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Solutions to Stopping Big Game Hunting
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Solutions to Stopping Big Game Hunting
Big game hunting is the hunting of large wild animals for meat, trophy or sport. Hunting large terrestrial mammals have been a public issue for a long time often eliciting mixed reactions on the benefits and impacts on the general wildlife. Both sides advocate for a common claim that game hunting is beneficial to the welfare of wildlife in general. However, it poses great danger and risk to depleted populations of endangered wildlife. Big game hunting is not only barbaric but also unnecessary in the current state of affairs. There are a plethora of solutions for resolving this issue that has received wide public acclaim.
Firstly, policies should be instituted to discourage big game hunting. The government through the Congress can take measures to reduce hunting of endangered species of wildlife that are endangered around the world. It can discourage hunting by listing the animals as threatened under the endangered species act. By registering different wildlife, hunting would be reduced dramatically in the wild. A country should show that it is managing their wildlife population sustainably by showing care to the endangered species. The policies should cover the importation of the animal byproducts in the country as well as within the country. Additionally, policies should be instituted limiting the importation of the trophies or products into the country. Consequently hunting pressure would be reduced significantly. Review of the current wildlife population has shown that over one hundred thousand elephants have been killed for the past three years. This is a statistic which shows that one elephant is killed for every fifteen minutes. Additionally, policies banning the sale of the byproducts in the country would consequently reduce the number of endangered species killed by poachers. Review of the motives behind the killings reveals a worrying fact that would eventually wipe out the entire population of wildlife. Conservation personnel reveal that hunting wildlife is a corrupt affair in all facets. Eventually, change can be realized only with the concerted efforts of people with the thoughts of the animals at heart (Parker).
Secondly, people should be educated on the adverse effects that hunting has on the endangered species in particular. Ignorance is one problem that will continuously hamper development in every place. Raising public awareness of the ills of hunting big game animals would significantly stir reactions from the general public on the significance of maintaining the current wildlife. Animal conservation projects are fueled by a mixed array of emotions which can be significantly influenced or wired into a specific perspective. The educator should keep in mind that opening up and maintaining an open forum is important in revealing how mankind can be greedy and destructive on fellow wildlife. During the education or public awareness program, it is important to stick to the facts and statistics behind the motives of the hunters. By maintaining feedback, a change would be realized sooner than later since the opinion and thoughts of some people take time to change given the nature of the information they receive. Effective education would be done on publican and online platforms where people have an open mind in as far as change is concerned (Musgrave et al).
Putting in place policies and educating the masses on the destructive effects of the killings would spur change shortly. Raising awareness can receive the support and boost of many prominent personnel and because the topic is controversial, many people would be willing to contribute significantly to a common cause. The laws, on the other hand, would ensure that individuals with private motives are hindered from carrying out their activities. In the long run, animals will be protected by a combined effort of upholding laws and educating people.
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Musgrave, Ruth S., Sara Parker, and Miriam Wolok. “The Status Of Poaching In The United States—Are We Protecting Our Wildlife?.” Natural Resources Journal (1993): 977-1014.
Parker, Clifton B. “New U.S. Policies Can Discourage Trophy Hunting, Stanford Expert Says.” Stanford News, Stanford University, 3 Aug. 2015, news.stanford.edu/2015/08/03/big-game-hunting-080315/.
The Distances Between Us—Turning the Story
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The Distances Between Us—Turning the Story
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The “distance between us,” between citizens and non-citizens, is metaphorical and real. The Distance Between Us and A Better Life both rely on what critical race theorists call “counter-story telling.” Talk about Reyna Grande and Carlos Galindo’s stories and how they counter or challenge the majoritarian story about undocumented immigrants in the United States today. How did you feel when you finished watching A Better Life? How did you feel when you finished reading The Distance Between Us? What ultimately happens to Reyna? Does she finally escape “bare life?” Who intervenes and provides Reyna with hope and love? What are your thoughts on how we might resolve the immigration “crisis” in the United States? Can stories like Reyna, Carlos’, and Panchito’s (The Circuit) shorten the distance(s) between us? Or should we supplement that approach with empirical data (facts, reports, etc.) and radical historical analysis (focusing on U.S. actions in Latin America)? Might we focus on how the (capitalist) system is making all our lives increasingly bare, but rather than push for better lives through collective action, we work harder and harder and as we do, the distances between us grow ever deeper. Isn’t there some other way than building walls, putting children into concentration camps, and barely getting by?
