-Shark attacks are exaggerated by the media.
-most commonly held opinions of sharks are false.
-very little is known about sharks.
-sharks are up to forty feet long.
III. Body Section 2: Truths/Corrections.
-sharks usually attack people by accident.
-sharks investigate boats because their sensory perception prompts them to investigate.
-most shark attack victims survive.
-how old they live, how big they can be.
-where they live, how they reproduce.
-how they are like fish, how they are unlike fish.
-how they kill, what they possess that equips them for the kill.
-People must not fear the unknown. Sharks must survive.
In 1975, the movie ôJawsö introduced audiences to a new kind of horror: The Great White Shark. Months and even years after the movie was released, many people were afraid to go near the water. Although there have been shark attacks on human beings every year, the media has greatly exaggerated the danger that Great White Sharks pose to humans. Indeed, upon examination it becomes clear that in the animal kingdom, it is rare to find a creature as misunderstood as the Great White. Misconceptions surrounding this noble creature are numerous; in fact, what is positively known about the Great White Shark is astoundingly little, and what little has been discovered often serves to defy- not confirm- the conventional wisdom on the subject.
To begin, it is prudent to examine some misconceptions that are commonly held regarding the Great White Shark. For centuries, people have believed that great whites were anthropophagous(that they ate people) strictly by choice. The image of the great white was one of malicious terror; people assumed that sharks, upon the faintest sniff of blood, would launch into an attack and a feeding frenzy that would inevitably lead to the death of any and all unfortunate enough
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