Personal Essay: From Nature To Landscapes
Nature isn't limited to landscapes. It can be behavior or physical, plants and animals. Wild magnolias and ivy that grow on century old trees rooted firmly near the edge of swampy bayous and orchards that hold fresh fruit on its branches, wild horses stampeding around canyons, and hummingbirds flying to a sweet flower. The definition of natural is healthy and clean, it's raw and pure. It's untouched by the hands of men and unpredictable as if it is has a mind of its own. Nature is full of many surprises, right now we are trying to recover from Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma. The thousands of people that lost their belongings, wondering how the forces of nature could turn against them. When I used to live in Oklahoma, we were in tornado country. I remember hurrying into our truck and jumping in with my family to, as yes as crazy as it sounds, outrun the tornado. We had stayed out of its path and we had stopped on the side of the road to watch it speed past us. It has spared us from being its next victim. In this moment, adrenaline is surging through my body, and I was praying so hard to God that he would protect us. Although an act of nature had almost killed us, there is a lesson to be learned from the fear we had felt. We knew that we had wanted to live. The tornado had made us grateful afterwards that we had survived it. Nature is something we have in common with everyone. Beauty doesn't just reside in the U.S, it's global. It can bring together people of all cultures to share and glorify and preserve earth's handiwork. What if we could promote traveling in schools to see natural beauty and it would bring a new understanding to millennials of how broad their horizons are? Of course, not everyone will care, but what matters is trying. Trying to educate teenagers to start young on thinking about life as know it and if they decide to be architects or landscaping, they have knowledge on how to avoid destroying landscapes and instead heighten natural reminences. We can mold this world into how we want it, except we have to be careful of how we mold it and to make it a better place for future generations. Many careers are based on agriculture, it fuels innovation, the medical benefits we could
Nature And Human Essay
Maria Moiseeva
Professor Ahrens
English 101
13 August 2014
Illusory Freedom
"...Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves."–Carl Sagan.
If there is only one thing that humanity has to learn, that would be the superior power of compliance with natural laws. Human species have never had any true freedom. Freedom is illusion. When it comes to the order of nature, either you align or you suffer.
So, who are we, homo sapiens, a branch of great monkeys, the source of all problems on the Earth, the reason behind dramatic changes of environment,...show more content...
Where is the "second chance" for the people and other inhabitants of this planet who died from this man made disasters? These examples prove that there is no such rule of a "second chance" simply because nature doesn't privilege us with one.
The relationship of humans to the Earth is an evolutionary process. First Homo sapiens are the most obedient environmentalists of the planet. Many thousands of years ago, our super–monkey brethren began to discover how to engage nature. We went from being completely at the mercy of the habitat, gathering our food with some hunting, living and migrating around the natural seasonal regeneration, to an agricultural revolution, learning how to cultivate food, create more sophisticated tools to ease labor. In fact, this new awareness and ever–increasing understanding to harness the processes of nature to our advantage is what has led to the vast technological innovation and
Human beings are part of the animal kingdom, and therefore part of nature. If that is true, then everything they create or destroy is by default "natural". I agree with the statement.
"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin"–William Shakespeare. The relationship between humans and nature is that we are a part of nature. As per the study of human evolution, scientists discovered a wealth of evidence that shows how closely we are related to the other primates. We humans are an animal species: primate order: mammalian class: vertebrate sub–phylum. The study of Human genetics gave a proof that we are connected to each other and also to other organisms which are part of nature. The Earth is a natural thing, with all earthly inhabitants originated on earth naturally, that means we as humans are natural.
