...Wolves My project is going to be on wolves. Wolves are fierce and beautiful creatures. With their strong jaws and sharp teeth they are deadly hunters, but wolves can be gentle and playful too. Most packs contain between 5-8 wolves. Small packs may have about 2 members. Large packs can hold up to 30 wolves. Wolves have many different ways of communicating with each other. They can make a wide range of noises, including snarls, whines, whimpers, squeaks, and barks. Wolves in a pack are mostly friendly and affectionate with one another. When two pack members meets, they whine, wag their tails, and lick one another’s fur. Wolves are carnivores, they mainly eat meat. They prefer to hunt and eat large animals such as moose, muskoxen, elk, and caribou. These creatures are powerful, armed with sharp hooves, and fierce horns or antlers. They can only be hunted by wolves in a pack. Other wild dogs like cats, bears, raccoons, hyenas, and seals are also carnivores. Like members of the dog family, wolves breed only once a year. Mating takes place in late winter. The young develop inside the mother for 63 days until birth. Two weeks after they are born the cubs are bigger and stronger. They can know hear and they eyes are open so they can see. They clamber over one another to reach the warmest places under their mother’s body. By the age of three weeks they are able to stand and wobble to the den entrance; they sniff the air and look outside the world. ...
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...Wolves Wolves are very interesting animals. Wolves are from the kingdom animalia, phylum chordata, class mammalia, order carnivore, family cavesnidae, genus canis, and species lupus. They come in many subspecies and inhabit a wide variety of habitats in North America and Eurasia including the arctic, tundra, temperate zones, desserts, forests, taiga, and sometimes even urban areas. (www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolves). Wolves have survived through the ice age. An ancient form of primitive wolf may have originated seven hundred fifty thousand years ago in the eastern part of North America which are thought to be the ancestors of the Eastern Wolf and Red Wolf. Wolves have been in folklore, myths, and cave paintings throughout history. In some cultures wolves were respected and revered, but in other cultures they were feared or looked down upon. Their behaviors have frequently been misunderstood by people. The wolf was once the most widely distributed mammal in the world. Their decline in population and reduction in territory is due to people destroying their habitats and killing them. There were once about fifty subspecies recognized, but the list can be condensed to about thirteen-fifteen general subspecies due to DNA testing, anatomy, distribution, and migration. In 2005, thirty-seven subspecies existed including the dingo and the dog. Some subspecies are extinct or endangered. Some subspecies have been saved by conservation efforts and are being...
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...Endangered: Understanding Wolves Roxanne Green Devry University ENGL135 Cynthia Pengilly April 10, 2011 Abstract Understanding the wolf and their ways of life is the key to saving these animals from extinction. Throughout time people have killed wolves out of fear, because they want their fur, or because they have lost livestock to a wolf. Fear comes from not knowing, not understanding the wolf and their life. Loss of livestock happens because people take over the wolves land and territory, killing off the wolf’s prey and introducing livestock. By education people can become familiar with the ways of the wolf and help this very important animal from becoming extinct. Endangered: Understanding Wolves The beauty of a wolf is breath taking; they are fascinating creatures that will set fear in most people. They have been the center of attention in myths, legends, and folklores creating a relationship that is not only ancient but complex between humans and the wolf. Wolves are social predators that live in families and they develop packing orders. The wolf is the largest member of the canine family. At one time they lived in large areas in North American, Europe, and Asia. The most common threat and source of death for the wolf has been people. Over time they have been hunted so much that they are now near extinction. Wolves are feared animals; they are misunderstood, people want their fur, and complaints of livestock being killed by wolves are leading these animals to...
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...Dances with Wolves Tera Butler ENG225- Introduction to film Professor Daniel Burrello February 8, 2015 Dances with Wolves Westerns are stories of life and adventure in the American West a time period and way of life everyone should reflect on. Dances with Wolves(1990) is one of the most truth brought forward Westerns of our time, as it explores the ending of the Civil war and the embarks on the New Frontier that ultimately changed the way of life for most all Native Americans. This film is compiled with drama, love, loyalty, courage, and racism all with lasting impact on its audience. Directed by Kevin Costner in a simple cinematographic technique that allows the audience to experience the characters every move. This movie was written by Michael Blake and directed by Kevin Costner who also is the lead actor throughout the film. Other actors include Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney Grant, and Floyd Red Crow Westerman. The story starts with a wounded Civil War soldier about to have his foot amputated when he makes an attempt at his life by stealing a horse and running recklessly across the open battlefield nearly getting shot. The build from this scene is that the soldiers fighting see his act of desperation and encouragement and a distraction and use the fact that the enemy is so focused on shooting him off his horse that they never see the final attack coming. The end of this scene Kevin Costner...
