Brevetoxin (also known as red tide) is a problem for not only marine life, but us humans as well. As stated in the first altered oceans video, one of the major problems with the ocean is that it has turned into a bartering field where we deposit our trash and “shop” for food by pulling fish out of their habitat. What if even our fish and trash weren’t the only problem? Well they aren’t. Researchers and even residents around Florida’s sunny coast have been discovering the red tide’s harmful effects on marine life.
Rick O’Barry stated in the film The Cove, “Japanese people treat dolphins like American Cows, we eat cows, while they eat dolphin, yet dolphin are a part of the whale family and will become extinct very soon if the Japanese continue with this slaughter in Taiji, Japan.” There are a variety of cultural differences throughout the world and many traditions that have been passed from generation to generation. In many countries and cities, religious traditions are practiced; worship is praised and objects are sanctified. This is very different for the Japanese culture. For Japan, a dolphin is the traditional source of meat for their society to eat. Little do the citizens of Japan know the damages and dangers dolphin meat can do to the human brain.
Major threats causing a decrease in the sea otter (Enhydra lutris) population Introduction: Topic: What we want to find out about the sea otters and why. * Introduce sea otters * Sea otters current IUCN status (Burdin, A. et al, 2011) * List Reasons for endangerment (then talk about in each paragraph): * Habitat requirements * Oil spills- when ingested damages internal organs. * Predator/prey-increasing predator attacks from killer whales. * Over exploitation- get tangled in thin monofilament line gill nets and drown. * Polluted oceans- cat litter dumping toxoplasmosis into oceans.
But to the average human, sharks are demonized into vicious monsters. (Kimly, 4) The reasons for the demonization of the great whites are humans’ superficial anthropomorphism attitudes that sharks choose to eat humans as their prey. These beliefs are enforced by the media and society seeking to over-spectacularize the species. The fear that the media forces upon humans to feel about sharks has been transformed into fascination and obsession with the animals. Hunters are now encouraged to kill the great whites to support the widely popular shark-fin industry in Asia as well as to report back to the American beaches that they will be free from shark attacks.
Jessica DeLosh English 101-006 Mrs. Alderfer April 27, 2015 Rhetorical Essay Orcas: Captive Beauties The film, Blackfish is a documentary based on the true factual information about the effects on orcas while in captivity. The film reveals SeaWorld’s behind the scenes of what actual goes on at everyone’s favorite amusement park. As the documentary goes on, more is revealed about the emotional and physical pain the orcas endure. The film Blackfish effectively convinces the audience that orcas should not be held in captivity because of the evidence discrediting SeaWorld. The use of 911 calls and personal testimony about capturing whales help reveal emotional appeals.
The narrator states that Moby Dick symbolizes three different meanings for three different characters. List the characters and the meaning which Moby Dick symbolizes for each of them. For Captain Ahab, he sees Moby Dick as all that is evil in the universe, and believes he needs to be killed. For Starbuck, he has gone to sea “simply to hunt whales” he only wishes to kill the whale for oil, not for revenge for his captain. To Ishmael, Moby Dick is “nature in all its wonder, beautiful yet terrifying.” 5.
Foreshadowing the Doomed Ahab-session In the epic novel, Moby-Dick, Herman Melville tells the story of Ahab’s obsessive quest to kill the monster of a whale that had devoured his leg. On the surface it would seem that it is a simple tale of revenge, but as we dig deeper into Ahab’s mind, we find that many of his own personal anxieties and doubts are symbolized against his hatred of the whale. Though we have all heard (and now read) the tragic ending after going back and analyzing some the text one has to notice the enormous amounts of foreshadowing throughout the story. Many omens are also revealed to Ahab that also hint at the outcome of his quest, however as Ahab is himself, he chooses to only pick the omens he likes. When the story concludes the reader can see how Ahab’s obsessive nature lead the Pequod to destruction as well as notice Melville’s use of prophecy and omens to emphasize the dangers of hubris.
Life Boat Ethics In the wake of the 1973 oil crisis, Garrett Hardin offers an argument as disturbing as it is compelling. Positioning himself in the style of the biblical prophets, forced to say the unpleasant things others cannot or will not, this self- proclaimed “human ecologist” uses a striking analogy to propose that policymakers in wealthy nations should cut off foreign aid and immigration, not only for their own sakes, but for the sake of poor. Most people who have a heart would be greatly pained to hear about the death of some unknown to them human that had the opportunity to be saved by those around them. This is basically the hurdle that Hardin had to jump over before actually ever being able to present his reasoning: how to tell the generally kind-hearted and caring readers that they must let some people die. Hardin intelligently and successfully tackles this situation through likening our world to a lifeboat, with the rich inside and the poor outside in the water.
Slaves engaged in poisoning as a form of resistance in Saint Domingue. As slaves realised the devastating impact poisoning had on slavery and the planter class. Poison was viewed by whites as a resistance method used by slaves in order to ruin their masters, by targeting their masters and members of their family, other slaves who could not be trusted and animals. However slaves suffered strenuous working conditions, malnutrition and bad treatment, which resulted in many unprecedented deaths, however many white plantation owners jumped to the conclusion that it was due to poison. Poison created paranoia amongst the whites, creating extensive suspicions, which led to many false accusations and wrongful convictions.
This is demonstrated when Charlie explains the importance of whales to the Aboriginal people and how they are somewhat spiritual. Charlie says, “for white people, these whales only mean money. The whites kill the whale for oil, a terrible thing.”(Crew, p. 212) However for his own people, “this whale is not an animal, he is a person like me.”(Crew, p. 212). Without this explanation the reader is unable to understand the reasons behind the tribe’s actions when they cry in agony as Jan Pelgrom enters the whale’s carcass and acts in a rather cruel manner towards it to impress them. This binary shows the reader the differences between Australian cultures and the misconceptions that can occur with people of different