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    The piping plover is a small shorebird that stands at about seven inches tall. The color on the back is a light gray and the breast and belly are white. One black ring wraps around the back and sides of the neck, but does not connect in the front. The legs are yellowish in color and the bill may be all black or yellow at the base and black at the tip. Piping Plovers feed on insects that they pick off the surface of the ground. Their habitat is by mudflats, sandy beaches, and shallow wetlands…

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    Location A coastal seaport city in Canada, which is in the midland region of British Columbia. Has nearby bodies of water and mountains. Including the Pacific Ocean and Grouse Mountain plus many more mountains, you can see and visit in Vancouver. Vancouver has a lot of sun major cities. August is the hottest month with the high being 64 degrees Fahrenheit and 18 degrees Celsius. January is the coldest month with the low of 38 degrees Fahrenheit and 4 degrees Celsius. Places and…

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    Today, Middle and South America are the holders of architectural and technological legacies of ancient indigenous civilizations as the first explorer Von Humboldt indicates what connections exist between realm's area, human culture and natural diversity that make those societies in the coastal valleys. These societies for thousands of years when the European invaders came to the border get the name Amerindians that call nowadays. Europeans from Spain, France, Germany, and Great Britain landed in…

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    London Tipton was the only Asian character on TV that I had to look up to as a kid. She was selfish, unappreciative, inconsiderate, and not very smart. Disney might have been trying to curb stereotypes with a rich, dumb Asian, but I had to grow up with only one character who had a similar face, but nothing I could aspire to be. I have distinct memories of pressing the sides of my bulb-shaped nose in front of the mirror for hours as if my efforts would amount to a button nose so many girls had on…

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    Panem is the fictional world in which the action/adventure book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is set in. In Panem, The Hunger Games are a very big deal. the Hunger Games represent the war that the Panem districts had. Now as a symbol to never go to war again, when a child needed extra rations of food, their name would be added once more into the jar where at the end each year every district will pull out two names to go into the Hunger Games. This particular year, Katniss’ little sister…

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    Carey Sigafoose Biography

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    Growing up Sigafoose wasn't easy. Still isn't. But it's worth it. And Dr. Carey Neal Pabouet-Sigafoose probably wouldn't have it any other way. Go to Sigafoose.com to sign up for Sigafoose membership It's never easy being a ChiroKid. Try being the son of a Chiropractic legend. You put up with a lot of shit. You're given a lot of shit. Let's just say, there is a lot of shit. From defending your parents, defending Chiropractic to defending yourself to your parents. A ChiroKid is a true warrior…

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    American ancestors to get to the Americas. The Americas are now occupied by thousands of different cultures and races. This diversity began when Columbus sailed across the Atlantic in 1492 and “discovered” that there was land. Even though Columbus did not discover America, he definitely changed it. In fact, as of 2016, only 2% of the U.S. population are Native Americans. Is the land they once lived and thrived on stolen? When Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas, millions of people…

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    John Rae Essay

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    The Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) is often associated with Canada; this company started off as a fur trading business and currently operates as a transnational retail store. A recent HBC commercial portraying Dr. John Rae, a Scottish surgeon who explored Arctic Canada with the help of the Inuit peoples, was released with narration by Les Stroud, a famous Canadian survivor-man. Viewer’s reactions to the commercial have been mixed, with some comments on the YouTube video praising the “Inuit being…

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    Geography In 1871 British Columbia became the sixth province of Canada with the 3rd largest land mass.British Columbia is the westernmost province In Canada and borders the Pacific Ocean but it is dominated by the Coast mountains and the Rocky mountains. British Columbia is part of the Western Cordillera. The Western Cordillera a strand of mountains formed that stretch across the shore of the pacific ocean, some of the mountains rising up to 3000 meters in height and is approximately 800km…

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    between all these different nationalities shown- including the Americans shown, as well. The vigilante group, Civil Homeland Defense (CHD), believes that America is only for Americans, and often show hostility towards the immigrants coming into the country, although many seem to be uneducated and unsympathetic towards the migration towards America. Mexicans look down on many of the Latin American people, calling them pigs, beating them, stealing from them, and treating them in an inhumane way,…

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