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Science The Red Wolf is relatively small in size. It is smaller than the Gray Wolf one of its close cousin, but larger the Coyote (Imbriaco 18). On average the female Red Wolf weighs 52 pounds and the male weighs 61 pounds. Its average body length is 55 to 65 inches or roughly 4 feet, its average shoulder height is 26 inches. The Red Wolf is found on only 1.7 million acres in eastern North Carolina and in zoos around the US. Their main habitat is in marshes, forests, and basically anywhere there…

Technology can prove to be both a benefit to our lives as well as a hindrance. Today, people have come to rely on technology and the Internet to function in everyday life. While it helped advance our society to a great degree, it has also created new issues such as cyberbullying, Internet addiction, and “catfishing”—pretending to be someone else online for the purpose of tricking another individual. Carl Hiaasen discusses both the pros and cons of technology in the novel Skink: No Surrender. He…

Introduction The emperor penguin, Aptenodytes forsteri, is most known for being the tallest and heaviest penguin in the world (Magnuson). The emperor penguin is a type of bird in the Spheniscidae family, which is the only family in the order and is home to many other aquatic birds (Magnuson). Emperor penguins live in the arctic tundra biome on the coast of Antarctica (Magnuson). Emperor penguins are carnivorous and will eat fish, krill and squid (Magnuson). A few of the emperor penguin’s…

of Mulholland Drive. Alex parks in one of the scenic viewpoints. The two men gaze at city lights together, both amazed by the sight. Ending back out on the highway - driving under a dark tunnel — he sees the ocean - which smells like the tears of alligators. The Santa Monica beach and the sea illuminate under the lonely white moon in the night sky. A light fog rolls over the beach. Alex stops the car along the road Pacific Coast…

and very aesthetically pleasing. She had a bullitine board for nearly every subject covered in her class including one for math, english, and science. The math board explained both addition and subtraction and in the middle of the board were two alligators with their mouths open in order to explain the concept of greater than, less than, and equal to. The science bullitine board included facts about the weather since that is what they had been disucssing so far. The english bullitine board…

justifiable? Global Perspective America - In the U.S. the Department of Agriculture licenses 2,400 animal exhibitors As well as, thirteen states prohibit the private possession of at least large cats; wolves; bears; dangerous reptiles, such as alligators and crocodiles China – China has no federal welfare laws. There are about 18 zoos in China. The Chinese government is…

Chapter Two The Dead Don’t Talk Meeting with the agency’s co-founder, Twist Top-secret hideout Thursday, 10:30 a.m. Oliver Twistleton (a.k.a. Twist), an associate at the Deadwood Detective Agency, was waiting for Seth and me in our tree house—sorry, our top-secret hideout—complete with its three-legged desk and secondhand chairs. Against one wall was a shelf stacked with bins of hardware—tiny screws, bolts, fuses, gears and enough silicone to fill a basin. Next to the door was a poster of a…

Nirvana is a transcendent state in which there is neither suffering, desire, nor sense of self, and the subject is released from the effects of karma and the cycle of death and rebirth. It represents the final goal of Buddhism. In order to reach Nirvana a person must follow the eightfold path, which helps a person avoid the extreme of self-torture that weakens one’s intellect and the extreme of self-indulgence that retards one’s spiritual progress. In the short story “Teddy” by J.D. Salinger…

Every state in the U.S. are broken into congressional districts. The people of that certain district vote for a congressman to represent them in congress. Not all states have the same amount of districts, states are in different shapes and sizes, based on population that’s how many districts there are in that state. Mario Diaz-Balart effectively represents the needs, opinions and diversity of his constituents of the Florida 25th District. He’s a cuban-inherit, so he supports helping illegal…

You are an old man, who has a health condition that makes you extremely tired to the point of passing out from only walking up a flight of stairs. You are the same old man that would throw around guys weighing over 200 pounds, and standing six foot and taller. These huge men would run swinging and kicking trying to beat the old man, but never could. This isn’t a Mr. Miyagi story, this is the purest form of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu at its best. Since 1925 Brazilian Jiu Jitsu has been helping the…