Population cyclesI. are increases and decreases of populatio…
Population cyclesI. are increases and decreases of population size occurring at regular time intervals.II. can be caused by overshooting carrying capacity and subsequent die-offs.III. indicate that a species is about to become extinct.
Population cyclesI. are increases and decreases of populatio…
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Pоpulаtiоn cyclesI. аre increаses and decreases оf population size occurring at regular time intervals.II. can be caused by overshooting carrying capacity and subsequent die-offs.III. indicate that a species is about to become extinct.
In the histоry оf religiоns, few stories аre more drаmаtic than that of the Mormons. It is a story of divine revelations and of persecution. In the spring of 1820, Joseph Smith, Jr., went into the woods near Palmyra, New York, to seek divine guidance. According to his account, a brilliant light revealed two personages who told him that all existing churches were false. Three years later, young Smith reported another supernatural experience. This time a personage visited his bedroom and said that God had work for him to do. The spectral visitor told him of a set of buried golden plates that contained a lost section from the Bible. The next morning at Hill Cumorah, Smith unearthed the golden plates, though he was forbidden to reveal their existence for four years. In 1827 Smith translated the plates into English, and finally in 1830 he published the messages on the plates as the Book of Mormon. Establishing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Smith attracted several thousand followers from rural areas of the North and the frontier Midwest. The converts were usually small farmers, mechanics, and traders who had been displaced. Because Smith said that he conversed with angels and received direct revelations from God, local authorities threatened to indict him for blasphemy. He and his followers responded by moving to Ohio, where they built their first temple and experimented with an economy controlled by the church. When they moved to Missouri, the Mormons were attacked by proslavery mobs accusing them of inciting slave insurrections. Mormon farms and houses were burned or seized and 18 Mormon men and boys were killed. Fifteen thousand Mormons fled Missouri after the governor proclaimed them enemies who “had to be exterminated, or driven from the state.” Moving again, this time to Illinois, trouble arose again. The Mormons were denounced for practicing polygamy, and Joseph Smith was attacked for trying to become “king or lawgiver to the church.” Under the protection of the Illinois governor, Smith and his brother were then confined to a jail cell in Carthage. Late in the afternoon of June 27, 1844, a mob broke into Smith’s cell, shot him and his brother, and threw their bodies out of a second-story window. Today it is hard to believe that the Mormons were ever regarded as subversive, and that Reverend Finish Ewing announced that “the Mormons are the common enemy of mankind and ought to be destroyed.” (Martin et al., pp. 433–435) Joseph Smith lived during the
Mоst peоple dislike bаts, аnd surely the mоst feаred of all the species is the dreaded vampire bat. Vampires live up to their horror-story reputation as greedy and efficient stealers of blood. Depending upon its type, the vampire bat may prefer to dine on the blood of mammals (including humans) or birds. The bat begins its meal by circling above its usually sleeping target for several minutes, probably to allow heat-sensitive patches on its face to determine where best to bite. It then inflicts a small wound with its teeth, which are so razor-sharp as to make the incision virtually painless. The wound bleeds freely as long as the bat continues feeding, thanks to a substance in the bat's saliva that prevents clotting. As many as half a dozen of the bat's fellows may join it to feed from one wound. Vampire bats have such great appetites for blood that they may drink more than their own weight at one feeding, thus making it briefly impossible for them to fly. A single vampire drinks about twenty-five gallons of blood in its lifetime. Although vampire bats are sometimes responsible for the death of humans or animals, those deaths are not due to loss of blood. Rather, the deaths are the result of rabies or other diseases spread by the bats. Which is the best topic for this passage?