Essays on Animals Page 52

The ivory trade has been a catastrophic problem for elephants and other wildlife for decades. Despite efforts to stop it, the trade in ivory continues to be a lucrative industry that is fueled by greed, corruption, and a lack of political will to put an end to it. Elephant poaching, in particular, has had devastating…

The short story, “Doe Season” written by David Michael Kaplan is about a young girl’s loss of innocence and hesitation towards womanhood. In this story, the protagonist, an eight year old girl joins in on a hunting trip with her father and some friends. During this trip, Andy learns that being one of the boys…

It Is Cruel To Keep Animals in Cages and Zoos Although many people think that animals get saved from dangers of wildlife If they are kept in zoos, in fact, this actually is making the animals’ life meaningless-?they have no freedom, no skills, no rights and even their life expectancy Is much shorter. Animals are…

“In 1953, a polio epidemic struck my suburb of DeWitt, NY In our first-grade classroom of twenty-four children, 8 children contracted the disease. My twin brother, Frankie, died.” These are the words of a polio survivor who lost her brother Frankie because of Polio at a young age in the 50s, Medical research involving animals…

In his short story titled simply ‘Elephant’, Raymond Carver focuses on the elephant both literally and figuratively. Literally, when the author used the word elephant as the title for his short story, he made me think of the narrator in the story as hardworking because elephants are hardworking creatures. The narrator works hard to earn…

Foreshadowing is a literary device used by W.W. Jacobs in “The Monkeys Paw” to give readers a hint of the horrifying ending of the short story. The events in The Monkey’s Paw provide foreshadowing, leading the reader to predict future events. One instance of foreshadowing occurs during a game of chess between the father and…

Nowadays, risks of health and the well-being of humans are becoming uncountable. This is mainly due to the consumption of the unhealthy processed food. GMO’s are genetically modified organisms that are mostly harmful for the human-being. Nowadays people are redirecting to the old habits of surviving on gardening and farming. They are said to reclaim…

I. Introduction My research proposal is to conduct research on the feasibility of vertical farming in local urban settings. My research will go over the cost of production and the cost running and maintaining of a vertical farm in the north Texas area. Vertical farming is the concept of building fields and orchards one on…

It has been twenty two years of my life, and I never seem to be able to find what I like about myself. What I am sure about though, is that I want to be an animal doctor. A veterinarian, who is able to help the animals around the world, and this, is probably the…

The potato, as Michael Pollen describes in The Botany of Desire, has been transformed through artificial selection from a small node to a well-nourishing potato. He attempts to analysis the spud from his New Leaf potato garden from the perspective of the plant while all the while entertaining the idea that plants and people have…