...Dog Eat Dog? Dog fighting has been around for hundreds of years and can be traced back to Europe. The sport of dog fighting is progressively getting more and more popular. It is illegal and considered a felony under federal laws in all fifty states in the United States of America (Dogfighting Fact Sheet 1). Besides the act of dog fighting itself being illegal, there are usually always other criminal activities involved such as: drug paraphernalia, illegal weapons, illegal gambling, and gang activities. Therefore, this so-called sport of dog fighting should continuously stay prohibited, and be more harshly punished by stricter laws. This brutal and bloody entertainment sport, where dogs fight to the death, is an inexcusable example of animal cruelty. Dog fighting is believed to have started in England after bull-baiting was outlawed. Bull-baiting was a spectator sport where a bull had a rope tied around its neck and then tied to a stake in the ground. Bulldogs were then sent to attack or “pin down” the bull by grasping the bull by its nose. Many dogs would receive life threatening wounds or would be killed by the bull trying to escape the torture of numerous dogs attacking him (Luca 1). After this very popular sport was banned people who owned these bull-baiting dogs, also known as bulldogs today, began pitting these dogs against each other. After people began participating in the sport of dog fighting, people began breeding bulldogs with terriers (Background on Dog Fighting...
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...great resource for all the police departments that have them. The dog and its handler are partners for life. The dog will always be around to protect their handler and the fellow officers. Losing the dog on the job can be hard, but at least the officer will know that the canine officer died protecting civilians. Canines are able to solve different crimes because they have a better sense of smell and agility than most humans have. Being a K9 officer will be a great advantage to me because of all the different crimes that the dog and officer can stop. Fun facts abound about police canines. Robbie, a previous police canine, came over from Slovakia. Robbie, a German shepherd, was Officer Steve Roux’s dog before Officer Roux became Chief. Robbie then became Mike Carroll's...
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...Harp in the South’ would say yes, so would the film ‘Red Dog’ and every alcohol advertisement. I can confidently say that this stereotype is very exaggerated but still has some truth and by the end of this article, you will most definitely...
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...12/16/13 Police dogs have become a vital part of the police force. They are well trained, obedient dogs that, unlike humans, do not fear the daily challenges that are put upon them while on the job. Police units throughout the world use K-9 units. They are employed by many different police forces and by many different governmental agencies through out the world. Police dogs can search 400 to 500 packages in a half an hour. They can search a car every minute. When a dog searches a car the speed that a dog does it in saves time, when a human searcher could only do about one car every twenty minutes. Also, according to Canada Customs, in one year, 1993, the dogs searched 80,000 cars, 11 million packages and 6 million units of cargo. From this, they found 58,000 pounds of marijuana, 3,027 pounds of hashish, 18 pounds of cocaine, 29 pounds of heroin, 5 pounds of opium and 4.3 million dosage units of illegal prescription-type drugs. The combined value of all these drugs in 1993 was $192.5 million dollars. Throughout the years, dogs have been trained using natural scents as well as artificial scents; they continue to use this training by tracking people and substances in training drills and in real life situations, despite every on the job hazard. As man evolved, he began to use dogs to help hunt prey and search for food to be able to survive. However, as he became more civilized, he needed to use dogs for more than those three simple things. He needed dogs to be trained to perform...
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...Animal Rights There was a dog named Marley. Marley was a very lovable dog. When his owner walks him in the park every child would like to play with Marley. One day, Marley saw a father disciplining his child, and Marley saw it as a bad thing to the child. He ran over and bit the father’s hand. The ugly father turned his head around and grabbed Marley by his collar. The father then called the pound to arrest Marley. Animal services declared that he is a very dangerous animal and decided to put him down. Marley has no voice to speak up for his right. Marley could not lift his paw when they went to inject him with a poisonous medicine. Marley had no one to defend him; but Marley had rights. People need to advocate for dogs like Marley. Not only dogs, but also other animals where their furs have been taken away from them, animals that are brutally killed by hunters, and there are many abandoned and abused pets. All animals should have rights. Fur farms are found in many countries. “The main markets for fur are found in China, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan, Korea, Russia, Eastern Europe, Spain, and USA” (Fur Facts, n.d, Para.11). According to statistics, “50 million animals are killed each year for fur and 85% of these animals come from fur farms” (Fur Facts, n.d, Para. 1). Every animal that lives in a fur farm goes through hell. They are put in a small cage their entire lives. After birth, many animals are taken away from their mothers and are forced to live...
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...llama could have served the purpose of doing strenuous physical work in replacement of the more ubiquitous manual labor. As stated by “The Columbian Exchange”, “On Columbus’s second voyage in 1493 he brought horses, dogs, pigs, cattle, chickens, sheep, and goats.” Because these animals had no natural predators and an immunity to European disease they thrived of off the land and created new forms of labor-reduction and food for the people inhabiting these lands. Pigs especially created a unique new sustenance for peoples in the Americas as they reproduced at astonishing rates and provided magnificent amounts of nutrient-rich meat. Horses too had been brought over and these two...
