...FEAR: an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous. In his book Never Cry Wolf (1963) the author, Mowat Farley is showing us a different side to the wolves. At the beginning of the book Mowat hears lots of rumors about the wolves through the people in Churchill giving him a natural fear of the wolves. As he continued his exploration of the Canadian North and his study of the relationship between caribou and wolves he learned more than he could ever imagine. To show his knowledge of the wolves he used the rhetorical strategies pathos to appeal to humor and personification. First, In the book Mowat uses pathos to show us the wolves innocence. He starts off by giving us the emotion of fear. When Mowat...
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...He reaches over to light his candle, thinking he sees the coals of the fire. Things happen in quick succession; the Cat swipes his face with her claws, the Donkey picks up his hooves and kicks him, the Dog bites him on the leg, and the Rooster crows and chases him out the door, screaming. He tells his companions that he was beset by a horrible witch who scratched him with her long fingers (the Cat), a man with a knife (the Dog), a monster who had hit him with a club (the Donkey), and worst of all, the devil who screamed from the rooftop (the Rooster). The robbers abandon the cottage to the strange creatures who have taken it, where the animals live happily for the rest of their days. The Boy Who Cried Wolf The Boy Who Cried Wolf, also known as The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf, is a fable attributed to Aesop (210 in Perry's numbering system[1]). The protagonist of the fable is a bored shepherd boy who entertained himself by calling out...
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...to die right now, and dying later. The tumor making certain answers unquestionable. I watched her point to the incense dish from which someone swept all the ashes up. Asking if she recognized us. Because that is what the living want: thinking it is a sign we have been loved. But the answer was a summer drive, a mountain, piles of leaves beneath which a wolf slept, suckling her cubs. Some deaths are good and it makes them hard to grieve. She was, at times, in great pain. We wanted her to die, too. That was important. But first we wanted her to remember. From the bed, a finger pressed into a pile of leaves. Gray haunch, unmovable ashes. I didn’t want to disturb their tableau, she told us. And drifted off. And we did not know the meaning behind this. The wolves must have looked so comfortable to her: wordless and in this wordlessness perfect. Did she want to go there, too. I could point to the image and say, my father must be in there, my uncle. Or: the wolf is you, you are still the mother, as if necessary to name that self at the end of its world. An animal cry, memory. That was our selfishness. As death was hers. She insisted upon it. And why not. It was good for me to get a chance to know you, she said, who had known me my entire life. Then the pills, a small handful, crushed into juice. She was happy then. We all were. Or said we were. What is the difference...
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...contrast these four interpretations of the story, using direct quotes and paraphrases as appropriate. Try not to be judgmental; use the author's evidence for support. 3. Offer a brief critical analysis of the interpretations. What were the strengths and weaknesses, if any, of each? Three Little Pigs: Four Interpretations Gomez (1999) Literature is rife with pigs as symbols, from the Three Little Pigs to Porky, from the pigs in Orwell's Animal Farm to Hollywood’s recent creation, Babe. These characters have ranged from the crafty to the naive, from the big-hearted to the stupid who noisily eat garbage and roll about happily in mud. Wolves have fared poorly; with the exception of the 1983 movie Never Cry Wolf,...
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...Introduction Wolves, the very name polarizes people from one end of the spectrum to the other. From the people that believe they should be shot on site, to the opposite end where environmentalist feels that people hunting wolves should be shot on site. How could you argue with the people most directly affected by the re-introduction of wolves into their area? When your livelihood is constantly threatened by the predators, it drives people to extremes. In our initial settling of this country we drove the other predators (mainly Native American and wolves) from their lands; forcing them to remote outskirts. We nearly killed the wolf off in our drive to seize this vast territory and everything in it. By doing that we threw off nature’s food chain, which caused a ripple effect among other animals and plants directly affected by the wolf. By re-introducing the wolf to its once natural territory, are we trying to right an injustice done by our ancestors long ago? Research has shown that wolves impact society through its reputation as killer of livestock, important link in the eco-system, and pawn in the ongoing debates between Government and Conservationist groups. There’s something spiritual about gazing into a wolf’s eyes. It touches your soul and it changes you. According to Lopez (1978) “It takes your stare and turns it back on you. People suddenly want to explain the feelings that come over them when confronted with that stare-their fear, their hatred, their respect, their curiosity”...
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...The texts " A Howling Success" by Gerry Bishop and " The Missing Lynx" by Kathy Kranking have many similarities and differences about how endangered animals can be helped. One of the biggest similarities is that in both texts, the endangered animals were helped by scientist capturing them and releasing them in another space (the "rabbitats" and Yellowstone National Park.) Another similarity is that people were the main cause that wolves and Liberian lynxes were endangered. The people hunted the rabbits and killed the wolves; both texts give a message that: if you want less animals to be endangered, stop killing their prey or them. Also,another similarity is that the main helpers of the wolves and Liberian lynxes are the scientists. There were...
