...When I was a child I eagerly watched my parents in the kitchen, fascinated by the way they would make something delicious out of what seemed like nothing at all. This frequent observation sparked something in me and from that moment forward, I knew I was born to cook. In speaking to local restaurant owners about their businesses, my initial awkwardness and apprehension towards approaching unfamiliar people faded away. I found that conversation came easily when discussing ones passions. I first met with Cindy, who owns Paddy Cakes and Candy. She has owned and operated the shop for several years, and has been expanding it slowly. What started out as a simple candy store has now grown to be so much more. There isn’t a need for specialized equipment in her shop, as she has all her tempered chocolate products premade, but they make all the items that require melting chocolate in the store. Cindy assured me that while no culinary or business management degree is necessary, it would certainly be helpful. Despite seeming content in the busy atmosphere of her store, Cindy confided in me that this was nothing more than a convenient opportunity. She had lost her previous business to bankruptcy after 9/11, and this store just “fell in her lap.” Although she loves what she does, she’s bored and has put the store up for sale in order to pursue another business venture – Cindy would love nothing more than to open her own craft store. Shane, owner of The Pizza Man, had little to offer...
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...We all have the option to leave, to get away and travel to anywhere in this world. We are not confined to one specific area, trapped without an escape. For some odd reason, some people believe the kidnapping of natures creation, wild killer whales living its own life, is acceptable to make a profit. About forty-two years ago, the capture of young whales was a hit job. One diver, who jumped on the opportunity of a lifetime, tells his story in the documentary Blackfish. This diver, John Crowe, explains how this job brought excitement at first sight. Then, as he captures his first whale, he realizes that he had just taken a baby from its mother. He continues his work while the baby is crying out to its mother for help, and John begins to cry...
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...Free Orcas How much do you really know about whales in captivity? Do you think the whales at sea world enjoy being there? Imagine you're walking down the street with your family when out of nowhere you're trapped in a net and being taken away from them. This happens to young whales almost everyday and is very unnecessary. Orcas should not be kept in captivity because it causes premature death, anxiety, and violent behavior. Many people would consider these results to be animal abuse. It has been confirmed that whales in captivity have higher mortality rates than those in the wild and these rates have only worsened over the years. According to the report “Killer Controversy: Why Orcas Should No Longer Be Kept in Captivity,” "Captive female orcas give birth too young and too often, leading to both high adult and high infant mortality." Also, the chronic stress of being confined weakens their immune system which leads to infection. This is the most common cause of death for captive orcas. The average life expectancy of a wild orca is 30-50 years. Orcas who have died at Sea World have an average age of death of 13 years old. The shocking fact is that over 161 whales have died in captivity, and it can easily be prevented by leaving them in the wild where they belong. Another outcome of the confinement is anxiety. Orcas who are not compatible with one another are placed in relatively small tanks which results in anxiety and tension. This tension often leads to brutal fights...
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...SeaWorld has animals, whales and dolphins, that would be better off in the wild than trapped in tanks and forced to perform. The safety of both the humans and the animals would be better if separated. SeaWorld shouldn’t be able to have whales and dolphins in their parks because it hurts the life expectancy of the animals, the peoples safety is in danger, and the health of the animal can be affected greatly. The life expectancy of orcas in captivity is nowhere near the wild life expectancy. The life expectancy for an orca is very low compared to in the wild (wild male, about 30; female, about 50). The orcas are losing their lifetime in captivity as for orcas in the wild are trying to live life to the fullest. Out of 160 whales that died in captivity,...
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...world's view of whales. He has killed three people. Tilikum is a male Orca, more commonly referred to as a killer whale, with a complex background. In 1983 Tilikum was violently captured in Iceland and then illegally sold to 'Sealand of the Pacific' aquarium in Canada. He was two years old when this happened, ripped away from his family and cruelly sent to foreign waters. In the wild, Tilikum was used to swimming over 100 miles every day; in 'Sealand of the Pacific' Tilikum was used to floating in a concrete prison only ten feet longer than his body. When Tilikum was not confined in these small spaces, he was taken into a pool where he would perform tricks for audiences in order for him to receive food. The food was frozen fish which deprived the Orca of his necessary nutrients and food was withheld from Tilikum if he did not respond to the trainers' instructions. Tilikum was a highly intelligent whale and due to this he seems to have noticed his mistreatment. Tilikum began to become restless, frustrated with being trapped in a concrete box and performing tricks for slivers of food. The trainers registered Tilikum's agitation but they did not see it as being significant. It was too late when Sealand of the Pacific finally realised that Tilikum's emotions were important. In February of 1991 a part-time trainer at Sealand fell into the pool whilst Tilikum was performing with two female Orcas. Tilikum, along with the other whales, began to drag Keltie Byrne under the...
