...The constant problem of animal abuse is at hand. There is many different reason that it occurs, none of them being acceptable. Animal abusers come in all walks of life, from all professions, and all classes. Many times animal abuse is not as easily plain and shown out making it an obvious problem,as it would be with pet owners who viciously beat their pets. An abused animal can turn on a human in an instant, even it being an innocent children and/or a innocent bystanders that can be attacked by an animal if it feels threatened,they wouldn’t know any better if this human is going to hurt them. When abused, animals are not the only ones in danger, the family is also at risk because of the dog,or other animal in the home. There is three main...
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...The Ugly Truth of Animal Abuse Animals are an essential part of human life. They provide food, clothing, entertainment, and companionship but they aren’t obligated to if they are abused by large numbers. The different types of animals cruelty ranges. The topics covered in this report are chickens slaughtered cruelly for consumption, primates ripped away from their homes to have painful experiments tested on them, millions of lovable angora rabbits getting their prized fur ripped off their flesh, the outdated practice of horse-drawn carriages and the illegal exotic pet trade are some of the many horrors helpless animals experience worldwide. Many big organizations and celebrities have used their fame over the years to bring awareness to the...
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...American University of Beirut Truthful Utilitarianism Pamela Dagher English 203 Professor Kathryn Lincoln November 19, 2015 | | Through the years, a massive majority of animals were forced to live and perish in circumstances most of us would believe are morally unacceptable. During 2001, almost 17 billion animals in Western countries were raised and slaughtered to feed populations. An additional 100 million animals were killed in laboratories for research purposes, while another 30 million were killed for their fur. Sadly, this insane number of killed animals has been justified by several theories and beliefs that animals, for being nonhuman, are not worthy of any important moral consideration (Lin). Numerous reasonable ethical theories approve that this belief is mistaken, and Utilitarianism is the most important one of them. Animal abuse is the cause of a larger problematic which is the misinterpretation of Utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is an ethical theory and a lifestyle that says: “Act in such a way as to maximize the expected satisfaction of interests in the world, equally considered” (Mill). This rule is the application of the logical following ideology,“The Principle of Equal Consideration of Interests.” This ideology assumes that we should keep in mind which actions we would choose if we...
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...help of terms such as Denial and Silencing in order to answer this question. We can safely interpret from the essay that in this particular context, silencing and denial coexist and more often act as synonyms. Therefore, the fact that denial is not explicitly mentioned in Jensen’s essay does not mean that he is ignoring it. Although we shall be looking at what denial is and how understanding it helps the author in answering his central question, the primary aim of this paper is to look at the implications denial has in our understanding of the world. This is so because if there were no implications of denial, other questions of what it is or why it occurs could be rendered completely pointless. According to Oxford English Dictionary, Denial is defined as “asserting (of anything ) to be untrue or untenable”. Jensen talks of three forms of denial in his essay. The first form mentioned is self-denial or in this context, the victim’s denial. Jensen’s own experience with childhood abuse by the hands of his father act as a real life example of this form of denial.When he was a child, his father would beat and rape Jensen, his mother and his siblings. Jensen quotes Judith Herman, a trauma expert as he claims that “The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness” (4). He too responded to these events by forgetting all such incidents of abuse....
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...A response to Mark Twain’s “The Lowest Animal” (1896) By: Thanusha Sritharan Is the human race cruel or just selfish? The human race is one of many distinct species in the world. Human beings share most of their traits and behaviors with other animals. The act of cruelty and violence to one another is one of the behaviors that humans differ from animals. In the essay “The Lowest Animal” (1896), Mark Twain claims that man can be cruel and wasteful in his lifetime. Although his statement does not imply to all humans, the moral sense enables us to do wrong. With the proof of news reports and media it is evident that man is cruel to animals, the society and to their household. When compared to people, dogs are known as a man’s best friend. Even though they are four-legged canines, dogs have a heart like gold. Dogs are also known for their ability to help people with visual impairments. They are very loyal and lovable to their owners and others. A study conducted by Mark Franz states that dogs happen to have a higher level of decency when compared to humans. In Toronto, a 32-year old woman, Alice Marcial, strangled her pet dog Jacob to death. This news article is very relevant to Mark Twain’s quote “Of all animals man is the one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it” (pg.238). Not only do humans find pleasure by inflicting pain on animals but they also engage in public killings as a source of entertainment. Many people in the world...
