Essays Tagged: "foxes"

Animal Rights

ing animal? He kills wildlife--birds,kangaroos, deer, all kinds of cats, coyotes, groundhogs, mice, foxes anddingoes--by the million in order to protect his domestic animals and theirfeed. Then he kil ...

(5 pages) 206 0 2.2 Feb/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Canine Distemper - What it is, virus, symptoms, prevention & treatment, and the 1994 african serengeti park lion epidemic.

f dogs worldwide. It chiefly affects young dogs, but it often infects other animals such as wolves, foxes, coyotes, raccoons, skunks, minks, and ferrets. The disease is spread by an airborne, filterab ...

(3 pages) 49 0 3.9 Oct/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Elite theorists argue that power is concentrated in the hands of a small minority. How useful is this view?

ciety to changed circumstances. Essentially, two types of person can be distinguished, 'lions' and 'foxes', the former, according to Pareto are stolid and forceful, willing to use violence. The latter ... of the elite are superior to those of the mass. His criterion for distinguishing between lions and foxes is merely his own interpretation of the style of elite rule (HARALAMBOS & HOLBORN,1990).Wh ...

(4 pages) 147 1 4.2 Feb/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

"Boys and Girls" by Alice Munro - Summary and response

int of view of when she was a girl. The girl's father was a fox farmer. Every the father killed the foxes that he raised and sold their pelts. The narrator had a little brother, named Laird.The girl t ... sorrel mare who was violent and reckless. Narrator's dad decided to kill Mack so he could feed his foxes. The girl felt very uneasy about the death of the horse. Two weeks after it was time for Flora ...

(2 pages) 109 1 4.0 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Strengths and weaknesses of aversion therapy

. For examples. In America conditioned flavour aversions are used against predators such as snakes, foxes and hawks to stop them destroying the eggs of endangered species such as the burrel owlWeaknes ...

(1 pages) 30 0 1.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

My Childhood Nightmare

owing his second major operation. Everything was quiet; all you could hear was the sound of hungry foxes in the nearby bushes searching for food, dogs barking in the neighborhood. I gazed from one c ...

(3 pages) 33 0 4.3 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History

Field sports or blood sports? Which title does fox hunting deserve.

e chicken for eating , sheep keeping , or even cows for milk have a great problem that are called " foxes " the kill the chickens and their eggs , the foxes eat or hurt the sheeps and cows, but is thi ... , the foxes eat or hurt the sheeps and cows, but is this a really good reason to kill thousands of foxes for fun?The hunters said that killing foxes is a very good way to control the reproduction of ...

(3 pages) 33 0 3.4 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Hatchet

him. There are a ton of mosquitoes on the island. There are also animals such as bears, porcupines, foxes, raccoons, birds, squirrels, and much more. There are trees, bushes, flowers and shrubs on the ...

(4 pages) 120 6 3.8 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

America headed downhill?

th beating his wife to death slowly and brutally just by saying it's a tradition. The nasty and sly foxes the lawyers come up with any dumb excuse and the convict can get away. Americans are losing th ...

(2 pages) 37 0 2.7 Aug/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Rabies

cted with rabies. Although many mammals can carry this virus, it is most prevalent in dogs, skunks, foxes, bats, raccoons, and cats. The virus usually lives in the nerve cells and glands of the host o ...

(3 pages) 39 0 3.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

The sound Of thunder

amilies of mice and soon he would be stepping on a dozen mice then a thousand and so on and all the foxes would starve for the want of the missing mice and a lion would die for the want of the missing ...

(1 pages) 48 0 4.3 Nov/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Etymiology of the word "Bitch".

rst millennium, farmers and breeders had coined the term to describe all sorts of species including foxes and wolves (1598 Shaks. Merry W. iii. v. 11 A blinde bitches Puppies, fifteene i'th litter).Al ...

(2 pages) 35 0 4.0 Dec/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies

Is Fox Hunting Cruel?

s - shooting, gassing, snaring or poisoning - would all inflict much more pain and suffering on the foxes. Already, 10 times as many foxes are shot each year than are hunted to death, they say. That f ... ly humane way to deal with the problem.And they do not accept the country sport lobby's stance that foxes are pests, and need to be destroyed somehow.The Countryside Alliance - the group representing ...

(3 pages) 16 0 0.0 May/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

"Boys And Girls" -images essay

s fur to be found, there is a fur trader as well.It was custom of the fur traders in Canada to kill foxes for the purpose of selling the fur. The "naked, slippery bodies" of the skinned foxes in the b ...

(2 pages) 17 0 5.0 May/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Dogs

All dogs, impure as well as pure-bred, and several wild cousins such as wolves and foxes, are one family. Each breed was created by human beings, using selective breeding to get desir ...

(3 pages) 27 1 4.0 Sep/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Zoology

The Hunt That Started it All

ow to clean the animal and prepare it for an upcoming meal. From then on I began to hunt squirrels, foxes, and doves in my father's hunting club. Hunting became almost an everyday hobby for me. Severa ...

(3 pages) 31 1 2.7 Sep/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

Gender Issues In The Story "Boys And Girls" By Alice Munro

e little girl is excited by this and loves to spend time helping him; her chores include giving the foxes water and cutting branches to be used to give the foxes shade. The little girl feels "Wo ...

(3 pages) 26 0 0.0 May/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Quail Populations Of The South

son for the decline in quail is the increase in predators. Raccoons, opossums, skunks, coyotes, and foxes are all predators of the quail. During the period of time that the quail populations were high ...

(3 pages) 1098 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Foxhunting

een popular for over 200 years. It performs a useful function in rural areas both in the control of foxes and as a social gathering.The fox is a pest and its numbers need to be controlled. In 1991 the ... be controlled. In 1991 the labour party produced a document that stated " There is no doubt... that foxes can be damaging and indescriminate predators of birds and other animals....Control methods mus ...

(2 pages) 985 0 0.0 Feb/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

How people interacted with eac

-century England and Wales were divided into fifty-two counties. In this century the English hunted foxes (Pool 24). The middle of London, known as "The City", dropped from one hundred twenty-eight th ...

(4 pages) 8 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Romeo & Juliet