20. Save the Whales, screw the Shrimp

Joy Williams wrote this essay, "Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp", directed towards the human race, and explaining how nature is being ruined by us. Although the human race is a giant part of this earth, and not everyone can be blamed for the ruin of nature, she claims that we all have a role in this destruction. That is, except herself. The author is constantly upraising nature, as one would usually do with God. In the end the author blames the reader, and all of humanity, for the killing of Nature.


In her essay, the author uses all of the rhetoric devices, (logos, pathos, and ethos) in order to make her writing more effective. Williams writes in a way that gives herself authority over all humans, and portrays her sense of pride and arrogance. The author uses quotes from outside sources, and does have evidence for her claims. However, her writing is so influenced by anger and resentment, that the reader is not able to take Williams seriously. There is a hopeless and depressing tone used by the author that influences the reader. At one point she even makes a claim that the reader does not "believe in Nature anymore." This is the appeal to pathos, used by the author very frequently, in order to make the reader feel bad. The author uses the second person to make the reader feel blamed and guilty, as if it were the reader's fault for the killing of animals in the world. According to Williams, we can't do anything to change the situation since, according to her, we are all too late for nature.

20 Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimps

One of the greatest damage made by human kind is the environmental damage. In this article the author tells the reader about the different damages made by human kind to the environment. Human has destroyed this planet because of our selfishness and ignorance to the planet. The author explains how ironically we say that we regret or that we should change when we are the ones constantly damaging the planet more and more. He also explains how one problem always leads to another and how those problems become fatal to the animals sometimes. In the end, he concludes that is we stop being ignorant and selfish, the world won´t be this damaged and people can help to change the world.

Joy Williams, the author of this article uses and very different way to write this article. He emphasizes his idea with strong words, and words that will call the attention of the reader. In the tone of the writer, you can see his frustration over the ignorance of people towards the environment. Not only that, he also gives different evidences about his argument. He also uses a more of informal language in order to connect better with the reader. Also, the Williams reaches out with the reader in order to affect the reader emotionally such as guilt, and in the end shows the reader that he or she can be different by being less ignorant. 

20. "Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp"

     The environment has been a never ceasing topic in literature, media, and even photography. Yet, why is it that we despise these subjects when encountered by them? The answer, according to the author Joy Williams, is rather simple: we reject it in order to avoid dealing with it. After all, the environment has become a result of human indecency. Consequently, we have damaged the environment to the point of no repair. Due to our selfishness, we have treated nature as a form of entertainment with the creation of zoos,parks and tourism, and have taken for granted the natural resources for our own benefits with the constant investments on irrigation ditches and deforestation. In conclusion, humanity is the only one to blame for the overwhelming environmental crisis we face today. Yet, many times we try to avoid this fact and blame it on politics or even science or technology. The solution to this, as suggested by Williams, is a radical shift of fundamental attitudes towards the earth. We must change the way we think and therefore act differently towards the attitudes we have been taking.
     The author of this article, Joy Williams, writes in a very unique style which works very effectively. Throughout the entire essay, Williams presents a somewhat hypothetical conversation between her and the reader. Several times she refers to the readers as "you" creating a rather colloquial conversation between the reader and the author. This is very effective as it captivates the readers generating interest throughout the entire essay. One interesting point of her essay was how she  openly criticized the reader, somewhat blaming the critical state of the environment on the audience. Yet, this works because there is some truth behind everything she criticizes. In a way, Williams makes the readers feel purposely guilty in order to criticize not only the reader but society in general. Williams' creative writing was very interesting and simply genius in my opinion. I enjoyed this article and commend Williams for her unique writing skills.

