...Killer Dogs There are various views on dangerous dogs and their owners. Who’s to blame for the number of attacks on kids? In what follows I shall give an outline of these views presented in three texts by three different people and also how they’ve chosen to write these texts. The first text “Police back new law on killer dogs” is written by Jamie Doward who works for The Guardian. Because of the death of the five-year-old Ellie Lawrenson there has been a national debate concerning dangerous dogs. Senior police officer Bernard Hogan-Howe believes that the current legislation is confused and needs to be overhauled. Though it seems that the owners of these dogs are the target rather than the dogs themselves. Kiel Simpson whose dog killed Ellie Lawrenson is facing a jail sentence despite the fact that he’s already serving a life sentence. “The confusion saw hundreds of people in the Merseyside area hand in their dogs to police during an amnesty amid concerns they might be prosecuted.” (p. 2, ll. 27-28). Clearly the owners seem to the problem in this text since they are the ones who have purchased these dangerous animals. “Pit bulls have certain traits but in the hands of responsible owners they would not be a danger. The act hasn’t worked; it’s failed to prevent a significant number of attacks.” (p. 2, ll. 39-40). This just emphasizes the view on this subject. Once again the owners are to blame because they haven’t been responsible when it comes to controlling their...
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...1. In Text 1 (Jamie Doward, ‘’Police back new law on killer dogs’’), the author discusses a proposal to overturn the Dangerous Dog Act, holding pet owners responsible for any dangerous acts committed by their dogs, rather than focusing on a particular breed of dog as a means of dog control. In Text 2 (Victorie Stilwell, ‘’Jail owners of killer dogs”), the author also holds owners responsible for monitoring and carefully supervising their dogs at all times. The author strongly states that it is unfair to children as well as dogs to ever leave a dog unsupervised in the presence of children. In Text 3 (Simon Heffer, ‘’If the dog is dangerous, the owner will be, too”), the author also holds the human accountable for the actions of their dogs, but he is very negative and discriminatory about certain dog breeds as well as certain classes of people. The author states that certain breeds of dogs are prized by certain classes and types of people and that with aggressive dogs comes law-breaking people. 2. Simon Heffer, in his writing about dangerous dogs, is very critical of both the legislation regarding certain breeds as well as about their owners. It is obvious from his writing that Heffer has disdain towards people whom are impoverished, referring to them as “the underclass”. He is very negative towards certain breeds of dogs and stereotypes the people who own them. ‘’Pit bulls and their associated banned breeds are the chiens du choix of the criminal classes’’ This statement...
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...shoes of the characters. The story sets in a small town in Jamaica, where a body was brought ashore after the Hurricane Charlie. In 1951, Hurricane Charlie killed more than 150 people in Jamaica. However in this case, that didn’t happen, “a murderer was on the loose” Hurricane Charlie was not affiliated with this death. Someone killed this woman, and that person was in the small rural town of Jamaica, where everyone is a suspect. The woman was in a water tank, where she drowned before washed ashore. The narrator in this case is the one who evaluates each individual to the woman. In the first chapter, before the hurricane, the narrator’s dog has become motionless and stops barking, this signifies death of someone and the dog senses this. A gathering occurred to calm the villagers, but everyone was pointing at the other, and claiming that the dog is just hungry. Many accusations lead to J.B., a strong man who is usually compared with Samson. His conduct is usually scary, for people make rumors about him, even though most of it is not true, however they still live off the fact that he has done those things. After J.B. left the narrator found a beautiful pocket knife, this belongs to J.B., and the young child felt as if it’s a perfect gift for him. Young as he may be, he hoped that with the knife with him, he can be as strong and feared as J.B. 9 days according to African rural society, believes that ghost are real, and the 9 days after someone’s death there would be a celebration...
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...special alright, but for the worst. John and his wife were talking, when John had to go to the men's room. John was standing over the sink washing his hands. He suspected he was alone, but then out of nowhere someone came up from behind him and wrapped a rope tightly around his neck. He struggled and fought but his attacker was too strong. As John's face turned from pale to purple, he hit the ground. That same night, Karen was in her bedroom. Her long, luscious hair flowed as she walked, over to one of her drawers, searching for her favourite outfit. Not knowing her fate she turned around to meet the edge of large dagger, stabbed twenty four times. Blood everywhere. She yelled for help, but by the time her neighbours came, her killer was gone and she was dead. Now the police...
