...So if the government diminishes the society that their in charge of securing misusing their power rebellion is inevitable, so the outcome is the same as provoking a beast and expecting no repercussions. As expressed, in the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell the struggle of farm animals to gain proper care and equality to that of humans: This elaborated on the situation through the symbolism that correlated to the downfall of the Soviet Union in the Russian Revolution. Also, the novel a Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens put the reader in the setting of the French Revolution, where treachery and societal injustice was prominent. Furthermore, the article “Iranian Revolution” by Janet Afary highlights the depression that was drawn upon the...
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...Animal Farm, first published in 1945, is a classic satirical novella by George Orwell. It portrays a revolution by the farm animals to bring about the downfall of the cruel owner, however ends up paving the way for the pigs to establish themselves as the ruling echelons in the new society. In this animal fable, the events clearly evoke particular unpalatable truths in reality, specifically, the emergence of the totalitarian regime by Joseph Stalin since the 1920s. Although the vast majority of Animal Farm’s readers are familiar with the context in which Animal Farm was created and Orwell’s motive, some may not. This raises a question whether the exposure of social injustice during Russia in the 19th century reflected within this story can be seen by readers without prior comprehension in regards to such humanitarian crisis. Background knowledge is a requisite but not indispensable skill for enabling...
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...In The Social Animal Ted Talk, David Brooks touches upon three key points: that there is no separation between emotion and reason, the relationship between the conscious and unconscious mind, and that we as human beings are social animals. Brooks goes into depth about how emotion and reason are not separate. In fact, our thinking is led by our emotions. Our emotions set a foundation for our values and guide our perception. So learning to understand what you’re feeling will ultimately lead to wiser actions and decisions. However, infants have very limited control over their emotional self-regulation. Therefore, it is the parents’ obligations to comfort and soothe the infant, ultimately helping the child learn to self-regulate his or her own...
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...your writing. A research question, which is more specific and focused than a general topic, is the question that your research paper will be answering. For example, if your general area of interest is social security, a possible research question might ask “How can low-income families save more money if the United States had a reformed social security plan that includes personal retirement accounts?” As you develop a research question, keep in mind that you will need to research sources to support your topic. Do not pick a one-sided question that will limit your research. Instead, develop a research question that lends itself to further exploration and debate—a question for which you genuinely want to know the answer. Try to pick a research question that is neither too broad, which covers too much, or too narrow, which covers too little. It should be broad enough to be discussed in a short research paper. |What is your general topic or area of interest? |Animal is the topic of interest that I have chosen. | |What is it about your general topic of interest that interests |The reason I chose animals as my topic of interest is because I | |you? |have always been so passionate about animals. Even as a child I | | |was. Like now I have a dog that I have had since a puppy that I | | ...
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...People, and Significant Otherness”, I found the paper very intriguing to read. Being an animal lover myself, I can understand from where Haraway was coming from in this paper. The fact that she decided to use “companion species” instead of just the simple “pet” term signified so much, especially since she focused this paper mostly on one of my favorite animals, dogs. By attempting to explore the unique connection and history between the different species that is dogs and humans. With that being said one of the goals she wanted to achieve in her study was break down the core bond that we have with dogs; our ideas, mutuality, and our use of primal urge with them. This brings up certain questions such as why we keep animals as pets and why it is important to study how they have evolved and grown with us over time....
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...Kaiulani Kuehnel ETH/316 Ethics and Social Responsibility October 22, 2015 Imran Anwar To Drill or Not to Drill In 2004, the Bush administration expressed the need to expedite the set-up of drilling rigs on a crucial part of land to many wildlife species to drill for natural gas. This area of land is a corridor for wildlife migration of many species, a big trout population in the Colorado River, and home to the dwindling population of Sage Grouse. The government wants to drill on this land because of the natural gas that is lying hundreds of feet below the ground, enough oil to supply the nation for one year (Nightline, 2004). The implications of such a project has the potential to throw the ecosystem into a downward spiral. There are already thousands of drilling rigs, numbering 5,200 in an area crossing five states. The government wants to expand this number to about 10,000. What are the ethical issues of such a project? Encroaching industrial civilization poses a migratory issue for the wildlife. Roads will be built that the animals have to cross, fences made of barbed wire are springing up everywhere, drilling run-off is polluting the rivers, streams, and lakes that harbor a big trout population. The barbed wire fences alone causes much grief for the animals. The wildlife has to choose to jump over the or crawl under the fence. Either way can cause great bodily harm to the animal and in some cases death, if the animal gets snagged on the barbed wire. Aside...
