Fur College Essays Samples For Students

Introduction

The fur trade has formed a remarkable part of the history of Canada. The fur trade greatly developed into western Canada until 1870 following the founding of the Hudson’s Bay and the North West Companies around 1670’s. This was a unique trade since during that time, it was the only industry that allowed the exchange of goods between two groups of people who were very different (that is, the Europeans and the Indians). According to several historians, the fur trade was an exploitation of gullible Indians by their European counterparts in the trade. Some of these historians such as ...

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 ...

Introduction

The trapping of beavers for their fur in Canada played an important role in shaping of the native and subsequent cultures. The introduction of the fur trade brought about notable drastic changes in our native ways of life. In the end, these changes ultimately led to the erosion of a greater part of the native customs and culture and eventually led to the formation of a completely new hybrid culture with new and distinct customs. During the early periods of the European traders’ settlement in Canada, there was very little interaction between the fur traders and us. During these periods of ...

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History is rich in unintended consequences. The commercial fur trade was established by early contact between Indians and Europeans who were exploiting the cod fisheries in New Foundland, Canada. Indians traded the pelts of animals, such as beavers and minks, for knives and iron-based products in exchange for textiles (Nassaney 41). The exchange was initially disorganized until the 16th century, when fur became a sought marketable commodity. Most of the trade occurred in Canada, but some activity took place in areas around River Mississippi and within the Rocky Mountains. The first companies to engage in the activity were of ...

Every individual has a message that they want to convey to other people. Expressing the message is not enough. Everyone wants others to be persuaded by the thing they want to believe. To be able to relay the message effectively and to convince the intended audience to agree with the message, Pathos, Logos, and Ethos can be used. The title of the text to be analyzed is “The Ugly Truth”, however, its author is not presented in the video clip. The text was analyzed to show how Pathos, Logos, and Ethos are used to convince the reader to agree with ...

Fur trade had a significant influence on the transcontinental relationship between Europe and America. This connection has changed basic principles of life and religion of the Native people, and even their living conditions have modified. It was also the first step in the creation of the stable economic system of the future USA and Canada. With the growth of the fur trade, some new ways of their development have defined. Fur trade excited the investigation of the vast spaces of the new homeland.
Fur trade was a necessity or vitally important task for colonists, so it took a great part of ...

The number of animals that are killed daily across the globe for various purposes must be big. This number accumulates daily such that at the end of every year it is much bigger than we expect. For instance in United States nearly 9 billion chickens are slaughtered for meat. Another 100 million animals loses their lives in tests and experiments. Additionally, 3 to 4 million dogs and cats are euthanized yearly which adds to the number of animals lost yearly. Felthous (163) has noted that leather industry is not safe either because approximately 1 billion animals are slaughtered for ...

John Jacob Astor was a German-American businessman, born in 1763 who made a fortune in the fur business before diversifying his interesting to include the import and export of general merchandise between the United States, China, and Europe. At the time of his death in 1848, Astor was one of the wealthiest men in the country (Youngman, 1908).
Astor, who was born poor in Germany, decided to create a new life for himself in the newly independent United States of America. On the voyage between Europe and the U.S., Astor had the fortune of meeting another passenger who introduced ...

Miss Brill is a short tale written between 188-1923 by Katherine Mansfield. The story was first published in 1920 and reprinted in the Garden Party and Other Stories. It is a story about a lonely English teacher living alone in a French town next to the Public Gardens. The novel tells us about how she spends her time waking and sitting in the on every Sunday afternoon. As the story begins, Mansfield narrates how Miss Brill chooses to wear her fur, and while in the park, she notices that it is full compared to the last Sunday. When she is joined by a young ...

