Essays on Foxes

The short story ‘Boys and Girls’ was written by Alice Munro and was first published in 1968. The story is set in the mid-20th century in Canada between a time of war and the industrial revolution, giving birth to the use of machines. The protagonist in Alice Munro’s story is a young girl growing in the transition from childhood to teenage. The main character enjoys the freedom of growing up as a child without defined gender roles or distinction assigned to neither her nor her brother. As a young teenager, however, she is confronted by the burden of ...

Mathematical model.

In 1985, Kallen, Arcuri and Murray (377-393) presented a simple mathematical model for the spread of the rabies epidemics to approximate the minimum width of a break and enable the control of the spatial progression of rabies.

Features and assumptions of the model.

The model developed by Kallen, Arcuri and Murray (377-393) was based on a deterministic approach where the fox populations were categorized into two groups, namely infective and susceptible foxes. In this classification, the infective foxes included those with rabies virus present in their saliva while the susceptible ones included those without traces of rabies virus in their saliva. One of the assumptions ...

The question of defining one’s gender has long been an issue. Contrary to the modern biological reduction that purports itself to be self-evident, people across the millennia have found different ways of being male or female. As always, art has been one of the greatest ways culture has had to depict this. Particularly, the lead young female characters in two short stories by women authors in the twentieth century will allow the reader to see one precise way of construction of the female gender, and the male one by subtraction. In Alice Munro’s “Boys and Girls” and ...

[Semester]

Abstract

This is a review of a paper called, “Are Humans the Source of Canine Mange? From the journal Parasites and Vectors. I reviewed the paper and determined that the study was both accurate and sound. The paper hypothesized that humans were the main reason for the spread of Sarcoptes scabiei in dogs and other canines. The results indicated that humans were not the main carriers of Sarcoptes scabiei to dogs and other canines and that further studies should be undertaken.

Are Humans the Initial Source of Canine Mange? Is a journal article written by Valerie Andriantsoanarina, Fang Fang, ...

Predictions of poll outcomes have existed for over six decades, with little or no cases of wrong predictions, as political trends in the United States were pretty similar (Laden, 2015). Wrong predictions began to manifest in 2016 poll predictions, as unlikely candidates are gaining popularity and liking, contrary to the previous forecasts. Leading poll predicting firms led by Nate Silver have expressed their surprise at the turn up of events. Nate Silver has been predicting poles for a long time, and he is known to have correctly predicted Obama’s win in the previous polls (Jones, 2002). Wrong poles ...

Christianity was not a popular religion than it is today. In fact, historians and theology scholars debate regarding the true nature of the Christian religion. Originally, they concluded it as a sect of Judaism1 since Jesus Christ was born a Jew. As a religious leader, He was charismatic, performed many miracles, and defended the poor as well as the oppressed. Through cultural diffusion2, the new religion gained a small but loyal group of followers such as the twelve apostles who would eventually travel the Roman Empire to preach His teachings and spread the awareness of the public to the Christian religion. History proves that ...

The short story “Boys and Girls” (1968) by Alice Munro discusses a young girl’s coming of age, and her realization about what it means to be a girl in a society where gender roles preordained and stereotypes are highly prevalent. The author uses the young girl as the narrator who experiences an inner conflict, where she feels divided between what she wants to do in her life and what is expected of her. Munro’s choice of the setting of a rural area, more specifically a farm where sexism and gender based roles play much greater than in urban areas, is very fitting. ...

The Californian band from San Francisco named “The Stone Foxes” is one of the most perspective bands in the rock and roll genre, as they do not look like and don`t sound like a regular rock band. They are not the fans of alcohol and drugs, which is uncommon for a performing rock and roll band. During their live performances, they like to switch their lead singers, they change their instruments and they behave themselves like the representatives of a new rock and roll work ethic. The band was founded by Aaron Mort and the Koehler brothers – Spence, the guitarist ...

Rabbits have been the worst invasive species that have been reported in Australia. They have widely spread in Australia leading to a massive destruction of the Australian environment. Rabbits have caused devastating effects on the ecosystem since they are believed to be the main factor in species loss in Australia. They have caused a lot of damages on crops and also destroyed and killed young trees and plants. In addition, rabbits cause serious problems on soil making it unproductive. Rabbits feed on native plants leaving the top soil bare and exposed making the land vulnerable to soil erosion. Rabbits have contributed ...

1.0 Introduction

The fashion industry is one of the fast growing industries worldwide occupying a place with the sky-rocketing information technology industry. Generally, clothing made of animal fur is expensive and a person with this expensive dress is regarded of a higher class in society.

Fur is leather with the hair retained, usually for its comforting feel. Fur for clothing is sourced from various animals including cats, dogs, rabbits, foxes etc. Jackets, hats, belts and handbags can all be made from fur. Fur has been used for centuries as a source of clothing all over the world and in both traditional and modern societies. For ...

Fur fiber refers to long threads of animal hair used for making clothing (Gregory, 80). Animals, especially, mammals have a covering of enormous amounts of hair used in textile industries to manufacture clothes. Fur existed in the ancient times as a type of material for making clothing. Fur clothing is warm and comfortable. Hominids, such as Homo sapiens, that travelled beyond Africa used fur for clothing in their journeys. There is no clear date when people started using fur since different researchers have different opinions on the exact date. People started using fur since the early days of the European settlement ...

Compare the young girl’s thoughts on gender stereotypes in ‘Boys and Girls’ to the discussion provided by Stevie Cameron in her essay ‘Our Daughters, Ourselves’ how do both authors regard “being female” in their given circumstances? There are huge differences between these two texts: one is fictional and first published in 1968 and set in an even earlier period (the 1940s when Munro was a young girl), while the other is about a real incident and published in 1990. These differences in genre and date are important and need to be explored, not least because Cameron is writing at a ...