USE AND EFFECTS OF 1080 ON THE ENVIRONMENT 1) Poisoning Paradise- Ecocide in New Zealand The documentary “Poisoning Paradise- Ecocide in New Zealand” was produced by ‘the Graf Boys’ to inform New Zealand’s general public of the negative aspects and dangers of the use of 1080. Brothers Steve and Clyde Graf are attempting to display that 1080 use is bad and the reasons as to why they were “concerned at the ever increasing use of 1080”. The Graf brothers grew up around Te Urewera National Park‚ exposed
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The Whale’s Evolution Whales evolved from an ancestor that lived on land. That may be incredibly hard to believe‚ but we have a lot of information to lead to that conclusion. Land mammals and whales have a lot more in common than you may think. Land mammals have hair‚ a nasal opening by its snout‚ arms‚ legs‚etc‚ and DNA leading back to millions of years. Whales also have similar qualities to those of the land mammals. Whales weren’t always the whales we know today because long ago
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What Is The Author Trying To Say In The Whale Rider? Let’s face it. We all have those family members. I’m talking about the annoying cousins‚ siblings‚ and (if you are a teen) parents. Embarrassing aunts and so on and so forth. The point is‚ everyone has family members that they don’t like. For example‚ in the book‚ The Whale Ride by Witi Ihimaera‚ there are lots of tensions throughout the story between family members. As I read this book‚ I think the author’s message to us‚ the readers of the
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Whale Rider Analysis Most heroes are big strong men‚ or mythical creatures that have thousands of stories and tales written about them. This hero is an unlikely one‚ a small girl‚ from a small tribe‚ in a small village in New Zealand. Paikea is a small girl that is 13 years old‚ and is a direct descendant of Paikea‚ the original whale rider. On her journey to become the leader of the tribe‚ she comes across numerous amounts of challenges from her grandfather‚ Koro. In the Paikea tribe‚ only
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Deaf vs. Hard of Hearing Deaf refers to a child that failed to hear a sound or a loss of hearing sense. National Deaf Counsel Society(2017) contended‚ “Hearing loss can range from mild to profound and has many different causes‚ including injury‚ disease‚ genetic defects and the ageing process.” Deaf people have difficulty in process language and speech because they could not hear themselves. However‚ the strategies that most teachers are used for communication or to check their understanding is using
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Introduction to Tinnitus Tinnitus (TIN-i-tus) is noise or ringing in the ears. A common problem‚ tinnitus affects about 1 in 5 people. Tinnitus isn’t a condition itself — it’s a symptom of an underlying condition‚ such as age-related hearing loss‚ ear injury or a circulatory system disorder. Although bothersome‚ tinnitus usually isn’t a sign of something serious. Although it can worsen with age‚ for many people‚ tinnitus can improve with treatment. Treating an identified underlying cause sometimes
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of good parenting In Whale Rider directed by Niki Caro and “Pigs Can’t Fly” by Shyam Selvadurai there is a clear failure in the parenting of the protagonists. Weather a complete disregard for the feelings of the child or ignoring their significant actions‚ both Pai and Arjie do not get the help from their parental figure as is deserved and they respond to this in different ways. It is the ways that the protagonists respond to the failures that makes the person. In “Whale Rider” Pai is faced with
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In Yves Thériault’s short story “The Whale”‚ Ambroise Bourdages‚ the protagonist is portrayed to be a naive character. His quality comes across to the reader when Clovis and Ambroise are talking and Ambroise says‚ “Clovis‚ no one would ever take you for a liar! A banker’s son isn’t allowed to tell lies!”(Thériault‚ 26). This demonstrates that Ambroise does not know how Clovis acts nor is he aware of some of Clovis’s characteristics. Thus‚ is naive about the situation and has interpreted him as a
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about teen use of marijuana? During adolescence‚ many developmental changes are occurring and poor choices could affect a teen’s future (University of Washington ADAI). As a result of teen marijuana use‚ teens engage in problematic behavior‚ neglect their education‚ and risk their health. Problematic behavior remains an effect of teen marijuana use. “A 2008 longitudinal study of heavy cannabis users from ages 14 to 25 in a New Zealand birth cohort found that increasing cannabis use in late adolescence
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The main purpose of this report is to expose the findings and misconduct of disclosing important information of the JPMorgan Chase Whale Trades. This report explicitly details the negligence by the Chief Investment Office in misleading the Office of the Comptroller of Currency of their Synthetic Credit Portfolio. The author’s intention is to inform what went wrong with the trading in the derivatives market by JPMorgan Chase. The key question the author is addressing is why the CIO deviated from
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