Personal Statement On Elephants

Not surprisingly, elephants are known for being more emotional and empathetic animals than the rest. According the three articles, “Elephants Can Lend a Helping Trunk”, “Elephants Know When They Need a Helping Trunk in a Cooperative Task”, and “Elephants Console Each Other” elephants understand when they need each other’s assistance. All two authors describe the studies of elephant behavior differently, but with a similar purpose.

For my first totem animal, I have chosen the deer. I chose this animal because I am quiet when I am around people I don’t know. Also, the deer is said to be helpful and not knowingly hurt anything, well, I try to be helpful and I don’t try to hurt anybody that I care about. I am different from the deer because deer are said to be uncaring about what people say to try to convince them to do something, but I usually listen to people that I trust like my friends if they say

Let’s talk about elephants and donkeys, and no, this is not at the zoo. These are the two political parties that run the government in America. Today, America primarily has a two-party system, the Democrats and Republicans. They are always seen on the news bickering and fighting with one another, and it is never a surprise if a bill is going to pass, depending on which party is in control of Congress at the moment. When you get into an argument with a sibling, significant other, parents, etc., it can make it hard to focus on anything else going on in life. The parties are always at each other’s throats, which makes one wonder if they are focused on the well-being of this nation. Helen Keller once said in regard to politics, “Our democracy is but a name. We vote. What does that mean? . . . We choose between two . . . bodies of autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee” (qtd. in “Challengers of Duopoly”). Something needs to change so that America gets back the representative democracy it once was; we are a nation of 320,000,000 people and counting, yet we are supposed to be split into two measly groups when it comes to politics? A third-party candidate, and the acceptance of independents, would allow America to become a more democratic nation and help with the current polarization of the parties.

My life so far has been full of ups and downs, but because I am determined person, I still haven't given up yet. Today, my totem pole will be consistent of one animals and one symbol that has a significant in my life. The animal I have chosen is a Miniature pigs. Miniature Pig's likes to relax, play, eat, and sleep, and they are also known as one of the smartest domestic animal. To begin, this animal represents my past because it's chubby, little, and smart. In addition, people would often time squeeze my cheeks because I was chubby, and they would tell me I was cute and smart.However, Miniature pigs still represent my present self today even though I am not that chubby because I still enjoy eating, relaxing, and being playful. For instance, when I go home from school, the first thing I do is eat, and then I just

Taking place in Burma, 1936, George Orwell’s memoir “Shooting an Elephant” explains why Orwell’s job was a disgrace to him. Because of Orwell being British, he was hated, targeted, insulted, and under pressure. Orwell was “all for the Burmese and all against their oppressor, the British.” He has a bitterness of feeling toward being the colonial policeman and the town’s people who tried to make his job “impossible.”

In the essay, Shooting an Elephant, George Orwell illustrates his experiences as a British police officer in Lower Burma, and reflects it to the nature of imperialism. Since “anti-European feeling was very bitter” due to the British Empire’s dictatorship in Burma, Orwell is being treated disrespectfully by the Burmese (12). This allows him to hate his job and the British Empire. However, the incident of shooting of an elephant gives him a “better glimpse … of the real nature of imperialism – the real motives for which despotic government act” (13). Through his life experiences as a British man, Orwell efficiently demonstrates the negative effects of imperialism on individuals and society.

“Asian elephants use touch and sound to console other elephants in distress, according to a new study.It's the first study to confirm that elephants comfort one another in difficult times, the researchers said. Along with humans, this type of behavior has been verified only in great apes, canines and a family of birds called corvids, which includes crows, ravens and blue jays.(source A)” Furthermore in articles “Elephants Console Each Other in Distress: Study” by Emory University, “Elephants Can Lend a Helping Trunk” by Virginia Morrell, and “Elephants Know when they need a helping trunk in a cooperative task” by Josh Plotnik they explain how elephants react when they need assistance or are in mental distress.It has been verified that elephants know when

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Have you ever wondered how the elephants in the circus do amazing tricks for the audience’s amusement? The truth is that the elephants are trained and tortured for them to do stunts. They are taken from their families at a young age and get trained to be ready for the main show. The trainers used bull hooks to “train” the animals to do tricks on their head, legs, etc. This torture breaks the animal’s spirit and sometimes it kills the elephant. Have you ever wondered how animals in movies preform? The animals in movies are sometimes forced to do actions they don’t like to do. In “A Dog’s Purpose” a German Shepard was forced into turbulent water for a scene in the movie. The dog was terrified of going into the water and the person holding the

I liken it to a train wreck , horrible to see yet hard to look away.

Many baby elephants are being abandoned due to poached parents. Fostering these baby elephants can help them grow up healthy and strong.

Did you know that elephants can use different tools and understand the human body language? These skills can help elephants go through experiments in order to get a treat. The elephants needs cooperation skills in order to pull a rope at the same time with another elephant, and that allows them to get the treat. Each piece of writing and the video presents the idea of the experiment differently. In addition, all of the tones in each piece is very different, and that affects the way each piece explains the experiment. Within the article, passage, and video, each explains the test the elephants went through in different ways and tones.

The three authors compare the behavior of the elephants the same. They do it the same because they all talk about how the elephants move and how they think. They all also talk about how the elephants help out people and other elephants.The authors also talk about how the elephants care about there family and will do anything for them. That is what the authors talk about in the three stories.

The first thing that jumps out is the tuba placed where the elephant’s head should be. It looks very out of place, this big, brass, instrument. The only detail that stands out as different from a normal elephant is that ridiculously harsh-looking tuba. In place of a tusk is the mouthpiece. Why does this elephant only have one tusk? There are two more elephants in the background that also have tuba heads, but these don’t stick out as prominently as the one in front.

Before 1988 , scientist, who thoroughly studied elephants, not realize that elephants could remarkably hear two octaves below humans. Humans hear in a range of ten octaves . there are machines, which uniquely reproduce infrasound, for humans to hear. Distinct behavior suggests that elephants can’t hear what humans can. Elephants have sudden,silent synchronized activities. Rumblings, which are sounds elephants use to commute with each other, are infrasound. Since Elephants are matriarch herds, the females have the strongest calls. These unique calls can be heard 5 kilo away and mating calls can last 30 minutes. Communicates through rumblings will gather herd family, keep track of each other, meet at water holes, call for help and can be