...If you have never taught a sibling to hunt, you might want to take that bullet out of the chamber.This foggy morning will be forever in my mind. This event was so infamous that I could never forget. Teaching my young brother Peyton to hunt is the day I wish had never started. This Foggy morning I was woken up by the sound of my alarm clock buzzing an annoying buzz in my ear. As usual I get up and get in my Camo shirt and my thick jacket. I throw on my overalls and put my boots on.I made a Bowl of cheerios and as I took the last bite I hear a horrifying sound. It was my brother and he said I am going hunting with you. I was thinking in my head well ok i just won’t let him shoot and i will make him be quiet. So we get in the woods and are climbing...
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...Florianne At some point in life everyone breaks away from one another. When someone leaves you behind it can create emptiness and loneliness and it will always be easier for some than for others to handle the feelings that can occur. The short story Florianne by Daniel Woodrell is a fascinating story showing, from a father’s perspective, what a father goes through when his daughter becomes a teenager. On the surface Florianne is about a father, Henry, being upset because his daughter, Florianne, is missing. He worries that someone has taken his daughter. Throughout the story he tries to find her and is constantly suspecting everyone around him to have kidnapped her (p.40, l.21). The narrator is being worried about his daughter and blames his surroundings for the loss. In the ending of the story the father recollects the memories of the missing daughter’s mother. The girl’s mother left the father and daughter years ago. The mother gave several reasons for leaving the father, among was that he was too much the same day in and day out: “I was too steady for her taste, too regular, too much the same one day to another.” Irrespective of age almost everyone in some point in life breaks away from someone close to them to form and create their own life. The loss of the narrators daughter begun before she went missing. On page 42 there is a description of his daughters transformation from a girl to a teenager: “That meant so much to her, to finally have a figure clothes looked good...
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...evening, I found myself sitting twenty feet up a tree in my hunting stand. I had my PSE spider bow in my hand with an Easton arrow knocked and ready to rock. I was only fourteen years old. My dad was sitting in the tree next to me. There was no sign of deer yet we were just listening to the wind blowing through the trees, and the squirrels rustling below. They were fidgeting around with some of the apples I had put out for the deer. One of the squirrels picked up an apple attempted to climb a tree with it and fell to the ground. I chuckled a little bit. I was focused on the squirrels when my dad leaned over and said “Quit fooling around there is a deer, look to the left”. I glanced left and froze as I stared right at a huge doe. She was walking down the trail right towards me.my heart started to pound faster and faster with every nearing step. I raised my bow when she was about thirty yards away. My heart was pounding. I drew back my bow and took aim. I paused for a second and closed my eyes to take a deep breath and think. “Mitch, wake up your dad is home” my mom said. I raced out the door in my pajamas. I was about six at the time. Sure enough the big green F150 pulled in the driveway, my dad gets out and drops open the tailgate. Lying in the bed was a huge doe. My dad picked me up and set me next to the deer. My mom came out and took a picture of us with his deer. “Dad when is it going to me my turn to go hunting” I said. “Son, when you grow up, I promise” he replied. Age...
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...Lenk Hunting Hunting has been a way of life for thousands of years. As long as humans have been on earth, they have been hunting to provide food for their families. For many decades now, hunting has started to cause conflict among people. One of the main issues that have cause conflict has been overharvesting. Overharvesting can also cause issues with habitat and may put a strain on the relationship between the predator and the prey. While there may be issues, there are also benefits of hunting. Hunting controls the population of certain species. Hunting is one of the long time traditional ways of controlling the population of animas such as the white tailed deer. (Kilgo, Labis & Fitzen) The money that hunters spend annually on hunting helps support the economy in many areas around the world. Many supporters are for and against hunting. The question seems to be whether hunting is good for our environment or is it destructive. The consequences of continuing or eliminating the long time practices of hunting could have a detrimental effect on the environment. As mentioned in the opening paragraph, overharvesting can cause issues with the habitat of animals in the area and may also put a strain on the relationship between the predator and the prey. Studies have shown that the behaviors of the deer are different between the hunting and nonhunting season. The female deer tend to stay away from roads and highways and are less active during hunting season. The deer instead...
