P. T. Barnum

two years old. In the wild, Asian elephants do not leave their mother until they are fifteen years of age, and even then they do not leave the herd, for they are with their family for their whole lives (Read, Bruce). All in all, Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey appear to be on top of the circus game. Looking back on life you are pleased and believe you had everything that was needed to survive in this crazy world. Animals understand what it is like to be without basics and yet; they cannot

Free the Circus Animals. Ladies and gentlemen welcome to the circus! Thats what you hear from the announcer every time you go to a family fun circus extravaganza isn't it? Well every time your ooing and aweing a miserable animal is brought in to perform unnatural tricks. Many of them have been abused, stolen, bought and kept in cages just to do a trick for you. Do you ever get wonder how they know where to go and when to stop or to stand on a block. The trainers take very hard and horrible measures

process is hidden completely from the public and is wholly unmonitored by any federal, state, or local entity” (Godd). Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus was a well known circus that used animals, and as most animal circuses, they treated their animals in an inhumane way (Godd). “And elephants aren’t the only animal that Ringling Brothers and

Before there was the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey and their Greatest Show on Earth there was just P.T. Barnum and the Ringling brothers each with their own traveling circus. Barnum’s circus was originally known as P.T. Barnum’s Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan and Circus, which was unveiled as the largest American circus in 1870 and quickly became a hit (Barnum’s Timeline). Then in 1881 Barnum, James Bailey, and James Hutchinson partnered up to create P.T. Barnum’s Greatest Show

“Little People, Big World” and “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” “The Bachelor” and “Survivor,” “The Biggest Loser” and “The Real World” “Miss America” and “American Idol”—it is difficult to watch American television in the first decade of the twenty-first century without encountering a freak. Britney Spears, called her 2009, forty-nine show tour through the US, Canada and the UK. Perhaps, more accurately, it is not so much that the circus goes on as that the circus has been revived in the American imagination

The History and Social Impact of the Circus “Freak Show” Since it's humble beginning in the mid 16th century, the circus and “freak show” act has been entertaining and horrifying people to this day; however, in today’s ultra-sensitive society, how has the classic “freak show” evolved to be deemed acceptable and be used to promote acceptance and positive views of people with abnormalities, rather than viewing these people as “freaks”, as was the original purpose of the classic “freak show”? Popularized

On April 13, 1796, Barnum and Bailey Circus purchased a two-year old female, Asian elephant for one thousand dollars. This is the first of many elephants that were purchased for the two largest circuses in America, Barnum and Bailey and Ringling Bros Circus. While today there are only around sixty nine elephants that are still involved in the circus act, there was at one time approximately three hundred and five. The U.S. Department of Agriculture oversees the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) and does not

Joice Heth was a slave who Barnum claimed to be 161-years-old and took care of President George Washington when he was an infant. This, of course, was a hoax, but “he displayed the tired old woman before the public and she had no choice but to submit.” Barnum didn’t care that the woman was incredibly old and dying; he wanted to get as much money out of her as possible. When ticket sales began to drop Barnum wote anonymously to the local paper and claimed that Heth was a robot and he was a ventriloquist

Circuses are loved all around the world, the audience loves seeing the animals do all the crazy tricks. What they do not know is that circuses are treating their animals terribly. Protestors are a voice for the animals. The animals can not say what is on their minds, so the protests are doing it for them. They have been trying to get animals out of the circuses The way animals act in the wild and circuses are two completely different things. Protests have been going around all across the world to

Because P.T. Barnum catered to the public’s desire to be entertained, he paved the way for entrepreneurs in the entertainment industry. While P.T Barnum may be a name that at first may seem unfamiliar, one realizes that we are exposed to Barnum’s legacy every day. Which American has never heard of the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus, or never eaten Barnum animal crackers? Or which American hasn’t seen Toddlers and Tiaras, of which the concept of beauty and baby pageants was invented by