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    Why Whales Need Blowholes

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    Why do whales need blowholes? We see that whales need blowholes yet we are never told why they need them or what they are for. Don’t you ever wonder if the reason they have it is because they need all the water that they have consumed out of their bodies? Or if they need the blowhole to breathe. I hypnotizes that whales have blowholes in their backs to be able to breathe properly‚ and they have to have the blowhole in the back because they are not capable of breathing thru their mouths.

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    than the “seen” or the actual view of something. For example‚ I might “look” at the tree and view the plant with stem and branches‚ but what I “see” is natural beauty that represents true evolution. In this essay‚ I will discuss the short story “whale

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    Whale Rider Analysis Paper

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    A Whale of a Ride! Film Analysis Paper   The film “Whale Rider” took me on a whale of an emotional ride. Though there is a recurrent and overarching feeling of “great-whale-in-the-sea” calm‚ strength and beauty‚ there is a strong undercurrent of emotional turmoil‚ with which each of the main characters struggle. Each experiences an Eriksonian/Psychosocial crisis:          At 12 years old‚ the main character‚ Paikea “Pai‚” has successfully navigated through Erikson’s first four stages

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    Whales are aquatic (lives in the ocean) mammals that require certain adaptations in order to survive. They have a blow whole on top of their heads and a pair of lungs for breathing fresh air. In order to take a fresh breath whales need to emerge out of the water exposing the blow whole on top of their heads completely. As they emerge to the surface‚ they force out the carbon dioxide in a strong exhalation‚ before filling their lungs with fresh water and diving beneath the surface of the water again

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    The Blue Whale Game‚ some may be confused of what the game exactly is. Well‚ this online game is supposedly the reason why over 130 teenagers committed suicide. The name Blue whale is believed to be a reference to the sea creatures‚ Blue Whales who are speculated to swim shallow towards the shores themselves on purpose‚ causing them to die. As the game ‘The Blue Whale’ seems to have a similar effect‚ not on whales though‚ rather on teenagers around the Globe. The idea of the Blue Whale game is

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    within Patriarchal society plays a major role in driving the plot of Antigone and Whale Rider. From the opening scene of Whale Rider‚ we see Koro disregard the death of his daughter in law. He does not even embrace his baby granddaughter but only cares to say prayers to his dead grandson who‚ one day may have lead the Maori people. Even more to his dismay‚ his son‚ Porourangi‚ named the baby girl Paikea after the great Whale Rider. Likewise Koro disregarding the baby girl and her dead mother‚ Creon tells

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    It was difficult for me reading the story that was told about Mary Rowlandson’s Captivity. I have read so many stories about all of the awful things that have been done to the Indians; it surprised me I guess to here the reverse and all the cruelty that was taking place. I am sorry it is three pages also‚ I could have written so much more. The details of the morning invasion on Mary’s home and with forty-two people inside‚ the Indians set her home on fire‚ and shot at them when they tried to exit

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    “Moby Dick or‚ The Whale” by Herman Melville follows the story of Ishmael‚ a sailor who finds himself seeking more in life so he decides to join the crew of a whaling ship that travels many oceans around the 1830’s or 1840’s. Ishmael travels from Manhattan Island to New Bedford. There he stays at the spouter Inn but there is a shortage of beds so he must share with a mysterious tattooed harpooner named Queequeg. It turns out Queequeg isn’t a bad guy‚ so they grow close and soon became great friends

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    Whale Done-Book Review

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    WHALE DONE- THE POWER OF POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS "The one thing competition can never steal from you is the relationship you have with your people and the relationship they have with your customers" Innovation is the key in business. However any new strategy‚ be it on price or service is immediately known by competitors and replicated. Copying is inevitable. This means that the only real competitive edge is the relationship you have with your employees and your customers. If your employees trust

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    A Contained Country Searching for Freedom “It was too late. Too many of those who had at least tolerated the Shah’s rule had been lost. Demonstrations continued.” (“The Pahlavi Monarchy Falls” 2) In Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi‚ the country of Iran undergoes a series of governmental changes which restricted the citizens. Ironically‚ when the Shah’s regime fell‚ the citizens believed they would gain a limitless freedom with no boundaries; however‚ the citizens were experiencing an unhappy life

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