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...BRAMPTON – Derick Stall, age 34, kills Brad Williams, his employer on 13th Street. It all happen on Monday June 1st, 2015 at 12:27am. Brad was suffocated to death by a matress and then its body was chopped and was put under the floor by Derick. The reason why Derick killed Brad, his employer, was that Derick was bothered by his eye. Derick planed his death 7 nights before, but he didn’t come to kill him because he wasn’t tempted by Brad’s eye. But on the 8th night, Brad woke up by a sound, when Derick saw his eye, he jumped on him and threw him under the matress. During this process, Brad yelled once. The scream was heard by Brad’s neighbour, Wendy. Wendy reported to the cops ‘’ I was woken up by a loud scream. I believe it...
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...United States for animal abuse. Ohio was the #1 in auto cases. In Canton Ohio, one case involved where a dog got stolen then dragged behind a bicycle why they were trying to get away. The man thought the dog was cute and he can take better care of it. The man was charged with 120 days in jail and 2 years of probation to follow. The dog survived and is back with the owner. Another case in Fairborn Ohio was a dog beaten with a bat then ran over with vehicle. The people who did it said it was out of angry from what the dog did. After they realized what they did, they drove the dog to the nearest animal shelter. The dog survived and adopted by a lady that has 140 acres of land and raised $1,400 dollars to build a fence around her yard. The case is still not close yet. Life cycle of abusers age and genders are mostly male’s age range from 31-40 years. The graph on pet-abuse.com shows that 9,977 males and 3,201 females were accuse of abusing animals. Males abuse 6,776 more animals then women do. You can find all of these statistics, graphs, and cases near you on pet-abuse.com. There is a lot of wildlife animal abuse in the World. All tiger subspecies put together currently amount to around 3,200 endangered tigers remaining in the wild. Tigers are being killed for their pelts, meat and body parts. Their body parts are used for Chinese medicine for a range of uses, including pain killers. A bowl of tiger penis soup goes for $320, a pair of eyes for $170 and powdered tiger...
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...Glencore’s bad international practices As the world is enduring a serious financial crisis, big businesses have been challenged as never before. Protesters have been demanding a fairer form of capitalism. People want more socially responsible companies and genuinely popular capitalism. The case discusses one of the world’s most powerful conglomerates in the world which is Glencore. As it was recently introduced in London Stock Exchange, Glencore was questioned about its international practices. It is a commodity giant specialized in raw materials. The multi-billion dollar commodity giant is accused of profiting from child labor in several mining exploitation in the Congo, moreover, claims say that it is paying the associates of paramilitary killers in Colombia. An investigation proves that children as young as ten are working in the Glencore-owned mining concession and some confidential documents show a Glencore subsidiary made payments to the suspected associates of paramilitary in Colombia. In the Congo, while international law prohibits anyone under 18 working in a mine, many of the miners were under the legal age. Although Glencore says it stopped operating in the mine since 2008, because of the collapse in the price of copper, it still owns the concession. Glencore chief executive Ivan Glasenberg said the mine had been taken over by local workers without its permission. He said the child miners were part of a group of freelance miners who "raided our land in 2010… against all...
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...Cristian Uribe The war without end, selfishness, nothing to do against death and the scars of the war in Men without women In this essay I’m talking about the main issues present in the following short stories in Men without women by Ernest Hemingway (1928): In another country (25-29), Hills like white elephants (29-33), The killers (33-40) and Now I lay me (83). In another country is about a wounded American soldier recuperating from an injury by receiving treatments from machines in a hospital in Milan, Italy. Machines. With him there’s an Italian major receiving treatment for a shriveled hand. There is a strong optimism of a physician employing the new machines which is contrasted with the skepticism of Italian major who, disbelieving in the machines, nevertheless comes regularly for therapy to his hand. That daily attendance is interrupted only with the sudden death of the major’s wife. The machines were new, as result, the narrator and the major were trying them. And although they both didn’t trust in the machines they were under their treatment because they really wanted to recover. The major wanted to be his wife and the narrator probably wanted to clean his pride because his wound and medals were “fake”. What I think can be infer from the text is that even if the machines have success healing the soldiers, the war for them won’t end because is not just facing enemy on the front line but also picking up the pieces of their damaged lives and facing the prospect...
