Essays Tagged: "herds"

A Comparative Essay on "Never Cry Wolf" by Farley Mowat

t on his expedition his goal is to bring back proof of the wolves decimating effect on the northern herds of Caribou. After arriving at the remote location, he finds a group of wolves and begins his r ... s towards wolves. They see the wolves bloodthirsty, merciless killers who are pillaging the caribou herds for mere blood sport. And yet those people fail to recognize that the true slaughterers are th ...

(5 pages) 84 0 4.5 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Mythic Heros. A personal essay on the thoughts of Sinbad the sailor

mous birds (their eggs were often mistaken for buildings)) still lived, cannibals, giants, and even herds of angry elephants. On each and everyone one of his famed voyages, he was shipwrecked, alone, ...

(2 pages) 33 0 3.7 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

The Chisholm Trail

was branded by the rawhides who guarded them on horseback on the ranges.Before the Civil War, small herds of Texas cattle were driven by the cowboys to New Orleans, some as far west as California, and ... he railroad moved even further west. Farmers homesteaded the land and put up fences, barring cattle herds. The Chisholm Trail soon ceased to be used by 1890, but will be remembered in western stories ...

(3 pages) 59 0 3.4 Mar/1997

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

The Blackfoot Indians

g Strait at a time when the ice age caused the gap to freeze over. They came from Asia by following herds and in search of more. During their travels, some decided to stop and settle down, hence the m ...

(9 pages) 75 0 3.3 Dec/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

The Fate of Oedipus the King

the stormthat batters down this city's prow in waves of blood:The crops diseased, disease among the herds.The ineffectual womb rotting with its fruit. (Oed. 6)Unsure of how to save his people, Oedipus ...

(2 pages) 81 0 2.6 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Paleontologists: This is a report on the career and on carnivores and herbivores.

ese today by using highly sophisticated tools. Theystudy these things to find out how they lived in herds, alone or, in pairs. Paleontologistsalso have to study astronomy to learn about if there were ... all herbivores, they constantly searched for food (leaves ontall trees as their source of food) in herds with the offspring in the middles with the adultsaround the offspring. Their structure is unmi ...

(3 pages) 51 0 4.8 Mar/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

A Brief Comparison of the Northern and Southern Tribal Traditions of the prehistoric US region

nd shelter, the framework of their beliefs was upheld by animals, especially the buffalo. Where the herds roamed dictated the itinerary of the clans, and thrugh their wanderings remained with in the ' ...

(2 pages) 35 0 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Womens relationships with their governing electorates.

ate may in fact play the greatest role of all? Isn't it (to some degree) the state that governs and herds its subordinate society's practices via the implementation of laws as well as encouraging acti ...

(14 pages) 77 0 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Beer, It Does a Body Good.

axim of their ability. By the weak zebras dying, they are streamlining the heard and increasing the herds amount of grazing land, not to mention the gene pool being saved from their inferior seed.Just ...

(8 pages) 73 2 3.3 Nov/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

History, Physical Information, Population, Cultural Landscape, Government, Economy of Mexico

north into what is now Mexico. They arrived before 8000 B.C. These people were hunters who followed herds of buffalo, mammoths, mastodons, and other large animals. Their way of life explains why they ... hy they lived in small, temporary communities. Then in 7500 B.C., the climate became drier, and the herds could not find enough food and became extinct. Because of this change the Indians began to sur ...

(13 pages) 190 0 3.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Recon Force: Lightning Strike by Charles Ryan. In the essay it talks about how the main character First Lieutenant John "Red" Parnell gets through issues by thinking of how it was before the war.

illy with scattered farmsteads and stone-marked fields containing stacks of peat bricks. There were herds of shaggy, blackfaced-sheep, too, their coats the color of oatmeal, and cows and horses, black ...

(6 pages) 21 0 5.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Technological Advances in the Entertainment Industry during the 20th Century

e other sports similar to what we play today. As time progressed, however, people stopped following herds and, instead, began to settle down to live more peaceful lives. Humans had more time to spend ...

(12 pages) 154 0 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Great wall of china

sturbed with these invasions, so in the year 214 B.C.E. he freed prisoners and gathered workers and herds of animals. He gave all this to Meng T'ien, his loyal general. Meng and the men and animals we ...

(3 pages) 71 0 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

The Invincible

an and child he laid eyes upon. He was without mercy for anyone or anything; all men and even their herds were slain. Hearing this, the Gods were not pleased with the acts of Perpiplaneta, for though ...

(2 pages) 15 0 3.5 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies

United states

orth America and Asia. It is believed that these people may have been looking for food and followed herds of buffalo or woolly mammoths. Over time these people spread throughout North America.Eventual ...

(2 pages) 20 0 0.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

I.Native Americans in North America

iverse, with on common language united them.*Had a nomadic lifestyle, traveling and moving with the herds.*Able to adept to changing environments."±In Europe society, women are property and not ...

(3 pages) 55 0 3.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Calving

INTRODUCTIONInfertility is one of the most important reasons for culling in Irish dairy and suckler herds.In some herds infertility can represent half of all culls. This can cause a lot of bother and ...

(2 pages) 32 2 3.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Will TV survive?

e other sports similar to what we play today. As time progressed, however, people stopped following herds and, instead, began to settle down to live more peaceful lives. As a result, humans had more t ...

(8 pages) 94 2 4.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies

Settlement Of The Americans (Us History)

e purpose of settling in a new place. Most experts believe that Asians, perhaps following migrating herds of big game animals, walked across this bridge to North America. Some experts, however, point ...

(2 pages) 42 1 2.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers

Report on, The Loop by Nicholas Evans

lf biologist Helen Ross. They are both opponents in the same battle; Buck determined to protect his herds from the predators and Helen equally determined to protect the wolves. Helen with the help of ...

(3 pages) 29 0 5.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American