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Research Paper Doctorate

Killer Whale Biology, Behavior, and Population Decline

The following is a brief overview of the biological classification, diet, distribution and social behavior of the mammalian orcinus orca. The research also outlines the factors that are responsible for the decline in…

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Research Paper Doctorate

Ice Age Michigan: Geology, Glaciers, and Mammal Adaptation

¶ … ancient Michigan basin area and discuss a brief geological history of the area and how the mammals that lived during the Ice Age adapted to their environment over the years.

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Thesis Doctorate

Māori Art, Carving Traditions, and Cultural Identity

The Maori are a group of people who inhabit New Zealand and have heritage in the Pacific and Polynesian regions. The culture was an extremely rich one which has survived appropriation and colonization from Great Britain…

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Research Paper Doctorate

Ichthyosaur Lifestyle: Diet, Locomotion, and Deep Diving

Ichthyosaurs are a family of marine reptiles that existed during the same era as the dinosaurs. It swam the seas from 245 million years ago to 90 million years ago, during the same period of time that dinosaurs ruled…

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Research Paper Doctorate

Coastal Animals: Sea Turtles, Dolphins, and Seals

From a taxonomy perspective, sea turtles belong to the overall class of reptilia. The order is testudines. The suborder cryptodira also includes fresh water turtles. There are two families of sea turtles.

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Research Paper Doctorate

Ocean Pollution and Its Effects on Marine Life

¶ … ocean pollution, and how it is affecting marine life. It will also look at what is being done to control pollution in the United States and around the world.

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Research Paper Doctorate

SeaWorld as Sanitized Nature: A Visitor Ethnography

¶ … Seaworld might not seem very adventurous. It might not seem to mean very much of anything at all except for a relatively pleasant - if rather expensive - way to spend an afternoon.

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Essay Doctorate

Maori Renaissance in The Whale Rider and Potiki

Witi Tane Ihimaera's The Whale Rider and Patricia Grace's Potiki are set in Maori communities in New Zealand, and are part of the Renaissance of the Maori language and culture over the last forty years.

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Paper Masters

Oceanography concepts and applications

¶ … force of the winds is the major cause of patterns produced on the ocean surface. They are then modified by the effect of the Carioles Force due to the earth's rotation. Like gyres, the ocean floor dictates their…

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Paper Undergraduate

Memory and Languauge

The Nature and Function of Semantic Memory:

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