The earth itself is an astonishing planet with the fact that life exists on it is an amazing achievement. Evolution is the fact of life and the reason why humans came into existence. Evolution is responsible for all forms of life on earth. The entire natural world, including humans, plants and animals are all directly linked through the evolutionary process. Over the period of time, those species who were best fit to survive remained into existence and those who were unfit got extinct– "survival of the fittest" derived from Charles Darwin evolution theory–The mechanism of natural selection. So just like other existing species, humans have done something right in the
The Environmental Issues Of Avatar
Avatar is the one of many films that address the major environmental issues of today's world, one which happens to be about sustainability. The film foreshadows the reality of the Earth by 2154. In particular, Avatar demonstrates the results of overusing natural resources and thus forcing humans to continue to destroy other areas of nature for sources of energy. Since there is no longer energy on Earth, the only option is to seek out energy from a natural habitat where indigenous Na'vis have been living for years. In addition, since there is no energy, Earth is not able to sustain organic life or rich produce. Furthermore, the place is called Pandora and contains an atmosphere that is toxic to humans forcing them to wear masks. There are no megacities or urban environments here, only raw, organic nature that is preserved and cared for after the Na'vi. Here, sustainability is successful because the people recognize the aesthetic justification. Above all, the Na'vi also refuse to partake in deathly acts which reserves the limited amount of energy that they have. Avatar also touch bases with the moral justification aspect where the Na' vi humans discern that their mission is to aid the environment to persist contributing to the success of sustainability on Pandora for future generations. The respect and gratitude that the Na'vi have for nature contrasts greatly with the way humans have respect towards nature. As time passes, the development of energy is limited and is valuable
What Is My Experience With Nature Essay
My experience with nature
–Gracy Lamkholhing
BASS III
Roll no–20
1. Born in a town, my experience with nature is comparatively less compare with friend who spent their childhood in the interior village life. The first experience I can recall is back in the 1998–99 when an ethnic conflict took place in my district between two communities which one was them was my tribe. We move to a place where it was safe for my community to be, it was a centre for the villagers who come to sell their goods and take them to the town. I could barely remember what was happening, I get to recall this from my sisters who were too scare to tell my parents that I was surround by a snake. They told me that I did not even notice the snake around my leg. In the Manipuri's folktale, they said that the very day. The snakes are too excited as they see the rains and comes out in plenty number on this day. This whole story of mine was...show more content...
This experience was back in the 2000's. The whole village was inspired by a family who planted banana in a place which was almost 5/6 Km away from my village. Each household started planting banana in that place, which was open and anyone can started their own farm there. I was too young to remember each detail, yet what I can recalled was the yell of jackal in the midst of the day in the field, and the tiring journey which lead to the banana field. On the way there are lots of fig tree on the way, I remember competing with friend to be the first one to reach the tree, for we believe that the first one who pick the fruit tastes the sweetest. On the way, there are numbers of streams which we used to fill our bottles. The waters in the streams are crystal clear, tastes sweet and that was the reason why we do not fill our bottles at home. There were stone as large as a house which people used to write their names with sharp knife on it. The place was so far away from home that people used to stay overnights in the small hut so called buh (small shelter
Nature And Nature : My Relationship With Nature
For as long as I can remember, the outdoors has always been a place where I can go to find myself again. It is a place where I can be whatever I want, a place where there are no rules, no family and no friends. Well, sometimes there are friends, but most of the time it's just me and the trees. When I was child, all I ever wanted to do was climb a tree to the very tip top to maybe, just maybe, touch a cloud. Now I know that's far out of reach, but back then I thought I could do it and thought that there was nothing in my way except for a couple of limbs. How easy is that? It's basically like climbing a ladder. Outdoors, to me, is a magical place where I can be, do and see whatever I want and there's no one there to tell me I can't. Outdoors has always been a place where I can just relax and forget about the world around me for just that one moment.
Over time my appreciation for outdoors has matured greatly. I love listening to the sound of the raindrops splattering across the roof or the site of the snowflakes falling past the leafless trees. In this essay, I'm going to define my relationship with nature. I'm going to tell about my experiences and how much I personally love Mother Nature. My relationship with nature can only be defined as a place for me to explore God's creation without any judgment. Nature is a place where I can go and forget about my everyday life, a place where there is no responsibility weighing down my shoulders. I can be, do and go where I
Personal Narrative: A Walk On The Nature Trail
Everything was black, my body still, and my eyes shut. Am I in a dream or in reality? I am not moving and my mind is in another place. Everything is still black, my eyes still shut, and memories play over and over. I lay in the bedroom my father grew up in. I took a glance at the pictures around the room. My mind fills with countless memories.The one that plays first is when my father and I were taking a walk on the nature trail every nice day we got the chance too. The nature trail is a place for people to take their family and enjoy the nature surrounding the river and the animals all around. Everyday in Boise, Idaho we would walk on the nature trail next to the Boise River. This led us to the fish and game center they had there. My dad really...show more content...