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...Eternal Beauty In Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18”, the narrator employs an extended metaphor when comparing the addressee to a “summer’s day”. The metaphor is emphasized by the tone shift in line nine, and the comparison is finalized by a couplet that expands on the theme of immortality. The sonnet makes it clear that the individual’s beauty and vigor cannot be compared to commonplace nature and that the individual is something more than human. Sonnet 18 is part of the group of sonnets that is written to address men. In this particular one, Shakespeare compares the man’s beauty to that of nature, particularly a day in the summer. The first quatrain begins the extended metaphor by implying that the man being addressed has all the qualities of a summer’s day. This immediately associates the man with the sun and all of its qualities: he is strong, bright, and full of energy. However, by writing: “Though art more lovely and more temperate,” in line two, Shakespeare illustrates the fact that although the best thing nature has to offer, a summer’s day is far from perfect. The first shift happens in line three; the narrator stops talking about the man and begins pointing out the imperfections of summer. He employs vivid imagery to argue that summer’s beauty is hurt by “rough winds” and its “lease hath all too short a date,” (4). Shakespeare also adds that summer may sometimes be too hot, and other times its “gold complexion [is] dimm’d,” (5). This emphasizes the qualities of the man; he...
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...and other dogs, and give them obedience training. Gorant, J. (2010). The Lost Dogs. New York, New York: Penguin Group Inc. The author details what became of the fifty-one pit bulls that were rescued from Michael Vick’s house at 1915 Moonlight Road due to dog fighting. This case changed how dogs seized in dogfighting rings were evaluated. Before this case the dogs were never given the chance for rehabilitation, they was just euthanized. Twenty-two of the most aggressive dogs was sent to The Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. Only six remain in the sanctuary of the twenty-two. They have since been adopted. Of the fifty-one dogs a few could not be saved and were euthanized. All the rest of the dogs were either adopted, rescue dogs, therapy dogs, or remain at a sanctuary. This book is a secondary source as the writer retells the events that happened. I think this source is reliable because it explains the aspects of the case and what happened to the dogs. I think that it will be helpful to my final project because it details the steps needed to prove that fighting dogs can be saved, and are not vicious by nature. Holland, J. (2013). In defense of the pit bull. Retrieved from http://www.salon.com/2013/02/05/in_defense_of_the_pitbull_partner/ The article discusses how the media has turned pit bulls into monsters instead of the loving dogs they are known to be. If pit bull is mentioned in a dog biting case the media will report on more than any other breed of dog. The breed...
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...Christopher is an autistic savant and while he's a whiz at math and science, human emotions are particularly complex for him. As the novel opens, he tells us "I know all of the countries of the world and their capital cities, and every prime number up to 7,057." He finds a neighbor's dog, named Wellington, murdered and decides to write about it. With the help of his teacher, Siobhan, he decides to write a book about his attempt to solve this mystery. It's a search for information that will ultimately upset his carefully constructed world. Christopher lives alone with his father after his mother died from a heart attack two years earlier. He never got to visit her at the hospital, but this doesn't bother him since he doesn't like strange places or people he doesn't know. If people touch him, he will hit them. If his senses become overloaded or his brain too confused, he will curl up in a ball and groan loudly, perhaps for hours at a time. Becoming angry with him just makes it worse. He hates the colors yellow and brown. His world needs order and precision. He will do math problems in his head for hours just to pass the time or distract him from an unpleasant situation. As he begins his investigation into Wellington's death, he assures us that everything he will tell us is true: I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that this was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because Christopher's father is the most patient with him, even if his...
