The Future Is Wild

According to National Geographic, the article “Exotic Pets”, former exotic wildlife owner, Tim Harrison claims, “(I) will never again own anything wild or exotic./ (I) believe ownership of all potentially dangerous exotic animals should be banned”. Therefore even a former owner of wolves, snakes, lions, and bears agrees that having possession of wild animals can be extremely dangerous to a person considering exotic pets can be unpredictable. Furthermore, owners of exotic pets do not realize the…

The Arctic Refuge Jimmy Carter in his essay has comprehensively explained how arctic wild life has it's profound significance.It is not only the country's heritage but it also is important to people around the globe . Many species of wild life have occupied their habitats in these regions . This has created a natural wilderness . Jimmy Carter has explained this wilderness by his own vivid experience . He has portrayed the vast forms of species which over the time have accumulated there . For…

Pity for the Wild: Three Grotesques, written by Tennessee Williams and directed here at the University of Florida by Tiza Garland and Dr. Ralf Remshardt. In this production, we were given three different scenes with three different sets of actors. The scene designer Carl L. Sage seemed to have worked hard on the first scene but lacked creativity for lights and images on the second scene. Also, the directors Tiza Garland and Dr. Ralf Remshardt made smart casting choices, especially with Grace…

The reason why people disappear from society and live out in the wild is because they are pressured by society and their families to meet certain expectations. People isolate themselves from society to get away from those expectations and create a new identity for themselves. An example is portrayed in the nonfiction piece Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. This book is revolved around a man named Chris McCandless and his journey to Alaska to find a new identity for himself. He left everything…

everything in between. According to Vonnegut, this book is “short and jumbled and jangled because there is nothing intelligence to say about a massacre” (19). The author uses the repetition of phrases and events, such as “so it goes”, the character wild bob, and the importance of sight, throughout the book to emphasize the meaninglessness of death at wartimes as well as the irony in Billy’s optometrist career. The most frequently used phrase in the novel, with 109 mentions, “so it goes”, is…

There is a big controversy whether wild life should be held captive or not, Sea World specifically has gotten a lot of bad attention because of all the trainer and killer whale incidents. The way they keep their killer whales contained is also a big part of why Seaworld is getting bad attention. Seaworld has come out with a new commercial telling people that they are not a bad place and how the animals are being treated great there. From what has been said the whales that are kept captive do not…

Currently, circuses and zoos hold animals in captivity that affect them negatively throughout the world both physically and psychologically. The life expectancy of these animals held in captivity declines drastically in comparison to wild animals. Elephants in the wild are assumed to live between sixty to seventy years, however while in captivity, this number is cut slightly less than half. In Last Chance for Animals’ article, “What Elephants Need”, the unknown author states that, “ captive…

Jon Krakauer’s Into The Wild is a biography that recounts events from the life of Chris McCandless, a transcendentalist who decided to go into the Alaska wild on his own with very few supplies and live his life as simplistically as possible. He uses McCandless’s personal journals as excerpts that give specific and reliable details from his time off the grid. Krakauer’s fascination with - and connection to - McCandless creates a more romanticized perspective of his journey while still staying…

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poem “The Power of the Word” is written by Lawson Fusao, a Japanese American poet. This poem is not a narrative poem and is closer to a lyrical poem. It shows us how the narrator, under a hostile environment, is trying to find the way to a better future. We can infer from the poem that the author is talking about the unfair and cruel experience of Japanese American in the 20th century. During that world war two, Japanese immigrants faced a lot of restrictions and many of them were sent to…