." - Jagroop Singh Jack London's "The Call of the Wild" (1903), is the story of Buck, a St. ... This itself is his first exposure to the call of the wild and will affect his relationship with John. In a sense, this first encounter can be seen as the first stepping stone to Buck's eventual return to the wild. ... This is a contributing factor on his relationship with John because of Buck's eventual desire to be in the wild rather than in confined inside. ... Abraham Rothberg, in his article Land Dogs and Sea Wolves: A Jack London Dilemma (1980), states that London had gone on...

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So, "Who really was James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok?" ... Another story was that he and his brother Lorenzo stopped a lynch mob, and a woman called one or both of them "Wild," and the name Bill was just attached on to it. ... Wild Bill was a scout for Colonel George Armstrong Custer who wrote a book in 1974 called "My Life on the Plains." This fueled Wild Bill legend because it discussed Wild Bill's early life, Civil War stories, and mythical gunfights that were probably made up by Wild Bill himself. ... Hickok set up camp on the outskirts of a town called Deadwood in South Dakota wit...

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In fact, two of his most famous novels, The Call of the Wild and White Fang, are set from his experiences while he was in Alaska. ... It was in Sonoma Valley, London called it his Beauty Ranch. ... Out of the some 50 books London wrote two of the most famous novels are The Call of the Wild and White Fang. ... The Call of the Wild has been translated into more than thirty languages, and it exists in millions of copies; White Fang are only slightly less in numbers. The general plot of The Call of the Wild was "Buck" a huge, four- year old half-Saint Bernard and half-Scottish shepherd dog th...

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As stated by Corrine Henn, "For thousands of years, humans have put wild animals on display for the sake of our entertainment.... Animals in the wild have been declining drastically since zoos have been in existence. ... The prisons zoo animals have to call home, compare nothing to what their natural habitat could provide for them. ... "The environment zoos present to the public is entirely artificial; the animals have nothing like their wild counterparts. ... " Zoos only cause unnecessary pain for these animals when they could be living their lives free in the wild. ...

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Ibsen's early plays were wild concentrating on visions both romantic and poetical of the rebel in search of the truth. ... This peiod saw brilliant plays such as An Enemy of the People (1882), The Wild Duck (1884), The Master Builder (1892) and When the Dead Awaken (1900). ... It was not my desire to deal in this play with so-called problems. ... Benedotto Croce called these portrayals of people who live in constant expectation and who are consumed by their pursuit of "something else" in life a "desperate drama"." ...

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Films such as Wild Style, Style Wars, Beat Street, and Breakin', propelling the elements, and compelling outsiders with no understanding of the culture to explore this "new" phenomena. ... When Wild Style came around, only five or six members from Rock Steady would get to represent. ... Shortly thereafter, Wiggles, Fabel, and Freeze started their own crew called Electric Company. ... Even though Wild Style is regarded as a more authentic Hip Hop flick, I actually saw Beat Street first. ... I remember buying an album called, Electric Breakin', that came with a pullout that taught you ...

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By the nineteenth century, the transfer of exotic plants and the search for wild plants that might be domesticated were activities that were becoming rationalized and organized and put at the service of industrial capitalism. ... Its applications multiplied and the exploitation of many wild rubber-bearing plants, including some that were soon discovered in Asia and Africa, was much intensified. ... No source of rubber comparable to the Hevea tree has been found in any other part of the world, although most of the world's rubber now comes from a variety of Hevea which is much more pro...

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Following his second film, Days of Being Wild (1991), all of his later films, Ashes of Time (1994), Chungking Express (1994), Fallen Angels (1995), Happy Together (1997), and In the Mood for Love (2000) were collectively appreciated by critics at film festivals in Hong Kong, Taiwan, even Europe, and have won numerous awards and brought fame to the Hong Kong film industry, although the majority of them actually failed at the box office and did not even recover the initial investment. ... Truly representing the pinnacle of Hong Kong film, recently his most famous film Days of Being Wild, togeth...

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These young wolves who are leaving in search of mates and territory are called dispersing wolves (Gese and Mech 1991). ... According to David Mech, this may be the case with wolves, and that their behavior in the wild is somewhat different. ... In these wild wolf packs, the male breeder is dominant over all other members of the pack. ... The wild wolves do maintain some of the behaviors of the captive wolf packs. ... Also, wolves in the wild will leave the pack when they reach maturity to try and establish their own pack. ...

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The Yanomamo live in hundreds of small villages, grouped by families in one large communal dwelling called a shabono (http://crystalinks.com/yanomami.html). ... Groups of Yanomamo could live entirely off the wild foods in their environment. Generally the most common wild foods are two species of wild pig, several varieties of monkeys, tapir, armadillos, anteaters, alligators, deer, rodents, and birds (Chagnon 1997: 61). ... Wild honey is one of the most highly prized foods of all, and the Yanomamo will go to great extremes to get it (Smoles 1976: 103). ... Although the Yanomamo supplement ...

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This occurred due to the new management of the national bank, which began to call in loans and foreclose of mortgages and send people to debtor's prison. ... Causes for the panic included the failure of state banks due to the lack of funds, a new piece of legislation was passed that called for the payment of hard currency for land, factories were closed due to foreign competition, and the price of cotton fell dramatically. ... This opposition began calling themselves the Whigs, since they were opposed to what they called tyrannical rule of Jackson. ... Clay called this plan the Amer...

