Great White sharks have very interesting bodies. Their bodies are torpedo shaped and they also have powerful tails that help them propel through water at 15 miles per hour. They are usually 15 or more than 20 ft, they also usually weigh 2.5 tons or higher. The size of a great White shark is almost the same as a bus. Great White sharks (Carcharodon Carcharias) are carnivores, the largest predatory fish on earth. They are highly adapted predators, their mouths being lined up with three hundred serrated…
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What is a great white shark? a large, aggressive shark of warm seas, with a brownish or gray back , white underparts, and large triangular teeth it is the most largest as the largest shark in the world reached up a maximum of An approximately 20-foot (6-meter) and it can reach as big as 21 feet (6 meters) long as it’s known for the most dangerous carnivore under the sea it is a fearsome predator to face up against as it will chew…
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for. Are you hunting for the big rack to hang on your wall, or are you hunting for meat to fill the freezer? Are you hunting for a rare species just to say that you killed the rare animal just for a picture with it laying dead on the ground? In this paper I am going to discuss all of the reasons I find hunting good and why some would argue differently. Trophy hunting is a worldwide problem and when arguing about hunting people forget how bad trophy hunting is. If all you are going to do is kill an…
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her expression was that of a school nun, tight, pursed lips, but the rest of her face was that of a terrified child. Something was wrong, so very wrong. The man, who had watched just as long as me, gasped, heaved up his arm, and pointed and yelled, “shark!” Almost instantly, she was jerked under her board as the sea swallowed her, limbs and all. That must’ve been the hardest I’ve ever ran. I wasn’t any Olympic sprinter, but I could run. I had reached the edge of the water, which was unusually cool…
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Steven Glansberg English Comp II Research Paper 3/28/12 Every writer has his or her own unique style of writing. Writing is such a personal matter that authors have no choice but to get creative. One of the most famous, classic American writers and journalists was Ernest Hemmingway. Ernest Hemmingway had one of the most unique writing styles of all time. His distinctive writing style, characterized by economy and understatement, influenced 20th-century fiction, as did his life of adventure…
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From Profits to Near Extinction: The Moratorium on Commercial Whaling and the Recovery of Whales Robert Dorrell Professor Malu Jorge 27 April 2015 Thesis: This paper focuses on the dire circumstances that led to the establishment of the moratorium on commercial whaling, its effect on the whale population, and the future of commercial whaling globally I. Introduction II. History of Whaling a. Early Whaling b. Why Whales: Products developed c. Whaling Technology Innovations III. Environment…
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vaccine development, primates allow research on potential treatments for hepatitis C and B, Ebola and Marburg viruses, and HIV/AIDS. The list of threatened plants and animals we rely on is weird and varied, including amphibians, bears, gymnosperms (the family of plants that includes pine trees), cone snails, sharks, and horseshoe crabs. Cone snails, a large genus of endangered marine mollusks, inject their prey with paralyzing toxins that are prized in medical research for their use in developing pain…
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Northwest Australia some 60,000 years ago and follows the story of arrivals through Indonesian outrigger canoes, a technology that enabled the Indonesian Macassans to make the journey to northern Australia, and the inscribed plate that Dirk Hartog left at Shark Bay in Western Australia in 1616. There are objects from the early British arrivals, like the sextant and secret instructions from Captain James Cook’s expedition to the South Pacific and east coast of Australia in 1770, and the 1787 draft Instructions…
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The protagonist, Elsa Wolcott, begins a journey of self-discovery. Set during the Great Depression in the 1930’s, Elsa must navigate the harsh realities of poverty, drought, and social disruption while also protecting her family. Elsa refuses to be defined by the limited beliefs of the time, and instead creates her own path. Elsa says…
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