Question 1

The Iroquois Confederacy
The Iroquois Confederacy was an extraordinary reality in history. This phenomenon had about five families that had several titles that described nations. The nations were named respectively in a distinctive order. These families included Cayugas, Oneidas, Sanecas, Onondaga and Mohawks. The families were also subdivided into smaller families and had their own unique symbol. The symbols were courts of arms images such as wolves, bears, herons, beavers and the tortoises among other significant animals. The Iroquois Confederacy was essential in the history of America because of wisdom and strength acquired from the nations.
These nations ...

Introduction

American culture is an amalgamation of different cultures over the years. Trade has always been an important part of the United States. European explorers looking for new trade routes to India discovered the new world. After discovering the new world, they quickly established trading posts. Their main aim was to search for gold and other precious resources in this new country. However, their expectations were not fulfilled but they quickly established trading relationships with native tribes near their settlements. Most of these native tribes were hostile at first but they saw the advantage of trading with the settlers. Relationships ...

One of the reasons that persons loyal to the Crown accepted the chance to settle in given areas of North America such as Canada and the different states of the United States is the economic potential of the regions. Despite the people who had declared loyalty to the crown having the chance to be leaders in the regions they were attached in, resettling in areas with more potential than others was always an endearing for settlers to move to the different parts of the colony. The Upper Canada region is one of the areas in which most poor people ...

The point of view is a perspective from which the author chooses a narrator to tell a story. The third-person narrators are usually observers but not characters in the story. Kate Chopin in “The Story of an Hour” uses the third-person omniscient narrative, which captures the reader and makes him sympathetic to Louise Mallard. The reader has a possibility to see how the woman interacts with other characters, her thoughts, and feelings. Indeed, the omniscient narrator is able to tell the story of Louise’s hour of evolution and freedom but the happiness lasted only for an hour before ...

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INTRODUCTION
Today human beings have reached such heights in terms of technology and research, that they have started forgetting the importance of other beings in the universe. Using animals for research and development activities is not a new thing. Not only is this but the use of animals for mere entertainment of the greedy humans also not new. From the testing of cosmetics and chemicals on animals to their use in cruel activities such as bull fighting and horse riding, nothing is separable. Today the time has come when people need to become aware of these merciless activities done ...

Various human acts have been causing the degradation of the environment, especially the wildlife, for ages. The degree of the humans’ influence upon the environment makes human disregard the top issue of the environment’ survival and development. Different dimensions of environment are subjected to continuous threat of elimination due to human influence. Using animals’ skin for clothing is one of the crucial environmental problems of modern mankind. There have been constant calls by governments and non-governmental organizations to people all over the world, aimed at stopping usage of animals’ skins for clothing. The campaign for environmental conservation has reached a ...

Mississauga in Ontario, Canada is a modern city whose slogan proudly declares “Leading today for tomorrow” (Mississauga.ca, 2011) indicating that it is an evolving, metropolis-like city with an enthusiasm for moving with the times. However, Mississauga has an extremely rich history including the Mississauga People who lived in the area between around 1701 and 1800 after many migrated to live on the north shore of Lake Ontario (Oakville). In short, it was not always the ultra-modern metropolis that it is today: two to three hundred years ago, Mississauga was teeming with indigenous people living a simple life. These people were known ...

Introduction

An ecosystem is defined as the interaction of the organism and other nonliving factors in a certain community. The living components of an ecosystem, such as plants, animals, and other organisms, can be classified as the biotic component of the ecosystem, whereas the environmental conditions such as water amount, humidity, soil nourishment, temperature, and the like are termed as the abiotic factors. In an ecosystem, both the existing biotic and abiotic factors determine what kind of species live there. For example, turtles, which require a large amount of water to live in cannot possibly hope to survive in arid ...

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This social movement unites people with different points of view on the relationship between humans and animals. Maximalist approach adherents believe that we need to waiver farming, animal husbandry, hunting and other ways of using animals for human needs. The main idea can be expressed through a verbal formula: "Man and animals are equal and therefore have equal rights; to kill animals is just as crime, as to kill a person." However, this theory does not hold out to any criticism, as the idea of equality between men and animals is highly irrational.
Animal protection extremists, or eco-terrorists affect ...