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...BoWen Zuo Dr. Danielle Bray English 1101 2 March 2015 Pharmaceuticals Should Not Be Tested on Animals Various pharmaceutical companies claim that testing of their products on animals is indispensable because they require a complete living organism in the process of developing pharmaceutical products. Scientific evidences have proven that humans and animals differ with regard to metabolism, physiology, and anatomy (Portaluppi 101). Further evidences point to different reactions to pharmaceuticals and chemicals among animals sourced from different species (van der Worp et al). Consequently, it is impractical to predict the possibility of humans reacting in a similar manner to pharmaceutical products as animals. A study...
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...connection to worlds that are millions of miles away, but it also separates the animals from the place they call home. For some it can save their lives, but for others, it leads to depression and death. Jane Goodall says, “Suppose you were a chimp, and that’s what some of these animal rights people can not get their minds around, it’s what they think is best for the chimp. I want people to think about what the chimp would prefer. So if you’re a chimp; your best choices may be to be in a secure place in the wild, or a really good zoo (Goodall 1).” Do not place your opinions in their head. Animals in captivity are dependent upon their caretakers, and when they aren't taken care of, they will find a way to take over their circumstance. This often means injury to an individual or death. If an...
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...wild animal were in the process of becoming endangered or extinct the most logical solution would be to capture that particular animal and rehabilitate the species. Of course a scenario such as this has its complications, for example, animals are not properly accommodated for to suit their basic and daily physical/mental needs. However the expectation with detaining a wild animal and holding it captive for rehabilitation should be minimal and that is where the flaw is found with zoos and SeaWorld’s across the country. Marine and land mammals at both facilities are stripped of their wild instincts, and their natural progression is stunted because of government and business execs setting the standards as to when the creature is to receive health treatment, cognitive care, or even primitive dietary requirements. Any living being, especially marine and land mammals shouldn’t be considered a financial burden when it comes to their well-being. Facilities such as zoos and SeaWorld are accountable for holding many animals and marine mammals with the so-called “intentions” of strengthening, learning, and teaching about the species they hold and, in some cases, even advertise their plans of rehabilitating those creatures that may be facing a permanent disappearance. Sadly, in actuality they are creating mental breakdowns and depression among animals and unfortunately responsible for animals slow physical decay within their own enclosures. What needs to be realized is that animals and marine...
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...1) Introduction to Topic: Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) has grown in population in the past five years. More and more hospitals and medical facilities are utilizing therapy dogs while working with geriatrics to quell issues such as depression, loneliness, and inactivity. The physiological benefits of AAT include increase of communication and improved social interaction as well as a reduction in heart rate and blood pressure. In long term care facilities for older folks, these benefits are wildly useful to both the staff and the residents. Therapy animals improve the quality of life for residents by increasing social interaction- not only with the animal handler, but also with surrounding folks that are interested in petting the dog. In addition,...
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...about the place and the process used for slaughtering the animals and the condition those animals are kept in. Halal is now being recognized all over the world not only by the Muslims but also the Non-Muslims community. An example of how other countries around the world are adapting to Halal food is shown in Moscow, Russia. In Moscow the sales were $45 in 2004 and then increased to $70 million in 2006 and then to $100 million in 2008 (Muhammad, 2007). The growth is due to consumer’s perception of human animal treatment concerns. Russians purchased Halal food because they thought the products were fresh, safe and infection free and also believed that the Muslims won’t cheat them. In the Philippines the population looks for the Halal logo on the products so that they can purchase them easily. Malaysia consists of 3 different races which are the Malaya, Chinese, and Indians. 62% of the Malays are Muslim, 24% Chinese are either Buddhist or Traditional Chinese religions and 8% are Indians who follow Hinduism (department of statistics Malaysia, 2011). The Chinese and Indians don’t really pay attention whether the food is Halal or not. They don’t really know the benefits of the Halal food and they’re not aware of the fact that the products have to go through an inspection before they are allowed to be used. More Non-Muslims would prefer Halal food if they found out about health issues, animal rights and safety, environment, social justice and welfare....
