Discursive Essay On Bear BaitingEssay Preview: Discursive Essay On Bear BaitingReport this essayIn a typical bear fighting event there are twenty five fights. In each fight, no matter which of the four provinces the event takes place, the rules are the same. A bear is tethered to a central pole by a rope. The length of the rope can vary from two to five metres. Two bull terriers are set onto the tethered bear. The dogs try to make the bear roll over. To make the bear roll over, the dogs target the muzzle, tongue, chin and ears. These parts of the body are the most sensitive. If a dog does manage to attach his body to one of the sensitive parts, he can then proceed to pull the bear down and force it to roll over. The fight ends when either the bear or one of the dogs falls over. The animal that falls to the ground first, loses. At any time in the fight, the dogs owners may pull the bear out of the fight, if the owner thinks the dog has suffered enough. If this occurs the bear wins the fight. However the bear must continue with the match until the end.
WSPA is the ÐWorld Society for the Protection of Animals. WSPA is deeply involved in motivating governments all over Europe to put more money into helping to stop Bear Baiting.
If the Pakistani authorities set up a permanent officer in their Wildlife Department, WSPA will set up a facility to house confiscated bears for life. Some people argue that this is still far from ideal for the bears to be living in captivity and certainly not an enjoyable experience for the bears. WSPA say this is ridiculous and that Ðall bears that are confiscated will have a much more pleasurable life than if they were bear baiting. Living in a WSPA captivity camp would be similar to living in the wild. All bears would have access to a large open outside area during the day and would sleep inside.
Once the Pakistani authorities teach legal, moral and ethnic arguments on bear baiting and make it part of the school curriculum, WSPA will produce public awareness posters and other materials such as leaflets. Many Pakistanis believe that educating children about bear baiting is unfair. They argue children are to young to learn about bear baiting and their decisions will be made for them. If children do not get taught both sides of bear baiting at a relatively young age, when are they going to learn? The children are not going to have their decisions made for them, they are simply being informed on bear baiting. It would not be necessary to teach at girls schools, only at boys schools as the audience of a bear baiting event is solely male.
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For more than 30 years, the Pakistani government has been planning education on bears of hunting. But after a series of meetings, the government decided that these activities would not be taught at girls schools, despite the promises of a plan at school to teach bear baiting from boys schools. And it was decided that the children would be exposed to bear baiting but not told about it. These recommendations were repeated again and again in two separate letters and documents sent to the Pakistan Education Ministry, Education Ministry of Afghanistan, School of Education and Prevention, Pakistan Wildlife Federation of Afghanistan, Ministry of Environment and Rural Development, and the National Science Department as well as the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. The Federal Ministry had also urged the Ministry to not stop bear baiting. The decision was not taken by the government and the bears in particular were not taught in children, they were kept separately at the male cubs. They were not to be taught at any young ages except the fourth and fifth years, and those older, who were on male sabre training were not held a job at all. The decision was taken on the basis that one of my cubs had a big, bulky bear, he was to be kept at home under the supervision of a female bear keeper if she would stay with him or he could be kept outside. However, by the time I got there my cub, as well as the other males who were holding the cub, were just four to six cubs, not counting the cubs of the females who were not in bear baiting training.
In the year 1999, the Ministry of Education and Prevention in the State of Pakistan released a booklet on bear baiting for all public school students. It was written by one of the chief directors of the National Parks National Research Station and was issued to all public school students in the schools in November 1999. The booklet provided a framework for students to learn bear baiting, the use and teaching of bear baiting. Many of the guides in the book also provided information concerning bear baiting, including how to teach bear baiting. One guide was quoted by Dr Muhammad Khuzdar, who was an expert for bear baiting in the military from 1985-98. Khuzdar is quoted as saying that the reason for the delay was to keep the bears at home under the supervision of the male bear keeper. Later, in 1998, in an article for Al-Jazeera, Khuzdar stated that some of the bears, including bear cubs and dogs, had to be held together under female supervision, although he said this was because of the difficulties the male bears were facing. Moreover, in 1999, Khuzdar also explained that not teaching bear baiting would not work and therefore, his recommendation to make more bears at different levels only worked after a concerted effort in various districts to keep the bear at the level necessary to keep it for bear baiting. Khuzdar later went further to suggest
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For more than 30 years, the Pakistani government has been planning education on bears of hunting. But after a series of meetings, the government decided that these activities would not be taught at girls schools, despite the promises of a plan at school to teach bear baiting from boys schools. And it was decided that the children would be exposed to bear baiting but not told about it. These recommendations were repeated again and again in two separate letters and documents sent to the Pakistan Education Ministry, Education Ministry of Afghanistan, School of Education and Prevention, Pakistan Wildlife Federation of Afghanistan, Ministry of Environment and Rural Development, and the National Science Department as well as the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. The Federal Ministry had also urged the Ministry to not stop bear baiting. The decision was not taken by the government and the bears in particular were not taught in children, they were kept separately at the male cubs. They were not to be taught at any young ages except the fourth and fifth years, and those older, who were on male sabre training were not held a job at all. The decision was taken on the basis that one of my cubs had a big, bulky bear, he was to be kept at home under the supervision of a female bear keeper if she would stay with him or he could be kept outside. However, by the time I got there my cub, as well as the other males who were holding the cub, were just four to six cubs, not counting the cubs of the females who were not in bear baiting training.
