...did not sell the animals tusks to another family. Unlike our ancestors, many people in our era do those exact things. A majority of the people who participate in trophy hunting believe that it helps conservation and population control. The sad truth is that it does not. In fact, trophy hunting is a cruel sport that should be banned. In trophy hunting, instead of letting the weakest of the species due off, trophy hunters kill the cream of the crop (In defense of the Animals). This...
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...First Draft Imagine a world where rich people pay huge sums of money to kill animals. Think of human beings enjoying taking the life of rare or even endangered living things just so they can get the decapitated head on their wall. Hard to believe? Unfortunately, this takes place worldwide. Walter J. Palmer, dentist and recreational trophy hunter, illegally killed a famous lion named Cecil, who was a major attraction at the Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe. This event was met with outrage across the world. There were some who believed the reaction was overrated. They, like most trophy hunting supporters, believe that the money gained from trophy hunting goes to local people, and even towards the conservation of animals the hunters shoot. Sadly,...
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...Big Buck Down With Dad “Rise and shine buddy boy!” dad says enthusiastically as I moan and groan until I jolt myself out of bed and down stairs. I can tell dad is a lot more enthusiastic about that day then I was until I realize “today is deer hunting day!” I suddenly jump for joy until my dad tells me to be quieter because everyone is asleep. Whoops… I think to myself as I start layering up on clothes. My dad warned me yesterday that it would be cold which I realized but didn't know until I stepped outside. Once I get back in the house I grab a package of fruit snacks and powerade and head to the truck. On the way there I ask, “do you think were going to get a deer?” He replies “ I hope so.” Then that gets me thinking, I wonder if...
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...Life is not easy. Life was definitely not easy for Will Hunting. Will Hunting was gifted and talented in a way that others could not imagine. He conquered and solved math equations that took people with upper level math degrees years to solve. Will Hunting was troubled, so he visited a therapist once a week. He was offered several upper division jobs because of his intelligence, and he eventually went on to accept one of the jobs. Will Hunting’s intelligence was portrayed in a positive light. Will was a troubled child, so he made his gift seem like it had a negative connotation, but he had friends and teachers that encouraged him to use his intelligence for the good, but he continued to push everyone away. People believed that his intelligence...
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...Michael Strickler Professor Euken English 101 27 January 2013 Essay 2: Writer’s Checklist for Informational Essay Does my introduction clearly state my thesis and give the reader an indication of the direction my essay will take? Yes, the very last sentence is my thesis statement. Are my topic sentences and body paragraphs clear and well developed? Yes, it took me a little time to figure them out. Have I fully supported my thesis with ample supporting details and examples? Yes I believe the essay backs my thesis pretty good. Have I used a sufficient number and variety of sources in my paper? I have used at least two from the required sources and two other ones. Are all of my sources properly cited in the body of my paper according to MLA format? I believe they are done correctly. Does my conclusion effectively summarize my main points and restate my thesis in different words? Yes it does restate and summarize my main points. Have I carefully proofread and revised my paper for sentence variety, word choice, grammar, and punctuation? Yes I had some people look it over and help me with corrections. Does my Works Cited page include only the sources cited in the text? Is it correctly formatted? The works cited page is correct and include all appropriate sources. Have I used the correct margins, line spacing, and other format issues required by the MLA sample essay and the sample provided by my instructor? Yes, I followed all...
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...November 22, 2011 Deer hunting is a very demanding hobby. The one thing that everyone must keep in mind when hunting is your safety and the safety of others. The reason for this is that you are using a weapon that can cause serious harm to you or someone, but this is not what this essay is about. I want everyone to actually learn what it takes to be a hunter. Being a hunter takes skill and understanding how deer sense things. The first thing that comes to everyone’s mind when thinking about hunting is killing Bambie. This is not the way I think, because of how I was raised. I took up hunting at an early age. I would always go with my father. So, here is what I have learned about hunting deer. You, as a hunter have got to know where the deer are. This is the easy part. Just find some good land with a water source, and good food that they eat i.e. acorns, wild persimmons trees, apples trees, corn, clover, and winter rye. Scout the land after locating these, to see if you can find there bedding areas. Finding the bedding area is the hard part. Deer in general will bed down in areas where they feel protected. Like in open areas surrounded by thick brush, or in low lying areas. After finding these good spots look for trails leading to their food, and water sources. These trails are what will make you or break you when it comes time to kill that big buck. The trail usually will lead to natural pinch points in the land. This is where you want to be hunting at due to the high traffic...
