Fire Ants Research Paper

Within any community, it is safe to say that the goal of maintaining a society that prospers on for many years is common. Establishing order is key to developing a prosperous society. Order, whether it be defined as assigning roles in society, or establishing a set of rules to maintain control, can be done through various approaches. The pondering question however lies in what is the best approach to establish order. This common question has been prominent throughout time, and has been debated in government and society. The debate in how society should establish order regularly results in contrasting opinions. In the essay "The Myth of the Ant Queen," by Steven Johnson, and in the excerpt “The Code of Hammurabi” from Society and Law in Ancient Babylonia, two distinct approaches to establishing order in society are discussed. I believe that through strict reinforcements, order in society can be established. In the essay “Man’s Nature is Evil” by Hsun Tzu, the human nature in society helps explain why strict reinforcements is the most efficient way to establish order. In Steven Johnson’s essay “The Myth of the Ant Queen,” he describes an interesting way in how the establishment of order arises. He argues that society can build itself up and maintain order without the need of a ruler or a set of laws. Through the observation of ants and how they behave in their environment, he explains how ants are able to establish an intricate yet simple

“The Electric Ant” is a science fiction short story written by Philip K. Dick and published in 1969. In this setting, the story takes place in a distant alternative universe. Mankind’s identity and freedom are being questioned in this futuristic society. Indeed, the plot explores the identity of a protagonist who has been disconnected from reality after an accident, by being transformed into an organic robot. A being that is no longer human despite having the skin, the flesh and the physical body of a man. The story focuses on the shift of reality perceived by an organic robot. Nevertheless, it brings us a closer look at how the perspective of reality is approached from the point of view of a sub-social class. As the story goes on, the protagonist becomes more and more obsessed with his individuality and true freedom. The plot emphasis on the development of the main character’s identity throughout the story.

“The creation of a structure of good and evil…[is] a function of intelligence-unquestionably the ultimate evil may [be] the destruction of conscious intelligence.”(8) In the psychoanalytical story ‘The Large Ant’, by Howard Fast, a multitude of facets portray how fear morphed history throughout time. ‘The Large Ant’ locates itself some years after the Second World war, atom bombs having been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. With a communist regime on the rise, ‘The Large Ant’ parallels Cold War hostilities and breaks apart the intentions of a humanity through the use of theories, including classical conditioning, defence mechanisms, and group influences.

The Frog Fire is one of more than a dozen wildfires burning across California. The Frog Fire has consumed 800 acres of land since Thursday (date). Around 8,000 firefighters are working to contain these California wildfires. The California National Guard even sent nine planes in an attempt to get rid of the flames.

Red Imported Fire Ants are one of the most destructive invasive species of insects in Texas. They arrived in Texas from South America in the 1920s. Since then, they have expanded across the state, infesting more than the eastern two-thirds of Texas as well as some urban areas in western Texas. Not only do fire ant swarms kill other insects, birds and animals, they also endanger human adults and children who disturb their mounds. Fire ant stings cause red, itchy bumps that are particularly bad for those allergic to the venom. In addition, fire ant mounds are so prevalent and can become so large that they destroy crops.

In a land far far away there were two anthills. Only two in the land. The anthills were not aware of their existence. In one anthill brimming with collected resources and a fair queen lived the Opie ants. In the other there were corrupted a corrupted queen who made the ants work until their death to satisfy her. Those were the Totie ants. Some of the Totie ants were good and hardworking but some turned evil just like the queen. The Totie ants and the Opie ants had the same anthills but different leader. The Opies had an abundance of food; whereas the Totie ants were starving because the queen only looked after her own well-being and ate all the food. The Totie ants were miserable with their leaders and eventually there

Establishing nonhierarchical roles within a system is often debated as an efficient method for internal innovation and stability. In Steve Johnson’s essay “Myth of the Ant Queen,” Johnson describes a phenomena known as emergent behavior, “large patterns of uncoordinated local actions” which is prevalent in systems with nonhierarchial roles (199). The concept of emergent behavior is a useful, however inaccurate, means of categorizing a system’s structure; a self-organizing system must have some origin or initial degree of coordination or organization in order to properly function. Furthermore, Cathy Davidson’s essay “Project Classroom Makeover,” challenges the current educational paradigm with an administrative and societal call-to-action through the iPod experiment.

