...If you have never taught a sibling to hunt, you might want to take that bullet out of the chamber.This foggy morning will be forever in my mind. This event was so infamous that I could never forget. Teaching my young brother Peyton to hunt is the day I wish had never started. This Foggy morning I was woken up by the sound of my alarm clock buzzing an annoying buzz in my ear. As usual I get up and get in my Camo shirt and my thick jacket. I throw on my overalls and put my boots on.I made a Bowl of cheerios and as I took the last bite I hear a horrifying sound. It was my brother and he said I am going hunting with you. I was thinking in my head well ok i just won’t let him shoot and i will make him be quiet. So we get in the woods and are climbing...
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...Florianne At some point in life everyone breaks away from one another. When someone leaves you behind it can create emptiness and loneliness and it will always be easier for some than for others to handle the feelings that can occur. The short story Florianne by Daniel Woodrell is a fascinating story showing, from a father’s perspective, what a father goes through when his daughter becomes a teenager. On the surface Florianne is about a father, Henry, being upset because his daughter, Florianne, is missing. He worries that someone has taken his daughter. Throughout the story he tries to find her and is constantly suspecting everyone around him to have kidnapped her (p.40, l.21). The narrator is being worried about his daughter and blames his surroundings for the loss. In the ending of the story the father recollects the memories of the missing daughter’s mother. The girl’s mother left the father and daughter years ago. The mother gave several reasons for leaving the father, among was that he was too much the same day in and day out: “I was too steady for her taste, too regular, too much the same one day to another.” Irrespective of age almost everyone in some point in life breaks away from someone close to them to form and create their own life. The loss of the narrators daughter begun before she went missing. On page 42 there is a description of his daughters transformation from a girl to a teenager: “That meant so much to her, to finally have a figure clothes looked good...
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...evening, I found myself sitting twenty feet up a tree in my hunting stand. I had my PSE spider bow in my hand with an Easton arrow knocked and ready to rock. I was only fourteen years old. My dad was sitting in the tree next to me. There was no sign of deer yet we were just listening to the wind blowing through the trees, and the squirrels rustling below. They were fidgeting around with some of the apples I had put out for the deer. One of the squirrels picked up an apple attempted to climb a tree with it and fell to the ground. I chuckled a little bit. I was focused on the squirrels when my dad leaned over and said “Quit fooling around there is a deer, look to the left”. I glanced left and froze as I stared right at a huge doe. She was walking down the trail right towards me.my heart started to pound faster and faster with every nearing step. I raised my bow when she was about thirty yards away. My heart was pounding. I drew back my bow and took aim. I paused for a second and closed my eyes to take a deep breath and think. “Mitch, wake up your dad is home” my mom said. I raced out the door in my pajamas. I was about six at the time. Sure enough the big green F150 pulled in the driveway, my dad gets out and drops open the tailgate. Lying in the bed was a huge doe. My dad picked me up and set me next to the deer. My mom came out and took a picture of us with his deer. “Dad when is it going to me my turn to go hunting” I said. “Son, when you grow up, I promise” he replied. Age...
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...Why Deer Hunting Is A Good Thing Anthony Krever General Purpose: To Inform Specific Purpose: To inform my listeners that deer hunting can be a good thing, and some of the many benefits that it offers. Introduction I. Open with impact a. This is a deer hunter (show picture of someone hunting.) 1.Some people enjoy this sport and want less restrictions on hunting 2. Others Hate hunting and guns in general and want them banned. b. I really enjoy to hunt. 1. I have been deer hunting for 6 years now. And only ever killed one deer. 2. But recently I have been missing shots at the deer I shoot at. Bow and black powder hunting, I usually miss almost everytime I aim and fire. II. Focus on thesis statement | III. Connect with audience Even if you have never been hunting, you should realize that hunters do a lot of good for our environment. They maintain the woods that they hunt in A lot of times hunters will plant deer diet specific food, to benefit the growth of whitetails. IV. Preview A. First I will explain why hunters hunt, they enjoy peace and quiet. B. Second, I will explain their effects on the environment. C. Third, I will show you how they protect wildlife. Body I. Hunters do a lot for wildlife. A. People go hunting to get away from noise and enjoy the sounds of nature. B. Deer hunting is a very peaceful and relaxing hobby. 1. People with stressful jobs escape the pressures of the workplace...
