Controversy: Ringling Bros And Barnum And Bailey Circus

Philip Pagan
Professor Daniel
Eng 122-1K
2 January 2017
Practice Essay

Did you hear? Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus, as well as a vast variety of other forms of animal entertainment, are either shut down or in the midst of doing so. This is due to the events that have happened in the past few decades involving these types of recreation, from the death of competitive swimmer Keltie Byrne that the past away in 1991 after being submerged under water and dragged around a tank by three orcas, all the way to 2016 wherein a Cincinnati zoo a gorilla name Harambe was ultimately shot and killed due to a baby falling into its enclosure. Whether it is an animal dying or a person these events are changing the minds of the populous that go and
To begin, these are places in which people meet and interact with each other. Yes, people can meet and interact with people pretty much anywhere but places like this especially circuses are a magical place in itself as brought up in Local Couple with Ties to Ringling Bros. Sad about the End by Leader-Telegram express that while in preparation for being a part of the circus many relationships had formed, just the same, when it was time for people to leave it was the same as losing a loved one (The Leader-Telegram, 2). Even though this is not about the animals and how they are treated it is important to understand what it means to be a part of the circus and what is lost when the circus is taken away. Alongside this, is the knowledge in which people gain while attending these events, mostly zoos. Many people will not leave the stated that they were born and raised in and this restricts them from being able to see these majestic creatures up front and personal. As stated by Green Garage they not only allow people of all ages to come and visit and inspect these animals but on top of that it allows research teams to study these animals at a safe distance and get info on them to better their health and teach us what we can do to their increase survival rates in the
(Par. 2)” This is a verse from a poem entitled The Panther by Rainer Maria Rilke describing the life of a panther that is locked within a cage for the use of entertainment. We will now be discussing the negative aspects of animals being used for entertainment purposes and why this will be the downfall of this wide span of businesses. To begin, stated in Green Garage’s blog about pros and cons of having zoo animals, when they are enclosed in these containers they will start to develop mental and physical health conditions, the natural born behaviors in which specific animals have will become altered due to not being able to execute a normal day as if they were in the wild, even though zoos can be used as educational means not only do many people ignore that fact but critics find it somewhat of a jokes that that still try to pawn that off to consumers as a reason to go and visit zoos. On top of that many zoos are not able to keep their place clean and not only does that affect the pull of visitors coming in which will lead to them not being able to pay for the right equipment to care for the animals. As well if they can not keep the park clean then how are the cells of the animal being up kept? (Par. 7). These points that were touched upon are very crucial in realising that the main purpose of zoos are not being used the way they were intended to, as well as revealing the harm that happens to the