Reindeer Essays

  • Nenets: A culture of ice and snow

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    unique peoples from northern Russia, are a culture deeply rooted in the cold temperatures and the migrations of reindeer. Currently there are two different groups, the Tundra and the Forest Nenets. There are currently 41,000 living in the tundra. The Nenets are known for their close relationship with reindeer and the ways in which they use them. They herd, breed, slaughter, and follow reindeer through specific migration patterns. The Nenets are the last of their kind in their unique ways and are being

  • How People Survive Living in the Artic Region

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    year. Besides, they hunt reindeers, birds, fish and whales when it is not winter. Typically, those animals have a lot of fat and other nutrients that are crucial to local people. To receive the most of the nutrients from those animals, they decided to eat their raw meat, which has more nutrients and vitamins reserved compared to cooked meat. That is perhaps why they are called “eaters of raw meat” by American ... ... middle of paper ... ...le migrating. Besides reindeers, Eskimos also eat mammals

  • William Stafford's Traveling Through the Dark

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    Profound Meaning in William Stafford's Traveling Through the Dark The power of the poet is not only to convey an everyday scene into a literary portrait of words, but also to interweave this scene into an underlying theme. The only tool the poet has to wield is the word. Through a careful placement and selection of words, the poet can hopefully make his point clear, but not blatantly obvious. Common themes of poems are life, death, or the conflicting forces thereto. This theme could never possibly

  • A Critical Comparison of The Stag And Roe-Deer

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    A Critical Comparison of The Stag And Roe-Deer There are six stanzas, which are each seven lines long. This is written in free verse, it has no rhyming scheme and there is no rhythm that I can see. The lines are about ten words long, apart from the last two lines, which are shorter. The title is simple and straightforward. It is significant that the whole of the stanza is about people except for the last line, which is about the stag, keeping a distinction between the two. The poem is

  • In The Stag Hughes seems to comment on man’s relationships with nature

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    In The Stag Hughes seems to comment on man’s relationships with nature With reference to The Stag and one other poem in the section discuss the poet’s treatment of conflict between man and nature. “In ‘The Stag’ Hughes seems to comment on man’s relationships with nature” With reference to ‘The Stag’ and one other poem in the section discuss the poet’s treatment of conflict between man and nature. The Stag was written by a poet named Ted Hughes and is similar to the poem Roe-Deer in many

  • Traveling Through the Dark by William Stafford

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    Traveling Through the Dark by William Stafford In his poem, "Traveling Through the Dark," William Stafford presents the reader with the difficulty of one man's choice. Immediately, the scene is set, with the driver, who is "traveling though the dark" (line 1) coming upon a recently killed deer. At first, his decision with what to do with the deer is easy; he knows he must push it off the edge for the safety of other motorists, but then, a closer examination of the deer reveals to the man new

  • The Argument Against Drilling In Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)

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    Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), the crowned jewel of the nation’s 544 refuges is in danger of destruction (Lamar and Markey 12). ANWR has been in existence since 1960 and has slowly become one of the most controversial topics to hit Congress. ANWR is composed of 19 million acres on the northeast coast of Alaska. Although the government has been provided with this immense land they are fighting to gain more land. Why? ANWR is the second biggest oil field that is owned by the U.S.

  • Miwok Social Life

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    History Final Miwoks set many standards for themselves and the tribe. They were usually very hard workers, working harsh numbers of hours a day to keep the tribe alive. There were hunters, fishers, and many other jobs for people. A non-nomadic people, the Miwoks settled in the Yosemite Valley. My report is on the Miwok Social Life. Games, customs, jobs, and many other things about the Miwok Indians will all be covered in this. The way they lived, what they ate, and what they farmed. They all had

  • Essay On Guns Germs And Steel

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    Guns, Germs and Steel There is nothing better then realizing that each indigenous people evolved into something better or that they found ways to survive in situations they weren’t use too. There were many changes that happened over time that cause for situations to change for everyone around them. But it also has helped with being able to progress with the way they lived. Jared diamond the author of Guns, Germs and Steel interpret his famous theory oh how we came to be. How the geography luck

  • Atrocities in Stafford's Traveling Through the Dark

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    Atrocities in Stafford's Traveling Through the Dark Is a drive just a drive, or is it a metaphor that imparts appreciation for life's fragility while simultaneously lamenting man's inability to appropriately confront, or understand, death? William Stafford's "Traveling Through the Dark" illustrates the mechanisms by which seemingly mundane events become probes into the mystery and ambiguity of the human condition. The poem's situation is simple, a lone traveler driving along a desolate canyon