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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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...Analysis and interpretation of “The Company of Wolves” The Company of Wolves is an interesting rewriting of LRRH* and a female author’s slightly feministic interpretation of an old classic. You can see that the story is a rewriting of “LRRH” because there are a lot of similarities. For example in both stories we have a little girl walking through a forest to give her grandmother a basket of dainties . Besides that we also have the classic sentences: “What big eyes you have”, “What big arms you have” and “What big teeth you have”. The story is a rewriting so of course there are also differences like that we don’t have a heroic hunter who comes and saves the grandmother and the girl and the wolf’s genitals is described in a way so the story might not be the best bedside reading. The girl is about twelve years old (p. 22: “she has just started her woman’s bleeding”), has flaxen hair and wears a red shawl. She is a latecomer and has been so indulged that she does not know about the dangerous world she lives in (p. 22: “in this savage country”, p. 23: “she is afraid of nothing”). She is described as very innocent: Pretty, pale, fair hair like lint and virginity (p. 22). The hunter part of the wolf is described as: “a handsome one” and “a fine fellow” (p. 23). Besides that the author describes him as gallant since he offers her to carry her basket. He is a real gentleman. The wolf part of the wolf is on the other hand described as: “a beast of...
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...Dances with Wolves by Michael Blake was published in 1986 after many years of rejection after rejection. This two-hundred-eighty-five page historical fiction novel tells the beautiful and awe-inspiring tale of young Lieutenant John Dunbar and his love for the vast open prairies of South Dakota. But, what is perhaps even more wonderful is the people who inhabited the land long before white men ever thought to settle it. This extraordinary tale shows the prejudices of whites against Indians and one man’s attempt to bridge that gap and save the land and people he has grown to love more than life itself. Dances with Wolves takes place in the year 1863 at the tail-end of the Civil War when morale runs lower than resources. Lieutenant John Dunbar is sent with supplies to a desolate Fort Sedgewick. Upon his arrival the fort has been abandoned, its men gone back to the East Coast. Ever vigilant to his duties, Dunbar holds the fort, hoping that they will return and reinforcements arrive. All is for naught, his presence at the fort is not known by anyone, save himself. As time passes he soon finds himself in the company of an older wolf, Two-Socks. The two form a strange friendship and Dunbar finds peace and beauty on the prairie he has never felt before....
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...the Three Little Pigs appear here, along with a mini-research study about wolves and pigs. To help you improve your writing skills, you can approach these pages in two ways: First, read the assigned questions below. Then read through the four short interpretive texts. Next, take some time to write a brief paper in which you answer the questions posed at the beginning. Were you able to easily summarize using your own words? Were you able to write without having the original source open in front of you? Did you include proper in-text citations? Assigned Questions 1. In no more than four paragraphs, summarize the story of the three pigs. (Refer to either the Higley or Ashliman version for direct quotes.) 2. Compare 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,...
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...Economy Wolf Essay The wolves ecosystem is very interesting compare to other species. This species takes a big part in its environment in some areas because it controls the population of the animals thats on a wolves food web. A wolf is one of the most powerful predators in its ecosystem. And yet these fierce animals in the past few decades their survival has been on a peril. Its because wolves and humans co-exist and often compete with each other for survival. They fight for what’s really important like their environment and habitats which will lead up to fighting for food and water. Wolves have to face many difficult obstacles along the way in order to survive and continue on with life. A wolfs food web is unique in some ways because wolves...
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...The Wolves By Paisley Rekdal It was the week of asking. Asking to watch her eat. Asking if she understood the doctors’ questions. Asking her to explain the difference between wanting 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...
