Have you ever wondered why the lions of Tsavo attacked the men who were building the railroad, or why Kevin Richardson is such good friends with lions? In Attack of the man Eaters it focuses on Colonel Patterson and how they’re being attacked by 2 lions in Tsavo. Meet the Lion Whisperer focuses on Kevin Richardson and how he tries to save the lions from canned hunts, and all the other bad things they do to the lions. In Attack of the man Eaters they saw the 2 lions as devils, because they were dragging people out of their tents and eating them at night time. In Meet the Lion Whisperer the guy thinks of the lions as friends, and plays with them on a daily basis. In Attack of the man Eaters the lions killed a popular worker so Colonel Patterson
vowed to hunt down and kill the lions. In Meet the Lion Whisperer Kevin Richardson tries to save the lions from death. Colonel Patterson one day kills the lions and sells the skins. Kevin Richardson on the other hand sets up a sanctuary for 32 lions, 15 hyenas, and 4 black leopards. In both of the articles it talks about how the lions have a problem with their habitats and what happens to them. They also talk about how majestic the lions are. Out in the wild they can’t hunt for themselves because the big game have a disease and the lions have injuries to their teeth. In captivity when they get to big they can be in canned hunts where they are fenced in, and sometimes even sedated to make the hunts easier. Now you see why the lions of Tsavo attacked Colonel Patterson’s men and why Kevin Richardson is so good with the lions. Also now you know if you ever see lions in a petting zoo something bad will happen to them soon. Maybe one day you will want to become a lion saver now or build a railroad in Tsavo.
In the book Kalahari, the author Jessica Khoury tells a very intersting story about a teenage girl, Sarah, living in Botswana. Sarah is the daughter of zoologists who need more money so they can continue their work, they have five teens come and they are supposed to get tours of the dessert in order to make money. The five visitors include: Joey, Avani, Miranda, Kase, and Sam. When Sarahs father and family friend Theo go to find pochersw, the teens are stranded in the dessert and it is up to sarah to keep them alive; they go looking for Dad and Theo, they find Theo shot and dead but they do not find Dad and assume that he got away. They find a silver lion that is vicious and attacks the group, they escape and learn that the lion has a highly
In my creative writing project for English 9, I chose to make a series of six letters between two characters from the books Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and Son of the Mob by Korman Gordon. The two characters I chose were Romeo Montague from Romeo and Juliet, and Vince Luca from Son of the Mob. In the letters, I have the two boys talk about their lives. As Romeo is dead already, I have the two boys focus mainly on Vince’s life. Romeo offers countless pieces of advice on how to help Vince deal with the problems of dating the daughter of his father’s worst enemy. Throughout the conversation, the two boys become close each other, brought together by the problems that they both share experience in.
George Fitzhugh’s, Cannibals All (Excerpt) is a primary document that appropriately argues that it is in the United State’s best intentions to preserve negro slavery across the South and the rest of the country in effort to sustain better lives for American negroes. Frederick Douglass argues in his piece, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave that society is responsible for shaping the negro community into slavery, and that abolition is necessary to remove that from existence. The author, Fitzhugh is a considerably significant individual who has a strong political background and is recognized for pro-slavery theology, influencing him to be a prominent figure in the context of arguing for the justification of slavery.
Monsters and Men (Unit Paper). For ages, we have wondered what is the difference between monsters and men that make them who they are. What are the characteristics that define a monster? Typically it’s the bad guy, the person or thing that comes into the story just to cause a massacre or stand in the protagonist’s way.
Think of a North America without electricity, no running water, no government, almost no buildings left intact, and ravaged by a Chinese manufactured plague, even though it’s hard to imagine that's what happened in Jeff Hirsch’s The Eleventh Plague. In Jeff Hirsch’s Eleventh Plague a family made up of the Dad, Mom, Grandfather, and son are trying to survive in a North America ravaged by a Chinese Plague , But then the mom and grandpa die and dad and Stephen are left on their own, but when the dad gets injured running away from some slavers, A Town named Settlers Landing that seems too good to be true takes them in. Then Stephen befriends a girl named Jenny, and when they play a prank that sends Jenny, and when they play a prank that sends the town into chaos. A war is started and it is up to them to help stop it. I thought that The Eleventh Plague was a believable piece of Speculative Fiction because of Hirsch's use of elements of Conflict, Theme, and Red Herrings.
