Black Bear Persuasive Essay Outline

I. Introduction: Black bear is the smallest of the three species of bear, and is the only bear living in the eastern United States. Bears are very calm and independent animal. As a result they are usually lives in the wild. Black bear use forest as protection and food. They lifespan are between 10 to 30 years old. When bears in Maine reaches the age of two, their survival exceeds 90% (Maine.gov, 2013). A. Attention-getter: However, nearly the cause of all dead bear resulted from human.

B. Thesis statement: Therefore, Maine should not allow bear hunting.

C. Transition: There are three reasons why I believe Maine should not allow bear hunting. 1. First, black bear have the right of a living things. 2. Second, bear has live in Maine before

Like Cassidy said, humans are animal too. We have no right to hunt them just because it’s fun and it is a sports. Bear can hurt as much as human could. Try imagining yourself getting shot by a gun and you don’t immediately die after. The feeling is extremely painful and torturous. Sometimes they are lucky if their die after because than it won’t be as painful. 2. Support: What if that Bear have a cub that is waiting for her? Is that mean you took that cub’s mother away just because it is a sport? What if someone took your mom away from you when you were kids? How would you feel? I can live with hunting as a predator, hunt to eat, because one bear can actually last pretty long, but please don’t hunt because it is a sport.

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1. Support: If I remember correctly, before human come to Maine, Maine use to all be a forest. Which mean that bear have live in Maine before humans do. As a result, we are the invader, not them. We just come in, took their land, their territory, push them away, and makes the land ours. If American took Indian people’s land and give them a free tuition to go to college, maybe they should think of doing something nice for the bear too. Not by hunt them down so that we could do a research on