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...main points and restate my thesis in different words? Yes it does restate and summarize my main points. Have I carefully proofread and revised my paper for sentence variety, word choice, grammar, and punctuation? Yes I had some people look it over and help me with corrections. Does my Works Cited page include only the sources cited in the text? Is it correctly formatted? The works cited page is correct and include all appropriate sources. Have I used the correct margins, line spacing, and other format issues required by the MLA sample essay and the sample provided by my instructor? Yes, I followed all MLA format requirements. Michael Strickler Professor Euken English 101 01 February 2013 Hunting in America Hunting is a pastime that helps people become one with nature and frees them from their normal lives. When hunters get the chance to go hunting they are able to go to the woods where they can relax, and clear their minds. Hunting allows one to get back to the outdoors and...
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...Savageless Many would argue that hunting sends us back to our primitive days when we lived only on the land and everything was used for money. It is actually quite the opposite of what most believe. Hunting is a way of life for some people and the only way we know how to get by. Hunting is by no means savage and is vital to everyday life. Without the hunters in the country we would be over run by animal populations and would have many predatory animals living in suburb communities putting our wellbeing at stake. Many people do not realize how much hunting indirectly influences their way of life. The meat in the grocery store was made in a more savage way than hunting. Slaughter houses are highly inhumane towards aimals. Hunting at least gives the animal free will to do whatever it wants in the wild. At a slaughter house animals have no hope to live any amount of time, but in the wild the animals are able to experience their natural habitat and be happy roaming the woods as they please. Many of the people who are against hunting are not even vegetarians and eat meat from the store and they are completely ignorant to the fact that what they are eating is killed in a horrible savage way. I am in no way saying that eating meat from the store is a bad thing to do, but only that venison is a more humane way of eating. Not only is it more humane its healthier than proccessed meat and has a less chance of carrying harmful bacteria gained from meat proccessors. Not only does the meat...
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...Wendy Simpson ENG 101 Instructor: Magda Sokolowski August 4, 1025 Hunting: An Act of Conservation Some would say hunting is simply a sport, while others would say it provides assistance in conservation efforts. “Conservation is defined as a careful preservation and protection of something; especially planned management of a natural resource to prevent exploitation, destruction, or neglect” (Merriam-Webster, n.d.) Hunting serves as an act of conservation, by assisting in population control, while also providing funding for wildlife management through the Robertson Pittman Act and hunter created funding groups. While hunting continues to be disagreed upon for various reasons, the effects of hunting have been and will continue to be of assistance to conservation. Population Hunters contribute to conservation regarding population in two ways: reducing overpopulation and protecting the current population. Even though these may seem like a contradiction, they actually work hand in hand. Responsible hunters follow state regulated hunting guidelines. Hunters typically harvest wildlife that is of the appropriate age to not interfere with reproduction. Deer, for example, are typically harvested around the age of two and up. According to the Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency, of the deer killed in the Hatchie National Wildlife Refuge in 2011, 58.33% were 2 and one half years old (Big Game Harvest Report, 2012). Responsible hunters typically practice selective killing...
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...Importance of hunting for ecosystem and human beings In today’s world, everyone likes to have fun and entertainments in various styles. Some loves music, sports, reading news, whereas some chose writing, computer games, visiting new places and so on. Hunting is a good way to get entertainment. Beside fun, there are also various purposes of hunting such as for foods, peculiar designed clothes, and business. Also, it has good impact to our environment. Hunting is essential for balancing ecosystem and economic development. Hunting is very important for balancing the ecosystem. We can balance the ecosystem by shooting animals that are excessively large in population. The large population of an animal also harms other animals that are endangered and transfer dieses to human beings. So, hunting is a best way to balance the ecosystem. First, overpopulation of animals in an area destroy the ecosystem and make resources limited for other animals, so hunting is a great way for controlling the populations of numerous different animals. Doris Lin itemized that “Hunting is an effective form of deer management because it will remove a number of individual deer from a population and prevent those individuals from reproducing” (1). Hunting is an operative way to kill animals and harmonizing the ecosystem. As we all know, deer are causing many traffic calamities in United States that can cause an accidental death including lost of properties. Approximately 1,050 people died in vehicle-animal...
