The Progression of a Hunter
It's three o'clock in the morning. I've been sleeping since eight p.m., and now my alarm clock is telling me that it's time to wake up. Most people are sleeping at this hour of the night, but I'm just now waking up to pack up my gear and head into the forest for the morning. Last night I packed my .30-06, tree stand, a small cooler full of food and a rucksack full of hunting equipment including deer scent, camouflage paint and a flashlight. I've been planning a hunt for two weeks, and the weekend has finally come. I get up from bed, shake off the cold of the morning and get ready to leave by four.
It's five a.m. when I get to the dirt road winding into Ocala National Forest. I park my car in a clearing gather my gear and head into the forest with my eyes to the trees. By five-thirty I'm set up in a tree, my rifle is loaded and I'm quietly sipping hot coffee from my plastic thermos cup. I'm well concealed by tree limbs, and I have a clear shot at the ground below within my line of sight. My camouflage pants and jacket keep me hidden from the poor eyesight of the deer below, and my height above the ground keeps the smell of a human away from the sensitive noses of animals on the ground.
Six a.m. and the sky is turning a light blue. The night's shade is dissipating slowly, and I can begin to see my surroundings a little better. A shot rings out from the west, and that signals nearby hunters. I hope they drove some game my way. Within a few minutes, there is rustling in the brush below me. A young buck is coming within range. He's a big one too; I can see about eight points from where I am. He is cautious and sniffs at the air and flicks out his tongue often. His coat is a light brown color like khaki. There are white markings along his flank, and he has a stubby little white fluff of fur for a tail. I disengage the safety on my rifle. The bolt is forward on the gun, and I know there's a round in the chamber. I steady myself. I turn ever so slightly to get a better angle.
For many people, hunting is just a sport, but for some it is a way of life. In Rick Bass’s “Why I Hunt” he explains how he got to where he lives now and what he thinks of the sport of hunting. There are many things in the essay that I could not agree more with, and others that I strongly disagree. Overall this essay provides a clear depiction of what goes through the mind of a hunter in the battle of wits between them and the animal.
After an hour and forty five minute drive I was home. I still had over two hours of prime hunting left. I saw several deer that afternoon but they were all too far away for a shot. Just before dark I had a doe come in to about 125 yards away. Knowing that there was little chance that I could hit the deer I took a shot. Sure enough It was a clean miss. Disappointed I hopped back in my car and headed back to East Lansing. The next day I got up at five in the morning and headed to Muskegon. The next Tuesday my roommate and I decided to try are luck again. My roommate and I went to high school together and we had always been hunting partners. I had a class at one o'clock that day so we could only hunt till eleven that morning. We were in the field a half hour before light. I was optimistic that I could get a descent shot off that morning.
The use of force is a heated topic among many people. What is the “Use of Force Continuum”? It is the level of force an officer can use when arresting or subduing a suspect. According to Hicks (2004), “It is considered morally reprehensible for an officer or a sovereign agent to use excessive force without due necessity. However, once the need arises for a proper escalation of force, both the doctrinal theses of just war and the use of force continuum provide for a proper and morally principled use of necessary force” (pg. 255). The use of force continuum was created to guide officers so they are less likely to use excessive force. The officer is expected to use more force than the suspect, but no so that it is deemed excessive. According to Lyman
Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21st in 1899. Named after his grandfather, Hemingway was the second of six siblings in his family. He was born and raised in a town called Oak Park, which was known for being an upper/middle-class suburb only ten miles from Chicago. Hemingway would later refer to his place of birth as a “neighborhood of wide lawns and narrow minds.” This was likely due to the fact that Oak Park was mainly a conservative town that tried to separate from the liberal views of the big city. Hemingway was raised with very strict, conservative values, which taught him that the most important things in life were religion, hard work, physical fitness and self-determination. Hemingway’s father, Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, taught him to hunt and fish by the forests of Lake Michigan. Hunting quickly became one of Hemingway’s most loved passions; he often uses his knowledge of the sport to his advantage in his writing. Hunting is just one of the many inspirations that Ernest Hemingway uses to develop one of his short stories. A major influence on his pieces was World War I; he was enlisted in the World War I ambulance drivers. In 1918, he was seriously wounded after being struck by a mortar shell in Italy and returned home (Lost Generation). The effects of the war on Hemingway’s mind and body played a huge role in short stories that he wrote, but also on possibly his most famous novel of all time, A Farewell To Arms. In an interview with Matthew J. Bruccoli, Hemingway listed the following writers as influences on his own work: Ring Lardner, Sherwood Anderson, Ezra Pound, and Gertrude Stein (Conversations with E.H.).
