interest about all of the sea life there. As you walk in the entrance‚ you are filled with complete and utter joy. So much joy‚ you can barely hold your mother’s hand. You marvel at the sea lions and dolphins but what you really want to see is the Killer Whales. This specific creature is what sparked your interest in the first place and you’re finally sitting in your seat‚ awaiting the right of passage not many get to experience. The trainer comes on the speaker and you just feel jubilation wash over
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and the many incidents involving the killer whales and trainers. Cowperthwaite’s purpose is to inform the audience how the whales are treated horribly and persuade the audience to boycott SeaWorld. She adopts a dramatic‚ gloomy tone in order to convey her audience the idea that SeaWorld is an inhumane place to keep killer whales. Cowperthwaite begins her film by incorporating real life tragedies that occurred at SeaWorld and interviewing experts on whales and former trainers employed by SeaWorld
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Verjine Tarkhanian English 101 Prof. Hamalian November 12‚ 2014 Essay: Blackfish The documentary film Blackfish which we saw in our class‚ was very interesting and scary. The documentary was based on a true story of a killer whale killing its trainer of many years. Till this day no know will ever know what clicked in that mammals head to turn against its trainer the way that it did. When looking at the film‚ it shows mostly the dangerous side of the mammal and how it was captured at such a
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Points)|How is captivity affecting the overall health of marine animals| Research(2 Points)|1. Health conditions of a healthy whale2. Living conditions of a whale in the wild3. Living conditions of a whale in captivity.| Hypothesis(4 Points)|If put and kept into captivity‚ the mental and/or physical health of the killer whale could be negatively affected. | Procedure (4 Points)|1. With background research‚ or with experience of your own collect information on the habits of a whale in its natural
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artifact where persuasion is working at its best. Blackfish is a documentary that was released in 2013 by Gabriela Cowperthwaite. This documentary tells the story of killer whales in captivity‚ with a large portion of the story surrounding Tilikum. Tilikum is an orca that has severely hurt or killed several trainers while in captivity. The documentary’s website states that the film aims to‚ “challenge us to consider our relationship to nature and reveals how little we humans have learned from these
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One of the animals that the film focuses on are killer whales‚ also known as orcas‚ which are massive animals that like to swim for miles a day not just in circles which is what they do at SeaWorld. After watching Blackfish‚ I hope viewers are as sickened as I was and vow to never go. The documentary‚ Blackfish‚ produced in 2013 and directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite argues that killer whales should not be kept in restricted areas. Keeping killer whales in confined spaces causes psychological problems
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“Killer” Whales Over thirty years and three deaths have occurred at the marine park SeaWorld‚ Keltie Byrne‚ Dawn Brancheau‚ and Daniel P. Dukes. The media blew up about the aggressive behaviors of the whales; killing innocent trainers. SeaWorld San Antonio alone is responsible for fourteen deaths of Orcas in the past thirty years. Where is the media’s articles for the deaths of Winnie‚ Kahana and Kortar? Three orcas of the fourteen that have died in the care of SeaWorld’s facility. There are two
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about their mistreatment to orca whales. The Seaworld theme park promises‚ an educative experience throughout several performances and aquariums exhibiting the exotic marine species. But is these what they truly offer? Even though‚ Seaworld spectacles have come to the attention of former trainers and biologist about the inadequate treatment the orca’s and other marine species are getting when they are offstage. The problem lies in the animal abuse that the orca whales are going through
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want. If Seaworld is to continue with these actions and brings in more animals from the wild it could possibly lead to the extinction of some species. SeaWorld was but on the deaths of Orcas. In 1965 the first ever Orca performance was held. The whale that performed was a female Orca named Shamu. When Shamu was still just a baby she was captured and taken from her parents. During her capture though her mother was killed by a man named Ted Griffin using a harpoon. Ted worked for SeaWorld in capturing
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Male pups weight 5.4 kg at birth and then grow to 175-275 kg. Female pups weigh 4.5 kg at birth and grow to 30-50 kg. Population/Lifespan 1 Million but the population is decreasing due to people hunting the seals and their predators such as killer whales and sharks. They live from 12 to 30 years. Range They travel throughout the Pacific rim from Japan to the channel islands of California. Habitat Fur seals live mostly in open water. They only go on land for pupping and breeding. They are only
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