What Are Elephants The Same?

In the three passages I have read, each one has a different author's purpose. However they both talk about the same thing, elephants. In the first passage, “Elephants Can Lend a Helping Trunk.” Written by Virginia Morell, the way it is written is for like an article in a newspaper. However, in the second passage, “Elephants Know When They Need a Helping Trunk in a Cooperative Task.” Written by, Joshua M. Plotnik, they way it is written is for scientist, and if you want to build the experiment. Finally the last article, “Elephants Console Each Other.” Written by Virginia Morell, it is written in a research form. As you can see they are all written differently and for different purposes.

Have you ever wondered how intelligent elephants are? I bet you guessed not very intelligent however, you would be wrong. Elephants are actually very intelligent. This is explained in the video Elephants Show Cooperation, the article “Elephants Can Lend a Helping Trunk”, and a passage from the study “Elephants Know When They Need a Helping Trunk in a Cooperative Task”. These sources all explain an experiment involving Asian Elephants and teamwork activities. Although the video, article, and passage from the study all explain the same topic and experiment, the delivery of information is all very different which influence the reader’s understanding of the

Description: August is Marlena’s husband and the head animal trainer. He is alternately charming and brutal, both to the humans and animals aboard the Benzini Brothers train. Later in the book, it is explained that he is a paranoid schizophrenic.

The movie Water for Elephants and the book Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen are both intriguing stories that capture one’s heart when reading the book or watching the movie. Though both versions of the story seemed fascinating, I happened to find the book better than the movie for many reasons. Due to the book being told from one of the main characters, Jacob’s, point of view, gave a certain view and understanding of the use of imagery, characterization, and detail, in which the movie was not able to illustrate as well.

The story “Shooting an Elephant” is told by an ongoing and first person narrator, who was committed to events he was faced with and obtained insight and wisdom from these adventures even though he struggled internally and externally.

They conduct an experiment which show how elephants can work together to achieve a goal. All three sources illustrate the cognitive ability of these sagacious creatures. First, the video “Elephants Show Cooperation.” talked about what happened while showing a video. The announcer explain what was happening in a summary while a video is played.

In “Blood Ivory” Craig Santos Perez starts by telling an intimate story of taking his daughter to the elephant exhibit at the zoo. Using first-person narration and telling a causal story about his family, Perez establishes an informal and intimate tone for the reader. He uses simple language and short sentences to draw parallels between the nature of elephants and that of his daughter, “They love the water, just like you” (4). By using simple language, Perez not only makes the poem accessible to a younger audience but also creates a personal connection between the biggest land animal on earth and his daughter, by describing their shared love for simple daily essentials. On the other hand, in another section of the poem, he describes the cruelty elephants are put through and all the negative effects humans have on the species.

In “Why the Bush Cow and the Elephant are bad Friends”, it talks about two animals that are constantly in disagreements and are told to have a fight at a market by their head chief. When both the bush cow and the elephant arrived at the market, they began their fight which led to the destruction

Elephant has long been known as one of man’s best friends, who have peacefully coexisted along with humanity for thousands of years. However, the relationship between the two is no longer in the equilibrium state. In “An Elephant Crackup?”, Charles Siebert discusses the downfall of the elephants. He gives a depiction of the recent raging and violent acts of the elephants among themselves and toward other species, including humans, and presents an educated and almost unexpected explanation to their behaviors. He says elephants are just like us; they have feelings and now are “suffering from a form of chronic stress, a kind of species-wide trauma”(Siebert 354). The similarity that should be something fascinating is now slowly turning them into the immensely savage beasts before wiping them out of existence. Even when the appearance of the words “stress” and “trauma” looks like a serious case of “anthropocentric conjecture”, it provides a totally new vision, a fresh way of looking at the boiling issue of the disappearance and sadistic acts of elephants specifically and wild animals at large. With the help of two powerful essays: “Great to Watch” by Maggie Nelson and “The Power of Context” of Malcolm Gladwell, the issue of the unusual behaviors of the elephants is thoroughly illuminated and its solution no longer seems to be out of human’s reach.

