1. Elephant Poaching Essay Elephant Poaching "We are experiencing what is likely to be the greatest percentage loss of elephants in history," said Richard G. Ruggiero, an official with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (Ney York Times; December 3, 2012). The poaching of elephants started in the late 1800's and is still happening today. People are slaughtering these majestic animals for their ivory tusks. Ivory has been sold on the black market for millions of dollars. Before the start of ivory poaching there were millions of elephants in the world in both Africa and India, but today because of the hunting for ivory, there are barely any of these giants left in the wild. Throughout history Europeans have been moving in on central African states to make...show more content... "It is a tragedy beyond reckoning and humanity needs to pay attention to the plight of the elephants before it is too late" said Cyril Christo (CNN; February3, 2013). This world–wide known tragedy has probed other countries to donate money, campaign, and educate to create an avenue for the awareness of Save the Elephants (www.savetheelephants.org). There are organizations around the globe designed to stop elephant poaching. Their intent is to sway people's opinions to help with the world–wide problem. Only a global ban on the sale of ivory would take the heat off of these massive creatures. Solutions might include, addressing the involvement of international criminal institutes by means of strong law enforcement at both national and international levels along the full extent of the supply. Closing down domestic (national) markets in ivory, would also be beneficial. Countries could embrace the trade ban, and educate consumers in order to stem the demand for ivory (Bloody Ivory; January 11, 2013). Just imagine life without any elephants, wiped out just like the dinosaurs. In the early 1980's, there were more than a million reported elephants in Africa. Tragically, during that decade, 600,000 elephants were destroyed for ivory products. Today, conceivably no more than 400,000 elephants remain across the continent. Elephants are facing a very real threat of extinction; In fact, the African elephants are listed on the ...Get more content on HelpWriting.Net...

3. Essay 1 Elephant Essay: Elephant by Polly Clark, 2006 A To choose your own future, destiny and life is very hard. Everyone wants to do something that makes them happy. But sometimes you take the wrong decisions or everything decides to go against you, which makes you stay in the box you were trying to escape from. When your dreams don't get fulfilled, you will be in that box and wait for the light. It's not always about what you want, but what you need. And to live a good life, and to do something productive, you have to work in a way that will make you happy, because that is what you need the most. Elephant is a short story written by Polly Clark in 2006. My focus point is William and his life, which I will analyze and interpret. I will also discuss the...show more content... 21 – 27. 2. Elephant by Polly Clark – l. 11 – 13. 3. Elephant by Polly Clark – l. 19 – 23. 4. Elephant by Polly Clark – l. 80 – 83 He keeps thinking about an elephant he got from his mother when he was little, after his wife tells him that she will be home in twenty minutes, he gets a flashback to a time where he was waiting for his mom in the same amount of time. And that's when he got the blue elephant5. The elephant can symbolize freedom, peace and happiness, which he is looking for. It was a gift from his mother, and she had been gone for a long while, so when she came back it brought joy and hope in him. Therefore the elephant is meaningful and also the light in his dark working room. William gets a switch between getting hope and losing it, as when he was talking with his wife Ginny, about moving to Australia, he just says "Let's see what happens" as if it doesn't interest him.6 He is not pleased with the way his life is, because it wasn't the way he planned it to be, but he has hope and is dedicated with his work, even though it sadness him that he feels as if his work is unwanted. Ken Follett's introduction to the 1999 edition of The Pillars of the Earth can be used as an introduction to William's life, because "Nothing happens the way you plan it."7 At the end of the story of the text Elephant, Williams does realize that he actually can change his life, by involving his own past and experiences. Tears fills his eyes and he finally finds peace, because ...Get more content on HelpWriting.Net...

