Bringing a giraffe into the world is _ . A baby giraffe is born 10 feet high and usually lands on its back. Within seconds it rolls over its legs under its body. Then the mother giraffe rudely introduces its children to the reality of life. In his book,A View from the Zoo, Gary Richmond describes how a new-born giraffe learns its first lesson. The mother giraffe lowers her head long enough to take a quick look. Then she puts herself directly over her child. She waits for about a minute, and then she does the most unreasonable thing. She throws her long leg and kicks her baby, so that it's sent sprawling . When it doesn't get up, the process is repeated again and again. The struggle to rise is important. As the baby giraffe grows tired, the mother kicks it again. Finally, it stands for the first time on its shaky legs. Then the mother giraffe kicks it off its feet again. Why? She wants it to remember how it got up. In the wild, a baby giraffe must be able to get up as quickly as possible to stay with its group, where there's safety. Another writer named Irving Stone understood this. He spent a lifetime studying greatness, writing stories about such men as Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Darwin. Stone was once asked if he had found something that runs through the lives of all these great people. He said, "I write about people who sometime in their life have a dream of something. They're beaten over the head, knocked down and for years they get nowhere. But every time they stand up again. And at the end of their lives they've realized some small parts of what they set out to do ."
Who is Gary Richmond?
who wrote what?
which is about what?
What does a baby giraffe need to learn in the wild?
why?
who teaches them this lesson?
What does she do when the baby is forst born?
Is the baby born small?
how big?
Once the mother looks at the baby, what does she do next?
and then?
why?
does it learn right away?
what happens when it doesnt learn?
who is the giraffes struggle compared to?
any other  men?
Did these men seem to have anything in common?
what is one?
and what happens to them?
what happens at the end?
An author.
 In his book,A View from the Zoo, Gary Richmond 
A View from the Zoo.
his book,A View from the Zoo, 
How a new-born giraffe learns its first lesson.
,A View from the Zoo, Gary Richmond describes how a new-born giraffe learns its first lesson.
Get up as quickly as possible.
 In the wild, a baby giraffe must be able to get up as quickly as possible
To stay with its group.
to stay with its group
The mother.
The mother giraffe lowers her head long enough to take a quick look. Then she puts herself directly over her child. She waits for about a minute, and then she does the most unreasonable thing. She throws her long leg and kicks her baby
Lowers her head long enough to take a quick look.
The mother giraffe lowers her head long enough to take a quick look.
No.
A baby giraffe is born 10 feet high 
Ten feet high.
A baby giraffe is born 10 feet high 
She puts herself directly over her child.
 Then she puts herself directly over her child.
Kicks her baby.
 She throws her long leg and kicks her baby,
She wants it to remember how it got up.
 She wants it to remember how it got up
No.
, the process is repeated again and again. 
The process is repeated again and again.
 the process is repeated again and again. 
Michelangelo,
writing stories about such men as Michelangelo, 
Vincent van Gogh.
writing stories about such men as Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh,
Yes.
once asked if he had found something that runs through the lives of all these great people. 
Sometime in their life have a dream of something.
sometime in their life have a dream of something.
They're beaten over the head, knocked down and for years they get nowhere.
They're beaten over the head, knocked down and for years they get nowhere.
They've realized some small parts of what they set out to do ."
 they've realized some small parts of what they set out to do ."