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Prisoners Of War Prisoner Of War
511 wordsthe war in Vietnam was mostly a helicopter and air war there were many jets and helicopters that had been shot down in the enemy controlled areas in the than that a survivor of a one of these crashes were captured they would become a prisoner of war or POW's Violations of the Geneva Convention occurred in the Vietnam War (1959 - 1975). Ill treatment of prisoners was brought to light by the Red Cross throughout the war. In September 1969 the North Vietnamese Red Cross declared that U. S. pilots, ...
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Animals That Are Targeted Captivity On Fur Killed
1,102 words"Every year, the fur industry is responsible for the miserable lives and painful deaths of nearly 40 million animals. Many are suffocated, drowned, or beaten in the wild; however, others are gassed or electrocuted to death on fur farms. These animals endure unspeakable cruelty (fur statistics). " To kill the animals for the fur to keep ourselves warm is wrong. There are many alternative ways to keep us warm. It does not necessarily mean that we have to wear animal skin to keep ourselves warm. Th...
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1,149 wordsSavannah monitors (Various exanthematicus) are medium-sized monitor lizards that are usually readily available in most reptile specialty stores and from breeders. They are intelligent (for lizards), beautiful, usually tame pretty easily, and do not grow as large as some monitors. Savannahs usually are less expensive to purchase than some of the other monitor species. Savannah monitors hail from Africa, and they are also listed as a "threatened" species in their natural habitat, due to the pet tr...
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House On Mango Street
776 wordsIn, The House On Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, the author has efficiently placed superior symbols throughout the novel, and if a reader thoroughly combs through each page, symbols become apparently noticeable. Primarily, Mamas hair represents beauty and comfort. In addition, women represent captivity and wasted dreams. Lastly, Cathy, the queen of cats exemplifies hopeful imagination and the upper class. All three of these themes are used in the book to point to the novels main idea, growing ...
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African Cheetah Africa Living
497 wordsThe cheetah originated about 4 million years ago. The oldest fossils place it in what is now Texas, Nevada and Wyoming. It was common throughout Asia, Africa, Europe. All cheetah in Europe and most of those in Asia and Africa vanished. This "bottleneck", as theorized, led to the present state of cheetah genetics: all cheetah alive today appear to be as closely related as identical twins. A unique factor of the cheetah is that it reaches up to speeds of 110 km / hr (68 Mph). African Cheetah (A. j...
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One Of The Most Important Endangered Species
1,089 wordsOut of all the species that have ever existed since the beginning of time, 98 % of them are extinct (Facts). There are an estimated 5 - 10 million species that exist currently and only 1. 5 million have been identified (Sherry, 2). Scientists classify species into six different groups: plants, animals, insects, algae, fungi, and microorganisms (Todays Situation). In the tropical rainforest alone, most species are disappearing at the rate of 1 % a year (Sherry, 6). If the current trend continues,...
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Narrative Of The Life Frederick Douglass
1,192 wordsFrederick Douglass wrote his first autobiography when he was about twenty-seven years old. This age, which he had given himself, was not an actual written account, but a verbal comment that his master made when Douglass was about age seventeen. "I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it" (970). Douglass gives comments to the fact that he, and other slaves, was not allowed to know such information about themselves. If a slave would ask about thei...
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Social Skills Case Studies
905 wordsThe theory behind dolphin assisted therapy is based on two philosophies. One of these is that the unconditional love and support a dolphin has to offer can benefit children and mentally ill patients in many ways. As with most animals, a dolphin seems to have human-like emotions, so a deep trusting bond can develop between patient and mammal. Some proponents of dolphin assisted therapy claim that the compassion a dolphin displays increases the patient's self-confidence, because the patient is nev...
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Toni Morrison African Americans
1,634 wordsBELOVED BY TONI MORRISON Toni Morrison, in a skillful use of both verse and stream of consciousness writing masterfully wields her pen to come up with a novel of such intense drama and force that captures the sentiments of a slave people, their lives, tragedies and their struggles to piece together their past to reconcile themselves to their present. The experimental style of writing utilized by Morrison serves to highlight the themes of the novel on true freedom, family and moral ambiguity. Thi...
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Blue Tongued Skink Blue Tongued Skinks Lizards
335 wordsThe blue-tongued skink is not dangerous at all, and it becomes tame in captivity. It will learn to take food from your hand, and it will even come to the front of the tank when you approach. The blue-tongued skink inhabits forest, woodland, grassland, and semi-arid areas in Australia, so a substrate of bark, aquarium gravel, newspaper, or indoor-outdoor carpeting will suit it nicely. Because of the skinks large size, a 40 -gallon aquarium (with a screen cover) is recommended. Include several hid...
