Leave It to Beaver

Indians and the Europeans demanded furs which could only be obtained from furbearers, eventually resulted in excesses hunting of certain species of animals which led to the elimination of those species. Beavers for example, was hunted so much for furs that it was rare to even see one, but these beavers extinctions were helpful, they left artifacts behind, there pounds becoming spawning ground for fishes, their dams when collapsed left the black soil in pounds exposed to sunlight, which on…

Although you may not see it, animal abuse is constant all around the world. Animal abuse can occur in a home anytime. Animal abuse can also happen when companies harm them for their resources to meet human needs. Animal cruelty can also occur in places all around the world that seem innocent and harmless. In brief, animal abuse can happen anywhere in any different ways. First of all, animal abuse can happen in a home. Having too many pets of a kind can be considered as animal abuse. Having too…

Witch’s sleigh through the snow, the creatures lock themselves away in the safety of their homes. A procedure I too used to follow, that is, before I betrayed the ones most dear to me and became the Witch’s evil dwarf. If only I realized my greed would leave me caught in a world of good and evil; to live in limbo and display a façade of evil. The sheets of falling sleet…

is 6,100 feet, but the highest point is 13,528 feet above sea level at Kings Peak in Duchesne County. The lowest elevation point in Utah is actually a high elevation compared to other states. The lowest elevation is 2,180 feet above sea level at Beaver Dam Wash in Washington County. Utah borders Nevada on it’s west side and Colorado on it’s east side. New Mexico is by Utah’s southern border, Idaho on Utah’s northern border, and Wyoming in the cutout second section of…

achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative.” The clear underlying idea behind this traditional dream is that hard work lends success. This success is often portrayed in television shows such as the 1950’s Leave it to Beaver, many times considered the baseline of the idyllic American family. Today, the dream is increasingly associated with endless upward mobility, open access to education, and most importantly, owning a home. While the dream remains, the…

Gender is defined as the state of being male or female. This typically used the reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones. There are stereotyped roles of males and females. After the birth of a child, parents purchase toys, specified clothes, and activities based on that factor alone. In socialization, children will develop social skills and a sense of self in accordance with social prescribed roles and expectation. Media plays an important role as far as…

popular. The values of the First Nations people also changed; there was no longer a special connection to the animals they hunted. Due to the fierce competition, the worth of furs went up, and since more profit could be made, more animals were hunted. Beaver pelt hats still generated profit and was still high in demand. The increased wealth generated by the Aboriginal people from the fur trade changed their ideals, and many chiefs were being chosen for their skill in hunting, rather than for…

Nostalgia is defined as an excessively sentimental yearning for return to, or of some sort of past period or irrecoverable condition. Throughout human history, women have had a certain expectation placed onto them when they become a wife and mother. With the steps humanity has made in the right direction to create a better world and society, the stereotypes placed on women have not gone away due to nostalgia of the past. Judy Brady explores this in the article, “I Want A Wife” and she sheds on…

Changes And Continuities In Post World War 2 America Especially during the time period of 1945-1961, there was an abundance of changes throughout the country, especially social changes. New ideas were blossoming, more and more people were leaving the traditional ideals of America and being more rebellious, fighting for civil rights and doing other liberal-centered stereotypes, like listening to rock music and writing or making art depicting what they felt was a boring, simple country. On the…

Change is constantly happening all around us from technological advances to social changes like what a society deems as normal. In the last 60 years our country has been through a lot in a relatively a short period of time from ensuring all races have the same civil rights as everyone else to putting a man on the moon. I believe this country can do just about anything given enough time including changing a once concrete idea like what a family is. In the 1950s the ideal family was an extremely…