Keystone

Elephant poaching causes a major crisis to their ecosystem because they are the keystone species. “As a keystone species, they help balance all the other species in their ecosystem, opening up forest land to create firebreaks and grasslands, digging to create water access for other animals...” (National Geographic). Poaching is a major issue of why elephants are endangered, so looking at why they’ve done it can correct them from continuing this practice. You often see poaching currently used for…

Sea Otters are a very well known example of a keystone predator and often utilized by textbooks to illustrate the concept. Sea Otters “Enhydra Lutris” are involved in maintaining the population of macrobenthic grazers such as sea urchins “Strongylocentrotus polyacanthus” and mussels. Sea urchins and mussels are the dominant species in these shallow water benthic ecosystems. Left unchecked, the sea urchins overgraze the benthic vegetation and the kelp forests. Kelp forests provide habitat for…

cards comes as no surprise because historically this class has been the largest consumers of entertainment. Stoking my curiosity further, there was a focus on the Keystone View Company and how they dominated the stereo card market by targeting their media towards education. While the stereo cards covered a wide range of topics, Keystone specialized their media to serve as “a source of enlightenment and cultivation” (Malin, 2007). Social media networks have specialized in similar ways to maximize…

In my government class, we talked about how the average voter forms his policy opinions from the cues of his political leaders. Using “heuristics”, or mental shortcuts, civilians will simply adopt the opinions of their political candidates about numerous complex policy issues so they don’t have to figure out how they truly feel as individuals. The characters in Harry Potter behave no differently, fully believing in the words of the Daily Prophet because the Ministry controls its publication.…

ideological and strategic goals. George Kennan, an American diplomat, wanted to avoid Soviet expansion. Kennan writes his, “Kennan Telegram,” in which he writes about his creation of the policy of “containment.” Kennan’s idealism of containment becomes the keystone of American Cold War policies such as the “Truman Doctrine,” “The Marshall Plan,” and the “NSC-68.” The “Kennan Telegram” leads its idealism of containment by the creation of the “Truman Doctrine.” In Part 1 of the telegram, it…

being a larger inspiration to a bigger group. For instance, Mack Sennett had been the influence to Chaplin, yet he learned from another director. According to an article Charles Chaplin by John L. Neibaur, " During his tenure, Chaplin had learned the Keystone method of editing that Sennett acquired while working with D. W. Griffith. " Is it possible that expertise and influence is a fluid process? Chaplin learned from Sennett who was influenced by another director. Is it possible that influence…

As we take a look at the history of the United States, impacting a free society has not been easy. There have been many laws that have not treated everyone fairly. In order to impact a free society, many had to undergo civil disobedience in order to impact the free society that we live in today. Peaceful resistance to laws positively impact a free society. Without civil disobedience, it would have been almost impossible to make change in our society. In 1846, Henry David Thoreau refused to pay…

within an ecosystem. Life is all connected like a chain which is why there is a food chain. If you take away a piece, it all falls apart. The biggest and most dangerous living or nonliving part to take out of an ecosystem is a keystone species. The sea otter is a keystone species because of how many different parts of its ecosystem it affects. One part of the sea otters ecosystem that it affects is the kelp forests in the water. The sea otter and the kelp forests have a mutualistic symbiotic…

American Alligators Scientific Classification Kingdom – Animalia Phylum - Chordata Sub-Phylum – Vertebrata Class – Reptilia Order – Crocodylia Family – Alligatoridae Genus – Alligator Species – A. mississippiensis Scientifically named as A. mississippiensis is at the top of the food chain as no other animal preys upon them except armed humans. They inhabit in fresh water swamps, marshes, river, lakes and canals. Can be found throughout the southeastern United States from the coastal…

According to Coral Davenport 's article, "the analysis estimated that Keystone would support 42,000 temporary jobs over its two-year construction period — about 3,900 of them in construction and the rest in indirect support jobs, such as food service. The department estimated that the project would create about 35 permanent…