To someone it could mean a lot more than we think it does. These roses to my dad helped him get his mind off of his sickness he was fighting. The smell, the colors, and overall the atmosphere gave him the hope and strength everyone with cancer needs. His mind made him feel powerful, made him think the world was getting better, and made him overall in a better mood the rest of the day. Even though this only happened for a short period of time we took him to the same spot daily and nothing ever changed his way of thinking. He loved being around them and admired every color that was shown within the roses, he believed he was being cured. My grandma took Kirsten and I to the store and we always bought a dozen roses and took the home and laid them on his table top by my dad's bed. He loved everything we did with him to get his mind off the littlest, but most stressful things in his head. Even the littlest fights we had around my dad such as, almost daily on our way home my sister and I would argue who got to sit on dad's lap, or who got to push dad in his wheelchair, and even who got to walk by him when grandma didn't want anyone on his lap because sometimes it was just too hot. The heat was hard on my father, but nothing stopped him on wanting to enjoy the outdoors with
Nature in Literature Essay examples
Holly Stalker
Professor Loren Hoekzema
English 141–30
17 February 2015
Nature in Literature: Basho and Voltaire Nature plays a huge role in many pieces of literature, but especially Basho's Narrow Road to the Deep North and Voltaire's Candide. There is a major difference between the two forms of literature and how nature is incorporated into each. This Japanese form of literature has a much lighter tone than that of the European style of literature.
You can see a calmer, more relaxed intention into the nature that is in Basho's Narrow Road to the Deep North. On page 413 in Basho's piece, it says "As the year gradually came to an end and spring arrived, filling the sky with mist, I longed to cross the Shirakawa Barrier, the most revered...show more content...
In the opening paragraph on page 454, Voltaire writes "Once upon a time in Westphalia, in the castle of Baron Thunder–ten–tronckh, there lived a young boy whom nature had endowed with the gentlest of dispositions." This opening sentence makes you believe that it could have a similar feel to Basho's story. When you reach page 460, there is a line that says "While he was presenting his argument, the air grew thick, the winds blew from the four corners of the earth, and the ship was assailed by the most terrible storm, within sight of the port of Lisbon." This passage not only shows you that the nature of the story is a lot more dramatic, but it also shows you that Voltaire is more focused on the weather instead of the landscape. There is a dramatic earthquake and a storm that destroys the ship that they are on. Page 461 says "Whirlwinds of flame and ash covered the streets and public squares: houses disintegrated, roofs were upended upon foundations, and foundations crumbled." Voltaire writing this in his passage just shows the reader how awful and destructive the earthquake actually was. While you understand that they encountered a massive destructive earthquake, they do actually see some light at the end of all the horrible events. On page 467, it says "'All will be well,' was Candide's reply. 'Already the sea in this new world is better than those we have in Europe. It's
Thomas Hobbes State of Nature Essay
In the beginning, there was a darker side to the preservation of life. Man lived a life of kill or be killed, without any regard for other than his own. Life was solitary, poor, brutish and short. This barbaric and primitive state is what Thomas Hobbes believed to be the State of Nature. Practical reason dictates that when threatened you either act, give up your property, or anticipate for a sign of weakness to act. This means that all have a right to everything so long as it can be attained. People cannot be trusted to follow the Golden Rule, or the ethic of reciprocity, seen in many religions as stating that one must do unto others as one would like to be treated themselves.
With the ever looming danger of a cutthroat, survival of the...show more content...
Locke believed that reason is what tells those in the natural state not to murder or offend anyone's right to life, liberty and property. John Locke stated that this Natural right is inalienable, meaning that it becomes a great injustice to violate it.
Where Hobbes' believed the state of nature and a state of war to be one and the same, Locke saw them as two separate entities, and sees the state of war as a smaller occurrence. Locke believed that nature is at peace until one man attacks another. In this state of war it is suitable for the person being attacked to defend themselves from the transgressor.