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...Exercise 1: The Moose Arrive In exercise one we simulated the arrival of a small group of moose that swam to Isle Royal. The simulation ran over time so that the moose can form a large population on the island. We studied this population of moose before the wolves’ arrival. The simulation ran for 50 years. After the 50 years simulation was complete the data was collected and analyzed. Answers to Questions: 5.1 ANS: The approximate size of the moose population is 600. 5.2 ANS: The Approximate maximum population size the moose obtained was 930. 5.3 ANS: Simulated Graph: [pic] 5.4 ANS: The exponential growth is approximately from 0 years to 20 years circles in pink. 5.5 ANS: The moose population grew fastest smallest. 5.6 ANS: The carrying capacity is approximately 600. It is labeled in a red K on the graph. 6.1 dN = rmax N (K-N) dt K ANS: “dN/dt” in the equation above is a differential calculating notation that represents instantaneous change in population size (N) over time (t). 6.2 ANS: When the population size (N) approaches the carry capacity (K) and N=K then the equation is rewritten as such: dN = rmax K (K-K) dt K 6.3 ANS: Therefore when (N=K) then dN/dt = 0. When dN/dt = 0 then the population stops growing at its maxima per capita rate and stops growing. 7.1 ANS: [pic][pic] Workbook Graph Simulated Graph 7.2 ANS:...
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...and contrast these four interpretations of the story, using direct quotes and paraphrases as appropriate. Try not to be judgmental; use the author's evidence for support. 3. Offer a brief critical analysis of the interpretations. What were the strengths and weaknesses, if any, of each? Three Little Pigs: Four Interpretations Gomez (1999) Literature is rife with pigs as symbols, from the Three Little Pigs to Porky, from the pigs in Orwell's Animal Farm to Hollywood’s recent creation, Babe. These characters have ranged from the crafty to the naive, from the big-hearted to the stupid who noisily eat garbage and roll about happily in mud. Wolves have fared poorly; with the exception of the 1983 movie Never Cry Wolf, the...
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...Dances with Wolves Dances with wolves is a movie based upon John J. Dunbar’s experience going back to an old fort and along the way he met indians and learned their ways of living. Also he met a white women that was taken in by the indians and John married her. John created a strong relationship with the indians. He taught them his language and they taught him theirs. As for the name of the film, the indians gave John the name dances with the wolves. This was brought up from a wolf following John around during the movie and was loyal to him. John lived with the indians in their forts for many months. John went back to his fort and when he got there he saw that American soldiers had set up there and attacked John when he arrived. They interrogated him and were going to put him to death. Just in time the indians saved John and he safely got home. John and his wife left and as the movie was ending they closed with the American soldiers finding the indian troops and were said to have destroyed all their forts and wiped out the indian population. This movie focused on seeing indians from a different perspective and not just savages. Though this movie was one of the top movies on the board when it first came out, the historical facts aren’t very accurate. To start off the American soldiers did murder lots of indians but they didn’t completely wipe out their population, there are still indians alive today. Also when John found the women she just became widowed and it is a ritual...
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...The Lynx Became Broken! Deep in the jungle lives a gentle lynx named Landon with fur as white as sugar. His pack typically considers him an oddity since he wears an orange shirt made by humans, walks on two legs, and speaks English. Unlike the others in the pack, Landon refuses to eat other animals and instead eats fruit. Late at night, the leader of the pack decided to banish Landon from the pack because of perplexing preferences towards life. Landon must now trek to find a new home. His first stop as new home happens to be N. Sanity Island, the home of Crash Bandicoot. Crash Bandicoot demonstrates everything beautiful, sharp, and insane. N. Sanity Island contains lush vegetation such as the Wumpa fruit with its juicy center and crunchy outside. The Wumpa Fruit contains very similar DNA to the DNA of apples. The inhabitants of the island include Papu Papu, the leader of the island tribe; Ripper Roo, who got transformed mentally insane kangaroo; and Dr. Neo Cortex, the evil scientist who experiments animals with his Evolvo-Ray. Landon ran briskly towards Crash’s House and knocked on the door with an impatient beat. Crash greeted Landon into his humble home. Landon slurped the delicious Wumpa Smoothie made by Crash. “Crash, may I stay with you in your humble home?” requested Landon. “I’m sorry Landon but my sister booked the guest bedroom already.” declined Crash. So Landon advanced on his way to find a home. He encountered Green Hill Zone, home of Sonic the Hedgehog....