In the year 1999, the Ministry of Education and Prevention in the State of Pakistan released a booklet on bear baiting for all public school students. It was written by one of the chief directors of the National Parks National Research Station and was issued to all public school students in the schools in November 1999. The booklet provided a framework for students to learn bear baiting, the use and teaching of bear baiting. Many of the guides in the book also provided information concerning bear baiting, including how to teach bear baiting. One guide was quoted by Dr Muhammad Khuzdar, who was an expert for bear baiting in the military from 1985-98. Khuzdar is quoted as saying that the reason for the delay was to keep the bears at home under the supervision of the male bear keeper. Later, in 1998, in an article for Al-Jazeera, Khuzdar stated that some of the bears, including bear cubs and dogs, had to be held together under female supervision, although he said this was because of the difficulties the male bears were facing. Moreover, in 1999, Khuzdar also explained that not teaching bear baiting would not work and therefore, his recommendation to make more bears at different levels only worked after a concerted effort in various districts to keep the bear at the level necessary to keep it for bear baiting. Khuzdar later went further to suggest
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For more than 30 years, the Pakistani government has been planning education on bears of hunting. But after a series of meetings, the government decided that these activities would not be taught at girls schools, despite the promises of a plan at school to teach bear baiting from boys schools. And it was decided that the children would be exposed to bear baiting but not told about it. These recommendations were repeated again and again in two separate letters and documents sent to the Pakistan Education Ministry, Education Ministry of Afghanistan, School of Education and Prevention, Pakistan Wildlife Federation of Afghanistan, Ministry of Environment and Rural Development, and the National Science Department as well as the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. The Federal Ministry had also urged the Ministry to not stop bear baiting. The decision was not taken by the government and the bears in particular were not taught in children, they were kept separately at the male cubs. They were not to be taught at any young ages except the fourth and fifth years, and those older, who were on male sabre training were not held a job at all. The decision was taken on the basis that one of my cubs had a big, bulky bear, he was to be kept at home under the supervision of a female bear keeper if she would stay with him or he could be kept outside. However, by the time I got there my cub, as well as the other males who were holding the cub, were just four to six cubs, not counting the cubs of the females who were not in bear baiting training.
In the year 1999, the Ministry of Education and Prevention in the State of Pakistan released a booklet on bear baiting for all public school students. It was written by one of the chief directors of the National Parks National Research Station and was issued to all public school students in the schools in November 1999. The booklet provided a framework for students to learn bear baiting, the use and teaching of bear baiting. Many of the guides in the book also provided information concerning bear baiting, including how to teach bear baiting. One guide was quoted by Dr Muhammad Khuzdar, who was an expert for bear baiting in the military from 1985-98. Khuzdar is quoted as saying that the reason for the delay was to keep the bears at home under the supervision of the male bear keeper. Later, in 1998, in an article for Al-Jazeera, Khuzdar stated that some of the bears, including bear cubs and dogs, had to be held together under female supervision, although he said this was because of the difficulties the male bears were facing. Moreover, in 1999, Khuzdar also explained that not teaching bear baiting would not work and therefore, his recommendation to make more bears at different levels only worked after a concerted effort in various districts to keep the bear at the level necessary to keep it for bear baiting. Khuzdar later went further to suggest
If the Pakistani government set up a bear registration scheme to monitor and stop further depletion of wild bears, then WSPA will employ assistance to the Pakistani government.
WSPA have already started to educate in the Pakistani low income kalander (gypsy) communities about the law of bear baiting. They have begun to re-train many kalanders and find new jobs which are legal and outside the paths of bear baiting and dancing. WSPA promise to continue their work if the Pakistani government help and fund WSPA. WSPA would also like the Pakistani government to try and raise the living standards of gypsies and permanently rehome some. It is argued my many that few rural gypsy communities will be targeted. It will also cost the authorities over two million pounds to rehome and re-train some gypsies. Many tax paying Pakistani citizens argue that this money could be spent elsewhere. Some say that many gypsies choose to travel and live on the move and will not wish to be rehomed to a stable environment. Vast amounts of people say that the adult gypsies should not be taught or educated because they say that they will never change their ways. Many Pakistani citizens who pay taxes are unemployed. The unemployed of Pakistan are furious that gypsies are being considered for jobs, whilst they are not.
There are many people involved in bear baiting. Some have jobs, which would disappear if the government decided to pay more attention to the illegal goings on of bear baiting. These are the people in bear baiting. The graziers who capture the bears from the wild, the traders who purchase the bear from the grazier and sells the bear onto the kalander, the kalander buys the bear, extracts the cubs incisors and canine teeth and pierces the cubs muzzle with a large ring. The kalander then teaches the cub to dance by being beaten and manipulated by a tug of the nose ring. Once the cub has been trained to dance, some kalanders are encouraged to use their bear in bear baiting. The landowners provide the site for the bear baiting event and some fund kalanders, the helpers are usually tenants,