. LA zoo is fantastic and there are plenty of animals to observe. The employees were friendly and provided educational facts to the public. This is the second time that I visit LA Zoo because I want to observe the activities and behavior of some selected primates. I spent most of the time observing all the animals and learning about them and their native habitats. LA Zoo is laid out by continental area‚ so the primate exhibits are scattered throughout the zoo. I began with the New World monkey located
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Camp X Camp X was a Canadian espionage school for special agents who participated and operated in the “Secret War” during the Second World War between corrupted German power. Agents and students volunteered or enrolled in this training camp were taught a wide variety of skills and techniques that were proved useful in World War Two. Camp X was Canada’s defining moment because it trained many agents and allied units‚ played an important role in victory of World War II‚ and had a highly sophisticated
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Zoos have played a great part in our society since the very beginning. As our society began expanding it caused great amounts of deforestation and habitat destruction. Over the centuries this process has become more violent than ever before. According to Alina Bradford a live science contributor mentions that we are permanently destructing forest of an estimated 18 million acres per year according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization. Bradford claims how deforestation has rapidly
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Melissa Savala Period 4 March 2010 Japanese Internment Essay “Deemed a ‘menace which had to be dealt with‚’ Japanese-Americans were forced into ‘relocation centers.’” After the events of December 7th‚ 1941‚ the west coast of the United States was considered vulnerable to attack by the Japanese. I feel the Japanese internment was wrong‚ because it was based upon fear‚ prejudice‚ and greed. It was also a civil rights violation because the majority of the Japanese detainees were American-born
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Ethics of Identity: Japanese-American Internment Since 1893‚ when Fredrick Jackson Turner announced that the American identity was not a byproduct of the first colonists‚ but that it emerged out of the wilderness and only grew with the surfacing of the frontier‚ America has placed a great emphasis on the notion of a national identity. However‚ the paradox of the American identity is that although the United States is a melting pot of many different traditions‚ motives‚ and ideals‚ there are nevertheless
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Shut Up and Sing Shut Up and Sing is a film that illustrates what the Dixie Chicks went through from their comment about President Bush in 2003 and how it affected there career through 2006 and beyond. This documentary shows how a simple phrase can send people so far over the edge and what affects something so small can have over time. The documentary‚ Shut Up and Sing by Barbara Kopple uses some excellent film techniques‚ good sound techniques‚ and even had good Mise en scène and exposition. In
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Japanese Internment goes back to the surprise attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7‚ 1941. This day not only changed the lives of many Americans‚ but it also changed the lives of all Japanese immigrants as well as all American citizens of Japanese decent. The nation was in complete shock and the next day President Franklin Roosevelt labeled this day as “a day of infamy”(Inada‚ 30). During the war over 110‚000 Japanese Americans were forced into internment camps by the United
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japanese American International Camp is a concentration camp. 62% of the internees were United States citizens. During WW2‚ between 110‚000 and 120‚000 japanese people were taken into a concentration camp. Thousands of people were tortured there and were fed very little. Months later after japanese bombed pearl harbor‚ President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed some papers saying all Japanese-Americans to go to the west coast for evacuation. All japanese-Americans were sent to a camp. In 1945‚ They were all
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Nicholas Lehman Date:12/1/16 Animals are dying all over America and zoos are the criminal’s behind it! Not too long ago‚ a Tiger was poisoned in a Nevada Zoo. The zookeepers claim they did it for the animals “own good”‚ They claim that it was all just a myth. Another incident‚ in the same Nevada Zoo‚ an animal was not fed and starved to death. Again the zookeepers deny the fact they did it on purpose. According to PETA‚ (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)‚ They finally came out and said
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species has been insufficient. Species decline is directly correlated to human causes‚ whether in agriculture causing loss of habitat‚ or by the greenhouse effect causing global warming. When a habitat becomes deconstructed‚ the organisms‚ plants‚ and animals that once occupied the area have to reduce their carrying capacity‚ making extinction more probable. Human activities have drastically changed natural greenhouses over the past centuries. This includes burning fossil fuels such as coal or oil which
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