11/4/10

For this post, please read the following question carefully. Copy and paste the question into your reponse and fully answer the question :)

If you were required to distribute one million dollars any way you wanted, how would you do it? Why? Be specific in your answer and fully explain your choices.

* Please note: the question says distribute...yes, this means that you can't choose to keep the money!

If I were to give away one million dollars I would give it away to one of my main causes that has had me upset for some time now. There’s a program called “The Cove” which I would really like to donate to this cause. Most people don’t know about this cause and people don’t think it’s important.

“The Cove” is a documentary that was shown on Animal Planet and it is about an entire industry that is just about killing dolphins and selling dolphins to dolphin trainers. People think that this is just a small thing but they don’t know the entire story. In a town in Japan they wait for the dolphins to migrate to this area and when they do they stick long poles into the water in a line and the vibrations in the water scare the dolphins and that’s when they catch them. Once they catch them; dolphin trainers across the world choose which one they wanted to train. For the ones they didn’t choose they would pull them over around the bend into a cove where nobody could see and then they would brutally slaughter them all. They used to cut the throats of the dolphins but now they kill them by stabbing them in the spine.

For the ones who are in captivity they most of the time commit suicide. Dolphins actually have to dedicate part of their brains to breathing so if they become too stressed they would just decide to stop breathing. The reason they get stressed is because their main sense is hearing with their sonar and when there is so many people in the audience cheering and clapping they can get stressed or get ulcers. So if I was to choose any cause I would choose this one.