Antelope

An elephant is killed every 15 minutes and now some believe that in 12 years the elephant population will be extinct. This is due to habitat destruction, disease but mostly the illegal poaching of elephants for their ivory (Gandelman, 2013). This poaching has caused the population to rapidly decline and the threat of extinction is near. Elephants are an essential part of the ecosystem and existing and new ways to restore the population should be considered. Between the years of 1970 and 1990,…

Thera, or the modern day island, Santorini is located in the Aegean Sea, about 200km south east from the mainland of Greece and 70km south of Crete. It is the southern most member of the Cyclades group of islands, with an area of approximately 73km squared. Thera was devastated by one of the largest volcanic eruptions of the last seven thousand years around 3,500 years ago. The volcanic eruption left a large caldera surrounded by ash deposits hundreds of feet deep, and its effects may have…

Oil is usually found deep under ground, but the greater Los Angeles area up through the Santa Barbara area is one of a few places in the world where oil is not just close to the surface, it is on the surface, bubbling in cold pits of bitumen, also known as asphalt and tar. This asphaltum has been important to humans for as long as they have lived in the region. In the past it was primarily used to waterproof boats, water carriers, and cooking vessels or as an adhesive. Now, of course we use…

scrub, or open woodlands. These intimidating animals mark the area with urine, roar menacingly to warn intruders, and chase off animals that encroach on their turf. Female lions are the pride's primary hunters. They often work together to prey upon antelopes, zebras, wildebeest, and other large animals of the open grasslands. Many of these animals are faster than lions, so teamwork pays off.…

Peter Kolchin argues that although there has been extensive study of slavery, “we still lack a volume that pulls together what we have learned to present a coherent history of slavery in America” In American Slavery Kolchin wants to “synthesize and make sense of recent historical research on slavery.” He accomplishes this, first, by presenting a historiographical evolution of slavery while adding historical controversies that arise due to differing interpretation. Second, presenting a…

The Lion King was set in the African savannah, where the food chains were vast. The king of the “pride lands” was Mufassa. He was the head lion of the pride of mostly female lionesses. Mufassa’s brother, Scar was greedy and selfish. The pack lived on pride rock, a habitat that provided shelter and way for the exponential growth of the population of lions. At the beginning of the movie, Sarabi bore a child for Mufasa and named him Simba. Simba was next in line in the hierarchy of ancestor lions.…

Written in 1962, Silent Spring by Rachel Carson was one of the most influential texts of the environmental movement in the 1960’s and on. The book reported the adverse effects of pesticides in the environment and what our society could do to dampen the flame. Carson divided her book into seventeen chapters, each of which is an independent essay of its own, nonetheless the chapters fuse together to create a continuous non-fiction novel. In the first chapter, Carson provides the reader with a…

Number Six: Passenger Pigeon. There used to be billions of passenger pigeons roaming the earth, but now there are none. Dude to deforestation and over-hunting, the passenger pigeon went extinct in 1914. Number Five: Bubal Hartebeest. A species of antelope, the bubal hartebeest was hunted for its meat. Unfortunately, the species could not cope with human hunting and entered extinction around 1954. Number Four: Javan Tiger. During the 19th century, the Javan tiger was king of the Indonesian…

are very different from the ideals in Europe and America. Most African artists have designed both ritual and everyday objects to be pleasing to the eye, colorful, and using many different designs. An example of art like this is the Male Chi Wara antelope headdress. If you were viewing this piece from a museum you would only think, “that’s a nice hat”, but you would never guess that it takes a huge part in African dance and expressing ones self. In our textbook its states that dance is a major…

At a final point in time, the West was somewhat settled and at peace after the many battles of the civil war. Eventually, all of Americans, Native Americans, and also, the United States Government began coexisting throughout the Western territory. However, unfortunately the journey to achieve this status consumed many lives, brought forth war, and of course, took a tremendous amount of time and effort coming from all three parties to come to a civil agreeance with one another. What was the…