...Arctic Tribal Music “For family, for survival” "What is music?" he asked in his curious reed-like voice. "If you ask the wrong questions, you get the wrong answers”. “But I want the right questions”…. Active listening can help determine the usual characteristics of music i.e. forms, elements, and roots. But how do you know what your ears hear is music. And would you know to define it? One person’s homophonic passage is another’s minimalist rhythm. Yet one aspect is universal; it’s the fact that music plays a vital role in society. Throughout the world music is everywhere, from street corners to concert halls. It’s entertaining, stimulating, and demands an emotional response. But music can be turned off, or can it? For this group of people it can’t. As fundamental as breathing is to the human body, music is to the Native American Indian. Every facet of their existence is tied to song. And this is emphatically inherent in the Arctic Region’s Native American attitude towards song (Henceforth song is synonymous with music). As such they developed a musical identity in reference to their experiences real and perceived. The arctic region certainly one of the harshest on the planet; can sustain life albeit a difficult one. Long cold (at times totally dark) winters, and short summers (couple of months a year) meant the inhabitants had to be very flexible in lifestyle. Lite portable building materials (Tupik’s) or quick setup housing techniques (Igloo’s) were developed by the...
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...Figure F-1 http://www.exploringnature.org/graphics/mammals/bear_polar_bw_diagram150.jpg Figure F-2 http://forums.bowsite.com/tf/pics/00small78686148.JPG Some animals are noted for their physiology to live in certain conditions. One of those animals is the polar bear who lives in the extreme cold temperatures of the Arctic. In figure F-1, shown are several features which helps the Polar bear adapt to environment minus a few which will be noted later. These amazing powerful creatures are one of the few mammals which have adapted to its marine environment. As seen in figure F-1, the polar bear has large feet. “To help protect their feet, there are pads on the bottom of them. They are designed to give them plenty of traction for walking on the slippery ice” (2011). The ground in the arctic is permanently frozen. In order for the polar bear to be able to walk on the ground and keep warm, they have these large padded feet to assist them in their living environment. These padded feet are also equipped with large claws which are used in hunting their prey. The polar bear's Latin name, ursus maritimus, means “sea bear” (2011). This animal is one of the few mammals which depends on it s marine environment for survival. As shown above in Figure F-1, the polar bear has short legs and large feet to allow them to propel through the water quickly. Because of these physiological features, the polar bear is able to catch its prey quickly and efficiently. Another interesting...
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...Almost parallel to situation of the polar bears, the emperor penguin is also at risk of extinction. The penguin, similar to the polar bear is also a top predator in the arctic food chain that is being greatly impacted by the loss of sea ice. Just as the polar bear is starving as a result of other species dying off, the emperor penguin has also been experiencing the loss of krill. Krill, a small crustacean, akin to a shrimp, is the main food source of the emperor penguin. When the ice melts, the penguins are unable to track down krill, because the krill are unable to find a steady source of algae. This further support the notion that when one food source goes so does the one before it. An article from the Guardian expresses that “by 2100, all...
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...Arctic Survival – From Success to Failure Contrary to the outcome exhibited by most other groups during the Arctic Survival exercise, our team score (34) was lower than my individual score (64). This is not to suggest that group collaboration is detrimental; in fact, our outcome was unique among the class and of great surprise to the professor and entire class section. To be sure, pooling resources, elaboration of material, and support and motivation, while perhaps more time consuming, typically offer improved results. In theory, this model implies that a team’s collective knowledge can maximize utility and ensure the best outcome given the available information and perspectives. In our case, our group dynamics were such that we did not effectively utilize the resources we had, and consequently pooled a very limited amount of information. Rather than minimizing our risk, we increased it. I attribute much of our group’s failure at this simulation to process loss, which is defined as the problems that arise from lack of effective coordination among group members. A number of factors at play could explain the process loss which led to our counterintuitive results. First and foremost, one must consider the way in which group dynamics impact the overall productivity of group collaboration. Our team consisted of K, R, W, J and myself. K and W were quite opinionated, and in contrast, both R and J were quiet – I did not have a sense of what their true opinions were. K dominated...
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...Hopefully, by funding the efforts of scientists, educating the “non-believers” and suggesting ways to help restore the environment, we will come together to contribute to a solution to the endangerment of the animals in the Arctic. The presence of ice caps is an essential element in the lives of all polar bears and emperor penguins. They need these ice caps to raise their offspring, to hunt for food, to feed themselves and their families, but with the rise in temperatures, the ice has been melting earlier than usual. The warming temperatures and decline of ice caps directly impacts their ability to build up their fat reserves to properly nourish themselves and sustain their lives before hibernation. When there is less ice, the polar bears and penguins are forced to swim further distances looking for food and shelter, from ice cap to ice cap. Thus, they lose more energy and become weak, and as a result, are...
