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    65 million years ago, dinosaurs ruled the planet. These fascinating animals were the largest, strongest creatures to ever walk the face of the earth, yet, they met a fate that would change the world forever. All that is left are the fossilized remains of these captivating creatures. Their fossils, along with the layers of our Earth’s rock and sediment, tell a story of how they lived and how they died. However, there is still an ongoing debate in the world of science of exactly what catastrophe

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    Cribbins 1 Hook. The extinction of dinosaurs is a mystery in itself that has stumped scientists all over the world for decades, and they still look for new answers every day. Scientists know some background information, but cannot connect the dots to see the bigger picture. There was little interest in the topic until Luis and Walter Alvarez proposed a groundbreaking hypothesis, which today we call the “Alvarez Hypothesis”. This new idea of the Alvarez’s was exciting, and therefore got the media

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    Dinosaur Extinction Essay

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    BIOL2110- Vertebrate Zoology Word count: 1056 Dinosaur extinction: An analysis of events and theories that possibly led to the dinosaurs' demise. Ever since the history of Earth has been studied using fossil records, extinctions have always been the object of fascination and interest, particularly the mass extinctions that occurred throughout Earth's history. A mass extinction can be caused by disruptive global environmental changes, where large numbers of species have become extinct (Urry

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    A trap door in my classroom, that was what sparked my everlasting curiosity. But, I was pushed away from this secret entrance every single day. “Curious? Why would you be curious about that,” my teacher would exclaim shaking her head. “Don’t understand how somebody wouldn’t be curious about a door that leads to a place filled with mysteries,” I would point out, there was something she was hiding from me, something that she didn't want me to find out. Every day, I would sit on top of the trap door

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    Yertle the Turtle in the book Yertle the Turtle by Dr.Seuss was very greedy. He always wanted more and more, in this case turtles so he could be the as it states in the book: “I’m ruler said Yertle, of all that I see.” To see more, he needed something to stack up with, and one resource he had available to stack up with were turtles. Another reason he was greedy was when he said in the book: “My throne shall be higher! his royal voice thundered, So pile up more turtles! I want ‘bout two hundred

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    Falling Down By: Logan Hilliard, Garrett Walker, Keren Torres Once upon a time, in a land far away a french fry named Garrett was taking a stroll. He was going to meet up with his mishandled chicken tender named Keren.You see that’s when everything went downhill. I was headed to Kerens chicken tender box otherwise known as her house. I 'm a chicken nugget that can get chickened out sometimes. My friend Garrett the french fry was over too. You see, all this sudden we are falling out of the

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    protect. The act of planting traps on public lands causes a great divide between both sides of the argument. Two groups that are fierce opponents of public lands being used for trapping are Footloose Montana

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    The Indian Python

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    certain tans and grays to brown. These colors and patterns generally range and very from place to place depending on where they live. Certain specimen from the of Western Ghats and Assam usually contain a darker shade, while those living near the Deccan Plateau and East Coast typically contain lighter shades. The Indian Python contains a very carnivorous diet which includes mammals, birds and reptiles arbitrarily, but seem to favorite mammals. The Python moves so quickly slithering from head to

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    The Fight For Fur Essay

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    the page Cruel Wildlife Treatment. They state that any animal caught in a steel trap, the animal suffers for days on end trying to free themselves. Continuing on the same topic they again state that the animal once steps in the trap that the trap clamps down on the foot with excruciating pain with the animals sometime chewing their own paw off to free themselves. The list goes on and on about the different types of traps used and them all being inhumane causing pain and damage to the animal. I can

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    Love tends to be the topic of many poetic literary works, whether it be the joys that come with it or the pains suffered because of it, but what can be made of the love that results in both? In the poem, “For He Looked Not upon Her,” George Gascoigne already makes that message clear through his title: sometimes, there is reason not to desire what we can not help but long for. When his audience reads the work, they are meant to discover that reason behind why “He” would not look upon “Her”. Through

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