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i believe that giraffes are a great part of the ecosystem. A giraffe’s habitat is in africa, usually they roam around in tall grasses and open planes. They can also survive in woodlands, giraffes will move to anywhere they can find food. Their home range is between 8 and 50 square miles, their natural habitat seems to be shrinking due to humans building roads. Their habitat is getting smaller and smaller leading them to going back to the same feeding areas before it has really had a chance…

Easter Island can be a representation of today’s modern world view and actions. Historians speculate that the people from Easter Island became extinct due to the society using too many resources too quickly. Due to the island being so being so remote they only had a small amount of resources that they could use. With the people not realizing that they have a limited resource base they used many trees to move a lot of the stones around the island. This is what caused a chain of events to occur.…

Flack, Marjorie, and Kurt Wiese. The Story about Ping. New York, NY: [Viking], 1933. Print. Ping was an adventurous duck who lived on a beautiful wise-eyed boat on the Yangtze River. He liked his life on the riverboat just and liked his large family and his kind master. He didn't like to be the last in line to board the boat at night, for that unlucky duck got a loud spank. So what did Ping do when it seemed that he would be the last on line? What else but set out on his own to explore the…

Life of Pi is a fictional novel about a boy from India who, after a shipwreck, is lost at sea with a tiger. Dictionary.com defines a motif as “a recurring subject, theme, idea, etc., especially in a literary, artistic, or musical work.” Three motifs found within the text of Life of Pi are the themes of coexistence, overcoming fear, and religion. The book by Yann Martel has a main idea of coincidence, predominantly between the beliefs of science and religion. One of the first settings of the book…

space- the largest space in our universe known to be inhabited by living organisms.” (http://savethesea.org/STS%20ocean_facts.htm) So far, humans have only discovered 5% of ocean. There are 5 main ocean in the world which are Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, Pacific and Southern.…

where it’s needed and the tax payers of each county would have their specific needs taken care of. Creating a new system of state spending could profoundly improve the lives of millions of residents, improve the business climate for thousands of companies, while allowing the Californians the opportunity to realize their fullest potential and reach success through the various platforms that California…

culture, religion, and economy. Chile has a controversial government that influences culture and religion as well as economics. Chile and its vast culture have an array of interesting agriculture. Chile is a country in South America, which borders the pacific sea (Aronson 4). Its capital is Santiago (Time). Chile has 15 Regions (chile). One of the regions is called Grande Norte which means the big north (Lyle 9), but it's official name is republical de chile(Peoples 171). Chiles size is…

For centuries man has used water as way of transportation, travel, and trade. From around the start of the 16th century people have been trying to find a way to make a canal across Central America. Many misfortunes and deaths have been sacrificed to try and make that happen. The creation of the Panama Canal by the U.S has been one of the most influential innovation since the beginning of time. The Panama Canal revolutionized and improved international travel by evolving international trade,…

Canal is a waterway that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. It is 48 miles. It’s a system of locks that function as water lifts. The locks are 110 feet wide and 1050 feet long. It lifts the ships from sea level. The ships then sail to the channel through the continental divide. It takes 8 to 10 hours to pass through the Panama Canal. The Panama Canal was built to ship goods quickly and cheaply between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.The building process began in 1881 and was…

They clean our beaches and salt marshes, filter out small things in the ocean, and shed their old shell, just to eat it again. What kind of animal could this be? A Fiddler crab! They do all those things to help themselves. They don’t even know they are helping the entire world! Fiddler crabs live in many places. They live in mangroves, salt marshes, and on sandy and muddy beaches. Fiddler crabs are important to salt marshes because when they feed and burrow, they clean the salt marshes and…