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    English Exposition Whale hunting must be stopped! Imagine your swimming in the ocean‚ minding your own business. Then‚ suddenly‚ something sharp hits you. It enters your body and explodes. The pain is killing but it does not kill you‚ not yet. Again a sharp object hits you and explodes. Again and again you are hit. Your enormous body‚ however‚ does not give up that easily. It will take more than a half an hour to get unconscious. Maybe‚ if you are lucky‚ you will drown. Perhaps you will be dragged

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    a diagram of a whale and details about how the whale has evolved physiologically and has become adapted to fit the environment. Kingdom: Animalia‚ Phylum: Cordata‚ Class: Mammalia‚ Order: Cetacea‚ Sub-order: Odontoceti‚ Family: Delphinidae‚ Genus: Orcinus‚ Species: Orca. Whales occupy all oceans and major seas‚ even some are in larger river systems. They are very large animals. They can grow up to 100 ft. or more in length. They can weigh up to 200 tons or more. Whales live in families

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    Van Rider Summary

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    slicing. The dark side of thin-slicing can be so devastating to business operations‚ decision making and other activities that requires unconscious cognition. That’s why I will recommend this book to any business man. In the case of the Van Rider’s victory story‚ we can learn a fundamental lesson that can be used even during a war. “The first thing I told our staff is that we would be in command and out of control”‚ Van Riper said when he was in the millennium challenge. He actually meant the soldiers

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    “A lot of people think of soul surfers as people who just surf to compete. But I think it’s someone who just loves surfing for what it is‚ never gives up and always sticks with the ocean.” (Turner 1) Bethany Hamilton was a born soul surfer on February 8‚ 1990‚ and born on the island of Lihue‚ Hawaii. Bethany has two older brothers‚ Noah and Timmy Hamilton. Her parents are both surfers‚ which is how they met in Hawaii.(“Bethany Hamilton” Gale Database 1) Ever since Bethany was a little kid she’s

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    characther. “Big Miracle” is about three whales trapped in a hole in the ice‚ The reporter accidently found them and the news spread around the world so fast‚ The whales must be recued immediately or the hole could close due the bad weather. Many people involved to recue them‚ even the russian. In the end‚ one of the whales is died because it was sick before it was found‚ and the rest is recued safely. At first this movie is kinda boring‚ a debate to kill the whale or recue it. I loved when the troubles

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    back in time. The Bible contains a story called Jonah and the Whale‚ this story describes a different form of an island; however‚ it is still depicting the meaning of isolation. According to the story it states‚ "Now the LORD provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah‚ and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights" (Holy Bible‚ New International Version 1:17). In other words‚ the island in this case is the belly of the whale because it is isolated from the rest of the world‚ and there

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    Evolution of Whales Whales have evolved dramatically to adapt to life in the water as they started out as typical land animals. It has taken 12 million years for the modern whale to become as we know it. They had feet and legs suited for walking on land. They also had long skulls and carnivorous teeth‚ these whales evolved nostrils that were positioned further and further back along the snout. This trend has continued into living whales‚ which have a "blowhole" (nostrils) located on top of the

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    Whaling Persuasive Essay

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    hunt and kill whales? What’s the point? Well many people do it to survive and make money‚ is that such a bad thing? There are three million whales left in the world and only 1‚500 are killed each year and decreasing. Whales are used for food‚ business‚ and most parts of the whales are used for essential materials. Most people believe that whaling should be illegal everywhere because it is destroying the population soon to be endangered ruining the food chain‚ however nothing on the whale is getting

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    Whale Print Company Case

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    Whale Printing Company It was Monday morning and Victor Hussey‚ president of Whale Printing Company‚ was considering whether to take on a job at what seemed to him to be a marginal price A half hour earlier Katharine Salter‚ president of Salter Associates‚ had called to say she needed 10‚000 copies of an advertising brochure by Friday noon. She gave Hussey the specifications and said there had been so many delays in getting the copy ready that her regular printer did not have capacity that week

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    Whale hunting‚ or whaling‚ has been a famed Japanese tradition for numerous years. The industrial whaling the country is known for nowadays was set up just after the Second World War. The Japanese economy ad collapsed and food and resources were scarce. It was no other than General Douglas MacArthur who came up with the idea of commercializing the wale hunt. The method used by the Japanese until that time were out-dated‚ the fishermen still used nets and small harpoons. With two military tankers

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