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    poems. The first poem I have chosen to talk about is “The Shark”. This poem is about a bunch of fishermen on a boat‚ who catch a shark and later discover that the shark has eaten a young boy. “The Shark” shows how powerful nature can be by showing how easy it can kill and what an efficient predator it is. The people in this poem are quite angry with the shark once they realise what the shark has done. The people hack into the shark to get the child’s remains once they discover what the giant

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    wiped out of existence.”("10 Shocking Facts About How the Illegal Wildlife Trade Drives Species Extinction." One Green Planet. May. 22‚ 2016). Some species that are being killed by this terrible act include‚ but are not excluded to elephants‚ tigers‚ sharks‚ rhinos‚ and gorillas. We need to be the voice for these poor animals by putting an end to poaching for good. Poaching is a cruel act of violence against wild animals‚ and if we human beings don’t put an end to it‚ we will have to say goodbye to many

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    Saturnalia Monologue

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    Everyone so close you can feel each others warmth. Friends meeting friends and making more. The smell of comradery like you’ve just won a war. Celebrating that you’re living an intoxicating life. Violet I am abrasive or so you say. Others are basking in the sun yet I look to the impending storm. I coware when I am scared but I am just a little violet. I can’t stand against the wind like all the other flowers. It seems like I never took root like the gladiolus. I am not like you and that is okay

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    it about: It is about a shark attack Where is it‚ when is it set: Amity Island New England‚ 4th July Why is it set 4th July: It is set on the 4th of July because on that date most Americans gather around and spend time with their famlies and go out to the beach will close then families can’t go to the beach. Paragraph 2 Music: Describe how the shark is connected to the music in the title sequence: You can almost visualize the deadly shark coming closer and closer

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    up in a Costa Rica hospital due to a shark attack not me‚ my best friend Ashley. This crazy event all started three days before this on July 24th‚ 2018 when we were heading to the airport to get on the plane. During the first two of four hours we had been arranging a sing along and been irritated by a seven year old who was karate chopping our seats. Eventually we fell asleep but were disturbed by the pilot who was announcing that there were several strange shark attacks where we were landing. When

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    Biology Notes

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    interpersonal relationships etc Other animals: Vertebrates: * Pit viper :  detection range of 400-850 nm (visible light and into infra red) reasons for this – uses visible light when not in burrow‚ when basking in sun - relies on infra red due to habitat in dark burrow - also relies on IR due to hunting prey * Hummingbird: Visible spectrum detection range the same as humans (380 – 750 nm)  Reasons for this – detection of food sources

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    major theme in Doris Lessing’s short story “A Woman on the Roof” is female sexuality‚ which is juxtaposed with male aggression. The story happens one afternoon while three men work to replace gutters on a roof. They suddenly see a beautiful woman basking under the sun in a bikini bottom and only a small scarf tied around her breasts. They all watch her and Tom and Stanley saunter over now and then to catch a glimpse. The next day‚ the sunbathing beauty appears again‚ however‚ this time the scarf is

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    SYPNOSIS: A bitter tension between the jets‚ a self-styled “American” street gang‚ and the Sharks‚ a group of young Puerto Ricans opens the scene. The leader of the jets‚ Riff swears to drive the Sharks‚ led by Bernardo‚ from the streets. Riff determines to challenge Bernardo that night at a dance in the gym‚ and prevails upon his old friend and the co-founder of the Jets‚ Tony‚ to help him. Tony has been growing away from the gang‚ and feels the stirrings of other emotions but reluctantly agrees

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    the height of tourist season (around the fourth of July) than the safety of said tourists. He would rather let a man-eating shark roam the waters and make money instead of closing the beach for public safety. He put the citizen’s lives at risk for his own benefit. It was also interesting to see how the fishermen treated each other. For the most part‚ Quint was hunting the shark to keep the people of Amity Island safe (although there was the influence of money). The other fishermen

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    important factors for animal movement is travel speed‚ which shows the amount energy an animal uses‚ the distance it will travel and how often resources are encountered. Brad Norman experimented the movements of whale sharks by attaching animal-borne motion sensors to the free-swimming whale sharks for calculating their swimming activity and vertical movement. The data they collected revealed that they had two broad movement modes‚ which was the shallow ascent angles and steeper ascent angles. Therefore‚

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