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Tim Sanderson Anth Tim Sanderson Anth 111 Orangutans
1,040 wordsTim Sanderson Anth 111 In Orangutans Orangutans Tim Sanderson Anth 111 In Malay orang means person and utan is defined as forest. Thus Orangutan literally means Person of the Forest. Orangutans are found in the tropical forests of Sumatra and Borneo. They are the most arboreal of the great apes and move amongst the safety of the trees from one feeding site to the next. They are so well adapted to arboreal life that they cannot place their feet on the ground, instead they walk on the outside of t...
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Huck And Jim Began To Grow
674 wordsI chose to examine the symbolism of the raft and river, and the journey Huck and Jim take on it in Mark Twain's The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn. The Raft and the Mississippi River play a major role in this book. The river comes to symbolize many things, and one important role I believe the river play is being the deliverer for both Huck and Jim. The river takes both Huck and Jim away from captivity. As Huck was running from both Pap and the Widow, and Jim was running from Miss Watson the river...
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York New York Hide From Predators Chameleon
1,058 wordsThe Chameleon The Chameleon is a lizard that changes color. It has a short neck that does not permit the head to turn. The Chameleons eyes are large and turreted, which means that a Chameleon can look backward and forward at the same time. On the Chameleons feet, front and back, the toes are divided into two sets, two toes on one side and three on the other side of each foot. One set is pointed directly forward and the other set backward. The Chameleon has a yellow mouth. Its trunk is thin and f...
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Time In Her Life Speaks Of Rivers
1,904 wordsNature and the Human Soul: The Shackles of Freedom Langston Hughes and Kate Chopin use nature in several dimensions to demonstrate the powerful struggles and burdens of human life. Throughout Kate Chopin^s The Awakening and several of Langston Hughes^ poems, the sweeping imagery of the beauty and power of nature demonstrates the struggles the characters confront, and their eventual freedom from those struggles. Nature and freedom coexist, and the characters eventually learn to find freedom from ...
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World War Ii Concentration Camps
843 wordsThe Diary of Anne Frank Journeying back to the early nineteenth century, when Nazi forces occupied Germany during World War II, the lives of those living in this territory was spent in constant fear and anxiety. The Diary of Anne Frank leads readers through the harsh times of a family trying to escape imprisonment in concentration camps by Nazi soldiers, where death was almost certain. Born on June 12, 1929, Anne Frank was a German-Jewish teenager who was forced to go into hiding during the Holo...
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Animals In Captivity Animals To Live Zoos
533 wordsAre Doing Time Doing Time Are zoos really safety retreats for exotic animals or wretched prisons? When I was a child, I used to think that zoos were cheerful and exciting places to go, wonderful places where humans helped misplaced animals to live happy lives. However, I was very wrong! Fortunately, I was blinded by the clowns and cotton candy and did not see that the animals were not happy or cheerful, and the zoos were not wonderful places. Now that I am an adult, I have come to realize just h...
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Sickle Cell Anemia Blood Cells
764 wordsCharles Darwin stated that over time life could change so much so that new species are formed from a single species. But Darwin did not know where these mutations occurred. His theory could explain how humans and chimps are so alike yet different. Are we all just accidents of creation caused by mutations? Genetic mutations occur in the DNA of an organism. They can be influenced by environment or may occur during mitosis or meiosis. Mutations have been shaping life since it began and is the cause...
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Daniel Quinn Mother Culture Ideas
731 wordsIshmael In Ishmael a review of Ishmael In the past few centuries there have been a handful of books written that offer up ideas about humanity that are so completely new to a reader but are so completely convincing that they can force a reader to take a step back and assess all that they know to be true about their life and their purpose. Daniel Quinn has succeeded in creating such a book in Ishmael, a collection of new ideas about man, his evolution, and the destiny that keeps him captive. When...
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Locke Machiavelli
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Popular In England Native Americans Indians
308 wordsMarry Rowlandsons book about being a captor of indians This captivity account was enormously popular in England. What reasons can you propose for its popularity? What aspects of Rowlandsons journal would promote stereotyped (and hostile) views toward Native Americans? Mary Rowlandsons Book, known simply as A Narrative of Her Captivity because of its enormous length, became very popular in England for various reasons. Although I am no expert on the subject, I think I have a fairly good idea of wh...
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