300 Word Response to "Is Hunting Ethical"

In “Is Hunting Ethical?” Causey supports and explains both sides of the matter. Causey and her husband, a wildlife biologist, had been nursing and treating white-tailed deer fawns for an entire summer. They had gotten a little fawn named Sandy. Sandy was an ill baby who needed care. At one point and time the little fawn, Sandy, quit breathing as she lay in the arms of Causey. Her husband gave the little fawn mouth to mouth while Causey did C.P.R.. Sandy finally lost her battle and passed away. Causey and her husband mourn each death, but the day Sandy died was not convenient. They were attending a dinner where they had to prepare the dish. Her husband had gone out and shot a deer for the dinner, which they had to roast that day.
In the rest of Causey’s essay she shows that the question, “Is hunting ethical?”, can be answered both ways.
I can relate to this essay because I have gone hunting with my father before, but never for the enjoyment in the kill. We went out and shot some birds to have for dinner the next night. Yet I still wondered was going hunting, and successfully killing an innocent creature ethical?! If a person who is going to go hunting can honestly say they are not in it for the kill, and they are hunting for a purpose, then there should be no problem. Also, I have only gone hunting two times in my entire life.

300 Word Response to "Beware of Drug Sales"

In the essay Beware of Drug Sales, Therese Cherry described how drug sales are being so aggressively advertised now days. People cannot turn on a TV without seeing a commercial about prescription drugs. Also, people cannot flip through a magazine without finding out if Claritin is “right for you”. Cherry states that consumers around the globe are taking prescription medication for the disease called life! Stress and anxiety and fat are not necessarily medical problems that require prescription drugs. Yet the advertisements make people believe that they need them. Doctors are not helping this situation either though. They are prescribing the drugs that are more aggressively advertised. The pharmaceutical companies have to know the side effects of these drugs, yet no one who is on them seem to know the side effects. And on some of the newer drugs all of the possible outcomes cannot be known yet. Cherry also states “A business has every right to turn a profit, but should it really be at the risk of good health?” “Without your health, money means nothing.”
I think most people can relate to this essay. I have a television, and almost every other commercial is about a drug. I also have magazine subscriptions, and in those magazines are drug ads. The way these drugs are being advertised can be confusing to me. It makes me wonder what a real medical problem is and what a non-medical problem is.

Is Hunting Ethical?

Writing Strategies

1. Do you consider Causey's opening narrative to be effective? Explain how her opening is or is not a strength of her essay.

I consider Causey's opening narrative to be a little contradictory. But, it still is effective to showing what is coming in her essay about ethical hunting. She showed that she, and her husband, cared for the lives of animals, and they also still went hunting for those same animals. they went though for a purpose of feeding themselves and others.

Exploring Ideas

4. What issues, in addition to hunting, can Causey's ethical approach be applied to? That is, what issue do others discuss in terms of data or legality when you feel the issue should be ethics?

Presidential elections are another issue that an ethical approach could be used for.

Beware of Drug Sales

Writing Strategies

1. What strategy. or strategies, does Cherry use to draw the reader's attention to the point of her essay?

She first starts by putting you in a real life moment of watching television. "You can't turn on the TV or open a magazine these days without finding out if Claritin is "right for you" or being told to ask your doctor about Viagra." She also uses real statistics and sources without drowning her own voice.

Exploring Ideas

2. Is it all right for Americans to take prescription drugs to ease non-medical problems like fat and stress? What problems should prescription drugs be used for?

When non-medical problems like fat and stress become too overwhelming for people to handle, then people should be prescribed to drugs. But, until those problems become overwhelming, then people should not be prescribed to drugs. The problems that could be life threatening are the problems that need prescription drugs. The problems that regular aspirin cannot help, need prescription drugs.