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    Boy Scout Camp Employees Fired For Rescuing a Bald Eagle Category: News & Opinion Tags: Teaser: Two Scout camp employees, found themselves in hot water after coming to aid of an injured bird. Article: Sometimes sticking to one’s moral and ethical convictions is more important than even your job. After two camp employees decided to try to save an injured bald eagle, they were reprimanded and fired for breaking a federal law. In search of an eagle When Jeremy and Eliana Bookbinder, two 20-year-old

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    *Eastern Chipmunk:The Eastern Chipmunk is a chipmunk found in eastern North America. It is the only living member of the chipmunk subgenus Tamias. It lives in deciduous wooded areas and urban parks throughout the eastern United States & Southern Canada. It prefers locations with rocky areas, brush or log piles, and shrubs to provide cover.It can climb trees well, constructs underground nests with extensive tunnel systems. Carries soil to a different location in its cheek pouches. Hides it’s barrow

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    BusinessDictionary.com (n.d.), defines corporate social responsibility (CSR) as “a company’s sense of responsibility towards the community and environment, both ecological and social, in which it operates” (para. 1). When expressing citizenship, companies can do so through its waste and pollution reduction processes, by contributing to educational and social programs, and by earning adequate returns on the employed resources (BusinessDictionary.com, n.d.). Economic, political, and civil society are

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    Growing up, nothing has been more interesting to me than the animal world. Animals vary in size and shape, they adapt to specific environments, and they all have unique relationships with one another. These things fascinate me. I can’t determine when this obsession grew in me but I can remember my four year old self, drawing every animal I can think of, from moose to flamingos. I would watch nature documentaries whenever I could find them on while flipping through the channels on the television.

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    Five symbols that represent America are; the Statue of Liberty, she symbolizes hope and freedom for Americans (What does the Statue of Liberty, n.d.). Her face shows grace and power, the crown is believed to represent the Colossus of Rhodes, which are amongst the wonders of the ancient world, and the spokes on the crown are a symbol that is believed to represent the seven continents in the world. The Statue of Liberty has shackles laying at her feet, which deeply signifies freedom (What does the

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    The Green Movement

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    While this has been the generation where the ‘green movement’ has flourished [Birkland], the growth of industry as well as a lack of proper environmental education, has sparked an increase in wildlife-threatening pollution and litter. [Siegel]. The general population underestimates the effect that “just one bottle” thrown onto the side of the road will have on the planet and its inhabitants in the long run, favoring the convenience of littering over the well-being of the Earth as a whole. This problem

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    Culture is the aspect of a group of people defined by all things such as language, food, beliefs, clothing, etc. These customs are what shape the lifestyle of people and the way we are. Groups of society have different cultural strategies on how to adapt and respond to one’s surroundings. When it comes myself personally, I was raised in American culture. Every culture has fundamentally two integral elements: material and nonmaterial. Material culture coheres with physical objects, places, and resources

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    Captive animals The first modern zoo founded was in Vienna, Madrid and Paris in the eighteenth century and later in London and Berlin in the nineteenth century. The first zoo to be established in America was in Philadelphia and Cincinnati in the 1870s. In today’s America there are thousands of zoos. Humans like to be entertained regardless of how they are being entertained, whether that is walking through the park, watching a show, listening to music or simply going to the zoo. There is truth behind

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    unamerican? The bald eagle is one of the United States prized living organism and has been the national bird since 1783. However, in recent years these animals have been learning to cope with technological advances from humans. According to R. Russell and J. Franson the biggest causes of mortality in our nation’s bird is electrocution and trauma, poisoning, and disease. Though some states allow death by electrocution for criminals, it is illegal in every state to kill a bald eagle. Moreover, it is

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    Dollar Bill Symbols

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    on the front of the dollar symbolizes victory(3). The some of the latin on the dollar bill is E pluribus unum which means “One out of many”(1). “The American bald eagle symbolizes freedom and strength. It is holding 13 arrows in one claw and an olive branch with 13 leaves in the other symbolizing Congress’ power over war and peace. The eagle is looking right showing that the US is a peaceful nation. The unsupported shield, like the US, stands on its own. The shield is composed of 13 stripes representing

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