Article Evaluative Critique: Marine Parks Should Be Closed

Article Evaluative Critique

In this short essay Bill Daly begins by telling us that he will be assessing arguments to keep marine parks open and he will be point out reasons why they actually don’t carry any weight. The overall conclusion that daily made in this essay was that marine parks should no longer be kept open because they are useless and in some ways can be considered to be animal cruelty or no new animals should be captured for their uses. In the essay I found that there were four major premises that can clearly be found. The first major premises can be found in the second paragraph, where it says that ‘there are many more locations where the marine life can be found naturally compared to marine parks’ (Bill Daly, para 2). The second premise was located in the third paragraph, where the Daly tells us the ‘by moving the marine life out of its natural habitat we are affecting their behaviour and making any research that is conducted on them unreliable when it comes to their natural behaviour’ (para 3). The third major premise that I found was in the fourth paragraph, where it says that the ‘parks could be considered tourist attractions but a majority of tourists come to see wildlife in its natural habitat and not in cages’ (para 4). The fourth and final premise that I found was in the fifth paragraph, in this paragraph Daly says that ‘the parks can be cruel to the animals they hold because they put a restriction the freedom they would normally have in the wild’ (para 5). In the end I believe that Daly has created a good inductive argument against the use and creation of marine parks.

I believe this essay created an inductive argument, since the Daly provided evidence that helped support the conclusion by making it probab...

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...atural habitat and not in cages’ (para 4).

P4: ‘The parks can be cruel to the animals they hold because they put a restriction the freedom they would normally have in the wild’ (para 5).

P5: ‘It would be more convenient for Australians to visit nearby natural locations compared to the parks in the gold coast, (para 2).

P6: ‘The animals behaviour and natural instinct changes in a marine park compared to in its natural habitat’ (para 3).

P7: ‘Tourists can see caged animals in their home country’ (para 4).

P8: ‘Animals that are used to roaming long distances on the open sea are confined to small cage like areas’ (para 5).

P9: ‘The concrete containers sometimes create problems in communication and cause them to go insane’ (para 5).

C: ‘Marine parks are unneeded and cruel animals, thus need to be shut down or no more animal should be captured for their use’ (para 6).