January Thaw
Science has always been a subject that I found interest in, but I never put that interest to use. I've taken many science classes in my life, but I can honestly say that I have not learned much. I do know, from my two days in Biology 100, that I am on the verge of learning more about science and becoming more enthusiastic about it. When I first bought A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold, I thought that it was for a literature class that I was taking this semester. It did not really seem like the kind of book to be used to teach Biology, or so I thought. I flipped through the book the weekend before classes started, and I actually read "January Thaw" at that time. Like I said previously, I did not know that the book was for my Biology 101 class. I found "January Thaw" to be a great read. I was very surprised when, on August 27, 2001, my professor said that A Sand County Almanac would be the primary text for the class. I already knew that I would be interested in the book from my pre-reading, so I was delighted to begin my journey in science. In this essay, I will discuss my responses to the essay "January Thaw." When I read the essay "January Thaw" for the first time, I thought that i
t was merely a story about a person's love for animals. I thought that Leopold loved animals so much that he wrote a whole essay about his observations of them. Well, I figured that my initial response to the essay was too simple and not quite right. I begin to ask questions about the text in order to come to a more educated response to the essay. Why would someone write a whole essay about the actions of animals without having a point? Why is this essay, by Leopold, still read and discussed after so long, if it was merely about the lives of wild animals? I thought very deeply about those questions and could not really answer them, but I did determine one thing. My initial response to "January Thaw" was not really accurate. After reading the essay again, I concluded that Leopold was making known his theory of the formation of a year, based on his observations of various animals during various seasons of the year. Water seemed to have been the center of Leopold's theory. I was so excited that I had made an educated guess about the text, and that excitement escalated when I got to class, and my professor had a similar view of the text. Then came the interpretation of "January Thaw." "January Thaw" by Leopold was a very good essay, i
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