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    Pros And Cons Of Damnation

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    of America (USA) as a Dam Nation and how the existence of more than 75,000 dams in USA has a negative impact on water consumption and the fish species. Knight and Rummel attempt to explain the pros and cons of dams. The movie also features the tale of salmons, which are unable to return to their original spawning grounds due to dams. These create issues for fish companies, the hatcheries that go at a loss due to reduction of number of fishes. The documentary advocates for change in the United…

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    religion and beliefs in order to survive. As the days pass and Pi slowly runs out of biscuits to eat, he learns how to fish in order to help himself and Richard Parker. Instead of dying of starvation, he learns to accept the fact that he needs to eat the fish. "You may be astonished that in such a short period of time [Pi] could go from weeping over the muffled killing of a flying fish to gleefully…

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    Sort Of Flying Imagine your feet dangling over the ocean, while jellyfish and sharks are swimming below you. You’re just being held up in the air with a parachute, any second the rope could snap. This is what I felt when I went parasailing. In the beginning, my family and I were waiting for our boat at the docks. I felt like a hotdog burning in the sun that is how hot it was. To make matters even worse, everybody was anxious to get on to the boat. When our boat finally arrived, we put our life…

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    Pablo Descriptive Writing

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    Pablo By: Rok Outside of the water there were kids playing on the beach while their maid drones supervised them. Oops! I forgot to introduce myself! I’m Pablo, Pablo Ferisa. You may not be able to tell this but I am a sea monster. But I’m not scary! I’m really nice! I just want to be the humans’ friends, but their maid drones just protect their children. I was swimming near the beach in the Florida Keys. I slowly surfaced. I swam by a piece of trash. These maid drones discard their…

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    were greedy and evil at heart. For example, the sharks that ate his honorable "brother" (marlin) were considered evil. There are many examples where he had shown love for nature and greatly respected it. This is an example, "He was very fond of flying fish as they were his principal friends on the ocean." (Hemingway, 20). I have always liked nature, and seeing a fictional character value the natural world as I do, made me feel a bonding and personal connection with Santiago. Also, this relates…

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    Tilikum Tragedy

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    tampered with their natural instinct. The death was a tragedy, one that could have been prevented. From the audience, watching a whale show at SeaWorld is a fun, thrilling event. Whales and dolphins flying to and fro, seals performing incredible flips and tricks, leaping from the water to catch a fresh fish. Handler and orca, cooperating side by side to wow and entertain the people watching.…

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    Orca Dolphins Essay

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    A dolphin eat mostly fish like herring and cod, and sometimes even squid (“Dolphins-world/what-do-dolphins-eat”). On the other hand, the orcas, or killer whales, eat fish, squid, seals, sea lions, sharks, whales, dolphins, and sometimes turtles (Orcas: Facts About Killer Whales - Live Science). There are differences in what dolphins and orcas eat…

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    Pi's Heroic Journey

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    In Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, it shows that there are many steps to Pi’s heroic journey.(Knight) You don’t just become a hero overnight.(Knight) In the beginning of the story he was nobody important, he was a religious man, he studied Hindu, Islam, and Christianity.(Martel) When the boat is sinking the crew members threw him overboard, he didn’t panic, he did the mature thing and found a lifeboat where we could stay on. He didn’t know at the time that he would be sharing it with a 450 pound…

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    16,000 miles of a US coastline was affected. This caused enormous damage, and after a period of 6 months, over 8,000 animals were reported dead because of the polluted water. Some of the animals that were affected were birds, turtles, mammals, and fish. Can you imagine that? 8,000 animals in 6 months! This was just because of one oil spill. Can you imagine a couple of oil spills? That would be a massacre. While it also affects economic costs, the U.S. tourism industry loses close to $1 billion…

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    casting I would try mastering the different types of fishing knots. The first time I was introduced to hunting was when I was around six or seven years old when my uncle took me duck hunting. While we walked to our blind I could see a multitude of ducks flying and quacking. Being in the blind with my uncle was incredible. Watching him call the ducks in was something I will never forget. From that moment on I fell in love with duck hunting. My grandpa gave me my first shotgun when I was eight. It…

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