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...Sculpture by the Sea Essay- Rod McRae Question7: As values have changed with postmodern thought, artists have set out to create more interactive work to distinguish their work from the ‘traditional, paining-on-the-wall’ view of art. Explore this view in relation to how audiences can experience these works. “My work starts with the basic premise that in order to communicate an idea and create maximum empathy with an audience the work has to be authentic”-Rod McRae. Rod McRae is a children’s book author and illustrator, taxidermist, designer, photographer and sculptor, and a dedicated artist and educator. McRae has exhibited his work around the world, with exhibitions in Australia, Italy, Japan, Spain and Czechoslovakia. McRae is deeply concerned with issues surrounding human activity and its effect on the natural world. Through his latest work, ‘The Tent of Wonders’ for Sculpture by the Sea in Bondi, McRae pursues an emotional connection with his audience to convey issues about biodiversity, hunting, pollution, colonisation, ownership and climate change through the use of non-traditional taxidermy specimens as the principal medium. The Tent of Wonders covers 180m2 under canvas and contains 16 installations. The work is offered in easy to understand portions with an element of humour to enhance the accessibility of the work. Through the use of real animals McRae is able to create a more interactive and confronting work as opposed to making sculptures out of bronze, metal or clay...
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...Trophy hunting is a controversial subject. While some—often the hunters—feel the act is a noble and fun sport that instills a sense of pride in the hunter; others feel that the activity is dreadfully barbaric and should be outlawed. In 2015, Dame Jane Goodall, a British anthropologist, ethologist, and primatologist, released a post on her blog detailing trophy hunting and her opinion on it. This entry is perfect for analyzing rhetorical devices and will be the subject of this essay. Within her article, Dame Goodall attempts to inform the reader of trophy hunting and the idiocy she associates with it. Discussing topics like the Cecil the Lion tragedy, wherein a Minneapolis dentist killed a lion used for scientific study, and two other events...
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...Essay #2 RD Doe season An initiation or rite of passage is something that happens to an individual that changes them mentally, physically, or both. In reading Doe Season you find out about a young girl that is 9 years old that has something happen to her that brings about a rite of passage. The author, David Kaplan, bases the story around a young girl (Andy short for Andrea) who is going hunting for deer with her father, father friend (Charlie), and fathers’ friends’ son (Mac). Going to the woods where they are going hunting for deer, Mac takes jabs at Andy about how small she is and how she cannot shoot because she is a girl. Her father sticks up for her and says that she can shoot and that she even has something about her that attracts animals to her so that is good for them. Fast forward towards the end of the story, Andy hears a deer and is given the opportunity to shoot it. Andy then has an internal conflict about whether or not to shoot the deer but does so anyway because of the pressure being out on her and that is where the rite of passage begins. The deer is shot square in the chest by Andy but does not die and runs off immediately and that is where Andy’s’ guilt and regret set in. Later at the campsite she see’s the deer she shot while everyone is sleeping and proceeds to walk up to the deer and touch it where she had shot it in the chest and she feels even worse. Andy doest tell anyone about seeing the deer and just goes back to bed. Later in the...
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...The Most Dangerous Game essay In the story “The Most Dangerous Game” (Richard Connell) Rainsford ends up being hunted by General Zaroff. After Rainsford falls off his yacht, on his way to hunt, he takes refuge on Zaroff’s island. As Rainsford is trying to find shelter on the island he sees lights in the jungle and walks toward them. When he finds the source of the lights he knocks on the door of Zaroff’s mansion. Following Rainsford knocking on the heavy door, Ivan answers it without a word, Rainsford is allowed to stay there and get better. Even though Zaroff let Rainsford stay at his mansion and get better he cannot be trusted. In this gruesome story the prey are human beings. “Civilized? And you shoot down men?” (Connell, page 226) Zaroff has been hunting since he was a small child, he started getting to the point where hunting had begun to bore him. So he made a new type of “game”, and his game is...
