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    The movie, the Last of the Mohicans, begins with the introduction of three of the main characters Hawkeye or Natty Bumppo, his adoptive Mohican father, Chingachgook, and Chingachgook’s biological son, and Hawkeye’s adoptive Mohican brother, Uncas. All three characters are introduced as hunters, where they hunt and kill a buck. Their introduction also leads to the introduction of other characters. These three characters travel through the woods after their hunt, to a family, whom they know,…

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    only by a wolf-dog. He is warned by an older, wiser man that he should not travel the trail without a companion. The man is stubborn and tells that man he will be all right. Although the man is naive and alone, he is positive that he will be fine as long as the dog is by his side and is careful when he approaches frozen water. When this man and his dog approach one specific frozen stream the dog is pushed forward by the man and falls into the water, when the mans goes to help the dog he takes…

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    some dogs, and tried to cross the river, but fell in. Merlin got Constable Johnson, and together, they pulled the buck out of the crevice. The buck sat on the ice for a minute, stunned, before standing up, and jumping back into the crevice. Frustrated as they were, Merlin and Johnson lifted the buck back out again. This time, the buck decided to run away into the woods, making a loud snorting noise. In the buck poem, from the book Witness, it talks about the buck being chased by dogs,…

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    To survive is to continue to live typically despite of difficult or life- threatening situations. There are many circumstances that could threaten the survival of people. We were all born with the survival instinct, but the ones who are willing to get out of really bad situations, are the ones who lived by fighting life or death choices. Survival can also be in unexpected conditions which arise suddenly such as African refugees escaping from a brutal civil war, a father navigating his wife and…

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    To the northwest of the Wastelands lies a shattered neighborhood originally a warehouse district. No longer visible are the street grids parallel and perpendicular to one another. The bars, nightclubs, restaurants, and residential lofts, have become infested with creatures performing camouflage defenses. Suburban neighborhoods had become dwelling grounds for the lower, less dominates species. A Caucasian male ventures through the ruins of a neighborhood mounted on a biped,…

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    Borealis, leaping gigantic above his fellows, his great throat a-bellow as he sings a song of the younger world, which is the song of the pack.” (London 108) In the adventure novel The Call of the Wild written by Jack London, the main character, a dog named Buck finds himself in the Yukon, a primitive place due to the greed of mankind during the gold rush. In the book Buck ends up in a primitive land where he has to adapt to the new environment. Buck, the domesticated pet retrogressed into a…

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    The characters adapt to their surroundings in different ways. Brian is stranded in the cold in the middle of the no-where all by himself besides all the animals around him.Some animals including the bear can be extremely dangerous if not handled the right way.¨Brian pulled back a foot. “Hey--get out of there!” he yelled and kicked the bear in the rear.¨___¨Everything in nature means something and he had missed the warnings that the summer was ending, had in many ways already ended,and what was…

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    Wild, A dog named Buck had to learn that adaptation is the key to survival by getting dog-napped, beaten, and upholding his rank in the dog sled pack. For Buck, it was hard to survive in the wild with all its threats. In the beginning of this book, Buck “lived the life of a sated aristocrat.” The first thing Buck had to adapt to was getting stolen from his family. He was dog-napped and sold by the gardener at the estate where he before lived. He was then sold to a man collecting dogs for…

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    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…

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    part of the wolves. Since Buck and the wolves in Canada are both canines, they belong in the same family, so when Buck experiences harsh environments, he yearns to let the wild side of him go free, therefor wanting to break the way of domesticated dogs. An example is when Buck hears the sound of howls from the forest. He wants to pursuit it, but his love and affection towards Thornton forces him to restrain his wildness. Buck can also feel himself getting farther and farther from mankind by each…

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