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- 12881: Let the Animals Go
- ... from all over the community just to admire the stunts of both animals and humans. Animals, however, play more of an important role because their job is to perform unbelievable tricks that captivate the audience’s attention. Spectators, especially children, become amazed at the talent and accomplishments of so many different animals. What they do not realize, however, is the destruction and abuse it takes for the animals to carry out ... should not have the right to use animals for entertainment. There is a high amount of abuse that lies behind the performance of circus animals. Not only is there physical abuse, but also mental. Maclean’s Magazine finds that Veterinarian Ken Langlier becomes disgusted with the treatment of animals in the circus. “What he sees in circuses often sickens him: malnourished tigers, monkeys with their fingers bitten off, and elephants biting ... because they are constrained to by their trainers. “Animals are forced by repeated beating, food depravation, electric shocks, solitary confinement, drugging, and other ways to obey human dominance and learn unnatural tricks.” (Pearson). The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service found evidence of abuse in the circus. Wounds inflicted by “abusive use of an ankus (elephant hook)” were found on many elephants, along with ...
- 12882: The Scarlet Letter Character D
- ... while he cleared up business matters. In America, Hester had a love affair with Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale and realized she was pregnant with his baby. Nobody realized who the father was, so the Reverend couldn t be punished. However, Hester was forced to wear a large scarlet A(representing Adultery) on her dress. It was a well-known symbol, so everybody knew she had committed adultery and were astonished. This was ... to himself. Reverend Dimmesdale was deeply loved by his congregation because of his emotional way of speaking. Being a well-educated, trustworthy, highly admired pastor, no one suspected him to be the father of Hester s baby. Finally, his conscience fell into play and he admitted to his sin. Immediately after confessing, he passed away. Roger Chillingworth was Hester s husband. He was small and thin with dim eyes, a wrinkled face, and deformed shoulders(one was higher than the other). To me, he made an awkward couple with Hester, considering she was considered ...
- 12883: The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kr
- ... movie making and his mistaken trust in John Friar, his firm produces bar-mitzvah films of extremely poor quality. The bar-mitzvah film for Mr. Cohen, for example, is obviously a failing product. "Duddy didn’t say a word all through the screening but afterwards he was sick to his stomach." After the screening, Duddy says to Mr. Friar, "I could sell Mr. Cohen a dead horse easier than this pile ... even refuse to sell, but another French-Canadian would not be suspect." Duddy also treats her as a sexual toy. He makes love with Yvette whenever he wants it, but he does not take Yvette’s feelings into consideration: "Yvette wanted to wait, but Duddy insisted, and they made love on the carpet." He never pays any respect to Yvette and he does "...not know how to treat a woman." With ... quite ironic that Duddy, being such a good manipulator of people, is later being used by his Bohemian friends when they come to his apartment every night to party, eat and drink -- all to Duddy’s expense. After Duddy has engaged himself into all kinds of deceitful activities, he bankrupts and is on the verge of a mental breakdown. At that point, Uncle Benjy’s letter reveals to Duddy that ...
- 12884: The Great Gatsby: Nobody Is Really Happy
- ... Every weekend during the summer, Gatsby threw lavish parties at his mansion. …a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby’s enormous garden. On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors d’oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold. In the main hall a ... woman he knew years ago. “…he half expected her [the woman he loved] to wander into one of his parties, some night.” (80) Finally, he arranged to meet this woman, named Daisy, at his neighbor’s house next door. They were excited to see each other again for it had been almost five years. Later in the novel, Fitzgerald explains that Gatsby had bought this mansion which was right across the ... from Daisy. He discovers that she is married to a rich man named Tom, and that she has a daughter with him. Gatsby is furious that she had a daughter with Tom. To worsen Tom’s relation with Gatsby, Tom has mistress named Myrtle. Daisy knows Tom is cheating on her, but she doesn’t really do anything for it. Soon after, Gatsby questions why Daisy married Tom instead of ...