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...Lenk Hunting Hunting has been a way of life for thousands of years. As long as humans have been on earth, they have been hunting to provide food for their families. For many decades now, hunting has started to cause conflict among people. One of the main issues that have cause conflict has been overharvesting. Overharvesting can also cause issues with habitat and may put a strain on the relationship between the predator and the prey. While there may be issues, there are also benefits of hunting. Hunting controls the population of certain species. Hunting is one of the long time traditional ways of controlling the population of animas such as the white tailed deer. (Kilgo, Labis & Fitzen) The money that hunters spend annually on hunting helps support the economy in many areas around the world. Many supporters are for and against hunting. The question seems to be whether hunting is good for our environment or is it destructive. The consequences of continuing or eliminating the long time practices of hunting could have a detrimental effect on the environment. As mentioned in the opening paragraph, overharvesting can cause issues with the habitat of animals in the area and may also put a strain on the relationship between the predator and the prey. Studies have shown that the behaviors of the deer are different between the hunting and nonhunting season. The female deer tend to stay away from roads and highways and are less active during hunting season. The deer instead...
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...Savageless Many would argue that hunting sends us back to our primitive days when we lived only on the land and everything was used for money. It is actually quite the opposite of what most believe. Hunting is a way of life for some people and the only way we know how to get by. Hunting is by no means savage and is vital to everyday life. Without the hunters in the country we would be over run by animal populations and would have many predatory animals living in suburb communities putting our wellbeing at stake. Many people do not realize how much hunting indirectly influences their way of life. The meat in the grocery store was made in a more savage way than hunting. Slaughter houses are highly inhumane towards aimals. Hunting at least gives the animal free will to do whatever it wants in the wild. At a slaughter house animals have no hope to live any amount of time, but in the wild the animals are able to experience their natural habitat and be happy roaming the woods as they please. Many of the people who are against hunting are not even vegetarians and eat meat from the store and they are completely ignorant to the fact that what they are eating is killed in a horrible savage way. I am in no way saying that eating meat from the store is a bad thing to do, but only that venison is a more humane way of eating. Not only is it more humane its healthier than proccessed meat and has a less chance of carrying harmful bacteria gained from meat proccessors. Not only does the meat...
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...its going to feel to get out of your work clothes and into a cozy pair of sweats. When all of a sudden, BOOM!! A deer jumps out in font of you. You hit it head on and total your car. Now let me ask you, are you for or against deer hunting? Had a hunter had a chance to get that deer earlier, you could have been home already and not have to worry about finding a new car. The greatest benefit to deer hunting is population control. We as humans, have pretty much eliminated the deer's natural predators. If we didn't hunt to keep their numbers down, then the deer population would grow uncontrollably. Eventually ending the species due to starvation and disease. So, in a way, we are actually saving a species by hunting them. And believe me when I say that it's better, and cheaper, to hit them with an arrow or a bullet than with your car. In addition to population control, hunting is also great exerciser. Not only for the body, but for the mind as well. It gets you reacquainted with the sights and sounds of the outdoors. Things that have all been but forgotten due to the luxury of city life. It gives guys a chance to get away and be guys. No wives or girlfriends around to tell them they can't cuss, spit, grunt, or scratch. Now I know these animal rights activists are saying that hunting and killing animals is cruel. They say that hunters are hunting just to go out and kill something. And I'm sure if you ask any one of them, they'd say that they have never killed...
