CONSIDER THE LOBSTER The enormous‚ pungent‚ and extremely well-marketed Maine Lobster Festival is held every late July in the state’s midcoast region‚ meaning the western side of Penobscot Bay‚ the nerve stem of Maine’s lobster industry. What’s called the midcoast runs from Owl’s Head and Thomaston in the south to Belfast in the north. (Actually‚ it might extend all the way up to Bucksport‚ but we were never able to get farther north than Belfast on Route 1‚ whose summer traffic is‚ as you
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Escape From the Cave In his article “Consider the Lobster”‚ David Foster Wallace pointed out that the lobsters would suffer pain if cooked alive on the basis of many scientific materials about the lobster that announced by different organizations‚ trying to figure out if it is moral to cook the lobsters alive. Although he fell in an ethical dilemma at last‚ just as most people‚ struggling between the moral problem and the selfish interest in eating certain kinds of animal‚ he did not evade querying
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Consider the Lobster Analytical Summary W131 Summer Work David Foster Wallace begins his article‚ Consider the Lobster‚ by describing the annual Maine Lobster Festival. He goes in to detail of the drive there‚ the events held there‚ what kind of people attend‚ and so on and so forth. While a good portion of this piece of text is about this event‚ his intentions were to focus on the treatment of the lobsters. He makes you think about what these creatures have to go through in order for this seemingly
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Methods To determine the principals of osmoregulation‚ we sampled two lobsters from each tank and there were three different tanks which the water ranged in salinity. The experiment is to determine whether the six lobsters tested are osmoregulators or osmoconformers‚ this is done by obtaining a sample of hemolymph. The first step of the lab is to prepare the needle and syringe that will be taking the hemolymph. The syringe size was 1 ml‚ and the intention is to collect between 0.5 and 1.0 ml
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Nijhuis explains how technology has led to the important moral issue of whether or not to focus on saving one species at the cost of ignoring another and let it fall victim to extinction. David Foster Wallace’s article “Consider the Lobster” deals with the Maine Lobster Festival and shows how technology has led
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squares that layer McCain that whether he’s truly "for real" now depends is CONSIDER less on what is in his THE LOBSTER heart than on what might be in yours. Try to stay awake. 2000 THE pungent. ENORMOUS‚ and extremely well-marketed Maine Lobster Festival is held every late July in the state’s midcoast region‚ meaning the western side of Penobscot Bay‚ the nerve stem of Maine’s lobster industry. What’s called the midcoast runs from Owl’s Head and Thomaston in the south to Belfast in the north
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obvious‚ lobsters. Although‚ in the first few passages the author talks about how smelly the Main Lobster Festival is‚ how hot the weather was‚ how long the lines were‚ and discusses lobster biology in great detail; with this start to his article you think you are going to read only about this festival and what it all entails. Almost like it is an advertisement to get people to show up. Instead‚ to my mind‚ Wallace’s purpose for his article was to get people to think about the lobsters‚ what they
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Questions 1. How has the catch of lobsters changed over the past 15 years in the state of Maine? The amount of lobsters caught has almost tripled compared to 15 years ago. 56.7 million pounds. 2. What does Walter Day suggest needs to be done to keep the industry flourishing? Walter said‚ “just let us do what we’ve been doing‚ and otherwise let us alone.” 3. What are shorts? Lobster that are small to keep. 4. What are eggers? Females carrying masses of roe on their underbellies. 5. How
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3. If the question of whether lobsters are in pain is difficult to decide‚ why don’t we stop cooking them alive until we are certain of the answer? Is it alright to inflict pain on animals simply because we prefer the taste when they are cooked that way? What is it about these kinds of accepted practices that makes people continue to do them without really thinking about the ethical concerns? I personally don’t like lobsters‚ and I would never go out of my way to eat them. That being said‚ I’m
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In Consider the Lobster‚ David Foster Wallace discusses whether or not it is humane to boil lobsters alive just for people’s gustatory pleasure. Wallace’s attention is directed to people who read the Gourmet Magazine‚ such as higher class people who are interested in knowing what their eating and how it’s prepared. He uses various appeals to engage his audience‚ convince them into believing his argument and earn credibility. He goes into depth about the Maine Lobster Festival specifically to inform
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