...water, mud and animals spreading across an area of 1,509,000 acres. It is the only place in the world where you can find alligators and American crocodile living side by side in harmony. Most of the people think that the area is a swamp, covered with dirt and grass, however everglades consist of a slow moving river, making it possible for boats to roam about. Why An Air boat ride is the best way to explore Everglades? The Everglades area has many mangroves tunnels, sawgrass marshes and pine flatwoods. That is why the best way to explore the everglades is through airboat rides in everglades. With most of the area covered with grass and mud, the best way to see hard to reach places is through an airboat, as the boat moves through a fan rather than a...
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...The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature William Cronon This will seem a heretical claim to many environmentalists, since the idea of wilderness has for decades been a fundamental tenet-indeed, a passionof the environmental movement, especially in the United States. For many Americans wilderness stands as the last remaining place where civilization, that all too human disease, has not fully infected the earth. It is an island in the polluted sea of urban-industrial modernity, the one place we can turn for escape from our own too-muchness. Seen in this way, wilderness presents itself as the best antidote to our human selves, a refuge we must somehow recover if we hope to save the planet. As Henry David Thoreau once famously declared, “In Wildness is the preservation of the World.“’ But is it? The more one knows of its peculiar history, the more one realizes that wilderness is not quite what it seems. Far from being the one place on earth that stands apart from humanity, it is quite profoundly a human creation-indeed, the creation of very particular human cultures at very particular moments in human history. It is not a pristine sanctuary where the last remnant of an untouched, endangered, but still transcendent nature can for at least a little while longer be encountered without the contaminating taint of civilization. Instead, it is a product of that civilization, and could hardly be contaminated by the very stuff of which it is made...
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...The world, as it is known today, is strictly physical. Humans have no soul, and our sky is not harboring some invisible god of all creation. Nature is not a maternal being looking to comfort the creatures who live amongst her, and the conscienceless creature called man, who currently inhabits Earth, will soon be just like the dinosaurs – dead – for the harsh indifference of the soil beneath man’s feet has no opinion on his survival. Naturalism, as described above, is a grim, almost nihilistic, belief system characterized by the idea that the world is exactly as it can be seen; there is no god, but instead science, which can prove every concept and material object within the universe’s physical world. In addition to putting their complete faith...
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...and question a lot of what I have come to believe. Questions about my up-bring, past, what direction I want to go in the future and how I raise my child. Through much self-reflection, weekly reaction postings an assortment of readings, and exploratory writing I began the process of gathering up all the remnants of myself I had hidden...
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...The people without high ranking, the servants, were sent into the wilderness to settle and “scope out” the area before the rich would come to ensure their safety and well being in these new lands. This caused anger and resentment between the poor and the rich and partly inspired the Bacon’s Rebellion. 6. Peopling: The poor (servants) came to the colonies in prospect of finding a better home and economic status. However, they claimed to have been stripped of...
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...Service, Jack London and their contemporaries. A good example of this writing is the poem “Cremation of Sam McGee”— see appendix II, (Service). All these extreme brand images dominated perceptions of Alaska prior to the discovery of gold in the Klondike in the late 1800s. After gold was discovered these negative perceptions were softened somewhat, though they remained rather negative—in large part due to the difficulty of living in the far north. Our Brand Survey We did a brand audit of Alaska to see how well Alaska has worked past these harsh criticisms. To accomplish this we surveyed local Alaskans, people from the “Lower 48”, and a few international people. Most of these surveys were done online using Survey Monkey (Survey Monkey). This has given us a comprehensive view of how people feel about Alaska—both within the state, from the lower 48, and internationally. We want to evoke responses that reflect people’s own thoughts, so we designed our question to keep out...
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...environment, the countryside close to no air pollution, but less services you need to travel more to access services. The pros and cons of the city life more cultural opportunities, more diversity of people, more opportunities for higher education, better services like trash collection, water and sewer, cons more crime, more pollution, higher costs living. So as you can see I am little undecided about my dream house so. I am just going to explain two type of dream houses and locations one countryside and one in the city. First the city it would most likely be in Broward County a lake front home of course “I love water”. It would be 3 story house because it’s very hard to build full basements here. So one of the floors would be more like a half basement because the property will have a 3 car garage. The outside of the house would be a dark brown wood siding, and then a simple rock base that goes up about 1 feet on the house to give the old house effect. The side facing the water would be all glass so we can always look out to the gorgeous lake in front of us. It would have a long paved private driveway. The first floor would have moving glass door, doors opens with voice commands. There is a small flower garden and vegetable garden off to the one side of the house with solar powdered lights wrap around the whole house. At night the house look like a big Christmas ornaments. There are a few grape fruit trees scattered...
