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    Introduction Hook-Jaws could wash up to the shore and attack you like he killed the people in the movie. Attacher-In Jaws the shark washed up pretty close to the beach and ate a lot of human beings because the life guards weren't looking out good enough to see the shark the shark. That's why we need beaches to work harder with watching beaches. Thesis- Shark attacks are a real threat to people and animals,and Wildwood should do more to prevent this threat. Body #1- History of shark attacks that…

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    shark fin soup industry is a major threat to the shark population and if we let this industry do as it wants sharks will go instinct within the next fifty years or less. As consumers we have a choice to make between two evils, the greater evil being the shark fin soup industry and the lesser evil the shark cage diving industry. Which industry should we support is the question and in my opinion the answer is quite clear. We should support the shark cage diving industry because unlike shark fin…

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    7. For me, the worst part about being stranded at sea would be the fear of a shark biting through the raft and dragging me to the bottom of the ocean, but that is inescapable and didn’t end up being an issue for Louie, Phil, or Mac. The next thing that comes to mind is having to catch and eat raw sharks. “Phil had weighed about 150 pounds when he had stepped aboard Green Hornet. Louie’s war diary, begun shortly after he arrived in Hawaii, noted that he weighed 155 pounds. He believed that…

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    finning has been a worldwide issue. Approximately 73 million sharks are killed each year solely for their fins. But this number does not include the number of sharks that are killed for reasons other than finning (Raloff). China and Hong Kong are the largest importers for shark fins due to China’s cultural tradition for Shark Fin Soup (“How Many Sharks Are Killed Each Year For Their Fins?”). Shark Fin Soup was introduced into Chinese cuisine during the Sung Dynasty (AD 960–1279) but did not…

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    Shark poaching has become a global issue in the world today. The high cost of shark fin, due to Asian demand, has created black market business opportunities that third world countries have learned to capitalize on. The lack of control and policing of fishing in international waters has allowed this problem to grow at an incredible rate. These things, along with the general view that sharks are mean, horrible, deadly, demonic creatures has helped to allow these practices to continue without…

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    For centuries, shark fin soup has been considered a delicacy in the east, coveted for its social flare. The spike in demand for shark fin soup has turned shark finning into a lucrative business, leaving shark populations in danger. Finning is a cruel and wasteful practice that is running shark populations into the ground and imbalancing our ocean ecosystems. In order to reduce the demand for shark fins, consumers should reject shark fin soup in favor of shark-friendly alternatives that…

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    animal we are putting them at risk of going extinct ( Animals won't ever live on this world again.) Hammerhead sharks are most endanger of being by catch or over consumption of their meat, fins and cartilage and also commercial fishing.Commercial shark-finning is a practice where sharks are caught and their fins are cut off, then the body of the shark is discarded. Defining a hammer head happens to about 100 million or more sharks around the world per year.Bycatch in commercial…

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    Are sharks going to be around forever? Sharks rule the sea, they are the very top. Sharks are known to be aggressive, mean, and known to attack so people want to kill when seen, but that is not entirely true. Attack of the human is very rare so no need to be afraid. There is problems with the overuse of sharks as in people love to eat them I believe that it’s going to be difficult to stop the overuse of sharks but if we were to inform the population about our problem, it would make it a whole…

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    Agnostid Analysis

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    The main topic of both the lecture and the reading is about several possible predictions on how agnostids have lived and behaved. The reading asserts three possibilities with some evidence. However, the lecture completely denies whatever mentions in the passage through several conclusive observations. First, both the…

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    The reason that fishermen are so into shark finning is because the shark fin is profitable than most fish species, and it is unnecessary to carry the rest of shark’s body as it would consume the space on the vessel; they often throw the rest of its body into the ocean after removing the fins (Finning And The Fin Trade). The injured shark will die from suffocation, blood loss or become other species’ prey (Finning And The Fin Trade). Thus, as more the decreased amount in shark will break the food…

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