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Mother nature, the giver of life, a force of nature that controls the balance of power keeping everything in order and at peace. Even thought she is keeping caring and graceful but, she has a dark side she must maintain the balance of power. There for there is no escape for the gazelle from that final bit from the mouths of their predators, the lion. To survival in nature is all about survival of the fittest, an example of this comes from on of my favorite movies Tremors 5 Bloodlines “ Every morning is Africa a gazelle wakes up, and he knows he has to run faster then the fastest lion, otherwise he is killed. Every morning a lion wakes up, knowing he has to out run the slowest gazelle otherwise he will die. So it doesn't matter if you are

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