The novel Moby Dick by Herman Melville is an epic tale of the voyage of the whaling ship the Pequod and its captain‚ Ahab‚ who relentlessly pursues the great Sperm Whale during a journey around the world. The narrator of the novel is Ishmael‚ a sailor on the Pequod who undertakes the journey out of his affection for the sea. He also doesn’t want to be in an important position‚ such as captain or cook‚ because then he’d have responsibilities‚ and that would really get him down to work and be able
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Why whale hunting should be banned. Whale hunting or whaling is hunting whales for commercial use‚ to get oil‚ food‚ or be used for scientific studies. Whaling has been going on for thousands of years‚ originally whales where killed for food but more recently they have been hunted for more industrial purposes like the liver for oil or using whale teeth for buttons and jewellery. Whale oil is even can even be used for alcohol‚ soap and even lipstick. After World War 2‚ Japan had a shortage of food
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females could mean the extinction of the species. Fewer than 120 animals Bowhead. Once known as the common or Greenland whale‚ this cetacean was targeted by British whalers in the 18th and 19th centuries; William Scoresby of Whitby took 533 in his whaling career alone. The bowhead – a close relative of the right whale – is rarely seen as it confines itself to Arctic waters‚ using its huge head to break ice in order to breathe. It is threatened by the receding polar ice‚ and by the probable expansion
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Literature Reviews What this handout is about This handout will explain what a literature review is and offer insights into the form and construction of a literature review in the humanities‚ social sciences‚ and sciences. Introduction OK. You’ve got to write a literature review. You dust off a novel and a book of poetry‚ settle down in your chair‚ and get ready to issue a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" as you leaf through the pages. "Literature review" done. Right? Wrong! The "literature" of a literature
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Greenpeace International Ottho Heldringstraat 5 1066 AZ Amsterdam The Netherlands Phone: +31 (0) 20 718 20 00 Fax: +31 (0) 20 718 20 02 Email: supporter.services.int@greenpeace.org GREENPEACE – AHMET HALIL HAYTA Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organisation that acts to change attitudes and behaviour‚ to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace by: Catalysing an energy revolution to address the number one threat facing our planet: climate change
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Saving the Whales When I think about the ocean‚ I think about all the animals that live in it‚ including the whales. Whale hunting has been going on for decades. These huge ships go out into the sea and capture whales; they claim they are capturing them for research. What kind of research exactly? I do not know. One article I read on the issue said that the whales used for the research end up being a meal more times than not. In other words‚ they capture the whales‚ do their “research” and then
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are some of the eight whales which are currently still included on the Endangered Species List. Actions have been taken to attempt reduction in whaling and increase population sizes‚ including prohibiting all whaling in United States waters‚ the formation of the CITES treaty which protects all whales‚ along with the formation of the International Whaling Commission (IWC). But even though all of these movements have been put in place‚ countries such as Japan continue to hunt and harvest whales under
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In the novel “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville‚ a story describes a character named Ishmael and his dreams of going on a whaling boat to see the world from a different view. One of the most memorable scene of this novel was the ending in which we were able to visualize Captain Ahab jump of the boat to try his best 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
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4. Whaling Issue I don’t agree with the Norwegian or Japanese position regarding non-endangered species of whales as a culture exemption. Many nations have strange habit and culture is the reason for that‚ so we can accept and respect other’s culture as long as it doesn’t affect on something that could make a problem for others. Today we can hear about annual celebration for some Iranian people all over the world‚ and that is a sad day for them‚ so they start to hit them self’s tell they bleed in
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Commercial Whaling Countless amounts of great whales will be illegally caught and slaughtered for commercial sale and “scientific” research this year. In spite of a worldwide moratorium‚ put in place by the International Whaling Commission twenty four years ago banning the act of commercial whaling‚ three defiant countries continue to hunt whales illegally. If these countries hunt whales against the law and continue to get away with minimal consequence it may encourage other countries to resume
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