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...around pressing their faces against the glass to get a closer look at the large, black and white creature swimming in the tank with fatigued parents trailing behind them. The orca appears to be intrigued by the child and the visitors by constantly bumping against the thick layer of glass, however in reality, the orca is pleading for escape. With not much space to live in thrive in, orcas and other massive mammals spend their whole lives swimming around small enclosed pools. Behind those glass tanks are beautiful, living animals who do not deserve to be trapped in compact pools. Guests and children are just far too blind to notice it. While marine parks are entertaining for families and visitors, they should be shut down and banned because of the negative mental and physical impact occurring on the animals being held captive. Whale and dolphin capturing for captivity have been around for a long time and it needs to be put to an end. From 1964 to 1989, a total of 138 orcas were captured for entertainment in aquatic parks. In 1972, 1,133 dolphins were picked out of the United States’ ocean to be held captive (Zimmermann). As of August 2015, there are 59 orcas being held in captivity in 14 marine parks in 8 different countries ("The Fate of Captive Orcas”). People do not realize these mammals have been horribly treated since the early 1960s until now. Orcas and dolphins have been kidnapped from their families and friends so people could keep them in enclosed pools for He 2 entertainment...
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...The Trainer or the Trained Going to parks such as SeaWorld and the zoo are typical childhood things, until adulthood when that cute lion turns into a man-eating beast that has been taken out of its’ natural habitat and placed behind bars. Seeing these animals trapped and put on display for a profit ruins the fun and raises question as to who is responsible for thinking that animal cruelty for profit was a good idea. Gabriela Cowperthwaite exposes the corporate company of SeaWorld in her documentary Blackfish for their negligence to animal captivity and allowing the attacks of innocent people to continue to happen. Along with the theme of animal cruelty, Jurassic World also portrays the company as reckless in pursuit of money and greed. Both...
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...This resulted in Brody finally convincing Vaughn to hire Quint. Later, Quint, Brody, and Hooper set out on Quint's boat, the Orca, to hunt the shark. The shark appears behind the boat and it drags the barrel underwater and disappears. At night, the great white returns, ramming the boat's hull and killing the power. The men work through the night, repairing the engine. In the morning, Brody attempts to call the Coast Guard, but Quint smashes the radio. Then, the shark drags the boat backwards, swamping the deck and flooding the engine compartment before breaking the cleats off. He tries to suffocate the shark by taking it to shallower but the overtaxed engine fails. With the Orca slowly sinking, Hooper puts on scuba gear and enters the water in a shark-proof cage, intending to lethally inject the shark with strychnine using a hypodermic spear. The shark demolishes the cage before Hooper can inject it, but he manages to escape. The shark then attacks the boat directly, killing Quint. Trapped on the sinking vessel, Brody stuffs a scuba tank into the shark's mouth, and, climbing the mast, shoots the tank with Quint's rifle, destroying...
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...10 True Facts That Prove Dolphins Are Evil Don't letter "Flipper" fool you. These high-pitched, bottle-nosed fiends are the scourge of the seas. ---- They're Part of a Killing Family Killer whales are really dolphins. It's true. They're not actually whales, they just look like them. Orcas and bottlenose dolphins are cousins, of a sort. ---- They Work as Spies More than one government has used dolphins to spy on other countries, Russia even sold combat-trained dolphins to Iran. That's real. http://www.realclear.com/defense/2014/03/26/russians_seize_military_dolphins_6328.html ---- They Engage in Sexual Assault It sounds awful, but it's rather well-known that dolphins frequently engage in sexual activities with each other, even with unwilling partners, and will even move suggestively against other animals...including humans. ---...
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...Melanie’s Whale Watching > Orcas > Transient and Resident Orcas are classified into two categories: resident and transient. The Resident Orcas frequent coastal waterways of British Columbia and Washington, living off a fish-based diet, which is primarily made up of Chinook salmon. These whales are a matriarchal multi-family group and are more vocal in comparison their Transient counterparts. The Transient Whales, on the other hand, live in small groups, consisting of a single matriline (matriarchal family). Their home range is vaster than the Residents, ranging throughout the Eastern North Pacific, with infrequent visits to inland waters. They are much quieter than their Resident counterparts, allowing them to sneak up on their preys which...
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...” (“Welcome Progress on captive wildlife” 1). When I was a little girl, I loved to see animals doing tricks. After doing some research, now I know some shows are wrong. Animal captivity is wrong because it’s dangerous for people and for the animals, and it’s not natural. Animals such as orcas should never be in captivity. Having animals in captivity can be dangerous for people. “There is no established record of orcas killing human being in the wild… In captivity, however, it’s a different story. Since the 1970’s killer whales in captivity have attacked 24 people around the world, and some of these encounters have been fatal… so why do they attack people in captivity when they don’t in the wild? The answer seems to be captivity-related stress.” (Should We Be Keeping” 1, 2). When animals in captivity get stressed,...