Elephants have been victims of not just the incessant poaching but also of the civil wars; ultimately making them to fight back. The killing case have gone over the roof, as the “singular perversity” (Siebert 353) of the attacks. In India, “nearly one thousand people have been killed by elephants between 2000 and 2004” (Siebert 353). Several frequent attacks were recorded in Africa and other villages where the denizens were forced to evacuate their houses. ‘nearly one thousand’ which accentuates the gravity of the situation in 4 years had gained a lot of attention from the elephants researchers. Seibert’s prime third perspective, Gay Bradshaw, Oregon State psychologist, claims that that “everybody pretty much agrees that the relationship between elephants and people has dramatically changed” (Siebert 353). The choice of diction ‘dramatically’ indicates that elephants are not being violent towards human beings but they are also doing it intentionally. Dramatic behavior changes over the years are now being explained in the elephants. “Bradshaw and several colleagues argued that today’s elephant populations are suffering from a form of chronic stress, a kind of species-wide trauma” (Siebert 354), due to “decades of poaching and habitat loss” (Siebert 354). Elephants are becoming more destructive and Bradshaw looked into combining “traditional research into elephant behavior with insights about trauma drawn from

The official title of the world’s largest land dwelling animal belongs to the elephant, more specifically, the African elephant. Elephants also are some of the most deadly animals, which therefore increase the danger of human and elephant interactions. The more human interactions occur, the more deaths result, whether it is the elephant or the human who dies. These animals, surprisingly, are socially apt; their trunk is used for more than just eating and drinking- it is used for socializing. They are complex animals who live in large familial herds-females stay with their family throughout their entire lives while males only stay for approximately fifteen years (Elephant Protection, 1). Elephants possess a great memory and only forget what they learn occasionally and rarely, giving way to the “an elephant never forgets” saying (Maloiy, 178c). Despite how many people use the beloved saying, elephants may not be around much longer due to the shortened life span and increased mortality rates. Due to their incisor teeth, tusks, being extremely expensive and profitable, they are being murdered for the wealth they carry. This, coupled with the life span shortening because of malicious treatments and brutal practices reduces the life span of the African elephant from 56 to 16 years and the Asian elephant from 42 to 19 years (Elephant Protection, 1). According to what the statistics show, elephants may be following their ancestors to their death. Of the group of mammals called

Ever since Colorado first decriminalized cannabis for recreational use in 2012, the federal government has failed to intervene in the state’s marijuana policy. Now the states of Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma have decided to take action into their owns and start a class action lawsuit against the state of Colorado. The states have decided to sue Colorado because marijuana that is legal in Colorado is being brought across state borders where marijuana is not legal causing the states to increase the policing of marijuana within their states. This paper will delve into the pros and cons of the lawsuit and explain why the state of Nebraska, as well as the other states, should just decriminalize marijuana in their

China is the elephant. The five nations are the natives that want the elephant killed. The knives they are using represents their military, is also the narrator in the story.

Additionally, using analogy and many symbols, parable contrasts human behavior in the story and human behavior in the larger perspective. Parable is often identified with fable, but whereas parable uses people as main characters, fable uses animals’ personifications. In the discussed story, the main character is the elephant. As noted, the animal is in the center of the narration, but the elephant doesn’t personify human beings. The author(s) chose the elephant in this story, because it’s exotic, huge, and unlike all other animals. The elephant in this parable is the symbol of unknown. We often face against elephants in our lives. The challenge, as mentioned in the earlier paragraph, is not to judge the

Next, the similarities seen are, that both the poems share central meanings. The animals being described are both four-legged, in the poem “Tyger”. The narrators of each of the poem use the animal’s physical appearances to judge their personality and characteristics. In the poem ‘Tygre’ the animal has golden fur and is regarded as a beautiful creature regardless of the harm that it can cause. In the poem “Salute to the Elephant” the elephant does not harm anyone, yet because of it’s big figures and massive grey body, the narrator does not find it an attractive creation. Therefore, no one appreciates the elephant even though it causes no harm and people continue to judge both animals just by the looks.