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    Fate or Free Will in No Country for Old Men Throughout the entire movie No Country for Old Men there is a very strong theme of the juxtaposition of fate and free will. There is endless emphasis on the decisions that characters make, and how their decisions will ultimately affect their lives. All the characters are presented with situations where their choice plays a role in their fate. In No Country for Old Men, the fate of characters is determined by their actions and choices. The first scene of

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    If I were to remake the 1974 version of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, I would update it to have current technology. I would update the movie so people had cell phones; I would have social media play a big part in the movie; I would also put in updated vehicles and machinery. With these changes to the movie I feel like it would help the movie become more modern. Nowadays everyone has a cell phone. From 80 year olds to 10 year olds, almost everyone has a cell phone. In remaking The Texas Chain Saw

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    stunning of animals. According to them it is achieved by using Penetrative Captive Bolt or Non-penetrative Percussion Stunning. Neuronal dysfunction and/or destruction, and subsequent insensibility result due to transference of kinetic energy from a moving object to the brain so, the basic principles are the same. Initial observations found that mechanical stunning is humane, except in very large bulls, provided the captive bolt penetrates the skull of the animal at the correct site. The correct site in

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    Animal slaughtering is the killing of animals; most of them domestic, and mainly for the purpose of human consumption. Many different types of animal slaughtering methods have been created such as; carbon dioxide, inert gas hypoxia, captive bolt pistol, gunshot, exsanguination, and many other that are not regulated. Such varying methods have evolved since the beginning of times, but with the increasing rates of the human population a faster way of slaughtering needed to be created in order to keep

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    Would you kill your best friend after years of hard work together? I believe horse slaughter is a necessary evil due to many different reasons. The first reason is due to horses that cannot be used anymore due to health reasons. It would be wonderful to be able to afford a lame horse to sit on pasture all day, but that is not always an option. Nobody is going to buy a lame horse when they can buy a perfectly able horse for the same price. Where does a lame horse go? He goes to the auction and

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    A Slaughter ban, is not the answer for the Canadian Horse As of “2007, [in the United States] the last three processing plants in Texas and Illinois were closed due to state and federal laws” (Stull 68). Currently, there are “four Canadian and three to five Mexican plants in operation with federal licenses and government-inspected programs necessary for export markets” (Stull 69). In view of this, if Canada, enacts a ban on horse slaughter, there is no guarantee that it will save equine lives

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    For the last five thousand years the horse has been of greater human interest for its strength than as a source of meat. However, American horses are still shipped over our borders and slaughtered for human consumption overseas. Horse slaughter and the export of horses from the United States should be banned because it is cruel and inhumane; furthermore, consuming American horse meat can be detrimental to human health. Horse slaughter is the act of slaughtering horses to obtain their meat for

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    Anton Chigurh: A Sociopath with Principles In Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men, Anton Chigurh is a hitman tasked with recovering drug money stolen by the main protagonist, Llewelyn Moss. Chigurh is completely ruthless and he allows nothing to interfere. Chigurh kills without thought or remorse but paradoxically follows “moral” principles that are based solely on chance. In the novel, Anton Chigurh is portrayed as sociopathic, arrogant, yet ironically trustworthy. First, Chigurh’s characteristics

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    Mealtime Dilemma A study done by Vegetarian Times has shown that 3.2 percent, or 7.3 million US adults follow a vegetarian diet (Editors). The main reasons that people have chosen the vegetarian lifestyle are due to health, the environment, and their own personal morality. When it comes to living a healthy lifestyle, it is fairly well known that proteins, iron, and vitamins are necessary to digestive system health. For many people, meat is the go to answer to get these things. However, meat is

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    Every year about 56 billion animals in the United States are massacred by humans. These innocent animals are slaughtered for our taste enjoyment and fashion. Pigs, cows, and chickens are being treated inadequate living conditions slaughterhouses. Instead of animals, they are treated like property and objects. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals exclaims, “On today’s factory farms, animals are crammed by the thousands into filthy, windowless sheds and stuffed into wire cages, metal crates

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