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    of people who can’t become independent and responsible members of the culture because of a shortage of resources like food, water, and shelter. This number will only increase with the population growth. However, with the population growth comes adaptation. This is true on a smaller scale and a larger one. For example, my parents made up a family of two before they had children. Then all of a sudden one day that family of two became a family of five when my brother, sister and I were born.…

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    In Erdrich’s Tracks, the novel tells a story of a Chippewa tribe that is forced to adapt to colonizers in the post-colonization state of America. Through the eyes of two distinct narrators, Nanapush and Pauline, the reader gets an inside view of the perspective of a Native-American tribe in post-colonial America. At the very beginning of the novel, Nanapush describes Native Americans dying from the spotted fever (or yellow fever) due to the colonizers bringing disease as they intermingle with…

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    There is no particular manual to objectively describe how a person is expected react after a traumatic event and how they are supposed to adapt. Lang (2009) divulges the complexities of analyzing the Holocaust by saying, ”Since the end of those days, millions were killed, and killed irrespective of whether they had act nobly or not, selflessly or selfishly, the very effort now to judge or analyze what they did and how, to weigh against that what they might have done that they didn’t do (or might…

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    A behavioural adaptation of the Blue-Banded-Periwinkle is its instinct to hide in the crevices and cracks of the rocky shore. This is to avoid predators and prevent itself from being eaten. Another behavioural adaptation of the Blue-Banded-Periwinkle are the organisms’ instinct to cluster together. This increases local humidity, decreasing evaporation and helping the organisms survive the desiccation that occurs at low-tide. A physiological adaptation of the Blue-Banded-Periwinkle…

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    species (National Geographic). Natural selection has picked the wolves that live in the wild today based on which are the most fit to their environment, leaving the other less fit wolves out of the gene pool. Structural, behavioral, and reproductive adaptations as well as the environment and other physical features are the reason that wolves are the way they are today. The taxonomy of the modern wolf is as follows;…

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    The purpose of this lab is to help understand how and why animals adapt to their environment. If a specie can adapt well to the environment they will have success in surviving and reproducing. An adaption is any inherited trait that increases the ability of the living things to survive and reproduce. Generation after generation the traits that are heritable become more common in a population. Evolution by natural selection takes place over many generations. This then leads to adaption within a…

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    one of the incredible abilities that animals have, to survive. They are called adaptations. The amazing pelagic zone is filled with many astounding animals, like puffer fish, great white sharks, seahorses, and many other mysterious creatures. The pelagic zone has frequent temperatures, lots of food, and very little pressure. The pelagic zone is in between the neritic zone and the bathyal zone. The definition of adaptation is a transformation that an animal makes to help it survive in its…

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    Before the Columbine shooting, a large majority of fictional killers Columbine had been female, some examples of this being Carrie White from both the novel and the film adaptation of Carrie, along with Veronica Sawyer from the movie Heathens. However, since Columbine, this has changed, with fictional killers being males more often than they had been prior, while women are now more often the victims, (Evans 3) which can…

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    though, both the novel and film adaptation, The Pursuit of Happiness portray recognizing and seizing opportunities through time management, character development and dialogue of the novel make a powerful impact on the reader. To begin with, film adaptations have strict parameters in terms of how long the film may be. This acts limits the effectiveness in which the content of the original novel is presented. In the novel, there were many subtle changes made in the film. At first glance, it may…

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    and ending of every relationship. Unfortunately, loyalty is what can also lead to the annihilation and demise of a couple. A true relationship that exemplifies extreme loyalty that can be seen in Franco Zeffirelli’s film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. Loyalty is shown in the film through both of the main characters. Zeffirelli displays the immense passion and intense…

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