The “National Use of Force Framework” is the model that Canadian policing agencies follow when training future police officers (Butler, n.d., p. 6). This specific model has five steps that an officer should follow before resorting to the usage of lethal force (Butler, n.d., p. 19). One common guideline in police use of force is to apply the minimum amount of force necessary to achieve “control” of the situation (Butler, n.d., p. 14).
First, the attitude of the speaker’s father creates a contrast with other hunter’s behaviours during hunting. When the speaker goes hunting with his father, his father often adopts the technique of “[sitting] silently, motionless and endlessly patient, waiting for deer to come down the paths” (2). They sit this way for hours and are usually rewarded because “there was always an abundance of less patient hunters … noisily crashing about, keeping the deer more or less constantly on the move” (2). The sound of
Imagine you've been hired to be a hunting guide in the desert when you?re the guy that is being hunted. Your customer accidentally shot an old prospector whom nobody knows and doesn?t want to go to jail for it. So he makes you take off all your clothes and tells you to try to walk to town, which happens to be 60 miles from where you are. With no food and no water you are forced to walk or do what you need to do, to try to stay alive. So you wander in the desert mountains trying to find water while being watched through a ten-power scope of a .358 caliber Winchester Magnum.
Police brutality and the use of excessive force are unavoidable in police effort. In many circumstances, the lives of officers or civilians can be taken by not using force when necessary or use it improperly, which officers duties consist of protecting and serving the community. Many influences are involved when an officer resolves to use force toward a suspect in the line of duty. The situational consciousness is important, and officers are noted by the agencies to be proficient to evaluate when a calamity entails the use of force to reclaim control of a situation. In most cases, time converts the significant variable in shaping when an officer selects to use force. Law enforcement agencies falsify and cover-up the use of police brutality all too often in the
Desmedt, John C. (2009). The Use of Force Paradigm for Enforcement and Corrections. Retrieved from http://www.pss.cc/uofm.htm
Jon Lajoie is a monster because in his song, “Show Me Your Genitals” he degrades women and talks about them like they are men’s property. In the beginning of the song Jon says, “Women are stupid, and I don’t respect them, Thats right, I just have sex with them,” Jon demonstrates the inhumanity of some men, thinking it is ok to put men over women and that women are not equal to men in every way. Jon then mentions, “ I can’t have sex with your personality, and i can’t put my P@$%# in your college degree and I can’t shove my fist in your childhood dreams, so why are you sharing all this information with mee?” Jon is simply saying that women don’t need to go to college and their childhood dreams are useless because all they are useful for is men’s pleasure which is completely sexiest and unacceptable for todays society. Towards the end of the song, John states, “ Girl’s brains are much stupider than men’s are, so they should always listen to us, ‘cause we’re smart, women are good for three things cooking. cleani...
I was nearly finished with my cigarette when behind me I heard the sound of something moving through the grass. I quickly but quietly extinguished my cigarette in the palm of my gloved hand and turned around. My eyes scanned to see exactly where the sounds had come from, and I only hoped that the smell of my cigarette hadn't spooked whatever was walking behind me. After about ten seconds I saw the ears of a deer sticking up above the tall grass about thirty yards from me. I slowly reached to my right to remove my bow from a hook in the tree. The deer was now moving towards me through the long grass, and behind it was another deer. I knew that the rut (the peak mating season) was well under way and this second deer may be a buck. After what seemed like an eternity the second deer came into view. It was a buck, as I had thought, but it was bigger than any deer I had ever seen.
In the beginning of the story Rainsford says , “the world is made up of two classes – the hunters and the huntees.” I believe that statement is false because someone can be a hunter and a huntee. For example in the story Rainsford is an expert hunter but when Zaroff tries to hunt him down he becomes the hunted.
Since there is a premise on which the judgment will be made, a proper benchmark, the judicial procedure occurs much quicker. For this reason, it is much more efficient in its process in relation to the codified system which does not follow this process of a precedent based system. As the decisions made are premised on antecedents, they have a firmer basis. This is an obvious advantage over the common law as the codified system of law has to rely on the creation of rules and legislation rather using case laws to create future laws.
The birth of American writer Ernest Miller Hemingway on July 21st, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois occurred during the progressive era and mere months before the Philippine-American war. Raised in the conservative suburbs and vacationing in northern Michigan the young Hemingway enjoyed the outdoors at his family’s cabin and his experiences there led him to become a sportsman partaking in fishing, hunting, and thrill-seeking. His initial writing skills were divulged when he began writing for his high school newspaper “Trapeze and Tabula” where he took interest in the sports section which would later play a large role in his professional writings as his focus on masculinity and social theories.
We know the history of the post Nehruvian congress party. We know how it splintered and how its factions fought amongst themselves to claim legacy to THE Congress party. The Congress party had enviable hold...