The Call Of the Wild

CATCHY TITLE Imagine yourself swimming along in the ocean without a care. Your mom, dad, brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles all are swimming along beside you. You can taste the salt water hitting your taste buds, and you can feel the warm summer sun penetrate through the water and hit your thick, strong skin. You swim miles and miles all day long with your family, catching fish and talking non stop, and you couldn’t be happier. Then, your whole world is turned upside down. It’s almost as if…

First, at the beginning of the novel Jack begins to get a feel for being in the wild. For example, Jack, Ralph, and Simon explore the island in an attempt to look for help. The boys come across a pig stuck in ‘creepers’ and Jack brandishes his knife to prepare for killing the pig, however it escapes, and he tells Ralph and Simon…

There is no doubt that the philosophy of Transcendentalism is demanding to live by. Some might call it idiotic to isolate oneself from an economically and socially stable lifestyle to live in the wild and discover their true self. However, these who choose to live this way put no weight on whether or not others around them support their decisions. Chris McCandless has the exact attitude necessary to accomplish the feat of living like a Transcendentalist. A main idea of Transcendentalism,…

Ecocriticism explores how nature and natural world are imagined through literary texts. Ecocriticism is divided into two waves. The first wave is emphasized on nature and writing it as an object of study and as a meaningful practice. The main point of the first wave is the idea that there is environmental crisis regarding the cultural and physical aspects, in the world, so there is need to raise awareness and create solutions for those problems. In first wave ecocriticism, the primary concern…

well. Mainly Black Ware, and what is listed as other. Traces of chard millet were found on the shards of Black Ware, though which level of the strata was not indicated. If the find is on these levels during the shift, millet can be gathered from the wild, but in the higher levels the development of agriculture in the form a crops could be…

Cruelty to animals, also called animal abuse or animal neglect, is the human infliction of suffering or harm upon any non-human animal. It may surprise some to learn that what most people would call animal abuse is often not defined as “cruel” and often does not have a harsh punishment. It is easy to tell when animal cruelty is occurring in neighborhoods, but many people could care less about animals being neglected in live entertainment. No animal should ever be neglected, but does an animal…

‘The poem ‘Do Not Go into That Gentle Night’ written by the Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas is a very interesting poem to be read. Reading the poem for the first time, one might have the mixed feeling of being urged and inspired in the same time. This might be because; the poem is unique in its very own way that grabs people’s attention and interest from various perceptive and ways such as how structure, the massages, the language used, the meaning of the lines in the stanza, the mood of the poem and…

help make the story much more interesting than it would have been without them. Aruru is just one of the important female characters in The Epic of Gilgamesh. She is the goddess that created both Gilgamesh and Enkidu. In the epic the nobles of Uruk call upon her for help getting rid of her creation, Gilgamesh, who has become a huge nuisance to their city. They plead with Aruru to…

and satisfaction of the animals before anything else. Zoos offer a safe and protected environment where zookeepers can treat and preserve endangered species, however they will never be able to provide everything that animals are able to find in the wild. In addition certain studies have exposed that animals regularly show abnormal behaviour when brought into captivity, which is in contradiction with the ethos of…

soft men, but it is apparently the land for missing men. On August 8th, 2013, a twenty-six year old man named Brandon Mason Lawson disappeared in the city of Abilene, Texas. This missing person case is filled only with a inaudible 911 call, an undamaged truck, a call from Brandon to his brother’s girlfriend, and a warrant out for his arrest. Neither the family nor the police department know exactly what happened to Brandon, but it seems as if he came upon an aggressive crime on his way to Fort…