...brother to Martin Luther King Jr. and football player for the Green Bay Packers, the Cleveland Browns, and the Minnesota Vikings, once said, “When I look into the eyes of an animal, I do not see an animal. I see a living being. I see a friend. I feel a soul.” Animals were first introduced to circuses in 1782 in a circus known as the Amphithéâtre Anglois in Paris. However, back then the animal that was featured in circuses were primarily horses. In the early 1800’s elephants and large cats started being used. Michigan State University states, “The AWA (Animal Welfare Association) is the only federal law that directly regulates circus animals”(Animal Law). Circus animals dont deserve to be abused for human pleasure and...
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...throw an animal into a zoo, aquarium, or circus where it could possibly live the rest of its life. However, even if the animal is compensated its freedom after putting on a show, there is still a standing issue too. An article from Progressive Animal Welfare Society or PAWS defines habituation as, “a process by which animals gradually get used to situations they would normally avoid.” But because they are so adapted to being around humans and in a confined space with little or no contact with any other mammals, they can be in great danger even after being released. Since they were snatched from their natural habitats, the ‘environments’ the inhumane institutions have can never be up to par with an icy glacier from the north pole or a humid steamy forest from South America. Adam Roberts, an animal rights activist, say that in their confinements there is barely any social, mental, or physical stimulations. A gruesome lion or killer whale instincts tell them to hunt for their food. But after being enslaved they are fed from an...
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...Module 2 Research The circus needs to be condemned before all of the exotic animals become extinct. “The Greatest Show On Earth” is The Ringling Barnum’s and Bailey catch phrase for their circus show. But what goes onto make these shows is anything but the greatest show on earth. Animals are starved, beaten, locked in small cages, and even shocked will cattle prods to learn to do tricks. Tricks that are complicated and not natural for them. These exotic animals are kept in small cages in hot train cars for days at time. Tigers are starved and are dying off. Yet in America we pay money to this organization to help them facilitate and hire more abusers that they call trainers to beat these animals into doing tricks. I went to a circus once and see activist their and could not figure why they were so mad. Then I started researching The Ringling circus and found out the truth. PETA which is an organization for animal rights completed an investigation against the circus. If we outlawed the use of animals in the circus, then the circus would go broke and have no money to beat animals. * This visual argument is immediate and tangible because it shows the real life threat to wild animals that the circus creates. * This argument pulls you into the picture because not only is this an elephant being tortured but it is a baby elephant. * The importance of this visual argument photograph is to show just how cruel circus trainers are. This baby elephant...
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...Final Research Paper Animal rights to freedom Steven McFarlane DeVry University Advanced Composition Professor Christopher Drew August 27, 2013 Animal Rights To freedom Since the beginning of time animals had rights to do as they please in their own habitat. As time accumulated, these rights slowly faded with entertainment usage of animals. Animals do not belong in a zoo for personal visual enjoyment. Almost every child has taken a trip to the zoo. At the zoo we see different animals in created habitats eating prepared food. A variety of different animals are either captured or born to amuse humans for a profit. The rights of freedom stripped from animals to make us smile are not essential to our survival. Animal’s that are raised outside their natural habitat cannot survive among their fellow species in the wild. The Zoo and the circus are prime examples of animals misuse and abuse. Animals from the zoo and circus would not be able to coexist due the difference in freedom. Less animal attacks would occur as well. Zoo’s and Circus’s argue that they save endangered species and educate the public, but I strongly believe the costs outweigh the benefits, and individual animal’s rights are violated and unjust. Zoos define themselves as bringing people and animals together, as well as educate the public with the appreciation of the animals. This exposure and education motivates people to protect the animals as they believe. Zoos save endangered species by bringing them...
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...so many people that have gone to a circus and enjoyed their time watching so many animals preform there acts in front of so many people. But a lot of people haven’t realized that circus tigers are being abused by their owners, what caught my attention in this photo and other cruel training. In this picture it shows tigers are getting cruelly being forced to preform and “the show must go on” this is what people see every day when someone watches television, newspaper, ad, billboard, online, and especially in the circus. However no one has noticed that so many tigers and other animals are being hurt from these acts for circus acts. Many times people won’t lie about how they enjoy the circus and how exciting it was, how they enjoyed the circus animals, if anyone looks at this they will see that these animals are being forced into doing these kinds of acts and also animal cruelty. In this photo many have said that visual argument is animal cruelty. It shouldn’t be allowed in the U.S. all circus animals should be act free without their trainers using whips, tight collars, muzzles, electric prods, bull hooks and other painful tools of the trade to force animals to perform. A brief description of this photo and tells you a lot of how poor tigers are being treating cruelty and circus animals are in danger by being forced acting this tricks. Tigers are naturally fear fire and they are forced to jump in hoops in some circuses. Most of the circus animals spend 26 hours in their cages and...