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...to do Twisted Tine Deer Mineral vs. Big Tine Mineral 2. Comparison of the 4 Ps | Twisted Tine | Big Tine | Product | Twisted Tine is sold in buckets with their label on it. Twisted Tine also incorporates not only mineral but deer feed as well. | Big Tine is sold in plastic bags with their logo on it. Big Tine focuses more on the deer feed with smaller amounts of mineral. | Price | Twisted Tine seems to be more expensive at $25 for 25lbs bag. I also see a lot more benefits and more actual mineral to the mix. | Bog Tine more affordable at $16 for a 40lbs bag. But you are getting fewer benefits. | Place | Twisted Tine is more of a local brand currently. I see it starting to be more available in the south but the company is based in Eau Claire. You can find it at Scheels and Covert Hunting. | Big time is more readily available being a national brand it is in many stores across the country. | Promotion | Twisted Tine is part of a company called Covert Hunting. They market with posters and banners in hunting specialty shops such as Mouldy’s archery in Hallie. They are a big presence online, especially in hunting groups on Facebook. | Big Tine advertises a lot online. They are also “Sponsors” on hunting television shows. That gets them quite a bit of airtime with their target market. | 3. I chose to buy Twisted Tine. The P that helped me with this choice was Product and Price. I chose it because you were actually paying for real benefits of the product. I wasn’t...
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...Many studies today have been done to research the strategies of domesticating white-tailed deer. The article “ White-tailed Deer Management Strategies and Domestication Processes” by Timothy C. Messner explores the use of management for the purpose of creating trophies. The article “Hunters and the Conservation and Management of White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)” explores the process of management used for regulating the population of white-tailed deer. Bot articles show various differences and purposes in white-tailed deer management giving different statistics and facts to provide the reader with a better understanding in the management process of white-tailed deer. Author Timothy C. Messner’s “White-tailed Deer Management Strategies...
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...Wendy Simpson ENG 101 Instructor: Magda Sokolowski August 4, 1025 Hunting: An Act of Conservation Some would say hunting is simply a sport, while others would say it provides assistance in conservation efforts. “Conservation is defined as a careful preservation and protection of something; especially planned management of a natural resource to prevent exploitation, destruction, or neglect” (Merriam-Webster, n.d.) Hunting serves as an act of conservation, by assisting in population control, while also providing funding for wildlife management through the Robertson Pittman Act and hunter created funding groups. While hunting continues to be disagreed upon for various reasons, the effects of hunting have been and will continue to be of assistance to conservation. Population Hunters contribute to conservation regarding population in two ways: reducing overpopulation and protecting the current population. Even though these may seem like a contradiction, they actually work hand in hand. Responsible hunters follow state regulated hunting guidelines. Hunters typically harvest wildlife that is of the appropriate age to not interfere with reproduction. Deer, for example, are typically harvested around the age of two and up. According to the Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency, of the deer killed in the Hatchie National Wildlife Refuge in 2011, 58.33% were 2 and one half years old (Big Game Harvest Report, 2012). Responsible hunters typically practice selective killing...
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...short-term needs or goals（p.3）. Seen in this way, “thinking like a mountain” do give the idea of preserving resources in long run. Killing wolves for the survival of deer seems is a very shortsighted behavior which is opposite from the idea of sustainability. Because a buck pulled down by wolves can be replaced in several years, a range pulled by too many deer may fail of replacement in as decade or even longer time. (Leopold 59) Thinking like a hunter will encourage people to kill wolves to achieve hunters’ paradise which means achieve short but not recycle benefits. However, thinking like a mountain will listen objectively to the howl of a wolf. This kind of opinion manifests the meaning of every species in the Virtuous cycle in the whole Biosphere. Killing wolves will increase the quantity of deer; therefore, it is easier for hunters to get more deer. After a short term earning, the quality of deer will decrease rapidly due to the limited food resources that won’t be enough for all deer to survive. Moreover, without the threat from their natural enemy, deer are easier to get ill because of less exercise. It will take a long time for hunters to realize the negative impacts of shortsighted hunting. To solve the side effect may cause even more time, money and energy. From the perspective of economic benefits of recycling, I do think this short phrase captures the essence of sustainability. Sustainability is...