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...Summary & Response Essay Instructions For this assignment, you will read three articles about the topic of child obesity. The first article is called “Childhood Obesity.” It is located on p. 102-110 of your textbook. The second article is also called “Childhood Obesity,” but that one is written by Dulcie McBride. You will find the third article yourself, and you must submit it to me for approval. In the first paragraph, you will summarize the topic, and the last sentence of your first paragraph will be your thesis statement. Your thesis statement should include both the overall idea of your essay and the specific points that you want to address, in the order that you address them. Pretend that you are writing an essay where you state that UC is the best college because it has a lot of people, it has great professors, and it has good transportation. Your thesis statement might look like this: UC is one of the best colleges in the U.S. because of the size of its student population, the quality of its professors, and the extent of its internal transportation network. In that example, the general idea has been stated, and the three main points of the body have also been stated. This prepares the readers. After reading this, they know what to expect. Think of the first paragraph as a formal summary of the three articles. After you summarize them, you will state your opinions about the common topic that they address (childhood obesity). In academic writing...
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...George Orwell’s classic novel Animal Farm is about miserable animals on a farm who rebel against their evil owner, Jones, and the pigs gain power, but only to be back where they were and worse. On the surface, Orwell wrote Animal Farm in response to show how others abuse power to the individuals who cannot rebel however, under the surface he refers back to the Russian Revolutionary War. The author’s use of anthropomorphism and common diction lead us to believe he intended the novel to be read by the “everyday man” or lay person. Orwell wrote the text in order to show how, when someone has power, it can be absolute corrupted absolutely. The author uses a detached narrative point of view as they unfold in the story; the text is in third person limited. While he uses several stylistic devices in Animal Farm to achieve his purpose, although the two that impacts his purpose is symbolism and irony. Ultimately, the tone in the narrative shifts from one of hope to one of despair as Orwell leaves his tragic tale of the animals rebellion....
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...Night Essay According to dictionary.com, fear is a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid. Fear is an emotion known far too well for the Jews during the holocaust. Nazis have taken over their lives and left them with nothing, but fear. Jews fear for the lives of themselves and their loved ones. Elie Wiesel was a lucky individual that got to escape this fear. His book Night describes the trepidation of physical abuse, the consternation of stolen identity,and the apprehension of the way they are transported. Night has an overall theme of dehumanization. The Nazis take away all of the Jews human qualities in three ways that cause their fear....
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...Animal Rights: Abuse and Neglect Essay Animal rights are considerably lower than human rights, which makes sense due humans academic knowledge, religious and spiritual knowledge and communication. What does not make sense is the cruelty that is subjected onto the animal by these “higher beings”. If humans are so much higher on the totem pole, then why are they the one’s acting as the true beast? They beat, exploit, and even kill animals for their own gain; the animals’ have no real rights in the United States and they cannot stand up for themselves. Many people and bystanders watch as animals are abused and neglected, and never stand up for the innocent animal. Due to this oversight of animal rights many animals are neglected and abused every...
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...2014 Ford Essay 1.) An animal’s food and water bowl have been empty for two days. Because he whines and barks from thirst and hunger, his owner beats him with a stick and ties him to a pole on the front porch. The dog sits for hours, which become days, in hot scorching heat, and brutal icy blizzards. Animal abuse is one of the main issues that have been around for years. Today we are lucky enough to have commercials and donations that help to stop animal abuse. But this doesn’t stop all situations. People need to do more to help animals. 2.) The first and main action that needs to take place is a mandatory mental health screening for anyone that wants to adopt an animal. This procedure will help with knowing whether a person has any mental health issues such as bi-polar or schizophrenia, so that an animal cannot be placed in their care. Also a doctor’s visit to prove that the person doesn’t not have any spreadable diseases. These procedures will help to do so much, it will decrease the number of animal’s abuse and help save many lives. Not only will mental health screenings and doctor’s approvals help but so will background checks. Background checks will decide if this person has any violent or aggressive behavior. If he or she does, then the animal should not be able be given that person. 3.) Every animal needs medical attention. Whether it be an emergency or a daily checkup. The owner should make sure that he is financially ready to take on an animal. It is essential...
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...Harlow have used non-human animals in behavioural research. The following essay will compare and contrast how skinner and Harlow have used non-human animals in behavioural research. Skinner and Harlow are very well known for their great experiments and showing through behavioural research that non human animals can be used and show results and prove points. This essay will examine evidence from both sides of the controlled animal experiments and explain the results. Mainly this essay will focus on the similarities and differences between the two researchers. Skinner was born in 1904 and worked most of his career at Harvard University and had a great belief that science of behaviour with positive reinforcement could save the world’s problems. On the other hand Harlow was born in 1905 and wanted to show that most infants bond with soft and warm objects that provide comfort or one that provides them with food. Although these experiments show great points, when considering these in real life human situations, things would not necessarily show the same results and there are currently still great debates on non human animal use in experiments. Many people argue that animals do not conduct great research when linking to humans and find that real life situations are changing all the time and things wouldn’t always be the same. How Harlow and Skinner have conducted their research is very informative as they clearly show how experiments can be done to animals to create a response which...