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       Joy Williams, the author of this powerful article, talks about how people mistreat and do not care about the environment anymore. She guilt trips the readers fore eating the abruptly killed animals and into thinking about the ads or photographs about them that they just ignored or simply did not want to think about it. Williams gives many examples of how humans refuse to think about others, the animals, and act completely selfish; farmers using poison on their crops, shrimp and shrimpers refusing the use TED and completely ignoring the fact that the nets used to catch the shrimps kill other turtles, fish and dolphins. She criticizes tourism stating that it brought more buildings and pollution, which leads to acid rain and causes the destruction of wildlife. She concludes by saying that such environmental problems are hard and take time to fix, she blames society for thinking that nature is some sort of human material when truly it is something to be appreciated. At the end, the reader can realize that by changing the way he ignores the harm humans do to the environment, he can help make a bigger change.

        This article was very informal and all over the place. The author uses “you” and “I” many times and she jumps from one subject to another which can make her article at times confusing. Her purpose was obviously to inform the reader about the harm and mistreatment that men do on a daily basis. She accuses the reader of being conscious of all the injustice men do; however, he chooses to ignore it rather than taking a stand. Her essay is a very fast paced essay and she creates an emotional appeal towards the reader. The informality and emotions cause the reader to relate to her and somewhat agree with her; making him think again before ordering a burger. For the reader who did not know about the mistreatments she was talking it is certainly an eye opener and causes them to feel guilty and pity all those who were harmed; which is her purpose. Williams had strong arguments and expressed herself very well throughout the whole article, standing up to what she believes is right.

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           The author of this article, Joy Williams, starts already demonstrating an ironic tone. She introduces herself and then starts the article by accusing the reader, in some way, in a ironic matter. She says we all are thinking too much only about ourselves and not the important blessings of Nature we are given. The author has strong feelings towards nature and how we take it for granted these days. She uses plenty of examples to show how people these days do not care that our natural resources are being depleted, they care only of consuming and satisfying their own momentary needs. I found it interesting and kind of sad when she said that pictures of nature do not impress people any more like they used to. Nature is today taken for granted and used to satisfy the momentary needs of people. The author talks about farmers and how they do not regard what they do to nature when they put all those chemicals on their crops just for a bigger profit. She says that these types of behaviours are the behaviors that are effecting the earth negatively more and more. She then mentions shrimp popularity and how there is over- fishing of these animals which usually end up harming other species such as turtles. Another example the author gives is tourism. She argues that tourism is making people think less of preserving the so precious nature to make places more appealing to tourists, resulting in a bigger profit for the tourism companies. The author is not happy with all the disregard nature is suffering with these days. It can be implied that the author is worried about our nature and how much it will last in the coming years. She then makes a point that hit me strong in some way because of it's truth. She says that nature and life in Earth is turning to be all synthesized as humans change everything to be good and comformed to how we want it to be. She also blames big industries that mass produce plastic products for the degradation of our Earth. The author argues that it is their human selfishness that ends up ignoring the harm of the products on nature, thinking only of the profit that is to come. She writes all these examples to touch the reader to do something about this topic. She says this is not only a good thing to do, but the moral right decision to make.
           The author of this article starts since the beginning with an ironic tone that shows her point of view in the first paragraphs. It can be easily implied that the author is determined that the enviromnent is being treated in this matter, like a profit giving thing. She finds this ridiculous and some dark humor can be located to show how strongly she feels about this. She uses personal pronouns a lot to show this is something everyone is a part of and that we all should change. The author is successful in transmitting her message as she clearly states her point of view and gives evidence to make the reader feel bad for disregarding nature. She does not talk in a formal way for the range of readers not to be limitted to scholars only. She believes this is a problem for everyone and so she uses this type of language. The author appeals to emotion for the readers to feel guilty for acting this way. She wants us to think differently and she is successful in doing that in this article.

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This article is Joy William's personal rant about how people have been treating the environment recently. She talks about how people have forgotten and neglected the environment and how they have selfishly traded nature for condos and big supermarkets. She also accuses the readers of knowing how much they're harming the environment yet choosing not do anything about it. She criticizes farmers for disregarding nature and 'poisoning' the crops. She also criticizes the shrimp eaters and the shrimpers, for not only killing enormous amounts of shrimp but turtles and fish and dolphins.Williams says its almost like people hate green area and that people would rather see wildlife get destroyed. She says that nature has become nothing more than a 'mere source of materials' to humankind and we have spent so much time editing it that we are now deleting it. Although Williams uses dark humor, we can tell how worried she is for the condition of the earth.

