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    Whaling

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    the whale could face extinction‚ I only found out the other day that there are an estimated 5000 whales killed every year. Firstly once you have killed a whale it takes a longer time to replace it‚ when females have babies every 1 to 3 years and they are pregnant with the baby from 10 months for a smaller whale and for the bigger whales 16 months‚ so if people just keep on taking and taking it is going to take longer for all whale species to repopulate. Secondly the way the whales are

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    English Exposition Whale hunting must be stopped! Imagine your swimming in the ocean‚ minding your own business. Then‚ suddenly‚ something sharp hits you. It enters your body and explodes. The pain is killing but it does not kill you‚ not yet. Again a sharp object hits you and explodes. Again and again you are hit. Your enormous body‚ however‚ does not give up that easily. It will take more than a half an hour to get unconscious. Maybe‚ if you are lucky‚ you will drown. Perhaps you will be dragged

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    Whaling Persuasive Essay

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    hunt and kill whales? What’s the point? Well many people do it to survive and make money‚ is that such a bad thing? There are three million whales left in the world and only 1‚500 are killed each year and decreasing. Whales are used for food‚ business‚ and most parts of the whales are used for essential materials. Most people believe that whaling should be illegal everywhere because it is destroying the population soon to be endangered ruining the food chain‚ however nothing on the whale is getting

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    Whale hunting‚ or whaling‚ has been a famed Japanese tradition for numerous years. The industrial whaling the country is known for nowadays was set up just after the Second World War. The Japanese economy ad collapsed and food and resources were scarce. It was no other than General Douglas MacArthur who came up with the idea of commercializing the wale hunt. The method used by the Japanese until that time were out-dated‚ the fishermen still used nets and small harpoons. With two military tankers

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    Writer’s Statement For my text production I chose to compose an expository piece (informative speech) called ‘No-way out of Norway’ after I was inspired by the novel‚ Moby Dick and its negative description of whales as ‘monstrous beings’. My overall intention in writing my piece for Australian conservationists was to uncover the truth behind the Norwegian whaling industry‚ an industry readily overlooked in favour of the more brutal Japanese traders. The intended audience of my piece was people

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    Recently 333 Minke whales were killed; 103 males and 230 females- most of which pregnant. It was claimed they were killed for scientific purposes (Price). This is a big deal because the Japanese do not see any harm in what they are doing. Japan’s whaling

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    The Whaling Issue

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    4. Whaling Issue I don’t agree with the Norwegian or Japanese position regarding non-endangered species of whales as a culture exemption. Many nations have strange habit and culture is the reason for that‚ so we can accept and respect other’s culture as long as it doesn’t affect on something that could make a problem for others. Today we can hear about annual celebration for some Iranian people all over the world‚ and that is a sad day for them‚ so they start to hit them self’s tell they bleed in

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    not a market for it in the whaling countries (Japan‚ Norway‚ and Iceland)‚ to the fact that it is causing many species of whales to the verge of extinction. There is an organization called the Sea Shepherd that hunts down the Japanese whale hunting fleet. The Sea Shepherd’s crew has developed tactics and uses sheer force to stop the Japanese from whaling over their quota of whales. The paper discusses how companies go about capturing marine animals for public display‚ and goes over how they make money

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    Animal Communication

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    Animal Communication: Whales vs Elephants Unlike humans‚ animals do not have a complex language system‚ but they do in fact have their own means of communication. Their main purpose is for survival and some may not even be aware they are doing it. The two mammals I chose to compare are whales and elephants and their reasons for communicating and channels of communication. Some reasons for communicating may include procreation‚ dominance and territorial rights‚ food‚ and alarms. Channels of communication

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    describes‚ was of a day she had as a child when she went whale-watching with her parents and brother. She narrates the beginning of the day as an uneventful family outing where they had a mediocre lunch and were unsuccessful at spotting any whales. However‚ eventually they see a mother “humpbackwhale and her “calf”‚ and this is when the woman begins to use this memory as an association to her present sorrows. The woman observes the two whales and illustrates her experience‚ “The mother left her head

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