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...careless act by humans left Oogy fighting for his life. Unfortunately, this is only one of the many cases worldwide where animal cruelty has materialized. Providing basic necessities of life, shelter, food, water and medical care are the requirements for the survival of any living thing. Are animal’s not living things? Hundreds of animals are deprived of these basic needs every day. The Animal Legal Defense Fund in the USA reports that over 30% of cases they tracked (in the last 10 years) involve animal neglect. In order for an animal to be neglected, insufficient care has to happen over time. Neglect can occur in numerous forms, such as lack of food and water, not grooming resulting in raveled hair and sores on the skin, inadequate physical activity and many others. Equivalently, when owners break their commitment for their pet, this is abandonment and it is illegal. Nationwide in America, 6-8 million dogs end up in shelters now more than ever. These innocent, loving companions are rejected into the streets to fend on their own because of the no pet policy and house foreclosures. People for the Ethical and Treatment of Animals (aka as PETA) report that “over 100 million animals every year suffer and die” in cruel laboratories. Before new products such as make-up, food, prescription drugs or household cleaners, can be introduced to consumers animals are used as testers. Mice, rats, rabbits, dogs and birds are intentionally poisoned, blinded, force fed chemicals and made...
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...(2005) The Yorùbá Animal Metaphors: Analysis and Interpretation ADÉSOLÁ OLÁTÉJÚ University of Ibadan, Nigeria ABSTRACT The paper undertakes a study of animal metaphors in the Yorùbá language with a view to highlighting the stylistic and communicative potentials of these metaphors. To achieve the set objective, the animals – domestic and wild – involved in metaphors and their individual distinctive characteristic features that motivate their metaphorical interpretations are highlighted. The paper also discusses the sources of animal metaphors, which are said to be located in three areas, namely: the Yorùbá naming culture, animal characteristic habits and behaviour, and the Yorùbá poetry. In discussing the metaphorical processes involved in the interpretation of animal-related metaphors, a two-dimensional approach is adopted: stylistic and cultural. In the first, the semantic features of animals involved in metaphors are decomposed into semantic markers that are of two types. The first is the High Priority Semantic Markers (HPSM), which determine the cognitive/conceptual meaning of the metaphors, and the second is the Low Priority Semantic Markers (LPSM), which determine the secondary metaphorical interpretation. Animal metaphors involve transference of meanings, and whatever meanings or interpretations are assigned to a particular animal metaphor, are culture and context dependent. The paper concludes with stylistic and communicative functions of animal metaphors, with the...
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...controversial arguments about if the animals inside of the modern zoos today are actually safe, healthier, and protected. Even if the animals are in a special enclosure, it doesn’t mean they’re in some kind of imprisonment. The animals aren’t just for enjoyment of being looked at. The education about the animals is very important in the society today just because we want the future generations to help preserve what has been around for a very long time. Modern zoos shouldn’t be considered dangerous for animals because animals are treated decent with the zoo keepers, it gives opportunities for second chances, and it’s preserving threatened or endangered animals. First, animals in zoos today get treated very decent to compared what they were treated a long time ago. “For more than 4000 years humankind has kept animals in captivity and it is quite late in our social history, probably the 19th century, that animals began to be regarded as something other than ‘vulgar admiration.’” (Stevens __) One example would be that each animal...
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...you’ll spoil my dinner,” is the usual reply to any attempt to tell someone just how that dinner was produced. Even people who are aware that the traditional family farm has been taken over by big business interest, that their clothes come from slaughtered cows, that their entertainment means the suffering and death of millions of animals, and that some questionable experiments go on in laboratories, still cling to a vague belief that conditions cannot be too bad (unless the government of animal welfare societies would have done something about it). But it is not the inability to find out what is going on as much as the desire to not know about facts that may lie heavy on one’s conscience that is responsible for this lack of awareness. After all, the victims of whatever it is goes on in these awful places are not members of one’s own group. It all comes down to pain and suffering, not intelligence, not strength, not social class or civil rights. Pain and suffering are in themselves bad and should be prevented or minimized, irrespective of the race, sex, or species of the being that suffers. We are all animals of this planet; we are all creatures. Nonhuman animals experience sensations just like we do. They too are strong, intelligent, industrious, mobile, and evolutional. They too are capable of growth and adaptation. Like us, first and foremost, they are earthlings. And like us, they are surviving. Like us, they seek their own comfort, rather than discomfort. And like us, they express...
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