Nature study

The stories of The Lorax, By Dr. Seuss, and Easter’s End, by Jared Diamond, both touch on a very controversial point: The destruction of our natural world bringing extinction of life. Both authors take their own perspectives in going about this topic. Suess, using a fantasy world of the future, speaks about pollution and the destruction of forests, Whereas Diamond gives a brief history of Easter Island and how its biodiversity declined and perished. Each author equates the end of their stories…

Into the Wild are two films that have the same theme to show the interaction between humans and nature. These films cannot entirely receive the credit of being environmentally and ecologically conscious, but analytically, it can teach an individual, a human, a few things about nature. Moreover, they are different in the message being conveyed, the way nature reacts to human interactions, and how nature is generally portrayed. Overall, 2012 and Into the Wild are two films that carry the same…

When Two People See a Lot of Birds John James Audubon, the author of passage one, and Annie Dillard, the author of passage two, each develop a well organized piece with the purpose of describing their observations of flocks of birds. Both do so with a unique style that not only characterizes their sightings in depth, but persuades the reader to form a concept as well. Though their writing fashions are different, the differences are outweighed by similarities. Audubon and Dillard’s use of…

tribulations it only makes sense to illustrate these hardships through writing. One primary hardship many people in this society face is the struggle for liberty from many things, including but not limited to, liberty from others, oneself, and Mother Nature herself. First, post-Civil War society requires real people to face hardship in their lives. George Washington Cable writes of the hardship of freed African Americans in his essay “The Freedman’s Case in Equity” in which they are treated…

“Some areas of knowledge seek to describe the world, whereas others seek to transform it.” Explore this claim with reference to two areas of knowledge. An Area of Knowledge aims to describe (expressing or noting knowledge) or to transform (change or modify completely) the world, which refers to the planet Earth and all the biotic and abiotic factors in it. This is an assumption that is embedded in the title and it triggers the question; can’t they seek to do both? Description and transformation…

more… “specificity” to work with, limits have been put down, as well as the much easier “why” to scribe. All about the idea of nature. That laid out, it turns the question from “Who am I?” to why am I doing this? The question more manageable, it’s time we answered it, and it’s not all bad. At least I don’t dream I’m a butterfly. To find the origins of my relationship with nature you would have to go back far. If you want to know my understanding of that relationship, then you would have to go…

world go by. At this place, the table was fixed at an angle where there was always light, and in my view at all times was grass and flowers. This place was a place I went to every day because it made me feel at peace, plain and simple. In the article, Nature Has Lost It’s Meaning by Ross Andersen,…

A) Fables are stories that feature animals, plants, or forces of nature that have been given human qualities.They teach moral and ethical lessons, like how to behave or how to treat people. Fables are often short and feature comical qualities throughout their pages. In “Appointment in Samara,” the author humanized the force of nature, death. Lines like, "Death told his companion,"I'm gathering people in Baghdad," lead the reader to refer to the death as it's own character. Parables also teach…

The conception of the ancient struggle of man versus nature has been heavily warped in the modern world. From a contemporary standpoint it is difficult to think passively of the environment. In the light of the impending crisis of global warming and the changes associated with it, it is easy to think of the environment as both a victim and an agent of retribution: the continuously more common occurrences of dramatic weather and toxic surroundings serving as a condemning consequence of humanity’s…

competitor, but also a powerful and respected God of nature, and Enkidu’s concerns paralleled exactly his original morals of respecting nature. So imagine my surprise power roles between Gilgamesh and Enkidu flipped during the battle against Humbaba. Now a coward, Gilgamesh second guessed himself right as he was about to finish the job and conquer Humbaba, and Enkidu stepped up as a ruthless motivator, actually rooting for the slaughter of this God of nature, saying “ [finish him,] slay him, [do…