Tusk

supernatural beasts. As Beowulf was descending into the depths of the water, the she-devil spotted him and attacked him! As she held him in a tight embrace and he, struggling to break free, caught the attention of “a host of sea beasts/stabbing with tusks and teeth” (483-484). Later, successfully killing the demon. With the epic conclusion of his battle against the great dragon, Beowulf had to use all his strength and willpower to succeed. The dragon had to have been five times the size of any…

When I set out to the Metropolitan Museum in New York I did not expect to have as much fun as I did, nor did I expect to be there for over six hours. The Metropolitan has a vast collection and some of the most unique artifacts I can ever remember seeing at a museum. From the Greek and Roman art, to the sarcophaguses from Roman and Egyptian lands, it even has a reconstructed pyramid, and I didn't even get to experience more than half of the artifacts. One enormous piece that caught my attention,…

When I was in elementary school, I spent a portion of my free time creating. I would play with Lego (small interlocking building blocks) for hours, alone or with friends. I also enjoyed making sand castles in my backyard, or at the beach close to my home. My lunch and recess breaks would be consumed by various games of tag, typically Manhunt. Another activity that I loved to do was to visit the petting zoo. I had a membership at Maplewood petting zoo, and my Mom would often take me to look at…

According to scientists, around 150-200 species of plant and animal go extinct every 24 hours. This statistic doesn’t seem so shocking until the realization comes that this is almost 1,000 times the natural rate for extinction. Humans contribute a great amount to this pandemic. A prime example is that of the dodo bird, which was famously hunted into extinction. Around 20,000 species are currently listed as threatened by extinction by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).…

later (cite). This change in events is causing the genes throughout generations to be altered to fit the climate. A good example of agent causation and evolutionary development is how rhinos and elephants are starting to be born without horns and tusks, respectively. This is because people continuously hunt and kills these animals for the items. The evolution is a direct response to human action. Overall, causation clearly shows the similarities between niche construction and evolutionary…

Turtles are being used for soup, Pangolin’s bodies are being used for skin treatment and elephants are killed for ivory tusks. Welcome to the world of endangered animals in China. Poaching of endangered animals started happening in the 1900's when the Chinese made a law for animals welfare and animal rights. Chinese people wanted these endangered animals for food, medicine, showing off when guests come over, valuable items, uniqueness and to sell animal products. Some might say there is a lot to…

hundreds of years of tyranny, dictatorship, and violence, and one of the few of which I fundamentally agree. From the earliest days of mankind, there is evidence of primeval humanoids slaughtering animals not only for their meat, but for the bones and tusks as well. As time progressed, and Homo sapiens evolved into what and who we are today, the need to kill animals for food remained, but it was the violence that advanced. Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Attila the Hun: All men yet all the while…

Throughout the course of many years, animals become endangered and lose some of its population day by day. It has become a trend to hunt animals and use parts of the animal for uses such as the hide for a blanket or the meat to eat. Either way, it’s pretty safe to say the population of some species are dying out, and people need to do something about it. Since the invention of many weapons like rifles, handguns and bombs etc. people use those weapons to clear out territory that previously…

Epoch, which was later followed by the current stage we live in today, the Holocene Epoch. According to the sixth threshold, 200,000 years ago mammoths were hunted by neanderthals, (early homo sapiens), which were used as food and tools for survival. Tusks and bones from the large animal were made into hunting supplies and carving tools for neanderthals to engage in symbolic language and collective learning. These early homo sapiens used the tools made from mammoth remains to carve pictures into…

At this point in time, race is something that is unescapable. When a child is born race is one of the first things implicated onto them. The classification and separation of different people has been around since the early expeditions of the Indian Ocean region and has become more prevalent and advanced as time has gone on. In the book, Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting by Vijay Prashad he focuses specifically on “the peoples who claim the heritage of the continents of Asia and Africa” (Prashad, x)…