20. Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp

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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20. Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp

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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21. Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimps

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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20. Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp

     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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20. Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp

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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20. Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp

          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.