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    What is the Endangered Species Act? Why was the Endangered Species Act created? Why do we care for endangered species? The Endangered Species Act was made so that our native plants, animals, and fish would not go into extinction. This Act requires that Federal and State agencies provide suitable conditions for endangered and threatened species, not to jeopardize from federal activities but to protect and save our native species from extinction. Throughout history there have been many events to…

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    The Endangered Species Act has been in law for about four decades and people gave mixed opinions about this. The Act included the right to take away land to persevere for animals use and that an animal cannot be excitant anymore. Palm Spring, California about thirty-one thousand acres of Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians were taken away to save the big horn sheep. The Tribe sued the government claiming,”An economic impact of hundreds of millions of dollars”. The Tribe was paining to make a…

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    According to scientists, around 150-200 species of plant and animal go extinct every 24 hours. This statistic doesn’t seem so shocking until the realization comes that this is almost 1,000 times the natural rate for extinction. Humans contribute a great amount to this pandemic. A prime example is that of the dodo bird, which was famously hunted into extinction. Around 20,000 species are currently listed as threatened by extinction by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).…

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    The Artist and Sustainability in American Arts Organizations Multiple facets facilitate the success of arts organizations; two of those facets are the artist and sine qua non of sustainability. To grasp the importance of artists and the sustainability of arts organizations, the significant contribution of arts to society must first be established. Robert L. Lynch (2015) highlights the arts as a catalyst of bringing people together, whom might otherwise not interact, to build stronger communities…

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    All students battle boredom at times, and many are constantly searching for something to do. Fortunately, binge-watching can provide a glorious solution to boredom. Binge-watching is defined as the act of watching multiple episodes of a television program in rapid succession. According to many Thomas Jefferson students, the top ten binge-watching shows are: Modern Family: Leading the pack, Modern Family has been raved upon for being a hilarious family comedy. First airing in September of 2009,…

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    mustaches; in fact, they were named after the Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany because he shared this distinct facial accessory (“Emeror tamarin fact file”). The Emperor tamarins can be found in the South-western Amazon in Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia (“IUCN Red List”). They typically live in tropical climates and in open-woodlands (“Mac Como Zoo”). They live in the trees, but below 95 feet high (“Animal Diversity Web”). Because…

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    My endangered species is the Lophodytes Cucullatus. The more common name for this species is Hooded Merganser. You can find the Hooded Merganser in the bay, swamps, and wooded ponds in Maryland and all over North America. They consume many aquatic plants and animals. Some are clams, mud crabs, and tadpoles. The status of the Hooded Merganser is declined. This status means that they lost a lot of habitation but their population is now increasing. In this paper you will learn about why the Hooded…

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    Preferences of Using Paper Books than Electronic Books among Students Do students prefer feel books in their hands or see them on a computer screen? Can they concentrate better using e-books or paper books? E-books came to existence before World War II with an American Engineer Vannevar Bush, who imagined the “memex” as a way for people to store and read great amounts of available information, but printed books began 560 years ago; memex is a device in which someone stores all his/her books…

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    adults prefer to read an electronic book and the majority of them choose Ipads or tablets to read instead of personal computers. They show that the number of e-book read by year is 24 compared with 15 printed books. Furthermore, Lee and et illustrate with their survey in 2012 on Americans readers that. Initially, 83 percent of them prefer e-books for a fast access, meanwhile only the 13 percent prefer printed book. Secondly, the 73 percent decided to read e-books for traveling…

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    physical book. I enjoy feeling the weight of the book in my hands, the smell of the pages and the feeling of physically turning to the next page. I…

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