Essays Tagged: "ranchers"

Science research paper on Deforestation.

tural uses. Several types of deforestation occur from "slash and burn" farmers, commercial farmers, ranchers, loggers, firewood collectors, industrial developers and much more.Forests are very importa ...

(5 pages) 243 1 5.0 Dec/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences

North American Frontier: Beginning and End.

amount of unexplored land and untouched natural resources drove American pioneers towards the West. Ranchers, traders, farmers, and miners led the movement with business men not far behind. Wealth, ad ...

(3 pages) 63 0 0.0 Aug/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars

"The Wild Horse Controversy" in Nevada and the western states.

lands" (Public Law 92-195). If these areas were designated for the wild horses and burros, why are ranchers allowed to graze cattle, sheep, and goats on these protected lands? Money is the reason.All ... le to the next grazing site." The reason that this type of management is not successful is that the ranchers do not accept it. Ranchers believe that they should be allowed to let their herds roam wher ...

(5 pages) 38 0 3.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Of Mice And Men: Friendship - Why does George need Lennie?

so strong that when one is destroyed, the other inevitably is as well. Steinbeck often stresses how ranchers are loners, and George and Lennie are the only ones who travel in pairs. They seem to be tw ...

(2 pages) 54 2 3.4 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Killing Lennie

do, because if he didn't then Lennie would have died a slow, cruel, painful death if caught by the ranchers. Another reason why it was good for Lennie to die is because if they ran away and were caug ... de the same mistake as Candy.My second reason is if Lennie and George ran away and were caught; the ranchers would have thought it was a set up and punished or killed them both. I don't know if you ge ...

(2 pages) 40 1 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The Man From Snowy River Movie Review

respect.Jim finds a decent job without too much trouble. He needs to earn the respect of his fellow ranchers in order to return to Snowy River and rightfully claim and maintain his father's land. The ... ather's land. The low lands are where Jim experiences his first taste of adversity from disgruntled ranchers who don't take him seriously. This is also where Jim meets his first love, the beautiful an ...

(2 pages) 33 0 4.3 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Marketing Research

eting strategy and tactics.Summary of ArticleInnovation, experimentation, and change are not new to ranchers. Over the years most ranches have been through many changes in production - marketing, and ... n new markets and nontraditional agricultural enterprises has risen dramatically in recent years as ranchers look for new ways of generating income from their ranch resources. The article identified t ...

(5 pages) 281 0 2.7 Sep/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

Debate over weither the Yellowstone wolves should be removed. Side with either the Ranchers or The conservationalists

There are many reasons as to why gray wolves should be removed from the Yellowstone National Park. Ranchers and farmers are adamant about wolves being removed from the Park because wolves attack thei ... lost pack unity. This resulted in the wolves killing cattle and sheep and two had to be shot. Local ranchers were even more against the wolves when a year later a local lost 50 sheep. There have also ...

(5 pages) 22 0 3.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Report on, The Loop by Nicholas Evans

In a finally struggle Luke and Helen managed to save some wolf pups from the clutches of the angry ranchers.How does the writer encourage the reader to respond to a character or idea in the text? Nic ... his achievements.What was your personal response to the text? The Loop is about the battle between ranchers and wolf biologists, over the reintroduction of the wolves. This is a current issue in the ...

(3 pages) 29 0 5.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry

his father, William Jefferson, and his mother, Hazel Ruth. His father and eight of his uncles were ranchers and cowboys. He attended high school in Archer City, which was the city that The Last Pictu ...

(7 pages) 17 0 0.0 May/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Antibiotics in Animal Feed.

tibiotics in animal feed is for the purpose of making the animals grow faster and more efficiently. Ranchers think that by placing antibiotics in the food of their animals that the antibiotics will ki ... evel infections, allow animals to use feed more efficiently, and prevent serious disease outbreaks. Ranchers use antibiotics to increase the efficiency of the animal's growth and also to kill the bact ...

(2 pages) 41 0 4.7 Dec/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Agriculture

Deforestation of the Amazon

of Brazil has increased price and demand for Brazilian beef, road construction gives developers and ranchers access to previously inaccessible forest lands in the Amazon and because developers can gai ...

(3 pages) 55 1 3.3 Apr/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Forestry

Jaguar

tat is diminishing daily, leaving an ever-decreasing territory in which to hunt and care for young. Ranchers often kill jaguars on site, believing livestock to be one of the jaguar's main sources of f ... poachers still hunt and kill the protected jaguar to fetch a first-rate price on the black market. Ranchers often kill the jaguar on site, believing the great beast to be one of the main reasons for ...

(9 pages) 44 0 3.5 Aug/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Zoology

Of Mice And Men

lled a "nigger" (Steinbeck32) and does not get much respect from the other people on the ranch. The ranchers never let him in the bunkhouse to play cards. Crooks told Lennie in the story " ' 'Cause I' ...

(6 pages) 1715 0 0.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Stubborn Problems/railways

r equipment, property and cash. These tickets became known as "watered stock" in reference to ranchers having their cattle drink water before being weighed for sale. With all the ruthless ...

(1 pages) 1048 0 0.0 Jun/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Save The Prairie Dogs

ronmentalists. Also, prairie dogs help the grass grow around them, which would be beneficial to the ranchers' cattle.A keystone species is a species that many other different species directly depend o ... o. That is an unacceptable decline in population of a keystone species such as the prairie dog.Many ranchers claim that prairie dogs destroy the land that their cattle graze on. If anything the prairi ...

(2 pages) 1515 0 5.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Of Mice And Men

friendship because of this. Crooks, black and crippled, and Candy, old and useless, are two of the ranchers who seek to fulfill a friendship by showing interest in the relationship between George and ... be avoided because of the great value of friendship, through the loneliness of two underprivileged ranchers, Crooks and Candy, compared to the strong bond maintained by two men, George and Lennie, re ...

(5 pages) 960 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Day The Cow Boys Quit

excl;¦s boss Selkirk come to talk about the Figure 4 and tell Charlie Waide that most of the ranchers agree that no men employed for wages be allowed to own cattle. Selkirk also said some cowbo ... nue to look for mavericks and mark it in to his own brand. One day, Charlie told Hitch that the big ranchers knew that Law was stealing cattle and they decide to hang him. Few days later, Kate came to ...

(3 pages) 4182 0 0.0 Aug/2001

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

American Zoos

In recent years, zoos have begun to work together with university researchers, scientists, farmers, ranchers, teachers, environmentalists and each other to prevent the loss of animals and their habita ...

(9 pages) 19 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Lynching in the United States and Our Literature.

r example the 'Johnson County War', where disputes over pasture land in Wyoming between large scale ranchers and small scale ranchers was settled when the large land owners (backed by Republican polit ... owners (backed by Republican politicians) hired a group of mercenaries to lynch/murder the smaller ranchers (predominatly democrats) on the false pretenses that they were cattle rustlers ("Lynching i ...

(4 pages) 22 0 0.0 Nov/2007

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History