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This is what happens when tigers become desperate because of human deforestation and poaching. Tigers who normally aren't in these areas are pushed back from the areas they usually live, hunt and breed in.

 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNR426sSj5A

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Native plants and animals are going extinct at accelerated rates across the globe. While extinction is a natural process, the current extinction pace is at least 1,000 times the normal rate. This mass extinction crisis is due to habitat destruction, climate change, pollution, exploitation, proliferation of non-native species, and other threats. The fundamental drivers of the loss of biodiversity are human overpopulation and overconsumption.

http://www.wildearthguardians.org/site/PageServer?pagename=priorities_wildlife_ESA_listing

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When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity. The distinction between crime and justice is no greater. - George Bernard Shaw

Shaw won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921(Nobelprize.org). This quote was found in a criminal justice university website where of course the main focus is to address criminal justice majors. Its intention is to shed a light on the difference between crime and justice. However the metaphor describes the audacity of people murdering tigers for fun but when the situation reverses it suddenly becomes savage. There is no difference, especially from a biological stand point where humans are part of the same family, Mammalia. Of course Shaw lived from 1856-1950, the context of this quote refers to this being an event that has occurred for decades. The result of this is one of the main contributors that tigers are at the brink of extinction, poaching in one of its many forms.

Quote sourced from:

http://staff.lib.msu.edu/harris23/crimjust/quotes.htm

Ownership StatementJon Harrison : Page EditorCriminal Justice SpecialistSocial Sciences Collections CoordinatorMichigan State University Libraries100 LibraryE. Lansing, MI 48824-1048harris23@mail.lib.msu.eduLast revised 01/16/09

Information of George Bernard Shaw was in reference to:

George Bernard Shaw - Biography". Nobelprize.org. 26 Sep 2012 http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1925/shaw.html

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This video is an interview with the director/producer of the documentary The Tiger Next Door,Camilla Calamandrei. I choose this video because of its rhetorical context. Through the documentary the intention of the author is to present a problem to the audience of a man who breeds and cells tigers here in the US. Calamandrei states that this is a problem and in the film points out that there are more animals in captivity in the U.S than in wild. This information is startling because this revealed to the director that breeding tigers, an endangered species along with other animals, is not as uncommon as she believed at first, especially in the U.S.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAzO-7QgJUA

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The rhetorical context of this text photo includes an unknown photographer whose picture was posted on sciencebuzz.org. The audience is the readers and subscribers to the website. The audience is lead to feel compassion for the endangered animal. The message, an article linked with the photo, is the decreasing populations of tigers due to poaching and land development caused by humans. An important message of this photo is that it was posted at least since 2007, meaning that this problem more than likely has not been resolved.

The tiger, in the photo, is not looking at anything because his/her eyes are closed. This gestures brings into question, "Who are we to do this to them, to create a devasting future for these animals?"

This photo enacts a normalizing gaze because it takes the connotation of abused animals but, at the same time, applies it to an animal that is usually portrayed as fierce and merciless. Tigers, even in controlled or domestic environments are solemnly meek, rather wild and untamable. This photo emphasizes a devasting occurance in this species future, in which the tiger becomes helpless.

Cited from http://www.sciencebuzz.org/buzz_tags/endangered_tigers