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    Whaling Persuasive Speech

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    cut up into pieces. This is the fate of hundreds of whales every year. Although many countries such as Japan and Norway continue to hunt whales for their byproducts and scientific research‚ whaling should be outlawed

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    PRESENT DAY Habitat and Geographic Location The Orcas can be found in all the world’s oceans. Their location ranges from the equator to both polar regions. Orcas inhabit deep ocean waters and coastal shallows. The northern and southern ranges are limited by pack ice. The orca stays in one area all year‚ and travels within its home range for prey. Some populations migrate toward the equator in the winter and back toward the poles in the summer. The orcas adapt well to any climate‚ however‚ coastal

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    251 cases where more than half of marine mammal workers have been injured by these animals (Farinato 35). Some incidents that are notable include the infamous death of Dawn Brancheau‚ A Seaworld orca trainer‚ who was pulled into a tank by a killer whale named Tilikum during a Seaworld show; it is still considered controversial if Tilikum was playing or he was frustrated with being captive (Harmon 1). It’s most likely that he was attacking due to frustration because orcas in the wild rarely attack

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    research fellowships and an education program for schoolchildren. Just when Brengle felt confident that the Museum was on track toward implementing the new strategy‚ another unusual opportunity arose. Off the shore of Cape Cod‚ an enormous Sperm whale died‚ and the U.S. Coast Guard asked if the Museum wanted the skeleton. Accepting the skeleton would imply supplementary fund-raising as well as finding a creative way to get it physically inside the Museum. Brengle’s leadership of the change process

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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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    Effective Team

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    Effective is successfully producing the result that we want. Team is a group of people who work together to achieve goal. So‚ the effective team means a group of people that successful to achieve their goal by work together. The team has two or more members and members have responsibility to their role in teams‚ can communicate effectively with other‚ and concerned in participate management. The effective team need a high cooperation among the member in the team and a good leadership to control‚

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    commercial whale hunting since 1986. Japanese use the whales they hunt for numerous purposes in their culture. Japanese have used whales to make food‚ oil‚ handicrafts‚ and meats. The teeth of whales and their baleen are used to make crafts and traditional bunraku puppets. Whale jaw bones are used to make shamisen plectrums‚ a Japanese instrument. (Takahashi et al. 1989) Oil that is extracted from the livers of whale contains a lot of Vitamin A and D and is used as drugs (Matsuda‚ 2011). Whale meets are

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    Tanks. Collapsed dorsal fins. Fights. Stress. Depression. Abuse. Death. This is captivity. Orcas‚ or commonly known as killer whales‚ have been held in captivity since 1961. Marine parks‚ like SeaWorld and Marineland‚ tear orca families apart by plucking whales from the ocean and selling them for millions of dollars or trapping them in tanks for entertainment. Most of the times‚ there are orcas that are sometimes aggressive towards the other orcas in the tanks and are forced to do tricks and entertain

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    My subject is on "The Freedom Riders". The Freedom Riders were a group of multicultural men and women‚ who challenged the laws of segregation on interstate buses. The Freedom Riders were brave men and women wanting to make a difference. Though the Freedom Riders were not the first people to go up against segregation they held a part in what we as our African American history. According to Mr. Raymond Arsenault the recent death of Rosa Parks refocused nationwide attention on one of the crucial figures

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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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