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...English 101 December 5, 2006 The Big Bad Wolf • Three little pigs dance in a circle singing "Who's afraid of the big, bad wolf?" • Little Red Riding Hood barely escapes the cunning advances of the ravenous wolf disguised as her grandmother. • Movie audiences shriek as a gentle young man is transformed before their eyes into a blood-thirsty werewolf, a symbol for centuries of the essence of evil. Such myths and legends have portrayed the wolf as a threat to human existence. Feared as cold-blooded killers, they were hated and persecuted. Wolves were not merely shot and killed; they were tortured as well. In what was believed to be a battle between good and evil, wolves were poisoned, drawn and quartered, doused with gasoline and set on fire, and, in some cases, left with their mouths wired shut to starve (Begley 53). Convinced that they were a problem to be solved, U.S. citizens gradually eradicated gray wolves from the lower 48 states over a period of 25 years. Today many people are convinced that the elimination of the gray wolf was not only an error, but also a detriment to the quality of life in this country. There has been a public outcry to rectify the situation created by the ignorance of our ancestors. However, in seeking to address a situation created by the human compulsion to control nature, it is crucial to discern how much human interference is necessary. Human control must be tempered by respect and restraint. Programs designed for the protection...
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...Name __________________ APES Isle Royale Population Study Background: Isle Royale is a small island (45 miles long by 9 miles wide) located in Lake Superior. In roughly 1949, due to a thick ice pack on Lake Superior, timber wolves crossed the ice pack and began to live on Isle Royale. In 1958, one of the longest wolf/moose interaction studies began. Far more information can be found at: www.isleroyalewolf.org or www.wolf.org . Isle Royale is one of the locations for the W-SR Wilderness Studies summer trip. Procedure: You will use the population data to graph the interaction between wolf populations and moose populations at Isle Royale. Put both these lines on the same graph; use a different color for wolves and moose. Make sure to note the y-axis location for each!! Data: Year Wolves Moose |1968 |22 |1042 | |1969 |17 |1268 | |1970 |18 |1295 | |1971 |20 |1439 | |1972 |23 |1493 | |1973 |24 |1435 | |1974 |31 |1467 | |1975 |41 |1355 | |1976 |44 |1282 | |1977 |34 |1143 | |1978 |40 |1001 | |1979 |43 |1028 | |1980 |50 |910 | |1981 |30 |863 | |1982 |14 ...
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...Three little pigs dance in a circle singing "Who's afraid of the big, bad wolf?" Little Red Riding Hood barely escapes the cunning advances of the ravenous wolf disguised as her grandmother. Movie audiences shriek as a gentle young man is transformed before their eyes into a blood-thirsty werewolf, a symbol for centuries of the essence of evil. Such myths and legends have portrayed the wolf as a threat to human existence. Feared as cold-blooded killers, they were hated and persecuted. Wolves were not merely shot and killed; they were tortured as well. In what was believed to be a battle between good and evil, wolves were poisoned, drawn and quartered, doused with gasoline and set on fire, and, in some cases, left with their mouths wired shut to starve (Begley 53). Convinced that they were a problem to be solved, U.S. citizens gradually eradicated gray wolves from the lower 48 states over a period of 25 years. Today many people are convinced that the elimination of the gray wolf was not only an error, but also a detriment to the quality of life in this country. There has been a public outcry to rectify the situation created by the ignorance of our ancestors. However, in seeking to address a situation created by the human compulsion to control nature, it is crucial to discern how much human interference is necessary. Human control must be tempered by respect and restraint. Programs designed for the protection and restoration of wildlife must reflect deference for the...
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...Wolf Ecology Essay by Kyle D. The habitat that the wolfs are usually in the tundra to woodlands, grasslands and deserts. Today gray wolves populations located in alaska, northern michigan, northern wisconsin, western montana, northern idaho, northeast oregon, and the yellowstone area in wyoming. Wolfs are the only species to be deliberately driven to the brink of extinction by humans. Also wolves are carnivores The gray wolf a.k.a the timber wolf is found in the north american. It’s also the largest extinct animal in it’s family. The gray wolf is the most specialized animal out there. The gray wolf is also one of the world's well known and...
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...tale of the Three Little Pigs appear here, along with a mini-research study about wolves and pigs. To help you improve your writing skills, you can approach these pages in two ways: First, read the assigned questions below. Then read the four short interpretive texts. Next, take some time to write a brief paper in which you answer the questions posed at the beginning. Were you able to summarize easily using your own words? Were you able to write without having the original source open in front of you? Did you include proper in-text citations? Assigned Questions 1. In no more than four paragraphs, summarize the story of the three pigs. (Refer to any of the four interpretations for direct quotes.) 2. Compare 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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