invasive species Blue fin tuna snakehead fish Asian elephant stink bugs Sperm whale Zebra mussels 2. Pick one species (endemic or invasive) and discuss its role in the environment. I choose an endemic species the Asian elephant. The elephants importance is that they assist with logging forests, carry heavy material, and assist as transportation. They have
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economy and My responsibility” ------------------------------------------------- Elephant dung paper Class: Advanced Program 51 Name: Le Dieu Linh Chi Le Minh Phuong Nguyen Thu Thao Tran Huong Tra Tran Hai Yen Hanoi, October 21, 2012 ------------------------------------------------- NATIONAL ECONOMICS UNIVERSITY A PROJECT OF ELEPHANT DUNG PAPER Presented to: The English Competition “Experience and Enjoy” – “Green
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him. True, everyone at MMI is on edge after a round of layoffs, but Max's behavior seems like more than a case of the jitters. To make matters worse, reports of a workplace shooting in Seattle are all over the news. Paige overhears Max shouting at someone on the phone. George finds Max pinning up a certificate from a shooting range in his cubicle, and Nicole, who worries they will all end up as statistics of office violence, wants to know how Lynne plans to ensure their safety. When Lynne tries to
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this company. To them, it is far more than just the tusk of an elephant or rhinoceros; it represents an economic freedom that companies have never seen or experienced. These companies are running amuck doing as they please with no thought of how their actions affect the people or animals of Africa they simply only care about “Ivory” and its economic value. Marlow’s reference to a decaying corpse is both literal and figurative: elephants and the African people both die as a result of the European’s
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April 15, 2013 Elephants belong in the wild and not in captivity in Deborah Nelson’s “Cruelest Show on Earth” and Sara Gruen’s Water For Elephants In the “Cruelest Show on Earth” the author Deborah Nelson states that elephants are extremely intelligent creatures. She also claims that elephants are supposed to be in the wild, and not treated poorly in captivity, which, unfortunately, frequently seems to be the case. In Sara Gruen’s Water For Elephants, the historical fiction characters think
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popular cartoon film is about a baby elephant born with most unusually large ears which makes him an outcast in the elephant community of the travelling circus. His mother Jumbo comes to his rescue while he is being mocked and abused by a boy who ironically also had noticeably large ears, and she is driven into a rampage which lands her in solitary confinement. Dumbo is heartbroken but is adopted by Timothy Q. Mouse who marches in to scare the other elephants who engage in cripping as they blame
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EXERCISE I. What is a paragraph? Some of these groups of sentences are paragraphs and some are not. Read them carefully and answer the questions. 1- Iceland is not a place for the ordinary tourist. The landscape, for example, is bare and strange—though many consider it beautiful in its own way. Then, too, the far northern climate is not ideal for tourism. The winter weather is extremely severe and the summers are short and cool, with constant strong winds. The remote location also means that many
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(affect/effect) on seed-loving squirrels. 7. Farmers in Zimbabwe must deal with wild elephants (who's/whose) raids threaten both villagers and crops. 8. Elephants are smarter (than/then) deer or squirrels. 9. The enormous elephants are also a (grate/great) threat to the safety of both the crops and people who grow them. 10. Farmers in Zimbabwe are now using a hot pepper repellent to (brake/break) elephants of the crop-raiding habit. Commonly confused words 1. Fares on most airlines
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pound African elephant that on average is estimated to walk a distance of 30 miles every single day (Neyman 1). Zoos are unable to provide a vast amount of space to fit animal needs. Due to the facility being unable to meet Aladdin's need to have an abundance in space he can develop physical and emotional problems. Catherine Doyle, director of the elephant campaign For In Defence of Animals, stated that, "Zoos are incapable of providing the space and natural conditions that elephants need, If they
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epidemic of poaching has rocked the country of Africa. The generous profit of Ivory in Asia and lack of income opportunities is seemingly forcing innocent people, who are simply looking for a means of survival, to kill elephants for their tusks. In order for survival of families, elephant poaching has become a significant source of income in Africa. Because of this, total extinction of these majestic animals is becoming a very real possibility and studies show that sadly enough we are swiftly working
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