Before you address these questions, please provide a short biographical or personal sketch; that is, tell us your story, how did you get here, where are your parents, grandparents, and elders from? How did they get to the United States? When does your story “begin,” as Esperanza stated in Salt of the Earth? How did you come into this class—awake and aware about the issues we have examined or relatively uniformed and maybe even indifferent or having a different perspective entirely than the one mostly taken in class?
Paper Mechanics
This paper should be 6-8 pages long. Follow all typical paper guidelines—double space pages, number all pages, 12 Times New Roman font, 1” margins, bibliography, cover page, etc. Include your section day, time, and teaching assistant name on the cover page please. Include at least two quotes from The Distance Between Us and at least one quote A Better Life.
Finally, please conduct one interview with a family member who can share with you stories about how you got here. Include one quote from that interview in your paper please. The interview should last about 30 minutes (more or less). I recommend making sure your family member is comfortable, relaxed, and has time to really open up and share with you. Accommodate them. They are sharing sacred information with you—record it, as these stories contain what some scholars and activists call “precious knowledge.” Show your gratitude by doing something for them—make them a meal, do something nice, caring, and loving that shows how much you appreciate them for sharing these stories. We all come from someplace and its important we document our histories, as we have seen in this class, too many stories have been hidden and locked away from us. Now, it may be painful for some people to talk about certain memories, so tread lightly and if it seems too much for your family member, give them time and space to process their feelings and suggest you could stop the interview. In other words, do what you feel is best—tread lightly and be compassionate, kind, and generous. Sometimes people are eager to share and even discuss what they have not spoken about for decades. Finally, I recommend conducting this interview during the holiday (Harvest/Thanksgiving break) in late November, but you could do it much sooner. You might even watch A Better Life with your family members and share stories from our class with your family member to get that discussion going.
Due December 3 no later than 8 AM. Late papers will be deducted one letter grade every day that they are not turned in. Good luck with this assignment. I hope that it will be challenging and rewarding as it asks you to explore some tough questions and explore your own story and life. Take good care!
Paper on the Memoir I Know Why a Caged Bird Sings
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Paper on the Memoir: I Know Why a Caged Bird Sings
Undoubtedly, our article is going to get focused on the memoir of the book written by renowned African-American writer Maya Angelou. The book titled I Know Why a Caged Bird Sings a beautiful journal that depicts the life and experiences of a struggling woman who rose and achieved exemplary status on the field of literature despite the many challenges she had to undergo through. The problems were a furnace through which she got refined to become an accomplished and emotional writer who used a mix of styles to convey a message to her audience. Maya Angelou is not just like any other woman but a woman with a big heart a noble character that can be deemed to be peerless and worth emulating by both women of her time and in our world today. The lessons from the life of Maya Angelou always relevant and influential in the world today. Women in society must stand up and endure hardship as they hope for a better future full of success and pride of the significant accomplishments in life.
Furthermore, Maya Angelou was a woman who went through a lot in life. First, the book records how she was sexually assaulted at a tender age, yes a tender age of eight years. The man who raped her was no stranger but a boyfriend to her mum. The man committed such a heinous crime to a young girl and completely affected her pride and self-worth. But what is encouraging about the story is that she opened up and testified against the perpetrator who gets jailed for just one day. Immediately the man was freed the uncles of Maya Angelou killed the man due to anger and in a sign to revenge. The death of the perpetrator affected Maya more since her conscience was ripped off and torn with regret. She became mute for five years until their neighbor Mrs. Flowers introduced her to read poetry aloud, to the surprise of the parent little Maya was able to gain her self-worth again and she saw sense to live once again. The memoir is full of the struggles of women and to be specific black women at the moment racialism and segregation was at a record high in the South. The woman struggles to gain their self-confidence and self- acceptance.
Also, the cultural context of the memoir is the culture of the South in the ’30s, and 40’s when prejudice was high in American South states. The blacks were there to be seen and not to get heard. The women during the time, especially the black women get oppressed in society with no say on all matters affecting them, servitude was the order of the day, and challenges like sexual assault get witnessed in their neighborhoods without an activist or a voice to speak for them and solve the problems.
