The Eastern Gorilla faces many challenges due to the destruction of its habitat and poaching. The Eastern Gorilla is the largest living primate and has now joined three other great ape species as critically endangered on The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s red list of endangered species. This is extremely worrying to many government and environmental leaders because there are only about five thousand Eastern Gorillas left in the wild. Furthermore‚ of all of the great ape
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sense of reliance on Themba for my protection‚ because he was carrying a rifle. We continued our walk across the bush land‚ with no sign of human impact to be seen. I asked Themba about the game reserve‚ different African animals‚ his job as a game ranger‚ and then I wondered about his home life‚ so I waited for a peaceful moment to ask him. He paused and then told me that he had lived his whole life in this area known as Kruger National Park in southern Botswana‚ and here I was nearly 9‚771 miles
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Select one of the following questions and answer it in 200 to 300 words using the principles of critical thinking you learned in this course. How can we reduce poverty in the United States? Will receiving a college degree improve your career opportunities? Has the United States peaked as a world power? Will receiving a college degree improve your career opportunities? Once I choice this question immediately my enculturation barrier surfaced‚ because as soon as I read the question I said to myself
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other things‚ acting individually allowed anarchists to avoid being bogged down by the coercive power usually associated with large‚ hierarchal organizations. Although in the early 1900’s lone wolf terrorism fell out of favor with many anarchists‚ terrorism by single perpetrators accelerated later in the century. Lone wolves killed 7% of United States terrorism victims during 1955-1978‚ a rate that increased
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Pedestrian”‚ the author‚ Ray Bradbury describes the desolate streets in the time A.D.‚ 2053. The story depicts a lone man wandering the streets all by himself. As the story continues on‚ the author gradually starts to develop suspense as this lone man meets a sole police car on the deserted streets. The conversation between the police car and the lone man‚ Mr. Mead seemed to manufacture the lone police car as a suspicious‚ mysterious figure. The author uses figurative language and dialogue to suggest the
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I just finish reading the novel Links by Nuruffin Farah‚ and it is an intriguing story. The characters and incidences in this book are depicted vividly by Farah and at times‚ I began to believe that they were more than just fictions. I know that Links is a work of fiction that is set against the backdrop of actual events; however‚ the situations described in the book were very realistic. While reading this novel‚ the main character Jeebleh took on the role of a liaison between myself and the political
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that society is now too diverse to simply have only one family type. A reason in particular that nuclear families are no longer the norm is That‚ divorce rate has increased. Research shows that now 40% of marriages now end in divorce. This leads to lone-parent families and re-constituted families. The increase in divorce may be due to the fact that the independence in women has risen. Within the 1940’s women were
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| 17 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 20 | 2 or more dependent children | 61 | 58 | 60 | 57 | 58 | 60 | 57 | 57 | 58 | 59 | Lone mother with | 1 dependent child | 6 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 2 or more dependent children | 13 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 13 | 12 | Lone father with | 1 dependent child | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 or more dependent children | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1
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The concept of the underclass As a lone parent myself‚ I have quickly realised over the years that there seems to be a prejudice towards certain types of individuals within our social stratification. Views that if a person is from a specific background will therefore fall into a certain bracket‚ suggesting then he or she must therefore be a certain type of person‚ with a not so flavoursome outlook on life. Facing lone parenthood is by far in my opinion‚ one the most hardest
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representing the diverse Australian voice. The diverse Australian voice is not typically depicted in iconic Australian text. If we were to base Australia’s modern identity off these ideas of the beautiful‚ romanticised outback‚ and Chris Hemsworth-like bush rangers‚ it would be a hugely inaccurate reflection of who we truly are. So what ideas and text would reflect a diverse Australian voice? Henry Lawson and Les Murray are authors whose
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