Buffalo jumps

The image of the New York Police Department is that of strength, of discipline, of unity, and of protection. On TV, shows like Rookie Blue, Blue Bloods, and Hawaii Five-0 have police officers who all protect and serve, albeit in an exaggerated way, but if you were to focus on every single officer being shown, they share many characteristics besides being a police officer. Physically, they are well built, many are built from the chest and arms area, muscles are shown. These men are quick and…

For the past few months, the sports media has been embroiled in a fight over “stick to sports.” The phrase comes from a common online rebuke directed at sportswriters and pundits and players and coaches and anyone in the world of sports, really, who takes a political stance on anything that doesn’t occur on a field or a court or in a locker room or front office. The dividing line is predictable: Many jocks and traditionalists argue for a separation of church and state; many young fans say that…

that Zaroff is not a man with good intentions and makes us wonder what devious plan he has in store for Rainsford. The next example of foreshadowing really revels what Zaroff does on this island of his. When Rainsford states that he thinks the cape buffalo is the most dangerous of all big game. Zaroff then replies with “No, sir you’re wrong. The cape isn’t the most dangerous big game, here on my island I hunt more dangerous game”, this doesn’t exactly tell us that he is hunting humans, but…

According to the Television History Network, 99% of homes in America have at least one television set, and 66% have at least three. In this day and age, it is nearly impossible to not watch at least one TV show television. Television programs are flooded with advertisements, media and instant news. Although it might not be obvious, television has a large influence on our lives and on society as a whole. It seems anywhere we go and anything we do television’s influence is inescapable. For my…

“A Long Road To Somewhere” Out of the ashes a princess rises, since 1999 she has been growing, glowing, and becoming a queen. I have fought my hardest in the past eighteen years to get where I am today. I am not the same person I was in the past and I am not yet who I will be in the future. I have come a long way from the silly little girl with the gap to the very tomboyish pre-teen, to “that one girl with half her head shaved” in middle school, to the depressed high school kid trying to save…

In the middle of autumn I decided to take a walk in the woods behind my house. I wandered and wandered and, soon enough, I was hopelessly displaced. I saw this huge pond about 70 yards in front of me. I had never seen it before; so I decided to go investigate. When I got up to the pond I realized there was a whole Native American civilization that had once lived here. There were 25 huts, spread out on the banks of the pond, and piles of wood, fire dig outs, broken pottery and arrowheads…

The transcontinental railroad was a massive achievement for our country; its many accomplishments included expanding settlement, providing valuable jobs, and spurring immigration. Before the railroad was constructed, settlements were mostly established on the east coast. There were, however, a few settlements out west as a result of the California Gold Rush, but there was nothing in between. Traveling the 2,000 miles to California from the eastern region of the United States took five hard and…

Richard Louv wrote the book Last Child in the Woods (2008) for the American society, mostly for parents. It described American children and investigated the separation between people and nature. Louv created the term "nature-deficit disorder" to explain the possible negative effects on an individual's health and social fabric of children who shy away from nature.))) He advocated children's reconnection to the natural world through the works from parents. Through the passage in his book, Louv…

where they go use the bathrooms. Being bullied and discriminated does not only affect them emotionally it affects their education too. In the book, The Outsiders, real life examples of appearance bullying. In the book the Socials (a.k.a Socs) jump Greasers because they are Greasers. The Socs continue bullying the Greasers just because they feel like it. Also, sometimes people bully other people so they do not get bullied themselves. The middle class and upper class put the stereotype…

Presence of carnivores helps to maintain the integrity of ecosystems throughout the world (Soulè and Terborgh, 1999). Many carnivores are capable of altering trophic structure and biodiversity through a process known as top-down control (Elmhagen and Rushton, 2007). Through this, carnivores are able to prevent the overabundance of herbivores. If uncontrolled, an explosion in herbivore population density would increase the grazing pressure that would ultimately threat the survival of the…