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...of surviving to adulthood means the population will decline in number. Research shows that polar bears conditions in Hudson Bay are declining which is often a reason to why polar bear sub-populations are going down. There are many effects that greenhouse gases cause that affect polar bears in northern Canada and Alaska like, pollution, climate change, shorter hunting seasons, and sooner ice melting. These are all effects that add to the list of reasons why polar bears are getting closer and closer to being extinct. Some solutions people are trying are, finding areas where polar bears can live on solid arctic sea ice that will last for years upon years, and the World Wildlife Foundation is talking with businesses to reduce their carbon emissions. The outcomes of these plans have had big effects like the WWF has had some businesses switch to cleaner energy to power their factories. The people are taking away from animals and using them to make unneeded and wonderful things but at what cost, when we make these things, drive our cars, and burn our energy we are putting animals, plants, and ourselves in harm's way. ...
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...How does the writer show the conflict in her thoughts and feeling about hunting? The writer uses her personal experience to describe the feeling and thoughts in a harsh environment vividly. In the third paragraph, the writer writes a few sentences to show that ‘an essential contributor to the survival of the hunters in High Arctic’. It can be obviously seen that catching the narwhals to eat is necessary, as the people need to survive on them. The author uses some technical language such as ‘vitaminC’ and ‘scurvy’ to implie that this is the only source of food, energy, tools and money in the High Arctic, which shows her sympathy to the hunters as hunting for Narwale is the only job they can do. The area in the High Arctic is not suitable for growing other vegetables. Narwhals has a rich source of useful nutrition, so Inuit people catch the narwhal as a main source of food. Also, the Narwhal’s ivory can be used for many things such as ‘harpoon tips’, ‘hunting implements’ and ‘central beam for their small ancient dwellings’. These fully describe that Inuit people can’t live without the Narwale, as it can help the Inuit people to survive. The writer’ feelings are explicit in the sixth paragraph, the hyperbole, such as ‘my heart leapt’ is used when the hunter was about to harpoon the narwhal. It shows how narwhal’s intriguing action is. The hunter has much courage to catpure the Narwale, which it is not a easy job at all and should...
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...Coke’s Polar Bears Coca Cola’s polar bear has been around for quite a long time, being introduced in a paper ad in France, 1922. The polar bear is a well-known symbol for Coke even though they portray the animal much different than it lives in the wild. It’s a symbol because an animated polar bear wouldn’t mean much to someone outside of our culture, but Coke has ingrained in our culture that it aligns with them. We created our infographic to display the benefits that both Coca Cola and the polar bears receive. Coke has done some great things for the polar bears but much more can be done. The polar bears have receive almost $2 million in support from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). There has been a substantial reduction in deaths of polar bears from trying to uphold a section in the high Artic that the ice will last the longest. Certain surrounding tribes have also slowed down or even completely stopped killing polar bears. Coke has also alerted the public and since they are becoming aware they want to help. I added the picture of the three cubs laying on top of their mother to allude that the polar bears are happy and in stable conditions. Coke has garnered much public appeal since starting the campaign. They teamed up with WWF in 2011 and since then they have accomplished in reducing carbon emissions by 8.5%. The benefits they receive are substantial. The more people they bring onto the product, in turn their profits will increase profoundly. Even though coke has provided...
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...SPECIES- Ursus Maritimus, Polar Bear, lord of the Arctic. Lives in an area of five million square miles of snow and ice. From Siberia to Alaska and across Canada, Greenland and the Islands north of Norway, he is the master of all living things except man. It lives in the brutal cold, ice, and snow. The temperature can plunge down frequently to -40 degrees and sometimes even lower but that does not bother the polar bear because of its color-less skin and layer of insulation fat. Its range extending around the northern polar region. Necessities of Life-The polar bear eats mostly seals which he has to hunt. His trick is to wait by a breathing in the ice and when a seal comes up by that breathing hole, he grabs it so fast it knocks it unconscious and then he eats it. Other pray is a walrus calf or a musk ox stuck in snow, birds, eggs, fish, and dead whales. And sometimes in the summer it eats berries and grass. The polar bear has no water to drink so it only eats the skin and blubber, avoiding the meat. So by eating the blubber and leaving the meat the male bear is helping keep his body in balance with the surrounding environment. The bear would usually stay in a den or bury it self in the snow to avoid the suns ultra violent rays. Usually the pregnant female polar bear stays in the den.Food Chain-The polar bear finds its way on the top of its food chain. No predator on earth approaches the bear in size. The polar bear towers over everything else in his food chain. The...
