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    Extinction or Bust: Hitchhiking Killers In the short history of human life, at least in the scale of earth’s existence, they have traveled and moved around more than any animal or plant could have dreamed and they were not alone on those journeys. Like anyone going on a trip today, most people end up taking a little more than they expected with them. This extra baggage could be anything as small as a spore to livestock and others animals, but even the sometimes small packages can end up being deadly

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    impoverished and adventurous life greatly influenced his outlook upon the world and his early writing. Jack London was born to William Chaney and Flora Wellman. Chaney, London’s biological father, left when he learned that Flora was going to have a child because he rejected being a father, and died close to 1903 when Jack was becoming famous for “The Call of the Wild.” Flora then married John London

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    holding onto life by a thread through his experiences of nature vs man; the price of life can be taken for granted but should be known that it is priceless. Jack London was born on January 12, 1876 in San Francisco, California as John Griffith Chaney. His unwed mother Flora Wellman, and his father, believed to

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    the old generation, which stands for the narrator and narrator’s wife, has an issue with the new generation, which represents the narrator’s grandchildren, Matt and Flora. Therefore, when two different cultures “crash” with each other, curiously, if the old generation win or old generation win. At the beginning of the story, Matt and Flora want to have American names instead of Chinese names, which most of Americans have problems or troubles of pronouncing them on the daily basis. Matt complained about

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    CHAPTER 2 Literature Review California Coastal Sage Community Tectonic movements and climate changes roughly 14 million years ago led to formation of California’s coastal sage scrub environment. The area has been described as having a Mediterranean climate, which occurs on the western coast of continents between 30 and 40 degrees latitude. The region averages 25-to-51 millimeters of rainfall annually. Its temperature ranges from 4-to-10 degrees Celcius during winter to about 32.2 degrees Celsius

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    Many scientist have access to observations performed in their lab, but to have real-world observation changes the platform completely. Having people become more self-aware of what’s happening in their neighborhood, in terms of fauna and flora, can be crucial to saving endangered animals in the area. An example of this is the El Segundo Blue Butterfly. This species of butterfly inhabited the “coastal Los Angeles” and due to gentrification along the years this area has been destroyed for

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    Walter “Walt” Elias Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Hermosa, Illinois. His father was Elias Disney, an Irish-Canadian, and his mother, Flora Call Disney, was German-American. Walt was one of five children: four boys and a girl. His siblings were Roy, Ruth, Raymond, and Herbert. He began drawing, painting, and selling pictures to his neighbors and family friends in Marceline, Missouri, where he lived for most of his childhood. In 1911, the Disney family moved to Kansas City, where Walt found

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    Amazon Timber How it is Found Amazon timber is found in the Amazon rainforest, South America. The Amazon is home to many diverse species of both flora and fauna, timber being a valuable resource harvested from making room for crops, farms and roads as well as logging. 95% of all loggings are done within a 5km radius of a road, both legal and illegal. As the dense Amazon rainforest is difficult to infiltrate, loggers resort to illegally cutting trees down to form roads in which they can use to gain

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    precipitation over time is due to natural variability or to human activity. It is also caused by accumulation of greenhouse effects (Arrhenius, 1896). Should we as humans let this problem worsen? Climate change will affect everything including humans, flora and fauna, and the environment. One of the effects of climate change is how it will affect the people. Climate change will

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    Tijuana River Wetlands

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    Background: Geology The Tijuana National Estuarine Research Reserve, administered by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service and California Department of Parks and Recreation, is the southwestern most nature reserve in the continental United States. It is bordered by Mexico and the city of Tijuana on the south, the Pacific Ocean on the west, the city of Imperial Beach (the southwestern most city in the continental U.S.), the U.S. Navy Auxiliary Landing Field on the north, and South San Diego on the

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