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...tightened national securities of many countries especially on every possible stations and ports of all modes of transport that a terrorist may pose a threat to. At this point of time, although the al-Qaeda is no longer a prominent terrorist threat, another established and independent militant organization by the name of the Islamic State (IS) got the world concerned about its activities in the Middle East which in turn affected and continues to affect the rest of the world through its twisted beliefs and brutality. This paper aims to define this currently infamous group’s beliefs and objectives, how it works as an organization, how it is a threat to many countries all over the world, and the methods to effectively bring it down. Introduction What is ISIS? The subject of this paper have gone by many names over the past few years. These names include the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), or more commonly just simply the Islamic State (IS). Being made up of fundamentalist Sunni...
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...War. What is war some may ask? William Orville Hickok describes it as “terrible” and hard to explain to someone “that has never been there before”. Try to imagine standing in the desert alongside your best friends when hundreds and hundreds of rockets, called MLRS , go flying over your head and explode. The sound is so powerful that it breaks the sound barrier, which sends a chill up and back down your spine. When you hear it, it sounds like thunder that has traveled from one end of the sky to the other. Not only would these rockets launch like a space shuttle headed for the moon, but they would light up the sky like a sunrise. It humbles you to think that those roaring and deafening weapons, in a matter of seconds, had the potential to kill thousands of people. You just stand in awe, thinking to yourself, “Thank God I’m on the right side of those missiles.”. Well, Major William Orville Hickok, only 19 years old at the time, did just that as a soldier during Desert Storm. This experience was one in a lifetime for him and will forever stay with him. This is just one of the many things that made this war special, different, and one to remember for Hickok, and many like him, during Desert Storm. William Orville Hickok grew up in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania, with one older and one...
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...World War I Bill Johnson DeVry University Professor Kevin Muir DeVry University June 22nd, 2014 World War I 1914-1918 will be dates forever ingrained into the history of the world. These dates bring about and highlight the human thirst for expansion, oppression, and war. These four years of time depict a flaw in human nature that goes against all common sense in the belief in peace. This is proven in the fact that humans have given identity to the event that took place as “The Great War”, a global conflict that saw the death of millions of combatants and still one of the deadliest conflicts in history. Nationalism, Imperialism, and Militarism are the forces that drove nations to this conflict, coupled with depression, oppression, and expansionism. The great economic powers of the world were assembled into two opposing alliances, one dubbed the Allies and one called the Central Powers none of which included the United States initially. World War I saw a resurgence of imperialism and this was the underlying cause and what eventually saw the United States, Japan side with its economic partners and the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria join the Central Powers. The immediate spark that lit the flames of World War I was the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by the Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo (Mitrovic, 2007). Ferdinand was the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary and his death set off a diplomatic crisis as an ultimatum was delivered...
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... rP os t Rev. 10/2/93 Cat Fight in the Pet Food Industry (A) The Product op yo “[Pet foods] is an industry waiting for a breakthrough,” said Peter Bowen, marketing manager of H.J. Heinz's 9 Lives cat food.1 In 1986, virtually all U.S. pet owners purchased commercially-produced food for their dogs and cats. However, by the mid-1980s, the nation's pet population, consisting of about 50 million dogs and 50 million cats in half of the U.S. households, had entered a period of slow growth. As pet food consumption stabilized at around 10 billion pounds per year, the industry's major players realized that sales increases would most likely follow only from larger “share of stomach.” The vast majority of pet food sales were for cats and dogs. In 1986, dog food sales exceeded $3.2 billion, while cat food sales were about $2.1 billion. Within each of these two broad categories, however, there were different types and several flavors of pet food made from many different ingredients including grains, poultry, fish, meat, and animal by-products. No tC The principal types of pet food were (in order of sales) dry, canned, and moist. Dry pet food, the largest dog and second largest cat segment in 1986, had a cereal base that was augmented with animal- or plant-based protein, fats, vitamins, and minerals. Dry foods had a low moisture content (5% to 15%), and therefore did not contain preservatives. Canned food for dogs consisted of meat and meat offal (inedible...
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...Hollywood and the Hero Image The influence of Hollywood and its continuous adjustment of the hero image, from the Humphrey Bogarts to the everyman G.I. Joe’s of World War II. The Hollywood studio system sensitive to public opinion, learned early in its development to supply their audiences with heroes that fit the prevailing social and political climate. America during the post-depression pre-war period, reviving from the hard life of poverty, despair, disillusioned with government, personal success, and lacking pride in their country were hungry for diversion. Hollywood supplied them with the Three Stooges, gangsters, private eyes, dashing white-coated sophisticates, dancing girls and musicals. Moreover, while this diversion was taking place, a part of the Hollywood elite were using their power to shape and influence the collective mind of America by producing movies depicting the struggle of man against hardship, our early heritage, the dignity of man, and the reconnecting of the people into a powerful nation. The Good Earth (1937), Drums Along the Mohawk (1939), Meet John Doe (1939), and Mr. Smith goes to Washington (1939), are examples. The heroes of these movies were the average everyday man or woman, thrown in to circumstances beyond their control. They were the reluctant heroes of their time, yet they were able to show that anyone could be a hero if they needed to. Rich, poor, short, or tall the audience could emphasize with these types of movies, and heroes as many...
