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- 6641: American Crocodile
- ... Nesting „H Sex determination „H Conservation „H Farming „H Conclusion The American Crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) Crocodylus acutus, or more commonly referred to as the American crocodile, ˇ§ˇKis the second most widely distributed of the New World crocodiles, ranging from the southern tip of Florida, both the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of Southern Mexico, as well as the Caribbean islands of Cuba, Jamaica, and Hispaniolaˇ¨ (1 Species). These areas provide the perfect ... and landmasses of Earth for over 200 million yearsˇ¨ (6 Levy). However, ˇ§ˇKIt is inappropriate to treat crocodilians as living fossils whose inferiority forced them into a marginal ecological role as amphibious predators in a world now dominated by mammals. In fact, they are highly specialized for their particular mode of life and have undergone considerable changes during their long evolutionary historyˇKˇ¨ (14 Ross). ˇ§Among living vertebrates, crocodilians are most ... smuggling of illegal skins by middlemen servicing the tanneries and leather markets. By the middle of the 1960s crocodile hunting had left many species critically threatened, including the American crocodile near to extinction. Today the world market for crocodilian skins is about 2 million hides per year. Some of these come from licensed, controlled hunting and some are harvested from the captive populations on farms and ranches. These skins are ...
- 6642: Soccer
- ... Soccer is the worlds most popular sport. It is the national sport of most European and Latin-American countries, and of many other nations. Millions of people in more than 140 countries play soccer. The World Cup is held every four years. Soccer is one of the most famous international sport. Soccer is known world wide and is played in the Olympics: In a soccer game there are two teams of 11 players who try to score a point by kicking a ball into the opponents net. Soccer is played ... Trinity College in Cambridge and drew up the first of soccer rules. In 1863 English soccer clubs founded the Football Association. By the late 1800's soccer began to spread to the rest of the world. The Canadian Soccer Association was established in 1912 while the United States Soccer Federation was set up in 1913. The first World Cup Championship was in Montevideo, Uruguay. Since then it has been played ...
- 6643: The PLO
- ... as the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people". Subsequent to this, Arafat addressed the United Nations where the organization was given official observer status. In 1970 the PLO commandos fought a short but bloody war with the Jordanian army after which they were expelled from that country and settled in Lebanon. Little by little, they became a state within a state, and thus contributed to the disintegration of Lebanon after ... for Palestine from 1920-1948. It was formally annexed by Jordan in 1950 -- an act that was not recognized by the Arab League, the United Nations or the United States. After the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, the area came under Israeli control. The Gaza Strip The Gaza Strip is a narrow area of desert land along the western Mediterranean Sea. It is about 42km (26 miles) long and 6.5 to ... 8km (4 to 5 miles) wide. It too, like the West Bank, was a part of the British Mandate from 1917 to 1948. Egypt controlled the Gaza Strip from 1948 until the 1967 Arab-Israeli War (except for a brief period of Israeli occupation in 1956- 57) when it passed to Israeli control. The Gaza Strip is densely populated -- an estimate in 1993 gave the figure as 800,000 -- with ...
- 6644: Lucille Ball
- ... been a comedienne, but also a superb businesswoman, an excellent role model, and has won numerous awards. Lucille Ball's major contribution has been as a comedienne. Not only was she the star of the world renowned television show, I Love Lucy, but she has also performed on radio, in films, and even on Broadway. Ball had an extraordinary personality. "In short, Lucille Ball's unique brand of wacky physical comedy ... Dance Girl, Dance, and The Big Street. When she did act in these movies, she played minor, serious roles. So when she was discovered, people didn't even know how funny she was but the world would soon find out. When Ball finished with her weekly television shows, she turned her attention to Broadway and starred in such plays as Mame, and Wildcat. After her split with Desi Arnaz, "Lucille Ball ... Ball is watched all over the country. The most popular I Love Lucy episodes are still shown on television to this day. Obviously, this shows that Lucille Ball has made significant, positive contributions to the world. "So what if Lucille Ball's haircolor came out of a bottle? As a comic genius, she was a natural" (Dziemianowicz 53). Works Cited "Ball, Lucille." Biography.com. April 1999. Biography. 15 April 1999 . " ...