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...Narrative Essay The Circus by Matkurbanova Gulzat It was a long time ago, when my children were still young. I took them to the city zoo because I wanted them to see real animals. I noticed that animals were behaving strange. Some were just laying there and doing nothing. Others were just moving their heads or walking in a circle. They rushed to any place where children feed them. There I saw a little-sad tiger. I felt very sorry for it, because the cub will never know freedom and life in the forest. Then I disliked the zoo. A year later I brought my daughters to the circus. As we entered the building, I could smell sharp and unpleasant odor which made me sick. Since we came early, my daughters started playing with other children in the lobby where there were a lot of attractions for children. "Mom, animals will act in the arena?," Umida, my elder daughter asked with glowing eyes. "Of course," I said. Both my girls were very happy. "Mom,How are you feeling?" asked Umida. "Absolutely awful," I stammered. Shoira, my younger daughter, looked up at the two of us from under her eyelashes and patted my arm. "Sweetie, give me a hug, please, " I asked her. She shook her head and hugged me. "Good, now I feel much better," I said. In the arena, there were clowns, jugglers and acrobats. But a special delight in children were caused by performance of animals. We saw beautiful animals that played ball, spinning the hoops and performing complex tricks. Of course, back then I...
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...The Use of Animals for Human Entertainment Adults take children to the circus, zoo, rodeos, movies, and marine parks to see different kinds of animals quite frequently. When people are young, they grow accustomed to seeing animals in these different environments and do not think of the harm it is potentially causing the animals. People do not typically know the habitats and conditions in which the animals live; they just see charming animals. Animals are being removed from their natural habitats to be placed into captivity for human enjoyment. Numerous animals in entertainment are being treated in barbaric and harsh ways. The use of animals for human amusement certainly involves removing animals from their habitats and putting them into inhumane conditions. Numerous laws prohibit the use of animals in entertainment. Since animals are abused and exported for a few moments of human entertainment, laws must be implemented to protect animals from abuse and exportation for the selfish entertainment of people. The owners of animals in entertainment are often not willing to pay for the costs of large cages or are unable to have large cages for the animals. When these animals are enclosed in small and overcrowded spaces, it often leads to filthy living conditions and animals’ fighting for their territory. Fighting can cause physical injury and weakness to the animals. “A negative side-effect associated with the physical environment provided to dolphins in captivity has been...
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...The American circus has a unique and often overlooked importance in American history. The first American circuses began shortly after the country was founded, and as the country’s population grew, moved West, went through the Industrial Revolution, and opened its gates to the world, the circus followed. Indeed, in many cases the circus provided people’s first view of new inventions, exotic animals and peoples, and popular entertainments. The history of the circus is in many ways a microcosm of the history of America. The history of a circus dates back to the ancient Roman period, when the first circus, or Circus Maximus, was founded. Soon after, Circus Flaminius and Circus Neronis also appeared. In Roman society, the circus was very different from how we may picture circuses today. It was used mainly for exhibitions for chariot and horse races, staged battles, displays featuring trained animals, jugglers and acrobats. The circus was important to Roman society as it was the only public event that did not separate men and women. Although the layout and the acts of this infant circus is much different than today, the circus still brought much joy to the public. The story of the first American circus begins with John Bill Ricketts, who set up a circus in America. Although his circus career only lasted seven years, he managed to befriend President George Washington, tour the East Coast, Canada, and the West Indies with his company, and present America a new type of entertainment...
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...environmental factors contributing to the demise of the traditional circus, and compare the offering of the traditional circus with the offering of Cirque du Soleil. Q2. Analyse Cirque du Soleil’s Blue Ocean Strategy and assess the sustainability of the proposed diversification strategy. Environmental factors contributing to the demise of the traditional circus Legal & Political * Tough laws and taxation policies. * Lack of governmental assistance and financial support. Economic * The increasing cost of moving from place to place. * Cost of animal maintenance got larger. * Hiring star performers led to rise in expenses. * The US went into recession. Environmental * Growing concern relating to the mistreatment of animals. * Scarcity of large tracts of land to accommodate circus tents in the city. Technology * Introduction of new technologies such as the TV, game consoles, iPods and laptops. Sociocultural * Two working parent families with no time to bring their kids to the circus. * An increase in movie theatres, along with the TV becoming the new medium for family entertainment. Comparison between traditional circus and Cirque du Soleil’s offering | TRADITIONAL CIRCUS | CIRQUE DU SOLEIL | PERFORMANCE | Based on acrobats, ringmasters, jugglers, clowns and animals acts. Star performers. | Emphasis on artistry. Human performers, no animals, stagecraft & live music, non-star performers. | AUDIENCE | Designed...
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...experience travelling with The Benzini Brothers Circus. The story is told as a series of memories by Jacob Jankowski, a ninety or ninety-three year-old man who lives in a nursing home, where Jacob is told what to eat and what to do. The book of his memories began, when he was twenty-three years old. Jacob was studying veterinary at Cornell University when he received the horrible news that his parents were killed in a car accident. Days after his parents accident he found that was not money left and his parents were in a deeply debt because his father, who was a veterinary was treating animals for free, plus all the expenses that were generated by the veterinary school for Jacob (Wikipedia, 2011). One night Jacob was desperate and he jumped on a train, which ended up being a circus train, in where he starts working as an animal caregiver after the owner of the circus found that he was a veterinary student. And after this a multiple events are mentioned in the book about Jacobs’s life and all the things that he had to go through during his life at the circus (Wikipedia, 2011). Years after when Jacob turn ninety-three year old he sees himself waiting for his family to take him to the circus. It is uncovered that Jacob and his wife married and had 5 children. Jacob after finding out no one is coming to pick him up to take him to the circus; he decided to go to the circus on his own. He met the manager and begged him to accompany the circus by selling tickets. Charlie agreed and Jacob...
