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    The Cove Dolphins

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    by the town. Taiji, Japan has aided in the killing of various species of dolphins through gruesome and inhumane practices, all while hiding in a little cove secluded from the world. Now, in the modern century, the people of Taiji have found a loophole around the 1986 law banning commercial…

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    The two novels, The Music of Dolphins and Out of the Dust, both written by Karen Hesse, demonstration how two young girls – who are going through traumatic times in their lives – use music to express their thoughts and feelings. Mila, from The Music of Dolphins, is torn away from the only family she remembers, her dolphin family, and sent to human civilization to learn proper customs; the drastic difference between her wild life and civilized life is difficult to deal with, however, singing and…

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    Dolphin Slaughter in Taiji About 23,000 dolphins are being killed each year in the town of Taiji, in Japan. Not only they are killed, but their meat is also sold in the Japanese market and given in schools, even though it contains high levels of mercury. The film The Cove uses logos, pathos and ethos to effectively persuade their audience to seek some type of action from the audience to protect the lives of dolphins and to inform people on what is going on in the town of Taiji. The film The Cove…

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    The Cove Psihoyos

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    was directed by Louie Psihoyos and stars various activists, primarily Ric O’Barry, a former dolphin trainer turned activist, and the director himself. The Cove criticizes the annual dolphin hunting practice in the seaside town of Taiji, Japan. The town relies on dolphin hunting as a means of sustaining their economy, as well as being a part of the specific town’s culture and traditions. The captured dolphins are either sold to marine parks or are killed for their meat. Their practices occur at…

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    how they compared with the best offenses of the Super Bowl era. The 2013 Denver Broncos boasted a league best total of 435 first downs (Montgomery). Among the historic offenses of the Super Bowl era they are ranked second only behind the 1984 Miami Dolphins who had a total of 502 first downs…

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    The owner of the Miami Dolphins is Stephen M. Ross, was born May 10, 1940, in Detroit, Michigan. He is married to Kara Gaffney. He has four children Jennifer Ross, Kimberly Ross, Avery (step child), drew (stepchild). He was a tax Attorney at coopers & lybrand in Detroit, in 1968. His business was also big on real estate they had multi-million dollar contracts in multiple large cities he was the chairman of the company and makes the deals with all of the property owners and all real…

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    The Miami Marlins are an American professional baseball team located in Miami, Florida. They play at Marlins Park, their home field. They are apart of the National League East division in Major League Baseball. The team began to play in the 1993 season as the Florida Marlins. They started playing home games from the beginning of their inaugural season to the 2011 season at Sun Life Stadium. Ever since the 2012 season, they have played at Marlins Park in downtown Miami, on the site of the former…

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    The Cove's Framing Theory

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    Taiji’ the first recorded dolphin drive was in 1933, with following hunts occurring in 1936 and 1944. In 1969 the hunts were being lead in a larger scale. During this period the main aim was to capture pilot whales as prized attractions for the Taiji Whale Museum. Thus, the dolphin drive was purely for profit, having nothing to do with cultural history. As some local fishermen might claim (Whiting, 2014, para. 6). In Taiji in Japan, it is notoriously known for it’s annual dolphin hunting drive…

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    scale, the distribution of many large marine apex predators, such as dolphins from the family Delphinidae, is highly dependent on large-scale physical environmental…

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    Ningaloo Reef Case Study

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    1. Identify ten organisms from your chosen ecosystem and draw a food web to show trophic interactions between them. Within this food web, you must include and label a decomposer. Ten organisms that live in the Ningaloo Reef include the bottlenose dolphin, loggerhead turtle, tiger shark, whale shark, Southern Calamari squid, jellyfish, zooplankton, dugong, phytoplankton and seagrass. The decomposer in this food web is bacteria, which works to further break down the dead organic matter in the…

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