5. Elephant, a Film Analysis Essay examples The Tragedy of Columbine was caused by the social injustices inflicted upon two students; Alex Frost and Eric Deulen. This is the message Gus Van Sant portrays in his movie `Elephant.' These two characters are not part of the `in crowd' and are picked upon in school to the point that they come to school with guns. Present day schools are treating this issue incorrectly by not trying to relinquish the social injustices of high school. Many schools today now completely cut off the school from the outside world in order to stop tragedies like Columbine from occurring. Security sets up controlled entry points on campus allowing only those they approve to enter. In theory this plan will restrict students from bringing guns to school. The...show more content... Eric and Alex are outcasts. Eric is shown picking spit balls off his clothing in the bathroom. He is obviously the subject of torment from the other kids in school. When most children go through high school they feel unaccepted. It takes them coming together and picking on upon another accepted student to feel like they are themselves accepted by a group. This is typically the bond most students have with each other, the bond of hating another group or type of student. This is a wrong mentality. Yet, it is basically what our country thrives on. America has such a large history of this that high school students have many influences to look upon. Schools need to find a way to break down the social groups that form in high school in an attempt to stop the injustices occurring among students. Sant shows many scenes that depict these injustices. What Sant decides to emphasize upon in the scenes is interesting. Several scenes lapse over and repeat in different perspectives. The scene where Jordan, Nicole, and Brittany are talking and Nathan walks by is repeated two times. Showing that Nathan thinks himself the higher class person as he walks by the girls. Not only that but the girls talk about Nathan's girlfriend being mean to girls that look at him. In high school students should not be this worried about relationships. This most likely stems from television and drama series that most teenagers watch. The scene where Elias and John meet in the hallway and ...Get more content on HelpWriting.Net...

7. Elephant Analysis Elephants now join an elite club of social cooperators: chimpanzees, hyenas, rooks, and humans. In the video Elephants show cooperation, the article Elephants can lend a helping trunk, and the passage Elephants know when they need a helping trunk in a cooperative task, The authors demonstrate the intelligence of elephants. They conduct an experiment which shows how elephants work together to achieve a goal. All three sources illustrate the cognitive ability of these sagacious creatures. In the video Elephants show cooperation the narrator clearly puts forth the abilities these incredible mammals exhibit in their efforts of getting the corn on the other side of a net. Some of the elephants knew how to do it and at the same time they drew the...show more content... It only worked if the two pulled it but if only one did it wouldn't work. "Rope–pulling strategies were ultimately at the discretion of the elephant, but all elephants had earlier, as part of the facility's routine, been trained to pull chains." The elephants had to pull the ropes in order to get the treats. The scientist recorded the data and they carefully examined what the elephants did during the test. "All data was recorded with video cameras" They also used charts and images to describe the data. The elephants cooperation really showed during this test. "In testing trials, the two mahouts stood at the release point with their elephants and retrained them by touching ear or front leg." This passage gets into the detail on the corn as well. "During the final tolerance condition, two trials each of the following were randomized over six trials: each bowl was baited as in test trials, with two half–ear of corn, one or the other bowl was baited with six half–ear of corn." This passage deeply puts forth the efforts and the exact measurements of this test for the elephants. In the video Elephants show cooperation, the article Elephants can lend a helping trunk, and the passage Elephants know when they need a helping trunk in a cooperative task, The authors demonstrate the intelligence of elephants. They conduct an experiment which shows how elephants work together to achieve a goal. All three sources illustrate the cognitive ability of these sagacious creatures. All of these sources were similar and they all had a great exclamation on the test for the ...Get more content on HelpWriting.Net...

9. Elephant the movie Essay Gus Van Sant's Elephant was at once critically praised and denounced by both film reviewers and filmgoers alike. The cinematography takes you on a waltz throughout a seemingly typical day at an unnamed high school, stopping through the journey to focus on the stereotypes of school. The jock, the quirky artist, the cliqued girls, the skateboarder, they are all represented and representative of his film. Van Sant created a film, seemingly without a staunch opinion on the horrors of the Columbine shootings. The movie seems distanced from the actors and their actions: an unaware participant from the tranquil introduction to the gruesome climax. His seeming lack of a purpose, lack of a reason for the creation of this film, is exactly the...show more content... Van Sant's film aestheticizes the reality of high school, focusing on its beauty and character, and ignoring the underlying grime inherent on most campuses. The halls and yard of the school are kept in immaculate condition, staying unnaturally clean, almost sterile for a school. Despite this seeming glorification of the building, the hallways are kept as a constant secondary to the sharply focused characters the camera constantly follows. It takes the focus away from the bare walls and empty hallways and places it solely on the students. The film isn't about the location that it occurred, but the people that it happened to. The focus is on the students of the film, both literally and figuratively. The camera seems to never stop moving, save for brief pauses that seem to rest the viewer. There is little extraneous distraction from the characters as they walk down the hall; the only time something distracts from the center of attention is when it is repeated again as the film goes through its several cycles that repeat scenes from different points of view. The film intertwines the lives of its multiple points of view. They all seem to be unrelated, but they ultimately tie together in a cohesive storyline that unravels into its unavoidable conclusion. Each person follows his or her own timeline until it reaches the point ...Get more content on HelpWriting.Net...

