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    Goblin Shark

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    The goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni) is a rare‚ poorly understood species of deep-sea shark. Another name for this species is elfin shark.[1] Sometimes called a "living fossil‚" it is the only extant representative of the family Mitsukurinidae‚ a lineage some 125 million years old. This species looks unlike any other shark‚ with a long flattened snout‚ highly protrusible jaws containing prominent nail-like teeth‚ and pink coloration. It is usually between three and four meters (10–13 ft) long when

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    Ah, Wilderness

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    Arithmetic and Pre-Algebra Review • Solve all problems. • Check your answers with the key provided after the questions. • If you need help reviewing some topics‚ enroll in a section of TU 301 designated for use of the Math Center and get help at the Center. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Find the prime factorization of 198. Simplify 6 2 + 10 2 + 2 2 Simplify 7 ⋅ 5 + 3(5 + 3) + 2 Simplify 12 2 − 14 45 − 2(3 + 1) 2 Simplify − 35 ÷ (−7) ⋅ − 2 Multiply and express your answer in lowest terms: − ⋅ Divide and

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    Wilderness Versus Wildness Wilderness and wildness are two words that present two different views of how nature effects civilizations. Wilderness has a positive connotation‚ meaning the forest and the beautiful aspects of nature. Wildness means living with no rules‚ and relying on the basic human instinct to survive. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur has displayed contradictory views on New Britain‚ and how the people living there conduct themselves. Both wilderness and wildness are concepts that

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    Shark Attack

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    Shark Attack (Summarizing and Note-taking) Answer the following questions: 1. Identify at least five organ systems in this region of the arm that the surgeon would have marked for reattachment. Circulatory‚ skeletal‚ lymphatic‚ nervous‚ integumentary‚ and muscular 2. List the names of the specific structures that had to be reattached. Specific Bone: Humerus ; Specific Muscles: Biceps brachii‚ brachialis‚ triceps ; Specific nerves: Median nerve‚ ulnar nerve‚ radial nerve‚ musculocutaneous

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    Wilderness Pros And Cons

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    anniversary of landmark of the whole conservation history of the USA‚ the Wilderness Act. 50 years ago on September 3‚ 1964 President Lyndon Johnson signed it into the law. This act actually established a way for Americans to protect and preserve the most valuable wildlands for future generations. For the first time ever‚ it provided protection for Wilderness in the federal statutes. Moreover‚ this act created the National Wilderness Preservation System‚ which includes nowadays approximately 110 million

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    In talking with James‚ this line between the positives and negatives of the wilderness was the space we wanted to target for our sermonic moment. There was one more step that I wanted to take in preparing for this sermon though; because my lay committee has often encouraged me to work with personal stories more regularly‚ it was important to me that I include my own experiences with wilderness in my part of the sermon. As a boy growing up in the rural south-eastern U.S.‚ I spent a lot of summers

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    Wilderness Versus Civilization In "The Place‚ the Regions‚ and the Commons‚" Gary Snyder discusses the importance of place when dealing with the environment and establishment of ideological hearths. The contrasting sides between the natural world and synthetic societies play a large part within the essay‚ for we must take a stand when determining our own personal place. Snyder cites many examples of how humanity’s search for place leads to the destruction of the natural world around us‚ such

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    dormant volcano in Hawaii named Mauna Kea. Cronon’s “The Trouble with Wilderness” describes the environmental implications of what constitutes as the wild. The speakers present in Offshore language when describing nature as interpersonal while the Romantic Writers Cronon cites describe nature as inhuman and divine. The speakers interviewed in OffShore explain the kinship felt by indigenous Hawaiian’s towards Mauna Kea. One speaker and activist‚ Rutha Lua mentions Mauna Kea as a grandparent‚ “who

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    A SECOND LOOK AT WILDERNESS: A SUMMARY OF WILLIAM CRONON’S “THE TROUBLE WITH WILDERNESS; OR‚ GETTING BACK TO THE WRONG NATURE” In the past several decades‚ wilderness has been illustrated as the sole standing retreat for civilization to escape to when our world becomes overwhelming. In William Cronon’s The Trouble With Wilderness; or‚ Getting Back to The Wrong Nature‚ he preaches how over time our definition of wilderness has completely changed. Today‚ we define the concept of the wild as natural

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    Character in Wilderness In The Trouble with Wilderness‚ William Cronon investigates the concept of wilderness and states that the concept partially results from Americans ’ obsession with the idea of frontier. He points out that many Americans celebrate wilderness because as the frontier‚ it forms American national character and identity. Thomas Cole is an example of the adherents of wilderness that Cronon refers to. In Essay on American Scenery‚ Cole conveys his devotion to wilderness as the frontier

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