Contreras 1 Samantha Contreras ENG110-02 Dr. Bryant 4 Oct. 2014 Reaction and Response: For Environmental Balance‚ Pick up a Rifle In the article “For Environmental Balance‚ Pick up a Rifle” by Nicholas Kristof‚ the author informs the reader about the importance of hunting‚ arguing that hunting needs to be brought back in the United States to control the deer population. He talks about the negative impact deer have caused in death of people by car accidents and with the destruction of the
Premium Deer Hunting United States
A story published December 4‚ 2005 by The New York Times‚ columnist‚ Nicholas D. Kristof called “For Environmental Balance‚ Pick Up a Rifle”. It is a piece about the destruction that an unchecked deer population is causing in North America‚ but seem to focus more data from New Jersey and New York. The article talks about wasted money‚ death to humans‚ other events‚ and even compares the likely hood of being killed by Bambi (Disney movie about a deer) instead of Osama Bin Laden (terrorist) who was
Premium Nutrition Obesity Health
11/28/13 “For Environmental Balance‚ Pick Up a Rifle” Nickolas Kristof starts out his article by briefly quizzing the reader on general knowledge that he soon tries to challenge. Followed by his main argument led by an interesting title he chose when he decided to incorporate “picking up a rifle” with “environmental balance”. In doing this‚ the author makes it clear from the get-go that he stands firm with the belief that hunting is a logical solution to the issue of environmental balance. His solution
Premium Natural environment Biodiversity Environmentalism
A Critical Analysis of “For Environment Balance‚ Rifle up a Rifle” Nicholas Donabet Kristof is the author of “For Environment Balance‚ Rifle up a Rifle”. He is well-known as an American author‚ a journalist‚ and liberal columnist‚ and a winner of two Pulitzer Prize. “For Environment Balance‚ Rifle up a Rifle” appeared in The New York Times that attempted to convince the American people that deer is a dangerous mammal animal by killing more people each year than any other American mammal. It is mentioned
Premium Biodiversity Critical thinking Hunting
for a while and grew up around a lot of farm animals from chickens to goats. The author Nicholas D kristof reflection is something I agree with because I experinced it first hand. Nickolas stated in the begaining of the essay that " Our descedants will look back on our factory farms with uncomprehending revulsion" and that is so true. Back in the day we didn’t torture animals to eat them but in this modren time our factory farms are filled with cruel animal tortures. Nicholas also wrote something
Premium Animal Farm The Animals George Orwell
The article “Meet a 21st Century Slave” was published on October 24‚ 2015 on The New York Times opinion pages and written by Nicholas Kristof. This article talks about how a real human being survived the cruelty in 21st century slavery. The context of this article is social‚ cultural‚ and historical. It is social because this article portrays how Poonam Thapa did not have any say on how she would live her own life. It is also cultural and historical because this article provides how she was treated
Premium Slavery Slavery in the United States American Civil War
Nicholas Kristof is a columnist for the well known newspaper The New York Times. His main focus for his column is Human rights‚ women’s rights‚ health‚ and global affairs. He has written his column for the NY Times since 2001. Kristof grew up in Oregon and graduated from Harvard University. He went on to study law at Oxford. He is fluent in more than 3 languages and was a foreign correspondent for the NY Times for many years. He won two pulitzer prizes and received many humanitarian awards. One
Premium United States Management President of the United States
A sweatshop is a factory or workshop where the workers are employed at very low wages for long hours and under poor conditions. According to the article “Where Sweatshops are a dream‚” written by Nicholas D Kristof argues that the factories could help people get out of poverty. Kristof presents the facts that support sweatshops is underprivileged countries in order to persuade countries to discontinue their negative campaigns against the industries which offer the safest available work. Kristof’s
Premium Employment Wage Economics
As I read Nicholas D. Kristof narrative I am very shocked of how arrogant the author truly is. He travels to a foreign country in which he has no knowledge in‚ and suddenly questions their culture‚ identity‚ and religion. He talks about his experience traveling to the capital of Saudi Arabia‚ and the things he encountered. However one thing that caught my intention was the author stated he saw “giggly black ghost”. As a result of that statement I have come to the conclusion that the author stepped
Premium Religion English-language films Literature
In Kristof Nicholas Article‚ he claims that everyone is a little bit racist. He has excellent point to as how people are. A few of these points are that‚ universities are more likely to choose “whiter” sounding names compared to african american sounding names. He also states that in a game designed by harvard‚ were you shoot people‚ people were more likely to shoot african americans than white people. Nicholas Makes many more points on how people are racist‚ even if it’s towards themselves.
Premium Race Racism Black people