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...‘To Build a Fire” Jack London’s short story, “To Build a Fire,” takes place during a harsh winter in the forest of Alaska. This story is about a courageous but stubborn man who decides to confront the mighty forces of nature. This man takes a journey that not many would have taken, with a husky dog as his only companion. As he travels through the rough landscape of Alaska, he faces many natural obstacles. Facing these barriers make him more aware about reality about challenging the forces of nature, a challenge that in many times becomes a matter of life or death. Throughout the story the main character is not given a name, he is simply known as the “Man.” A hardheaded newcomer to the coniferous forest of Alaska; a man who thinks he knows it all, but is about to come in contact with the worst weather he has ever had to face. The man’s lack of experience led him to his downfall. As his journey began he went into the trail not well prepared, because of the low temperatures a face mask was well needed and he did not bother to wear one. “He does not recognize that man is so finial that the bitterly cold Alaskan inevitably destroys the individual” (McClintock 355). The man had trouble understanding that Nature was something that can never be fought against, but still his machismo personality set in and he was not going to back down from it. Fifty degrees below zero meant nothing to him, he knew it was going to be cold and uncomfortable, and that was it. It did not lead him to...
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...was baptized in the river Jordan, He was “led out into the wilderness by the spirit” Luke 4:1. He was the confronted by the devil himself, pure evil incarnate, and prince of demons. The devil wanted Jesus to turn to him and worship him, thereby completely destroying His ability to bring salvation to the Israelites, and to the world as a whole. The devil did not know, or at the very least understand, with whom he was dealing. Jesus refuted him at all suggestions of temptation by quoting directly from the Word of God, which He himself had been from the beginning of time. The devil lied to Jesus, telling Him that “all the kingdoms of the world . . . were his to give, if He were to worship him” Luke 4:5-7. Jesus, of course, did not accept the devil’s offer, because He is the true King of all creation. Very few of us, if any, are directly tempted by the devil. Although we are all tempted, mostly we are tempted by our own sinful nature, not from specific temptations by other entities. Jesus was tempted by complete evil because He was a threat to the devil and his minion’s. Jesus sought to save all of humanity from sin and evil, and “proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free, and that the time of the Lord’s favor has come” Luke 4:18-19. This was of tremendous concern to the devil, for he was the source of all evil and sin. He had no desire for mankind to have salvation, and now that the Lord had sent His own Son to...
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...Into the Wild Argumentative Essay Into the Wild is a 1996 non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer. It is an expansion of Krakauer's 9,000-word article on Christopher McCandless titled "Death of an Innocent", which appeared in the January 1993 issue of Outside. Christopher Johnson McCandless was an intelligent, idealistic young man who believed that life was best lived alone, in nature. He spent two years testing his theory throughout the western United States before he entered the wilds of Alaska unprepared and starved to death. Chris had a very bright, hopeful future and why he left it all behind confuses most people. After analyzing Chris's personality traits, it helps things make sense. This makes many people ask the question, what was Christopher McCandless's temperament type? The theory of temperament type was introduced in the 1920s by Carl G. Jung. The essence of the theory is that much seemingly random variation in the behavior is actually quite orderly and consistent, being due to basic differences in the ways individuals prefer to use their perception and judgment. Based on evidence from the story, Chris McCandless was most likely an INTP (introverted, intuitive, thinking, and perceiving) temperament type. This means he was focused internally, where he dealt with things rationally and logically. Some people would diagree wiht this position and would argue that Chris McCandless leaned towards the preference of sensing and feeling. There is some evidence provided...
