Shark finning

“Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim” says Vicki Harrison, the author of Dressed to Thrill. Learning to swim is something that almost anyone can accomplish. Much like swimming in the ocean, no matter how overwhelming it can become, everyone can learn to cope with their grief. For the main character in A Christmas Carol, however, he strives to take on his grief without learning…

attacked by a mako shark. Being destroyed means only losing something small, such as losing a battle. Being defeated, however, means losing something large, such as losing a war. In the context of the novel, Santiago is destroyed because he loses the first fish that he caught after eighty-four days. However, Santiago did not lose the war, because he did not die after being alone at sea for three days without sufficient supplies and medical care. He survived the multiple shark attacks, and…

few species suffer the same peril that the sharks of our oceans do. Sharks are the apex predators of our waters, and if we continue our ways we run the risk of threatening our entire oceanic food chain. One may ask how this has become such a real possibility, and the answer is both simple and disturbing – shark finning. The act of shark finning is gruesome, shocking, and extremely wasteful. When a shark is caught, all of its fins are sliced off and the shark is dumped overboard, often still…

Swimming with the Sharks Weddings are one of the most important events in a person’s life. It is the day one will finally marry the person they truly love and spend the rest of their life with them, yet this thought alone sometimes is not enough to satisfy the excitement of the night, and people wish to make their weddings and honeymoons more interesting than the rest. Judy and Jason Lau, from Canada, decided on swimming with sharks for their honeymoon, but this unusual choice was not just for…

Impact on the Ocean’s Ecosystem As sharks are commonly apex predators or tertiary consumers, the act of killing for shark fin soup has many ecological implications that can determine the health of the ocean’s ecosystem. Sharks provide many necessary behaviors and instincts that help maintain the ocean’s ecosystem. With this in mind, they have a large impact on the tropic levels of the ocean’s ecosystem as they have an adverse relationship with small species that help maintain the support the…

biologists and filmmakers who took it upon themselves to stop the injustices of illegal overfishing. This inspired me to learn more about what I could do to stop this problem. Since then I have signed petitions on specific overfishing issues such as shark finning. I was able to use my voice to stand up for what I know is right. I believe that if government officials understood the significance of this issue they would make it a priority to solve the problems of overfishing. I know I have the…

Junior year. Preparing to give my first speech to the other students in my public speaking class, who were all strangers to me. I wasn’t prepared at all, but I knew it had to be done. I stared down at my outline, reading it over and planning the speech in my head one last time before I had to deliver it to the class. I felt my hands begin to shake and my palms sweat as the teacher called my name to go next. I had never been good at talking in front of people, even if they were people I’d known…

Ontiveros 1 Giana Ontiveros Honors English 10 Period 4 13 March 2016 Hunting destroys animals Fingers wrapped around the trigger ready to fire at any moment. One eye looking through the scope observing a brown haired dear with long legs. Passionately waiting for the right moment to fire. “Bang! Bang!” the dear has been shot down and is left with a whole through its chest. For many generations hunting has been a part of people’s lives. Our ancestors hunted so they can feed themselves…

of intrigue, but undeserving of protection. This explains, in part, humankinds excessive exploitation and destruction of these vital and vulnerable habitats, through "ocean acidification, massive overfishing, bottom trawling, deep-sea mining, shark finning, and decades of dumping toxic and radioactive waste into the oceans" (Alaimo 235). While the Beowulf characters were by no means paragons of virtue, they seem to view the abyss with a begrudging respect for the dangerous and diverse sea life…