The book, “Venus in fur,” tells a story about love, dominance and slavery in a person’s feelings. It is based upon the imaginations of Server in, who is weirdly in love with a statue of Venus, the goddess of love. The fur in this case symbolizes power and dominance, where the narrator identified with the cruelty and power in a woman. The character meets Wanda, with whom he falls in love. The character is in love to the point of delivering himself to become a slave. At first, he does not look at Wanda in a sexually taken way because he still has the ...

- What was the Dutch West India Company and why and when did it send people to New Netherland?

The Dutch West India Company (WIC) constituted Dutch merchants engaged in trade with other countries or regions outside Europe. The charter expanded through its establishment of trading posts in other countries as well as colonization of territories and other trade monopolies. Dutch merchants traded various goods and commodities such as food and spices, and alcohol and tobacco among others, and also largely participated in slave trade. During the early and mid-1600s, WIC established a post for fur trade in New ...

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Despite their small numbers and their hesitant relationship with the Canadian government, the Nation’s people contributed to the war. For many reasons, the exact numbers of the people who volunteered in the war cannot be ascertained. Nevertheless, the First Nation’s people volunteered during the war. Their number could be estimated at around four thousand members of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. These First Nation’s people were accorded limited civil rights during the time before the war. The British government declared war on Germany in 1914. Since Canada was a member of the British Empire, it was automatically at ...

Learning to write an essay is never an easy task. The reason for this is that many individuals truly struggle with how to articulate their organized thoughts onto the blank sheet of paper, which is their canvas. The key to essay writing is organization. That being said, how does one conceptualize the organization of their sophisticated thoughts? The key to essay writing organization is actually creating a roadmap of what your main points are and where you want to go, (“The Five Paragraph Essay”). In order to write the academic standard five paragraph essay, it is usually best to ...

1- Telling a Strange Tale

- How would you characterize the tone in which the story is told—esp. at the beginning? What is the effect of using this tone for an account of such bizarre incidents?
The tone of this story is very clinical and matter-of-fact. The presentation of the situation is always done with a minimum of excess modifiers; the author relies on nouns to tell the story rather than adding to the text with too many adjectives and adverbs. The effect of this is to present the story as perfectly normal and mundane – which is what makes it all the more ...

Introduction to Labor Studies II

Labor and Capital Relationships in the History of Canada
I. Theoretical Framework on Labor and Capital
With the hopes of representing the relationship between labor and capital in the production process, Cobb and Douglas (1928) used the function Y = ALBK1-B wherein, Y refers to the total production output, L refers to the total number of labor input, K refers to the capital input, and B and 1-B reflects the output elasticities of labor and capital as part of a whole. Supplanting the model set forth by Cobb and Douglas (1928), Creamer (1954) analyzed the trends in capital and labor ...

Compare and contrast Venus in Furs the Movie and Novel

Introduction
“Venus in fur” is a much-admired movie that was released in the year 2013. Roman Polanski directed this movie is known for its vivid portrayal of feminist issues. The movie is based on a novel “Venus in Furs” by Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch. The novel was written and published in the year 1870. This paper intends to discuss the movie, “Venus in Fur” and the novel, “Venus in Furs” along with presenting similarities and differences between the movie and the novel.

“Venus in Furs” novel inspired the movie significantly and it is depicted through the movie. The story of novel ...

All the three major categories of organisms viz. Producers, consumers and decomposers are abundantly present in a tropical forest ecosystem. Primary producers are the autotrophs that can capture the light energy and manufacture their own food. The major producer plants in a tropical forest are ferns, bananas, vines, epiphytes and grasses. Consumers are the heterotrophs that cannot synthesize their own food and are dependent on other organisms. They are further classified into primary, secondary and tertiary consumers. The primary consumers include herbivore animals, birds and insects including macay, parrot, sloth, bats, etc. These organisms directly feed on green plants (producers). Primary ...