For Locke, It becomes increasingly difficult to defend the natural right due to the possibility of the state of war. In order to preserve the right, the people would also have to come together to form a social contract. They would then establish a state, whose job would be to PRESERVE the right, and to punish those who seek to attack it. The state will then decide upon a neutral judge. John Locke argues that the government's only job is to act as an fair mediator of self–defense. This way the power of the state comes from consent and delegation of the governed. The government is limited by its people's natural right and cannot overstep its bounds. Since the law of nature states that a person cannot violate another's natural right, the same mentality must be kept by the government, or sovereign. If the sovereign fails to preserve or
Nature is the most beautiful places for anyone to enjoy peace and stability in the human minds. Emily Dickinson is a naturalist poet that she wants the world to know that peace does exist in the human world and she wants to tell the world. Dickinson's poems are mostly written by "nature", "love", and "death" according to Anna Dunlap in her analysis. Dickinson's sister, Lavinia, is the one who published Dickinson's work, on her first attempt the editor that was responsible was taking her sweet time. This editor had Dickinson's work for two years so Lavinia decided to find another editor and Loomis Todd is the right person and editor for this job. Once Lavinia found the perfect publisher "her brother's lover Mable Loomis Todd,...show more content...
Creativity of this poet is something I never have seen from no other author and this can give anyone a literature journey reading one of her well written poems. Love poem is also produced by this wonderful poet and how the word love describes from another meaning within her work is not the sentimental love, but the "incorporating imagery rich in male and female symbolism" (Dunlap). According to female scholars, who are feminists, they have understood why the Dickinson's poems have a twist to them and that is by "this poet appropriated conventional language, images, and themes and twisted them, disrupting their usual meaning" (Dunlap); and with that the feminist scholars believe that the poet in a way is rebelling male authority. A model that demonstrates clearly that Dickinson is rebelling against male authority is "The Drop, that wrestles in the Sea – "depicts both male power and female challenge" (Dunlap); and during the time when Dickinson's poems published during the nineteenth century. Women at the time were legally and physically powerless and oppressed, which women viewed men a powerful superior gender. All of Dickinson's complex poems there is little evidence from each of her poems that shows evidence of her struggle place during the nineteenth century as an American woman poet and with all that the reader can discover how the poet is actually experiencing the struggle at
Nature vs Technology
NATURE VERSES TECHNOLOGY
As technology proliferates day by day, it has come to our attention to question the relationship between nature and technology. Do the benefits outweigh its consequences on nature? Do we depend on technology too much? Technology is a part of our evolution. It is, therefore a natural process and, it is essential for our civilized lives. However, we haven't been cautious about the way we use technology. We carelessly spoiled nature's resources and, disrupt its balance. We jeopardize the future of next generations. Now we ought to change the way we interact with technology and nature by not being as dependent to our existing and limited natural resources and finding new ways to produce renewable energy, stopping...show more content...
We need here only mention matters such as the standard treatment of factory–farmed domesticated food animals, the destruction of soils, the pollution of air and water, and the extinctions of wild species, as these horrors are well documented. It seems unlikely that these could ever have arisen but for an entrenched and ever–deepening trend of thinking that separates humanity from its natural context and denies inherent worth to non–human nature."(5) Although I agree with him when he states that the outcomes of our actions have caused the destruction of nature, I don't necessarily think we see nature as a non–human object, a tool that is worthless if it is not used for our service. I believe we forgot that nature's resources are not endless, therefore we haven't been cautious about the way we use it. However, we can treat the damages we have caused. In order to stop pollution we should reduce our carbon emission. To achieve this, we can drive less frequently. Instead we can use public transportation, cycle or walk occasionally. Moreover, we should use less electricity and unplug electronic appliances when we don't use them. Factories should also decrease their carbon emission by recycling their waste or properly destroy them without causing pollution and using filters to remove pollutants from their
Essay On I Am Most Passionate About Nature
I find that all three of my passions correlated within my life. Without my appreciation of nature, I would lose the moments I have had with my family and friends. I find that there is a selfless love that nature presents to me. In reference to Bertrand Russell, "What I Have lived For" I am passionate about nature, my family and friends and love.
I am most passionate about nature. Living in California, I feel that people have all the opportunity to experience every climate. From Joshua Tree to the Redwoods, everyone living here has so much opportunity right in their backyard. I am passionate about taking the time to appreciate the details in nature. We get lost in the mundane; we fail to appreciate the magnitude of a California beach sunset as its falling off into the horizon or hiking through the Avenue of the Giants and realizing that every tree within its overwhelming immense trunks towering over me still makes me feel calm and safe. It's a balance of humility and affability. One of my best hikes was hiking through Fern Canyon. As I hiked, I became awe–struck,...show more content...