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...him and the buying public. But, according to Marx, since there would be no private property under communism, it is there that man would then be free to express his individuality through production (Marx, 1844b, p. 278). I will argue that although some will remain unconvinced by Marx’s theory of alienated labour because it relies on what they see as Marx’s warped conception of human nature, the theory is still useful to those struggling to understand the difficulties imposed on them by capitalist society. The first category of alienated labour analysed by Marx is: alienation from the product of labour. Under capitalism the workers produce products, but Marx argues they are alienated from the products they produce. One understanding of why this is the case is: it is not up to the workers what happens to the products they produce (Wolff, 2002, p. 31)....
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...In The Jungle, Jurgis Rudkis is a man who leaves his homeland of Lithuania to pursue the American Dream and all it might offer him, his fiancé Ona and her family. Along the way he and his immigrant family face horrendous living and working conditions, cruelty and unimaginable heartache. Jurgis values and morals are in direct opposition with the capitalist society he encounters. These oppositions and the harsh living and working conditions change him and cloud his judgment, but the cruelest irony is that life in America robs him of his most treasured possession: Ona’s love. To better understand why Jurgis is challenged by living in America, we need to look at his past and history with his intended bride, Ona. He was a big, strong country boy with broad shoulders and giant hands. Jurgis was raised in “the midst of the wilderness” (Sinclair 30) in Lithuania, a decedent from generations of peasant class. When he saw tiny,...
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...Relationships Chapter 6 You may be a parent who has reared your children and they are all grown up. What do you do when your child or children will not respect you and they make a disconnection from you in their adult life? Pray to God for wisdom and the understanding about the situation. God will help deliver you through it all. Parents must not have any regrets, because certain challenges will enter into your children’s lives. There may be several disappointments that will happen, along the way. Parents must not live their lives in disgust, when they want the best for their children and do not see the positive results within their lives, at the moment. Put all of your trust in Christ and know that he will direct and guide your children’s lives, according to God’s purposes or great pleasures for their lives. Parents should help their children in any way that is possible. When children get into any trouble, the parents must try to be there to help their child. If some of the children have repeated behaviors or offenses, parents should assess the situation and pray to God for his help with their issues. Some adult children should be allowed to make certain decisions in life, but they should all be held accountable for their actions and accept some reasonable consequences for their actions or defiant behaviors. During the times of trouble, rebellion, hardships, and trials with the children, the parents should never lose any love for their children. Parents should refuse to...
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...themes and events in Genesis, and quite a few of the most popular Bible stories come from this first book of the Old Testament: God’s creation of everything we have come to know as existence, sin (of Adam & Eve, Sodom & Gomorrah, the Tower of Babel, etc.), God’s promises (of love, acceptance, and forgiveness), Joseph’s coat of many colors, and plenty more. After God’s creation of existence, Adam and Eve were disobedient, and therefore were punished. Over time, the human race had become so sinful that God washed everyone except Noah and his family in a global flood Noah's descendant, Abraham, was chosen by God to create a chosen people. Abraham's twelve grandsons from Jacob (who was later renamed Israel) became the “founders” of the land of Israel's twelve tribes. One of Jacob/Israel's sons, Jacob, was sent to Egypt by his brothers (or so they thought- God had planned this for His own reasons, which were good). Joseph's father and family were saved by a newly powerful him. Exodus Exodus’ basic genre is a narrative as well. Key themes and events include: Oppression of the Jews from the Pharaoh, Moses' characterization as the Jews' rescuer, God's plagues sent upon the people, the first passover, Moses parting the red sea, and the fall of Egypt's army. After all of this, the Jews were searching in the wilderness for the promised land, and although God provided them with necessary means (“bread from heaven, bitter water turned into sweet water, water from a rock, victory...
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...face depression for a variety of reasons, up to and including sin. Inside of the Christian circle there are many different views and methods on handling depression. Some view depression as an illness, and say that it is something that cannot be controlled by the person who is experiencing it. Others say that depression is always the result of some type of sin guilt, and that the person who experiencing depression has a need in one way or another to release this sin and ask for forgiveness. Even as it relates to hardship or things that are out of the counselee’s control, proponents of this view say that the depressed person did or does not trust God and reacted to the problem in a sinful way, and therefore is depressed because of their failure to handle things in a Godly way. Christians who have this view for the most part are not attempting to be harsh, but in most cases are...
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