...8th period English Analysis Essay for Maus We have all evolved from animals, and even though as humans we are more complex, we are also very similar. In the graphic novel Maus by Art Spiegleman, Art chooses to illustrate humans as animals. He portrays different classes and religions as different animals. This impacts the story in a positive way because it deepens the understanding of the characters and also further separates the classes and religions. By using animals instead of people there is an implied background of the nature of that animal which lets the reader have a fuller understanding of the character’s personality and traits. They also widen the gap between the groups by showing the natural hierarchy of the animals. The choice to use animals instead of humans was a positive addition to the story; animals were used in their most simplistic form so the traits that they were given during the time of the holocaust could be more easily understood. An illustration demonstrates this concept by having a Jewish family hiding in a bunker inside a garbage hole. Presented as mice, they were hiding in a hole underground that was filled with garbage, showing that they were cowards and dirty creatures. There is also another illustration where they are hiding from the Nazis, who are portrayed as cats, by crawling through a tunnel, like a mouse hole, to escape into another area. This also shows their sneaky and cowardly actions. Another way in which the...
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...Student’s Name Instructor’s Name Course Date Visual Analysis of World War II in Multiple Mediums Abstract During this Visual story telling class we learned ways to visually analyze different mediums. We learned about John Berger who introduced people seeing things in a new way. This is paralleled with the way the Holocaust has been portrayed in different mediums. He also introduced the idea of “seeing” depends on a person’s habit and their environment. I will be comparing elements in the mediums of Reflections and Echoes, Maus, Life is Beautiful, and Inglorious Bastards as well as the methods in the perceptions of the author and the lenses through which they see, and then go into detail about the readers perceptions. Introduction The medium through which an artist chooses to express their message or ideas has an effect on the way it is perceived by the viewer. Imagery has deeper meaning that artists tend to hide their message through the use of several representations. The type of image that an author decides to use has an ultimate effect on the perception of the audience. Members of the audience decode varied meanings from an image in the text. The World War II is among issues that have been represented in texts and movies through the use of imagery. It is upon the audience to have extra skills so that they decipher the intended meaning of the author. In this analysis, the focus will be on how different texts and films have portrayed World War II. However,...
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...“The Red Pony” by John Steinbeck – Critical Analysis John Steinbeck an American writer was born in the year 1902 and died in the year 1968.During his time, Steinbeck was one of the most accomplished writers and his literary works received massive popularity. Most of his novels and short stories were performed as plays on stage and that is one reason why he was among the best sellers during his era. One of his great accomplishments for his involvement in literature was the Literature Nobel Prize he won in 1962. Steinbeck wrote a total of twenty seven books and some of his most common books include; “The grapes of Wrath” written in 1939, the 1952 “East of Eden, The 1937 short novel “Mice and men” (John, pg 23). John Steinbeck spent much of his early life in a rural part of America and worked on various ranches with migrants ‘on spreckler ranch and other nearby ranches during his summers. He attended Salinas high school and later joined Stanford University, although he never graduated. He did various odd jobs before beginning his career as a writer. Steinbeck wrote his first novel Cup of Gold which was published in 1929.Other books he wrote were; the pastures of heaven (1932), The Red Pony (1933), Tortilla Flat (1935), The Grapes of Wrath (1939), and many others. During his career, Stein beck was involved in various issues and correspondence. Most of his literary works revolved around his life as well as the issues that affected people then (John, pg 56). One of the issues he wrote...
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...critical period early in life, where exposure to testosterone is essential to elicit aggression in adulthood. It is though testosterone helps sensitise androgen responsive system. There have been many experiments done to see the effects of adding and removing testosterone. All of which have been performed on animals due to methodological and ethical issues with testing on humans. It was found that male mice that are castrated at birth showed a decreased level of aggression. These findings were also supported by similar studies involving different species fo animals and so it is not solely specific to mice. Although castration research can be useful, castration disrupts other hormone systems as well as testosterone and os these may be playing a part in the reduced aggression. However as these findings come from animal studies, we cannot apply it to humans and so we cannot learn much about human behaviour from this specific experiment. This is because humans have a more complex physiology, for example, and so may respond quite differently. Instead, we have to do a cost-benefit analysis, in that is the potential harm...
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...com/applications/3313898/ibm-simulates-45-of-the-human-brain--skynet-and-terminator-next/ Author: Jason Kennedy Date: October 27, 2011 Summary: The article describes how latest research by IBM shows that computers may soon be able to match human brains. When it comes to storage, machines have long surpassed human’s capacity and in terms of mathematics, fast computers beat us by far in solving complex equations. However, (at least until now) humanity wins in the brain’s sheer computational power and energy efficiency. IBM’s Blue Gene supercomputer has already outclassed the processing power of some animals like mice, rats and cats. Of the 20 billion neurons and the connecting 200 trillion synapses the human brain contains, IBM’s Blue Gene simulated about 4.5%. By 2019, the company is confident to have equaled the processing power of one entire human brain. Analysis: Certainly this topic puts a lot of people on edge. We may all have heard about Moore’s Law of computers suggesting that a PC’s processing capacity will drastically increase over the years but the fact that our society may reach a point where computers are intelligent enough to make themselves smarter through repetition and design, and eventually outperform humanity is intimidating and needs to be discussed. Like we talked about it in class, where will this lead to? Will we experience a real-life matrix fighting machines à la “I, Robot”? Will we all be part of science fiction, with the difference that fiction has...