I find it hard to live happy without love being your driving force in life. Humans, being intrinsically selfish, do actions based on how it makes them feel. For example; if I volunteer to feed the homeless, it is the feeling I get from helping them I find rewarding. It is selfish that I do it only because I feel good after helping people. However, the motivation of compassion and love makes the selfishness justified. I want to be a teacher, I want to help kids and make them know that everyone has a chance to succeed. It is out of love I want to pursue this career path. It also goes without saying that this goal encompasses some selfishness. While I was in school, I was told that I was not smart enough to succeed. If it was not form a peer, it was subtly said by a teacher. I strive for a better world where kids are not deterred from pursuing a higher
Synthesis Essay On Nature
The problem in our society is the disconnect from nature. Many Americans are uncultured in the wild world of untamed wilderness thus must explore outside the civilized world of home. Nature is all around us and for many Americans nature is something that has not been experienced. With the lack of understanding nature, poor health has become a way of life for many. In the book A Walk In the Woods by Bill Bryson, two men set off on the Application Trail. The Appalachian Trail stretches more than 2,000 mils from Georgia to Maine. Along their trip they encounter nature first hand by testing each other and themselves. Bill Bryson whom is also the author and main character narrates his journey along the AT trail. For an older man, many claim...show more content...
In the book the women states to Bill, "She said you guys were a couple of overweight wimps who didn't know the first thing about hiking and that she was tired of carrying you." (Bryson) From this quote it can be understood that many of us would like to think of American's as dumb and fat. Nature needs to be reestablished as part of out lifestyle in order to create healthier living. Going for a walk on a trail, paddling a canoe, going bird watching or even finishing is not part of the American lifestyle any longer. For many on weekends as Americans the choice of watching television would come before camping for the weekend. Being outdoors can inspire activates and healthy living. A study by the University of Michigan researched a large scale study of how nature walks can lower depression and reduced stress. Researchers evaluated 1,991 participants from the Walking for Health program in England, which helps facilitate nearly 3,000 weekly walks and draws 70,000 regular walkers a year. Walks in local natural environments may make a potentially important contribution to public health and be beneficial in helping people cope with stress and experience improved emotions." (Mostaffavi pg 1) The need for getting outdoors is much more than becoming connected back in nature, its bringing heath back into America as well. The need for incorporating the outdoors into our exercise routine has been
Henry David Thoreau : The Nature Of Nature
He considered nature as a home and a place he felt he could be himself with freedom. He lived in a small house he built himself on the shore of Walden Pond. He experienced living in a cabin. He spent most time outside exploring nature and walking a long distance in the woods. Henry David Thoreau was one of the poets in the Romanticism period and was admired the beauty of nature. In the book Walden by Thoreau, he emphasizes the deem he felt in nature and his reverence with nature. Fireside poets were influenced by the Romanticism period. Fireside had different aspects of writing but wrote about nature as Romantic poets did. One of the Fireside poets Oliver Wendell Holmes, the author of the "The Last Leaf". The author of The Last Leaf describes an old man's life and his appearance.
"Fireside poets were the first American poets who introduced popularity to the British poets"( Fireside Poets Summary). The poets intended to write poems for a family to read around a fire camp as family entertainment but also were very presented in school rooms as portraits. "They wrote for their readers and not for the sake others"(Fireside Poets Summary). Some of the most famous fireside poets were Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whitter, and James Russell Lowell. The fireside poem they wrote were mainly on entertaining and civic. The showed an emotional tone and morality. Features it included was end–rhyme, stanzas, metrical tone, and strict. End– rhyme are poems that the lines have
Nature And Nature Essay
Nature
Nature has a great effect on individual. I was connected to nature in so many ways, especially in my youth days. Looking deep in to nature, I came to understand that nature is also a part of science which consist of the plants, animals and human being ways of life.
During the season, I was always derived a great joy walking the wild for miles looking for which tree to harvest, sometimes from morning to sunset. Meanwhile, as a little child I relied on nature for recreation, having lived in a forest region of south Nigeria, I had access to wide grown trees for different kinds of seasonal fruits which I always look for forward to. However, there was always that feeling of familiarity identify different shrubs. What about the...show more content...
Nature also plays a great role in the access to nutritional food as it is in the sea and river we have our supplies of different types of fish and other sea foods.