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...Scientists have studied the feeding habits of the extinct Cave Bear. Based on the isotope composition in the collagen of the bears' bones, they were able to show that the large mammals subsisted on a purely vegan diet. The team proposes that it was this inflexible diet that led to the Cave Bear's extinction approximately 25,000 years ago. In the study, recently published in the scientific publication Journal of Quaternary Science, the international team proposes that it was this inflexible diet that led to the Cave Bear's extinction approximately 25,000 years ago. So the cave bears went on a inflexible diet... Cave bears mostly lived in Europe during the most recent glacial period, approximately 400,000 years ago, until they became extinct...
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...majestic animals, but their survival is being threatened due to climate change. Their habitat is diminishing. Polar bears need ice to move around so they can easily find food to sustain life. Some areas of the Arctic provide sea ice year-round and in other areas it melts off every year. Governments and scientists have designated 19 populations of polar bears based in four different sea ice regions in the North Circumpolar Region known as the Arctic. These four regions vary greatly when it comes to sea ice, geography and climate change (Polar Bears International, September 2017). The first area is known as seasonal ice. This is the southern...
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...Polar bears are known for their vibrant white coat of fur. They have adapted this beneficial trait to help them survive and it provides the polar bear with fitness in its environments.this trait makes the polar bear white and makes them blend in with those icy surroundings. The hairs on a polar bear aren't actually white but appear white and thats what helps them blend in here's how the fur looks white,the polar bears long outer hairs that protect their undercoat are transparent and the thinner hairs are colorless as well. This makes it appear white because of the air spaces.when it reflects the colors and the light it appears white on the polar bear. The trait helps the polar bear stay safe from predators, and makes it so they can sneak up...
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...Hi! I am Frosty the polar bear, and I really need your help! You see, I have a big problem. The problem is that I am running out of space to live! The reason why is that you peskey humans are using up all of my water! If I don't have any water, that means that there is no water to freese into the ice that makes up my home. If I do not have room to live, that deffinitely means I don't have any room to hunt. If I do not have any place that I can hunt from, I can not get any food for my self, And do not forget, I allso have my cubs to feed as well. If my cubs do not get fed, they will most likley die. If my cubs die its only logical to belive that other cubs would die also.If all the cubs die, then my entire species would die as well. You do not...
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...surface of the water to get seals that have gotten away, and swim up to 50 miles in search of new land to start a family. These bears habitat are very special. It is because not many other bears could survive the temperatures that the Polar Bear endures. They live on the Northern Hemisphere ice caps.They are also thriving in The Hudson Bay and Greenland. Their population is increasing at a steady rate. This is an great sign for the generations to come. As you can see, Polar Bears are the coolest animals to ever walk the planet. They have come up with some very fascinating adaptations. This species deserves to be the point of many acts of preservations. Polar Bears are beautiful animals. Stuart 3 Bibliography https://www.fws.gov/refuge/arctic/bears.html http://polarbears.biology.ualberta.ca/our-research-2/previous-graduate-students-and-po st-docs/peter-molnar/Mar. 3 2018 http://www.worldbookonline.com/student-new/polar-bears accessed March 4, 2018 http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=3&sid=5ae02488-0820-42cf-9b25-7a 2fd734c21f%40sessionmgr4009&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d# AN=119923510&db=a9h ...
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...Due to new scientific evidence the world could face an economic disaster, we call it Global cooling. For many decades we have come to the conclusion of the more pollution, the more the world’s temperature increases but this is all about to change. Global cooling is caused by Global Warming heating up the world and melting the ice caps. The ice caps then release fresh water, which now dilutes into the Arctic waters making it less salty. This means the Gulf Stream will no longer sink to the ocean floor and will not make its return journey to the Gulf of Mexico. As soon as the Gulf Stream switches off there is no warm air reaching the Artic. In result the temperature drops so that ice ends up covering large parts of Europe and North America. Global cooling also increases the rainfall in places like Russia. In Russia the three great rivers now empty huge amounts of freshwater into the ocean due to the unexpected heavier rainfall. Global cooling will have an immense effect on living and non-living organisms all because of the pollution exposed into the earth’s atmosphere. Yet, many people argue that global warming and global cooling is a natural issue that has nothing to do with human activity despite all of the scientific evidence to prove so. Other people believe global cooling is happening and at a very fast rate and humans are going to have to adapt to these Artic like conditions. It is very likely global cooling will take action is the world doesn’t change its ways and...
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