Animal's People

Human nature in animals. Was this really shown in George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’? In fact, there were several messages about human nature reflected in ’Animal Farm’. The messages that were expressed through many different characters and their behaviours, gave an insight into human nature, and showed many characteristics of it.

This event changed many lifes. Like Don Hull, who “has spent 14 years as a hostage negotiator, found himself performing an entirely different task: trying to find life amid the rubble” (McRoberts). This event changed his career life for a short time, but many people suffered emotionally if not as well physically. Many people lost family members, friends, and neighbors. These people have suffered more because of this event than anyone else in the world. Even though this event happened and the people as a whole have suffered, humans still strive and

107) Also, it relates back to my main theme because I can use this to know the politics that comes with environmental justice issues such as knowing which questions to ask, such as who, what, when and where environmental hazards get dumped on them. Also, I can actually see and understand how ideas that I learned in my classes like “not in my back yard” are used in case studies, not just as slogans in social

Good morning/Afternoon class, in my speech I will be discussing my understanding of the poems Domesticity of Giraffes and Fox in A Tree Stump by Judith Beveridge.

This particular article was helpful because it deconstructed the notion I had from the dominant group here in Canada. When Raven Sinclair also goes on explaining that western hegemony is being taught from top to bottom and always alienating aboriginal teachings and beliefs. (2004) Gave me a clear understanding as to how important is for us as Social Workers to become agents of change, by learning about the true historical backgrounds of aboriginals and in turn become an ally and bring forth changes in social perspectives, in essence to deconstruct that western hegemony and as Sinclair asserts as “Conscientization is a critical approach
to liberatory education” (2004)

Over 100 million animals are killed in U.S laboratories for experimentation and chemical drug, food and cosmetics testing. In “A change of heart” by Jeremy Rifkin focuses on telling readers, how animals have feelings, think and are really smart. He gives examples and shows evidence on how they are more like us than we imagined. How the way that animals are treated is wrong. There is no doubt that we should stop animal cruelty.

One of the statements in the movie that was shown on September 12 at the Lawrence Public Library, “This Changes Everything,” that really resounded with me was, “We are its [Earth’s] machine. We are its masters.” Throughout the movie different locations were described, from the oil in Canada that was destroying the Beaver Lake Cree Nation, Yellowstone River in Montana, New York City, Pine Ridge, South Dakota, France, India, and China. It was interesting to link the different issues in those places to class. Each place had a similar environment issue, but each had problems that made their battle in preserving their environment unique.

Animals are used for a variety of different tests. Human disease cures are always tried on animals first, most make up must perform experiments with the product on animals first, and dogs and pigs are used to practice surgery on for surgeons. It is not fair and humane to conduct experiments on animals to make sure a product or procedure is safe for us to use or endure. There are no legitimate reasons that an animal’s life is worth less than our own. I think that animal's should have similar rights that people have because they too feel pain and experience emotions and just because they look different doesn’t mean that they are that much different than us.

Hundreds of protesters have opposed its path despite police presence and serious cold. The protesters are fighting one of the most important battles of our current era, the battle for the environment. The pipeline crosses the Missouri River within a mile of the Standing Rock Reservation, occupied by Sioux Indians. They have joined with protesters from across the United States to oppose the pipeline and the danger it poses to the water and land in the area created by potential spills, not to mention the air pollution when the oil is burned for fuel. The struggle has been extremely difficult because it has lacked the coverage and support the Civil Rights movement had. However, the same impassioned support exists within the effort against the pipeline that existed in the efforts against racism. With the efforts put forth by protesters, the project has been stopped, and will search for new routes, a temporary but important step towards defeating the pipeline. The protesters faced tear gas, rubber bullets, police dogs, arrests, and more, yet their perseverance once again led to a major victory. Their fight for their environment and natural surroundings created positive, important change, emphasizing the impact civil disobedience can have in generating positive

Animal Abuse. Shrinking Biosphere. Mass Extinction. Like animal activist and writer, T.C. Boyle says, “Everyday's Auschwitz for the animals” (6 Boyle). These are all dreary topics that are occasionally brought up to our attention. Being the naive creatures we are, we choose to try and push these ideas into the bottom of our subconscious. When asked about human’s role in the environment, T.C. Boyle says, “It’s quite clear to me that our species is on the way out” (Nazaryan). Boyle relays in multiple interviews that humans destroy the ecosystem and then feel guilty and try and act as a dominion power over nature resulting in messing up things more. T.C Boyle’s view on human intrusion on animal rights are the driving force behind the themes and

Have you ever noticed that people and animals can relate with each other in many different ways? It’s probably never even crossed your mind. But,now you are reading my story and that thought will cross your mind every second,every minute,and every hour of your life. In my three paragraphs I will explain how 3 stories relate to the unit topic. The stories that show the real meaning of people and animals relating are “Monkey Master”, “from My Life With the Chimpanzees”, and “Black Cowboy,Wild Horses.”

“Nearly as many, 68 percent, were concerned or very concerned about the well-being of animals used in ‘sports’ or contests as well as animals in laboratories (67 percent) (Kretzer, 1).” Many people question whether an animal is capable of thought and emotions. Others feel as though animals are the equivalent of humans and should be treated as such. Since the 1800’s, animal rights has been a topic that has several different sides including two extremes. If animals can react to their environment, emote, and are aware of things done to or with them, then they should have similar rights to humans.

One of the most controversial topics in modern philosophy revolves around the idea of non-human animals being considered human people. Controversy over what makes up an actual person has been long debated. However, society deems it as a set of characteristics. The average person normally does not realize how complicated a question this is, and in fact many scientists, philosophers, and individuals will side differently on this specific topic. I personally do not believe that animals are capable of being human people, but throughout this argumentative paper I will address critical views presented from multiple philosophers on why this seems to be the case.

Animal Farm is a novel by George Orwell. It is an allegory in which animals play the roles of Russian revolutionists, and overthrow the human owners of the farm. Once the farm has been taken over by the animals, they are all equal at first, but class and status soon separates the different animal species. This story describes how a society’s ideologies can be manipulated by those in political power, to cause corruption by those in leadership.

Now that we have an understanding of the Bhopal Disaster and its causes and effects, we can now try and understand the connection and importance that Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People has to the tragedy. In the first few pages of the novel, the narrator introduces himself stating, “I used to be human once. So I’m told. I don’t remember it myself, but people who knew me when I was small say I walked on two feet just like a human being,” (Sinha 1). As a reader, an introduction like this gets me curious to understand who or what the narrator really is or stands for. He had not even stated that he was an animal and as a reader, I inferred that it was a possibility. He goes on to state that this entire book is a record of his oral story on a set of cassette tapes. An Australian journalist named Phuoc and known as “Jarnalis” throughout the book had intentions of getting the victims stories out to the world, especially the story of this four-footed schizophrenic boy who went by the name “Animal”. Early on in the book, Animal argued why he did not want to tell the Jarnalis anything in the first place. “Somewhere a bad thing happens, tears like rain in the wind, and look, here you come, drawn by the smell of blood. You have turned us Khaufpuris into storytellers, but always of the same story. Ous raat, cette nuit, that night, always that fucking night” (Sinha 5). When Animal refers to that “fucking night” he is most likely talking about the Bhopal Disaster. In fact, Sinha’s book