The Future Is Wild

wondering why I am standing up in front of you about to talk about Chris McCandless and his death, but I would like to inform you that after weeks of research, I am proud to share my well developed ideas regarding McCandless’s trip. By reading Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, Civil Disobedience and Walking by Thoreau, Self Reliance by Emerson, and various other texts from newspapers such as the New York Times, I have enriched my knowledge in the field of transcendentalism and in the tragic death…

genre of science fiction. Of particular interest is the representation of extraterrestrial space and how it is used to explore key concerns of science fiction, including the relation of humans to technology, humans to aliens, and the present to the future. This paper focuses on the different ways that Kubrick and Tarkovsky construct environments to shape a unique experience of extraterrestrial space for characters and audiences. In the process, each offered a critical engagement with science…

alcoholic beverages in our modern/early society. Thus, Standage briefly goes over how humans settle down, which leads to the creation of cities, our departure from our old nomadic lifestyle as hunter-gatherer, due to humans growing their own food from the wild grains discovered. Eventually our crops that are grown are directly entwined with the discovery of alcoholic drink. With the rise of cities and the demand of food source growing due to large population, and how does that directly link…

closely and also that there are other important criteria of zoo animal welfare: natural and abnormal behavior, freedom and choice, and dignity.” The physical health of captive animals will without a doubt be better than the health of the animals in the wild. They are provided with veterinary care and pain killers.…

of what childhood was during the Colonial Edwardian era. These notions are what the society, of Barrie’s time, deemed to be acceptable and ‘normal’ and these ideologies are imbedded throughout Barrie’s story. Peter is characterizes by the idea of a wild child, someone who is outside of the norm, isolated from civilization, and self-sufficient. Peter is someone who is free from the behavioural rules forced by society, going by his own judgment. In addition Barrie’s Peter Pan also expresses how…

Animals is a common way to make someone happy. When I go to a zoo or an aquarium I think are these animals happy. These animals could be in a better place, they can be free and not there for the enjoyment of humans. Although most animal experts believe that animal captivity is for the better, others consider animal captivity is an unnatural environment for animals to be in. Animal captivity means the state or period of being held, imprisoned, enslaved, or confined. Animal captivity is a…

The American classic that I have chosen to read and write a report about was The Call of The Wild written by Jack London. My passion for dogs motivated me to read this American classic. I have two dogs—a Chihuahua and a Golden Retriever. Therefore, I thought it would be interesting to read a book about dogs. The story shows the perspective of the main character, who is a dog named Buck. In addition, I thought I could learn some things about the behavior of dogs and the way they think. Also…

1. In the articles “Welcome to the Future” by Matthew Hutson, and “What May Happen in the Next 100 Years” by John Elfreth Watkins Jr., both talk about good and bad things that will happen in the future, but what does that say about us? In the article “Welcome to the Future” by Matthew Hutson, it talks about how we have already damaged the earth enough to make some big changes to weather and more. In the article, it says “Current forecasts show Earth warming up, sea levels rising, and storms…

In Lawrence Wright essay, the thesis in “America’s Future is Texas” is that Texas is a politically divided state just like other states of America. However, the Texas legislature is more functional than the United States Congress and more refined than the House of Commons. But a recurrent crop of crackpots and ideologies has fed the state's reputation and proudly retrograde politics (Wright, 2017). Moreover, Wright uses colorful language to describe the politics of Texas and uses rough stories…

Newt, Neurergus kaiseri is listed as a vulnerable by IUCN criteria, to aid about the ecology and the conservation of this species, we carried out a trial release of 20 newts reared in captivity on 4 occasions during the spring and summer of 2015 into wild in western Iran. First, we built a soft-release enclosure for acclimation to the environment in cages with two age groups (2 and 4-year-old) for 9, 10 and 11 weeks and monitored during these weeks. After the acclimation period, newts…