Rhetorical Analysis Of Hope For Animals And Their World By Jane Goodall

“For the first time since the dinosaurs disappeared, humans are driving animals and plants to extinction faster than new species can evolve, one of the world's experts on biodiversity has warned” (Jowit, 2010). The movie informs the viewers that we are not the only species that lives on earth and that we are the reasons for many extinctions. Therefore, many government organization are regulating hunting, fishing, and preserving endangered

Jane Goodall’s purpose in the argumentative essay “Hope For Animals and Their World” is to persuade the reader into understanding the concept of why invertebrates are significant to the world and it’s ecosystem. As mentioned in the essay, spiders are an important invertebrate due to their predation of roaches, mosquitoes, etc. Without spiders, we would have an epidemic of overpopulation of these insects. Throughout the essay, Jane Goodall mentions one particular species, the American burying beetle, leaving the reader to ask what could be so important about a beetle?

On the topic of animal rights, Vicki Hearne and Peter Singer represent opposite ends of a belief spectrum. Singer describes, in numerous articles, that he believes animal rights should focus on if the animal is suffering, and the best option to prevent it is to limit interaction between animals and humans. Specifically, in “Speciesism and Moral Status” Singer compares the intelligence and ability of non-human animals to those with severe cognitive disabilities to establish an outrageous solution to animal belittlement. He uses logos (the appeal to reason) and ethos (the appeal to ethics), to question the current rights in place to appeal to other scholars. Nevertheless, his approach can cause an emotional disconnect to the readers; this apparent in contrast to Hearne’s pathos (the

Since the birth of humanity, humans have deeply relied on nature. From the food that is consumed to the water that is drunk, all of it was provided by nature. As time proceeds, humanity has grown proportionally with its expansion and consumption. It is believed by many that the tipping point at which nature can sustain humanity will be reached. The only way to help nature is the extinction of the leach that feed off it, which means the extinction of humanity. Human extinction is necessary for the survival of nature. With the constant energy usage, expansion (migration), and population growth, extinction is seen as the only way to help the environment and save what has given us life to begin with. With the growth of cities and conversion of forests to homes, nature has no way to help itself. Thus, being the only living creature consciously able to react on nature’s behalf, it is the responsibility of humanity to save nature.

“Like the rest of us, scientists gravitate toward the huggable” (Begley 257) says, Sharon Begley as she refers to animals in her article “Praise the Humble Dung Beetle.” Begley, an accomplished and award-winning science journalist, informs people on the threat of the plants and animals that are going extinct. In this article published in Newsweek, she persuades her audience that this threat of extinction is harming the environment and humankind and that it can be detrimental in many ways. In “Praise the Humble Dung Beetle,” Begley’s use of rhetorical appeals, her organization and syntax, as well as her tone, help inform her audience about the importance of insects in our ecosystem.

If you cringe at the sight of a creepy crawly insect, then you're not alone. Most of today's society is less than comfortable with the thought of the tiny critters. But Jane Goodall has a different idea that she struggles to convince readers of in her argument “hope for animals and their world.” Through her use of the connotation and by emotionally connecting with the audience, Goodall develops and supports her claim that the giant carrion beetle is essential to our ecosystem and needs to be saved.

It was once said, “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” Throughout the years many people have made changes to our universe by teaching up to value our environment. Ecocriticism is using literature to teach us about environmental consequences and give us possible solutions. The novels Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson, The Lorax, by Dr Seuss, and Moths of the Limberlost, by Gene Stratton Porter, were all literary examples of ecocriticism and greatly influenced their readers’ views on the environment. When it jumped into the spotlight in the 1060’s, Silent Spring by Rachel Carson quickly put a new view on the impact of humans on the environment.

On the other hand, nearly all organisms can exist without humans. There are some exceptions to this, such as endangered species or pets but, in general, most wildlife does not need human presence in order to survive. This is a fact of life and is accepted as an ecological truth. Accepting and understanding our equality with and interdependence on the Earth’s community of life is the first step in adopting the attitude of respect for nature.

