Reality Of Sharks: Reflection By Brette Ana

Reality of Sharks Reflection By:Brette An This Found Literature Project is a prose about sharks. In today’s world, sharks are depicted as deadly predators that attack humans and helpless animals. The stereotypes of sharks frequently attacking people are false. Ironically, humans kill more sharks then sharks do. Although sharks inflict major damage ranging from missing limbs to death, these shark attacks rarely occur. In contrast, people kill 100 million sharks yearly. In reality, sharks need help from humans and are important creatures to maintain the ecosystems in the oceans. This prose is meant to create more awareness for the misconceptions about sharks and to help stop killing sharks. For this project, I used over 10 sources (including: movies,
My prose first focused on the stereotypes and misconceptions about sharks. The writing then transitioned to describe the dangers sharks face by humans and why sharks need to be preserved. I chose to structure my found literature in this specific format in order to juxtapose the misunderstanding and the reality of sharks. Moreover, there were some specific placements and modifications I made while creating the found literature. For instance, I chose to specifically place the Jaws quotes and Herman Manville’s thoughts in early lines to give readers a taste of the sensationalized material about sharks. This heightens my main point of sharks being misunderstood and that many people don’t realize the importance of sharks. Additionally, I was going to choose the line “Do we want the destruction of sharks and the oceans to be the legacy of our children?” from the website sharksavers.org. Instead, I chose the line “It is important to remember also, that mankind will extinct when sharks disappear.” in order to place more emphasis of saving sharks. This sentence seems to be significant since it stated that mankind wouldn’t survive without