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...built up for something bad to happen. A point of view shot is then used as the camera goes around the side of the house. We have not yet seen this person, but we are seeing from their perspective and they are creeping around in the shadows, it creates an anxious feeling and we feel as though we are intruding. The shot then shows two people through the window of the house, and they are unaware that they are being watched. This is used to create suspense. The point of view shot then changes so that we are seeing the shot through the eyes of the killers mask. And because of this, we can’t really see what is happening, which makes the audience nervous and gives an uncanny feeling. Around this time, it is shown that it is the killer who’s mindset the viewer is in, which means that it breaks the typical conventions of Horror. I know this because, it is unusual as the viewer is usually made to relate to the victim, meaning it to be that the killer is just as creepy and scary to them as though it was actually happening. Mainly long shots are used in this opening and...
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...April 29, 2014 approximately around 2:00 a.m. , 911 gets a call from a woman saying she heard loud gun shots coming from her next door neighbors house . Two patrol cars are called onto the scene finding that there was some sort of massacre but the body was not to be found anywhere. They find a broken window where the perpetrator seemed to make his entrance with a AK 47 also leaving casings behind having no remorse and shooting its victim on the spot. No body was found but forensics found fingerprints on the broken window and a huge trace of blood that led to the drive way were it is said the killer drove off with the body. Later on during the day they get a tip saying that they found a abandoned car in flames but nothing was to be found just a identification by the name of Joseph Greene. Detectives search into their data base and find his address and send a warrant to go and arrest him . When questioning him , they find that Joseph Greene also has a twin by the name of Joshua Greene . making this two suspects toward the crime scene . Joseph has not had any sort of communication with Joshua since a week when they got in a argument about Joshuas’ sexual oriention since they have always had dated woman their whole life. Police went out to search for Joshua at his residence where he was not found but what they discover is something gruesome, they found a trail of blood leading from the back yard all the way to his room . Therefore, he had around 5 decapitated heads all victims...
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...Prahalad Jani or Mataji is an Indian sadhu (saint) and is a devotee of deity Amba. He claims to have lived without food and water since 1940, and says that the goddess Amba sustains him. Prahlad Jani, says that he is surviving by chanting mantras and by meditating for goddess Amba. Prahlad Jani has been kept under observations 2 times to know the medical reason behind his claim and also to prove his claim of living without food or water from 1940. He believes that the goddess Amba provides him with a water like sustainable liquid inside his body to keep him alive. Till now 2 observational studies has been made, one in 2003 and another in 2010 to prove his claim or to deny it. Many expert neurologists monitored Jani and they were surprised by the result. The experts confirmed Jani's ability to survive without food or water but the claim was not proven due to many allegations relating to the procedure of tests conducted. Observational Conditions : - Jani was examined daily for checking his vital statistics. - Prahlad Jani was made to stay in a sealed room for 10 days. - He was provided just 100 milliliters of water a day for mouth wash. - The room's toilet was sealed off and Cameras were installed to monitor. - No Food / water (except that 100ml) was provided for 10 days straight. Conclusions drawn from the above Observation : - Some liquid was found in his bladder. - Jani was perfectly healthy after that 10 days of observation. - His weight was reduced slightly...
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...a novel that was published in 2007 and did not become popular till 2008. It was a New York Times Best Seller and sold over 5 million copies in print by 2009. The story starts out with Mack and his 3 out of 5 kids going camping in a state park in Oregon. After a few peaceful days of camping it turns south when Mack’s son tips a canoe leaving Mack no choice but to rush into the water and free him of the canoe. Leaving Missy at the campsite alone, when he returns, he notices that Missy is missing and immediately reports to the cops. After hours and hours of searching they come to find out that Missy has possibly been abducted and murdered by a serial killer named the Little Lady Killer. What leads the cops to their conclusion is there is a small pin that the killer left behind of a ladybug with 5 dots on it. When the Little Lady Killer abducts a victim he leaves a pin behind each time and each time he adds a dot to the back of the ladybug. After searching and searching the police find an abandoned shack in the woods with Missy's bloody dress in it but they still find no body. Not only does Mack’s heart sink but also his life goes into what he calls “the great sadness”. No evidence is found in 4 years but then Mack gets a suspicious letter in the mail from Papa, the name his wife calls God. Mack’s family has a planned vacation to go visit relatives and it finally gives Mack a chance to go visit the shack alone. He begs and begs his friend Willie to let him borrow his jeep,...
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