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    duplicate a sea urchin. As hard as it is to believe, many different animals have already been cloned, including frogs, mice, sheep and cows. Plants are frequently cloned, and you can even clone a plant at your house by simply cutting it. The first successful attempt to nuclear transfer an animal was made in 1952 by Robert Briggs and Thomas King who successfully nuclear transferred frogs. Cloning in the past and cloning in modern times are very distant from each other. Cloning has improved in…

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    knows Reverend Smiley. Wheeler does not know Smiley, but ends up telling a story about Jim Smiley a man who loved to bet. Because he loved to gamble, he decided to train a frog to jump. Smiley bet a stranger that his frog could jump higher than the strangers. When Smiley was not looking, the stranger put quail sauce in his frog 's mouth so he would not jump high. Evidently the stranger won and ran away the money before Smiley could find out what happened. Once the story is done, the…

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    Officer Doyle. Although Officer Doyle is an officer and middle-age, he is immature. When shooting of fireworks, Doyle is careless and apathetic when he sets the firework off in a frog’s mouth. Frank on the other hand was cautions and empathic towards the frog. Morris Engdahl is another example of how age does not equal maturation. Frank’s ability to appreciate and understand Bobby’s life and a contrast to Morris who makes fun of Bobby, a dead boy. This contrast shows that Frank is more mature…

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    The Sixth Extinction ‘The Sixth Extinction’ by Elizabeth Kolbert can be summarized by stating the views of Kolbert herself. This is an excellent resource for students, professors, or even just environmental enthusiast. Journalist Elizabeth Kolbert writes about her travels around the globe and her continual research focused on the possibility of the next mass extinction being closer than we thought. Kelton announces in her prologue, we are currently undergoing the sixth wave of mass extinction…

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    Mark Twain's Adulthood

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    occasional essays on river travel. who had died. However he got his name it continues to be an icon today (“Mark Twain” Wikipedia, 4). Mark then drifted into California, where, he heard a tale that inspired his first great story, The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras county. This short satirical story was the first of his works to receive major recognition ("Mark Twain…

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    Amazon Rainforest Biome

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    distance. They eat many things: Such as fruits, Nectar (a sugary fluid secreted by plants), snails, spiders, and last but not least bugs. Another faunas that is endangered are the Glass Frogs. These frogs have a slime green camouflage body. They eat insects, and different type of spiders. These faunas make the Amazon Rainforest unique because they live there to build, families,…

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    should be drawn to something that fits her more as a French woman rather than a Jewish woman. This brings up why Artie got upset and went on a make shift rant of a comic strip that he would present, on how a frog could magically just turn into a mouse when reality that frog is still just a frog. This making Francoise upset to where she brings Artie’s ex-lover into the picture on how if he just married her he could draw all the mice that he wanted. Artie retorting he only dated his ex-lover due…

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    Can shows and skits seem magical, without the help of animals? This became a controversial topic after authors explained the negativity of the subject. The topic was discussed in a video, “Should Animals Be Used as Entertainment?” an article, “The Use Of Animals in Entertainment,” and another article, “Jump to It!” Although the authors had similar approaches and techniques to present their arguments, there were also several differences among the sources. All three sources showed their argument…

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    7. Family Dinner I hate family dinners. Sorry to say, it was personal. You will be bewildered and will definitely ask me “Why?” To comprehend the seriousness of this issue, let me narrate that horrible incident. Before narrating the incident, I must confess that my son is a naughty one. A couple of years ago, we went out for having dinner with my husband’s colleagues and their families. My son, who was 3 years old at that time, decided to zip down his pants and pee in an adjacent potted plant-…

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    “It’s only in fairy tales that princesses can afford to wait for the handsome prince to save them. In real life, they have to bust out of their own coffins and do the saving themselves.”, Meg Cabot. Searching for information about the expectations of being a princess, I found this quote by the American author of romantic and paranormal fiction for teens and adults, Meg Cabot. Dainty, delicate, submissive, proper, snobby, and multiple other terms come to mind when thinking of what it takes to be…

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