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    Whaling Debate

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    Australia. Whaling affects so many species of not only whales but also marine animals. As history shows whaling began in 3000 BC. Whaling has changed ecosystems all over the world and continues to in this century. In the 19th century whaling was mainly used as a collection of whale oil or train oil. This was used in many make up products and perfumes. In the 20th and 21st century commercial whaling is aimed at the collection of whale meat for food. This is an unnecessary part of the food chain

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    reasons and provides details to advocate these reasons. However‚ the professor found this argument by the passage unconvincing and repudiates all three reasons. At first‚ the reading passage posits that ’’quackers’’ sounds’ the main source is orca whales who inhabit that area in the ocean. Conversely‚ the professor claims that this theory may be plausible but it is impossible to be logical. According to the professor‚ orcas usually live near the surface of the ocean and the submarines remain deep

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    Why Do Mermaids Exist

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    can speak surely about the existence of mermaids. Scientist who are skilled in the use of sonar. Scientists who state that mermaids are seismically sensitive. Because mermaids use sonar‚ they travel with whales which leads to the reason mermaid sightings are intertwined with numerous beached whales. Now you can say that mermaids don’t exist because people haven’t really seen one‚ but there are marine animals that are being discovered lately that have gone unnoticed for centuries due to their elusiveness

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    because I like the animals and I’m against the violence or any harm with animals. Each paragraph answers the questions for the assignment. I don’t agree with the Norwegian and Japanese for hunting whales as a cultural exemption. My arguments to be against this “cultural tradition” are the cruelty the whales suffer when they got kill with lethal methods such as the use of the explosive grenade. I read there are other non-lethal methods and people don’t want to use them due to the only thing to obtain

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    Makah Tribe Case Study

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    case of the Makah Tribe‚ I do not think it is appropriate for nonmembers of the tribe to evaluate the morality of the whale hunt. Many indigenous people from around the world hold true to the old ways in an attempt to keep their history alive. This is but one of those traditions. When searching for information about the Makah‚ I found that they do have a long tradition of whale hunting. Realizing that it was up to them to protect their people‚ land‚ and fishing tradition‚ the Makah forefathers signed

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    The International Whaling Committee(ICW) is an IGO that was created in 1946 by the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling. The IWC was created to ensure conservation of whale stocks and development of the whaling industry. The IWC presently has 40 members‚ with membership open to any state willing to sign on to the ICRW. The IWC meets annually; it has a small Secretariat and is lead by the Secretary-General. It is further divided into three committees: the Scientific‚ Technical‚ and

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    Do We Need All “Cultural Heritage”? As we know‚ the growth rate of whale is quite low. But there are still a few countries have whale hunting. For example: Japan and Norway. If you note the news about this‚ you must had seen that Japan and Norway hunted lots of whale every year. And the numbers of Japan’s whale hunting are almost thousand a year. On the other hand‚ bullfighting is a very popular activity in Spain. You can find that there have bullfighting in Spain everyday and every

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    Moby Dick

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    to kill the white wale know as Moby Dick. It was a very gruesome scene that portrayed Ahab jump onto Moby Dick with a harpoon‚ stabbing him as best he could trying to end the whales life yet in doing so became tangled in ropes of the harpoons which caused him to become stuck onto the whale as it swam off and die. The whale continued and hit the Pequod with his head causing the Pequod to sink and all the sailors to die all except for Ishmael that was left to tell us the story. Nobody knows exactly

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    Morality In Moby Dick

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    never be like the wrongdoer. In the story‚ Moby Dick‚ Captain Ahab has set out to kill the enormous whale that has taken his leg. This is an example of how we set morals so we don’t become the kind of people we despise. Captain Ahab does not want to be presumed a coward‚ so he makes a mission of finding the whale that took something from him. Ahab assembles his crew and is on a journey to find the whale. This is an example of how we set morals so we don’t become the kind of person that society

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    Niki Caro directed the film ’The Whale Rider’. She has used a number of cinematic techniques in this film to create atmosphere and sometimes show what the character is feeling. These three well-used techniques are camera shots‚ lighting and sound and dialogue. By using these techniques Niki has created a film that is emotionally connected to the viewers. Firstly‚ Niki Caro has used lighting incredibly well in this film. For some scenes in the film the lighting effects used gives us an insight into

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