The American Revolution has assisted in shaping the Canadian history. It started when the American formed a military initiative in Canada. This happened during the invasion of Canada in 1775 during the American revolutionary war (Billias 4). The military initiative intention was to gain military control of Quebec province. Also, it had purposed to persuade the Canadians who were speaking French to join in their revolution. Most English-speaking merchants were very bitter with the Quebec Act. The act had introduced French laws and had authorized Catholic tithes. The Act had invoked them to attack. However, they had not drawn the ...

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Thermoregulation is basically temperature regulation. It is a homeostatic process where by the internal temperature of an organism is kept constant within a specific range despite fluctuations in the external temperatures. It is important to note that all homeostatic systems use negative feedback mechanism. This implies that whenever there is a change in external or surrounding temperature of an organism, consequently a corrective mechanism is initiated within or without the organism to counter the change. Not all animals can maintain a constant body temperature; this is possible only for birds and mammals. Such animals are referred to as endotherms or commonly ...

The character I chose for a reflective journal is John B. Watson. He is a representative of behaviorism and one of the most important persons in American psychology. It is essential to note that his views prevailed in American psychology for 50 years, and nowadays his ideas in altered form are still important. However, I am impressed by his points of view, behavioral, and radical experiments with a child.
John B. Watson launched the behaviorist movement, rejected the philosophy of the past, the method of introspection, and mentioned that mental events were beyond the pale of scientific psychology. Unfortunately, ...

These images were sponsored by Peta, the organization for the protection of the rights of animals. It is suggested that animals should not be used neither for food nor for clothes because of the ethical issues. The interpretation of these images is related to the fact that animals have their rights as living creatures who suffer. They cannot defend themselves and people need to provide them ethical treatment.
The viewers are directly engaged in these photos because of the fact that human body or its parts are present in each of them. The woman promotes better treatment of wild ...

Arrogance and ignorance may be called the twin causes of the American Revolution. Trace and discuss the ways in which the British lost their American colonies. Why were the British unable to retain the colonists’ loyalty in the period leading up to the Revolutionary War?
The rapid economic growth of the colonies encouraged them to free themselves from the constraints posed by England in the fields of trade, industry and land use. Colonies wanted to get rid of the taxes imposed by the British government. Despite all this, in the 60’s of the 18th century colonial oppression increased. ...

Art and Architecture

1. Camouflage in Art and Fashion: The Embodiment of War
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Shopping malls are a place where war in the popular culture is obvious because of images ranging from the clothing displayed that is made with camouflage-printed fabric to the war movie posters at the cinemas. The culture of war is hard to avoid and somehow the idea of war seems to be comfortable to the consumers of goods and images in the mall. The world resembles the shopping mall in the way war is embodied throughout popular culture.
War shapes our bodies while defining space and identities ...

The Hudson River Valley region is thickly populated today, and it is hard to imagine that the region had lesser than 100,000 Native Americans before the arrival of the Europeans. French fur trappers and traders found their way into the region by the middle of the sixteenth century. When Henry Hudson explored the land and named the river as Hudson, he claimed the land for the Dutch. Later, the tiny Dutch settlement surrendered to the Royal Navy and attracted a large number of settlers from New England. Local natives and traders allied themselves with the new developments but ...

Why are trade barriers so common in the global market? How have free trade policies been promoted by developed countries since 1950s? and How have free trade policies been promoted by states since 1950s.
Trade barriers pertain to restriction and conditions of legal nature that would encourage proper means of trade. In turn discourage all other means of businesses and trades that are counterproductive and not in the spirit of the global businesses and market operations. Other purposes of trade barriers are to bring about uniformity in operations, provide for clear rules of engagement and standardized operations and ...

