Bag Bane Of The Sea Rhetorical Analysis

The controversial documentary Blackfish, directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite rose to popularity four years ago in 2013, when it was released. Blackfish tells the stories of killer whales, or orcas, that were caught and kept in captivity, and the effects that arose due to their capture. The documentary focuses on Tilikum, an orca caught in 1983, who was kept in captivity in SeaWorld Orlando since his capture for 34 years. Blackfish does an excellent job in using all three rhetorical appeals, providing many real life examples and statistics, to defend their argument that orcas should never be captured or held in captivity.

Lars Eighner represents the thousands of homeless people that have simply fallen victim of financial struggles, holding strongly onto his respect for others, his community, and himself, despite the difficulties he faces. According to Eighner’s website, he spent time at the University of Austin, Texas studying creative writing, which is clear through his writing techniques and narrative style. However after falling on hard times, Eighner ended up homeless. While homeless in the late 80’s Eighner composed the essay “On Dumpster Diving.” It need not take long for one to find his purpose in writing the essay. Dumpster diving and homelessness are deeply connected to a notion of poor life choices, mental illness, and substance abuse. And while Eighner doesn’t deny that many people he encounters are “winos,” Eighner’s purpose is to represent dumpster diving, in sense, as an art; reclaiming homelessness as “a modern form of self reliance.”

Handicap is the step to success. When you overcome it, you are getting closer from the success. Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and The Sea describes the life of a old man whom had gone eighty-four days without taking a fish. One of the important themes of this book is hard work, hope and never gives up makes miracle happen. In order to develop this theme, Hemingway uses the literary and rhetorical devices of imagery and repetition.

Rhetorical Analysis of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle The Jungle, being a persuasive novel in nature, is filled with different rhetorical devices or tools used by Sinclair to effectively convey his message. Sinclair’s goal of encouraging change in America’s economic structure is not an easy feat and Sinclair uses a number of different rhetorical devices to aid him. Through his intense tone, use of periodic sentencing, descriptive diction and other tools of rhetoric, Upton Sinclair constructs a moving novel that makes his message, and the reasoning behind it, clear.Sinclair’s use of periodic sentences allows him to cram details and supporting evidence into his sentence before revealing his interpretation of the evidence. Take for example, “Here

This postcard builds suspense in the reader’s mind. Alex saying that this adventure could kill him makes the reader interested in finding out more. “If this adventure proves fatal and you don’t ever hear from me again I want you to know you’re a great man.” (Krakauer 3).

Not many people think about how immoral it is for us humans to take animals from the wild and hold them captive for entertainment. Captive animals are often deprived of everything that is natural and important to them, and they experience captivity-related health problems as a result.

SeaWorld has shone on the radar of public peruse and activist criticism since experiencing its first animal-motivated death on July 6th, 1999. The victim, 27-year-old Daniel P. Dukes, had ambiguously evaded park night-security and entered the Orca tank under the cover of darkness. He was found dead the next day, drowned; but although declaring Dukes’ primary cause-of-death as pulmonary edema, Orlando’s District Nine Medical Examination Office also detailed vivid lacerations and avulsions - specifically of the genitalia. The severity of Dukes’ mutilation beaconed the public to his attacker: Tilikum, the largest Orca ever to be held in captivity - and not one new to, or finished with, killing. In response to Tilikum’s violent and arguably tragic history, film director Gabriela Cowperthwaite organized an ambitious, journalistic undertaking to expose SeaWorld’s inhumanity to the public; this undertaking would eventually translate into the 2013 documentary, Blackfish. Blackfish is, at its core, a project of entertainment, so the 1 hour and 30 minute film extensively fuses artistic expression with factual evidence to persuade its audience into condemning SeaWorld and its conglomerates, as well as to stand with Blackfish in its battle against the organization for its abusive conduct.

Vann, who is a staff writer at The Atlantic, covers politics and policy. Over a decade long career, he has covered issues such as; policy, race, health care, and politics. The Atlantic is a well-known magazine, it is critically acclaimed for its writing and coverage. The audience of this essay was anyone who read the magazine, and anyone who wants to learn of the intertwined of The Civil Rights movement and the fight for healthcare for all in America. Mr. Newkirk tries to convince his audience that the fight for healthcare in this country is like the struggles faced by those who were fight for civil rights. He brings up the ‘plight’ Civil Rights leaders encountered to pass bills such as; Medicaid and Medicare. Additionally, he discussed how,