Besides that, the woman exemplified that it is only through the strength of character and developing a passion for doing something constructive can considerably change be made. The initiative to love literature was instrumental in shaping Maya’s life and giving her platform to ventilate issues that people were going through in the struggle of the moment which was segregation. The 1930s and 1940s were terrible years in the South as segregation and racism were higher than never before. The time Maya Angelou wrote the memoir, I Know Why a Caged Bird Sings was during the period of civil movements (Ejupi and Boshota, 2018). The ’60s were the years when the revolution was brewing in America and the woman ready to share her experiences and hope that America will soon be a country that treasures freedom and treats all people equally irrespective of their race, gender and status was quite monumental and inspiring. The book resonates hope amidst the challenges of the present moment; freedom is going to come finally no matter how long it was going to take. The reason why the caged bird always sings is that it has hope that it will be set free at last.
That aside, the memoir is based on a historical period when the blacks in America get segregated and treated as a lesser being by their white counterparts. Maya Angelou becomes the first black woman to publish a book and inspire black women that it can get done irrespective of their situation, racial segregation. The racial prejudice in the time was sky high, and blacks went through many challenges that no one was genuinely ready to solve, it needed the blacks, who were the victims to rise to the occasion and say enough is enough. The memoir, therefore, shows how the traditional system was hard for the blacks especially the women to thrive in life.
Also, the cultural context and political landscape were unfavorable to the minorities who were the blacks. The political elite who get tasked with the responsibility of making legislation did so at their benefit without considering the opposition who were facing injustice left, right and center. The blacks were get given the right to vote; the courts get comprised of White attorneys and judges meaning an accused black person get counted as a convict even before hearing the case. Such prejudice and corrupt system of impunity favored the whites while pushing the blacks into walls of hopelessness (Ejupi and Boshota, 2018). Maya Angelou believed strongly that freedom for the oppressed blacks and especially women were coming to pass in the fullness of time. The initiative to become an activist for the rights of blacks and women was strongly embedded on the convictions of hope and believe that it can get done for the better of the lives of the blacks and women who were prejudiced during that moment.
Furthermore, Maya Angelou chose the title of her memoir which was published in the year 1969 from a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar. The poem by Dunbar describes the bird that is struggling to escape from the cage. The metaphor is the style used here by Maya Angelou. The caged bird represents how Maya Angelou was confined and how she fought to gain freedom. The confinement here means the challenges that Maya Angelou and people of her generation went through due to racism and oppression by the supremacists who segregated them and treated them as lesser citizens.
Also, Maya uses the musical style shifts from one mood to another. The lyrical style conveys authentic emotions that vividly explain and show the situation of the moment. The tone that Maya uses in her work keeps shifting from a happy mood to a sad tone. The book shows the description of the sufferings, but it gives hope that finally hope will win and freedom will flow like the waters. Other styles that Maya uses in her book are imagery, simile, personification, and diction to convey the message vividly to her target audience. The technique employed by Maya Angelou is explicitly chosen to do the work to be unique and more interesting to the audience to send the message home that injustice must get fought with hope and endurance.
In conclusion, the struggles of black women over the years have been tough, and the headway that the present world is enjoying has a long story. The success that women have been able to achieve is a result of women in the former generations who sacrificed themselves to ensure that the future is luminous. Women such as Maya Angelou made a tremendous step in gaining self-acceptance amidst the challenges and surging forward with self-confidence to lay a foundation stone in the fight for gender parity and freedom to breathe free from prejudice and any form of segregation. The women in society are vulnerable to many challenges ranging from sexual abuse to other biases, but they must stand up and fight for their rights. Through accepting the situations that women and other minority groups who are vulnerable go through will be an initial step towards making a breakthrough in an avenue of life. The blacks in America especially the Southern states was high, and the blacks get segregated without getting a chance to access whatever the whites got, segregation and racism were the struggles that the people during the time went through. Maya Angelou is a woman whose character and attitude can be emulated by those who have to fight any form of injustice that confines and stifles their freedom and space to thrive.
Works Cited
“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” Maya Angelou : Adventurous Spirit From I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970) to Rainbow in the Cloud, The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou (2014), doi:10.5040/9781501307881.ch-003.
“Maya Angelou as spirit leader.” Maya Angelou : Adventurous Spirit From I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970) to Rainbow in the Cloud, The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou (2014), doi:10.5040/9781501307881.ch-012.
Ejupi, V., and H. Bashota. “The Cosmopolitan echo of Maya Angelou in her novel “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings“.” 2018 UBT International Conference, 2018, doi:10.33107/ubt-ic.2018.135.
Summaries, I. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou – A 30-minute Instaread Summary. Instaread Summaries, 2014.