The Cove Trailer

Ric O'Berry Dolphin Activist

I’d like to introduce a brave human being who wanted change, and did something about it.  He saw cruelty and brutality that was going on and created awareness so others could see too.  His name is Ric O’Berry, a former dolphin trainer turned dolphin activist.  Ric was a dolphin trainer for the show Flipper for many years.  The show had five dolphins total, but the star was a dolphin named Kathy.  According to Ric Kathy committed suicide in his arms.  Since dolphins are mammals they control their air supply.  Ric saw Kathy look at him while she took her last breath and voluntarily closed her air supply.  At that point Ric realized the cruelty behind capturing and training dolphins for human pleasure.  He then went around to islands releasing captive dolphins, leading Ric to start the “Dolphin Project” in 1970.  To continue awareness Ric decided to expose an area of Japan that brutally trap and slaughter over 23,000 dolphins a year with the Academy Award winning film The Cove.  Ric’s written two books on dolphin slaughter and continues fighting to free dolphins for over 38 years by spreading awareness on dolphin slaughter.

 http://www.takepart.com/thecove

http://www.causes.com/causes/331088  (JOIN THE CAUSE ON FACEBOOK)

http://www.facebook.com/login/setashome.php?ref=home#!/TheCove 
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http://www.savejapandolphins.org/

A Spoon Full of Advertising Helps the Medicine Go Down

      For my in class essay I have chosen the concept of sex appeal in advertising.  To me sex appeal in advertising is a way to catch one's attention, to make someone look twice to buy the product being advertised.  Sex appeal can either make you feel horrible about your own looks or give you that "I can too" look this way kind of feeling.  Sex appeal has evolved quite a bit in the last 50 years.  Our means of advertising have gone from modesty to bearing it all for viewers to see just to sell a product.  Corporations have gone great lengths to sell sex over the years people keep buying it.