SUMMARY:
In the article, "Let the Zoo's Elephants Go," Les Schubert elucidates that when it comes to elephants, the Smithsonian National Zoo is an embarrassment.
He exposes that in 2000 their zoo was responsible for euthanizing an African elephant that was suffering from advanced arthritis. Now they want to do the same to an Asian that is also suffering from severe arthritis.
Les Schubert shows a deep concern about the elephants and their quandary's. He displays this in the emotionally charged comments, "...debilitating ailments," "...result of inadequate conditions," and "...repeated in zoo's across the country."
Les who had a 35 year career working with zoo's explains that keeping elephants in tiny, inadequate conditions is leading to their debilitation's. He makes the argument that zoo's must change their approach on how they keep their elephants and strongly supports his article with facts about the actually needed space elephants require. He reinforces his argument with an authenticity of knowledge for the subject matter and confesses the reality of how much space they actually have. Les's essay puts the national zoo's to shame.
Save the Elephants!
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RESPONSE:
When I read Schubert's essay about the national zoo's elephant's I can't help but to pity the elephants that the article uses in its rhetoric. The article mentions that one of the elephants was abducted (taken as the article states), at the age of 7 months. Elephants age like human-beings in that they can live for 50 years or more. I can't help but to empathize with the elephants and Schubert's distressful plea. I know at heart and in an instance that if my daughter was ever abducted I would be devastated (destroyed on the inside more like it). Schubert's essay really made a connection with me in this sense of family being taken away. Les's article completely gained my respect and my support of freeing all elephant's from America's zoo's debilitating cages.
In the article, "Let the Zoo's Elephants Go," Les Schubert elucidates that when it comes to elephants, the Smithsonian National Zoo is an embarrassment.
He exposes that in 2000 their zoo was responsible for euthanizing an African elephant that was suffering from advanced arthritis. Now they want to do the same to an Asian that is also suffering from severe arthritis.
Les Schubert shows a deep concern about the elephants and their quandary's. He displays this in the emotionally charged comments, "...debilitating ailments," "...result of inadequate conditions," and "...repeated in zoo's across the country."
Les who had a 35 year career working with zoo's explains that keeping elephants in tiny, inadequate conditions is leading to their debilitation's. He makes the argument that zoo's must change their approach on how they keep their elephants and strongly supports his article with facts about the actually needed space elephants require. He reinforces his argument with an authenticity of knowledge for the subject matter and confesses the reality of how much space they actually have. Les's essay puts the national zoo's to shame.
Save the Elephants!
RESPONSE:
When I read Schubert's essay about the national zoo's elephant's I can't help but to pity the elephants that the article uses in its rhetoric. The article mentions that one of the elephants was abducted (taken as the article states), at the age of 7 months. Elephants age like human-beings in that they can live for 50 years or more. I can't help but to empathize with the elephants and Schubert's distressful plea. I know at heart and in an instance that if my daughter was ever abducted I would be devastated (destroyed on the inside more like it). Schubert's essay really made a connection with me in this sense of family being taken away. Les's article completely gained my respect and my support of freeing all elephant's from America's zoo's debilitating cages.
I think you made great use especially of logos (good summary) and pathos (appeal to emotion) in your response.
ReplyDeleteHey! Nice work!
Sandy
Matt-
ReplyDeleteI think you did an amazing job summarizing the article. You were very thorough and effective in your summary.
Your response was brief, but to the point. It was easy to see how you now feel about freeing all the elephants held in captivity in America's zoos. I liked your unique approach to connecting how one of the elephants was abducted to the devastation you would feel if your were ever abducted.
Awesome blog post.
Matt,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your article. Your summary and response was clear and concise. I was able to understand the main points distinctly. I really like the way you used emotion to convey your opinion in your writing. My only advice would be to not include the sub-tittle " SUMMARY & RESPONSE." Other than that, awesome job!