The purpose of this proposition is to give shoppers the option of which carryout bag they choose while remaining environmentally conscious about the use of plastic bags. Proposition 65 will stop retail stores from keeping the money collected from carryout bag taxes as profit and instead give the funds to environmental conservation efforts. Opposers of Prop 65 argue that this initiative is a distraction devised by the plastics industry to deceive voters into believing that allocating revenue from carryout bags to conservation efforts is enough to help the environment, when in actuality the use of plastic bags should be eradicated entirely. Additionally, opposers contend that Prop 65 will undermine retailers by requiring them to bear the cost

Another negative impact of plastic bags is that they are being consumed by organisms who primarily live in the ocean. In Sharon Jacobsen’s article, she also mentions how plastic bags are affecting marine life in a negative way. She gives the example of a dead turtle being found with a plastic bag hanging from its mouth, because it mistakenly mistook it as food. Other organisms end up being trapped in plastic bags causing them to drown, while other organisms cannot even digest their food because plastic bags cannot digest properly inside of them. Plastic bags are not only affecting land and oceans, but they are ultimately affecting marine biota. Luckily, the government has already taken steps towards minimizing plastic bag waste. In the article, “Hawaii Just Became the First State to Ban Plastic Bags at Grocery Checkouts” the author states, many grocery stores in the United States have already started charging customers for using plastic bags. Hawaii has already started banning plastic bags all together and customers are starting to bring their re-useable bags when they go shopping (Herreria). Therefore, we must take the extra step to ban all plastic bags to ensure plastic bag waste will no longer be a problem for future generations. Starting with a plastic bag tax is a step in the right

Picture this: A person goes out to the store to purchase a couple of necessities. Those necessities then get put into a plastic bag as per usual. They get home and take everything out of the bag. They then trash the bag because it is no longer needed. The plastic bag, then ends up in some landfill where it is blown away in the middle of the ocean. The plastic bag then goes on to danger the marine animals. Plastic bags should be banned from stores because there are other ways people can carry their things, they are dangerous to marine animals, and cause pollution.

The topic of banning the bag has been talked about across Australia for a while now as our waters become more and more polluted and our streets dirtier. However people are still clinging onto these plastic bags, fighting for them, even though they won’t look at the damage they’re causing. Plastic bags affect the environment the most. That includes ours and the many animals in the area. These plastic bags end up in our drains or floating around carparks, even ending up in our waters and lodged in the throats of poor turtles and birds. Plastic bags fill our landfill and take years to decompose meaning that we are producing and distributing more rubbish than we can get rid of. There is nothing to be proud of using plastic bags and it’s about time we, the nation agree on banning the bag.

One of the greatest injustices that we as citizens act upon every day is our environmental waste problem concerning plastic bags. With an estimation of 500 billion plastic bags being produced every year, about more than 300 million of them end up in the Atlantic Ocean. This is not including all of the other places they end up such as landfills, forests, and all over the streets of local communities. Recently, California has instituted a ban on plastic bags in an effort to reduce pollution in the state. With this ban, convenience stores are now required to charge customers 10 cents per each bag. Many residents have been outraged with this ban, expressing it is a total inconvenience for them and unnecessary. While there are many objections to this , the plastic bag ban will be very beneficial to our environment, since it will provide better air conditions, encourage people to start reusing and recycling more, and cause less harm to the ocean and its marine life.

The effects of plastic bags on the environment are really quite devastating. While there are many objections to the banning of plastic bags based solely on their convenience, the damage to the environment needs to be controlled.There is no way to strictly limit the effects of plastic bags on the environment because the

The plastic bag is an innovative invention all around the world. It makes the world more convenient and because of this convenience, the plastic bag is multi purposeful and is used widespread such as in stores, houses, restaurants, etc. However, the problem is that a lot of people do not know that plastic bags have many harmful effects. First of all, plastic bags cause environmental damages, and produces cataclysmic events in wildlife. For example, plastic bags become litter after they are found in waterways, parks, beaches, and streets. Plastic bags also effect air when burned, infusing the air with toxins. Something that many may not think about when they think of plastic bags is the harmful effects it brings to the animals. The death of countless animals such as dolphins, turtles, penguins, etc. is due to the production of plastic bags. The ocean is home to thousands of species and ocean wonders but there is so often trash thrown into the sea that disrupts the life beneath the water. Those animals ingest plastic bags and ultimately die, while another animal comes back and eats that dead animal which results in a chain reaction that is going to come back around and bite humans back. The public should realize that plastic bags have adverse effects, and those effects will be worse than the convenience of using a plastic bag.