“Screw the Whales‚ Save the Shrimp” by Joy Williams The essay "Save the Whales‚ Screw the Shrimp" written by Joy Williams is about the problem that we are not taking care of the environment or seeing the truth of it all as well as we should be. Because we are too blind and lazy to solve the problems with everything around us‚ such as the animals and the plants that keep us alive everything is just getting worse. We’ve made it our nature to take things that are available and use them until it’s gone
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Analysis of “Save the Whales‚ Screw the Shrimp” by Joy Williams “Save the Whales‚ Screw the Shrimp” by Joy Williams is an essay directed towards the human race‚ and how nature is being ruined by it. The human race is a large audience‚ but she believes that everyone is responsible for the destruction of nature‚ except herself of course. Williams wrote in such a satirical way‚ giving herself an advantage‚ or authority‚ over the audience. She showed such authority in that she used second person throughout
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Save the Whales Whaling is the hunting of whales‚ primarily for their large quantities of fat and meat. Its earliest forms date back to 3‚000 B.C. (whale facts). Before industrialization and technological advances in fishing technology‚ a whale’s large size made it a risky and deadly target. Today modern commercial whalers have hunted so many whales that they are responsible for the endangerment and near extinction of many whale species. If we don’t put an effort to stop this now we will surely
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The Evolution of Mantis Shrimps The Stomatopoda crustaceans‚ or commonly known as the mantis shrimp‚ are one of the most unique charismatic marine animals in the world. There are roughly about 400 living species of mantis shrimps which makes them an intriguing organism for scientists to study the different evolutionary patterns. The mantis shrimp received its name from the similarity of morphology with the insect‚ pray mantis. The morphological similarities are between the head and the thorax of
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This article is about a marine mammal. For other uses‚ see Whale (disambiguation). Page semi-protected Whale Temporal range: 50–0Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N Eocene – Recent North Atlantic right whales‚ mother and calf Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Subclass: Eutheria Order: Cetacea Whale (origin Old English hwæl from Proto-Germanic *hwalaz) is the common name for various
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Whale Watch Kaikoura Whale Watch Kaikoura The Whaleway Station‚ Whaleway Road‚ Kaikoura‚ New Zealand The Whaleway Station‚ Whaleway Road‚ Kaikoura‚ New Zealand DESTINATION Whale Watch Kaikoura is a destination because it is a place where tourists want to travel to‚ to experience something new and exciting that they may not be able to do in their origin. I was once a transit route that people just passed through but the people of Kaikoura have transformed it into one of New Zealand most famous
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people think that orca whales should not be in captivity. But others think it is a good idea to have orcas in captivity so that people who can’t go out in see them in the wild can learn about them in theme parks or aquariums. In my opinion‚ I think it is a bad idea to have orca whales in captivity. For one thing the orca whales that are in captivity tend to have many problems. Also‚ many of the amusement parks like SeaWorld tell many of their employee’s lies about the whales. Last‚ the way the parks
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Whales have been swimming in the Earth’s oceans for 20 million years; their haunting songs can travel underwater for thousands of miles‚ they are the largest animals to exist on Earth yet they survive on some of the smallest organisms. A whale’s heart can weigh up to 1‚300 pounds‚ and a baby whale can drink up to 130 gallons of its mother’s milk each day (Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society‚ 2010). Currently whale hunters claim that they are killing whales for scientific purposes; however‚ whale
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Claire Carlson English 3H February 7‚ 2013 Period 1 Spring Essay: Turn of the Screw Page I: The Governess and Miles Page II: The Governess and Mrs. Grose Page III: Corruption of Innocence Henry James’s Turn of the Screw is the eerie tale of a governess sent to care for two mischievous young children‚ Flora and Miles. Many people mistake it for a ghost story‚ but the story actually focuses more on the governess’s relationship with the children. Her thirst for acceptance gradually grows
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Goby/Shrimp the shrimps dig and dig and dig and they’re blind and the gobys are very visual creatures - but have no real defense mechanism‚ so they rely on the shrimp for shelter the shrimps use their antenna to stay in "touch" (litearlly) with the goby and if the goby sees danger‚ he’ll shiver and the shrimp will run back into the hole and if the shrimp goes and getsfood... and gets lost.. the goby will see him and run over and touch his antenna...and lead him back to his hole if they’re
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