Examples of functors

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Can anyone please give me examples of:

1.- An exact functor other than taking the Galois group from the category of fields.

2.- A half exact functor.

3.- A contravariant right exact functor.

I know you can form some of these examples by playing with the tensor product, the Hom functor and their derived functors. I'm looking for other examples.

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Let $X$ be a topological space and let $x\in X$. The operation of assigning to each sheaf $\mathscr F$ on $X$ its stalk $\mathscr F_x$ at $x$ defines an exact functor $$ (-)_x:\operatorname{Sh}(X)\to\Bbb Z\text{-}\operatorname{Mod} $$ where $\operatorname{Sh}(X)$ is the category of sheaves on $X$ and $\Bbb Z\text{-}\operatorname{Mod}$ is the category of abelian groups.

Let $\operatorname{C}(\mathcal A)$ be the category of cochain complexes in an abelian category $\mathcal A$. Then the process of taking the cohomology $H^n(C^\bullet)$ of a cocomplex $C^\bullet$ defines a half-exact functor $$ H^n:\operatorname{C}(\mathcal A)\to\mathcal A $$

For examples of contravariant right-exact functors you might find this post on mathoverflow useful.