Would you risk your own life and the lives of another 400 people just so you might have a chance at saving a coffee plantation? Well that's what Leiningen did in the short story "Leiningen Versus the Ants". And by doing so he has proved himself to be an over confident, persuasive, and sexist man. And is not a person to be admired. .
In this story Leiningen has shown himself as an extremely over confident person. From the time he was aware of the impending danger of the ants, to when he was almost willing to give it all up he still believed that he could conquer them. This is show on the very first page of the story where Leiningen says "Decent of you, paddling all this way just to give me the tip. But you"re pulling my leg of course when you say I must do a bunk. Why, even a herd of saurians couldn't drive me from this plantation of mine." A second sign of his over confidence is when he says "And don't think I"m the kind of fathead who tries to fend lightning off with my fists, either. I use my intelligence, old man. With me, the brain isn't a second blind gut; I know what it's there for. When I began this model farm and plantation three years ago, I took into account all that could conceivably happen to it. And now I"m ready for anything and everything---including your ants." These two statements show him as thinking he has planned for the worst and knows all that lies ahead of him but in truth, he knows the least of what will actually happen to him and his plantation. .
Leiningen has also shown himself to be a very persuasive person. Although he gave his workers the right to walk away, he knew they were so loyal to him that they wouldn't leave him in his time of need. This is shown when he says, "Well, lads, we've lost the first round. But we"ll smash the beggars yet, don't you worry. Anyone who thinks otherwise can draw his pay here and now and push off. There are rafts enough and to spare on the river and plenty of time to still reach "em.
Man Vs. ... The short story "Leinengen vs. the ants" is based on the concept of the struggle between humans and nature. The ants symbolize nature's disasters and the Leinengen represents human's ability to overcome nature. ... According to Carl Stephenson, the author of the short story "Leinengen vs. the ants," "the human brain needs only to become fully aware of its powers to conquer even Nature." ...
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The ants did indeed visit the sugar more than saccharine; in addition we found that sugar at higher percentages attracted more ants than any other substances. Proving that both our hypothesis were correct, about 45% more ants went and visited sugar over saccharine and about 35-40% more ants went to higher concentrations of sugar than those with lower ones. ... This is quite incredible because it shows that the ants would rather take sugar at a lower percentage then taking saccharine which had a larger perctage showing the ants have some kind of biaism. ... Other errors could have occurred whe...
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For example, if a spider is on your celling or an ant is crawling on your kitchen floor, somehow human beings find themselves killing them instinctively, without thinking. ... The narrator in the short story written by Howard Fast titled "The Large Ant " kills a creature which resembles an ant, and kills the creature without clear intentions, out of pure instinct... You killed it because you are a human being.' " (Fast 154) Fitzgerald, one of the characters from The Large Ant, clearly states that there is no given reason why Morgan, the narrator, killed the creature other than because he ...
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Technology Vs Evolution Until the recent discovery of cloning, no one thought that technology was in any way related to morality. ... The reasoning for this may seem like an unselfish giving of food, however we do not know that the real reason may be to keep the ant colonies away from important buildings, "It became apparent that the daily palm-frond offerings served to preclude suck an attack by the natural forces that surround (and underlay) the family's land. The daily gifts of rice kept the ants occupied - and, presumably, satisfied" (Abram 9). ... There was no altruistic way about ...