 Throughout the article, Joy uses an ironic tone, almost like the mistreatment of the environment was so absurd that she can't wrap her head around it. Her writing is fast-paced and she sometimes uses choppy sentences to make her point. Williams uses a conversational tone throughout the article and uses more personal pronouns than most articles about the environment would. She uses many rhetorical questions to emphasize her sarcastic tone and ends the article with a very informal "see you later."Joy also carries a accusing tone while describing the damages made in the environment, pointing fingers to all her readers. While at times, being overly sarcastic and even aggressively attacking the readers, Williams brings out the good point that we all need to start making changes and this is emphasized on the last paragraph. She encourages her readers to not only to make a change in our personal consciousness and treat the earth respectively, but to behave and think differently.

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Joy Williams, the author of this article, talks about the environment. She discusses about how in today's society, people are not treating the environment correctly. She mentions that today, the community uses the environment for their own selfish reasons. She gives us many examples of how the environment is being harmed, such as, farmers using poison to manipulate crops to grow faster, cutting down trees and forcing animals to move out for people to have more space, and the shrimp fishing industry causing the shrimp extinction. After describing many events of how the environment is being harmed, Williams strongly proposes a solution. She warns us that the environment will not become better if we continue to harm it instead of aiding it.

Joy Williams writes a smooth article. She expresses her thought in a conversational way, making it exciting to read. In her essay, it seems as if she is very passionate about the environment. The tone of the article demonstrates her desire to change the environment and her hatred towards the people harming the environment. Overall, this article fulfilled its purpose. Williams delivered her informative message in a casual way, which makes it very effective to the readers attention.

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In this article, Joy William talks about how the environment has changed, for the worst, these last few years. First, she begins by introducing herself in third person. She talks about some of her other works and colleges that she studied in. Then, she immediately starts to explain his idea. William thinks that people should not be changing the nature into buildings and parks. There are places that are meant to be preserved, and the place would lose all its beauty when changed. However, not only does she think that people should change, but she also believe that it is everyones fault for this change, especially the reader. William uses the word "you" various times and blames us for things happening in the environment. She also talks about how people take things for granted, and how there are many animals dying, but we don't care about them. William uses various examples and evidences to explain her thoughts, and to make sure the readers understand what she is trying to transmit.

Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp is written mainly to blame the readers and try to make them change. William uses a sarcastic tone and tries to inform, as well as, persuade the readers. The evidences used in the article was clearly researched and throughly thought, however, there are many parts that were confusing. In some paragraphs, I could not understand what Williams was trying to transmit. She talked about things that maybe I didn't know about, and therefore, was lacking information. However, other than the confusing parts, William does a good job talking about her opinion. In the conclusion, she clearly explains what we should do to change our wrongdoings. So, not does she blame us, but she thought about how we can change and help the world more.

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This article begins with the author talking directly to the reader and even asking questions. He talk about how nature now makes people feel uncomfortable or even guilty. She then begins to talk about the word environment and environmentalist and gives them characteristics. She moves on to farmers and their place in the environment and how they either use either pesticides or fertilizes that harm the land or they sell it to someone who will build something there. She writes that ranchers like their poison more than farmers do. They kill many animals. She then talks about how shrimp is popular and in the nets they use to catch shrimp, they end up catching other animals too. Mostly turtles are caught and harmed in these nets. Tourism is growing and has become harmful. The managers of the national parks control all of the animals that live there. One of the problems is sewage. She writes that the worker will "control" nature for the customers and that it has become a prop. Parks and environments have become industrialized and it is us the humans that let the animals live. Everything has become synthesized. She says that a "biosphere II" is being made and is to simulate earth. She talks about acid rain and the greenhouse effect and how soon trees will become genetically engineered to absorb toxins. She gives an analogy of being in the car with a stranger and letting him drive is like letting the people in charge manage the environment. All the plastic we use has caused harm to wildlife and it can only be fixed with decreased production but the companies are not willing to do that. She calls us to do something about this and it is a case of making the correct moral discions.

