Death of a Naturalist

One of my personal heroes who displays naturalist intelligence is Steve Irwin (1962-2006). As a kid, I grew up watching Steve’s television series, “The Crocodile Hunter”, a wildlife documentary show which followed Steve as he went out into the wild in various countries around the world to interact with animals. His show went on to become the highest ever rated on the Animal Planet channel. Steve was a strong supporter of environmentalism and the conservation of endangered species. One of his…

During the nineteenth century, a shift known as the women’s suffrage movement swept society off its feet, introducing feminism to change to social construct built upon men and women. This movement allowed many authors to take advantage of the time period and further motivate society with pro-feminist arts. For instance, Kate Chopin 's novel, The Awakening, she prevails feminism and gender justification through the actions of Edna Pontellier 's lifestyle. Expressing the dilemma of women’s life…

Are criminals born criminals or are they bred into criminal ways and that they resemble the earliest kind of mankind characteristics. Can you really identify a person as a criminal by their physical characteristics. This paper demonstrates the findings of Cesare Lombroso through his life work. With this in mind, the concept of criminal atavism, atavism and the five types of criminals will be explored, along with some insight on the history of Cesare Lombroso. The evidence shows that Lombroso…

Jack London: A Peek at Man’s Mortality Beating within the core of every living creature is the instinct for survival. These basic skills have been passed down from generation to generation to help life survive. In Jack London’s “To Build a Fire”, an unnamed man decides to go against the warnings of the village elder and travels alone in negative fifty-degree weather that was rapidly dropping. He makes one bad decision after the other which leads to his demise. Jack London wrote, “To Build a…

is made very clear by an alarming statistic Hawken states: “At the present rate of extinction … we may lose 20 percent of all the species on the planet within the next twenty to forty years … The loss of evolutionary potential is being called the “death of birth.”” (Hawken, 29). “Because resource supplies are declining, we as a species are exceeding our “carrying capacity” – the uppermost limit on the number of species an ecosystem or habitat can sustain, given the supply and availability of…

Broadly defined as ‘the faithful representation of reality’ or ‘verisimilitude’, realism is a literary technique practised by many schools of writing. Although strictly speaking, realism is a technique, it also denotes a particular kind of subject matter, especially the representation of middle class life. In arts and literature, realism may be defined as an attempt to represent life truthfully and also avoiding all such literary techniques which make…

An English naturalist of the nineteenth century, Charles Darwin, made a theory of human evolution. Darwin published his work called The Descent of Man, he suggests the origin of man came from a lower form. Mark Twain, an American writer of the nineteenth century, set…

circulating in the English-speaking world during the mid-nineteenth century. In actuality, eugenics was a derivative of social Darwinism, which, in turn, was based on the teachings of ‘On the Origin of Species’ (1859) by Charles Darwin, an English naturalist. This piece of scientific literature contained principles that people interpreted to mean that criminal nature could be inherited, and furthermore, that people should actively strive to weed out these undesirable traits of society. Though…

promotion, sexual conflicts and constant preoccupation with the possibilities of being saved or damned in a Catholic context allow Greene ample scope to explore some important existentialist issues such as: anxiety, guilt, responsibility, dread and death. Greene in his novel depicts the inner world of guilt, despair, conflict, and choice alongside the outer world of religious differences and social obligations, clandestine affairs and violence to awaken us to “despair of the universe”, which we…

and doesn’t really show any emotion. Jon Krakauer sees some of Chris McCandless in himself when he was younger, so he knows how Chris felt. I do not think that Krakauer has sympathy for Chris though, because it was his decisions that led him to his death. Chris McCandless and people similar to him most likely want to hitchhike and live in the wilderness because they want excitement, danger, and maybe to just escape their own lives. Chris was very intelligent and was offered membership in the…