Download or read book Beneath the Surface written by John Hargrove and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Now a New York Times Best Seller* Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different whales on two continents and at two of SeaWorld's U.S. facilities. For Hargrove, becoming an orca trainer fulfilled a childhood dream. However, as his experience with the whales deepened, Hargrove came to doubt that their needs could ever be met in captivity. When two fellow trainers were killed by orcas in marine parks, Hargrove decided that SeaWorld's wildly popular programs were both detrimental to the whales and ultimately unsafe for trainers. After leaving SeaWorld, Hargrove became one of the stars of the controversial documentary Blackfish. The outcry over the treatment of SeaWorld's orca has now expanded beyond the outlines sketched by the award-winning documentary, with Hargrove contributing his expertise to an advocacy movement that is convincing both federal and state governments to act. In Beneath the Surface, Hargrove paints a compelling portrait of these highly intelligent and social creatures, including his favorite whales Takara and her mother Kasatka, two of the most dominant orcas in SeaWorld. And he includes vibrant descriptions of the lives of orcas in the wild, contrasting their freedom in the ocean with their lives in SeaWorld. Hargrove's journey is one that humanity has just begun to take-toward the realization that the relationship between the human and animal worlds must be radically rethought.
Download or read book Students Identities and Literacy Learning written by Sarah J. McCarthey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educators will find in this book an opportunity to examine the multiple, dynamic identities of the students they instruct and to consider the ways in which all teachers and students are shaped by their social and cultural settings. The volume is the first to examine theories of identity and elementary literacy practices by presenting data in a teacher-friendly format. The chapters highlight the influences of school and, to some extent, home contexts on students' identities as readers and writers, and give numerous implications for practice. McCarthey collected data from three sites in which teachers implemented writing workshop and literature-based instruction in grades 3-6. This book focuses on the students in these sites, who were from diverse cultural and social backgrounds. By providing information about the contexts in which students read and wrote, McCarthey demonstrates the power of the teacher-student relationship, the importance of the classroom curriculum, and the influence of parents and peers on students. Published by International Reading Association
Download or read book Shamu 1st Killer Whale in Captivity written by Joeming Dunn and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animals have been an influential part of science, technology, and travel throughout time. Shamu: The 1st Killer Whale in Captivity introduces readers to the historical climate of the 1960s, information on Orcas, background on Shamu, a chronology of Shamu's life, and how her captivity influenced history. Colorful graphic art, fast facts, and a glossary will bring the historic animal to a younger audience. A great supplement to your history graphic novel collection.
Download or read book Killer Whales written by John F. Prevost and published by ABDO. This book was released on 1995 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the characteristics and behavior of the orca, or killer whale, including the care of their young
Download or read book Killer Whales written by Anne Welsbacher and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2002 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes killer whales, their habits, where they live, their hunting methods, and how they exist in the world of people.
Download or read book Keiko s Story written by Linda Moore Kurth and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the success of the Free Willy motion picture, children across the nation began a movement to set the starring whale free, and this book captures the story of Keiko's release and the great new life he lives in the world's oceans.
Download or read book Arts Activities for Children and Young People in Need written by Diana Coholic and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Art-based activities can help to develop resilience and self-esteem, enabling children in need to cope better with ongoing stress, trauma and loss. Arts Activities for Children and Young People in Need offers interventions and exercises drawn from practice and research for practitioners to use as a basis for their own arts-based groups or one-to-one sessions. This accessible book will be of great use to health and education practitioners from a wide variety of disciplines who are involved in working with troubled children and young people."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Orca written by Jason M. Colby and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the release of the documentary Blackfish in 2013, millions around the world have focused on the plight of the orca, the most profitable and controversial display animal in history. Yet, until now, no historical account has explained how we came to care about killer whales in the first place. Drawing on interviews, official records, private archives, and his own family history, Jason M. Colby tells the exhilarating and often heartbreaking story of how people came to love the ocean's greatest predator. Historically reviled as dangerous pests, killer whales were dying by the hundreds, even thousands, by the 1950s--the victims of whalers, fishermen, and even the US military. In the Pacific Northwest, fishermen shot them, scientists harpooned them, and the Canadian government mounted a machine gun to eliminate them. But that all changed in 1965, when Seattle entrepreneur Ted Griffin became the first person to swim and perform with a captive killer whale. The show proved wildly popular, and he began capturing and selling others, including Sea World's first Shamu. Over the following decade, live display transformed views of Orcinus orca. The public embraced killer whales as charismatic and friendly, while scientists enjoyed their first access to live orcas. In the Pacific Northwest, these captive encounters reshaped regional values and helped drive environmental activism, including Greenpeace's anti-whaling campaigns. Yet even as Northwesterners taught the world to love whales, they came to oppose their captivity and to fight for the freedom of a marine predator that had become a regional icon. This is the definitive history of how the feared and despised "killer" became the beloved "orca"--and what that has meant for our relationship with the ocean and its creatures.