Wonderland was a village that nobody wanted to be associated with unless he or she had a unique magic. As the name suggests, this village was full of wonders and everything, people, animals, birds, trees and stones, was extraordinary. Every person who lived in this village had to be in possession of a certain charm in order survive. Village elders introduced a law that ensured any child born without magic would be killed because chances of survival for such a child were limited. Many expectant women ran away from the village in fear of their children being murdered. I personally do not believe in ...

If you would be a rabbit, or a dog, or a caw how would communicate your sorrow? How would you persuade the others to treat you well? They have no voice of their own; they are able of no formal communication, other than their gestures and their onomatopoeic sounds. But that does not mean that they feel nothing. PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of the Animals) knows the hardships the animals go through and it develops consistent programs for assuring the animals’ wellbeing. Although its efforts are massive, it cannot do it on its own. Human involvement is needed for further ...

During Italian Renaissance the promotion of cultural and artistic patronage responded directly to specific needs of the Court as a new institution. Small regional states emerged from the fragmentation of the communal and feudal regime as a new political subject directly delegated by a higher authority such as the imperator or that the pope. Because of this structural nature of their power, the Italian princes were constantly looking for support, justification and recognition, both inside and especially outside of the boundaries of the territory ruled.
In fact, the political activity of a prince would not existed without a specific focus on artistic and ...

Northern America had long been populated by many tribes and peoples before the Europeans settled in its eastern parts. This short paper will compare the expansion into the American West made by the American Indians, the Spaniards and finally the European-Americans via the ideology of Manifest Destiny. The strategies, motives and experiences of these groups, along with their encounters with the various actors involved, will all be explored in this paper.

Spanish Expansion into the American West

It is said that the Spanish expansion into the American West was borne out of a need for the Spaniards to find a way to move or travel to Asia. ...

Introduction

Family medicine is a branch of medicine concerned with delivering health care services at the family level. Unlike other medical fields which with the patient individually, family medicine practitioners must incorporate the other family members in the delivery of health services. Family medicine practice is built around addressing the Ideas, Concerns and Expectations (ICEs) of the patient and the family. Family medicine practitioners should be flexible in responding to diverse medical needs of a family. Additionally, family medicine practitioners should be able to reconcile the priority areas of the patient and those derived from medicine and address them in a patient-centered way. ...

The United States is a nation that has undergone a great transition since time in memorial. Since the second war of independence in 1812 to slavery trade in the 1810s and finally to an industrialized nation in the 1850s. These changes even led to aspirations for state sovereignty in a nation under foreign dominance. It is during this period that James Madison was succeeded by James Monroe as the President of theUnited States after serving for two terms. This essay will unfound the major events that occurred in the 1810s and 1820s, incorporating both the political and economic issues during and after ...

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In this assignment, I will answer two related questions that present a philosophical problem. In the first scenario, doctors took a raccoon and shaved away some of its fur. They dyed what was left all black. Then they bleached a single stripe all white down the center of its back. Then, with surgery, they put in its body a sac of super smelly yucky stuff. When they were all done, the animal looked like a skunk. In the second scenario involving a coffeepot, doctors took a coffeepot. They sawed off the handle, sealed the top, took off the top knob, closed the spout, and sawed it ...

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The theme of death is a prevalent feature in literature of all time. Since death is the ultimate truth separating man from his near and dear ones, fascination in the treatment of death by all the great authors and poems is opulently found in literary pieces. I Used to Live Here Once by Jean Rhys and Dog's Death by John Updike are two literary examples of death being at the central frame. I Used to Live Here Once is a short story which has a mysterious female as the central character revisiting her childhood home. That she is dead is revealed to ...

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At the heart of the problem of social responsibility are the values ​​of the individual: the general belief of the person as to «what is bad and what is good." The most important is to consider the maximization of profit, efficiency, and compliance with laws and less valuable, such as altruism. And if the actions of the organization respond to this system of values, they see it as socially responsible. To determine whether a person considers good behavior should have a basic understanding of ethics, which deals with the principles governing right and wrong ...

