One of the most endangered species in the world is the Amur Leopards. One of these big cats can leap 20 feet, run up to 37 miles per hour, and are strong climbers and swimmers. The leopards live best in cold and snowy environments, which is why they are indigenous to eastern Russia, northern China, and Korea. Erin Blakemore, an author from Smithsonian.com, writes about how this species has begun slowly inch back from the edge of extinction. Amur Leopards are dangerously close to extinction. In
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The Lizzie Bennet Diaries provides an interesting take on the Jane Austen classic Pride and Prejudice. In this revision, Lizzie is portrayed as a graduate marketing student. Her thesis is to create a series of vlogs, which is what we see when watching The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. This updated format adds many new layers to the story, but also the changes in the content itself adds to the understanding of the story. This is especially true in the episode introducing Wickham. Changes to the format, as
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This Boy’s Life is a memoir written about the author, Tobias Wolff, childhood memories and his growing pains during the 1950s. Throughout the memoir, Wolff goes through a process of discovering his own self-identity. (A process that many adolescent faces.) As described before the passage, being realistic about his identity makes him feel bitter. Jack doesn’t approve of himself and rather identify himself as another person. On page 213 and 214, Jack is writing his own recommendation letters from his
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possesses, he wore black and orange quicksilver board shorts, and a tight white Billabong sun shirt, in the unlikely scenario he was to go in the water. Brightly coloured beach umbrellas peppered the white beach. Giant waves crashed down on hopeless swimmers as they jumped and played in the wild surf. Elton gasped in horror as rusted wires sparked and crackled in the boiling
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Sexual assault is a huge problem that affects both men and women. Some may believe that part of this problem is the unawareness and ignorance that people seem to have about this topic. To keep this issue from getting worse young adults should be informed of the staggering statistics and the information presented about sexual assault by having high schools across the country have Sex Education as a major part of an existing course, having schools bring in empowering speakers that have gone through
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Polar Bears I did my favorite organism on Polar Bears. I chose this animal because it is very interesting on how they live and how they survive. The temperatures in the Arctic tundra vary from 50 degrees fahrenheit to -37 degrees fahrenheit. The diet of a Polar bear is a variety of different organism that live in the arctic tundra. But one thing the Polar bear likes the most is seals and bearded seals. I think that they eat this as their main source of food because they spend a lot of time in
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Polar Bears: WWF Polar bears are classified as marine animals because they spend most of their life on the ice from the Arctic Ocean. Their bodies are structured with layers of fat along with water resistant fur to stay warm in such cold, wet conditions. They spend about 50% of their time hunting for seals, which most of their diet consists of. Recently, the polar bear population has significantly declined due to climate change. Because of oil spills, the warming of the atmosphere and illegal
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We have access to information every day of our lives. This information can inform us, entertain us or instruct us. More importantly, it can be used to control us. The following essay will examine how information is used to exercise power over others by discussing the novel “Animal Farm”, the film “Erin Brockovich” and the issue of asylum seekers. The issue of how information is used to control others is demonstrated in the novel “Animal Farm” by George Orwell. The novel “animal farm” is a story
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The Bengal tiger is a carnivorous, mammal primarily from India. It lives in habitats such as the coniferous Himalayan Forest, the mangroves of the Sunderbans, the hills of the Indian Peninsula, or the forests of Rajasthan and Northern India. At one time Bengal tigers were scattered throughout Asia. Now they are generally found in India and some regions of Bangledesh, Bhutan, Nepal, and Myanmar. There is approximately 4,000 alive in the wild now, and about 300
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1. What is your aquatics experience for the past 5 years? a. Over the past five years, I have been a lifeguard at the YMCA for two years and this will be my third. I have been a four year varsity swimmer at Turpin High School and varsity captain during that time as well. In each of the two pools I have had extensive experience maintaining and managing the deck, whether that be cleaning, lane lines, guarding, or doing simple chemical checks (I will need a refresher on the chemical part). 2. Describe
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