...Why do humans love puppies and kittens? Why don’t humans love baby fish and insects as much? The answer lies in how humans value life. Life is a complicated idea containing layers of meaning ranging from a philosophical to a biological side. Humans associate animals like a puppy as a friend yet for many, a fish as a meal. While both animals are alive in the biological sense (living, breathing, eating, etc.) humans think of and treat them in a completely different manner. The value of the life of an animal or robot is directly related to its similarity with human life, thus the closer something is to resembling human life, the more humans value it as shown in the outcry over the death of Harambe, and our emotional attachment towards robots....
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...which humans are placed at or near the top. Anthropologist and zoologist Desmond Morris, in his 1986 book Catwatching, suggests, when cats bring home mice or birds, they are attempting to teach their human to hunt, or trying to help their human as if feeding "an elderly cat, or an inept kitten". Morris's theory is inconsistent with the fact that male cats also bring home prey, despite males having no involvement with raising kittens. They can also develop odd eating habits. Some cats like to eat or chew on other things, most commonly wool, but also plastic, paper, string, aluminum foil/Christmas tree tinsel, or even coal. This condition, pica, can threaten their health, depending on the amount and toxicity of the items eaten. Since cats cannot fully close their lips around something to create suction, they use a lapping method with the tongue to draw liquid upwards into their mouths. Lapping at a rate of four times a second, the cat touches the smooth tip of its tongue to the surface of the water, and quickly retracts it, drawing water upwards. Play Domestic cats, especially young kittens, are known for their love of play. This behavior mimics hunting and is important in helping kittens learn to stalk, capture, and kill prey. Cats also engage in play fighting, with each other and with humans. This behavior may be a way for cats to practice the skills needed for real combat, and might also reduce any fear they associate with...
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...Sashay Schettler Mr. R English 120 12 September 2013 Fancy Feast’s New Flavor for Snakes: Tender Kitten Feast in Grilled Chicken Flavored Gravy We tend not to drive too deeply into subjects that pit our brains against our hearts, animal human relationships being one. While easy to overlook, these relationships play a big part in our day to day lives, and as I’ve learned not always in a good way. I found out firsthand, while reading Hal Herzog’s Some We love, Some We hate, Some We Eat: Why It’s So Hard to Think Straight About Animals, how hard it is to see a subject in a new light. I found myself torn between what I thought of as morally right and logically correct. The major argument being, is it morally ok to feed unwanted kittens to snakes? As I write this paper, I periodically glance at the picture I have of my fluffy grey cat Henry. Henry passed away when he had to be relocated to my aunt’s ranch, our house flooded in 2009 and our new condo didn’t allow pets. Now Henry had a cozy life with the Schettlers and on the ranch. Yet my aunt claims to this day, that he died of a broken heart. I, however sweet and sentimental the thought, argue that he died because my mom accidentally let him go a couple of turns in the dryer… Henry was always a fighter; I rescued him from the woods, out of a litter of two kittens he was the only survivor. His mother and sister did not make it out of the woods, but Henry wasn’t giving up that easily. After the tragic incidents...
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...life involving her broken marriage with Ted Hughes, unresolved issues with her parents with so much light on the passing of her father when she was only eight and her own vision of herself. At the time of her undergraduate years she has started showing symptoms of severe depression and already had a history of mental illness since childhood which ultimately lead her to her death. Her conditions led her to try to commit suicide not once but twice before she finally succeeded the third time. She had a sort of disturbed mind which can be felt through her much personal poems such as “daddy” which brings out her deep insecurities of being “fatherless” Feminists potrayed Sylvia as a woman driven to madness by a domineering father, unfaithful husband and demanding duties of motherhood. The hardness of her life increased her need to write ,which she could not fulfil due to her work and children. Finally, on February 11 ,1963 Sylvia Plath killed herself with cooking gas at the age of 30. Followed by her death Ted Hughes published her last collections of poems Ariel which was one of the best of her work. After her death she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her collected poem, she was also elevated to the status of feminist icon and pioneer woman...
