Summary Of ' The Two Wolves '

In the article Saving America’s Wolves, by Kristin Lewis, the author uses second person point of view and this choice has an affect on the reader. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a wolf? Today, wolves around the country face many dangers today. Throughout history and folklore, wolves have been depicted as being dangerous predators that come after humans, but that is far from the truth. In fact, humans today are more of a danger to them as they are to us!

About a century ago, a man by the name of Farley Mowat was sent to the frozen wilderness of Canada to examine the actions of wolves and how their survival affects the plummeting of the caribou herds. While studying a pack of seven, he acquired a deep feeling of admiration for this certain pack of wolves. Almost halfway through the novel, Mowat gives each of the three adults a name that goes along with their role in the family. While living near a pack of seven wolves, Mowat soon realizes that they are not at fault for the decline in caribou society, as a matter of fact, they are doing quite the opposite. There is something far more powerful than wolves harming the population. Human kind itself is destroying the community of our nature. "I kept coming up with the fantastic figure of 112,000 animals killed by trappers in this area every year”(Page 86). With all the hunters and trappers in Keewatin, the population of most animals are immensely falling downward. Over the months, Mowat observes the wolves during their play time, how they hunt along with feeding the growing pups, and how they survive. After all, wolves are not what they are said to be. After realizing that wolves are not the problem, Mowat notices that wolves are actually

One of the strongest literary images I experienced was while reading from Of Wolves and Men by Barry Holston Lopez.While reading the story Barry Holston Lopez was describing what the wolf looked like, he said:"The wolf weighs ninety-four pounds and stands thirty inches at the shoulder. His feet are enormous, leaving prints in the mud along a creek". In my opinion, Barry Holston Lopez did an astounding job describing what the wolf looked like. One of the reasons this was so memorable was because for me it was so easy to imagine what the wolf looked like due to of how well Barry Holston Lopez explained it in such detail. This really contributed to the main idea of the text because it helped you experience the story so much

In Farley Mowat’s, “Observing Wolves”, Never Cry Wolf, 1963 story he writes about his trip to the Keewatin Barren Land in the Northwest Territories. He was sent there by the Canadian government to prove or disprove that the wolves were eating the caribou. Before Mowat went on his journey he would have planned what equipment he needed to bring, how to prove or dis-prove to the Canadian government that the wolves are eating the caribou, and how Mowat would have prevented the wolves from attacking him.

After their major life changes, both my mom and Buck weren’t used to the new ways of life. For example, during Buck’s times of being a sled dog, Buck struggled to fight off bigger dogs and get used to sleeping out in the wild. My mother on the other hand, found it very hard to fit in all of her studying into her daily schedule. For my mom and buck to get familiar with their new way of life, they had to adapt and learn ways to facilitate life. Another struggle Buck and Rebecca faced was that they had to look after and care for their loved ones. Along Buck’s journey, he met a great new owner named John Thornton. who held Buck back from joining the wild. My mom had to multi-task by caring for her young kid and doing school work which made it harder to do the things she wanted to do. My mother Rebecca and buck both found it hard to do the things they wanted because of the love for someone. Buck and My mom thought of their new situations as challenging for various

During the 1940’s, wolves were exterminated from Colorado and few have come back since. As a result the ecosystem that we have in Colorado is somewhat skewed due to the absence of them. Many people think that wolves are a nuisance and would get in the way of the agricultural style that colorado has. However, wolves are considered a keystone species which means their “presence would reinvigorate the natural order” (clifford). For this reason wolves should be reintroduced into montezuma county. The reintroduction would greatly benefit and restore the balance of our ecosystem.

After reading, Breaking Night by Liz Murray, it left me in all, in a swing of emotions but thrilled in the end. To listen to Liz struggle and pain that she endured as a child and being homeless during her teenage years made me look a life in a whole different way and made me appreciate my life so much more. I could never imagine going through the obstacles Liz was thrown with, such as, drug addictive parents with AIDS, the pressure of taking care of everyone but herself, juggling school and more. It made me realize that my life isn’t so bad, that there are people going through worse situations than I am and to appreciate the little things that I do have.

Rick Bass the author of, The Ninemile Wolves, has written this book about the wolve’s

In Kevin Costner's motion picture Dances With Wolves, a white veteran of the Civil War, John Dunbar, ventures to the American frontier, where he encounters a tribe of Sioux Indians. At first, both parties are quite wary and almost hostile to each other, but after some time, Dunbar realizes that they have both grown to love and value each other as friends. As the movie critic Robert Ebert comments, "Dunbar possesses the one quality he needs to cut through the entrenched racism of his time: He is able to look another man in the eye, and see the man, rather than his attitudes about the man. As Dunbar discovers the culture of the Sioux, so do we. " As the viewpoint of the hero gradually shifts

Evolutionary origins of the eastern wolves have been a topic of debate among scientists and conservationists for many years, whether their evolution is independent of grey wolves and coyotes. Currently, eastern wolves are mainly identified as a subspecies of Grey wolves or as a hybrid, resulting from interbreeding between grey wolves and coyotes. Following the genotypic cluster species concept, this paper identifies eastern wolves (Canis Lycaon) as a distinct species because they show little similarities in genomic data with the gray wolves and coyotes and carry Y-chromosome haplotypes that are unique to eastern wolves only.

Directed by Actor, first time director, Kevin Costner this 1990 film takes place in the northern states of the US. Costner’s movie is based on a book written by Michael Blake, by the same title. The story is about a union army lieutenant and a Lakota Indian tribe, which Costner changes to a Sioux tribe. In order for Kevin Costner to complete the filming of this movie, and due to unforeseen delays, he paid out of his own pocket $3 million dollars to complete the film. The actor stars in, directs, and produces this film. I believe Costner felt that he completely must take full ownership of it and do what was best for his film. In the end, it paid off, the movie grossed well over $400 million and won numerous awards.

In the ecosystem organisms rely on each other for food and protection. The Food chain is like a pyramid you have the producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers, and quaternary consumers. It’s an almost perfect balance and if any level were to just stop existing then the food chain would be destroyed. An example of organisms relying on others is an issue of isle royale were the wolves and moose population are in jeopardy. This relationship is important because without the other animal the population would die.

As a father to both of his murdered children, James Kostelniuk believed he had nothing else to live for. In his book, Wolves Among Sheep, Kostelniuk shares the accounts of his everyday struggles with his readers after facing one of Canada’s most horrific and shocking crimes. At the beginning of the book, the author begins to reveal his life and transitions into the tragic story of how his former wife and two children were killed in the comfort of their own home, by their stepfather, Jeffrey Anderson.

The movie "Dances With Wolves" was produced in 1990 and directed by Kevin Costner who starred as the main character.

Reading about the experiences leaves me feeling more empathic towards my clients with depression. Though I do speak about depression and suicide in my Coping with Loss group, which I facilitate, reading this book leaves me with a greater understanding of what my clients may be going through (especially when it is difficult for them to express themselves).