Dread By Thomas Szasz: Article Analysis

Imagine this, the hard rocks underneath your feet. The wind blowing in your face, and hot lava streaming through the area. Lava rocks tumble down the bigger rocks with the sound of the lava popping, reminding you of the candy pop rocks. The steam flowing up like your boiling water and needing clean water badly. Keeping eyes out watching for predators, located in the mountains of Hawaii. Volcano Kilauea is the oldest volcano in the world and is 300,000 to 600,000 years old. It 's a big rock that is always surrounded by lava day and night. What if you lived here? How would you survive? The main impacts in this environment are animals, air quality, and humans.

Researchers have studied the hunting habits of birds, fishes, wild mammals, and humans. A new study shows that humans are very unique and strange predators. Humans prey and hunt adult animals in large numbers, unlike any other animal. Researchers warn that this style of hunting may push populations of those prey into decline.

“Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat”, is a famous quote by the well known philosopher Socrates, who believed this is the perspective we should take when we are eating food.Unfortunately, the times have changed and so has the way we eat. We no longer have to go hunting for our food, or grow crops to receive all of our fruits and vegetables. Because we have become a society that has grown into the new world of technology, there would be no need to rely on ourselves for what we need-- we can simply gather our resources from other people. In the book, “The Omnivore’s Dilemma”, written by Michael Pollan, takes us on a journey full of concerns of the “Food Industrial Complex”. Even though the novel speaks mainly of the issues with the food on our plate, these issues are more deeply connected and reflected in former President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s “Military

Crossing over rivers, rolling hills, endless plains, and mountain passes to finally reach a salvation with huge plots of land with boundless capabilities is what many Americans did while passing through the Oregon Trail. The trail allowed many Americans to have an opportunity to prosper, but there were many dangers and perils that they would have to face. The motivation to travel the Oregon Trail was so strong because it allowed endless possibilities for Americans to escape debt, start businesses, farm large sums of land, and for Manifest Destiny.

Predation is a biological interaction between two organisms of different species in a community in which one acts as a predator and captures and feeds on the other, the prey. Predator-prey relationships keep animal populations in balance. When prey populations increase more food is available for predators, and they increase in number as well. An increase in predators triggers a decrease in prey populations. As prey populations decrease predator populations soon follow as their food supply diminishes. Organisms can evolve to enhance their ability to catch prey, or flee predators. Coevolution occurs in a predator-prey relationship when the prey evolves in response to pressures exerted by its predator. The predator then evolves in response to the changes in the prey (or vice versa). Inheritable adaptive traits evolve through natural selection, the process by which organisms that have developed favorable traits are capable of surviving and reproducing at greater rates, thus passing their adaptive traits to their offspring.

Sixty years after the extirpation of wolves in the Northern Rockies and Great Plains of America, biologist and ecologist in Yellowstone National Park reintroduced wolves into a declining ecosystem that once thrived during their presence. The reintroduction brought immense controversy into the West and continues to stir outrage among anti-wolf groups. These anti-wolf supporters argue wolves are ruthless predators that cause destruction to natural environments and livestock. Conversely wolf advocates and scientists suggest that wolves are a keystone species that are essential to the natural regulation of our Western ecosystems. Although pro and anti-wolf advocates can agree that wolves have an effect on livestock, ungulate populations and ecosystems,

On page 3 of the article they say that if hunting were to be abolished animals such as deer will become a problem because of overpopulation. This means that deer could create problems for farmland as they could eat and stomp on the crops. Hunting is what keeps the deer population from growing too large since the population of the deer’s natural predators are too small to keep the population of the deer stabilize. Deer are not the only animals that are stopped from creating problems with the ecosystem. Animals such as warthogs and the Springboks are also hunted to stop problems such as destruction of

In general, all the predators and prey (regardless of habitat) began with the same amount of population. For instance, there are a total of six predators (2 had forks, 2 had spoons, and 2 had knives)—regardless of habitat, Meaning each predator contributed to 33% of the population (Tables 1A, 2A). For prey, each bean contributed 25% of the population (Tables 1B, 2B). However, as generation progressed, differences began to appear.

Attention Getter: Have you ever read a story about animals attacking and eating humans? Transition statement: Well, That is what happens in this scary story… Background Information: It is the beginning of the winter and the birds are starting to act a little strange. They soon realize that tens of thousands of birds started to attack and eat people for no apparent reason. Whoever has the better survival skills will outsmart the birds and stay safe. Topic: In the story, the two family’s used very different survival skills to survive. The use of guns, boarding up the windows and doors, and blocking the chimney were all a part of their specific survival instincts to make their chance of living better. One family though, was better than the other. Thesis Statement: In "The Birds" by

The Canis Lupus Occidentalis which also goes by the Mackenzie Valley Wolf was classified as a gray wolf subspecies in 1829 by sir John Richardson, M.D. The Canis Lupus Occidentalis lives In Yellowstone. The pack size averages 9.2 wolves with average territory size of 348 square miles. Average males weigh between 100 and 145 pounds with females weighing roughly 10 to 20 percent less. There diet consist of wood bison, elk, caribou, musk ox, moose, Dall sheep, sitka black-tailed deer, mountain goat, beaver, ground squirrel, snowshoe hare, lemmings, and salmon. Usually 63 days after breeding, 4 to 6 pups are large enough to travel and hunt with the pack. However, protection given to the Mackenzie Valley wolf has allowed it s population to

Trophy hunting has many proponents within. Studies show that hunted animals take the lives of smaller more feeble animals, otherwise known as their prey. This in turn is the basic interval to maintaining the natural order in the food chain. However, the wealthy few excessively hunt, thus renders their own reasoning moot.

Over the past 30 years the wolf population has increasedwent from less than three hundred to over four thousand and is still growing. This wasn’t a problem until the wolves lost their fear of mankind. This is where things started to change. Sesveral decades ago it looked like wolves would probably disappear forever from the plains and forests of this country.

Before wolves were reintroduced, they had been absent for 17 years, the number of deer built up and up despite man’s attempt to bring the population down. Because there were too many deer, they were thinning the forest. When the wolves were released into Yellow Stone they began killing the deer, because of this the deer’s behavior began to change cause them to avoid certain parts of the forest. Life began to flourish, the trees begun growing and because of this the birds returned as well as the beavers. Also, the wolves began to kill coyotes which allowed rabbits and mice populations to grow again.

Sarah K. Castle, in her scientific fiction “The Mutant Stag at Horn Creek” develops the story to tell the nature-culture hybrids and its effect on human-kind and other creatures. The story sets in one location called “Horn Creek” and the main character “Sue” a park ranger and a narrator of the story. The author shows the effect of human meddling with natures at the very beginning of the story. A “Grand Canyon” which is the story plays had been mined and it starts to be closed for visitors and Horn Creek was one of them. In this fiction author is more about to say that human kind intervention in nature is the reason for the natural world disaster.

Hunting is a very debatable issue around the world, it is a common sport, yet so many people are against it.