The article "Slaughter of the Elephants" by Samantha Strindberg and Fiona Maisels is about poachers attacking elephants and killing them. In the article it says, "An elephant's tusk have become bling for consumers who have no idea or simply don't care that it was obtained by inflicting terror,horrendous pain and death on thinking, feeling, self-aware beings."
Poachers are killing adult elephants and their babies and cutting their tusk off and creating them into jewlery. Poachers have killed adult and babies elephants before. In the article it says, " About a year ago, poachers attacked a family of forest elephants in central Africa."
If poahers keep killing these animals there will be loss of an iconic species. In the article it states, " The continuing slaughter of these animals means more than the loss on an iconic species. Forest elephants play a crucial ecological role in the life of the forests they inhabit, places of incredicle biodiversity and one of the earth's most important carbon sequestering regions."
I think the killings of these animals are destroying out eco-system. Just because they are animals doesn't mean that they are not apart of life. Animals are dying and they more they die the less they mate, and the less they mate leads to exstinction on the animal. They should not be killing elephants to then make them into jewlery.
Are there other reasons that they are killing them? Is there any reason why these people have no remorse of pulling a triigger on a gun and killing a innocent animal? People are so cruel and don't understand life. People and things that live on this earth all connect and need each other some-way and some-how.
In the article "Sisters In Arms" by James Daq is about whether or not they should let Females go into combat in the War. In the article it says, "The Pentagon has vowed that standards will not be lowered to make it easier for women to join combat units."
Women in combat is not such a bad thing to some people. But to most people they feel that women in combat is not such a good thing. People think that if women were to go into combat that they would freeze up and hesitate and decide not to pull the trigger on the gun when it needs to be pulled. The article states, " They also question whether women have the physical strength to perform task required of some combat soldiers, such as walking for miles wearing heavy armor and carrying packs that can weigh 100 pounds."
Some women feel that the army has been holding them back. Some other women feel that this conversation about women being in combat is a waste of time. In the article it says, " Women have long said that by not recognizing their actual service, the military has unfairly held them back." article also states, " 'It doesn't even enter into conversation anymore,' " says Captain Jaime Phillips, a female artillery officer in the Canadian army. " It's just so ingrained in my generation that it seems silly to hear the same old arguments again."
I feel that there is nothing wrong with women being in combat. I say that because men are 'made' to be stronger than women doesn't mean some women weren't 'made' to be stronger than men. Just because women are a little more feminate than men are doesn't mean that they can't pull a trigger, or kill someone. I sit and watch a TV show called 'Criminal Minds' and there are episodes where as though women are committing murders, kidnapping, and doing other things that you would think i women wouldn't be capable of.
We are women, we are human and we carry are own weight just as much as the next person does. Why can't we fight in combat like men. Yes, maybe some women will freeze up when it is time to pull the trigger. That is why they test for things like that. They prepare for killing and shooting people. If a woman wants to go fight in combat because she feels that she is ready and is tired of the military holding them back to do medi-care on wounded soldiers, then let her fight in combat. If she decides to go out on that battle field and decides not to pull the trigger on the gun, then that is a life risk that she is willing to take. How would you feel if someone told you that you weren't able to do something because of your skin color, or because your to small, or because of the sex that you are, how would that make you feel?