This article was extremely interesting and called my attention to many problems that normal people tend to overlook. Even though it is slightly outdated it still addresses issues that we face today with the environment. The audience for this article is literally everyone. All people have a part in destroying our world and this really draws your attention to it. Her tone is firm and informative and she is quickly moving from topic to topic. She also has a slight tone of urgency because of what she is addressing. She wants the reader to feel something and do something about what they are reading about. She appeals to the emotions of the reader by speaking directly to them. Constantly using the words "you" or "we". The article is very effective in making the reader consider all of the issues and makes the reader feel guilty and like they need to do something to help our earth and put wildlife.

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20. Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp

Joy Williams, an environmental enthusiast, writes an article that deals with the environmental issues in today's society. Williams talks about all the ways people willfully ignore issues such as landfills, ocean pollution, an unnecessary demand for disposable products, and a human tendency to remain ignorant towards nature and her needs. She points out how we enjoy controlling and devastating nature, driving out animals and mowing grass and chopping trees, confining it to a manageable space. She ends by saying that it's our responsibility to see what we're doing to the planet, be shocked, and take action, not just stand there and let it all happen.

Williams addresses the reader directly and also in a highly sarcastic way, personally blaming the individual for the problems that she points out; according to her, it's due to the reader's passivity that it happens. She often makes rhetorical questions to which she gives the sarcastic-but-true replies. Her writing style is a bit standoffish and might even offend some, but on the other hand it might be applauded by people who feel above these kinds of practices. So while she writes skillfully, her method isn't so effective when it comes to provoking a response. Plus, some of her points are difficult to comprehend, especially when she's being sarcastic. Some readers really don't have a clue about what's going on in the world, and being aggressive isn't the best approach for these people. Her concluding paragraph, however, summarizes the essay well, and explains what she expects the reader to do. She could have put a little grace into it, though.

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In her article, Joy Williams discusses how the interest of people are affecting the environment nowadays. She criticizes people saying they only cared about their own interests and that they have forgotten what nature actually is and it's uniqueness. She discusses several of the aspects that are harming the environment today, all of which are being caused by us. She describes how the shrimp industry is causing the depletion of turtle and that tourism business adapt and modify the environment to please the audience they receive. She also talks about how the construction of roads and building affect the wilderness as it has to be removed to make way for these concrete structures. The last examples she gives is the Everglades Project. The project, which is said to help the environment and protect it, is actually mostly artificial nature, and the cost to maintain it will be ridiculously high. She goes on to argue how people fall easily for the idea of a controlled nature and go on to believe it is the way to go. People enjoy the benefits provided by nature, but when it comes to maintaining and expanding it they don't fancy doing anything. Williams concludes by warning us about the crisis we will go through if we don't change our mindset and take care of what is truly important.
Some may consider this article offensive, but those would be the ones who don't share the same mindset as Williams does. Throughout her article, she describes what humans are doing today and how it is being extremely bad for the environment. She uses personal pronouns such as "you" and "I" which really do have an impact of the audience. She states the problems directly and also blames the people for causing them. She has a satirical and somewhat ironic tone throughout the essay which served to make the audience rethink the issues she described. Her word choice is strong yet coherent and the article itself is very fluid. The essay is strong and compelling; it brings awareness and impacts the readers in such a way that would cause them to revamp the way they see and treat the environment.


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     Joy Williams in Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp, has a new take on the topic of saving the environment. She targets the audience directly, using first person pronouns such as "you". The main topic of the essay is to show how humans are a contribution to the destruction of the environment. She also tackles how humans can change their actions to change the environment. By addressing and accusing the reader on the first paragraph, Williams ensures that the reader will pay attention to her arguments. She then argues how we use nature as a form of entertainment, one example would be the zoo or the circus. She also argues how we use nature as machines, to undo the pollution we already did in the environment. She talks about who humans also tend to love things to death, and this is the case with the shrimp extinction. She then shifts her attention to how people need a change of consciousness and character, in order to help save nature and the environment.
   
