Personal Narrative: My Fear Of Sharks

In John Bauer’s short story, “The Truth About Sharks”, Beth is treated unfairly by the security guard. To begin with, the security guard shouts at Beth due to the misunderstanding about her shoplifting, which caused her to cry and become uncomfortable. As Beth is talking to the security officer, the officer angrily shouts and causes Beth to say “ you’re hurting me!”(133). Beth is treated unfairly because of the misunderstanding due to her shoplifting. She is terrified of the consequences that could happen such as going to jail, losing her son and being charged. Beth is uncertain about her future and the next moments. This situation will drastically change the daily lives of all three characters and put them in uncertainty. Next, Beth is violently

Terry Tempest William’s written essay, “A Shark in the Mind of One Contemplating Wilderness,” delivers to us, with intended purpose using shocking truths of greed and destruction. Actions took under the cloak and disguise of the needs of civilization, creating more jobs, or even to boost the rich man’s governmental legacy of our badly raped and abused national economy. How continued acts of greed and wanton disregard for the environment, are endangering nature the wilderness areas we have sought to protect? Acts that leave behind damage and destruction where once nature and wilderness thrived.

An encounter with a shark is not something that many people really want to experience. The movie Jaws definitely put the fear of the ocean into many people. Sharks have been all over the media lately; Shark Week on the Discovery Channel just ended, and several attacks have been reported over the last few months. However, on a happier note, a beached Great White was saved this weekend in Cape Cod by beachgoers who sympathized with the struggling animal.

Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird is set in Maycomb, a fictional town in Alabama, in the 1930’s. Through its strong themes of racism and discrimination, the novel could portray a depressing view on life, but it’s outcome is the opposite. The novel shows great optimism and hope for the future through many reason, but largely centering with the perspective of the novel through a young child, Jean Louise ‘Scout’ Finch. Through her juvenility, she shows pure honesty and shows optimism through Jem and herself, their father Atticus and the well-known conviction of Tom Robinson.

head of a hammer. Their eyes and nostrils are at the ends of the hammer.

The ocean doesn’t belong to us, we don’t sleep, live or eat in the ocean, so why should we take the ocean away from these innocent sharks? According to ‘The Sydney Morning Hearld’, The statistics have said that 83% of Australians havent changed how often they visit the beach or their activies and 82% believe that we should enter the water at our on risk. We as humans don’t need to be in the ocean, the ocean is a luxury that can be used at our risk. Do we need to put out signs on the beachs saying ‘Sharks can be here, Enter at your own risk’? Only eighteen percent

Imagine a world without your favorite foods you have ever consumed. Imagine a world where you cannot even enjoy your favorite beach on vacation because of unmanageable algae taking over our coasts. Imagine a world with a huge spike in greenhouse gases, and a dramatic decline of natural oxygen production. This is a world without the most feared and misunderstood creature that rules our oceans, the Shark. In an advertisement published by WWF, it conveys the message of what we should actually be fearing, the fall of our marine ecosystems and what that will do to humanity. The advertisement uses all three appeals of ethos, pathos, and logos to push their targeted audience to further their education on our world and to spread the word to everyone

Thanks to the movie Jaws, many people are scared of sharks. Seeing a fin in the water terrifies all but the most experienced of beach goers. Sadly, this perception means that most do not really care if the sharks are hunted to extinction or not. However, society’s opinion on sharks needs to change if we want any hope of saving the world’s oceans. Sharks, as an apex predator, are an important part of the ocean’s food chain.

Great White Sharks have known to be a great source of fear throughout the numerous ages of sea exploration. With an average size of fifteen feet in length, it’s not hard to imagine why. They are the stuff of many nightmares, but they are largely misunderstood. There isn’t a lot of information on Great White behavior because many believe them to be an endangered species, due to dwindling food sources and overfishing. However, with conservation efforts, their numbers should rise and more studies can be done. The latest major discovery was just in 2014, which shows that with time, we can learn even more about them. In this paper I will study the sharks’ basic facts, their various behaviors, and the effect humans have on them.

Ever since the release of the movie Jaws, sharks have had an extremely violent reputation. Although statistics prove unprovoked shark attacks on humans are extremely rare, people continue to believe the negative consortiums of sharks, that they are man- eating predators. This became very apparent to me when I told people my summer plans of shark diving in Fiji. The responses varied but all of them had the same message: that if I were to want to dive in the ocean with big sharks, I must be crazy. My friends and family would constantly ask me if I was sure that I wanted to go. Even if I just mention that sharks are my favorite animal people would ask if I was joking or how I could possibly like sharks. I had known that diving with sharks was not the most popular activity, but I realized how negativity people really felt about sharks and diving with them. I ultimately stuck with my gut and pursued my passion because like Emerson says, “What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think.” I would have to ignore people’s negative comments and not let them “sink like darts” into my ears and “put me in fear”, like Emerson suggests in “Self- Reliance”. I went against what others told me, and I dove with sharks which although was misunderstood, was the greatest

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s article “The Brutal Business of Shark Finning” reminds us that sharks play a key role in the ocean as both predators and scavengers.

Shark attacks still happen to this day. There’s nothing more terrifying than hearing a story in the news of a mighty, great white shark killing an innocent person. He mentions the backlash of Hollywood blockbusters such as “Jaws” and “Sharknado 3” that intensifies one’s fear. Sharks have evolved in our

More and more people have been introduced to a very dangerous practice called shark-finning. Even the people who are aware of the harmful effects they bring still continue on doing it. People are afraid of sharks due to their fierce appearance and the bad publicity they get such as the movies wherein sharks attack humans. Only about 5 people are killed by sharks every year. In fact, vending machines has a higher death rate of 13, while ants can kill about 30 people annually. Sharks are very beneficial to us, why do people keep on harming them? Why is shark-finning so important? Shark-finning gives both advantages and disadvantages economically, politically, cultural, societal, and environmental. It is important to recognize the

Kinda odd, after a shark attack normally people would be scared when they lose a leg to one of those predators of the deep. But, there’s a magazine article known as “Shark Attack Survivor” where a 13 year old girl named Bethany Hamilton didn’t seem fazed that her life has changed forever.

The Nun’s Priest’s Tale is an allegory that uses animals with human characteristics in order to portray the moral of the story. The story centers on a rooster named Chanticleer, who possesses many human qualities, such as speaking, singing, and the ability to dream. Partlet, a hen, is described as “polite, discreet, debonair, and companionable” (153). These are characteristics not typically associated with animals, which strengthens the message that the animals are representative of humans. Furthermore, Chanticleer and the other animals display human emotions, such as Chanticleer’s fear of his dream, Partlet’s disgust of Chanticleer’s fear, and the love that Chanticleer and Partlet feel for one another. Furthermore, the fox, Sir Russell, also