Download or read book Killer Whales written by Janet Riehecky and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether on land or in water, killer whales will stop at nothing to find food. Find out how this underwater giant earns the name killer whale.
Download or read book Killer Whales Are Awesome written by Jaclyn Jaycox and published by Pebble. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A killer whale launches into the air creating a huge wave as it crashes back into the ocean. Find out how these great mammals live in the freezing waters of the Arctic. Learn what killer whales eat and how they work together to hunt.
Download or read book Killer Whales written by Nancy J. Nielsen and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells you about the killer whales.
Download or read book Killer Whale written by Caroline Arnold and published by StarWalk Kids Media. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Killer whales are the top predators in the ocean, and they use their speed and strenght to capture their food. These same qualities help make them among the most exciting performers at aquatic parks. The informative text describes the killer whales' daily life and habits, both in captivity and in the wild. Forty exciting full-color photographs reveal the whales' sleek beauty and highlight its unusual physical characteristics.
Download or read book Church Dramas written by Rebecca Knill and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Church Dramas: Volume 4 packs 30 comedies and dramas into a sharp, tightly-written compilation of scripts suitable for the Sunday service. Volume 4 depicts a world stumbling in the aftermath of September 11th, where a dedicated father questions his faith during a routine luggage search by an overzealous airline employee ("Search and Rescue"), to an afterlife orientation that plummets a newcomer into horrors unimagined in a terrifying depiction of Hell ("Descending"). On a lighter note, we meet Joan and her frustrating, dysfunctional Christian family as she walks through the basics of what it means to be a Christian ("Joan Smith, Follower of Jesus"), and unveil the latest Hollywood "D" List celebrity: Jonah's Great Fish ("The Whale We Were"). Church Dramas: Volume 4 crackles with conflict, resulting in surprising confessions, unfortunate choices, and a "Bad Hair Day" for Samson, who inadvertently stands up his stylist in a salon mix-up. Read them for fun or for church, then discuss amongst yourselves.
Download or read book Earth Spirit written by Mark Hawthorne and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-27 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Eco-Spirituality and Human-Animal Relationships Mark Hawthorne examines the all-too-often difficult and exploitative relationship between animals and humans. Eco-spirituality seeks to reassess our relationship with the environment, where humans are understood as not morally superior but rather equal to the life forms with whom we share this planet. Our kinship with animals has perhaps always been fragmented, but it’s not too late to embrace a new paradigm. For us, for them, and for all life on Earth.
Download or read book Hurricane Izzy An OBX Story written by Greg Smrdel and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurricane Izzy starts innocently enough as a tropical wave off the coast of Africa. She quickly gains strength and speed as she fights her way across the Atlantic on a direct path to North Carolina's Outer Banks. ItÕs also a story of man losing his dog and girl prior to the storm. The story keeps track of all 3 during the hurricane.
Download or read book Orcas Everywhere written by Mark Leiren-Young and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orcas are found in every ocean on the planet, but can they survive their relationship with humans? Orcas Everywhere looks at how humans around the world (Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike) related to orcas in the past, how we relate to them now and what we can do to keep cetacean communities alive and thriving. The book deals with science, philosophy, environmentalism and ethics in a kid-friendly and accessible way. Writer, filmmaker and orca activist Mark Leiren-Young takes us back to when killer whales were considered monsters and examines how humans went from using orcas for target practice to nearly loving them to death. If you know a young person who loves Free Willy or Finding Nemo, they will fall in love with these whales.
Download or read book Can We Tell You written by Dayvaughn Jerome Mays and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mission Statement: As poets we aspire to reach higher by living life through our passion for writing, providing therapy, entertainment, and joy for all readers. Also becoming that voice for those, who, for various reasons, are unable to express openly how they feel. The healing and closure can and will be heard through our writing, we hope to reach many. As we have been inspired to write by life's lessons, our intent is to be that motivation which will allow the hesitant to speak and stand up without compromise, but do it with respect, dignity, and a certain level of sensitivity to others, we will be understood. As you get to know us, very quickly, you will conclude we are very similar to you, a visual tape recorder constantly recording, absorbing, internalizing, and forming opinions to be, in most cases, stored away and never again retrieved. To that end, we're driven to rewind and press play so the masses can unite and realize, as human beings, we all are very much the same, though cosmetically, economically, and socially different. Together we can meet at your favorite get away location, stand on common ground, and communicate without inhibitions. After our encounter, we will forever be connected through words of reception, and if we choose to, continue to grace one another with strength and gifting, as we pass what we've shared to those in our paths. If for some reason we only measure our similarities and growth on one occasion, may your journey be blessed and patterned in love, giving, peace, and total fulfillment. For those that are engaged, let's ride the radiant rainbow while the showers precipitate the blossoming of the newly planted seed we all seek for positive and inspirational change. We sincerely thank you for your time.