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...the treatment of prisoners at California’s Pelican Bay Supermax Penitentiary. I argue that the language of dehumanization fails to describe the harm of solitary confinement because it remains complicit with a hierarchical opposition between human and nonhuman animal that rebounds against prisoners, especially those who have been racialized and/or sexualized as less than human. Humanist discourse neglects the sense in which both human and nonhuman animals are affective, corporeal beings who rely upon the support of others for their own capacity to orient themselves within a mutually-perceived world. Drawing on the testimony of inmates in solitary confinement, and situating this testimony in relation to the political and scientific history of US incarceration practices, I develop a post-humanist critique of solitary confinement. Keywords: Solitary confinement, sensory deprivation, intercorporeal Malebranche would not have beaten a stone as he beat his dog, saying that the dog didn’t suffer. Merleau-Ponty, Nature, 166 Certain carceral practices are often condemned – both by prisoners and by their legal or political advocates – on the grounds that they violate human dignity by treating people like nonhuman animals. For example, in the 1995 Eighth Amendment case, Madrid v Gomez, the treatment of prisoners at California’s Pelican Bay Supermax Penitentiary is consistently compared to the treatment of nonhuman animals.i Some inmates were “hog-tied” with their hands and feet bound...
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...as an adult, and this event was one of those events. I can still remember the events that played out during that day, and I believe that I can hear the sounds of the chicken echoing through the woods when I go home for a visit. I was raised on a farm in Kings Mountain, North Carolina with my father, two brothers, and one sister. Although I had siblings to frolic in the woods with, and do fun activities like swim in the creek, or build tree houses, I still felt a need to have a pet for companionship. I spoke to my father about the possibility of getting a pet of my own, specifically a kitten, and he decided that I was too young to tend to the needs of a kitten. He did allow me to pick a chicken from his large coop located in the woods above the house as my pet. If I could prove to my father that I was able to keep up with the responsibilities of caring for the chicken, I may be allowed to get a kitten. This was a ritual that my father had with my older siblings with respect to their desire to have a pet. I remember spending an ample amount of time observing all of the chickens in the coop, and trying to decide which one would become my pet. I finally decided that the bright, fluffy white chicken that appeared gentle and tender was going to be my new best friend. I pondered over what to name her, and decided on Martha because her white feathers reminded me of Martha Washington’s crisp, white hair. I spent the next eight weeks of...
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...Bioethics Notes For Learning Community Fall 2011 Bioethics Potter ethics with the biosphere Now ethics having to do with the medical fields and professions A branch of applied ethics Introduction to ethics. I. II. To what extent is reasoning possible in ethics? One assumption: ethics is subjective A. If subjective then no disagree: Paul I like my coffee sweetened, Helen unsweetened: no disagreement B. If Paul “drs should sometimes assist their patient’s death, Helen: No (then real disagreement) C. There is a point here about disagreement A characteristic of ethics and ethical argumentation consistency: A. It is always wrong to kill a human being B. Abortion is not always wrong C. I am committed to holding that abortion isn’t always the killing of a human being a. This sets a limit on the subjectivity of ethics b. Another such limit: factual accuracy c. One can enjoy a taste without knowing what it is d. In ethics we have to understand the facts of the matter: patient’s prognosis, wishes etc ...
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...From the moment we found him in that cardboard box stuck in the rain, we knew we would love him for forever. Alexander William Theodore Moreau was not only a son, but a role model; he would inspire us each and every day. Alexander absorbed the world like a sponge; he saw, he danced, he sang, he created, worked, changed, but most importantly he loved and lived with purpose. Alexander was on the football, soccer, track, and swim team and was also valedictorian in his senior year. Alex was known for being a magnificent person and an even more amazing friend friend. Even his boss, Henry Petit, told us he was a strenuous worker and had great potential at Cat Engineering Industries (C.E.I.). His friends James and Dean Accord tell us how awe-inspiring...
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...the individual. For example, an idiom: ‘after John had broken the window, he decided to face the music and tell his mother. ‘ Meaning: to accept the unpleasant consequences of one's actions With the help of an idiom, it becomes very easy for a person to narrate their native-language but if the person is using the language of other culture, sometimes it becomes an entirely unapproachable thing. Analogy If in the figurative language in order to highlight some point of similarity, the author does comparison between two different things. This style of speech is known as analogy. They are used to give a brief and to the point-developed form of the topic. An analogy: Puppy: Dog: Kitten: Cat Meaning: It means a puppy is a small do likewise kitten is a small cat. Metaphor Metaphor is referred as figure of speech which has any phrase or words applied to an object which is not literally...
