Greetings‚ thank you all for being here today. I would like to introduce myself. My name is Faidah Manishimwe‚ but you can call me Faidah. The purpose of my talk today is about Koro (pai’s grandfather‚ the village chief). This oral presentation will discuss the cultural issues which Koro had with his community as he was a chief who faced many issues and I will compare them to my own situation. Issue 1 As Koro was getting older he became worried about his community and the fact it might collapse
Premium Gender Male Female
Some 18-thousand dolphins’ porpoise are killed each year off Northern Japan. Permits to kill three thousand dolphins and small whales off the main island of Honshu are in effect. Most of the dolphins taken are slaughtered for meat. An increasing number are taken and shipped to oceanaria‚ mostly in Asia. The recent studies extremely high levels of contaminants such as mercury‚ cadmium and PCBs in dolphin meat has led some Japanese officials‚ concerned for the health of the citizenry‚ to an examination
Premium Cetacea Whale
The Whale’s Evolution Whales evolved from an ancestor that lived on land. That may be incredibly hard to believe‚ but we have a lot of information to lead to that conclusion. Land mammals and whales have a lot more in common than you may think. Land mammals have hair‚ a nasal opening by its snout‚ arms‚ legs‚etc‚ and DNA leading back to millions of years. Whales also have similar qualities to those of the land mammals. Whales weren’t always the whales we know today because long ago
Premium Evolution Natural selection Charles Darwin
result‚ animals can be damaged mentally and physically. Some animals who do not attack humans in the wild may start attacking humans in captivity. One example of this are killer whales. As said before‚ killer whales do not harm humans in the wild‚ but they do harm them in captivity. The reason for this is because the “whales are basically driven mad by their confined circumstances”
Premium The Animals Mammal Whale
Whale Rider Essay Notes Whale Rider Essay Notes How is Whale Rider a good example of a mythological story? * Based on a legend- A story from the past‚ believed to explain how the Maori people came to be in New Zealand. It is regarded as historical although not verifiable. It’s a modern interpretation of an ancient Maori myth. * Strong basis in the culture of Maori people- Myths support and strengthen culture and reinforce cultural values. * Voice-over- Paikea explaining the legend
Premium New Zealand Māori Culture
The physical abuse of orca whales remains a growing problem in today’s national SeaWorld parks. Physical abuse starts when orca whales are captured from the wild using horrendous methods that have ended in mass fatality for the whales in question. Zimmermann (2010) said “Griffin bought the 8‚000-pound animal for $8‚000. He towed the orca‚ which he named Namu‚ 450 miles back to Seattle in a custom-made floating pen. Namu’s family pod-20 to 25 orcas-followed most of the way” (p.5). This is said in
Premium
example of that person is Rob Stewart‚ the producer of the film‚ which were also accompanied by Paul Watson and the Sea Shepherd. The documentary was mainly about sharks‚ along with the secrets behind killing them (shark-fin soup industry)‚ the corrupt governments‚ and the perseverance one will need to accomplish their big goal of saving sharks whether if it means to have wrongly-accused of murder charges and life-threatening diseases. This documentary pointed out the fact that media isn’t always right
Premium Shark
5016 It’s the year 5016 and I’m afraid the world may be coming to an end. I’m Joe Bump and I have reasons to believe that my brother Bob Bump is trying to take over the world. Bob and I live underwater. This probably sounds crazy‚ but humans have evolved a great deal in the past 3‚000 years. We’ve been living underwater for as long I can remember. We used to get along just fine until... Gunner. Gunner is Bob’s pet eel and he is the ugliest creature I have ever seen in my life. I adopted a
Premium Ocean Fish Dolphin
The King of Sharks Who is the Protagonist and who is the Antagonist in the following short story? I think the protagonist is Nanave‚ the King Shark’s son and the antagonist is the chief of the village. How does the story let you know that one character is the protagonist and that another character is acting as the antagonist? The story lets me know that Nanave was the protagonist because the story was more focused on him. The story identified the antagonist when the chief of the village announced
Premium Character Protagonist Fiction
“all hopes of Proteus rising from the sea have sunk”. Also‚ Wordsworth said ‘Or hear old triton blow his wreathed horn’‚ whereas Cheng says “tritons notes struggle to be free. Also‚ ‘Neptune lies helpless as a beached whale’. The water is so polluted that gods come out like beached whales. This also shows how we have killed the gods. How they don’t have a say anymore because we have gone so far in damaging the world around us we don’t stop to look at what is happening. Cheng says ‘while insatiate man
Premium Poetry 2nd millennium 17th century