The 'cry of the wild'; can still be heard across this great land. I have heard the bugle of an elk on the Great Plains...the shrill of a bald eagle along the banks of the mightily Mississippi...the roar of a brown eagle bear on windswept tundra...and the gobble of a wild turkey among western foothills. Amazing beauty can still be found in the natural landscapes of this great land. I have seen through televisions, articles, books, and newspapers the towering forests...pristine waters...rich wetlands...wide-open prairies...majestic mountains...and vast deserts alive with color. I am in awe by the complexity and wonder of the natural world. Truly, it is where you can find solace and peace. America is truly blessed. A land rich in natural resources----our sense of adventure, pioneering spirit, and tenacity. Irving Berlin's God Bless America, Woody Guthrie's This Land is Your Land, and Samuel Smith's America all declare a love and respect for this land we call 'home.'; It is our duty to regain a love and respect for the land, its beauty, and life 's comfort. The legacy of our natural resource heritage must be preserved. Education is the answer. Through writing my paper I have learned that endangered species is more than a name, it is a mission in-and-of-itself, a mission to keep safe our wildlife---forever. The earth is home to more than 5.2 billion people, each having certain needs, wants, and desires. The process of consumption drastically changes the natural landscape, an many cases to the wearing away of other species. Consumption transform vast quantities of natural resources, such as fossil fuels and trees, into countless products and mountains of waste. As such, it directly and indirectly impacts land use decisions including wetland drainage, the clearing of forest, mining, agricultural production, and development. Over time, the increasing affect of poor land use, decisions, and reckless use of natural resources have undermined the integrity and to keep up the ability of the natural world, resulting in global environmental reduction. In his book, Earth in the Balance---Ecology and the Human Spirit, Vice President Al Gore writes: 'The disharmony in our relationship to the earth, which stems in part from our addiction to a pattern of consuming ever-larger quantities of the resources of the earth, is now manifest in successive crises, each marking a more destructive clash between our civilization and the natural world: whereas all threats to the environment used to be local and regional, several are now strategic .
confidence in himself when he goes up to bat. Meanwhile, in “David and Goliath,” verse 46 states, ”Today the Lord will help me defeat you. I’ll knock you down and cut off your head, and I’ll feed the bodies of the other Philistine soldiers to the birds and wild animals.” David is confident because he believes that the
In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh should be extremely civilized. After all, Gilgamesh is not just royalty but a king, and as a king he would have the reputation of being the epitome of civilized in this modern society. However, on the spectrum of civilization, despite being the protagonist and a king, Gilgamesh is considered extremely savage and uncivilized in the beginning of the story. He doesn’t eat raw food or walk around naked and dirty like what modern society sees as uncivilized. Rather
Shaan, and for my fiction report I am reading a book called “Call of the Wild” by Jack London . It was originally published in 1903. In my opinion, this book is really good, and I have enjoyed it quite thoroughly, and it is something that I would consider as a masterpiece of literature. This book is so good I decided to recommend it to you. In this letter I will provide you with reasons on why you should read “Call of the Wild”. My first reason on why you should read this book is because this
During the 17 years of my life, I really get pissed off when I lose at Far Cry 3. It’s a game where a family and friends are taking a trip celebrating the main character, Jason Brody younger brother, Riley getting his pilot's licence. I know it’s just a game and not real life, but I get so intense in the video game it makes me angry. The game starts with Jason his older brother, Grant and brother Riley are skydiving with friends over the Pacific Islands. They reached Rook Island and were taken
While living in the wild an elephant lives in large family accumulations, sometimes as many as 100 members. Most elephants have constant companionship with the other elephants. Their complicated social networks have been studied for decades. Research has shown that elephants mourn the loss of a family member for several days. Elephants have been disclosed to cry upon the death of a family member or friend. Wild elephants typically walk up to 30 or 40 miles a day. Exercise for elephants is extremely
