day of the big dig‚ and Rittmaster led his group through a secret‚ Nancy Drew-style forest entryway into what he calls the “dolphin graveyard.” This group of biologists and citizen scientists came to exhume a skeleton of Moe the bottlenose dolphin‚ which Rittmaster buried nearly two years earlier. For marine mammals that dwell deep in the ocean‚ close observation of their behavior or anatomy becomes challenging. So Moe’s bones hold information about dolphin life that was long unattainable. “Moe has
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Peck 1 Last Name 2 Dalton Peck Sherri Sharifian Government 2305 April 9‚ 2017 Assignment 3 Public opinion‚ interest groups‚ and political parties pay a key role is our political system by influencing our votes in the election. These are the essential ideas of free speech and democracy in our country. Interest groups are member based groups that have a common idea or motive and try to influence policymakers. They fund political parties‚ influencing our election. 1 Political parties organize to win
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Marlet Garcia Bingham‚Kelly. Shark Girl. Cambridge: Candlewick Press‚ 2007. Jane Arrowood is a fifteen year old girl whose arm was amputated when she was bitten by a shark. Jane is really stubborn and she doesn’t let herself try new things. She was still finding out how to be courageous and brave after what she had been trough. Justin is a kid who is around eight or nine or ten years old who lost his leg below the knee. He was a brave kid because he never was arguing about his disability. He was
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States use nets‚ drum lines and other shark culling measures? The shark is known to be a terror of the ocean that does nothing more than kill human’s‚ at least this is what was think of these creatures until more research was discovered. The truth is that the shark is a beautiful creature that has more than 440 species that is being hunted to extinction. Not many people are killed by sharks‚ as it is more common to be killed by a vending machine‚ than a shark. These creatures do not need to be hunted
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Shark finning is the inhumane practice‚ carried out by those of the Japanese culture in order to make a delicacy known as shark fin soup. When a shark is being finned the shark is still fully alert and alive as the fishermen cuts off each of the fins. When the fishermen are done cutting off the sharks fin’s they then throw the torso of the shark back into the ocean‚ where the shark will then drown due to not being able to swim. Shark finning is illegal‚ inhumane‚ and must be stopped in order to insure
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Political Parties is a group of individuals who organize to win elections‚ operate the government‚ and determine certain public policies. Interest group is a group of indiviuals who share common objectives and are active when it comes to influencing policymakers. Both groups are very important when it comes to serving our government. They also differ in certain areas‚ such as interest groups dont want to operate the government and have no control over candidates. Political parties on the other hand
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King Shark V. Howard the Duck Howard the Duck is a magical duck that fights crime and King Shark is a magic shark who causes crimes. They are both very similar but also very different. Howard the Duck is a superhero and fights crime‚ but he is an animal with human intelligence just like King Shark. Howard the Duck differs from King Shark because King Shark is evil and commits crimes‚ making them almost complete and total opposites. Another way Howard the Duck and King Shark differ from each other
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Shark Exploitation/ Shark Finning Shark exploitation is any action of catching sharks from the sea and using their body parts for human use. Shark finning is removing the fins of sharks and either throwing them back into the ocean to bleed to death or kept for other human uses. The shark fins are used as food to make an Asian soup called shark fin soup. Shark finning only uses about one to five percent of the entire shark’s body. The rest of the shark’s body could be used as food for other communities
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It took a minute to take in what was happening. It was a shark. A giant Oceanic whitetip shark. He could recognize the shark because of its short‚ bluntly-rounded snout and its long body with round fins. He read somewhere in a book that it is considered one of the five most dangerous sharks in the world. He also read that it has a very powerful bite force. Now fully aware what was happening Jeff grabbed the spear and swam up to the shark. Then he saw Timmy in its jaws. “NO” yelled
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In the recent decades‚ the worldwide shark population has experienced a drastic decline. This is a result of the over-hunting of sharks for their fins. Shark finning- the practice of catching a shark and removing its fins from the rest of its carcass- has become more common as the shark fin trade continues to grow. Sharks are currently being hunted at a much faster rate than they can reproduce‚ and if the hunting is not stopped‚ it will lead to their extinction. Despite its cultural significance
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