More importantly, all these afore mentioned activities are what we take for grant but with time humans has grown careless with usage of the resources of nature, greed set in. however, the population explosion comes the natural assets and comes the war against our natural environment. People deforestation because of agricultural activity, over fishing in our rivers and the seas. Meanwhile, with the increase in population comes the plundering of the natural resources which if allowed to continue unchecked, will continue to have a devastating effect on our natural environment. Although, we have started experiencing some of the effect of global warming. For examples, extreme weather condition like hurricane and draught in some part of the world. Recently, the hurricane Harvey that just happened in Houston, being a Houstonian, the experience is still a great shock to me because, seeing the wave destroying lots of houses being damaged and lives been taken away, it was a great disaster. Nature as made me to understand that rise in sea level, is a result of melting of ice especially in polar region. However, the effect of these change to the natural environment is one form of human social unrest. Meanwhile, there are some social unrest in some part of the world (Africa and Middle East) which has caused
Nature Essay : My Nature : The Nature Of Nature
I would define nature as the world around us without any type of human involvement. I believe that nature is anything natural to the earth. It is the plants, animals, rivers, forests, birds, weather, etc. It is a gift given to us from god. Most people believe that nature is just centered on the thought of the ocean and forest. Nature to me is the life source for all living creatures it provides us with the four essential things that we need to survive which are food, water, air, and shelter. However, we are so disconnected from nature we do not see the constant damage that is destroying our home.
The urban environment that I live in is my nature. My nature is filled with birds, cats, grass, and flowers. It may not be as abundant with mother nature's resources compared to most places, but it still provides me with an experience of nature. Nature is not limited to just what we see anymore. However, you must use your senses to truly achieve the full experience of nature. In nature, you must smell the wonderful odors from the flowers, you should use your sight and observe the natural beauty of the ever–changing sky, touch the rough and jagged bark of the trees, and hear the spectacular songs of the birds that fly above you.
The connection between humans and nature is very weak. Due to future advancement we are basically losing our grip on reality, which brings up the point of destruction to nature that we are not aware of. At one point in time nature was the most beautiful thing you could ever witness. Now people exploit it for money. They are selling land, resources, even water for a profit. They don't think twice or blink an eye at the damage they cause. The disconnect is so huge the debate of protecting the earth is treated as a forbidden topic. "Second, environmental injustices critics challenge the mainstream environmental idea of what environmental problems are in the first place. They say its focused on the beautiful outdoors, it has anti–urban bias, it isn't engaged enough with artificial human environments like neighborhoods and workplaces" (Purdy 4) That just baffles me how you can turn the place we call home and the wellness of it to a political debate when all we should want to do is preserve it.
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William Wordsworth's Use of Nature Essay
William Wordsworth's Use of Nature
William Wordsworth was known as the poet of nature. He devoted his life to poetry and used his feeling for nature to express him self and how he evolved.
Wordsworth had two simple ideas that he put into his writing of poetry. One was that "poetry was the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings." The second idea was that poets should describe simple scenes of nature in the everyday words, which in turn would create an atmosphere through the use of imagination (Compton 2).
Wordsworth is deeply involved with the complexities of nature and human reaction to it. To Wordsworth nature is the revelation of god through viewing everything that is harmonious or beautiful in nature. Man's true...show more content...
In the poem "Stray Pleasures" Wordsworth writes about spring and things that are visible in spring. The showers of the Spring Rouse the birds, and they sing; If the wind do but stir for his proper delight, Each leaf, that and this, his neighbor will kiss; Each wave, one and t'other, speeds after his brother: They are happy, for that is their right!
In the previous passage Wordsworth touches several different aspects of nature. Wordsworth writes of leaves, rain and waves. These things are typically considered nature, but things such as the birds are typically not. This is what Wordsworth does so wonderfully, considered everything a part of nature and conveys this to the reader. Another talent that Wordsworth has is convincing the reader that everything is alive. Ordinarily the reader would consider such things as showers a part of nature but not alive. Wordsworth gives nature to things that are not nature and life to things that are not alive. He writes of the waves as they come in to shore and as one crashes another one follows. He calls the second one the brother to the first. This is amazing use of words and imagery. The reader is able to view the waves following each other and rolling one after the other. Wordsworth gives the waves life like characteristics by referring to them as siblings. This technique is called personification. Wordsworth uses personification throughout
Human Nature Essay
Human nature is loosely defined as the ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that that tend to come naturally. Our human nature is a mixture of our own personal beliefs and views as well as the perceptions of our surrounding environment and the society we reside in. It affects the way we interpret and present knowledge without realizing it, including our thoughts and actions. Since writing is just a collection of our thoughts and the way in which we interpret the world, our human nature inevitably seeps into our writing. This paper will argue that the Hesiod's writings, in particular the creation story of Pandora in both Theogony and Works and Days, are heavily influenced by the misogynistic views held by the Greek patriarchal society at the time. The influence of society's misogynistic views on the portrayal of characters and roles are fully exemplified when comparing the creation story of Pandora to that of her male counterpart and Eve.
