Manatee Where they live. Manatees are mammals who live in marine areas in warm climates such as Florida. They cannot survive temperatures below 68 degrees Fahrenheit for extended periods. During the winter months you can find a concentration of manatees in the Florida Peninsular. Why is it endangered? The Florida manatee continues to be exposed to a lack of warm water habitats‚ injury due to boat strikes‚ and lack of access to healthy sea grasses and other food sources. Also‚ there are few areas
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Until recently‚ the tundra acted as a carbon sink and captured huge amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as part of photosynthesis. Today‚ however‚ as the permafrost melts and dead plant material decomposes and releases CO2‚ the tundra has flipped from a carbon sink to a carbon contributor. Facts Facts about the Tundra Temperature: The Tundra has extremely cold temperatures. The summer high is around 40 degrees F. The coldest winter temperature gets down to a nipping -25 degrees F. That’s
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could cause pain. “Just like every night has it’s dawn”(Poison). This part of the song says that everything has a flip side. It could mean that someone had a bad night but they can start over in the morning and it can be better. The theme could be flipped because every bad thing can have a good thing. In a different part of the song they say “Just like every cowboy sings his sad‚ sad song”(Poison). He uses part of the song to support
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In William Stafford’s poem‚ “Fifteen”‚ the theme of the poem is about a boy who did the right thing rather than what he wanted to do. The poem takes place in Hutchinson‚ Kansas on the outskirts of the city which is very rural. The overview of the poem is about a 15 year old boy who finds a motorcycle with the engine on by itself. The boy wanted to take it and “find the end of a road‚ meet the sky on out Seventeenth”(11-12). But instead‚ he did the right thing and returned the motorcycle to its owner
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Ofur The Savage Days just after Mako claimed his reward he went to the new land. Just then he hear a nearby bush start rustling. Something furry jumped out and Mako spotted a furry spot. He asked his mom “What do you think that is?” “Good question” his mom replied. Mako walked up to to the furry spot and was about to touch it. The furry spot jumped up at him and licked him in the face. Mako’s mom came over and gave the thing something to eat. Mako realized it was a dog. How I would love to have
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As part of a book project‚ I read "The Red Badge of Courage." It is about a soldier named Henry who wants to earn his mark as a soldier. Initially he strays away from the battlefield because he is afraid of death and wants to live among the living and not the dead. Later‚ he becomes desperate to get shot and earn his "Red Badge of Courage" to prove to the other soldier that he is not only a man but a true hero. The purpose of this project was to write a journal entry for a series of chapters and
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rate r=0‚ draw her intertemporal budget constraint. b. Now draw her intertemporal budget constraint if banks will borrow and lend at 10%. 6. What is the expected value of a random toss of a dice (six sided and fair)? 7. A fair coin is flipped twice and the following payoffs are assigned to each of the four possible outcomes: Heads and Heads—Win 20‚ Heads and Tails—Win 9‚ Tails and Heads—Lose 7‚ Tails and Tails—Lose 16. What is the expected value of this gamble? 8
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“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” Helen Keller. In Freak The Mighty by Rodman Philbrick‚ one of the main themes is Friendship. Kevin and Max were great friends. “I know it’s ok‚ he’s not flipped out because I picked him up and put him on my shoulders like he was a little kid.” (32) This is a true friendship. When they become Freak the Mighty‚ it strengthens their emotional relationship. “This is why we came here‚ so Freak could show me where he’s been
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of lying. This raised suspicion in many Americans. There is also no concrete video evidence that any aircraft hit the pentagon. The one video camera on the scene that was actually trained on the site of the crash was a time lapse camera that flipped from a blurry shot of the beginning of something incoming to a full-blown explosion. 9/11 investigators have argued that without a direct image of an airplane in the security footage‚ it can’t be proven that what hit the Pentagon was actually a plane
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my books on the bed and approached the jacket slowly ‚as if it were a stranger whose hand i had to shake. 5. Simile- i was a small kid ‚thin as a tree ‚and it would be years before i ‘d have a new one‚ 6. Simile-I put my hand in the pockets and flipped the jacket like bird wings . 7. Metaphor-During the morning recess frankie T ‚ the playground terrorist . 8. Simile- My arms feeling like braille from goose bumps. 9. Simile - While my teeth chattered like a cup of cooked rice. 10. Metaphor- And
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