Beaver

his classic tale, “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.” At the end of the story, Mr. Beaver tells Lucy, “He’s wild, you know. Not like a tame lion” (p. 182). Lewis’s description of Aslan conveys both positive and negative notions. What was Lewis attempting to communicate and can Aslan, in this way, bee seen as a figure of Christ? I have often wondered what Lewis truly meant when he gave these words to Mr. Beaver. On one hand, I appreciate them. The idea it conveys is that Aslan is not passive…

elks, the willows stared to slowly decline. The willows are important to the ecosystem because they serve as the basis of a food web/chain with small insects, birds, mammals, fungi and bacteria. Beavers for example depend highly on the willows because they use them for dams and lodges. Next, the beavers provide a pond to many reptiles and amphibians. In return this increases many of different animals up and down the trophic levels. An ecosystem will become less diverse as there are changes from…

The feast of the dead, these people literally carried their dead loved one on their back to a ossuary grave. They would chat a particular cry “hai hai,” hai meaning ‘hail,’ but also has a strong message of journey, “especially a journey of souls, and may relate to a root word meaning ‘to take up a path’.” The Huron’s believed that it was the cry of souls emitted from themselves as they took the remains from the burial platforms to the ossuaries. If they did not do this chant during the march…

It was the night of December 16, 1773, 342 chests of tea that belonged to the East India Company were thrown into Boston harbor by American Patriots. Americans were throwin this tea into the harbor because we were going to lose money. Britain was selling this tea for a low price so they can make more money for themselves. Ships carrying the tea were refused permission to dock in New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston. By these men doing this it showed the British what all the colonist thought…

Yellowstone National Park is an amazing place to discover because when you do, you start to understand why we have national parks at all. There are three spheres of interaction in the park and they are: nature-and-nature, human-and-nature, and human-and-human. The spheres that stand out are the human-and-nature and nature-and-nature. Tourist-and-wolves interact within the human-and-nature sphere, and the effects of their interaction are a complicated and long relationship within the history of…

In the book Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, fragility and interconnectedness is a topic that is brought up a few times. In Ceremony, Ku’oosh, the medicine man talks about fragility and how everything is interconnected; when one element is impacted, the rest of the environment is impacted as well. Fragility is something that is not only related to Tayo, the main character, and the struggles he is going through post-war, but it is also related to society today. Today in society, fragility and…

¬ regarding many of the ceramic styles he found, where it was found and therefore what it may signify and why it is important. What are the Issues and the Claims? Ramsden 2009 Questions the Research was Designed to Address: 1. Why had some houses, such as House 10 and 14, extended double their length at one time? 2. Why had a neighboring house located in one part of the village been dismantled before the abandonment of the village and never rebuilt? 3. What are the political and economic…

Alexander married Maud Drury on April 6, 1897. Once married he left the Otter Lake area where uncle Daniel and his brother-in-law Sam Cochrane and his sister homesteaded, and headed down the Christie Road on his own plot of land (Lot 13 Con. 10) right along side Maud’s parent 's farm. He had 100 acres there and built a standard size house with 4 rooms and one barn. As many men at the time, Alexander worked on the road in the summer of 1904 being compensated $10 for the effort. They named their…

then the elk increased in such high numbers, due to not being hunted by wolves, that they consumed all the vegetation they could reach, including the trees used by beavers. The beavers were the ones managing the lakes and streams in the park, and when their trees were gone, they also had to find a new place to inhabit. When the beavers were gone, the native fish populations dried up. Then there were problems with trying to reestablish fish, as non-indigenous species were sometimes used, which…

How the bull got his horns A long time ago when Bulls had no horns his head was as smooth as a doe`s. Though Bull was a fast runner he liked to brag about it to the other animals saying “ Look at me! Look at me, I'm the fastest runner”. Bull had a friend named Kangaroo, Kangaroo also bragged that he was the best at races because he could jump so high and far that he would be done in a matter of seconds. Even though Bull and Kangaroo are friends they argued every time over who was the…