Jane describing and connecting her observations of Bertha to a violent and wild animal limits the reader’s chance to manifest an image of Bertha ourselves. By associating Bertha’s actions with that of an animal, we as the reader have no choice but to see a vision of Bertha as a monster. Whereas Bertha’s situation and her actions
81) cries Titania to Oberon, and their contention, likewise a result of lust and jealousy and unbridled nature, luckily enters the play only peripherally. Theseus' law, and fairy medicine, overrules the lusty, animal side of love and prevents such violence from marring, indeed unmaking, the comedy. "The riot of the tipsy Bacchanals, / Tearing the Thracian singer [Orpheus] in their rage" (V.i.48-9) is an alternate selection, but one just as significant. "The mad Ciconian women" (p.259) cry "There
One of many major problems is that the animals in captivity live a shorter life span. In china at Shenyang Forest Wild Animal Zoo siberian tigers have died. “Creative commons siberian tigers are one of the world's most endangered species, which makes this story from china all the more chilling: blaming food that was too expansive, the Shenyang forest wild animal zoo allowed 11 of its siberian tigers to starve to death in cold cramped metal cages during the first three months of 2010”[Blythe
nature faker is an author that gives animals, from the wild, human characteristics and personifies them. In Jack London’s novel, The Call of the Wild, he writes about an extremely tough and confident dog, named Buck, who thrives in nature. For his writing in The Call of the Wild, many people accuse Jack London of being a nature faker. Nonetheless, Jack London is a magnificent, talented writer who carries a significant amount of knowledge about the wild and therefore isn’t a nature faker. Firstly, one
Eternal Struggle with Powerlessness in Sula and Their Eyes Were Watching God Is everyone really given an equal opportunity for success? So many different factors work against an individual. Think about all the things one does not have control over. People are held back by their race, gender, and history. In Zora Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Tori Morrison's Sula, both authors use metaphor, imagery, allusion, and arrangement to demonstrate their purpose; that purpose is to show
Almanac envision the role of human beings in relation to the rest of the natural world as one of exploration and interpretation through science and art. In both Bishop’s “The Fish” and Leopold’s “Thinking Like a Mountain,” the person’s contact with a wild animal comes about through hunting. In theory, hunting is a sport, “a challenge of fang against bullet” (Leopold 129), in which the animal has a fair chance of escaping. In reality, however, there is no real challenge for the hunter in either case
A Wolf’s Cry Wolves are misunderstood. Beautiful and wild, never able to be tamed, and the epitome of freedom. They only want to be accepted and loved for what they are. Now, here I stood, at the International Wolf Center, located in Ely, MN. Chubby, youthful faces pressed eagerly against the glass windows overlooking the enclosure. Their eyes were wide with wonder as they stared out across the meager, lightly wooded area. I found their giddiness contagious and soon, I too, scanned the woods for
The elephants snap and rebel, they charge crowds, trample handlers, and destroy equipment. Lions recognize and maul those humans that mistreat them. These actions aren’t out of pure aggression and they don’t need to be “corrected”. It’s clearly a cry for help from those that can’t speak for themselves and communicate their physical and mental pain. The animals
“Wild Geese,” was first appeared in Mary Oliver's Dream Work, in 1986. It was one of the poet's most diverse and arresting poems. In the poem, Oliver analyzes the connection between the human consciousness, nature in general and wild geese in peculiar. One of the critics named Alicia Ostriker, ranked Oliver among America's finest poets: "visionary as Emerson among the few American poets who can describe and transmit ecstasy while retaining a practical awareness of the world as one of predators and
sea lions will cry when watching their babies being eaten by Orca Whales, and rats will help other rats in distress. People used to believe that animals rely only on instinct and that they don't have feeling or care about anything but their own survival. Now because of advances in science we now understand that animals experience emotion just like humans do. First, both sadness and jealousy are emotions animals experience both in real life and in Jack London's The Call of the Wild. Firstly, animals