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...since most of the examples of rare species represent inbred genetic lines. Yet the zoo does include enough lions, elephants, hippos, zebras, giraffes, and monkeys to satisfy most visitors. The animal care attracts far more complaints than the variety. Much ridiculed by non-Egyptians, the exhibits of Rottweilers, Dobermans, German shepherds, and other dog breeds are of interest, albeit apparently declining, in a society where keeping pet dogs is still rare, cold climate breeds are seldom seen, and most dogs are rat-catchers and scavengers. People, many of them elderly, who might never keep a dog from fear of landlord hostility or social ostracism come to feed and pet the zoo dogs. Most of the Giza Zoo is a gathering place for teenagers, but the quiet corner housing the dogs, ducks, and geese is something of a senior center. The Giza Zoo is among the more enduring works of Khedive Ismail, who at age 33 in 1863 inherited the governance of Egypt as senior representative of the Turkish-based Ottoman Empire. Khedive Ismail in 1869 opened the Suez Canal, 10 years after a French corporation began digging it, and in 1875 turned the canal over to the British government, who held it until 1956. Eventually alienating both France and Britain, Khedive Ismail was removed from office by the Ottomans in 1879. He went on to seek Egyptian independence from the Ottomans, fought the slave trade in Sudan, and opened the Giza Zoo on March 1, 1891, as his last major action in public life. He died four...
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...i am a The Moon Is Down is a novella by John Steinbeck. The title refers to a phrase spoken by Banquo's son Fleance in Shakespeare's Macbeth. It was published in March of 1942. The story details a military occupation of a small town in Northern Europe by the army of an unnamed nation at war with England and Russia (much like the occupation of Norway by the Germans during World War II). A French language translation of the book was published illegally in Nazi-occupied France by Les Editions de Minuit, a French Resistance publishing house[citation needed]. Furthermore, numerous other editions were also secretly published across all of occupied Europe, including Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Dutch and Italian versions.[citation needed]. It has appeared in at least 92 editions across the world[citation needed]. Contents [hide] 1 Plot summary 1.1 Townspeople 1.2 The "Invaders" 2 Film, TV or theatrical adaptations 3 External links [edit] Plot summary In the story, an invading force arrives at a coal mining town in Europe and takes it over. Their goal is simple: to control the coal mine and organize increased production and exportation of coal. The occupiers soon find themselves in conflict with the townspeople as a resistance movement begins. They try to combat the resistance and force the inhabitants into submission, but realize the futility of this, as it becomes clear the war is lost. The Moon Is Down is a story one can view from both sides. The main characters...
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...It was a sunny day in 1986 when a tall, handsome, bearded man by the name of Carlo Petrini got word of McDonald’s’ plan to open a restaurant near the famous Piazza di Spagna in Rome, not too far from his home town of Bra, Italy. In an attempt to resist this fast food offense, Petrini began mobilizing people to fight against this invasion in a movement that is now internationally known as the “Slow Food” Movement. By 1989, the founding manifesto of the international Slow Food movement was signed in Paris, France by delegates from 15 countries. At its heart is the aim to promote local foods and centuries-old traditions of gastronomy and food production. Conversely, this means an opposition to fast food, industrial food production and globalization. Since 1986, the Slow Food movement has expanded to over 100,000 members with branches in over 150 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Japan. With its “Good, clean and fair” motto, the Slow Food movement is striving to preserve traditional and regional cuisine and encourages farming of plants, seeds and livestock characteristic of the local ecosystem (Slow Food International). Through these means they hope to create a better, more sustainable and healthier planet for everyone. While the Slow Food movement began with modest, local minded roots, it has since expanded to become potentially the most effective attempt to guide the direction of globalization. Globalization has to ability to harm...
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...herbal medicine which is now applicable for us. Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. A popular garden plant, Marigold has been valued for many centuries for its' exceptional healing powers and is particularly remarkable in the treatment of wounds. When used for medicinal purposes, it is commonly referred to as 'Calendula'. (Sunset Western Garden Book) The “marigold” (Calendula officinalis) also called “ruddles”, common marigold, garden marigold, English marigold, or Scottish marigold is a plant in the genus Calendula of the family Asteraceae. It is probably native to southern Europe, though its long history of cultivation makes its precise origin unknown, and it may possibly be of garden origin. It is also widely naturalized further north in Europe (north to southern England) and elsewhere in warm temperate regions of the world. “Marigold” is well known as a wound-healing, antiseptic and stimulating remedy, but in fact modern herbalists rely upon this plant for a wide range of uses. Only Marigold's flower heads are used medicinally. The bright petals contain powerful natural chemicals that give the herb its' amazing healing properties, so always ensure that you use the most vibrant orange flowers available. Mindy Green in her book Calendula, has compiled an impressive list of some of Marigold's other potential...
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