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"I'm gonna have to pick that up! Thanks a lot!" Gerard tensed up, feeling a pang anxiety creeping up. "Sorry, It's not my fault you applied for this job!" Gerard turned around to face an angry looking boy. The boys eyeliner seemed to challenge raccoon rings. God. Gerard thought as he ran a hand through his own hair. "Can you lower your tone.." The boy seemed a little shocked by Gerard's reaction. He stared at the floor, causing his hair to block out his face slightly. "You were the…

victims of the fur trade was the beaver. The beaver became severely endangered by the 1670’s. “Pynchons son John managed between 1652 and 1658 to procure from Indians nearly 9000 beaver pelts, in addition to hundreds of moose, otter, muskrat, fox, raccoon, mink, marten, and lynx skins.” (Cronon 99). The Indians had fallen into another one of the Europeans traps, which only worsened the impact of the Europeans on New England. By the 1800’s, the Indians had limited amounts of…

is Drake. He is 19 years old and he graduated from Lake Hamilton. He has quite a bit of interesting hobbies. A couple of them are hunting and fishing. He likes to hunt just about anything that walks. For example, he likes to hunt deer, bear, raccoon, and so on. Also, he likes to hunt duck whenever he can. Naturally, he likes to fish anything that swims, like…

The issues that animals are put through for entertainment, experimentation, food, clothing, and wildlife is horrifying. Animals are enslaved, beaten, electrocuted, strangled, burned, stabbed, and skinned alive to be used for human use and consumption. For the clothing industry, millions of animals are killed by being electrocuted, strangled, and skinned alive. This issue is very important because clothing should be made out of fabrics rather than animal fur. Millions of mice, rats, rabbits,…

The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle is a novel about two couples, one American and the other Mexican, from opposite ends of the financial spectrum whose lives intermittently intersect for the worse. The novel portrays a particularly tragic tale of coexistence between a wealthy couple living in Arroyo Blanco Estates, where the general concern is building a wall “to keep out those very gangbangers, taggers and carjackers they’d come here to escape.”(39) Whereas Candido and America Rincon are an…

Most people in the world would agree that gun laws are becoming increasingly stricter. Gun laws are put into place to increase the level of protection and safety in community life. As the gun laws become stricter in New York State, more and more people are becoming angered by them. What most people do not realize is that “More than 60 percent of people in this country who die from guns die by suicide” (Sanger). Growing up in Western New York, many households own at least one gun. I grew up…

rooted from the rise of consumer culture, mass entertainment, and “revolution in morals and manners.” Gender roles, hair styles, and dress profoundly changed. The 1920’s was a decade of “prosperity and dissipation, and of jazz bands, bootleggers, raccoon coats, bathtub gin, flappers, flagpole sitters, and marathon dancers.” The younger generation rebelled against the traditional standards, while their elders sat back in speculation (Digital History,…

Have you ever heard the phrase “frothing at the mouth?” Maybe the word “lyssa?” Have you ever read the book Cujo, or heard the word “hydrophobia”? Have you wondered about one of the deadliest viruses known to humankind? There is one thing all of those have in common, and that is rabies. Rabies is a virus, and it attacks the nervous system of its host, eventually becoming deadly. However, it can all be prevented with a vaccine. However, before you can understand how the rabies vaccine works,…

Transcript Transcript of American Alligator (Alligator mississippiens) SCIN 130 Power Point presentation by Serena L. Sobolewski Introduction: The organism that I have chosen for this assignment is an animal, of the crocodilian family, called the American Alligator. The scientific name is Alligator mississipiens In Spanish it is is called El Legarto, meaning the lizard. The habitat preferred by the American Alligator is fresh water swamps, marshes, rivers, lakes, and occasionally smaller…

Stage One - The Chicxulub Impactor Origin Theory and how Asteroids enter the Earth's Atmosphere. Origin Theory The Chicxulub Impactor is an asteroid whose origin is unknown. A theory orchestrated by David Nesvorný, William F. Bottke and David Vokrouhlický however suggests that it is part of the Baptistina family of asteroids which was the result of a collision in the Asteroid Belt 160 million years ago (2). This theory is supported by the evidence of carbonaceous material that is present in…