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...Similarly, those in the circus business use these tactics of abuse as those in Macbeth do to gain excessive amount of money from each of their shows. Although they may seem unrelated to each other, they in fact have common themes. Both Macbeth and the circus business use acts of cruelty, false appearance, and greed in order to achieve their goal. When we first meet Macbeth he is portrayed as a loyal soldier who serves to protect his country, Scotland. After his encounter with the three witches and their fortunes, we begin to see Macbeth’s appearance alter into a cruel dictator. This change was caused by his wife, Lady Macbeth, who wants Macbeth to kill King Duncan so he can become King of Scotland himself. Lady Macbeth tells him to “look like the innocent...
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...‘Cirque du Soleil’ was established in 1984 by a group of young street performers who had two years earlier formed ‘Club des Talons Hauts’. It was based on the innovative concept of mixing the circus art entertainment featuring wild costumes, staged ‘magical’ lighting and set to original music. It was having the elements of dance, circus and opera. During this period of time the circus market had become stagnant, generating acts with same dressing up termed as ‘new’. Circus families and individual artists created highly developed and ever challenging variations on the same formula of trained animals and death defying stunts that have been popular in the past century. The circus business had reached a stage where to create a little difference it had to invest huge amount e.g. increasing the no of animals etc. But Cirque du Soleil defied the principle of gravity and changed the whole scenario of circus industry thereby entering a blue ocean of new possibilities, higher profit, less competitors, new takers. Soleil started their early production with ‘we reinvent the circus and Nouveelle Experience’ which proved to be a new experience to the audience. With a US$1.7 million contract from provincial government of Quebec, the show was huge success with a surplus of US$50.000. The troupe took another huge gamble, spending all its remaining funds after the season to join the Los Angeles Arts Festivals in 1987. The gamble paid off and Cirque du Soleil was a huge success and immediately...
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...Entertainment at the Expense of Animals Bobby Puente Period 1-2 2-3-17 Circuses, zoos, and rodeos, everyday places you would go as a child. Little did you know that horrible cruel things are happening to the animals when patrons are not around. Entertainment should not be held at the expense of animals. Entertainment with animals should not be held because it will hurt the business in the long run, if the business doesn’t have animals it will save them money, and animals should not be forced to do things they do not want to do. The first reason why entertainment should not be held at the expense of animals is because it will hurt the business in the long run. A key point in the article “Entertainment at Whose Expense? An Animal Rights...
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...on a train traveling from show to show, or being hit with a bull hook. This is no life for an elephant, and Jacob realized this so he helped save Rosie. Nelson describes elephants as highly intelligent creatures that develop at a similar rate as humans: “Kenny, a three-year-old Asian elephant, was supposed to perform his usual adorable tricks in The Greatest Show on Earth: identifying the first letter of the alphabet by kicking a beach ball marked with an "A," twirling in a tight circle, perching daintily atop a tub, and, at the end of his act, waving farewell to the audience with a handkerchief grasped in his trunk.” This performance by Kenny shows how extremely intelligent elephants are. This is an extremely challenging task for any animal to complete, yet alone a three year old elephant. Kenny was clearly sick, she then claims, “In the wild, Kenny would still be at his mother's side, just beginning to wean. In captivity, he was a voracious consumer of water and hay but for the past day or so had showed little interest in either. He seemed listless. Worried attendants...
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...building Cirque du Soleil, an artistic circus that has amazed thousands of people in hundreds of towns. Cirque has worked hard on keeping their strengths unbeatable and weaknesses miniscule. In the process of making their weaknesses turn into strengths they have taken advantage of many opportunities available to them. Cirque has done so well at expanding their horizon is it difficult to find opportunities they have not taken advantage of; so, where will they go from here? They do have a few threats; yet even these do not seem to injury Cirque du Soleil. They may need to watch negative media attention and keep founder Laliberté under wraps. Although with Cirque’s popularity, little will affect this strong company that takes advantage of all opportunities and turns their weaknesses into strengths. Cirque du Soleil: The Circus of the Sun Shines 1. Mission Statement: Invoke, provoke and evoke the imagination, the senses and the emotions of people around the world. 2. Organizational strengths/weaknesses a) Strengths i. Unique: Cirque Du Soleil, French for Circus of the Sun, was founded in 1984 by Guy Laliberté in Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada for the 450th anniversary of Canada’s’ discovery celebration in Quebec City. (Roux, 2009) Cirque du Soleil now boasts 5 offices around the world: Amsterdam, Las Vegas, Singapore, and the headquarters in Montreal. The show that provides the audience with a mix of circus arts and street entertainment is a...
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