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You've read the eBook //**Elephants Under Pressure**// and you've watched **//Assignment America//**.
 * 1) Which gave you more detailed and fact-based information about elephants and elephant society? Justify your answer with examples. //Elelphants Under Pressure// gave me more information because it talked about elephants and how they are becoming more agressive, where as //Assignment America// just gave me a story about and elephant and her best friend a dog.
 * 2) Which was the most successful in helping you to understand animal relationships? Justify your answer with examples. //Assignment America// was the most successful because it told me about a story of two best friends. It showed me that no matter what you look like you can be friends with just about anybody.

Watch the movie **//How Wolves Change Rivers//**.
 * 1) Write a summary of the scientific facts as presented in the video. There are a lot of facts in this video that help you understand what the narrator is trying to say. Wolves migrate when the weather changes and that means wherever they migrate, there won't be as much elk and other animals in that area. Because of the lessened population of elk and other animals that wolves hunt, there will be more grass and plants that the animals normally eat. Then because of the increase in grass and plants, there wil be a change in the river because there will be more erosion and that will help the water move more smoothly and make the waters a bit rougher. So all in all wolves can change rivers.
 * 2) Discuss how the photography and sound tract help to support the scientific information and help to develop a deeper understanding of factors that influence the ecology of the area. The photography helps the viewers see and understand what the narrator is trying to tell us. It will help us visualize the scientific facts and we can get a better understanding of them. In my opinion, the soundtrack doesn't effect how we understand the facts as much as the photography does. I know that it should probably fit with what the facts are saying, I think it's not as important as the photography is.
 * 3) Who created this video? What is the producer's academic background for work? What is the source of the information? Sustainable Human created this video. They are an organization who wants to realize an abundance for all. They have been doingt his fro a while and their main purpose is to transition society from the age of Scarcity to the age of Abundance for all.

Read Has the Reintroduction of Wolves Really Saved Yellowstone.
 * 1) Write a summary of the scientific facts as presented in the article. This article deals a lot with wether or not puting the wolves back in Yellowstone was a good idea. At first scientists thought it would solve a lot of things but as it turns out, it didn't help Yellowstone the way they wanted it to. The elk and beavers were eating the young willow trees and by puting the wolves back they thought they would stop. The elk are hungry enought to risk their lives to eat the willow trees and the beaver population has gone down because all the elk are still eating the willow trees so the beaver can't make dams which meansd there's not any marshy rivers. So in the end was it really a good idea to put back the wolves in Yellowstone Park?
 * 2) Compare and contrast the facts presented in the article with the facts presented in the video.
 * 3) Who wrote this article? What is the writer's academic background for work? What is the source of the information? Emily Gertz wrote this article. She has written many stories that deal with scientific facts and if some theories are a good idea or not. She has written a lot about different climate problems and some about space problems or just theories about space.

> How might controlling the migration of elephants impact the environment? Justify your answer. I predict that it will make a big impact on the enviroment because if we choose where the elelphants migrate then that will affect the enviroment around them that they are usually in. If we move elephants to different locations, then the plants and water and other animals will also change because the elephants won't be where they usually are in a certain time frame. If we control elephants migration then it will be like taking the elephants out of earth and puting them somewhere else.
 * 1) Apply what you have learned about the Yellowstone environment to the environment in Asia where the elephants live. Write a prediction:
 * 1) Compare and contrast the facts presented in the Yellowstone video with the facts presented in the Yellowstone news article. The facts in the video are more broad because the pictures help give you a better visual to what they're saying. The article is more descriptive because they don't have pictures so they really need to describe all the facts they gathered to help you understand what they are trying to tell you.

Summary - Discuss the following: Why is important to understand

 * 1) Who created a message? The author of the story.
 * 2) What is the target audience? Young adults.
 * 3) What creative techniques can be used to attract attention? Music and pictures.
 * 4) How might different people understand a message differently? If they understand the story in another way than the author wanted them to understand it.
 * 5) Why is a message being sent? So people know what to do and a message helps people understand stories better.