     Joy Williams appeals to logos, pathos and ethos as a basis to her essay. Her essay is mainly effective due to the connection that the author establishes with the reader. She uses irony to make the reader realize who they are affecting the environment. Due to this, in the end of the essay there is a high probability that the reader will agree with her. She also does a good job in setting herself apart from the reader. With this she is able to make direct and efficient accusations. She uses a extremely direct attack that is efficient in transmitting her thesis and arguments and actually makes the reader think about her point. She also has many credible examples to support her argument. I think that if she had generalized her essay, it would have less effective. When a person is talking directly to you, you pay closer attention than if she was talking to a group you were in. It is the same strategy she uses, and she is actually successful in changing the readers point of view.

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In her article, Joy Williams discusses about the environment in a different way. She makes it clear that she does not like how modern society is treating the environment- using it for its own benefit, merely for self-interest. She starts arguing by talking about how the environment has been mistreated, and how the famous nature photographs tend to hide the genuine current state of nature- which is not as "pretty" as a picture would seem to show. Then, she abruptly changes topics and talks about how shrimpers refuse to use TED (Turtle Excluding Device) whilst fishing for shrimps, since it lowers the amount of what they catch; but risking lives of turtles. In addition to this, she argues about how tourism has been a "destructive industry" where the nature we see is not "real nature", how wildlife interest harms animals (and sometimes endangers them), and how pollution leads to acid rain which is detrimental to society. She then concludes her article by blaming society for being too incautious with their actions, leading to the belief that nature is solely a source for "human" materials and not the immaculate, beautiful piece of art it used to be. She ends by saying that this environmental problem is a hard one to fix, that not even politically it can be fixed- that it now is only a moral issue that can be changed only by society's actions.
The way that Joy Williams wrote her article was not in the standard, one-way informational style that environmental articles usually possess. She used the word "you" various times throughout the essay, actually making it seem that she was blaming the readers for having caused all the environmental problems of today. What Joy Williams also does is that she italicizes words that relate to the environment such as "filtering systems", "arable land", "tourist industry", and "secure landscape". By doing this, she emphasizes her urgency to warn readers that society today has been deteriorating the environment. The author provides many examples to support her statement that society kills the environment; however, the way she states the examples in the article is a bit confusing and exaggerated in some ways. When she changes topic/example, she abruptly changes it- without giving the reader time to think the prior example though. Her essay could have been better in many ways: she could've used transitions to make it flow more, instead of using appeal to pity, she could have used more of fact-based evidences and instead of blaming readers directly, she could have blamed society as a whole instead. Though her ideas were good, the way she expressed them in an article were not that effective.

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          Joy Williams begins her article by presenting a parallel in between the average persons greed and the deprevated state of nature currently, stating that most people thing they are too late to join the cause for nature and that nature is already doomed therefore people just continue destroying the one planet we have for a home. Williams then dives into pollutants, how pollutant restrictions are just a cap for how much one can pollute and that people must hate weeds a lot in order to use weed-killer-chemicals that cause birth defects. But even so people still want their condos and endless aisle of products. Then she presents a scary truth, how people tend to love things to death, or in this case love shrimp o its extinction. Huge complexes are then introduced into the article, how "tinny masters" are tearing down swamps and reserves for a ecological home that is really just another complex for people to live in so big that if it weren't for the devilish Realtor consumers would easily get lost. Williams moves on to how people have diminished nature, giving the example of a sunset that we can enjoy at our leisure with the aid of programmed lighting making nature a from of entertainment. Another form of controlling nature is zoos that keep animals, but never to many of the same thing so that people don't get bored. Or how about the experiments with the Biosphere II, a concept testing the soon realistic need for colonizing other planets. Yet nature never complains always willing to give more to mans trivial needs. Williams then concludes by shedding light unto the crux of the problem; "a crisis caused by culture and character, and a deep change in personal consciousness is needed."
          Williams in her essay uses a lot of personal pronouns and direct language as if she is talking directly to the reader and in some cases accusing them of harming the environment, which is a very valid accusation. Also, her language in some places leaves the article dripping with irony and sarcasm, calling out to a hypocritical culture that justifies a condo complex because it has a golf course as a pathetic excuse for wildlife. However, her ironic and sarcastic language for the most part cause in the reader a contemplation of how much of the environment is being destroy when it shouldn't be. Causing the reader to think of more and more cases in which they can reduce their harmful consumerism for the greater good of the planet. As Williams points out we only have the earth so far, even thought humans might be forced to put into play the findings from Biosphere II. The most personal part of essay is the conclusion where Williams almost converses with the reader, expressing real thought and reactions; "That is dusk, isn't it? It certainly doesn't look like any dawn if ever seen. Well, take care." All this to remind and send off the reader with a mind to change, even if a little, thereby improving the earth.

