the situation is understandable‚ due to already having previous knowledge of the problem. In the story elephant crackup? The author‚ Charles Siebert‚ explains the similarity between an elephant and a human. He expresses that an elephant is practically a bigger version of a human. Their brain and emotional state is quite similar to that of a human. On page 355 it was stated that “When an elephant dies‚ its family members engage in intense mourning and burial rituals‚ conducting week long vigils over
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better their own lives. Humanitarian authors such as Charles Siebert‚ Karen Armstrong‚ and Oliver Sacks each demonstrate different
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In Seneca’s essay “On Noise” the reader initially encounters a hypothetical array of distractions that the speaker has set forth in order to prove a point. In this essay‚ the speaker discusses two types of distractions: external distractions that detract from one’s senses‚ and internal distractions that detract from one’s sense of reason. The speaker goes back and forth between the distractions discussing the various effects of each type. In “On Noise” Seneca illustrates that in order for one
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An Elephantine Analysis In Charles Siebert’s article The Elephant Crackup‚ the author employs a nuanced and compelling rhetorical strategy that seamlessly integrates firsthand narratives‚ expert opinions‚ and emotional appeals to shed light on the profound consequences of human exploitation on elephants. Through the deliberate use of linguistic choices‚ comparisons to human tragedies‚ and a careful balance of ethos‚ pathos‚ and logos‚ Siebert effectively engages the reader‚ emphasising the urgent
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In “An Elephant Crackup?”‚ Charles Siebert partly attributes the belligerence of the recent generations of elephants‚ the animals considered to be among the most intelligently advanced‚ to the lack of a matriarch‚ a powerful female figure. He takes an example of the case of the last elephant survivors at Queen Elizabeth National Park‚ where the elderly female elephant was the one who “gathered the survivors together from their various hideouts”‚ “led them back out as one group”‚ and “held the group
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“A Process of Breaking Down” Julia Greenburger 1/9/13 The Crack up‚ an essay by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ is an elaborate description and analysis of the mental break down the author experienced and the depths of its causes. After a life of struggling to succeed and failing multiple times‚ he suddenly reconsiders why he needs to succeed at all and whether it is what he really wants. Fitzgerald’s breaking down was a process of losing all
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The drinking age has been something that has changed a lot throughout the United States history. There’s been a debate for years whether the drinking age should stay at age 21 or be lowered to 18 or even lower. Medical research shows that when your 21 your brain is fully matured‚ thus that being the reason the legal drinking age is 21. With that fact‚ though‚ there does seem some injustice to it‚ some rights that we as Americans feel we should have at age 18. The legal drinking age should be lowered
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African Americans‚ but also for the LGBT community and women. With the emergence of America as a media savvy economic powerhouse post the World Wars‚ a tide sort of changed within the community of women. According to Sara Evans in the selection “Cracks in the Mold‚” women in the 1950s recognized they were somewhat limited to performing the dutiful tasks of motherhood‚ but many were outright no longer finding fulfillment in such rolls (176). Evans describes the complexities of sexism in the United
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The most thought provoking read from the selection was “Crick Crack” by Merle Collins. Interweaved within her poem are lessons- from those lessons the reader is afforded the opportunity to learn from Collins. Collins alludes to the history of Africa in the final stanza of her poem with “until lions have their own historians‚ they say‚ tales of hunting will always glorify the hunter.” This is true in a since that when a person does not know their history they are targets of misinformation. Often we
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There have been questions regarding cocaine along the lines of “Aren’t crack cocaine and powder cocaine the same drug?” and the answer is yes. Do they result in the same penalties under the court of law if caught possessing such drugs? Well‚ in a way‚ both yes and no. The same penalties are given for the same conviction‚ however‚ both must meet different requirements in order for the same punishment to be given. So then what’s the difference between the two? Scientifically‚ there is no chemical difference
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