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    Man has been battling nature since the beginning of existence. Because of this, the clash between man and nature is a popular theme in many literary works. Although the following three literary works is all about the Klondike Gold Rush and have many similarities, they are also very unique and different. The first is a short story, “To Build a Fire,” by Jack London; the second a poem, “The Cremation of Sam McGee,” by Robert Service; and the last, a detailed article. The U.S. National Park Service

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    Modern views in regards to wild nature are different from early Westerner’s views, but they are correct for modern people. Unlike modern views to protect and sustain wilderness areas, early Westerners felt wilderness should be conquered. To say that early Westerners were fundamentally mistaken in their views and use of nature isn’t exactly correct. Early Westerner’s understood and appreciated what supplied their basic needs of survival. “One man’s wilderness may be another’s roadside picnic ground”

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    Our Environment: Preserving a Precious Asset Rachel Carson once said, “The balance of nature is not a status quo; it is fluid, evershifting,in a constant state of adjustment. Man, too, is part of this balance.” Undoubtedly, man and woman assume a crucial role in the balance of nature. More controversial among man and woman is determining exactly what that role entails. For the upward of 200 years, writers have published varying ideas about the responsibility that we, as the inhabitants of earth

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    from nature. The natural forces in which the characters struggle against, guide their lives and assist them in self discovery. Examples of the natural forces that are brought up throughout the novel include the horizon, the pear tree, and the hurricane. In the novel, the natural forces are what guide the characters, especially Janie, to find happiness in their lives and find their true identity. As the characters develop and experience their lives through the comparisons of life and nature, the novel

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    Man’s relationship with nature in the book “My Everest story” by by Mark Pfetzer and Jack Galvin, Mark challenges nature by training and attempting to climb Everest at an early age. In the story Mark is against nature by trying to overcome the impossible weather and this impossible task. Mark risks his life just to complete his one goal, to beat nature.“Despite all the problems, nothing can take me away from being on this mountain."(9) Mark takes on all these dangerous tasks just to be where he

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    Frankenstein (1818) compares and reflects values of humanity and the consequences of our Promethean ambition against the futuristic, industrialized world of Blade Runner (1992) by Ridley Scott. The notions of unbridled scientific advancement and technological progress resonate with our desire to elevate humanity’s state of being, mirrored amongst the destructive ambition to overtake and disrupt nature and its processes. The disastrous implications of overreaching the boundary between progressive and destructive

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    problems. All these health problems are caused by the selective breeding of these dogs. By trying to control nature for their own benefit, humans have sentenced these animals to a lifetime of pain. Ethically, humans should respect the natural process of creation to avoid causing harm to other creatures. Mary Shelley presents this idea in her Gothic horror novel Frankenstein to show that nature is ideal when it is uncorrupted by society and mankind. When men try tamper with the world’s natural state

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    real answer for tension between “humans” and “nature”. Each article or podcast brought a different view to the table. As discussed in the “Conservation in the Anthropocene: Beyond Solitude and Fragility” article, the authors insist that nature has become more of a commercial business. The idea of nature has changed over the years to include long-established human interactions with nature. The humans have built hotels, dams, parks, and imposed laws in nature that have made wilderness less wild and more

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    human modification in nature and will show how human modified spaces can also still be a part of nature. It will be an overall view of life of living creatures on and around ATV trails. It will compare how animal activity is when the ATVs are running and when the ATVs are sitting still and off. I will ride my ATV through the trails and see what I can see and hear and see what changes when there is no motorized vehicle running. I will explore how human made products influence nature and weather the influence

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    The man is also weak in the face of nature as nature tortures him with the physical accidents the man suffers. He firstly begins when his cheekbones and nose went numb and becomes worse as he looses touch and grasp of his hands, finishing off with the freezing of his corpse and sudden stiff death

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