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    of Florida. This Equatorial transfer of heat through ocean currents is what facilitates Florida’s warm and humid climate. To illustrate the influence ocean currents have on coastal climates, we can compare the climate of Puerto San Carlos, Baja California Sur with the climate of Miami, Florida, because they reside on North America’s west and east coasts respectively, around the 25’N Latitude line. Puerto San Carlos has a desert climate, averaging under 3 inches of precipitation per year, with 70

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    I am of those who believe that we all have a mission in this world, and we are born and grow to complete it. I discovered at a very young age that my vocation in life is to serve and help people, and as time passed by, I realized that the way to accomplish this was trough medicine, my true calling. It was a warm April Sunday morning, my family and I were headed to church. As usual, we were late, so we had to sit in the last rows of the temple. As the priest was giving the homily, we heard a loud

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    illustrated in a chart. 1. The Pacifico Cartel vs. Tijuana cartel which is is located in Baja, California. 2. The Pacifico Cartel vs. Juarez Cartel, which affects the areas of Chihuahua, Sinaloa, and Durango. 3. The Pacifico Cartel vs Beltran Leyva Organization located in Nayarit, Sinaloa, Sonora, and Durango. 4. Jalisco Cartel Vs Nueva Generacion, located in Coloma and Jalisco. 5. Cartel pacific Sur vs “La Barbie” cartel, which is distributed through Districto Federal, Estato De Mexico, Guerro

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    Security and labor relation issues in Mexico According to Mexican authorities, June was the deadliest month in at least 20 years with 2,234 recorded murders where the murder rate increased in states Baja California Sur, Veracruz and in Mexico City, relatively insulated from drug cartel violence (Al Jazeera, 2017). Furthermore, reports from Al Jazeera (2017) indicate that the first six months of 2017 saw the recording of 12,155 homicide investigations by authorities nationwide; a 31 percent increase

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    Ever since the war on drugs was started, most of the battle has been concentrated in Latin America, leaving trails of devastation from deep within Latin America up to the largest consumer of those substances. After years of fighting, and series’ of more and more aggressive policies put into place by the United States, drugs are just as prevalent if not more so than when the war began. Illegal drugs are still easy to obtain, demand for such substances has skyrocketed and cartels are becoming increasingly

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    Destiny Pelton Mrs. Samantha Wilkinson English P6 4 December 2017 Sea Turtles Squirt is the son of Crush from the 2003 Disney/Pixar film Finding Nemo. He’s unlike any sea turtle before. Sea turtles normally don’t interact with others, but Squirt is the exact opposite. He is a perky, playful sea turtle that idolizes his father Crush. He has inherited his dad's fearless and easy-going attitude. A sea turtle doesn't have parents but Squirt sure does. Sea turtles are astonishing creatures. With their

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    Portraying the sublime evolved as industrialization speed up manufacturing. Adams aimed for a wider audience, as he believed only when the public sees the beauty of the wilderness would they understand why conservation mattered. Adams understood “the photographer could play a vital role, rousing awareness and inciting action. He saw this as his personal mission” (Spaulding, 1995, pp. 217-218). This was evident in Adams iconic partnership with Nancy Newhall and in their book, This Is the American

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    In the preceding chapter, I demonstrated how contemporary photographers take advantage of innovative ways to tell stories, alert the public about environmental issues and spark engagement. This chapter furthers the discussion by exploring current trends in environmental activism ranging from the modest to extreme opportunities for engagement beyond traditional media. Nowadays, photographers, environmental advocates, and NGOs reorient public perceptions about environmental issues through unique and

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    Although out of fear or ignorance, some believe that sharks serve zero purpose, sharks are worth more alive than dead because sharks stabilize the underwater ecosystem, and increase economic growth. 1. It is a common belief in certain cultures that shark fins have health benefits, when in reality that’s not true. With increasing levels of pollution entering into the oceans it’s known that sharks absorb the pollution which create an unsafe level of mercury for humans to consume. Scientists at the

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    process of evolution taking place in modern-day organisms. Several kilometers northeast of the Galapagos Islands, where Darwin famously performed his research, is a small group of islands in the Sea of Cortés, also known as the Gulf of California, between the Baja California peninsula and Mexico (see Figure 1 on page 18). Here many evolutionary biologists of the 20th and 21st century performed research on the insular organisms inhabiting these island habitats. One group of lizards in particular known

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