In 19th century Qing Dynasty China, a warrior (Chow Yun-Fat) gives his sword, Green Destiny, to his lover (Michelle Yeoh) to deliver to safe keeping, but it is stolen, and the chase is on to find it. The search leads to the House of Yu where the story takes on a whole different level. As for what “crouching tiger, hidden dragon” means, a message board posting reveals the answer: “The phrase 'Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon' (Wuo hu zhan long) is a chinese idiom in which the words 'Tiger' and…
Tigers are wild beasts, created to hunt and kill. Coexisting with such a large, dangerous animal seems frankly crazy. However this was the case for Pi in Yann Martel’s novel, Life of Pi. Pi was stranded in what seemed to be a hopeless situation with not much more than his faith, a tiger, and his will to live. In this novel as well as in normal human life faith is a very important aspect of people's lives. For Pi this was evidenced in his time stranded on the boat with a 450 pound bengal tiger.…
FACTORS TO CONSIDER WHEN BUYING HUNTING OPTICS Hunting optics are essential accessories to ensure shooting accuracy for rifle shooters and hunters. There many quite many different options for hunters: scopes, binoculars, range finders or monoculars. They can be really expensive, so make sure you know where and how to choose the best product you need. For example, reading rifle scope reviews is a good way to start if you want to get to know about this type of hunting optics. Before going into…
Hunting was a very important element of survival because the animals were the main source of gathering food and materials. However, in different periods and locations, hunting meant differently. In the Paleolithic era, survival was the priority, but the weapons and tools were all made from stones which resulted hunting was extremely hard and dangerous. In the dark caves, Paleolithic artists recorded the scenes of hunting by painting. Hall of Bulls, discovered in Lascaux, France is one of the…
Scopes come made for different kinds of shooting equipment from those that require bullets such as rifles and handguns, to those that require the use of arrows such as crossbows. The basic function of the scope is to provide additional accuracy when aiming at a target and as such in the use of these weapons, we understand how such a device could be of some benefit. Hunting rifle scopes based on such definitions would be devices that aid in perfecting shots taken with rifles at targets which are…
A population is growing rapidly in Valley Forge, PA. It is the deer population and it is getting way out of hand. They are causing a carrying capacity and starting to take over our resources that people and other animals need. They are causing too many car accidents and having drivers take the cars to get repaired all the time. It is spreading very exotic and very dangerous species such as ticks, which will spread diseases like Lyme disease. Deer management will be needed to fix this over…
Hunting: an Escape for Some, a Prison for Others For hundreds of years, there have been an ample amount of situations that make a man, a man. One of those vigorous activities that figuratively puts hair on a beefy man’s chest is the extreme sport of hunting. But lately, hunting has taken a hit by asinine protestors that love animals. Groups of animal rights activists have voiced their birdbrained opinions about their uber love of animals, and how hunters are killing their furry friends because…
Would hunting be a good idea anytime of the year? Yes! For some people getting a deer is a life changer.Me personlly i like to hunt but with the huntig restrictions i cant go to much.anyways the benifets of hunting anytime of the year wold be save strving familys, help start stop stavation over in africa,and get kids out more. Would hunting relly save lives?Yes!could it save lives yes because you help and give a family a little bit of the deer you got when hunting it could stop and…
The Paleolithic Era is a duration of time from 2,600,000 million years ago lasting to 10000 years ago. The Paleolithic Era is known as the Old Stone Age, which comes from the words meanings. The word Paleo means old and the word Lithic means stone.The Paleolithic Era is a duration of time that is known as the Old Stone Age. Paleolithic people lived in small organizations that consisted of up to about fifty people. The people that lived in these organizations were nomads and hunter and…
Did you know that someone lays down with lions! These two stories are about lions. In Attack of the Man Eaters written by Lauren Tarshis, Colonel Patterson and a group of workers were building a rail road through lions territory and the lions were hungry, so they were killing workers and Colonel Patterson went out to hunt the lions. In the Lion Whisperer written by Susan Orlean lions that were being raised as babies in a petting zoo were being killed, going to circuses, and going to lion…