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The John West Salmon “Bear Fight” is a humorous advertisement and appeals to the audience as it includes an unpredictable narrative, a ridiculous fight, and an amusing slogan. The advertisement starts off with a mock style documentary where the bears are catching the freshest salmon. This then queues John West to run to the bear, in which the narrator unexpectedly says “which is something we at John West want.” The unexpected turn with the addition to what the narrator says really grabs the…

In The Call of the Wild by Jack London, Portraying leadership is an important essential. For the reason, Buck represents it throughout the story. By being his own leader in a domestic household, overcoming obstacles in the great outdoors of Alaska, and along with him overcoming other dogs to become head of the pack. Personal leadership will show through in times of need. During the time Buck was a domestic house dog, he had many forms of leadership in which one was, “Buck was neither a house dog…

In Zambia, a dog named Ruger was considered a bad dog; he was aggressive and would frequently bark at people. However, his overall personality made him very easy to train, and he would go on to arrest more than 150 poachers as Zambia’s first anti-poaching dog. Ruger’s life started in Blackfeet Reservation, Montana. When he was very young, Ruger’s owner shot his brothers and sisters, but he was able to escape. Eventually, Ruger wound up in a shelter,, where he was noticed by a trainer. This…

Friday is a dog. The Carib Indian companion in Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe may be Oppressors, Subalterns, and Dogs - the Island of Robinson Crusoe treated more respectfully than most other people of color of his time, but even though Crusoe and Friday are allegedly friends, he is nothing more than a dog to his Master - never his equal. Defoe’s depiction of the Carib Indians in his novel is a case of Othering, and the relationship between Friday and Crusoe resembles colonialism from…

The movie, the Last of the Mohicans, begins with the introduction of three of the main characters Hawkeye or Natty Bumppo, his adoptive Mohican father, Chingachgook, and Chingachgook’s biological son, and Hawkeye’s adoptive Mohican brother, Uncas. All three characters are introduced as hunters, where they hunt and kill a buck. Their introduction also leads to the introduction of other characters. These three characters travel through the woods after their hunt, to a family, whom they know,…

Jack London’s story To Build a Fire is a story that shows a man vs. nature struggle of a man that is a newcomer to the world of cold. This man is on the Yukon trail towards a group of men during the second gold rush. The man is accompanied only by a wolf-dog. He is warned by an older, wiser man that he should not travel the trail without a companion. The man is stubborn and tells that man he will be all right. Although the man is naive and alone, he is positive that he will be fine as long as…

The Yukon. Where only the strongest and smartest will survive. The American Eskimo, or Eskie, is a type of Spitz that is originally a companion dog but has the competency to survive in harsh climates. Climates with rigid weather ranging from 36.1 C. to -60 C. The Eskie would suit life in Yukon, Alaska because of its qualities and characteristics, although some may argue that the American Eskimo would not survive. First, the American Eskimo has a plethora of qualities that would help it…

If you were born and raised in California then suddenly sent to the Yukon would you survive? The Call Of The Wild is a book about Buck, a dog born and raised in California. That is suddenly kidnapped and sent to the Yukon. Buck then battles the call of the wild. Buck learned to survive primitive well he was in the Yukon. He learned this all from his ancestors. Throughout the book Buck learned to become more primitive. Doing this buck found it easier to survive the primitive ways. Well buck was…

In a poem taken from Witness, by Karen Hesse, Merlin van Tornhout finds a buck, stuck in a frozen river, between two plates of ice. The buck was being chased by some dogs, and tried to cross the river, but fell in. Merlin got Constable Johnson, and together, they pulled the buck out of the crevice. The buck sat on the ice for a minute, stunned, before standing up, and jumping back into the crevice. Frustrated as they were, Merlin and Johnson lifted the buck back out again. This time, the buck…

To survive is to continue to live typically despite of difficult or life- threatening situations. There are many circumstances that could threaten the survival of people. We were all born with the survival instinct, but the ones who are willing to get out of really bad situations, are the ones who lived by fighting life or death choices. Survival can also be in unexpected conditions which arise suddenly such as African refugees escaping from a brutal civil war, a father navigating his wife and…