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A GM organism is a living plant, animal, fungus or bacterium that has been altered by insertion of a new gene (or genes) though a process called transformation. The whole process of discovering, modifying, and inserting new gens is called genetic engineering. ... Nowadays people can take a gene that gives resistance to a fungal infection in a wild plant and inserted them into a food plant that lacks this protection. ... The could be transferred by wind or insects to wild plants. ...

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The Modern, or revisionist Western are films made after 1964 (Dollars Trilogy (1964-66), The Wild Bunch (1969), Unforgiven (1992)), and Classical would be those Westerns made in American prior to 1964 (Stagecoach (1939), The Searchers (1956), Shane (1953)). ... This is an important difference between modern and classic Westerns; even the bad guys seem to be cleaner, and more honorable than some of the so called good guys we see in these films. ... Somehow I do not see a member of the Wild Bunch working for six weeks for $20. ... We are supposed to feel some sort of pity for the gang in, The Wi...

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Philoctetes, "the wild man", cut off from civilisation on Lemnos proves, paradoxically, to be, arguably, the most civilised: he is the recipient of the theophany, who alone sees the god and to whom the god's words are addressed. ... This divine bow made in civilised way is used for primitive ends of survival, making the great archer, who owns the formidable bow of Hercules, as savage and elemental as the island that he inhabits: he hunts wild animals and birds, lives in a cave - his animal den. ... Philocetetes says as they are trying to drive him onto the ship, "are you go...

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The English word Church is translated from the original Greek word 'EKKLESIA', which means 'CALLED OUT ONES' - from EK (out), and KLESIA (called). ... The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch (Acts 11:26). ... The main leader came to be called Bishop. The others, later, were called Presbyters. ... Among those who perished in this reign were Simeon, the brother of Jesus, Bishop of Jerusalem, crucified (AD 107), and Ignatius, second bishop of Antioch, who was taken to Rome and thrown to the wild beasts (AD 110). 4. ...

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The artistic community was called into action, producing whole schools of painting, which glorified the development of the nation. ... The so-called Hudson River School appeared in the mid 1820s. ... The Hunter's Return represents wild woods surrounding a glade where a family seems to be living in symbiotically with the prevailing forces of nature. ... America was still a new country, and many considered it as a Garden of Eden, plentiful and wild. ... As Albert Boime says, "inevitably, the extermination of Native Americans is tied to the conquest of the wilderness and its transformation i...

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Enkidu lives in the wild, uncivilized, and runs with the beasts. ... Gilgamesh's overbearing strength and power terrorize the people and the gods feel the need to give Uruk a break from the king, so they design a foil for him, Enkidu the man of the wild. ... Immediately this represents a change in the character of Enkidu, who moves from a wild animal to a human concerned with other humans. ... The first event involves a journey to the mythical cedar forest to defeat the monstrous Humbaba, who is described by Ninsun as a wild thing, repugnant to the god Shamash (Gilgamesh 3.54). ... His m...

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Heart of Darkness opens on a boat called "Nellie." ... Conrad also illustrates Marlow's growing empathy for the men he once called "savages" during a scene in which a band of followers sent by Kurtz attacks the steamboat with flying spears. ... According to Marlow, Kurtz has been overtaken by the wild darkness. ...

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They were the ones who would call people to go to the pardoner to have their sins removed and forgiven. ... This author is in agreement saying, "O what a shameful thing it is when a priest is like an ass, unversed in moral and lawlessly wild! ...

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If they are out in the wild looking for the animals there is a certain danger of getting hurt or being bitten. ... For example, once bitten by the Two-step viper a person doesn't get very far before they collapse and possibly die (Reptile Wild). ... Unlike lizards snakes don't have eyelids, instead a specialized clear scale, which is called a brille, protects their eyes. ...

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In Russo's other books his main characters often find themselves in trouble for things that are just common sense to them, such as when Harry, the owner of the diner in "Mohawk," is ridiculed for being nice to Wild Bill even though everyone else treats him badly. ... Then on top of that, Randall is connected to Wild Bill as he saved his life, Wild Bill is connected to Harry as Harry takes care of him, and Wild Bill is also the nephew of the local Policeman. ...

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In fact, Kate can be compared to a wild animal early in the play. Petruchio sets out to "woo this wildcat" (1.2, 195), and vows to "tame you, Kate, / And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate / Conformable as other household Kates" (2.1, 273-275), (Marvel 86). ... When Benedick calls her, "a rare parrot-teacher", she responds with, "A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of / yours" (1.1, 133-135). ...

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Gladiatorial contests hold a central place in our perception of Roman behavior. They were also a big influence on how Romans themselves ordered their lives. Attending the games was one of the practices that went with being a Roman. The Etruscans who introduced this type of contest in the sixth cent...

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Then in 1952, a multi-camera/widescreen projector process was introduced called Cinerama. ... Ansocolor was used heavily in Westerns allowing filmmakers to experiment with films such as The Wild North & Kiss Me Kate until 1955 when Eastmancolor was created and eventually took over as the main color system. ... Eventually this style diminished and a genre called "adult westerns " began. ... In the 1960's, films such as The Seven Year Itch and Some Like it Hot By Billie Wilder was the beginning of a cycle of cynical, sex comedies concerned with the strategies of seduction which reflected th...

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It is a work of extreme contrasts set in the wild moorland of Yorkshire, which is appropriate to the wild passions it describes between the two main characters, Catherine and Heathcliff. ... Earnshaw, returns his home from Liverpool with a six-years-old boy that he decided to grow him up with his daughter Catherine and son Hindley, and calls him by the name Heathcliff without a surname. ...

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