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...ry Freedom is based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who begins to follow the activities of Stephen Biko, a courageous and outspoken black anti-apartheid activist. The story plays in November 1975 in the south-east of South Africa in the city East London. In this city Donald Woods is an editor of the Daily Dispatch. One morning he gets news of a police raid in the black township Crossroads which lies in Cape Town in the south-west of South Africa. To this news he also gets photos of the raid and he desides to print them although the government does not allow to print such photos.The story plays in November 1975 in the south-east of South Africa in the city East London. In this city Donald Woods is an editor of the Daily Dispatch. One morning he gets news of a police raid in the black township Crossroads which lies in Cape Town in the south-west of South Africa. To this news he also gets photos of the raid and he desides to print them although the government doesn't allow to print such photos. Woods does not believe the demand of the black people but he is trained as a lawyer and does not like police brutality against black people. This book promises to be an honest account of the turmoil in South Africa and a story of a black activist, but it turns into a usual cliffhanger about the editor's flight across the border. In my view, whites...
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...crazy hearts which beat for what they stand for and for their fellow brothers. And one of them is Malala Yousafzai. Everything is right in front of us, yet we fail to understand!! But there is this God, whom one have never seen and there they walk into a black hole in search of what is within.Is this what is called "Search that never ends"??!!Forgive me, If I was rude.. There they lay comfortably with their blanket of Religion,Race and so on, wrapped around them so tight.....that it has blinded their eyes!! "If you shoot, I die in a minute. If you love, I die every second seeking it" Where is life taking us??Why was I born??Why cant I change things??Why was I born as a girl??!! Cries a small heart... Miles away from her!! Never met her in this life of mine!! Yet her cry is heard!!! Are we ignorant of our intelligence, our capacity to empathize or are we pretending to be Ignorant ??!!I don't see the point in knowing, feeling and then not acting!!??!! Are we ignorant of our intelligence, our capacity to empathize or are we pretending to be Ignorant ??!!I don't see the point in knowing, feeling and then not acting!!??!! Education gives intelligence. Intelligence to pay respect, to love, to share and to let live. I don't see her neither do I hear her words nor can I understand her language Yet I sense her. May be this is what she wants to say, "If Seeking Education is a crime,...
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...stoning any witches found (identified by a telltale third nipple) to death. We focus in on a young girl. Her mother sends her into the forest to bring food to her ill grandmother, arming her with a knife and warning her against the dangers of the woods. The girl sets off on her journey unafraid because she knows the forest well. As she is walking, the girl hears a wolf's cry. She turns with her knife drawn to face the beast, and when it lunges, she cuts off its paw. It retreats back into the forest. She wraps the wolf's paw in cloth and continues on her way. When the girl reaches her grandmother's house, the snow is so thick that no tracks can be seen in it. She finds her grandmother in bed with a terrible fever, and when shakes out the cloth to make a hot compress, the wolf's paw falls on the floor. It has changed into a hand, which she recognizes as her grandmother's because of a single wart on it. Expanding... The girl uses all her strength to pull back her grandmother's covers and beneath them discovers the cause of her fever. Her grandmother's severed arm is already rotting. Hearing the girl's cries, the neighbors rush in. They examine the hand and declare the wart on it to be "a witch's nipple." They force the grandmother out of bed and to the edge of the forest, where they stone her to death. The story ends with the summary, "Now the child lived in her grandmother's house; she prospered." Analysis Bacchilega calls "The Werewolf" the first of "Carter's three 'women-in-the-company-of-wolves'...
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...Article Essay: Protecting Sacred Grizzlies Grizzly bears are under federal protection because they almost went extinct in the early 1900s. Native Americans want to protect grizzly bears in the West. Grizzly bears should be kept under a threatened status and be protected by the federal government. Grizzly bears should be protected because they are sacred to Native Americans, they should not be hunted for sport, and they are still a threatened animal. Federal and state officials have fought to reverse the threatened status on grizzly bears. Native American tribes are endlessly fighting to ensure the grizzly bear population is safe from over hunting. Grizzly bears are sacred to Native Americans and that should be a good reason to not remove protection over them. According to Ben Nuvamasa, the former chairman of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona, the Hopi Tribe sees grizzly bears as their family. He says they possess strong healing powers and play a big role in their ceremonies. The grizzly bear population was across most of the western United States until they were hunted and trapped; which destroyed more than 98% of the grizzly bears home range in America. This is also what happened to the Native Americans who were often killed or forced to live in small areas all across the United States; which is probably because of President Andrew Jackson. Many tribes across America want to ensure the protection of the grizzlies. Tribes say they do not know the fate of the bears and have not been formally...
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...The topic of rewinding is extremely complex due to the constant struggle between over populating a species, like the wolf population in North America, and having the wolf population almost to extinction. Wolves are important to the ecosystem throughout North America, and the struggle to increase their population due to the mass extinction throughout the early 1900s, has maid it difficult for environmentalist to decided whether to increase will increase ecotourism among areas that were once completely desolate due to the lack of wolves. Another option would be to reintroduce wolves as an ecocentric concern, rather than an economic concern. This would mean that wolves would be reintroduced in areas that they would actually thrive and prosper...
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