As time goes by and also with some small punishments from the nature, humans start to be more kind to the nature. Humans and animals are both creatures live in this ecosystem. Humans are also at the top of the food chain, so humans have the duty to protect our environment. As the Dalai Lama argues, “I feel the time is ripe to engage with the ethical side of genetic revolution in a manner that transcends the doctrinal standpoints of individual religions.”(138) In the past years, humans have used too much resources from the nature. Since the resources are plenty, humans do not consider asking resources from the nature without temperance is a big problem. Our nature is the smartest existence in this world. Thus, before the nature gives humans terrible punishments. It is the time for human to consider the feeling of the nature. Humans need not to continue to break the balance of nature. However, the problem of ethical is too complex. Humans always struggle between what the public advocated and what is the better choice for animals. Just like the story in Herzog’s essay, Jim released his bird: “But then he sheepishly added ‘I knew she wouldn’t survive, that she probably starved. I guess I was doing it for myself more than for her’”(243) Humans start to know that they need to be more moral. However, this

Terrestrial wildlife is a key segment of tropical woods groups as pointers of environment wellbeing and suppliers of critical biological system administrations (Ahumada et al., 2011). Wildlife customarily alludes to undomesticated creature species, yet has come to incorporate all plants, parasites, and different living beings that develop or live wild in a territory without being presented by people. Wildlife could be found in all biological communities. Deserts, woodlands, rain backwoods, fields, meadows, and different zones including the most created urban territories, all have particular types of natural life. While the term in mainstream culture as a rule alludes to creatures that are untouched by human components, most researchers concur that much natural life is influenced by human activities. This will cause the possibility of wildlife being extinct before their numbers are known. People had verifiably tended to separate human advancement from untamed life in various ways including the lawful, social, and good sense. A few creatures, in any case, have adapted to rural conditions. This incorporates such creatures as tamed felines, pooches, mice, and gerbils. A few religions pronounced certain creatures to be holy, and in present day times sympathy toward the regular habitat has incited activists to challenge the abuse of wildlife for human advantage or use. When productivity of wildlife decreases, people tend looking for them in new area. This step would allow for

Through her analysis of human communication and perceptions of environmental responsibility, she finds that humans are more and more likely to become blinded towards their own faults in environmental upheaval (Corbett 41). Insightfully, Corbett acknowledges that “human actions should not damage the ‘holistic integrity’ and healthy functioning of entire ecosystems” (39). As Corbett so eloquently phrases, “the shift from humans-as-integral to humans-as-nonessentials in the functioning of the natural world is a significant one” (40). What Corbett is implying is that in order for humans to stop being to cynical about their contribution to environmental upheaval, they need to first stop assuming that they are the center of the universe and must recognize that humans and organisms are involved in a symbiotic relationship where each one is plays a crucial role in each others’

Moreover, science fiction opens space for embedding fantasy features to address contemporary ecological issues. At the current ecology state, the present irresponsible human action towards the natural environment could significantly impact the future generations. This concept is presented in the movie of Avatar (2009), whereby the military and business corporation are so much capitalist ideology driven. The main motive is to exploit natural resources for economic reasons. Specifically, the director of Avatar aims to convey a strong theme regarding our current relationship with the environment, and hoping that future technologies could switch its priority to natural environment protection rather mainly focusing on capitalism. This point of perspective is indeed reflected in a famous novelist Toni Morrison who writes in her novel that “We never shape the world. The world shapes us” (2008, p.83). In other words, we are not the special creatures on this planet and the its nature existence is not there to serve us or to exploit

Literature has brought awareness to the issue of the destruction of the environment over the past century. “The imagination's ability to capture this sense of holiness may also help in a revisioning of the natural world, [in] a growing field of study called ecocriticism” (Brawley 292). Many of the writers of the century used this perspective to change the views of the greater population. “For ecocritics, literature is a means to a paradigm shift… [which] replaces anthropocentric worldviews with ecocentric worldviews, where the environment is viewed with respect” (Brawley 293). The awareness helps people learn that “...[they] are living in an ecocrisis, where climate change, extinction of species, deforestation, and overpopulation are threats to our survival…” (Brawley 292).

Like in Prodigal Summer, the novel Animal Dreams revolves around a strong, female character, Codi, who has a vivid awareness to the natural world and longs for a more harmonious life with nature. Codi has the urge to educate her community about environmental threats and seeks defenses against those threats (E-2). “The ecofeminist categories

While Text A and Text B have the same overall purpose of explaining and informing the audiences of the impact of humans on animals, both texts have different endangered species to prove that topic. In Text A, the author proves that animals are endangered because of humans with giving the example of Hector Dolphins. The article provides the audience with alarming evidence that the Hector Dolphin population is “very endangered” because of fishermen leaving “gill nets”. While this is important example, the Hector Dolphin, provides the audience with evidence supporting main topic, this example differentiates from Text B’s example of Amphibians. The entry, Text B, gives the example of the Amphibian population experiencing a “serious reductions in conservation status” because of amphibians being particularly sensitive to climate changes. Both examples prove the problem of humans endangering animals