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    The Audobon Zoo

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    THE AUDUBON ZOO‚ 1993 The Audubon Zoo is located in New Orleans‚ Louisiana and is a 501(3)(c) non-profit organization. In 1914 the Audubon Commission was created to maintain and develop Audubon Park. In 1919 the Audubon Institute was established as the parent agency. Over the next several decades many changes would occur including the addition of a monkey cage‚ mammal cage and a deer paddock. Louisiana school children purchased the first elephant in 1924 and shortly thereafter an aquarium and

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    To Zoo or Not to Zoo?

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    To Zoo or Not to Zoo? Zoos have been around for hundreds of years and have been enjoyed by millions and millions of people. All around the world‚ zoos provide the public with the chance to see and learn about rare animals. For decades‚ there has been much debate about whether or not zoos should exist. Some people argue that zoos are inhumane and should be closed. However‚ zoos are necessary because they provide us with invaluable knowledge and teach us about the world we live in. As far back as

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    Dillard Audubon

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    John James Audubon and Annie Dillard both describe the flights of the flocks of birds the see‚ incorporating their feelings about the experience into their observations. Audubon approaches his flock’s peculiarity with a methodical and scientific view and is mostly amazed with the unusualness of the pigeons but Dillard’s experience of watching the flock of starlings expresses a spiritual and sensational side of bird watching. Audubon firsts writes the place where he saw the pigeons: "in passing over

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    Audubon And Dillard

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    Prose and Poetry‚ Audubon and Dillard "What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are." That famous quote from the writer C. S. Lewis reveals the main difference between Annie Dillard’s and John James Audubon’s essays dealing with birds- their perspective. Dillard’s comes from that of a writer and a wordsmith‚ contrasting with Audubon’s of a noted scientist and ornithologist. In the passages‚ both are describing almost

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    Audubon And Annie Dillard

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    describe a large flock of birds in flight. The first passage is an excerpt from Ornithological Biographies‚ by John James Audubon‚ while the second passage is an excerpt from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard. Both passages have their similarities when describing a large flock of birds‚ but they also have their differences. Similarly‚ both passages‚ by John James Audubon and Annie Dillard‚ recounted an experience each author had in the past. Each story gives an overall view on the same topic

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    Zoos

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    Zoos A zoo is a facility in which animals are kept in confined spaces or enclosures‚ displayed to the public and can be bred. Other names for a zoo are zoological park‚ zoological garden and a menagerie. Zoos around the world cause concern for animal rights‚ which is a problem because zoos normally keep wild animals rather than domestic ones. It is believed that zoo’s began around 3500BC‚ which is when the oldest zoological park is recorded. The oldest known zoological collection was revealed

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    Zoos

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    We are no longer need to have animals kept in zoos‚ so zoos should be closed. Do you agree or disagree? There has long been an argument against maintaining zoos in which animails are kept away from their natural habitat. I totally do not agree with that statement with many benefits that zoos may bring to animal life in particular and to our society in general‚ as will now be argued. First of all‚ one of the principal purposes of zoos is that it may allow children and adults to see animals

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    Audubon and Dillard A small child views a painting‚ giggling to his mother how it looks like an elephant soaring throughout the galaxy. An hour later a middle age man views the exact painting only to acknowledge the abstract painting as a collage of miscellaneous shapes and colors. This view is much like the comparison between John James Auburn and Annie Dillard passages‚ revealing opposite and similar aspects on the subject of birds. Auburn’s passage inhabits a sense of seriousness and monotone

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    Zoos

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    Should animals be kept in captivity at zoos? or should they be out in the wild where they live? Today‚ I will tell you about the pros and the cons of keeping wild animals in zoos. Today more and more people are becoming aware of the truth behind working of zoos. Zoo is short for "zoological garden". A zoological garden is a place where living animals are kept and exhibited. Zoos have been around since 1500 B.C. Its purpose has changed with time. Originally‚ owning and displaying exotic animals

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    Zoos

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    Are Zoo’s Good or Bad? Zoos serve as an attraction to people. They are accepted as useful and entertaining amenities‚ which are seen as educational. Children love seeing animals and a visit to the zoo has always been a treat. However‚ we should consider if the zoo is beneficial to people or harmful to animals. It’s cruel to leave animals caged up day in and day out not living in their natural habitats. Zoo animals are kept in enclosures that don’t allow them to live their lives in a natural

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