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Video Summary for //How the Wolves Changed Rivers//

 * 1) **Who created the message?** - Sustainable Man
 * 2) **What is the target audience?** - People studying nature or people who just want to see what is happeneing in the world instead of their own backyard
 * 3) **What creative techniques can be used to attract attention?** - Different fonts, different animations, the footage, and voice actors (if there are any)
 * 4) **How might different people understand a message differently?** - People might see wolves as a nuisance, other people might see wolves just as an animal at the top of the food chain, but some people also might see them as community and economy starters.
 * 5) **Why is the message being sent?** - This message is being sent to tell the people of the world that wolves don't just kill, they also start things.
 * 6) **Write a summary statement of the science information in the video.** - When the wolves came back to Yellowstone National Park, they started many communites, instead of stopping them, unlike the prediction that the scientists thought. When the wolves came back, they started to eat the deer, which ate the plants. Since the deer stopped to eat the plants when the wolves came back, more types of animals starte to come. When they came, they changed the behavior of the deer. The deer went to different areas, different then where they usually went. This allowed the plants to grow more. This allowed more trees to grow, which allowed more animals to come and stay here. When the trees grew, more birds came. When the trees grew, beavers also came because they like to eat trees. When the beavers came, they started to create dams. The dams are also homes for many other different types of animals. They are ecosystem engineers. When the wovles killed the coyotes, the number of rabbits and mice began to rise, which meants more hawks, more weasles, more foxes, more badgers, and many other animals. This caused the berries to grow more on the plants, which caused more bears to come and eat those berries. When the wolves came, they started many different types of communites, and they even changed the rivers. The rivers started to erode more, and there were more lakes and ponds at different places because they came.

Text Summary //for Has the Reintroduction of Wolves Really Saved Yellowstone?//

 * 1) **Who created the message?** - Emily Gertz is an associate editor for environment and wildlife at TakePar t. TakePart is a digital news and lifestyle magazine featuring independent journalism on today’s most important, socially relevant topics, alongside a social action platform.
 * 2) **What is the target audience?** - People who like to read, people who like wolves, people who want to save Yellowstone, and people who would like to reintroduce wolves to the economy and the communtiy.
 * 3) **What creative techniques can be used to attract attention?** - Some examples of creative techniques that can be used to attract attention are like if they use different fonts and how they word it (depends on who writes it or who the author is).
 * 4) **How might different people understand a message differently?** - Some people might read it differently, or read it too quickly, which causes them to have a different opinion on the whole topic.
 * 5) **Why is the message being sent?** - The message is being sent so other people who are in defense of wolves can read it and defend them more with more information on how they are not bad for the community just because they eat some type of animal.
 * 6) **Write a summary statement of the science information in the text.** -

Why is important to understand for any message:

 * 1) **Who created a message?** - someone is always behind something, even if they are anonymous
 * 2) **What is the target audience?** - depends on the text
 * 3) **What creative techniques can be used to attract attention?** - different types of animations, different types of fonts, it all depends on how they would like to present it to the people they are presenting it to
 * 4) **How might different people understand a message differently?** - If they read it differently, they might have different opinions. It always depends on the text. For example, if the text was based on if they wanted to ban Donald Trump from the presidential election, a lot of people might say yes, but a lot of different types of people might say no and defend him.
 * 5) **Why is a message being sent?** - Messages are being sent because the person who wrote (or filmed) it would like to tell the people of the world, or just the people in the house something without actually saying something. They want to inspire people without being actually personally known.