- 12885: Beloved
- ... by segregation and other socioeconomic factors, but also to the spiritual and social unity of each black member. The black community played a major role in Beloved, especially with their interactions with Sethe. After Sethe's escape from slavery, she traveled to Cincinnati to reunite with her children and mother-in-law, Baby Suggs. She arrived at 124, a house constantly filled with people and happiness. "Where not one but two ... and respect. "When warm weather came, Baby Suggs, holy, followed by every black man, woman and child who could make it through, took her great heart to the Clearing..." (Morrison, 87) Twenty days after Sethe's arrival, Stamp Paid brought them two huge buckets of delicious blackberries. With these Baby Suggs and Sethe decided to share the pies they would make from the berries with Ella and her husband John, and ... in the area. The area folks accepted the generosity, but resented the bounty of Baby Suggs and her kin. They disapproved of the uncalled-for pride displayed at 124, and were offended by Baby Suggs's excess. Because of this they failed to warn Baby Suggs and Sethe that four white men on horses who were approaching. Sethe, with the help of Baby Suggs and the community, began to build ...
- 12886: Comedy
- After reading this play, I found it hard to believe that Cordelia was being anything but true in her simple proclamation of love for her father. I can't believe that Shakespeare was trying to portray her as a spoiled, prideful child. I do not believe she was foolish in her decision to restrain from trying to persuade him into giving her a larger ... father. In her asides she says, "What shall Cordelia speak? Love, and be silent"(I,i, ln 62), and after Regan spoke, "Then poor Cordelia; And yet not so, since I am sure my love's more ponderous than my tongue."(I,i, ln 76-78). It is obvious that she loves her father, but she can't express it the way in which Lear wants her to. Because of this, she is disowned and sent away to France. The King even refers to her as, "Unfriended, new adopted to our hate, ...
- 12887: Character In A Good Man Is Har
- ... just how separate dark and light colored people were during the period: Oh look at the cute little pickaninny! she said and pointed to a Negro child standing in the door of a shack. Wouldn t that make a picture, now? she asked and they all turned and looked at the little Negro out of the back window. He waved. He didn t have any britches on, June Star said. He probably didn t have any, the grandmother explained. Little niggers in the country don t have things like we do. The language that is shown in this section of the story clearly demonstrates the difference between what ...
- 12888: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... new nation just beginning. Just about eight years later, his father would no longer be with him, as William Emerson died in 1811. The Emerson family was left to a life marked by poverty. Ralph's mother, Ruth, was left as a widow having to take care of five sons. However, Ralph's life seemed to carry on smoothly. He would end up attending Harvard College and persue a job of teaching full time. While teaching as a junior pastor of Boston's Second Church, his life gained more meaning when he married Ellen Louisa Tucker. Journal entries and love letters he wrote at that time expressed lots of feelings and emotions that he had. But after ...
- 12889: On The Universality Of Poetry
- Like any art form, poetry is considered universal. It ranks with music, dance, and fine arts as a form or process of expressing Man's thoughts and passions. Unlike other art forms, however, poetry -- and in fact literature -- has a peculiar characteristic. As a medium it uses language, and unlike other mediums -- like rocks, paints, beat -- language is not universal ... that confines the production and reception of poetry to people that understand the form(language, symbolism, idiom etc etc) that poetry use ---a relatively small class of people. Some time ago, our English class read T.S. Elliot's "The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock", a long poem in the form of a soliloquy on whether or not the persona should or should not approach a woman he loves, eat ...
- 12890: The John Scopes Trial
- The John Scopes Trial July of 1925 saw the most celebrated American battle between creation and evolution: the Scopes “Monkey” Trial. The defendant, John T. Scopes was found guilty of violating a Tennessee law forbidding the teaching of evolution in public schools. Although the penalty was small (a $100 fine paid by someone else), the ramifications were anything but. The ... in all history,” (Smout 45), as well as a “threat to civilization itself,” is the “trial of the century.” New ideas frequently require considerable time to gain public approval, especially when religion is involved. Galileo’s heliocentric theory of the sun revolving around the earth directly contrasted Ptolemy’s 600-year-old precedent of geocentricism. This was looked upon as an act of heresy, and Galileo was nearly burned at the stake. Thus, when a schoolteacher in the south decided to stray from ...
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