Water for Elephants is a historical novel that was written by Sara Gruen.it was the beginning of the Great Depression. For Americans suffering through the worst serious money-based problem the country had ever gone through - with little money and food to go around - attending a circus performance would have seemed like an amazing, (very much/in an upset, hopeless way) needed an escape. Going to the circus would have been a (wished very much)-for, much-appreciated break for those who could afford the tickets. Think about it. These people didn't have TVs.…
First, the board includes a description of the average weight, age, and health complications that apply to domestic elephants in an effort to appeal to their sense of logic: “For 8,000-to-10,000-pound creatures who spend all day on their feet and can live into their 40s, the consequence of confinement was a painful middle age, marked by arthritis, cracked toenails, and sore feet.” The use of quantifiable characteristics of the animals and evidence of real problems that result from the current state of their treatment makes the issue more substantial for readers. The presentation of data such as…
Water for Elephants By; Chasity Laporte Water for Elephants was published in 2006, and was banned in Bedford, N.H. School District (2010) after a parent complained about the book's sexual content, violence but still an amazing story in my own opinion. This book is an epic love story between a man named Jacob Jankowski, woman named Marlena, and Marlena's husband August who is a cruel man, and a beautiful elephants named Rosie, but why would such a amazing book be banned? I ask the same question. The sexule content between Marlena, and Jacob is pretty wild. The first kiss between Marlena and Jacob is reminiscent of the scene when the two of them dance in front of Rosie.…
In the novel, Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen Walter is different than the average sized person because he is a dwarf. According to Merriam-Webster dictionary Walter’s dwarfism is a disability because it is a “condition of being able to do things in a normal way”. Even though Walter did not let size get in the way of letting him live his life, he was still considered to have a disability because his height causes him to perform everyday functions differently. Dwarfism was the cause that Walter was separated from his mother. When Walter was fourteen years old he could not perform farm work as efficiently as the average size person, therefore he was considered a burden.…
Discuss how does the author make effective use of conflict in the novel? In the novel Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen, there are many riveting conflicts. However, there is not only external conflicts, but many internal conflicts as well. Through these many conflict, both the plot and characters are developed in an excellent manner.…
Boredom in elephants can often lead to a variety of behavioral problems with the most common being aggression and in some cases neurotic or stereotypic…
African elephants eat a lot of food in just one day so when they run low they go…
Did you know that there are more than 1,200 student clubs and organizations in an average American university? For instance Ohio State University also has more than 1,200 student clubs, many are used as a medium to find a career path or new student groups. As author Kenneth Bruffeet writes in Binge Drinking as a Substitute for “community of learning, binge drinking apparently correlates to a bad learning atmosphere. Bruffeet continues to write about how the leading factor of binge drinking is the social environments of Greek housing systems. Although Greek housing systems do provide a sense of belonging, there are multiple alternatives that universities have created, in order to make students feel a part of something bigger without the risky behavior of binge drinking.…
Annotated Bibliography Wechsler, Henry, and Bernice Wuethrich. Dying to Drink: Confronting Binge Drinking on College Campuses. Emmaus, Pa.: Rodale, 2002. Print. Scholarly…
Saul’s Loss of Moral Compass and Progression into Alcoholism Often, one progresses into substance abuse as a result of facing various challenges and experiences. This is in through Richard Wagamese’s novel Indian Horse. This is a story about an Ojibway boy named Saul who faces many bumpy roads in life and as a result, loses his sensibility. When Saul was haunted by the ghosts of his past such as the loss of his family, the loss of his identity, and the trauma from residential school experiences, he lost his moral compass, which resulted in being affected by alcoholism.…
Binge drinking. We have all heard of it whether from conversations or seen it in television and movies. Binge drinking has been around for a long time and shows no signs of disappearing any time soon. Binge drinking is prevalent on college campuses and even shows signs in high schools. The act of binge drinking is deemed as consuming four (females)/ five (males) or more alcoholic beverages in a span of two hours CDC.…
The two articles “Taking Up Binge Drinking in College: The Influences of Person, Social Group, and Environment” by Elissa R. Weitzman, Toben F. Nelson, and Henry Wechsler, and “Press Release from the Harvard School of Public Health” by Henry Wechsler and Elissa Weitzman, the audience for the two articles is researcher, professors, and college administrators and the purpose of the research studies is to have freshman college students not to drink like they do because it could kill them or get them hurt in many different ways. The purpose of the abstract is to identify person, social group, and environmental factors associated with uptake of binge drinking among a national sample of college students. The important information that this article tells the audience is that college students don’t need to drink as much and it also gives the audience more information on how people use and abuse alcohol among college students. A news article doesn’t an abstract because the abstract is apart of the summary, and not apart of a text.…
Elephants have similar human emotions and experiences as us, especially when considering their great mental capacity. “When an elephant dies, its family members engage in intense mourning and burial rituals, conducting weeklong vigils over the body” (Siebert 355). Through these actions and rituals, it becomes clear that elephants have the ability to love, care, and grieve for one another. This is extremely similar to how humans perform last rites for one another at their time of death to show their emotions towards another member of their species and society. “Young elephants are raised within an extended, multitiered network of doting female caregivers” (Siebert 355).…
drinking. So many Americans are concerned about this problem getting worse, from the parents who think this can't happen to their perfect child, to students in school worried about falling under peer pressure. Everyone can agree that this is a problem, however, they all believe that this cannot and won't happen to someone they are close too. Actions need to be taken and solutions need to be made either way. Professor Ross Douthat as with many others know that binge drinking can be very dangerous, “it's linked to accidents, suicide, and increased violence”(Douthat par.…
The population went from many millions to a few hundred thousand. Today, elephants are protected, but poachers still find ways to kill them for their tusks ("How Animals Become Extinct.",…