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...Name: Mittal Shah Professor: Virginia Gibbons Class: Eng-101 Date: July 07, 2015 Summary In “Consider the Lobster” David Foster Wallace points out morality of animal abuse by animal-like humans. Wallace gives example as lobster and the Maine Lobster Festival. The Maine Lobster festival cooks about 25000 thousand pounds of fresh lobsters and it’s the world’s largest lobster cooker festival. Wallace tries to convince humans that it is not right to boil live creature for humanistic pleasure. The author also thinks it is not moral or ethical behavior to. Lobsters are cooked alive; Wallace expresses his feeling about Lobster, and the pain they go through. It shows inhumanity and torture lobsters experience. However some people believe that lobsters are not humans, so they don’t feel any guilty eating lobsters. Wallace sounds so depress and he also says, “Gourmet readers should also consider moral status and suffering that animal involved.” RESPONSES David Foster Wallace’s Essay, Consider the Lobster has raised a great point. How Humans treat animals, especially in America. I really enjoyed reading this essay. Being a vegetarian I am really impressed by the author’s writing. Wallace is not telling people to become vegetarians or vegans. Many people think lobster don’t have brain so they don’t feel pain. Wallace states that “It is difficult not to sense that they're unhappy, or frightened, even if it's some rudimentary version of these feelings,” showing his knowledge of...
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...issues of animal rights. Some believe that exploiting animals for uses such as, medical, cosmetics and domestic testing there is also a growing concern about the abuse and use of animals in some such as blood sports and zoos. Although, there is animal rights in place, animals till get exploited and abused Within this essay I will outline how traditional Christians view animals and how modern day christens view animals and how both views conflict; I will also outline philosopher’s views of animal rights. The traditional Christians view is that animals should be preyed on and eaten but others, this is known as ‘nature red in tooth and claw’. Traditional Christian’s downgraded animals in three ways, god created animals for the use of human beings so, therefore, believe that humans could do as they pleased with animals, Also, they thought that animals were worth little moral consideration as animals don’t have souls or reason, whereas, humans do, However, they also thought that animals were in relation to humans but not on the same terms. Although, not all traditional Christian’s believed that not all animals were regarded with little worth some saints demonstrated that Christian’s should treat animals with respect and kindly. Stt Anton of Padua preached to fish’s and St Francis of Assisi preached to the birds and became a popular pro-animal Christian. Throughout the bible we are taught that we should stewards of the earth and that we are superior of all animals and that we...
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...Animals and Human culture Before the 19th century, the West viewed nonhumans as being outside the legal and moral community (Francione, 2008). In this respect, how they were treated or used raised no legal or moral concern. The Western community could use nonhumans for whatever purpose they felt like, inflicting suffering and pain to whatever magnitude they wanted and no obligation owed to them would be deemed as being violated. In other words nonhumans were not distinguished from other inanimate objects and as such had no legal or moral obligations (Nikki, 2012). There are those acts that from the surface appeared as obligation towards other animals, for instance an obligation not to injure a donkey or horse that belonged to the neighbor, in actual sense we owed the obligation not to the animal but to our neighbors. Issues of moral became a concern only to the limited scope when humans who were cruel or known to subject the nonhumans to suffering were generally thought to be capable of maltreating humans. Just like the above, the obligation related to the animal in question was actually owed to the other human beings. Nonhumans were viewed as having little moral significance. This essay will focus on Jane Goodall assertion that ‘Who are we to say that the suffering of human being is more terrible than the suffering of nonhuman being, or that it matters more’? (1990). Some scholars believe that human being suffer more as compared to the nonhuman beings and they...
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...Peter Singer, in his essay “Equality for Animals” argues, “If animals count in their own right, our use of animals for food becomes questionable.” Barbara Kingsolver, in her essay “You Can’t Run away on Harvest Day”, defends against the argument about not eating meat because it’s harming a life. Indicating an estimate, “67 million birds die each year from pesticide exposure”, she points out: “To believe we can live without taking life is delusional.” Gary Steiner, in his essay “Animal, Vegetable, Miserable”, harshly states that it is not “purport to justify the killing and consumption of animals in the name of human welfare.” But really, what does it mean to eat ethically? What moral principles should guide our food choices and ways of eating?...
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