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...Reflection Paper Hanjing Kong 11/1/15 Emily Murphy Bus X103 Reflection Paper: Cats Haven Nowadays, as the quality of people’s life getting higher, keeping a pet as a company at house start to become a popular trend in this society. However, a lot of people who buy pets later decide it is an inconvenience and get rid of them. Pet abandonment becomes a huge problem worldwide. There are countless millions of cats and dogs put to death every year, simply because people want to breed more pure blood pets, or just because they are not able to survive after they got abandoned. Majority pets got abandoned will have their lives forcefully ended feeling terrified, alone and unloved. Statistics worldwide shows that there are around six hundred million pets every year and many countries have extremely cruel animal overpopulation controls. Luckily, there are still groups of kind people in this world who would provide abandoned pets shelters, food, and love selflessly. I have always wanted to volunteer in an animal shelter, but it is quite difficult because volunteering at animal shelters usually requires several months of training and classes which my schedule doesn’t allow me to participate. After surfing on the Internet for 3 hours, I found Cats Haven. Cats Haven is Indianapolis’s oldest non-profit, no-kill, free-roaming feline sanctuary. It has been serving the Central Indiana community by specializing in care for special needs and elderly felines for over 25 years...
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...the subject, with the other eye serving as a control. The subjects are restrained, preventing them from responding naturally to the irritation, and their eyes are evaluated after one hour and then at 24-hour intervals for up to 14 days. Some continue to be evaluated up to three weeks later. The level of irritation to the eyes is scored numerically by observation of the three major tissues of the eye (cornea, conjunctiva, and iris). The subjects suffer from redness, bleeding, ulcers, and even blindness, and are likely killed upon completion of the experiment. The subjects were in fact rabbits in tests called “animal testing.” Animal testing has raised huge debates worldwide that has raised many questions. How important is animal testing for us humans? Are the results going to be the same? Most importantly, should we ban animal testing for the sake of the animals? Animal testing is a phrase that most people have heard but are perhaps still unsure of exactly what is involved. Whether it is called animal testing, animal experimentation or animal research, it refers to the experimentation carried out on animals. It is used to assess the safety and effectiveness of everything from medication to cosmetics, as well as understanding how the human body works. Animal testing, also known as animal research, plays a crucial role in scientists' understanding of diseases and in the development of effective medical treatments. Research animals provide scientists with complex living systems consisting...
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...This isn’t even the end of the horror stories and since these animals aren’t people we are taking those peoples word that they did no such things. I believe with adding at least one more surprise visit it could cut down on some of these awful situations. It would keep them guessing. I know money is a factor. I know personnel is a key factor but since the regulations have been increased there have been better outcomes and less horror stories to hear. These people now understand they are risking federal jail time. Which has discouraged the actions of the past. If we just spend a little more time and a few more dollars it can get us further than we’ve ever been. If animals are treated better in shelters it gives them a higher chance of being adopted which means spend less on euthanizing animals. In long run everyone and thing benefits from what I am proposing. We are granted life, why play god and take an animals chance at living away from...
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...Trifles by Susan Glaspell Trifles, the play demonstrates how different roles were played between men and women and how women were treated. During the period of the late 19th and 20th century women wanted to become more independent and equal as men. In which, Feminist criticism is concerned with "the ways in which literature reinforce or undermine the economic, political, social, and psychological oppression of women" (Tyson). Therefore ladies were just a piece of the social part, being limited to only raise their family and be house spouses. As a result of Glaspell’s experience in the early 20th century, she gives us confining perspectives of women during the time, demonstrating it through her play “Trifles”. Glaspell gives us different points of interest that plays the role of sympathizing and speaking up for the women. In which the title Trifles itself seems to recommend that the play...
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...the globe - a goal that could only be achieved with serious financial backing. Mr Ebbers had no trouble finding people willing to give him a hand. Usually sober bankers and investment analysts were entranced by his plain-speaking manner and as the company grew its share price defied gravity. Using its valuable shares as bargaining chips and backed up by piles of debt, Mr Ebbers snatched up businesses across the US and waded into Europe. Its acquisitions included UUNet, one of the oldest carriers of internet traffic, which is still a major provider to AOL. WorldCom also sealed what at the time was the biggest deal the US stock market had seen, snatching another US communications group, MCI, from the clutches of BT. That $40bn merger in 1998 gave WorldCom an effective stranglehold on the US internet market, forcing the sale of part of MCI to another British firm, Cable & Wireless. In the deal C&W picked up a piece of internet history as the MCI internet business was one of the original six companies which bought connections to "the internet" when the US infrastructure was privatised by the National Science Foundation. Mr Ebbers made friends around the world, and even installed phone lines to the Kremlin. After four years of planning and investment, his company opened for business in Europe, threatening to change...
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...To be a hero, one had to magnify society’s impression of what was possible for a human being. Many of these Greek heroes helped people, in one way or another. For example, Asclepius, the son of Apollo and the god of medicine, ultimately became the first doctor. He was able to bring people back to life, even when they were on the brink of death. Sadly, this became unacceptable due to the inundation of human beings. Zeus ended up killing Asclepius to keep the human population in check. Heroes have always been vital, as they aid in determining the extent of society’s...
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