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...| Allowing Crossbow Hunting Near Schools and Hospitals | A Recipe for Disaster | | Richard Eastman | 2/27/2013 | Composition, DVUO, Professor: Geoffrey Smith, 2/15/13 Seven -year-old Aryanna Schneeberg was innocently playing outside her home on May 20th, 2012. She was playing with her sister and a friend when suddenly she was struck with an arrow. “The arrow entered her back, puncturing her lung, her stomach, diaphragm and liver”(Roberts, 2012). This is a scary scenario for everyone involved and it happens in yards across America every year. Crossbows near schools and hospitals are not beneficial, because of accidental shootings, the users can get hurt, and it could traumatize children. First, a 16-year-old was arrested in June for accidentally shooting Aryanna with an arrow. He know that it was against the law to shoot his bow in the city, but he was shooting at a squirrel. Circuit Court Judge Dale English decided that the teen could be tried as an adult. This accident happened in Campbellsport, Wisconsin on May 20th 2012 (Roberts, 2012). A 23-year-old man was arrested for shooting an arrow into a house." The arrow just missed Erica Russell's daughter”(Year, 2010). Police arrested Philip Niccloy for reckless endangerment and criminal mischief. A 24-year-old man was found unconscious with a crossbow...
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...Since then, the gray wolf population has dwindled due to multiple threats. Any animal living in the wild suffers from natural threats. “Wolves can be kicked by the elk they are hunting, be injured in fights with grizzly bears, or, most commonly, get hurt during fights with other wolves” (“Are Wolves at Risk?”). Wolves do indeed have their share of threats in nature, but they are also threatened by the human race. “[Human encroachment in wolf habitat] leads to habitat fragmentation, where wolves might have to travel across lands with varying degrees of protection, cross highways, through developed areas and across large portions of private land, potentially containing livestock” (“Threats to Wolves”). When wolves are forced to travel, they will often come upon human civilization; in rural areas, wolves will attack livestock. This, in turn, puts gray wolves at risk of being in the doghouse with humans. The gray wolf species...
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...selecting food as well as gathering and capturing food. (1136). It also states that ecologist study the cost and benefits of searching for and selecting certain types of food as well as the mechanism used to locate prey. (1136). Foraging behaviors also have other characteristics such as optimal foraging and whether or not the species is considered a generalist or a specialist. Every animal uses its own attack strategy when it comes to foraging behavior and their prey have their own technique on how to Lessing there changes of being eaten. Our textbook defines optimal foraging as the most efficient way for an animal to obtain food. You would think that animals just eat whatever they see and what’s available but this hypothesis is absolutely wrong. According to Darrell Ray, an American Biology teacher human also go through a phase of optimal behavior. Darrell did an experiment with his general ecology class involving a plate of cookies and broccoli. In his experiment he polled how many students would choose a cookie over broccoli. At the end of his experiment he asked his students why did the majority pick cookies over broccoli. There response was because of the taste. Optimal foraging theory suggests a different answer, and it lies in the economic principle of profitability.” Fats and sugars do taste good, as the students noted, but sugars have the added benefit of providing a rapidly available energy boost, while fats have high caloric density. () Grizzly bears...
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...Haylee Bowers Research Paper 11/20/13 In today’s society, cruelty towards animals is growing rapidly because people don’t understand the value of an animal’s life. People all around the world use and abuse animals as if it was some kind of national sport, and everybody is competing for the first place gold medal. Ever year millions of animals are being beaten and starved because of heartless people. Animal cruelty is a social issue that many people don’t understand. All the people who abuse animals don’t understand when they are harming an innocent animal are going to continue to do it until they are shown what they are doing wrong. Each type of abuse has certain patterns that scientists can study and find out why people commit the crimes they do. Animal cruelty is broken down into two categories, which are active and passive. Active cruelty is also known as NAI (non-accidental injury). NAI is when a person has malicious intent so fierce that they deliberately and intentionally cause harm to an animal. On the other hand with passive cruelty a person doesn’t intentionally cause harm to the animal, they simple neglect it by giving it no attention. While I was doing the research for this essay, I thought non-stop about how a human being could break a dogs leg, back, or even neck and feel no sympathy for the dog? Are some people in this world that heartless that they have no feelings for other living things? I wonder if you asked a person that has abused an animal if they...
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