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...8-line 'octave' of two quatrains, rhymed abbaabba, followed by a 6-line 'sestet' usually rhymed cdecde or cdcdcd. The fist eight lines introduces a problem or issue to think about, while the remaining 6 lines offers a resolution or opinion. The two sonnets being compred have this in common. “Whoso List To Hunt “ by Sir Thomas Wyatt and “Sonnet 67” by Edmund Spencer can be compared metaphorically as well as literally. The sonnet by Sir Thomas Wyatt is about a hunts man who is trying to catch a deer but is not having any luck. “ But as for me, helas, I may no more. The vain travail hath wearied me so sore, I am of them that farthest cometh behind (lines 2-4). All the chasing is making the huntsman tired and doubtful he realizes that he is so far behind the hunt. Edmund Spencer’s sonnet is similar to Wyatt’s with regards to the deer hunting. The man in this sonnet is chasing his stalked prey that has gotten away from him. He is sick and tired of spending all of his time hunting the deer so he sits down in the shade with his dogsd give up on his hunt for the deer an “ Seeing the game from him escapt away: sits downe to rest him in some shady place, with panting hounds beguiled of their pray (lines 2-4). Another comparison between the two sonnets’ are both authors use a hunting themed metaphor comparing the woman to a deer and the man to a hunts man in...
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...of your car. You try to stop but it’s too late, you slam into a white-tailed deer. This happens to over 26 thousand people per year. This is because the deer population is huge in New Jersey. The deer hunt limits should be increased because deer provoke accidents, decimate crops, and transmit diseases. To begin, the quantity of car accidents provoked by deer continues to increase. The 2016 New Jersey deer population estimate was 101,000 which does not include the 26,800 deer that are involved in car accidents or the 41,439 deer that are killed during the hunting season according to the state news website, www.nj.com . In New Jersey, you can only kill one buck per day and the season is only five days during the month of December according to the New Jersey Regulations website (eregulations.com/newjersey/). This means, if the State increases the amount of deer a hunter can kill per day, the population would reduce which in turn would make the roads safer at night for drivers....
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...Kristen Davis Hunting, whether being called cruel and murderous by animal rights organizations is a growing topic of conversation in our community as a social and economic issue. "How is comparing hunters to murderers and criminals different from racial/demographic profiling or stereo typing? This sort of thing is a prime example of hatred, intolerance, prejudice and discrimination. It is unacceptable to speak or act hatefully toward demographic groups based upon their race, religion, gender or sexual preference. But somehow it is ok to categorize responsible, law abiding citizens who hunt and own firearms as violent criminals. " (Lapierre) Though for me hunting goes much deeper than that, growing up on a ranch, waking up before the crack of dawn, devouring a plate of hot grits, wrapping a biscuit in foil and shoving it in my pocket and making my way through the trees and undergrowth to my favorite deer blind was just like for most people going to the supermarket. The only difference being I knew what I was eating, "in this day and age, we are detached from the realities of where our food comes from" (Lapierre). So for me it is difficult to understand how "it is acceptable to pay someone to kill the cows, pigs and chickens we purchase at the supermarket" (Lapierre) but then for me to do it myself is wrong. While many animals spend their lives in cramped cages these animals roamed free and were left in their natural habitat. Without hunter there to regulate the wild game populations...