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...The Comparison of JAWS And Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home Some films often have themes and messages in them that are only relevant to the time the film was made. One such example is the movie Jaws, which depicts a shark as the main antagonist. For its time the movie was incredibly successful playing upon the fears people had of sharks while swimming. However with awareness of the planet increasing and people understanding that sharks are endangered species which humans are invading their habitat in the first place, movies like Jaws are less acceptable. This is the reason why most rip off movies of Jaws are these terrible B grade movies. The only way a movie like this could exist in this current time is by having a really far out plot like a mutated or genetically modified shark terrorizing everyone. The focus of this essay will compare Jaws (1975) to Free Willy 2 (1995). The focus is on the treatment of animals and how they are represented in these two films. As well as this other events such as what happened between these two periods will be looked at to understand not only how both films are different but why they are different. Jaws was originally made in 1975 by director Steven Spielberg. Spielberg is a good example of a director who has perfect timing to releasing a film at a time when the public wants it. Due to the films success and the nature of Spielberg means that Jaws is an expression of the society’s conscious and articulates the current fears and trends...
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...where animals are removed from their natural habitat, placed into cages, and used as entertainment as a source of income. Although many people would argue that zoos do a good job at protecting animals, zoos should be banned around the world because animals are mistreated, zoos are not an effective way to help endangered species, and zoos are not a good source of education about wildlife. The first reason zoos should be banned is because animals are mistreated. In the Salon article “Are Zoo Animals Happy? There’s a simple empathy test we can apply”, Marc Bekof and Jessica Pierce tell the story of an orca whale named Tilly who was captured when she was only a few years old and was sold and traded to several different places until she finally ended up at Sea World. They state, “By weaving together ethological details about the abuses and cognitive, emotional, and social lives of orcas in the wild with a catalog of the abuses and deprivations experienced by Tilly, the film leaves the reviewer in no doubt that Sea World is a living hell for these sensitive and intelligent creatures, who go crazy and must be pumped up with psychoactive drugs like Valium to control their behavior.” Even though there are laws that regulate how animals must be treated in zoos, many animals become depressed due to the horrific living conditions. In the article “Zoo Animals and Their Discontents” in the New York Times Magazine by Alex Halberstadt, Virga, an animal cognitions researcher, explains his observations...
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...them out of their pods. Next, studies have shown that life in captivity can alter or even reverse an animal’s natural tendencies. For example, “they spend only 10 to 20% of their time at the surface [in the wild] tanks only allow a few strokes in any direction before coming to a wall. Because tanks are shallow, the natural tendencies of whales and dolphins are reversed- they spend more than Norman 2 50% of their time at the surface.” This shows that life in a small, shallow tank forces the animals to make accommodations to its instincts based on the zoo/parks budget for a tank. Lastly, captivity causes animals to develop a huge range of medical problems. Just like in humans, “unnatural situations can cause skin problems”. Orcas, better known as killer whales, can also develop “dorsal fin collapse, as without the support of the water, gravity pulls” the fins down into a curled position. (“Marine Animals in Captivity” ) For someone who thinks that dorsal fin collapse happens in wild, they wouldn’t be wrong, however that occurrence of this is much higher in tanks. Only 1% of all whales in the wild de velop it while all males and most females develop it in captivity. The facts add up, marine animals are not suited, for captivity. Captivity has the same effect on their heads just like confinement in a prison would. The only difference here is that the animals did nothing wrong. Along with marine parks, zoos also trap animals and say “it’s educational,” or “we are...
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...Zox by Susan Photos he s from t Excerpt With de ion GNuLiINE Broadcast DiscussPBS FRO T Welcome to POISONED WATERS This discussion guide and DVD are drawn from the PBS FRONTLINE investigative report, POISONED WATERS with Hedrick Smith as correspondent. In that program, we showed the kinds of pollution now contaminating America’s waterways, political obstacles blocking restoration of great estuaries like Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound, and some local strategies that have scored successes. We have designed this kit to stimulate public discussion of effective techniques and crucial issues of educational reform. It is intended for teachers, parents, principals, administrators and anyone interested in improving public schools. Photo by: Susan Zox How To Use This Guide This guide can be used either with a DVD of the two-hour documentary, POISONED WATERS, or with the special DVD clip reel of program excerpts. The guide is broken into several sections. On pages 1 and 22, you’ll find a description of the main elements of the program. Pages 2-21 set out ten topics for discussion, selected to highlight important issues in protecting our waters. For example, stormwater runoff, agricultural pollution, new chemical contaminants, how grass-roots action can force a Superfund cleanup or control development. Each topic is covered by a two-page write-up and suggested questions. A matching video segment illustrates the issue. Select a topic and read the summary. Watch the matching segment on...
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