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...Art Spiegelman’s Maus is a famous, Pulitzer Prize winning tale about the journey of a Jewish Holocaust survivor. Despite the amount of similar storylines, Spiegelman’s creativity with the normal elements of comics has won him high praise. This analysis will focus on Spiegelman’s unique twist on icons, layouts, diegesis, abstraction, and encapsulation as displayed by Maus. Icons are pictures that are used to embody a person, place, thing, or idea. McCloud hammers this concept home by drawing random things, such as a cow (McCloud, pg. 26), but reminds the reader that it is technically not a real cow. It is just an image. In Maus, Spiegelman’s characters are icons; he utilizes everyday, commonplace animals to represent the humans in the plot. The type of animal portrayed is dependent on the nationality of the human being resembled. The Jewish characters, such as Vladek and Art, are depicted as mice (pg.11, top left panel), the Polish are drawn as pigs (pg.28, bottom panel), the Germans are cats (pg. 33), and the Americans are dogs (pg. 125, bottom right). These animalistic icons aid the reader in clearly distinguishing between the different groups of character, establishing a prevalent a motif of predator vs. prey, as well as revealing common traits of each group. Abstraction is the process of breaking down an image to a more simple form, allowing the viewer to focus on specific details. Spiegelman strategically uses abstraction in his style when drawing his characters....
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...Mammals (class Mammalia /məˈmeɪli.ə/ from Latin mamma "breast") are any members of a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles and birds by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair,[a] three middle ear bones, and mammary glands. The mammalian brain regulates body temperature and the circulatory system, including the four-chambered heart. Mammals include the largest animals on the planet, the rorquals and other large whales, as well as some of the most intelligent, such as elephants, primates, including humans, and cetaceans. The basic body type is a four-legged land-borne animal, but some mammals are adapted for life at sea, in the air, in trees, or on two legs. The largest group of mammals, the placentals, have a placenta, which enables feeding the fetus during gestation. Mammals range in size from the 30–40 mm (1.2–1.6 in) bumblebee bat to the 33-meter (108 ft) blue whale. The word "mammal" is modern, from the scientific name Mammalia coined by Carl Linnaeus in 1758, derived from the Latin mamma ("teat, pap"). All female mammals nurse their young with milk, which is secreted from special glands, the mammary glands. According to Mammal Species of the World, 5,416 species were known in 2006. These were grouped in 1,229 genera, 153 families and 29 orders.[1] In 2008 the IUCN completed a five-year, 1,700-scientist Global Mammal Assessment for its IUCN Red List, which counted 5,488 accepted species.[2] In some classifications, extant mammals...
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...and are often not given proper pain medication. Animals are frequently restrained and cut open without any pain killers. Much of this is considered legal torture. Legal tests include burning, poisoning, starving, forced smoking, mutilating, blinding, electrocuting, drowning, and dissecting without painkillers. Animals in labs are often routinely mutilated and subjected to physical and psychological torment everyday of their lives. In 2012, monkeys were boiled alive when they were sent through scalding hot mechanical cage washers, while other were overheated to death in the poor laboratory conditions. Unauthorized amputations and open-heart surgeries without painkillers or anesthetics are other examples animals are subjected to. For decades, cats, dogs, primates, birds, rodents, horses, goats, pigs, and other animals have been experimented on using these torturous...
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...Most medical trials succeed on animals, but not humans. Over 11,000 cancer treatment helped mice with cancer, but nonetheless which worked on humans (Spun 1). Vioxx, Phenacetin, E-Farol, Oraflex, Zomax, Soprol, and Selacryn, which are all medical drugs, have passed animal testing, but then ended up leaving people with allergic reactions, Blindness, Deafness, paralysis, clots, cancer, and many sophisticated illnesses and defects (PETA 1). Clioquinol, a animal tested drug which was supposed to be an antibiotic drug for viral and protozoal infections, succeeded on animals, but left people with blindness and paralysis (Spun...
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...for consumers. The FDA “urges cosmetic manufacturers to conduct whatever tests are appropriate to establish that their cosmetics are safe”, but “does not specifically mandate animal testing for cosmetic safety.” The issue that is being raised is it ethical to harm an animal for the sake of marketing a new cosmetic product. Facts: Every year, an estimated 70 million animals are maimed or killed for cosmetic testing in the US alone, and nearly $12 billion taxpayer dollars are spent yearly on the practice. Labs that use mice, rats, birds, reptiles and amphibians are exempted from the minimal protections under the Animal Welfare Act (AWA). The AWA authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to promulgate standards and other requirements governing the humane handling, housing, care, treatment, and transportation of certain animals by dealers, research facilities, exhibitors, carriers, and intermediate handlers. The AWA defines animal to mean “any live or dead dog, cat, monkey (nonhuman...
