Poaching

The air is hot and dry. There are no trees, no vegetation, no wildlife. The landscape is bare for miles. The only signs of life are fossils found in hard, cracked river and lake beds where fresh water once flowed freely. No water on Earth equals no life on Earth. Homo sapiens have inhabited the Earth approximately 200,000 years. (www.bbc.co.uk) We have evolved into a knowledgeable, creative, and resourceful species, but at what cost? We continue to increase our knowledge and multiply, but we…

stringent in their policies during their rule, so the Moros had difficulty conforming. The fact that the United States was a Christian nation aggravated an already tense situation. The United States demanded that the Moros stop slave trading, cattle poaching, and lawlessness which only led to more dissensions, resentment, and noncompliance, thus creating a hostile environment. Being aware of external influences (both official and unofficial groups) could have made the transition of the United…

The author of the novel The Walleye War: The Struggle for Ojibwe Spearfishing and Treaty Rights is Larry Nesper, an assistant professor from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, as an understudy for Raymond Fogelson, a well-renown American Indian ethnographers. Nesper specializes in the Ojibwe or Chippewa tribes of Northern Wisconsin. As a result, the whole scope of his career is based on the social injustices and struggles that the Ojibwe face…

to the survival of these ancient mariners, which are advantageous indicators of ecosystem health and wellness. Nearly all species of sea turtle are identified as endangered. Mutilated for their eggs, meat, skin and shells, sea turtles suffer from poaching and over-exploitation. Additionally, they…

Stop tweeting, stop texting and stop face-booking, you think you’re private messaging? Think again. Someone is always watching; our government has made it this way. Doesn’t that sound familiar, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins? The capitol has complete control over Panem. The Hunger Games is about 12 districts that are forced to give up two tributes to fight to the death in an arena. But throughout the book the story isn’t just that, it shows how controlling the Capitol is, in which they…

The Hunger Games is one of Suzanne Collins’ dystopian genres featuring a protagonist Katniss Everdeen who narrates her history and experiences in the events of the novel. In the plot, Katniss manages to stand in for her sister in the hunger games after compulsorily undergoing many fatal tribulations, traverse difficult private relations as well as acquiring skills on how to manipulate how people identify her in the novel. She therefore has to cultivate ways to subsist in the pitch. It reaches a…

Do I perceive the same exact color red as you do? If not, does that mean color is impossible to standardize? These abstractions help paint the complexity of the human state of mind, or rather, our understanding of it. Ethan Watter’s “The Mega Marketing of Depression in Japan” narrates how western medicine and perceptions of depression encroached into the Japanese culture, and in particular, how pharmaceutical companies attempt to generalize this phenomenon despite cultural differences. Elephants…

4.0Chapter four Discussion: 4.1 Point Counts By restraining the recording of species to a 10- 50m fixed radius when in dense forest at kamwala 1 forest, it allows the subtraction the certain bias, such as, the highly vocal forest species; White bellied Go Away bird and Tropical Bulbul, as well as those species which ‘generally’ occur above the canopy (for example; forest raptors). The most widespread species to occur across all the count areas (map 1) were Common Bulbul, Orange ground thrush…

Global warming has been a huge controversial topic throughout society in recent years. With global changes that affect so many people, environments, and living things, attention is brought to the issue to make it clear what is actually happening. “During the period 1979 to 2006, the annual sea ice area in the arctic decreased by about 3.2% per decade.”(Wiig) The Earth is warming, which obviously makes drastic changes to certain habitats of many species. The polar bear inhabits the arctic, which…

convenience food since biscuits are easily transported. If a peasant is doing well their dinner may also include some form of meat. A peasant’s meat is usually beef, pork, or lamb. Unless they are desperate, a peasant will not poach wild animals. Poaching is punishable by having one’s hands cut off or, in some cases, death (Alchin). All the animals in a lord’s land belong to the lord; therefore, the peasants could not hunt them. Some lords allow their peasants to hunt squirrels and hedgehogs…