“Zoos have a huge role to play in education and protection of our vulnerable wildlife” – Professor Tim Flannery‚ prominent environmentalist and Zoos SA Ambassador. In recent years the importance of zoos has been recognised. They are a valuable asset to our society because of the role they play in education and awareness for animals and the breeding programs that have been formed to fight possible extinction. Due to the high standards of animal care in well managed zoos‚ it can now be a satisfactory
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Between 1915 and 1920 a mass killing occurred in the Ottoman Empire where an estimated 500‚000 Armenians were slaughtered. Historians have argued on the causes of these massacres and whether or not the Armenian Massacres should be considered genocide. More specifically‚ historians argue if the Armenian Massacres were precipitated by Turkish nationalism‚ Armenian rebellion‚ or Western and Russian influence. There are two main opposing views in this argument of genocide‚ the Western view and the Turkish
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GMOs‚ genetically modified organisms have always been a controversial topic among environmentalists‚ food corporations‚ and government agencies. GMOs has created such an uproar because many people have linked GMOs to childhood diseases. 70 to 80 percent of the processed and manufactured foods available in a conventional grocery store‚contain one or more ingredients that contain genetically engineered organisms ("Are GMOs Contributing to the Rise in Chronic Health Conditions in Our Children
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Rough draft - tile - Rwandan Genocide (is life worth more in fictional or reality) Intro. paragraph - To start off with is Rwandan genocide is a category of the slaughter of the ethnic Tutsi and politically moderate Hutu peoples. The killings began in early April of 1994‚ and continued for approximately one hundred days until the “Hutu Power” movement’s defeat in mid-July. This experience would end up to the imperious behavior that was shown of these people that did the righteous thing all the time
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Kelsey Bradley Kendra Gallos English III Honors 6 April 2017 Homelessness Even though most teenagers are told by their parents not to give money to homeless people they see on the street when they are alone and the parents are just stereotyping against homeless people because they are all not like that‚ there is many homeless people out struggling and other people should help them because the most attention homeless people get is around Christmas time and after that people just kick them to the
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As soon as I walk into a room and smell germ x hand sanitizer I am thrown back into the days where I had chemotherapy. The picture that I get in my flash back is of a hospital room with me on the bed holding my dad’s hand while Dr. Salvi puts the needle into my port. Dr. Salvi was the best in the business‚ there was no better than him and his partener. I would not feel any pain as the doctor slips the butterfly needle into my port because I had put numbing cream on it two hour before. I had always
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Recently a poll was conducted among high school students to get their point of view on regifting. 89% of students said they enjoy receiving regifted gifts. Regifting is defined as giving a gift that one has received to another individual who the original owner did not intended for the gift to be for. Around Christmas time there are so many arguments on whether regifting is ethical or dishonest. So is it acceptable to regift? Regifting is very acceptable. For example‚ if your grandma gives you a shirt
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Green‚ Tall‚ and Scary are just a few of the words associated with the monster Frankenstein‚ however‚ this association is wrong. In today’s culture the monster from the story is often called Frankenstein‚ which may have a lot do with the title of the book‚ and the fact that the monster is never named. However‚ Frankenstein is the man who created the monster. Frankenstein‚ written by Mary Shelley‚ explains the events in which took place regrading Victor Frankenstein’s monster. Mary Shelley’s monster
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The concept of incarceration started to emerge in the United States as a form of control over minorities. This began shortly after the end of slavery and targeted freed slaves to provide free labor during prison. This system of large scale prisons continued to gain popularity after the large spike in drug use around the 1960’s and 1970’s. The problems we have today with mass incarceration is due to our deteriorating criminal justice system which originally provided rehabilitation programs and
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Have you ever observed that occasionally people use "simple" as a negative word? Likewise‚ you can visualize someone who says "this book is simple" and actually means "this book is not very smart". Well‚ that’s not what I mean when I say it. Sometimes a book can be straightforward for a reason. For example‚ recall when Ender plays the game and discovers a park full of wolf children (in Chapter 7)? And when he tries to use the playground‚ Ender’s character fails. Surely this game seems to tell us
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