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Joy Williams, author of this article, writes about an overused topic – the environment – in a very unique and fresh way. She states various environmental issues and humanity's increasing ignorance of them, but instead of attacking "society" or "Americans," she directly accuses the reader, using the word "you" over 100 times throughout the piece. Using this strategy, Williams points out issues such as treating nature as a form of entertainment (like zoos and wildlife parks), as well as treating its respurces as machines and conveniences used for our advantage only (such as rivers as irrigation and trees as pollution-removers). She accuses the readers of ignoring the obvious harms to nature and only caring about its appealing appearance, and incriminates scientists who "experiment" with nature. One of the major issues she exposes is the habit of big corporations looking for "solutions" to environmental problems like pollution by seeking countermeasures that will keep their images clean but will not ultimately curb their profits. This attitude of "we'll stop when we have to," claims Williams, is not a responsibility of science or technology, but a moral, personal responsibility. Only with a drastic change in mindset can these tremendous problems be solved and the environment saved.

Joy Williams uses various different strategies to write about the different environmental issues in her essay, ranging from description to causal chains. Her tone throughout the essay is conversational an casual, but also accusing and rant-like, showing a lot of her personal feelings toward society's indifference toward these issues. Williams writes in a fast-paced, constantly changing manner, switching very quickly from problem to problem or example to example. Thus, her transitions are very quick and brief, but she still manages to make them clear and smooth, making the piece flow together very effectively. Her appeal to the reader relies very heavily and powerfully on pathos, as she talks directly to the reader and makes very personal and emtional accusations. She uses logos and ethos throughout the essay as well, citing organizations such as the Environmental Protection Agency (ethos) and statistics from sources like the Forest Services (logos) to reinforce her largely emotional argument. This very personal attack does an incredible job of getting the message across, and the essay is very effective in making the reader reflect on their role regarding the world around us and wanting to change their attitude towards it.

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#21 "Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp"

           In the essay “Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp”, Joy Williams explains how humans are destroying the nature. Williams states how unlike before, people do not consider nature as a mesmerizing or intriguing factor; instead, people consider it boring and lifeless, because they “don’t believe in nature anymore.” She continues to voice her thoughts on how we’re harming the environment, using example such as the shrimp fishing industry and tourism industry. She blames the crisis not on politics of economics, but rather on culture and character. To conclude, she strongly suggests for the people to reconsider their actions and try to take new steps into a healthier, non harming way of life: to take care of the environment.

           Williams’ essay is a very strong essay overall. Her essay is a bit satirical, especially because she utilizes the second person along with a very strong tone to voice her thoughts on this particular matter. She provides solid evidences with a lot of details to support her assertions on how the environment is being damaged. At first, it was tricky to tell if she was being very serious or not due to her satirical tone, but when reread, the essay shows Williams’ very strong thoughts and voice. Overall, Williams wrote a very superb essay in which it reaches out to the readers, sort of like a wake-up call. 

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