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Giant Pandas in the wild have been torchered by humans, but still they are friendly and majestic animals. They are unique animals but are endangered for many reasons that we can prevent. One reason is they were being tracked down and killed for their fur (WWF). Also, they are being split apart from each other, fragmentation. Next, people have been taking nature from the pandas selfishly (Smithsonian). To save this species many people are now working together to stop Giant Pandas from going…

Do you think you could escape a maximum security prison that is on an island surrounded by water? I personally don’t think I could. I am going to be talking about the great escape of Alcatraz. I was interested in this topic because this is still a mystery today and that makes me curious. I hope that you will be as intrigued as I was. Preparation for the great escape, escaping the maximum security prison, and last, the aftermath. In a penitentiary called Alcatraz, an island off the coast of San…

ways. The result was a not so delicate "social common war," in which a culture conflicted severely over issues such as: immigration, the Ku Klux Klan, prohibition, women's roles, and race. It was 10 years of success, and of jazz bands, bootleggers, raccoon…

The Choctaw Nation, a proud member of the five civilized tribes, is native to the southeastern section of the United States. They can trace their ancestry back to Mississippi and even some parts of Louisiana and Alabama. Culturally, the Choctaws are a matriarchal society, which mainly survived off agriculture, hunting, and gathering. Specifically, they pride themselves on their history of complete adaptation into the European society. The Choctaw Nation accepted foreign religion, ethics,…

Fires blazed and flicker through the forest in the dark endless sky, the wind breathed out hot air and a warm breeze rushed all over my body making my body sweat. The fire was coming closer each time, and I got everything that I needed into my hiking bag, I started to run as fast as a panther to get out of the blazing fire which looked like a pathway to hell, my long red baggy pants and my green sweater started to slowly infuse into me since the heat since the blaze from the fire was deadly. My…

Thematic Comparison Kurt Vonnegut’s ″Harrison Bergeron″ and Rod Serling’s play ″The Different Ones″ have themes that ate comparable to one another. For instance, “Harrison Bergeron” has various themes; two of which are: government or institutional powers and Order and freedom. “The Different Ones” also has various themes which include: control and individual identity. It is possible to compare the themes of the two pieces of writing. The aim of this essay is to compare the themes found in Kurt…

This paper will examine the medicine and healing techniques of the Native American people and the historical context behind the use of these medicines. It will attempt to uncover the healing properties of traditional herbal medicines as well as the spiritual power to heal human pathologies. Specifically the paper will examine the healing properties of natural remedies including nutritional and spiritual practices used by the indigenous peoples of North America and how those practices might…

Hiss! As the Burmese Python slithers through the Marsh.The presence of the Burmese Python is changing the Everglades drastically.These snakes are changing the Everglades drastically as people get them as a pet and then don’t want them anymore so they release them into the wild, Most species are going extinct or near extinct because the pythons don’t have a natural predator so they eat and shrink the population of their food, and shrinking the population one Python at a time. Do you think that…

-1- The Transformation I had a dream about turning into an animal the night before it all happened. The day before, my friend (Charley) and I had an encounter with The Wizard of Thepville. We destroyed him in a game of cards him and totally rubbed it in. He told us some sort of riddle like," You shall become thy goat and thy chicken, for then at first light you shall be transformed". Being the cool guy I am, I just said," pshhhh, whatever". And here I am the next morning with…

Weissmuller set the sports trend and many people admired them, Teens dressed so weirdly, but obviously didn’t realize it at the time. “Through their influences, knickers and knee-high socks, two-colored saddle shoes, swimming trunks, full-length raccoon fur coats, and other sporty attire replaced the more conventional tweed sportswear of the previous decade” (The1920’s lifestyles and social trends). Some kids didn’t only dress like their sport hero but just their job role models. Charles…