth about their fears. \n\nThe beast in the novel symbolizes fear flying around on the island. Fear is evident in all the boys, from the nightmares to the belief in the existence of a beast. From the moment the first littlun claims to have seen snake-monster in Chapter 2, even the hunters begin having nightmares of their own. In Chapter 5, Jack, addressing Ralph, says, “You said they dream and cry out. Now they talk not only the littluns, but also my hunters sometimes talk of a thing, a dark thing, a beast, some sort of animal.” (p. 83). Indeed, the boys’ fear of the beast becomes an increasingly important aspect of their lives. The fact that all the boys on the island are younger than thirteen greatly affects the amount of fear that control them. Their cries can only reverberate within the walls of their own nightmares.\n\nFurther, a little boy named Phil dreams of weird animals, saying, “And I was frightened…and then I saw something moving among the trees, something big and horrid.” (p. 85) His mind is so obsessed with “beasties” it simply refuses to accept the reality that it is Simon he see in the dark. As a matter of fact, imagination and fear shape their illusory description of the beast which the twins, Samneric, describe, “There were eyes, teeth, claws. The beast followed us, nearly touched me.” (p. 100) [Question: Is this the way you intended to write this part? Your original posting made them appear like sub-topics.] But beast, it was not; it was a dead parachutist.\n\nFear of the beast totally conquers their minds, making their brains too crippled to think straight. Their imaginations are so powerful, so overpowering and wild that they fail to see the fear for what it is: the beast that impels them to crime.\n\nFear so control them to the point of believing and doing anything, even trying to regain peace and freedom from fear itself by killing the beast. Thus, when Simon comes stumbling out of the dark forest while the boys are doing a victory dance, everyone surrounds him, chanting, "Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!" (p. 152) Believing him to be the beast, they poke savagely at him with their spears until the “Beast” is dead. The beast is dead, indeed, and fear has just taken an innocent life.\n\nHowever, not all the boys are too affected by fear. Ralph and Piggy struggle to be logical. \n\nWhen the topic of fear is brought up during one of their assemblies, Ralph declares boldly, “The thing is Fear can't hurt you any more than a dream. There aren't any beasts to be afrai
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Here are a few websites that outlines the Dragonflies life cycle.
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Try this one:\n\nhttp://nwps.ws/~dragonfire/Asmin28/lesson/toc.html
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http://www.minibite.com/serious/onewinginthefire.htm
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I love the one that is a poem about the monster under the bed and hobbes saves the day by just being there (cause the monster didn't know there was a tiger in the bed).  Best Line: "Hey wake up you stupid cretin! Are you gonna sleep while I get eaten!?!?!?"  I'll check my collection books and see if I can find page number for the rest of ya.
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Try "The Poet" and "The Poet's Mind" by Lord Alfred Tennyson.  One is funny and bright while the other is dark and dismal.  Good luck!
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Best place to find lyrics is www.azlyrics.com\n\nHere is the link for the particular one.  I just downloaded it last week.\nBecca\n\nhttp://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/rkelly/ibelieveicanfly.html
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story from the little box:-\n\nIt's meaningful....\n\nOnce upon a time, there was a teacher and his student lying down under a big tree near a big grass area. Then, suddenly, the student asked the teacher,\n\nStudent : Teacher, I'm confused, how can we find our soul-mate? Could you please help me?\n\nTeacher : (Silent for few second, than he answered)\n\nWell, it's a pretty hard and easy question.\n\nStudent : (Thinking hard) Huh???\n\nTeacher : Look on that way, there are a lot of grass there, why don't you walk there but please never walk backward, just walk straight ahead. On your way, try to find a beautiful grass and pick it up then give it to me. But just one.\n\nStudent : Well, ok then... wait for me... (walked straight ahead to the grass field).\n\nA few minutes later...\n\nStudent : I'm back.\n\nTeacher : Em, well I don't see any beautiful grass on your hand.\n\nStudent : On my journey, I found few beautiful grass, but I thought that I would find a better one, so I didn't pick it up. But I didn't realize that I'm at the end of the field, and I hadn't picked up any. Because you told me not to go back, so I didn't go back.\n\nTeacher : That's what happened in real life.\n\nWhat is the message of this story?\n\n* Grass - is people around you\n* Beautiful Grass - is people that attract you\n* Grass Field - is time\n* In looking for your soulmate, please don't always\ncompare and hope that there will be a better one. By\ndoing that, you'll waste your lifetime, cause remember\n\n"Time Never Goes Back".\n\nIt applies the same in finding your ideal life partner, your suitable career or business, therefore the morale is LOVE & grab hold of the opportunity that you have now, don't waste time!
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try www.darting.com or google darts, darting, dart flights
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"Just when the Caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly" anonymous\n\nI used it once, but its so good, it begged to be used again!!
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I'm ROFL!!!  *here's one for you! (since I can't give you points)........\n\nA Story with a Moral\n\nIn the dead of summer a fly was resting on a leaf beside a lake.\nThe hot, dry fly who said to no one in particular, "Gosh... if I go down three inches, I will feel the mist from the water and I will be refreshed."\n\nThere was a fish in the water thinking, "Gosh... if that fly goes down three inches, I can eat him."\n\nThere was a bear on the shore thinking, "Gosh... if that fly goes down three inches that fish will jump for the fly... and I will grab him."\n\nIt also happened that a hunter was farther up the bank of the lake preparing to eat a cheese sandwich.\n\n"Gosh," he thought, "if that fly goes down three inches... and that fish leaps for it... that bear will expose himself and grab for the fish. I'll shoot the bear and have a proper lunch."\n\nYou probably think this is enough activity on one bank of a lake, but I can tell you there's more...\n\nA wee mouse by the hunter's foot was thinking, "Gosh... if that fly goes down three inches... and that fish jumps for that fly... and that bear grabs for that fish... the dumb hunter will shoot the bear and drop his cheese sandwich."\n\nA cat lurking in the bushes took in this scene and thought - as was fashionable to do on the banks of this particular lake around lunch time - "Gosh... if that fly goes down three inches... and that fish jumps for that fly... and that bear grabs for that fish and that hunter shoots that bear... and that mouse makes off with the cheese sandwich... then I can have mouse for lunch."\n\nThe poor fly is finally so hot and so dry that he heads down for the cooling mist of the water.\nThe fish swallows the fly...\nthe bear grabs the fish...\nthe hunter shoots the bear...\nthe mouse grabs the cheese sandwich...\nthe cat jumps for the mouse...\nthe mouse ducks...\nthe cat falls into the water and drowns.\n\nThe moral of the story is:\n\n\nWhenever a fly goes down three inches, some p*ssy is in serious danger.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_flight
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try this:\n\nhttp://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/zo150/mozley/fall/insectCS.jpg