... sold up to $360,000. The financial gain outweighs any sort of penalties for poachers. The goal of the heartless poachers is to shoot the Black Rhino with high powered rifles right in the middle of their foreheads. Poachers have no regard for the long term effect of killing animals. After they collapse to their chest, poaching crews strip them of ... , like Ak47′s. They usually hunt at sunset or night, where the shoot and kill the rhino and then hack off its horn with an axe or panga. The horn and rifles are then usually stashed in a safe place until it is safe to be collected. Once the...

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To Kill A Mockingbird, a novel by Harper Lee, reflects racial discrimination in Southern America. When Atticus Finch, one of the main characters in the novel, gives his children rifles for Christmas, Scout recounts that he warns them: "Never point at anything in the house; and that he'd rather I'd just shoot tin cans in the back yard. But he ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... artillery was very modern, and the Mauser .275 was the finest infantry arm in existence. The Boers were well equipped with modern weaponry that gave them a great advantage. Quantities of rifles and ammunition were excessive for Boer requirements. The Boers lost most of their initial war gains due to lack of coordination among their leaders. In the second sate of the ... ...

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... 1914. He attacked an opponent on the beaches numerically superior to him at least eight to one and drove them back. As a result he captured- 16 machine guns, hundreds of rifles and 600,000 rounds of ammunition. - These supplies would help sustain his campaign throughout the rest of 1914 but also most of 1915. This also was his only real success ... ...

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... them trying to see what was happening up front. In an attempt to disperse the protest and teach the crowd a lesson, the police began firing into the crowd with revolvers, rifles, and mounted machine guns on Saracen armored cars. "I do not know how many people were shot. It all started when hordes of natives surrounded the police station. If they do ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate