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is very common for shark-fin soup to be served in traditional Chinese weddings, but this shark fin soup is the cause for most of shark finning,…

Introduction To introduce what ethics is, let's start with two types of behaviours which are legal and ethical respectively. In other words, the action that is permitted by law doesn't necessary mean ethical, vice versa. In addition, ethics refer to morality which is codes of conducts consisted of personal values, social norms, or cultural customs that divide what is right and wrong in the human society. Furthermore, there are two opposite in applied ethics which are Utilitarianism and…

entanglement in commercial fishing nets, (Shark Threats, 2017). Over the years climate change has dramatically affected sharks, and that is why many species have already gone extinct. Furthermore, thousands of sharks are killed each year, just for their fins…

Striped bass eat a variety of foods, including fish such as alewives, flounder, sea herring, menhaden, sand lance, silver hake, tomcod, smelt, silversides and eels, as well as lobsters, crabs, soft clams, small mussels, sea worms and squid. The largest bass in Texas was caught on the Brazos river and it was 53 pounds. Stripped bass inhabit coastal waters up to 10 kilometers from shore and are often found in bays. In spring, they migrate to freshwater rivers and lakes to spawn. There are also…

angelfish are one of the most beautiful and colorful reef fish. Description The queen angelfish has a thin body, a rounded head, and a beak-like mouth. They have two, long, fins that drape behind them, two fins under their bodies, one fin on either side of their bodies, and one dorsal fin on the top of their bodies. All of their fins are yellow and their faces are yellow with some thick, blue stokes, and their bodies are blue with tiny yellow dots on them. They sometimes have light purple and…

and death. Also, Dr. Ginneken says that less than 1% of orcas in the wild have collapsed dorsal fins, but in captivity, all male orcas have collapsed dorsal fins, due to stress and the lack of space. Collapsed dorsal fins are caused by the orca slowly ‘circle-swimming’, instead of straight and fast like they would in the wild. Out of captivity, the pressure of the quick-moving water keeps the dorsal fin upright, but when in captivity, it has no support. This proves that orcas are better off in…

A Killer Whale’s dorsal fin is located in the middle of their back and it does not have a bone, but instead is made up of tissue called collagen. It is a vital part of them because it helps them make sharp turns quick and allows them to ventilate the warm air and water away from…

their mark through writing during the fin de siècle era. Women contributing to the world of literature resulted in many social and cultural changes such as the disintegration of defined gender roles, the feminist movement, and the civil rights movement. Around the same time of the fin de siècle movement, the feminist and civil rights movements had also begun. According to Parliament, the civil rights movement began in 1897 with the establishment of National…

Sharkwater Sharkwater is an interactive documentary that was directed by Rob Stewart. Rob Stewart’s presence is prominent throughout the film. There are scenes of him swimming with sharks, interviewing people, and he narrates the entire film. He travels to Costa Rica and the Galapagos Islands to show us that sharks aren’t the deadly creatures we make them out to be, yet over one hundred billion are killed annually. The thesis of this film is clear when Stewart says how, “the one animal we…

allegations have a long history in Europe. Particularly during the fin de siecle, anti-Jewish sentiments had increasingly found themselves to be in vogue, as much of the European population viewed the Jews as their misfortune. This notion was further agitated by the press running sensationalized stories that villainized the Jewish population. This paper will examine the extent to which the rise and vitality of Anti-Semitism during the fin de siecle in Europe was due to the use of anti-Semitic…