Introduction

The First and Second World Wars led to very many changes in Europe and the world in general. After the war, the six nations, which include Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg, based on the Schuman plan decided to sign a treaty that would help them run their industries of coal and steel under a common management. This decision was reached with a view of ensuring that no member country could on their own make weapons of war and turn against each other as had been witnessed in the past. The aboriginal/indigenous people of Canada also participated in the wars ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

Compare and contrast the British, French, and Spanish imperial goals in North America between 1580 and 1763.
Ever since Columbus stumbled upon the continent of North America in his quest to find shortest route to India and China, the Europeans showed keen interest in colonizing the new found territory. The Spanish were the first to land in this continent with colonial interests followed by the English and French. The Age of discovery was seen by the Catholic Church as an immense opportunity to spread Christianity around the globe and their religious aim and the European colonization went in ...

It is easy to forget that if you go back five-hundred all of what European explorers called “The New World,” was not even known to Europe. Today, North and South America have very different cultures. Some of this is due to the fact that they are people who lived very far away and have always had different cultures. But part of the reason is there were three primary countries that settled these areas and that is a big difference in how they appear today.
The English, French and Spanish were the big colonizers of the New World. One of ...

Aboriginal Family Structure

Introduction

The Aboriginal culture is the former contemporary culture in the world. It has been certainly demonstrated that Aboriginal people from the past to the present have a spiritual view of life, which has deprive and will maintain to shape their cultural beliefs and values. The Aboriginal culture today is the combined result of traditional cultural practices, forced consumption, adaptation to Australian mainstream with various responses to compulsion and dissolution, which has developed a level of apprehension between community factions throughout Australia. This suspicion has led to a level of competitiveness between the factions within Aboriginal communities; in addition they choose only ...

British designers today are creating fashions that incorporate romance and unusual items, ethnicity with 3-dimensional fabrics, and classic colours juxtaposed with city neon bright colours. Victoria Rangayah has made a name for herself creating romantic clothing with a softness that reflects her Lithuanian ethnicity. Her label, z-modem is considered a “contemporary ladies wear fashion label” (youngbritishdesigner.com). Photograph 1depicts her beautifully romantic classic navy blue dress. From the waist up the dress uses sheer fabric in three dimensions with curves of sheer material held together with a brooch. Perhaps the brooch is a piece of antique Lithuanian jewellery because the look of the brooch and ...

It was just another cold day in the frozen land. But my instincts were signalling that it was not a day to travel. The weather seemed gloomy and perilous. Though I was warm in my hirsute, yet I wanted to sit by some fire. It was better to nestle in under a mound of snow and safeguard my balminess. To walk miles on such a day did not seem fascinating at all. Seemed foolish in fact! But something quelled my intuition and drove me to walk along this human- a man with queer actions. I felt a bout of nebulous disquiet which probed me ...

A STUDY ON SOCIAL ALLIANCES IN THE PAST

SOCIAL ALLIANCES: ITS FORMATIONS, MOTIVATIONS AND PURPOSES

Looking at the structure of nations, culture, and communities today, it suggests that at some point of history, people who are identified with various peculiarities joined one another. Today, there are particular countries wherein different people speak the same language; clans that consist of different people of different races; and places where people of various races and ethnicity live together. And these things happen only because of social alliances, which were formed in the past. However, these social alliances are distinctive according to when, why, and how they are formed. The formation ...

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Saskatchewan is an aboriginal culture of Canadian Prairies. As most of the large societies have multiple cultures and represent multiple groups of peoples having different values and beliefs, the Saskatchewan is also a subculture of Western culture. Saskatchewan culture has been influenced by various cultures like French, Scottish, British, Irish and Aboriginal. At Later stage influences of American culture also got noticed. The formation of Saskatchewan culture started when people from America, Austria and Britain migrated to West Canada. During initial few decades various colonies belonging to people from different culture have been formed the process also called as ethnic ...