The portrayal of Pandora in Hesiod's Works and Days is filled with the philosophy and viewpoints that men held towards women, greatly influencing her creation. Many of the characteristics possessed by Pandora mirror the viewpoints that men, and in particular Hesiod, had towards women. The mere creation of women, by Zeus, was an idea set around the punishment of man for the acts of Prometheus: "To set against the fire I shall give them an affliction to which they will all delight as they embrace their own misfortune" (W&D 57–59).
Reflection Paper On Nature
Nature is a multitude of things due to its essence as an abstract idea. At one point nature can encompass the world, life, and everything in–between. While at the next moment, it can transform into a qualitative description of inherent features, humans and their activities. While it holds an aura of mystery, Nature can simultaneously be likened to concrete ideas and things. Throughout history, nature has taken on different forms and meanings depending on which period is studied. My view of nature closely resembles that of the current era. I believe nature is an environment devoid of human intervention or corruption, yet a place that remains an integral spirit of humanities' interaction with the world around them. This is due to the...show more content...
Life and death are delicate strings that weave through our daily lives. Like a balance tipping the scales of the cosmos, nature's life provides enrichment for future generations and civilizations. Diverse species of plants and animals scour the Earth, each one of them strikingly different to the very fiber of their DNA. Nature is life in its rudimentary form. From the primitive life of plankton to the intricate behaviors displayed by primates, nature's life is present everywhere. I share the current era's view that humanities' existence is equal in importance to the most insignificant member of an ecosystem. The continuation of life is bound by species' interdependence for nature's resources. Without harmonious cohabitation, nature's life would cease to progress. Even as the last plumes of smoke die down in the burnt forest, buds and vegetation begin to sprout and flourish, giving life to the dependents of its ecosystem. Images of greenery, saplings, and offspring cross my mind when nature is mentioned. In recent years, nature has developed colloquial meanings as a living entity. Phrases like, "save mother nature" or "nature is dying" are usually used to describe the state of the ecosystem we live and share. Nature is a mother, nursing her young back to health.
Due to recent achievements in human development, the current era views intelligence as an endearing
human nature Essay
What is human nature? It is very simple. Human nature refers to the patterns of behavior that are typical of our species or our kind. Human undergoes change as all humans grow up they nature seems to change; the environment someone grow up in effects that persons nature. To fully understand human nature Dr. Marvin Harris takes us on trip to time, which makes sense because if we better understand our past and our origin we will better understand our very existence and our nature. We will know more about who we are where we are from and such other questions that puzzle the human mind.
As I mentioned before our environment has a great effect on our nature. For example a theory claimed that, the first humans...show more content...
However we don't, and that is due to time going by and the changing of the environment.
In the book Our Kind Dr. Harris mentions the theory of evolution by Charles Darwin. He went to great details about our closest living relative the chimpanzees, and how their survival was base on they will to fight. Therefore, our willingness to fight wars and kill each other for nonsense reasons is simply our nature.
Our behaviors that may be said to be our nature is also depend on the circumstances we encounter in our lives. Such as, it is very rare to find someone who was raised in a dangerous area ahs the same time of nature as someone who was raised in very nice calm area where the biggest crime one could commit is littering.
Another issue of Human Nature that shows us how changes in time leads to changes in the way we act and perform is Family life. I will compare family life in early America to family live today in America. The Indian tribes that lived on in this very country we now call ours, they had a custom where they would give away they daughters to much older men if they provided the father of the husband labor or land which was called brides wealth. That way what they believe, what they practice, that was simply they nature of doing things. So really, human nature could also be looked as our way of doing every day things, our practices or