...result would give Julia a clear estimation about how many new stuffed animals she needed to order. Figure 1 in below shows the timeline of how Julia buys the toys for the company: 1992 January 1993 December 1994 50 of Each Tested for sale: Evaluation Test Results then Order Estimated Number of Bear, Pig, Bear, Pig, & Raccoon & Buy Test Toys for 1994 Christmas & Raccoon for Christmas Season Figure 1: Timeline of how Julia buys the toys for the company Decision Problem During last year, three stuffed animals were tested for sale, including a bear, a pig, and a raccoon. The result shown there were 10 out of 50 bears, 4 out of 50 pigs, and 32 out of 50 raccoons sold. Julia was faced with a decision to make about whether she should import the toys from Germany or but the toys domestically, and if the toys were to be imported, how many of bears, pigs, and raccoons she should buy for the Christmas season of 1993. Analysis of the Industry and the Company Looking at the toy business, there was an intensified competition between different companies. The toy departments of department stores are generally less profitable comparing with other departments. Those toy...
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...Little Ann. Throughout the story, Billy learns a lot of life lessons that help him to become a man. The story takes place on a farm in the Ozark Mountains of northeastern Oklahoma. At the beginning of the book, Billy buys two coon hounds puppies for .25 cent each. Soon after he gets the dogs he wants to train them to become great hunting dogs, which is where the story really begins. Billy is eager to teach his brand new puppies hunting techniques so he asked his Grandfather for a raccoon hide. The training for the dogs began when his grandfather gave him a raccoon hide. Billy used the hide by dragging it over a certain path, then he turned lose the hounds and they tracked the hide by the scent. Soon after Billy is finished hunting each day he goes to his Grandfather’s store and talks to some of the more experienced hunters. He learned a great deal of tips and tricks from these more experienced hunters. Autumn comes and Billy is ready to take his young dogs for their first hunt. On this first hunt Old Dan and Little Ann trap a raccoon in one of the biggest trees in the forest. This goes on for a couple of months; they catch a lot of raccoons. Everyday, Billy went to his Grandfathers store were he would trade stories with the older and more experienced hunters. Little did Billy know that he was getting a reputation for having great pair of skilled Coonhounds. Soon all of the Ozark Mountains knew about Billy and his two awesome Coonhounds. The conflict in the story...
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...Crack, the smell of sulfur fills the area around the hunters. The dull thud of the ring-necked pheasant colliding with the ground. The crunch of the leaves under the Hungarian pointers swift feet. The young John James Audubon runs to the dogs where the large cock that lays in the leafs. He admires the gorgeous crest of the pheasant with its scarlet mask. He gazes upon the plumage with black spots sown upon the golden feathers. The boy’s father walks towards the fallen bird to see the pheasant that had been shot. Audubon picks up the fallen bird and puts the bird in his field bag and the hunting continues. By the end of the long day, the hunting party has collected thirteen birds and one raccoon. The hunting party returns to the family home in the French countryside. Audubon brings the pheasant that he killed to his room and takes a sketch pad out of his desk and began to draw the pheasant. Audubon’s father gazes at the drawing and admires the artistic skill of his son. After that day Audubon was sent to the best art school in France to become an artist. This experience changed the rest of his life. John James Audubon's field guides are important to us because they became the main source of knowledge on American wildlife of the nineteenth century, Audubon's books made getting information on...
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...and squeeze it to death. The animal 5 times its size is know annihilated inside the vicious monsters mouth. There are thousands of these snake in Florida's most well know landmark, the Everglades. The presence of the Burmese pythons are changing the Everglades. They are annihilating local animals, affecting people, and changing the ecosystem. People don’t understand the gravity of the situation. To begin, Burmese pythons are killing the local animals. The Everglades is full of life! To millions of animals , it is their home. Prior to when Burmese pythons were released into the Everglades, many animals thrived. Text 2, paragraph 1, says, “With no natural predators, these eating machines appear to be wiping out huge numbers of opossums, raccoons, and bobcats, as well as many bird species.” This infamous species is also eating...
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...lack of food due to human hunting, an intensive predator control program, and the interbreeding of the red wolf and coyotes in the wild. There is one thing that is being done to help the recovery of the species and that is the restoration program. That along with other projects could help bring back the red wolf from the brink of extinction. The red wolf is one of two wolves native to North America, the other one being the gray wolf. They get their name from the reddish tint they have in their fur mostly behind the ears and on the legs and neck. Their size is in between the coyote and the gray wolf. The average adult is around 4 feet long from the end of their tail to the tip of the nose, and 26 to 31 inches tall at shoulder height. Average weight is between 50 to 80 pounds. They tend to hunt alone or in small packs of 5 to 8 individuals; often the individuals are the pups from the breeding pair. The breeding pair or alpha male and female are likely to mate for life. The gestation period for the red wolves is 60 to 63 days, mating season is late winter and the litter size varies from 2 to 8 pups. Only having one litter a year could be seen as a problem but there is nothing that can be done to change that. Their diet consists mainly of small animals such as raccoons, rabbits, rodents, and at times they are also known to eat deer, insects and berries. The lack of food supply is a major contributor for why they are endangered. With hunting season in many of the states...
