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    A Short Story Of My Life

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    It was January, 2051, when it started. Now it’s May 2053. Five billion people are dead. More die everyday. Still no cure. Hunter, my best friend, my little brother and I still survive. I open the door. Hunter is standing on the lawn. I walk up to him and look in his ocean blue eyes. “Hey. I’m worried you are getting sick.” “What if I am? I’m not afraid of it. Does it matter? Almost everyone I love is dead anyways.” “Are you saying that your life doesn’t matter?” “I’m just warning you, I don’t care

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    blood-red lips split open in a smile as he watches his prey writhing, blood spouting from the wound, dry green leaves becoming wet crimson.  Then, with a terrible pleasure, he places the gun against the skull of his prey and fires one last round.  The hunter, brimming with sadism, drags his kill behind him, leaving a trail of blood behind on the ground.  Human blood.  This premise of man hunting man is one set up by Richard Connell’s short story The Most Dangerous Game.             The dominant theme

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    The Most Dangerous Game; Fear The Hunter So Many books get turned into movies. In many cases the book is better than the movie or vice versa depending on the person. “The Most dangerous Game” was made into a movie after already being a short story. The short story and the movie compare in many ways but also contrast several ways. What draws more interest, the short story or the movie? The short story and the movie show extraordinary differences throughout the characters, the climax and the resolution

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    then legal to kill them. Even though they are only babies (Liberation BC, para 2). The quota of the seal hunt was 400,000 in 2012. However, the quota suggested by the scientists was smaller (Liberation BC, para 1). Fortunately, the numbers of seal hunters are starting to decrease. The reason is, that they do not make much money out of it (Liberation BC, para 24). The action of hunting seals is not ecological because the meat of the seals is

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    Sea unicorn is a rare whale that lives in Arctic ocean with a long horn-like tusk. According to the article, the tusk of an adult male sea unicorn can extend up to 3 meters . Lots of scientists are curious about why narwhals has have so special tusk like that. There are two main thoughts about it. First, some people see it as a sexual trait used to determine social rank and compete for females. Second, a researcher from Harvard University think it may be used as a sensor, which can detect ice

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    Orca Captivity

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    killer whales. Orcas, also known as killer whales, have been imprisoned, against their will, for years. Evidence proves many Orcas are inhumanly captured, from the ocean, for the sheer pleasure of human entertainment and profit. Irrefutably, these majestic, intelligent, marine creatures belong in one place, and one place only, the ocean. Clearly, documentation proves, these magnificent mammals do not thrive in captivity, become irritated, and have injured or killed hundreds of humans. Floating aimlessly

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    played a role in their companion's death and there was no denying it. However, the two group of boys deal with things their own way. Jack and two of his hunters raid Ralph’s camp and steal Piggy’s spectacles, the only thing on the island that would create fire. When Ralph’s band of boys head over to Jack’s camp, they are confronted by the hunters and the leaders of the two gangs fight. During the argument, Piggy gets knocked off the mountain by a boulder and falls to his death, and Sam and Eric get

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    today. The first story is called " Florida Waters and Treasure Hunters" by Scott .L .Key, his story is talking about treasure hunters and the old techniques they had back then. In paragraph 7 it says, " He did not like working with dredge pumps, so he invented the mailbox system." A guy named Mel Fisher invented the mailbox system in the 1960s, its a metal tube that is at a 90 degree angle. It sucks in sand from the bottom of the ocean, and by using that Fisher and his group found many jewels, as

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    did Archaic Folsom hunters on the Great Plains live? -The hunters followed the herds of prey (bison). 7. What was the most important food crop for Archaic peoples in the Great Basin? -The most important food crop for the Great Basin people was pinon nuts because they could be stored longer. 8. Why did native people in California remain hunters and gatherers for hundreds of years after European arrival? -People in California remained hunters and gatherers because the land and ocean provided so much

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    “The Most Dangerous Game” is about a man going to hunt on a island near the Carribean. Due to the stormy seas and a very windy night a man, Rainsford, fell of the ship. The very next morning Rainsford awoke on a sandy beach in the middle of the ocean. He started looking around and saw boot prints in the white sand. He followed the prints, and they leaded him to gun shells farther up the beach. He continued following the boot prints and ended up at a mansion in the middle of the island. At first

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