here's a fact:
more people are killed by falling coconuts every year than sharks.
we kill 70-100 million sharks each year.
and for what, you may ask?
soup. yes. soup.
sharkfin soup can sell for $300 dollars a bowl, but the sharks are the apex predators in the sea, not to mention they are beautiful, magnificent creatures.
if we eliminate the shark, we throw the balance of the whole ecosystem out of whack.
yao ming has even sworn off the soup, which is an asian delicacy. surely you can too.
sharks have been around since before the dinosaurs.
let's keep them, okay?
www.stopsharkfinning.net
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
week one assignment
hi, my name is saraya grove and i am currently a freshman at the university of oklahoma. i am doing this blog for my women's studies class, so there will be different things covered.
first i will tell a little more about myself. i am obsessed with sharks, and making the ocean a better place to live; altough i really don't know how i can make that possible, it seems like a topic not many people care about. i also like playing card games (especially poker, pitch, and razzle), hanging out with my friends, watching episodes of friends and jon & kate + 8. actually, i am very easy to get along with because i enjoy many things and i try to see the good side in everyone.
i took women's studies this semester because i am fairly interested in the topic, i like debating, and it also fills my western civilization credit. another thing was i thought it would be easy, but dr. pendley has already proved that wrong. i am glad that i took it because i already enjoy being in the classroom with the other students, even though i don't even know them hardly at all. i think it is always good to get to know someone in a debate-type class, because you'll know exactly what will tick them off, and you'll know then not to do it.
there are some questions i have about women's studies in general, though.
1. why are a lot of men skeptical about feminism?
2. why do a lot of feminists think that abortion is okay?
3. what are the things i will get out of this class, more specifically, will i learn anything useful?
4. how is feminism different around the world?
5. why is it encouraged for guys to have many sexual relations, but discouraging if a woman has sex before marriage?
6. does feminism have much to do with the divorce rate?
7. why do people automatically tag feminists as lesbians?
and in response to our reading for this week, i would like to say:
chapter one was a lot about the history and how we have come so far, but the young women today are just letting it go to crap again.
it seems like being feminist has stopped being 'in', so therefore; girls around my age don't care about it anymore, which is really depressing. nowadays, most girls WANT to be the women from the fifties, (a non-working women, what many call a "trophy-wife"), but just because celebrities are doing it doesn't make it okay. and, even more, they don't even want to have their own children, they want to adopt from foriegn countries. women don't care about voting anymore because they have way too much shopping to do to stand in the polls for a few extra minutes of their life.
chapter two was about women getting the right to vote, abortion, "women's work", birth control, wage gaps, and generally just a lot of things that feminism is about; and why it should not be considered a bad thing.
although i am one of the people against abortion (i think if you are stupid enough to get yourself into that situation, you have to stick with it), i also think the man who impregnated her should have responsibilities too. even though childbirth is something that can be harming to the human body, abortions are killing human babies. i don't believe in killing anything, especially a human.
first i will tell a little more about myself. i am obsessed with sharks, and making the ocean a better place to live; altough i really don't know how i can make that possible, it seems like a topic not many people care about. i also like playing card games (especially poker, pitch, and razzle), hanging out with my friends, watching episodes of friends and jon & kate + 8. actually, i am very easy to get along with because i enjoy many things and i try to see the good side in everyone.
i took women's studies this semester because i am fairly interested in the topic, i like debating, and it also fills my western civilization credit. another thing was i thought it would be easy, but dr. pendley has already proved that wrong. i am glad that i took it because i already enjoy being in the classroom with the other students, even though i don't even know them hardly at all. i think it is always good to get to know someone in a debate-type class, because you'll know exactly what will tick them off, and you'll know then not to do it.
there are some questions i have about women's studies in general, though.
1. why are a lot of men skeptical about feminism?
2. why do a lot of feminists think that abortion is okay?
3. what are the things i will get out of this class, more specifically, will i learn anything useful?
4. how is feminism different around the world?
5. why is it encouraged for guys to have many sexual relations, but discouraging if a woman has sex before marriage?
6. does feminism have much to do with the divorce rate?
7. why do people automatically tag feminists as lesbians?
and in response to our reading for this week, i would like to say:
chapter one was a lot about the history and how we have come so far, but the young women today are just letting it go to crap again.
it seems like being feminist has stopped being 'in', so therefore; girls around my age don't care about it anymore, which is really depressing. nowadays, most girls WANT to be the women from the fifties, (a non-working women, what many call a "trophy-wife"), but just because celebrities are doing it doesn't make it okay. and, even more, they don't even want to have their own children, they want to adopt from foriegn countries. women don't care about voting anymore because they have way too much shopping to do to stand in the polls for a few extra minutes of their life.
chapter two was about women getting the right to vote, abortion, "women's work", birth control, wage gaps, and generally just a lot of things that feminism is about; and why it should not be considered a bad thing.
although i am one of the people against abortion (i think if you are stupid enough to get yourself into that situation, you have to stick with it), i also think the man who impregnated her should have responsibilities too. even though childbirth is something that can be harming to the human body, abortions are killing human babies. i don't believe in killing anything, especially a human.
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