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...Haylee Bowers Research Paper 11/20/13 In today’s society, cruelty towards animals is growing rapidly because people don’t understand the value of an animal’s life. People all around the world use and abuse animals as if it was some kind of national sport, and everybody is competing for the first place gold medal. Ever year millions of animals are being beaten and starved because of heartless people. Animal cruelty is a social issue that many people don’t understand. All the people who abuse animals don’t understand when they are harming an innocent animal are going to continue to do it until they are shown what they are doing wrong. Each type of abuse has certain patterns that scientists can study and find out why people commit the crimes they do. Animal cruelty is broken down into two categories, which are active and passive. Active cruelty is also known as NAI (non-accidental injury). NAI is when a person has malicious intent so fierce that they deliberately and intentionally cause harm to an animal. On the other hand with passive cruelty a person doesn’t intentionally cause harm to the animal, they simple neglect it by giving it no attention. While I was doing the research for this essay, I thought non-stop about how a human being could break a dogs leg, back, or even neck and feel no sympathy for the dog? Are some people in this world that heartless that they have no feelings for other living things? I wonder if you asked a person that has abused an animal if they...
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...Canton Lake to replenish Oklahoma City’s drinking water has become a huge controversy in northwest Oklahoma. Oklahoma City officials claim that the city has waited as long as possible before pulling water from the lake; however, residents of Canton, Oklahoma don’t buy into this excuse. Is it really necessary to take 30,000 acre-feet of water from a lake that is already at a record low without much chance of recuperation? Besides the argument of whether or not Oklahoma City’s decision is warranted, the economy of the city of Canton as well as the lake’s land and wildlife habitat could experience detrimental losses. Oklahoma’s collective lakes have experienced an intense drought in the past two years. It is due to this drought that this issue has even come to light. Some claim Canton Lake was created as a reserve for Oklahoma City’s drinking water while others claim that it was created for flood control. As The Enid News and Eagle clarifies, “Kathy Carlson, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lake manager, told the group the lake was built for flood control, water supply and irrigation. Later, secondary purposes were included that added wildlife habitat and recreation” (Barron). Regardless of why the lake was created, local residents believe the water release is unnecessary. Canton business owners, residents, and even surrounding towns argue that Oklahoma City residents and businesses have been negligent concerning water conservation during this drought. As Representative Mike...
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...February 14, Mary Smith of Grantsville, Maryland was convicted for illegally hunting and poaching a buck. Smith became the first female to be sentenced under Maryland’s state anti-poaching law. Mary Smith, 21, was caught on the night of February 14, gutting an illegal, 19-point buck. The buck’s antlers were about 217 total inches. When police searched her Jeep Wrangler they found a loaded rifle. Smith was on a private property, hunting during the night, and hunting during off-season. Smith is a daredevil in my books. Most would say different, but where could you find a female who would do exactly what she did, and on Valentine's Day? I mean most people go out to a fancy dinner, but Smith was killing her soon to be fancy dinner. Though she could've been more sneaky and wouldn’t have got caught if it weren't for her bright as can be Jeep lights and the landowner....
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...Why Banning Hunting is Not the Answer “Hunting animals should be banned!” insist the animal rights proponents. “We have a God given right to hunt animals and you can’t stop us!” shout back the resolute hunters defensively. Is anyone really listening to the ‘other side’? In a recent Africa Geographic Magazine article Simon Espley states the problem concisely. “The thing about hunting is that the topic is so polarizing that it prevents meaningful discourse between people who probably have more in common than they care to admit.” (Espley) Hunting allows hunters to have food for their families and reduces habitat overcrowding, so it should not be banned. Trophy hunting, on the other hand, is very controversial and deserves a closer look at whether or not it should continue to be permitted. There are be two sincere sides to the decision to ban or not ban hunting. Both sides agree on many basic ideas. For instance, animal rights proponents and hunting enthusiasts both believe in protecting endangered species, protecting ecosystems or habitats of all animals, humane treatment of animals, and supporting animal preserves in many parts of the world. Most of the bitterness is driven by the refusal to recognize how much they all have in common. Trophy hunters often become incensed more about their right to hunt than the rightness of the hunt they are paying for. Legitimate concern over corruption in the area of trophy hunting safaris has brought about widespread anger within the...
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