In the essay on “Liberal and Vocational Studies,” Seneca gives us the notion that while getting a liberal arts education will not make you a morally right person, it will give you the knowledge that you need to become so in the future. The essay then goes on to explain the difference between Liberal Studies and Vocational Studies. Seneca states that the only liberal study truly worth your time was the pursuit of wisdom, the others are just worthless, and with their main goals ending in making money.…
During this week's reading of Spirit Animals:Wild born by Brandon Mull Melin is on a boat traveling with her spirit animal Uraza. Shane is helping her to have a larger connection with Uraza. Shane tries to help her by giving her a short tube and tells her to try to hit him with it to see if she can use the spirit animals power. It doesn’t work the first time so shane tries to see if it will work when she feels that he is endanger. So he has her make a different approach and in the middle of it a guy comes in and attacks shane. When Melin knocks the guy unconscious using her spirit animals power and realizes it was a trick she feels furious. She says “You got a true response through trickery,”’what you did to us was betrayal.” Based on the…
In her article “Rise of the Coyote: The New Top Dog,” Sharon Levy describes that coyotes need to stop being criticized as static entities and know that they are evolving rapidly. Coyotes have helped researchers understand how other mid-sized predators respond when larger carnivores are wiped out. The larger animals that are prey make the smaller animals feel that they secure in their habitat because the wild animal that could kill them, has something that could kill the predator. Coyotes have been helpful in discovering the smaller animals reactions, helping people show that not all wild animals are as harmful as they seem to be. Levy goes on to say that coyotes are interbreeding with dogs, leading to a different sort of hybrid animal.…
I really enjoyed reading your post. You have made some great points and displayed the idea in great detail. The Coyote and Roadrunner cartoons is a very good example of using physics within animation. I have always loved watching this cartoon and laughing at it. I also liked how you posted a video about how each ball moves and acts. This was helpful and is a good realistic video that helps one animate a ball.…
Sophocles once stated, “Success is sweet, even if it comes from deception.” This truth is portrayed through three different short stories known as “How Stories Came to Earth”, “Coyote Steals Fire”, and “Master Cat: Puss in Boots”. In each of these three tales the main character spins webs of deceit by tricking people or, in some cases, animals into doing what they want them to. This includes Anansi’s act of tricking a snake into stretching himself out so Anansi could tie the snake to the stick in “How Stories Came to Earth.” Another form of deceit used, this time, in “Coyote Steals Fire” is when Coyote pretends to be dead in order to steal the fire from Thunder. In the story “Master Cat: Puss in Boots” Puss creates many empty threats to tell people so that they will lie for him. Each character obtains what he/she wishes to through a form of deception. While “How Stories Came to Earth”, “Coyote Steals Fire”, and “Master Cat: Puss in Boots” share similar tricksters who ultimately achieve their goals, they differ on the subject matters of their strategies, the benefits their tricks play on society, and the justification of their actions.…
Author Amanda Rose has taken it upon herself to bring to light the horrific experiences of modern day immigrant’s flight to freedom through the Sonoran Desert. In addition to addressing the immigrant’s plight, she calls into question the immigration process or lack thereof, the United States legislative broken immigration policy, religious leaders and their roles, US Border Patrol and US citizens. Her intent is to open up a dialogue on US immigration policies and educate the American public on the devastating consequences of a hapless built dividing wall between two countries which are felt not only by the immigrants but by the people that live in and around the border. Rose illustrates the conflicts that everyday Americans citizens living on the border face in trying to help and solve border issues with their personal solutions. Do they work? Are they…
The story “Juicy and Delicious” written by Lucy Alibar and its film adaptation “Beasts of the Southern Wild” directed by Benh Zeitlin follow the life of a young child named Hushpuppy in a home she calls “the Bathtub.” Throughout the play, Hushpuppy learns how to love and care for others with examples given by the characters Miss Bathsheba, Joy, Birfday cake, and Daddy. Hushpuppy is portrayed more as dependent and in need of some protection in the play’s version of her story, while in the film her character is adapted to be seemingly more independent, assertive and courageous. ((the so what, what’s the point of that))…
Through Shadow’s character, Gaiman illustrates the theme of faith which lays the foundation for the novel. The first time we experience this major theme is in the very beginning of the novel in Shadow’s dream where the buffalo man offers him the following advice:…
“Leopard, is this how you act? You should not be prowling around at night; look at where you are! Now put your paw here and here, and I will help you out.” This quotes in the trickster tale “How stories came to earth.” In this story Anansi, a spider had to catch four animals to get stories from the Skygod. The Trickster tales “How Stories Came to Earth” and “ Coyote Steals Fire” both have similarities and differences.…
Explain what the prophesy in “How the Coyote Got His Powers” means and relate it to another text or historical circumstance that shares the same story or theme. Think back to our class discussion of many characters from the Batman movies and comics as trickster and Coyote figures, as well as the similarities between the Exodus of the Jewish population from Egypt as inspiration. Avoid using these examples if you can and look for one of your own.…
The author's Diction heightens the rancher's commitment to protect the people and the doubt he feels about the decision. Although the man's first “instinct” was not to kill the snake, he realized that it was his “duty” to kill it because of the “ominous” danger it posed to the ranch. The man's natural “instinct” and his moral “duty” to protect the ranch do not align, creating the conflict that the reader identifies with. The man recognizes the “ominous” danger posed by the snake, leaving him with an obligation to remove the danger. At first, the rancher's thought was to “let [the snake] go” for the rancher “never killed” an animal and not “obliged” to kill, but he “reflected” that it posed as a threat to the ranch, thus having to remove it. The rancher wanted to “let [the snake] go” for he has “never killed an animal” because he does not “feel the satisfaction” of killing as a sport. The rancher was very hesitant to kill, but he “reflected” that he needed to protect. The man's obligation and regret about killing the snake creates a conflict that generates the readers emotions through Diction; the Imagery further illustrates this conflict.…
This passage portrays a strong friendship that would have been a rarity in the Great Depression. The fact that they have this kind of friendship already illustrates them as being different from other ranch workers.…
Over 33 percent of the homes have no electricity or basic water and sewage systems forcing many to carry (often contaminated) water from local rivers daily for their personal needs. This is an ongoing struggle with the sioux nation and has been. This is because of poor insurance and no government help. In the nonfiction novel Saga of the Sioux the author Dwight Jon Zimmerman expresses how bad the sioux tribes have it in the conflicts that arise, the theme and it's all through the author's point of view.…
The fragility of this relationship between the hunted and the hunter is not only displayed in the resolution of the story but also through various passages. For example, Zaroff describes several interactions with animals that resulted in injury on his part.…
Everybody has had their good and bad times, and usually with their bad times they have to persevere. In The Call of the Wild, Buck was torn from his loving, peaceful life and forced into hard labor, hatred, and regret as he got to know how the wild works. On the other hand, my dad had to persevere when his sister and niece died and he had to learn how to get through that hard time in his life just like Buck had to do.…