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...Big game hunting is a very controversial subject, however, it is also a very widely practiced sport among the wealthy, but should it remain a legal activity? In media, there is a clear bias against big game hunting, and you can see why as animals to most people are amazing and beautiful, but what we never see is the other side or the big game hunter’s perspective. In the duration of this essay, I hope to show you both sides of the argument from a nonbiased perspective, and also clearly state my perspective on the legality of this sport. Should Big Game Hunting and Canned Hunts continue to be a legal industry in our world? The first thing I’d like to bring into question is the legality of the sports. The sports are legal...
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...The Most Dangerous Game Essay In the story “The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell, the hunter of beginning becomes hunted by the end. The story shows how it would be like to be hunted, or give us an animal’s perspective of being hunted. It also shows how it would be like to be a hunter of a person. In between, it also shows the transition from hunter to hunted. In this world, hunter shall become the hunted. There were many different hunters in this story to begin with. In the story, Whitney begins to say, “‘We should have some good hunting up in the Amazon.”’ ~ “(Connell 215.)” In this quote, Whitney, who appears to be a hunter, is talking to Rainsford about hunting in the Amazon with new guns from Purdey’s. It also shows that Rainsford is a hunter by, Whitney and himself re having a conversation about hunting jaguars. Rainsford is also a famous hunter, hunting many things and has books written about him. In the story, Zaroff is talking to Rainsford.“‘He made me a hunter.”’ ~ “(Connell 223.)” Zaroff, who says this, is telling Rainsford about how God makes some people into artists or poets, but made him a hunter. Those were the hunters...
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...countries in the world, was approved by The World Bank to receive a $46 million grant to help alleviate poverty, and $700,000 portion of the grant has been designated to increase elephant trophy hunting. Madji Seck of World Bank stated that "When properly regulated, hunting is an important tool for sustainable management of parks" (Can Killing more). The issue of poaching is clearly contested by a wide range of representatives and sectors making it an increasingly difficult matter to address. One group of stakeholders in the poaching crisis are the citizens of the local communities as well as the business owners, specifically in the tourism sector. Although these stakeholders are legitimate and directly affected, they are mostly unaware of...
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...Essay on Animal Rights Animals are great little creatures. They give pleasure on many different levels. They are they for beauty, comfort, and love. Animals are creatures of the world that are here for those reasons. We as humans were creatures as animals long ago, but we’ve evolved. Most animals have evolved too, but that does not give them the same right as a human being. I support Machan’s views on animal rights and livelihood. Animals should not be granted with the same right as we are, as humans. Animals are not even close to being in the same league as humans. Yes animals can feel pain and emotion, but that does not give them rights to freedom that humans have. I think that the treatment of animals should be learned at a young age. Growing up on a farm, I learned how to treat animals. There is a certain amount of respect that everyone should give to animals. You shouldn’t really be cruel to them. What is the purpose of making a living thing suffer? There is no purpose and its just wrong. Being on a farm you know the boundaries when it comes to animals and yourself. I had pets and then I had animals. Cats and dogs are usually the favorites when it comes to having pets. They give you pleasure. Chickens and ducks were there for the sole purpose to be eaten, sold, or for eggs. When on a farm, you grow attached to certain animals more easily than others. I would never get attached to cows, because I knew that they wouldn’t be around very long. We would process them...
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...understand. All the people who abuse animals don’t understand when they are harming an innocent animal are going to continue to do it until they are shown what they are doing wrong. Each type of abuse has certain patterns that scientists can study and find out why people commit the crimes they do. Animal cruelty is broken down into two categories, which are active and passive. Active cruelty is also known as NAI (non-accidental injury). NAI is when a person has malicious intent so fierce that they deliberately and intentionally cause harm to an animal. On the other hand with passive cruelty a person doesn’t intentionally cause harm to the animal, they simple neglect it by giving it no attention. While I was doing the research for this essay, I thought non-stop about how a human being could break a dogs leg, back, or even neck and feel no sympathy for the dog? Are some people in this world that heartless that they have no feelings for other living things? I wonder if you asked a person that has abused an animal if they would do the same things they did to the animal to another human being? All over the world the suffering and killing of animals are often known as a sport or science research. In Canada, thousands of seals are killed. Are they killed because us humans need them to live? No, Canadian fisherman use sealing as an off-season activity just to pass the time. Sealing is when fishermen kill seals...
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