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    sketch Don’t Save The Whales‚ which shows members of a rally scapegoating and blaming everything wrong with their community on whales. Displaying how irrational and destructive unfairly placing the blame for problems is‚ the sketch also demonstrates how real problems go unsolved‚ new problems are created‚ and bandwagoning only makes everything worse. When people or communities pin the blame of their problems on others‚ they do not get any better themselves. Like blaming the whales in the sketch‚

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    Tips for Hardy-Weinberg The key to getting these questions right is to know your genetic vocabulary and to know your math… The following examples will be based on a dolphin population in which the trait being studied is curvy-tipped flippers versus pointy-tipped flippers. In each individual‚ the trait is coded for by TWO alleles. In the population‚ one of the alleles is dominant and one is recessive. Individuals with two dominant alleles (homozygous dominant) have curvy-tipped flippers and individuals

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    Due to the small population size of North Atlantic right whales (~300 plus or minus 10%) and the low annual reproductive rate of about every five years‚ suggests that anthropogenic activities affecting mortality may be more prevalent for right whale population growth than for any other whale species. Ship strikes and fishing gear entanglements are considered the main factors contributing to reduced growth and recovery of the right whale population. Data collected from 1970 through 1999 indicates

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    Ocean Pollution Effects

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    creatures and different animals are harmed and/or killed by the amount of pollution caused by humans. Pollution is causing deaths because the plants have no food to survive. For plants‚ animals and even ecosystems as a whole they vary. The specific effects vary depending on what pollutants enter the environment. Sometimes‚ water pollution causes an explosion of new plant growth by providing necessary nutrients and food. Other times‚ it can harm or kill plants by changing growing conditions‚ such as

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    Whale Rider uses narrative structure in many forms to better describe the story to the viewer. It is used to link the plot together mainly using a number of different techniques including point of view‚ which is based on Pai because of her narrations‚ but is linked together with scenes of Koro‚ Nanny Flowers and Porourangi all having the point of view; conflict‚ with disagreements and argument all forming the story to come; and finally the way the story is divided into three main acts‚ which are

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    Effects of the Bottleneck and the Founders effect Cecil Smith GS102 Grantham University Online The bottleneck effect happens when something of a great devastation has happened‚ causing a great amount of people to lose their lives and leave behind very few people at the most. The bottleneck effect happens at random and can kill of a whole population and with it can also wipe out the gene pool by doing so. An example of the bottleneck effect would be something like a tsunami‚ or an earthquake‚ which

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    Doppler Effect

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    Doppler effect The Doppler effect‚ named after Christian Doppler‚ is the change in frequency and wavelength of a wave as perceived by an observer moving relative to the source of the waves. For waves that propagate in a wave medium‚ such as sound waves‚ the velocity of the observer and of the source are relative to the medium in which the waves are transmitted. The total Doppler effect may therefore result from motion of the source‚ motion of the observer‚ or motion of the medium. Each of these

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    Fafnir clearly remembers his chant‚ and to his surprise some of the words are very familiar to him. He knows the words very well‚ but does not want to believe in his doubts. He looks at Orbus as Fafnir struggles to burn the chains. Numerous dark spheres appear out of thin air. The sphere begin to form and take shape as Orbus molds every single one of them using his hands engulfed with his devilish mastery of the dark arts. The rain weakens as small droplets fall instead of a raging downpour. The

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    and combating the preconceptions in it. The detrimental damage on the colonised is often a turning point of change and the creation of a hybrid identity. This new culture can often be a doorway to a greater and more affective change. The movie”Whale Rider” directed by Niki Caro and originally written by Wiki Ihamera follows the process of old culture entwining with the new and allowing the love for a heritage to pull through.The poem A lesson for this Sunday is a metaphorical text on the morality

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    The Ecological Effect of the BP Oil Spill on the Environment Introduction: The BP oil spill‚ (also known as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill the BP oil disaster‚ the Gulf of Mexico oil spill‚ and the Macondo blowout) was an oil spill that happened in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP owned and operated Macondo Prospect on April 20‚ 2010. This oil spill is considered the largest and most devastating oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. The cause of this oil spill according

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