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...Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Background Euphorbia hirta, belongs to the family of Euphorbiaceae which is a large family of dicotyledons, with about 300 genera and over 5,000 species. Here in the Philippines, the Euphorbia hirta, is commonly referred to as Tawa-tawa or Gatas-gatas in some provinces. It is also known as Asthma weed or Snake weed in the United States. The plants of 3 different species share Phoretic variations, these plants are: (1) Mutha (Cyperus rotundus), (2) Gatas-gatas (Euphorbia hirta) and (3) Botoncillo (Gomphena globosa). Tawa-tawa is usually very abundant in tropical regions such as the Philippines. A simple weed scattered in sunny lawns, waste places and open grasslands. It is pantropic in distribution. The plant is an annual, hairy herb, usually branched from the base, spreading up to 40 cm long. The stem is slender and often reddish and purplish in color, covered with yellowish bristly hairs especially in younger parts. The leaves are oppositely arranged, elliptical-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 1 to 2.5 cm long, toothed at the edge, and blotched with purple in the middle. In the axils appear numerous involucres, purplish or greenish, dense, axillary, short stalk clusters or crowded cymes, about 1 mm long. The capsules are broadly ovoid, hairy, three-angled, about 1.5 cm. The small green flowers constitute the inflourescence characteristics of the euphorbias. The stem and the leaves produce white or milky juice when cut (Lind and Tallantire...
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...never really looking for love. Him and the other ranch hands would go into town to the cat house and so I guess that was a sufficient amount of interaction for him. On the other hand, he would sometimes grow angry with Lenny and lash out at him. In that context you could say the Jay and George are alike because the are lonely and frustrated. These two men are also alike because they both wanted land. George wanted land to live out his life in peace and freedom, and Jay wanted land so Daisey would love him. This is why Jays mansion is directly across the bay from Daisey's mansion in East Egg New...
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...Q1. Martha and the Trap-Ease investors believe they face a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. What information do they need to evaluate this opportunity? How do you think the group would write its mission statement? How would you write it? A1. To evaluate some potential opportunity, investors usually use the “Market Opportunity Analysis” method. This method helps in determining the attractiveness and chances of success of that opportunity. To do that, we need to gather information that helps us answer five main questions: 1. Can we clearly express the benefits of our solution to the defined target markets? 2. Can we reach those target markets with media and trade channels? Can we do it effectively cost-wise? 3. Do we possess or can we acquire the resources and capabilities needed to be able to deliver the customer benefits? 4. Can we deliver the benefits better than any current or potential competitor? 5. Will the expected “return on investment” meet or exceed the investor’s required threshold for investment? Regarding the mission, for a company to write a good mission statement, the statement should have some major characteristics. First, it should focus on a limited number of goals. A large number of goals is usually a sign of distraction and a vague vision. Second, the statement should stress the company’s core values and major policies. Third, the statement should provide a long-term view of the future. Forth, the statement should be short and memorable...
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...Introduction A zoonotic disease is a disease that can be passed between animals and humans which is caused by viruses, bacteria, parasites, and fungi. These zoonotic diseases are very common due to the high contact between humans and animals on a daily basis either at home or in the workplace. The scientific world has estimations that 6 out of every 10 infectious diseases in humans are spread from animals. Echinococcosis can also be called a hydatid disease, hydatidosis, or echinococcal disease and is a disease which involves Echninococcus tapeworm parasites with two main types which are cystic echinococcosis (CE) and alveolar-echinococcosis (AE) (CDC, 2012). According to the World Health Organization (2014) up to 1 million people globally are affected at any one time. As shown in Figure 1 below, it is easy to transmit the disease between species. However, although humans can be infected which according to the WHO (2015) means they are accidental intermediate hosts but they cannot transmit the disease. [pic] Figure 1: The cycle of echinococcosis (Source: www.cieh.org ) The importance of the disease The importance of the disease is that it has been present and well known for many years but has been rather neglected by the health organizations. However according to the WHO (2014; Higuita et al 2015) echinococcosis was recently introduced in the list of neglected tropical diseases and is one of the six priority neglected zoonotic diseases which...
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...Commanding the Heights: the Battle of Ideas This essay starts with an introduction of the documentary Commanding the Heights: the Battle of Ideas made by PBS, then conducts the analysis on the two competing economic ideas of Keyes vs. Hayek, and finally presents a detailed illustration of their impacts on the America’s economic policies since 1980. Introduction The PBS-made documentary ‘Commanding the Heights’ is to promote better understanding of globalization, economic development and world trade, featured with specific examples of different countries and interviews with related parties. Episode One "The Battle of Ideas," gives an overview of the battle between two major competing ideas about the world economy over the course of last century. On the one hand, the English economist Keynes believes in the ‘planned economy’ and advocates the government intervention to mitigate the risk during economic recession or depression; On the other hand, the Australian economist Hayek favors the free market mechanism and believes in minimum government intervention as market will eventually take care of itself and the prices system is at the heart of what makes a functioning economy work. The episode tracks the root of these ideas and explains how the world moved toward the government controlled economy during the 20th century in a chronological order summarized as below. The Russian Revolution in 1917 marked the beginning of communism economy, in which government is very important...
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