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...Mountain Lion The topic I chose to research is a mountain lion because I find them to be an interesting living mammal. I have three cats at home and wanted to research the correlation that the mountain lion and cats share. Mountain lions affect society in way that they are an endangered set of mammals because they are known to attack people and children. They once roamed nearly all of the United States. They were prized by hunters and despised by farmers and ranchers who suffered livestock losses at their hands. This has changed my view of science by looking at the mountain lion in a biological, physiological, psychological way. Anatomy The mountain lion is the largest cat native to North America. Their head is small and they have a short and round face while their neck and body are elongated and narrow. The mountain lion is that their hind legs are longer than their front legs in which they utilize for running and jumping. The mountain lion has a long spinal column, which provides an increase lumbar flexation when they run. Adult mountain lions are a plain colored cat. Their color can vary from grey to dark brown to tawny and buff cinnamon red depending on the geographical location that they reside in. The tail is long, cylindrical with lots of hair. The muzzles are black located on the sides. Their upper lip, chin, and throat are whitish. The tail is the same color as body, except for the tip, which is either dark brown or black. Male mountain lions are usually larger than...
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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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...White argues that humanity is in what he calls a “progress trap” which he explains “I came up with the term progress trap to define human behaviors that sort of seem to be good things, seem to be, to provide benefits in the short-term, but which ultimately lead to disaster, because they’re unsustainable.” Humanity as a whole has reached what is considered a “progress trap” many times already and is in the process of falling into deeper “progress traps” than ever with technology and our economics. In the past, as an example given by Ronald White, Hunting turned into a dead end when our ancestors were hunting to make their living. They went from killing one mammoth at a time and struggling to do so, to killing a whole heard of mammoths by running them over a cliff. This pushed them into a “progress trap”. These new hunting techniques had been great progress made, but made them into a dead end of hunting in general. After these new hunting techniques, there was no room for any new improvements. Similarly, a “progress trap” of today would be technology and lack of communication because of the extensive progress we have made. On a simple hand held devise you can search the web, contact people, check...
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...November 22, 2011 Deer hunting is a very demanding hobby. The one thing that everyone must keep in mind when hunting is your safety and the safety of others. The reason for this is that you are using a weapon that can cause serious harm to you or someone, but this is not what this essay is about. I want everyone to actually learn what it takes to be a hunter. Being a hunter takes skill and understanding how deer sense things. The first thing that comes to everyone’s mind when thinking about hunting is killing Bambie. This is not the way I think, because of how I was raised. I took up hunting at an early age. I would always go with my father. So, here is what I have learned about hunting deer. You, as a hunter have got to know where the deer are. This is the easy part. Just find some good land with a water source, and good food that they eat i.e. acorns, wild persimmons trees, apples trees, corn, clover, and winter rye. Scout the land after locating these, to see if you can find there bedding areas. Finding the bedding area is the hard part. Deer in general will bed down in areas where they feel protected. Like in open areas surrounded by thick brush, or in low lying areas. After finding these good spots look for trails leading to their food, and water sources. These trails are what will make you or break you when it comes time to kill that big buck. The trail usually will lead to natural pinch points in the land. This is where you want to be hunting at due to the high traffic...
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...deer. Hunting is not allowed and these animals manipulated very fast. The problem is how to control the deer population. Singer would want the best for the most amount of people; in this case “the people” are deer. Tom Regan may say that the animals have the same rights as humans. Either way the situation needs to be handled with respect to Singer’s and Regan’s views. Regan calls animals “subjects-of-a-life”. He also uses the same terminology for humans. Regan believes animals should have the same moral rights as humans. He believes an infant or a mentally retarded man should be treated the same as a normal person. However the death of an animal may not be as important to the death of a human being because fewer opportunities are lost. He looks at what a person could accomplish in his lifetime and compares it to what an animal could accomplish and the human overrules. These views can be challenged in the Quabbin reserve. We simply cannot kill the deer because they have rights. However the death of a deer is not equivalent to the death of a human. But I cannot justify killing hundreds of deer with Regan’s view. The deer are not harming us so it would be immoral to kill them. On the other side Peter Singer’s views differ a little bit. Going of the basic utilitarian idea "the greatest good of the greatest number" he wants animals to be included in this. Anyone who didn’t support this idea would be classified as a “Speciest” according to him. Singer would allow the hunting of deer...
