“Get up!” yelled another. “Fight!” The dazed Torrin soldiers closed in around the carriage. The soldiers were better equipped than their assailants, but what the enemy lacked in weaponry (many rushed from the forest armed with wooden clubs and dressed in cloth), they made up for in numbers—numbers, numbers, numbers—man after man after man swarmed forward to besiege the better armed escort. As the two groups clashed together, Okori rushed between the carriage’s windows. She needed an escape route. The carriage’s rear was still free of obstruction, and one of her soldiers’ horses could easily carry her and the Princess back to the castle. But the enemy soldiers soon sealed off this potential escape route. In response, the Torrin soldiers encircled the carriage, but doing so weakened the line combating those rushing from the forest. Already outnumbered, the attacking soldiers’ continuous onslaught soon overwhelmed the Torrin defence. Okori continued pacing back and forth. She had to act or risk being trapped. The forest on the Princess’s side of the carriage remained unoccupied, so she stood up, kicked the carriage door open and jumped out onto the road below. “Princess...” She slammed the carriage door shut. “Stay here and stay down!” Five marauders, having battered their way through the crumbling defensive line, stopped and stared at her standing in front of the carriage, ready to defend it. The men eyed her, smiling. Okori glared back at them, though the men held their ground…
textbook, in the modern society importance of estimating and evaluating costs and compare them with benefits increases. Today public administrators must do more than just to enjoy the benefits of protecting wild horses as a symbol of the independence of the American West – they must also weigh the costs and other repercussions of such action. Then the public administrators have to make a decision on how to improve the program performance. As a tool to measure costs and benefits of BLM’s Wild…
Now in the 21st century, fish is becoming the world’s largest wild food source. Fish are a very important and highly consumed resource for the majority of the world, but in the wild, it is in limited supply. With commercial fishing increasing higher and higher yields of fish, the supply of available fish is becoming increasingly low. Fishing grounds that once used to be thriving with stocks of fish are becoming an expended resource. “Fish consumption increased by 31% from 1990 to 1997 but the…
on this earth? What is the meaning of our lives? One question asked in many different ways, but with the same answer desired. Jack London and Nathaniel Hawthorne have distinct yet undeniably connected answers in their novels, The Call of the Wild and The Scarlet Letter. Each focuses on an individual, isolated from society in his own way, forced to bear a weight unknown in his lifetime previous, whose endeavors challenge his purpose and existence in the world. Each novel’s connection to the other…
Introduction Ever since 1961, humans have been removing orcas out of their natural habitats to go to places such as Sea World, where they are forced to perform tricks for people who pay to watch (Blackfish). Unlike orcas in the wild, captive orcas have been known to live shorter lives and go through traumatic experiences. Also, orca captivity has had negative effects on not only the orcas taken captive, but their families too. Due to the negative changes orcas experience from the wild to…
deliberate and was very useful to the early settlements and settlers. These horses did no harm until some became “feral” (Wilson, 2012). Bad quality fences and infrequent musters meant that many horses escaped (Dawson, 2005). Machinery replaced horses and people also abandoned them (Australian Brumby, 1995). These domestic horses consequently became wild or “feral” and where given the name “Brumbies.” The name Brumby is thought to have originated from the last name of a Scottish soldier, named…
talks about how killer whales, which is a species that is known to be super friendly in the wild, attack humans because the whales are in captivity and in stress among their peers which are not in the same family pods as they are. Those killer whales were all under pressure of training each day, deprived of food in order for trainers to get them to do the tricks, and were forced to be with other whales that do not speak the same language. Even though those whales in the same tank are the same…
In Invictus I believe that he can guide his future in the direction that he wants to go because, it is what he wants to do it is up to him what he wants to do in his life. Meaning that he is the one that decides where his life goes what his destiny is, no one can do it for him. No one can change his future, but him. He is the one that chooses if he want to go through a good path or a bad path in life. For example, if you decide to do something you're not supposed to do. You can't blame anyone…
essay, I immensely struggled writing about Thoreau’s question in his essay “Wild Apples”, “Why wild apples are significant ?’. I was unsure at first on how to structure my essay,so I asked one of my friends. In order to pick the essay I was going to write about, I skimmed over several of Thoreau’s essays that we covered in class. Then, I picked the essay I thought I understood the best its argument and reread the whole essay to plan my essay while creating…
Callarman’s argument is the most accurate view of Into The Wild and Chris McCandless’s decision. Chris made an ignorant decision based on his current feelings and how his parents treated him. You can’t succeed in the future with your actions at this point and time, but you sure can throw out your future with your current actions. And that is exactly what Chris did, he went from graduating from Emory University, to moving into the Alaskan wilderness and dying. He had the foundation of his life…