Animal Abuse In Elizabethan England

Some games played by Elizabethan was archery,tag,battledore,bowls,culf, and gameball. Archery is very popular sport during her time and still is.Tag was a game played by kids just like it is today where one person is it and chases everyone and tries to tag them. Battledore is like the modern day badminton where a game with rackets in which a shuttlecock is played back and forth across a net.Bowls is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a "jack".Gameball is just like the modern day game football.This rustic game, which is still extant in some parts of England, was sometimes called "the nine men's merrils," from merelles, or miereaux, an ancient French word for the jettons or counters with which it was played. The other term, morris, is

Although there were no wars during the Elizabethan era, life was hard for most people. There were four different social classes determined by how much money people had and what they did for a living (Lace 42-46). There was trash in the streets and poor sanitation. Boys went to school while girls stayed home and learned how to run the house from their mothers (Davis 91). People generally worked long hours during the week and spent the weekends doing activities and attending plays (Davis 341). Generally the Elizabethan era was good for wealthy people and could be a struggle for poor people (Lace

At this, among other corn festivals, marriage arrangements were made. In addition, the game of chunkey as well as the ball play was extensively practiced by them. Conflicts between villagers, and sometimes with other tribes, were generally settled by sport rather than war. The stickball game (a forerunner of the modern game of lacrosse) pitted teams from different villages against each other. Winning was a matter not only of skill but of the power of the villages' spiritual leaders to influence the outcome through their prayers and powers.

A lot of the games we play today, have ancestor games that were played in the Elizabethan

The people know about Michael Vick that he was the quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles and played for 13 seasons in the National Football League (But there is another story that Michael Vick has been involved in dog fights and went to prison for the actions that committed).That does not cover on what had happened to the dogs,Donna Reynold’s had said in details that the swimming pool was used for kill some of the dogs as she continues,the people did not know how many suffered the permitted murder,but the damage of pool walls tells a story. Michael Vick did not just put dogs to fight, but he would hang, drown, shoot, repeatedly slamming their head and spine into the ground

Tournaments during the medieval ages are not just to show look stunning but, to show how powerful from that particular castle. It also is used for entertaining other kingdoms with jousting. Tournaments can also be used to sharpen one’s skill set. Tournaments can help a knight in battle with the skills he learned from the tournaments.

People in the southern colonies did not have a lot of time to have fun. They were working from sun up to sun down. Even though the colonial south were known for this hard working lifestyle they still knew how to have fun.When they got a break from their busy day they had extravagant balls that lasted for days on end. They often turned work into play. They did this by making a simple yet boring task like corn husking and made it into a competition. They did this with many tasks such as removing stumps, quilting, and sheep shearing bees. Men had shooting contests and boys played games know known as hopscotch, marbles, ring around the rosy and bowling.

The Iroquois tribe created the game of Lacrosse, originally called stickball. The word Lacrosse means “little war”. A spiritual leader would do a ritual with the men who were going to play before the game would start. He would burn tobacco and get the players ready to play. Any number of men could play at one time. There could be hundreds playing outside on an uneven field that extended up to a mile. They sometimes played for days. The game was believed to be spiritual in which they could give entertainment, and praise and thank the gods. They used long sticks, which were two to five feet long. The sticks had a net on the end that was made out of woven bark or rawhide string. The balls they used were either made of wood or hide filled with

Animal abuse is a quiet epidemic that is spreading throughout the world. The amount of animal abuse is growing and we must do something to stop it. Animal abuse is not putting a choke collar on a dog to keep it from biting an individual; it is not killing an animal for food. Animal abuse is the knowing or intentional "(1) tortures or serious overworks [of] an animal"; the "(2) failing unreasonably to provide necessary food, care, or shelter for an animal in his custody; kills, injures, or administers poison to an animal; [or] (6) causes one animal to fight with another" (Title 3). The majority of states in the U.S. classify abusive treatment toward animals as a misdemeanor. A misdemeanor is punished by a fine of

In elementary, we used to play a lot of activities. Some of the games were tag, hide and seek,

Thesis Statement: Imagine a dog running to fetch a toy, A horse galloping on a trail, or even a heard of cows grazing upon a grassy pasture. These same beloved animals could be suffering an unimaginable fate in some of the world concentration camps that are still standing. Only nowadays they are known to the outside world as slaughterhouses, fur farms, or experimentation centers.

The games that the Aztecs played included, a board game called Patolli, which was popular, Ullamaliztli, which was played with elbows, knees, heads, hips, and shoulders, and was to help prepare for battle.

In October of 2012, a Jack Russell Terrier puppy named Phoenix was set on fire in Buffalo N.Y. The woman who discovered him was attracted by black smoke. She managed to put out the the flames with her sweater and proceeded to rush him to a small animal hospital with severe burns over his whole body and a serious ankle infection. Although he lost 60% off of both of his ears he maintained almost complete mobility of his leg. He still has a slight limp. Judi Bunge, a senior vet technician at Buffalo Small Animal Hospital who had been looking after Phoenix, adopted him soon after he had fully recovered. He now lives with Judi and her two other dogs. "Phoenix will become a therapy dog and continue his work as an ambassador for the

However, what was in the beginning anticipated purely as military training rapidly became a form of popular entertainment. The first recorded reference to a jousting tournament was in 1066, by chance the same year as the Battle of Hastings and the Norman conquest of England, and within a century they had become so widespread that a series of procedures were entrenched, restricting the number of jousts that could be held, so that the king’s armies would not be engaged when an actual skirmish occured.

Unfortunately today there are many cases of animal abuse happening around the world. Animal cruelty or animal abuse can be defined as the infliction of suffering or harm upon animals for purposes other than self-defense. There are many different types of abuse such as using animals for research, using animals for entertainment purposes, abandoning animals to shelters, and animal neglect. We need to raise awareness and find a solution to these issues. Animals are suffering and we need to help them.