Animals Vs Animals

A brief background of my family will provide some meaning to our family structure. My parents were both born and raised in Muncie, Indiana at a time when the economy was not strong. My father was the fourth of five siblings in a household dominated by a physically abusive and alcoholic father. My mother lost both of her parents at a young age. I would learn later in life that my father

1. Hobbes is philosophy differs from Descartes in multiple ways. Hobbes had a materialist view - he believed that motion is the cause of the change in bodies and all substances were bodies. While this is similar to Descartes on this point, their views differed greatly from one another on the mind. Where Descartes emphasizes the difference between humans and animals, Hobbes does the opposite.

Thesis: Humans differ from animals because humans have developed a complex language which gives man the ability to store knowledge, communicate complex ideas, and is not a hereditary skill.

Throughout my life I never really had parents; coming home to a drug abuser who was constantly zoned out was a normal day. I wasn't loved or even thought of as a child. My biological parents never once came to my awards or conferences. I used to lie to my childhood friends and say that my parents had to constantly work. In reality they didn't care at all.As a child I had both of my parents; when I grew up everything collapsed. I was in 7th grade when I realized that my life would change dramatically. My biological mother fell deeply into drugs, as for my biological father he left without saying anything. At the age of 12 , I was placed with a family friend, while my biological mother was in rehabilitation.

I used to feel uncomfortable and maybe even a little ashamed talking about myself and my family dynamics. I and use to be a cry baby and the middle child, but the year I turned ten years old, I was bump from middle child to the eldest daughter. I am one of four siblings, I have an older brother that lives in Houston, then it’s me, I have my only sister and my best friend that lives in Irving and then there is my kid brother, he was brought home August of 1988. My parents had left us home for two days. I didn’t have a clue why they were gone but when they finally came home, my dad was hold a 10 pound baby boy.

When I was growing up, my family was like many other families, happy. Starting at age 6, I noticed a change between my parents because they started to not get along as well as they did before. No longer were they smiling at each eachother in the way you would to someone you cared deeply about. No longer did they laugh together as though someone would if you could see the world through their eyes. I felt my life was crumbling to pieces at such a young age, and there was nothing I could do about

Defying the Nuclear Family: Shortly after my seventh birthday, my parents began having fights much more often than they previously had in the past. Less than half a year later on January 15, 2005 their divorce became finalized and my father moved out of the house. For the first few months while he searched for a home to buy, my nine year old sister and I lived solely with our mother. Soon after, we began going back and forth between our parents’ houses, living at one house for a week and then switching over to the other the next. The two houses could not have been any more polar in how they were run, at my mother’s house there were strict rules and expectations to be followed.

There was once a young boy that would start his days beforehand by cleaning his rifle. His dad will tell him that the time he spent cleaning his rifle doesn’t usually take that long, but to him it was the preparation, the anticipation, that was the most exciting part. He will set up a practice range behind his house and tack up an old camouflage jacket to aim right at the top of the button. He wanted to be optimum for when the real hunt begun. To him hunting season was the best part of the year. As he will look at his target through his rifle sight, he felt communication with him, “here we are together, bound as one in this wonderful moment of life and death.” In a second, a life of an animal will be taken away for a spiritual feeling that

My parents dropped out of high school, once my older brother was conceived. My father worked strenuously at any job he could find, while my mother became a housewife. After the passing of my mother, my father needed someone to stay at home with his children while he worked late into the night and early in the morning. My stepmother took care of us and taught us how to support ourselves, while she prepared to work late in the night alongside my father. They have been working odd jobs with my father working two jobs, during my childhood, to support four children. We moved from Florida to Texas for the cheaper living and education for my brother. Our parents had made sure to never let us witness their struggle, but forced us to graduate

Dr. Julian Savulescu argues the origins and rationale of human moral behavior. Dr. Savulescu begins his argument with the history of human behavior, how, when competing for resources, it was much easier to kill one another than to trust. Despite the overall distrust people had for each other, humans have always been protective of their family members and close friends. That’s when Dr. Julian Savulescu mentions that humans are also more prone to empathizing with single individuals rather than groups. People want to help, but as the number of the individuals who need help increases, trust decreases.

Animal rights are an important topic to discuss and review. The trouble is the vast diversity of how people see humans and animals and how they are different and yet the same. Animals are in every aspect of our lives in how they are utilized to make our lives easier, to sustain us, or as a pet. Unfortunately, the line of animals and humans blurs as the widely known belief that we are a derivation of an animal and we should treat them as we would ourselves. This viewpoint, however, can be taken to an extreme as we see pets that can be pampered quite a bit. Relating back to the four authors in our text, there is considerable controversy on how animals should be treated. While some interesting positions arise with the various authors, to

I never really knew my father when I was growing up. I was raised by my mother and my little brother's side of the family. My own family was across the ocean in California. By the time I was nine I

The family structure that I grew up with as a child, was my mother, her second husband, my step-father and their two children, my half-sisters. I never knew my

Most people are families with domesticated animals as pets. The most common pets are dogs and cats. However, some people want to own exotic animals instead of normal animals. They pick what they want, but they actually don’t pay attention to an outcome later. There have three outcomes that people should not own exotic animals which are bad for animals, bad for owners, and bad for environment.

Humans could potentially be considered the most intelligent form of life known on planet Earth. We have the ability to make conscious decisions, we have developed overall civilized societies, and have abandoned savagery. We are able to communicate through both