  • Analysis Of Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer

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    Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a story we are all familiar with, it captures a moment in time of blatant prejudices and inequality that spanned years from when it was written in 1939 to when it was released as a movie in 1964. However endearing the story may be, it is a testament to what conditions were socially accepted as normal during that time period. Originally written by Montgomery Ward to sell appliances, this story has an explicit lens of bigotry, inequality, and the importance of conforming

  • Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer Analysis

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    Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, is a children’s Christmas song with a theme of hope and greatness for everyone that is unique. There are various poetic devices used throughout the song that lead to that message. There are two examples of personification in places in the song. Both examples have to do with reindeer. In the first example the reindeer are described as poking fun of Rudolph because of his unique red nose, just like little

  • Rudolph's Revenge: A Fictional Narrative

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    They never knew I was there. I snapped. I wanted my revenge.” Rudolph explained. “Who was she with?” Santa questioned stirring his hot chocolate. “Blitzen. I was so pissed! I told all the other reindeer but none were surprised. They knew! They were helping him! When they invited me to play reindeer games, he was fucking my girlfriend! I wanted them to pay, all of them!” Rudolph was enraged struggling to get out of his handcuffs but to no avail. The room was locked; even if he had broken out of

  • Charles Webb's The Death Of Santa Claus

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    In Charles Webb’s “The Death of Santa Claus,” the speaker describe how a story of how Santa Claus died to him once he found out Santa Claus is not actually real. In the first half of the poem, Webb tells the story of how Santa Claus was feeling kinda sick and the sickness turned into his death. At the end of poem the 8 year old kid telling the story about Santa Claus gives the reader some details but not many, on how his mom had to tell him Santa Claus was not real. Line one is started off by saying

  • An Alien's Experience in New York City in December

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    In the month of December, New York City is such a crazy place! I walked down the street and was awestruck when I saw the most realized natural vision in the middle of New York City. It was a large hardwood plantation covered in these reflective beacons that hovered over an elliptical gathering spot. Here people were taking pictures and gliding across a frozen bond while wearing covers for their feet with small blades attached at the bottom for a more controllable slide. There seemed to be humans

  • The Glass Menagerie Criticism

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    “The Glass Menagerie,” is a woeful play, plagued by a missing father, a young man walking in the very father’s footsteps, and a mother whose only life is lived in the past. There is one other unfortunate member of this dysfunctional family—Amanda’s daughter, Laura. Laura lives in a fantasy world, afraid to face the reality of her crippled destiny. She exists in a world of glass, pretty and flawless. Laura represents the glass menagerie; this is reinforced by the disjunction of the horn from the misfit

  • Is Santa Truly a Conspiracy?

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    In Jay Mock’s blog “Is Santa Claus a Conspiracy?” he contemplates whether Santa Claus has an evil purpose. Mock goes through what happens every year during Christmas time now and how “good feelings are directly connected to consumerism” (Mock p3), how we lie to support the conspiracy (Mock p5) and the different options a child may go through when trying to decide whether Santa Claus is real or not (Mock p7-15). Jay Mock is a conspiracy theorist. On his blog (http://riverjournal.com) he has ten pieces

  • Ruining Christmas

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    charge. They are adding magic itching powder to the hay that Santa’s reindeer will sleep in tonight. The hay is sent to penguins that will bale it and tie it. A huge red stamp is put on the package of the hay, “ North Pole Bound”. As the hay is loaded onto the iceberg that ships it to the North Pole, Pecky, Tumtum, and Chubbers all have an evil grin on their beaks. Back in the lovely North Pole, the elves are getting the reindeer ready for their big flight tomorrow night. Dasher, Dancer, Prancer

  • Sami People: Self Curmination And Determination Of The Sami Culture

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    To the section 121(4) of the Finish Constitution provides that the Sami shall be given cultural and linguistic autonomy within their residential area. The three northernmost municipalities in Finland Enontekio, Inari and Utsjoki and the Sami reindeer herding district Lapin Paliskunta in the municipality of Sodankyla are defined as the Sami homeland area by the provision of the Sami Act (Sami Act of Finland 1995). Under the section No:9 of the Sami Act, it becomes obligatory for the authority

  • My Favorite Day Of The Day

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    like every other family, my family has the reindeer dance.  Every year my mom makes the best prime rib dinner. We have all you can eat mashed potatoes, hand chopped salad with many choices of dressing, sometimes we even have pie for dessert. We spend the dinner catching up, telling stupid jokes, and enjoying each other’s company. After that, we all help my mom clean up the kitchen, and head to the living room. We all get cozy, and my mother reads