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... From the beautiful tall oaks, to the large pine trees and their needles covering the spongy forest floor. There are beautiful green ferns, leafy vegetation, thickets and rock cliffs. There are so many wonderful things to see and hear in this forest, which provide a natural home and shelter for many animals to live. My experiences and memories of the forest and hunting have lead me to have mixed feelings about hunting which will be examined in the following paragraphs. Omnivore’s Dilema has brought back memories from home, and yes that is the back woods where I grew up. In many ways, it is quite easy for me to relate to the chapters written about hunting by Mr. Pollan. Hunting is something my father and my brothers enjoyed doing together. It wasn’t as much as a sport to them it was a necessity. Actually it was our meat source for our daily meals. There were lots of different game to hunt; deer, rabbit, squirrels and turkey to name a few. Fishing in the streams was usually plentiful netting us big fish and turtles. Ortega Y. Gasset, the Spanish philosopher, who writes in his Meditations on Hunting, “One does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have PERSONAL: THE FOREST...
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...Yogi bear is a playful and fun bear that lives in the wild. This bear is known for stealing picnic baskets on a daily with his good companion BOBO. The best thing about yogi bear is that he is very considerate and when he gets caught he likes to say I like picnic baskets And also yogi bear like to have fun with the children at the parks. He enjoys doing whatever he wants . I wish that I could be like yogi bear one day. Get free food and become one with nature. Yogi bear is a playful and fun bear that lives in the wild. This bear is known for stealing picnic baskets on a daily with his good companion BOBO. The best thing about yogi bear is that he is very considerate and when he gets caught he likes to say I like picnic baskets And also yogi bear like to have fun with the children at the parks. He enjoys doing whatever he wants . I wish that I could be like yogi bear one day. Get free food and become one with nature. Yogi bear is a playful and fun bear that lives in the wild. This bear is known for stealing picnic baskets on a daily with his good companion BOBO. The best thing about yogi bear is that he is very considerate and when he gets caught he likes to say I like picnic baskets And also yogi bear like to have fun with the children at the parks. He enjoys doing whatever he wants . I wish that I could be like yogi bear one day. Get free food and become one with...
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...individual goes to hunt for seal of elk because those are the staple foods of the Inuit people (Nowak B & Laird P, 2010) if he is successful then he will first ensure that his family is fed but because the Inuit are constantly moving to where the food is, having the excess food turns out to be a hindrance because then they would have to insure that the extra traveled with them, so instead after insuring that his own family is fed a hunter will then share the extra meat with a hunter who was not successful during that particular hunt, this is called Generalized reciprocity, which is an act in which something is given with the belief that things will eventually even themselves out such as while one hunter may have been successful during the hunting season and another was not the successful hunter will share his food with the knowledge that the other hunters will also support him during his time of need in the future (Nowak B & Laird P, 2010). The kinship system impacts the lives of the Inuit’s because being a foraging society that must move from one...
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...In all of Africa, there are only approximately 600,000 African elephants remaining, and around 38,000 elephants are illegally killed each year for their tusks. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora estimates that at least 25,000 elephants were poached in 2011. Scientists at National Geographic predict that if this trend continues, in about five years, the already endangered African elephants will become extinct in the wild. Security on illegal exportation of ivory needs to increase and stopping unregulated domestic ivory markets found in a number of African and Asian countries would decrease the amount of ivory sold. Elephants are on the endangered species list, and with people killing these beautiful creatures just for their tusks, the elephant population is becoming dangerously low and at risk for extinction. After poachers killed more than half of Africa’s elephants, an international ban on the commercial ivory trade was put in to place in 1989, but that did not stop poachers. The amount of killings is at an all time high, and 2011 broke the record for the amount of illegal ivory seized worldwide, at 38.8 tons, equaling tusks from more than 4,000 dead elephants. In an interview National Geographic had about smuggling ivory with a Philippine church official, he had said, “Wrap it in old, stinky underwear and pour ketchup on it.” Another way to traffic ivory told by an Egyptian merchant who was taught by Chinese customers...
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...Tommy Grimes: Tommy is a 12 year old boy, who lives somewhere in the U.S.A with both his parents (probably in Mississippi, line 8 page 45). The whole story is taking place in a time before the civil war (before 1861). Hunting plays a vital role in the community Tommy lives in. Despite his father, “the boys” and the rest of the society, Tommy doesn’t like killing. (I can tell from line 6-15 on page 39). Tommy’s father is aware of that (as seen on line 19-20 page 39) and obviously he gets a little embarrassed when the other men bragged about their boys being good hunters (seen on line 26-28 page 40). Tommy realizes that, and in order to fit in, and be a part of the community (consisting of his father, “the boys” and all the other hunters in the village) he needs to accept the fact “that some varmints do damage and just plain got to be killed”. Tommy wants to make his father proud, so he eagerly starts practicing shooting with the rifle. After a while, Tommy is ready to see if he is able to make his first kill. He goes out buck hunting with his father. He managed to kill a runaway-slave with a shot that pierced right through the heart of the slave. – This is even better than killing a predator, and the above-mentioned situation results, that Tommy finally gets accepted as a man. Even though Tommy wasn’t quite happy about killing the slave, he is overwhelmed with...
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