Whaling

This documentary follows a young group of activists who study the lives of dolphins, whales, porpoises, and other marine mammals. The group goes travels around the world and goes to the area’s where they are slaughtering these animals for food and other resources. The film speaks of how it’s not the fact that killing them for food is not the reason to alert the world but the sole fact in the way that they do it. These people slaughter the mammals by luring them into this certain area called “the…

Earlier in the day on October 21, My very good lady friend Julia was having a party at her house in Warson Woods for her birthday. She’s a daughter of a successful doctor in Saint Louis. She was the typical preppy Villa girl all coiled up in Daddy’s money. She invited All of us SLUH boys in my group over to her party. We were all ready to blow off a tremendous amount of steam from our stressful of first quarter midterms. That week composed of sleepless nights, endless supply of Redbull, and…

were they to get to close. So they have to circle around the island for days until they finally find a place that they can land. Their journey is not over however. They still had to cross the treacherous terrain of the island in order to reach a whaling station. This had never been done before, and yet after three of the men were selected to make the trek and spent days of climbing almost vertical cliffs and sliding down 2,000 foot drops they reached their destination. They looked completely…

Reverend Herman Melville, known for being one of America’s greatest writers through his masterpiece Moby-Dick, has written several other pieces as well, which are not recognized, but set a significant image of how the world is portrayed. An example of a piece of Melville’s work which has a powerful image is Bartleby the Scrivener. The story is about a scrivener known as Bartleby, who works in a law office and refuses to take upon tasks. He continuously refuses which eventually drives the lawyer…

Animal Rights: A Movement in the United States of America The main goal of this research paper is to describe the content and evaluate the impact of the United States of American Animal Rights movement. Although this social movement I will mostly call “animal rights,” it is well within the whole spectrum of the animal liberation movement, such as animal welfare etc. “Animal rights” has a very specific meaning, as one of the many possible approaches that signifies protection for animals. There…

A major finding in this country report was the following: In recent years Mexico has experienced economic growth and overall quality of life for its citizens has improved but it is still short of being fully developed country. It was also found that the United States and Mexico have increasingly close ties whether it be social politically, or economically. With a Mexican population of about 33.5 million living in the United States (The World Factbook), having knowledge on one’s neighbors and…

Animal Rights has been a controversial topic for thousands of years. They date back to the Romans and Greeks in the sixth century BC. The belief for the inalienable rights of animals has been both fought for and fought against by many around the world. Some groups of people are very strong in these beliefs and take major actions to get the attention of society. Regardless of beliefs, animal testing and animal rights are important issues that should be recognized as such. One of the first…

an affair (if I understand their story correctly). They got into a huge fight the day my dad had to leave to go overseas to ____. Dad left while they were screaming at each other leaving both mom and me standing in the doorway of the house. I was whaling from all the…

Years before Herman Melville crafted his famous novel, Moby Dick, Edgar Allan Poe published his very own novel which deals with sea exploration; it is titled, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Interestingly enough, Poe, himself, was not too happy with his novel, he describes to William E. Burton in a letter, that his novel is “a very silly book” (“Edgar Allan Poe to…”). Within the novel, Poe (or supposedly, Pym) writes about a long and tragic sea expedition, an expedition which at…

"Aries remember do not make friends with any one less that pure blood!" Aurora Clayton's voice rang through the young girl's ears as she ventured onto the Hogwarts express next to her older brother; Perseus. "Hey Percy what's the sorting like?" Aries Clayton said as she looked around for someone her age, as they passed a few compartments, Perseus suddenly stopped. "It's nothing Ari, trust me. Go find friends or something I'm leaving to go and find mine." Perseus said, while ruffling his black…