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Dolphins Persuasive Speech
STATEMENT OF INTENTION- Targeted at everyone who doesn't know about the mass killing of dolphins to emprise the idea of how cruel and dangerous it is and raise awareness. When you hear the word "dolphins'" you think of a friendly, playful and cute marine mammal that everyone loves, and nobody would never hurt. The cold hard reality is that thousands of these friendly, playful, and cute animals are being slaughtered as you read this. These dolphins are killed in an extremely cruel and barbaric way by the Japanese, which consequently results in the possible extinction of dolphins. Meaning that countless activists are taking action to expose this terrible practice. The method that the Japanese use to capture and kill the dolphins is highly inhumane and cruel. The Japanese use the dolphins' strengths against them and turn them into weakness, enabling them to be an easy kill. For example, dolphins' …show more content…
Because the Japanese are exceedingly secretive of this practice, it's almost impossible to witness the action first hand. For example, in the documentary "The Cove" when Ric O'Barry and his crew first came to the cove they're interrupted by local police and fisherman who attempt the block the cameras and phones with their body and then proceed to treat Ric and his crew with intimidation and anger. The locals do this because they can't legally hide and remove people from the premises unless they do something wrong, in this case, become provoked. So they had to sneak into the cove/lagoon with a special ops crew and high-tech equipment to plant hidden cameras and microphones around the area. The team then exposed this to the members of the International Whaling Commission on live television. The documentary was filmed in 2007 and released in 2009 , nearly 7 years ago. Even after this it has hardly achieved

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