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A friend is someone who understands and
someone you can trust.They will listen to you both night and day without ever making a fuss.
A friend will stand by your side when you are right and sometimes when you are wrong.They will hold you up when you are weak and provide support to make you strong.
A friend's love is unconditional and unique in every way.And when you have problems a true friend will kneel with you and pray.
A friend will stand by your side through thick and thin.And whenever everyone have deserted you they still will be your friend.
A friend once said to me that a friend is sent from God above and I believe this to be true.Because God has sent a friend to me and that friend to me is YOU.{Michael} Muffled against the bitter artic cold by thick white fur and layers of fat, the polar bear lives and hunts in the snowbound lands and ice flows surrounding the North Pole. A strong swimmer and a lone predator, it is at home ice flows, which may carry it far from its original locality.
However, even in the seemingly pristine Arctic environment, polar bears are threatened by the spread of hormone-disrupting chemicals and global warming. This affects the polar ice edge ecosystem, the habitat of walrus, seals and penguins, as well as bears. {The UN Works}
Sadly, Bengal tigers are endangered in the wild. Before man began to intervene into the tigers' lives, their population was around 40,000 individuals. But eventually man began to hunt the tiger for sports, protection, and its false medicinal purposes. In 1965, one Maharaja reported that he had killed only 1,150 tigers [Wexo, Zoobooks 1996]. Because of horrid situations such as this, the tiger is dying off of the planet. Of the original 40,000 that existed before man's intervention, the population fell to 2,000 individuals in the 1940's. Today, with the addition of greater protection through parks and law enforcement, the Bengal tigers' population is now around 4,000 tigers. Surprisingly, there are actually more tigers in wildlife parks and zoos than there are in the wild. This only proves the great support that zoological parks provide for the endangered animals of the world.{Unknown} Pandas are almost becoming extinct. They are endangered because people are cutting down the bamboo that pandas eat to make farms.
Pandas can eat more than 10,000 kilograms of bamboo a day.
The mother panda can only take care of the baby panda for half a year (6 months).
People can't tell if a baby panda is a girl or a boy for four years.
The mother panda only has one baby every two years.
Pandas have black on their eyes.
Pandas live in China on the mountainsides.
If all the bamboo is covered in snow the pandas will eat little mice or uncovered leaves.
Pandas are pink when they are born.
Panda mothers nurse their babies. Pandas are mammals.
Pandas are black and white.
If the mother panda has two babies she can only take care of one baby.
If the pandas don't have any bamboo to eat they will die.
There are now five giant pandas on exhibit in the United States: two at the San Diego Zoo, one at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., and two at Zoo Atlanta.
There are less than 1000 estimated giant pandas living in the wild.
It is sad but true that as open minded as the United States is we still think that the loyalty to your race should exceed that to individuals in general.There's nothing wrong with being proud of your race. There is something wrong when you can't feel that pride without debasing another race.Nationalism is at least a clear point of delineation, if we're going to separate ourselves. People can claim very clearly, and with good reason, to be pledged to different nations. Nations are very different and distinct from each other. Racism, on the other hand, makes much less sense. The lines between races are fuzzy and ill-defined, really only defined with any zeal on a case-by-case basis by your average racist.Nationalism and racism have both caused lots of problems, but let's not downplay what racism has done. It's done plenty, including more than a couple attempted genocides and thousands of years of slavery in various parts of the world.However, what is a nation without nationalists? Nationalism can be a force for great progress as well as great suffering. A nation without supporters can number its years very short.On the other hand, what is a race without racists? Nothing either way, since the whole idea of race is groundless to Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies
hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction....The chain reaction
of evil--hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars--must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of
annihilation.{MLK} I am the nice guy. I am a friend to everybody I meet and have no trouble hanging out with different crowds from one day to the next. I try to live my life without taking things for granted and experience every bit of it to the fullest. I am a dreamer and unfortunately it tends to get in the way of reality at times. I believe in fate and I love taking the risks that are necessary to get me wherever it is that I am going. I try to surround myself with people who add bits and pieces to my life, not take away from it. It's hard not to make your own assumptions about someone you've just met and those of you who judge by those assumptions will not go far. Everyone has their own story of where they are headed and how they got to where they are now. If you are a true friend, you know my story. Anybody else? I'm always looking for more bits and pieces.
