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    hurt the marine animals or not. Whales are the most common marine animal that gets hurt by this object. It truly hurts to hear that their doing this to these poor animals. Especially‚ a whale because it’s my favorite animal! In the passage‚ "What to do about Underwater Noise‚" it talked about the harm that the Underwater Noise does to them and how they communicated with each other. These Underwater Noise objects as it says in the passage have caused the whales to lose their ability to hear and

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    who kill many types of whales. In the 18th‚ 19th and 20th century whaling fleets set their voyages from Europe and North America; they sourced the whales for their oil‚ whalebone for corsets‚ ambergris for perfume and meat for villages. The Japanese Whaling history goes back as far as 10‚000 B.C. when whales were driven into nets and harpooned repeatedly‚ then they would dispatch with a long sword or a wooden plug driven into the blowholes to ensure they were deceased. Whale meat would feed their

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    What could they be seeing under the sea. What was this monstrous animal. Could it be a squid‚ a submarine‚ a giant whale? Let us go down in the deep waters of the earth and see which one it is. “If it was a whale‚ it surpassed in size all those hitherto classified in science.” (the book) Could this animal be a giant squid? “Taking into consideration the mean of observations made at diver’s times- rejecting the timid estimate of those who assigned to this object a length of two hundred feet‚ equally

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    Ahab. Captain Ahab was a guy who gave everything to hunt a whale. Melville the author of the great american novel “Moby Dick” was heavily influenced by two writers Nathaniel Hawthorne writer of “The Minister’s Black Veil” and Edgar Allen Poe writer of “The Raven”. The story of the Essex is mostly about captain Pollard‚ Chase‚ Nickerson. And their crew hunting whales. But in the end most of the crew die trying to kill a great white whale.”In the Heart of the Sea” was a movie that was well received

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    cause an even worse problem‚” she explained. “ And so that was likely the cause of [Moe’s] death.” Untangling entanglement Moe’s story‚ unfortunately‚ isn’t uncommon. Rittmaster and Thayer collected various stranded animals‚ such as an adult sperm whale and infant dolphin‚ entangled in “ghost” fishing gear. “During the first 15 years of our study‚ I had never seen entangled dolphins—dead or alive. But in the last 10 years‚ I’ve seen at least a dozen‚ and I think it’s getting worse‚” Rittmaster

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    predictor though is the sperm whales. The squids have the advantage of the long tentacles that are tipped with hundreds of powerful toothed suckers which is essential for them to hunt for food. The Giant Squids live for less than five years only because of the growth rings in their statoliths. Zombie worms live in the continental shelves and island slopes. They have no mouth‚ gut‚ and have a wormlike shape. Their source of food is the stored nutrients in whale bones. The

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    WHY I THINK SEAWORLD SHOULD CLOSE DOWN Seaworld may seem like a great‚happy‚ and fun place. When you actually get to go and interact with the Sea animals you might get a chance to swim with the dolphins or touch the small sharks and stingray. The first Seaworld was called Sealand. The aquarium opened in 1969‚ housing an orca named Haida which had been captured in 1968‚ then they started to buy Orcas from other countries and have the shipped to Sealand. The first dozen Orcas dies on the way to Sealand

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    Why Are All The Cartoon Mothers Dead Summary “Why Are All The Cartoon Mothers Dead?” presented an interesting theory about the majority of animated movies. The author‚ Boxer‚ talked about how the mothers in the stories are absent‚ not only are they absent but they are typically dead. A prime example of this is Beauty and the Beast. The author goes on to talk about that not only are the mothers dead but the fathers then take over as the mother and father‚ in some of the stories. Boxer’s example

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    goal‚ directing all their actions to accomplish it. Each character has their own backstory that develops their specific obsessions. Ahab‚ the captain of the Pequod‚ loses his leg on a whaling voyage. The loss of his leg drives him to blame the white whale for the problems of all humanity and he takes it upon himself to extract revenge. Heathcliff‚ an abused orphan‚ obsesses over hurting his abusers. Heathcliff carefully plans his actions to make sure they will negatively affect someone else. Ahab and

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    One is hope with captivity and with that is hope to repopulate the vaquitas that way. In addition‚ one websites had said there was a border protection to the vaquitas habitat‚ but in all the most promising out of these was the official ban of the gill nets. “In July 2016‚

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