11. Shooting An Elephant Essay The story that my evaluation will be based on is Shooting an Elephant written in 1936. The author George Orwell was born in 1903 in India to a British officer raised in England. He attended Eton College, which introduced him to England's middle and upper classes. He was denied a scholarship, which led him to become a police officer for the Indian Imperial in 1922. He served in Burma until resigning in 1927 due to the lack of respect for the justice of British Imperialism in Burma and India. He was now determined to become a writer, so at the brink of poverty he began to pay close attention to social outcasts and laborers. This led him to write Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) during the Spanish Civil War. He embodied his hate for...show more content... As he walked on to locate the elephant the realization that the whole town was watching and waiting for him to make his move was very apparent. The officer came across the elephant eating in a clearing and felt at ease that the animal was finished with his path of destruction. He glanced around him and realized that he would be forced to kill the animal. The town's people disliked him greatly, but with a weapon and the ability to kill the wild beast the quickly changed their opinion about the officer. Although the elephant was harmless at this point, the officer fell into the trap of peer pressure and felt obligated to terminate the animal's life. He walked as close to the elephant as he could without startling it and pulled the trigger. George Orwell then goes on to describe in great detail the horrible death that the elephant experienced. I liked the message of this story, but I did not care for the way that the author chose to present it. The message was very clear in that there was a common problem between people in general and certain races in the mid–thirties. The message was that even though peers may expect something of them it is not always the right thing to do. This is displayed in the paragraph at the top of page 683 and continues until the middle of the page. The main character mentions right before he shoots the elephant the first time that " ...Get more content on HelpWriting.Net...

13. Sumatran Elephants I have had an interest in elephants since I was a child. I am not really sure how the interest developed but I was always fascinated by their uniqueness. As I grew older I learned about their intelligence and that solidified my enthusiasm for this animal. I also became aware of the dangers these animals faced because of their tusks. It wasn't until I started conducting research that I learned about the critical endangerment of the Sumatran elephant. The most obvious threat that this elephant faces is poaching. Another threat is the loss of the elephant's habitat. Due to this loss, the elephants are having more human contact, which is resulting in deaths. Although these threats have greatly contributed to the endangerment of the Sumatran Elephant, ...Get more content on HelpWriting.Net...

15. Elephant Evolution My topic that I have is how the elephant has changed over time. A lot of us, either students or not, know about natural selection. But, there are also people who don't know about natural selection or how some animals may have evolved over time. Well, you may think that the elephant may be related to a wooly mammoth, right? Well, they actually do share an ancestor. We don't know when or how they were torn apart in the past. In the scientific classifications the elephant is known as Animalia in the kingdom. For the phylum they're known as Chordata, subphylum as Vertebrata, class as Mammalia, superorder as Afrotheria, order as Proboscidea, and family as Elephantidae (Wikipedia, 2017). Something that we do know is that the African elephant and the woolly mammoth share about 95.5% of their mitochondrial DNA....show more content... It's about the same size of a modern Asian elephant, but it's clear that the North American Mastodon ate high growing vegetation instead of grazing. Both the modern elephants and the woolly mammoths are/were considered to be grazers. The North American Mastodon graze on high growing vegetation. (Madden, 2007) Other animals that weren't mentioned above that are thought to be related to the elephants today are the manatees, dugongs, and hyraxes (MacKenzie, 2001). Elephants are part of an order that is called Proboscidea which are animals with trunks. The earliest members are called Moeritheres. They lived in Africa about 55–60 million years ago and were like the size of a pig. It is said that the Asian elephant, African elephant, and the mammoth all came from Africa (MacKenzie, 2001). But, out of the Asian elephant, African elephant, and the mammoth the African elephant stayed and evolved in Africa. 5,000 years ago the mammoth became extinct and according to their fossils mankind was a factor that helped eliminated ...Get more content on HelpWriting.Net...