While technology is commonly thought of as inventions and gadgets, anything that humans have developed for specific purposes or to accomplish certain goals, such as methods or models, must also be correctly categorized as such. In Cathy Davidson’s essay “Project Classroom Makeover,” she discusses a few unconventional forms of technology such as the educational classroom paradigm and standardization. Similarly, in Steve Johnson’s essay “The Myth of the Ant Queen,” he presents procedural technology, such as self-organizing systems, and conceptual technology, collaborative intelligence. He then utilizes another conceptual form of technology, the complexity theory, to interpret these systems’ seemingly uncoordinated patterns. Sherry Turkle branches off of Davidson and Johnson’s ideas by discussing the consequences of questioning what makes a robot alive in her essay “Alone Together.” This narrative highlights the technology’s effect on humans and the reality of robots either improving or diminishing an individual’s quality of life. Besides the slight apprehension of its future usage, humans are mesmerized by the promising potential technology presents. Additionally, structural or paradigmatic technology is deeply intertwined and inherent within society’s functioning, making it impossible to separate technology from human existence.

Fear, the emotion that shows whether you're a ‘fighter’ or a ‘flyer’. The books “Most dangerous game” written by Richard Connell and “Leiningen Versus the Ants” by Carl Stephenson both use the theme ‘fear’ in their short stories. In ‘MDG’ the book puts man against man, but the book ‘LVA’ pits Man versus Beasts. The three questions I'll be answering today will be, How fear’s enlivening and weakening elements are evident in ‘MDG’, How fear’s enlivening and weakening elements are evident in ‘LVA’ and I'll also be dealing with the fact of how LVA and MDG both deal with the idea of fear and how it's enlivening and weakening.

A feedback loop takes the power of something and changes it into something that would be considered better and brighter. It is adjusted until the desired object is the output of the system. For example, like Newton’s third law, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. In “The Myth of the Ant Queen” by Steven Johnson, he explains the level of intelligence behind certain and different types of systems, and deciphers the systems to understand and comprehend what makes them work or survive. Comparing it to Johnson, in “Biographies of Hegemony” by Karen Ho, is the breakdown of how the companies of Wall Street are invading the space of Ivy League institutions and how the students are being groomed to work in certain areas of these

That’s why letting your guard down just because the temperatures have dropped is a bad idea. Everything you did in the spring to keep the termite population down and to keep them out of your house, you

Technology has tremendously changed human social behavior, which has provided a convenient way for people to communicate and collaborate with each other. For instance, Cathy Davidson, the author of “Project Classroom Makeover,” points out, there is a need to renew the current education system so that it meets the new expectation of the digital era. She discusses how technology improves social interaction when students work collectively through crowdsourcing. In “The Myth of the Ant Queen,” Steven Johnson provides the example of the complex systems in ant colonies, cities of Manchester and Internet by emphasizing the importance of collective working that intelligence emerges when people work together. On the other side, Sherry Turkle argues that technology has turned human beings become isolated. In her article “Alone Together: Why We Expect A Lot from Technology and Less from Each Other,” she discusses how humanity is transformed into a “robotic’ moment due to technology. Therefore, technology does not only help to form collective learning and social interaction that can provide an adequate platform for sharing social values, but also isolate people from each other if they rely too much on technology.

As I began reading this piece, I put in the back of my mind, “Trailhead” which I read for class before on how ants live their lives. As always, these small insects who I usually do not care about, surprise me with their way of living. The Myth of the Ant Queen follows a study made by Deborah Gordon, who spends most of her time studying ants. The author opens its piece with Gordon’s work and then moves towards the creation of societies, and the use of technology to develop those. The writing in this piece, for myself, leans toward a future society as a sign of awareness. The author mentions bottom-up intelligence, which comes from one person, and gets build from togetherness. The main goal in The Myth of the Ant Queen is that there is not a

Everyone is familiar with the state of armed conflict that is war, and for as long as there has been civilization there has been war. Upon first glance, Henry David Thoreau’s “The Battle of the Ants” seems like a simple descriptive story of a battle between two different species of ants, one red and one black, but if one were to further inspect the text, they could see that Thoreau uses the ants and their battle as a satirical allegory for human conflict. Thoreau chooses to use ants as a metaphor to make it clear to the reader that war is futile, pointless, and a waste of life.

Ants since the historic time does all the works like human beings. The ants are from the