- 6645: Cn Tower
- ... Fourth Annual Readers Selection Awards Voted the "Best Place to Take Out-Of-Towners" by Eye Magazine American Society of Civil Engineers, who accredited us as being one of the 'Seven Wonders of the Modern World' Guinness Book of World Records changed our status to 'World's Tallest Building and Free Standing Structure' and highlighted us on the cover of their 1996 Edition NOW Magazine - Best Place to Impress Out-of-Town Visitors Toronto Sun Readers' Choice Awards - Favourite Toronto ...
- 6646: Chaucer's "The House of Fame": The Cultural Nature of Fame
- ... how narrative events are able to change depending on the reliability of the 'auctor`. The mocking of Geffrey and his scholarly life and ambitions would also indicate Chaucer's dislike of the scholarly and academic world of the 14th century. Geffrey is caricatured as a book-worm, unable to comprehend events outside the world of books. The Eagle speaks to Geffrey of the futility and emptiness of a scholar ; "Thou goost hom to thy hous anoon,/And, also domb as any stoon,/Thou sittest at another book/Tyl fully ... House of Rumour. However, although Chaucer is himself a scholarly and academic man like Geffrey, he is still rather mocking of the academic society and the scholars who seem to be permaently fixed within the world of literature and relying entirely on book-learning, rather than experiences from the events in the outside world of reality. Chaucer within his description of The House of Fame also questions the relevance of ...
- 6647: Thomas Alva Edison's Life: A Light Goes On
- Thomas Alva Edison's Life: A Light Goes On " Born when the world was starting on a technological joy ride, Edison was destined to set its gears 'on high, " writes Mary Nerney, in her 1934 biography, Thomas A. Edison: A Modern Olympian. " With every fundamental invention, he released ... Milan, Ohio, on February 11, 1847 (Baker). Thomas Alva Edison is my hero. He suffered through hardship, but also came to fame. He devoted his life to find news ways of living, to make this world a more worth wild place. His life went through departure, fulfillment, and return. First, his life starts off as a departure. Thomas was raised in Milan, Ohio, until the age of seven. He then moved ... was reading Gibbon's 'Decline and more books of that nature. He had also begun to do chemistry experiments and had his own laboratory in his father's basement (Day and McNeil 231). Second, the world revolves his fulfillment's. But his fulfillment's didn't come easy. He was newsboy on the Grand Trunk railroad. Between the trips from Port Huron to Detroit he would publish his own paper ...
- 6648: The Color Purple, The Bell Jar, Franny and Zooey, and Ethan Frome: Internal and External Forces On The Character's Lives
- ... was faced with the expectation of others that she succeed to the level of her genius brothers as well as to fit in with society. She strove to feel normal and integrated in the abnormal world in which she was raised. All four characters were confronted with internal conflicts of the self and external pressures of the outside world. Celie grew up in a poverty stricken environment where education was not available to her. She always had the desire to be educated, as were the white women of her community. Because of her race ... from her father and later her husband created a low self-image and a poor self-esteem. She was unassertive with her friends and family because she felt that she had nothing to offer the world. Celie was a tragic figure whose existence did not change until she stood up for herself and turned her life around. Esther Greenwood was a young woman who encountered problems in her relationships. Esther’ ...
- 6649: The Petersburg Campaign
- ... of 292 days. To put the siege into perspective, I have included brief summaries of the Overland Campaign, the Shenandoah Campaign, and the Appomattox Campaign. The struggle for Petersburg has no equal in the entire war. All of the more famous sieges: Vicksburg, Atlanta, and Richmond, were inferior to this siege in terms of the number of battles fought and of lives lost in its defense. Petersburg was the lifeline of ... West, but he'd never met Bobby Lee. After receiving his promotion and attending a few of the required festivities, Grant left for Tennessee to confer with General Sherman about the the course of the war. The basic summation was that Sherman was to go after Joe Johnston while Grant went after Lee. His plan called for a speedy termination of the war, guided by two principles of action: 1) "to use the greatest number of troops practicable," and 2) "to hammer continuously at the armed forces of the enemy and his resources, until by mere attrition, ...
- 6650: Insights on De Tocqueville's Democracy In America
- ... and interpretations, was written as a sort of warning for European readers; "Is this what you want?" he asks. This book was famous for two accurate predictions, one, the U.S. would someday be a world power as would Russia, second, race would prove to be the most intractable problem for the U.S. One of Tocqueville's observations about the United States is that he thought there is no country in the civilized world that is less attention paid philosophy than the United States. This is applicable to American life in 1997 because the whole world is practically joined to the United States. Just about every country in the world trades with, tours in, and watches for the United States. What I mean by watches is that they practically always ...
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