Bacon's rebellion was also known as a civil war. Nathaniel Bacon led the rebellion against Governor Berkeley due the corruption within the tobacco farmer wealthiest. Bacon rebelled because he felt the government mainly Berkeley was showing favoritism to the Indians by not letting poorer farms us the Indians lands and not caring enough about their own colonists. The reason being Bacon felt the Indians where a problem to the economy when in reality they were not the cause of the economy decline. This shows how prejudice Bacon is toward the Indians and their contribution to the trading policy. Bacon and Berkeley where both very selfish men in history's view point they both saw the running of the government in different lights. Bacon was against
“Eaters of the Dead” by Michael Crichton is a fiction but with historical background. Through this piece Crichton hopes to express the way of life for the Vikings in the year 922 AD while at the same time creating an entertaining story. Using a manuscript written by Ibn-Fadlan Crichton pieced together a book filled with adventure and excitement. Michael Crichton was born in Chicago, 1942 and always knew he had a talent for writing. He attended Brown University and has since published many books such as “Jurassic Park”, “The Rising Sun”, “Disclosure”, and many more. Several of his books have been made into movies, for example, “Jurassic Park”, “The Lost World”, “Sphere”,
The story begins with Col. John Patterson arriving in Mombassa in March of 1898 on the East African coast. All Patterson knows is that he is supposed to help with the railroad being built across Kenya to Lake Victoria, and eventually Uganda. He quickly receives his orders to proceed to Tsavo, a little over a hundred miles from Mombassa, to help build a bridge over the Tsavo River. Upon his arrival, he realizes the harsh nature of Tsavo, with its thick underbrush and rough terrain. Immediately, Patterson is faced with a number of problems, such as a source for quality stones to help build the bridge and the problem of the lions. The stone problem is quickly solved, but the problem of the lions takes much longer.
In his novel, Eaters of the Dead, author Michael Crichton shows how the Volga Northmen were able to defeat their foes, the wendol, by using their intellect instead of their weapons. This is seen in four aspects. The theme of the novel is that physical courage is not enough to preserve your culture and lifestyle: intelligence and superior knowledge are absolutely essential. Conflict between the wendol and the Northmen shows which group has the intelligence to eliminate the other. Symbolism of wisdom, knowledge, and the lack of such things are used by Crichton to illustrate this moral. The juxtaposition of characters emphasizes the cleverness of the Volga Northmen compared to the Venden Northmen.
In “Killing Monsters”, Gerard Jones describes his personal experiences and his work with children to support his claim of violence in media being beneficial to children. He tells of his childhood and how during it, comic characters and violent fantasies helped him deal with his frustrations and problems. He also describes his interactions with different children and how they used violence to empower them and give them strength. Jones uses all this evidence to assert that violence in media helps children in many ways and shouldn’t be criticized the way it is. While I agree with Jones’ claim that violence in the media can be good for children, I think that his evidence is too personal and weak to strongly support an argument.
Bacon’s Rebellion was a revolt by poor farmers against both the aristocracy of the Jamestown settlement and the frontier Native Americans. The rebellion can be described as both anti-aristocratic and anti-Native American. Severe social and racial tensions and conflicts led to the outbreak of rebellion.
Cannibalism has many hidden features behind it as it may be intended for the horror crowd in many occasions, but also aimed for achieving social change as it was displayed throughout the entire semester with the films we watched and many of the readings. Social change can be added to such a genre because it has a large crowd of interest and adaption to change is greatly followed by the readers and having a large following behind a concept of cannibalism allows the social change theories to get to a large audience thus being able to influence many people at one reading or viewing. The Night of The Living Dead has a contradictory ending because the character that was behind the whole social change was killed by the people that were supposed to
Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) was an American born poet who wrote many pieces of literature. He was a very well educated writer who studied philosophy, English and Hinduism at both Harvard and then Oxford University. He was also a magnificently beautiful writer. Eliot during his youth, and after he graduated, had read a substantial amount of literature due to a disability which had impaired his movements. It is believed that he was the mostly widely-read person of the 20th Century. His most favourite genre that he indulged in was poetry and many of the works paved way for modern poetry/literature. He received a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. His first work, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1917), is considered, in my opinion, the predecessor to his most influential work, The Waste Land (1922). The Hollow Men (1925) is considered to be a follow up to the Wasteland. All three writings share similar themes and interconnect with each other in some retrospect. The topic that I investigated is the portrayal of the decline of Western Culture and Spiritualism through T.S. Eliot’s selected poems:
The meager image depicted by Lu Xun's 'Diary of a Madman' projects an illustration of society that stresses submission to authority, and the ultimate compliance to tradition. Lu Xun battles the idea that society is constantly being manipulated and controlled by the masses of people who know no better than to follow tradition. His story 'Diary of a Madman' gives the representation of a culture that has not only failed, but failed by the cannibalistic nature of humans corrupting them-selves over and over again therefore feeding upon themselves. The analysis of 'Diary of a Madman' gives way to a new interpretation of societies of the past, present, and future. Following the idea that history tends to repeat itself, I have paralleled the idea that society as a whole can be seen as cannibalistic not only in the reference by Lu Xun, but also in the current society we live in today. Only through willingness to change can societies transform their behaviors and actions giving way to improvement.
Lion’s are very amazing creatures, as well as interesting. They have very unique life styles, habits, and ways of life.