...Night and Slaughterhouse-Five Night and Slaughterhouse-Five For thousands of years mankind has been killing each other for what, to gain more land, to gain superiority over another, or to show how strong we are. For whatever reason we are always at war with each other the 1900 were no exception with two world wars and plenty of smaller wars. “Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. John F. Kennedy”like J.F.K. said war will end us if we keep it up, war helps no one it just bring destruction and chaos. Out of all the wars both novels ‘Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut’ and ‘Night by Elie Wiesel’ were based on the second World War. ’Night’ is about the hardship that a Jewish boy had to go through to survive Auschwitz...
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...Night and Slaughterhouse-Five For thousands of years mankind has been killing each other for what, to gain more land, to gain superiority over another, or to show how strong we are. For whatever reason we are always at war with each other the 1900 were no exception with two world wars and plenty of smaller wars. “Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. John F. Kennedy”like J.F.K. said war will end us if we keep it up war helps no one it just bring destruction and chaos. Out of all the wars both novels ‘Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut’ and ‘Night by Elie Wiesel’ were based on the second World War. ’Night’ is about the hardship that a Jewish boy had to go through to survive Auschwitz and Slaughterhouse-Five was...
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...alone in a small confined cage. There is no place to use the bathroom, other than where you stand. The awful stench of your faeces grows worse and worse each second. The only food they left you with, you ate in the first day. Now the only thing keeping you alive is your desperation to eat and drink your own waste and the will to survive. You are a dog left to die by its owners, with the thought that you are lower than humans and have no real importance or worth. I have always been an animal lover and it has always disgusted me to see an animal being mistreated. Even when I am watching a movie and an animal gets hurt I always cringe with sadness. I remember I had these neighbors; we were good friends with them. They always wanted to have a dog but either they never had the money to take care of a pet or they just did not know how. That never stopped them from constantly having a dog. I remember two specific dogs they had, one was a mixed bulldog, Daisy, and the other was a Jack Russell Terrier, Jack. Daisy was such a beautiful sweet dog, but the way she was treated was poor. If they did not have any dog food they would feed her cereal and milk. They also considered spraying her with a hose while she ran around in the backyard a bath. The worst thing that happened to her was that one day Daisy decided to climb their fence and she got her leg caught and was hurt. They didn’t have the money to get it checked so Daisy had a permanent limp. Later they realized Daisy was too much of a responsibility...
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...Once they come out of the tanks, their bones are disfigured and broken and many of them lose body parts due to their aggressive struggling (2Bulter 2). Another unpleasant physical treatment involves the shackles in the slaughterhouses. At a slaughterhouse in Tennessee, an employee admitted that when chickens are too big are are not hung properly from their legs, instead they are hung by their necks (2PETA 1). Also, the conveyor belts in slaughterhouses are considered an unpleasant physical treatment. PETA’s investigator found that at the end of the conveyor belt in a Georgia slaughterhouse, which transports the birds to be hung, snagged many chickens heads and legs that ended up killing the birds (3PETA 1). Some of the inhumane abusive physical punishments include beating and stabbing the chickens, breaking the chickens bones, and blowing them up. The PETA investigator documented that an employee of the Tennessee slaughterhouse admitted that “...he broke a chicken's back by beating the bird against a rail, [and] a back-up killer stabbed birds in the neck area with knives...” (4PETA 1). This is an...
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...BKurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five is a confusing but meaningful story whose nontraditional form explains how meaningful life is. Kurt Vonnegut takes readers back into WWII with Billy’s wild encounters. Billy thinks about how life is meaningless and it never ends, just repeats and repeats. Kurt Vonnegut uses a lot of black humor and a lot of irony throughout this novel. Corresponding of this, readers are able to realize the disgust of the war, but at the same time laugh at some of the absurd situations Billy goes through. Vonnegut beautifully shows that life is simultaneously worthwhile and meaningless. All people react differently when it comes to calamities; some people mourn, some avoid the tragedy all together. In Slaughterhouse-five,...
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...AT A SLAUGHTERHOUSE, SOME THINGS NEVER DIE 1. Mercedes and Armando Fernández work far from their home in Mexico in order to a. begin a better life in America. b. gain work experience. c. afford plumbing for their house. d. start a business in North Carolina. 2. Unionization failed at the Smithfield Packing Company in 1997 because a. workers did not like the idea of unionizing. b. the UFCWU union did not take a stand on illegal laborers. c. Americans perceived the union to be racist. d. police stopped workers from voting. 3. The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has not investigated the Smithfield Packing Company because a. no one has complained or arose suspicions. b. the INS does not have jurisdiction on food processing properties. c. Smithfield has developed a deal with the INS. d. the INS is too bogged down to handle new complaints. 4. Whites and Native Americans are given jobs making boxes at Smithfield because a. they are perceived as too weak to work animal processing jobs. b. they demand to be separated from the Black and Mexican workers. c. box construction requires more thought. d. these jobs are considered easier and are reserved for privileged individuals. True or False 5. Workers are given extensive training before they begin work at the Smithfield Packing Company. 6. The Smithfield Packing Company’s kill-floor is staffed primarily by workers from Mexico. 7, Making more than $8 per...
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...Going Vegetarian Many people believe that vegetarians aren’t able to find meatless items at restaurants. It may seem to be more difficult, but according to the “Vegetarian Times” eight out of ten restaurants in the United States offer vegetarian choices. Although being a vegetarian can be challenging, the benefits outweigh the burdens. Today, there are many healthy, vegetarian choices in restaurants around the world. For example, apples and yogurt can even be found at McDonalds! “Farmer’s Weekly” says that not only is a vegetarian diet healthy but it also helps cut greenhouse gases, conserve water, and conserve land. Today, many people are trying to become eco-friendly and don’t know what they can do to help. Giving up meat is a healthy choice for you, for the animals, and it could even help solve world hunger. Many people, when they think of becoming vegetarian, wonder how they are going to get enough protein and iron in their diet. According the book, The Case for Vegetarianism, people are mistaken in thinking that protein comes from animals. Protein actually comes from plant food, meaning that all animals get protein through the food they eat. When trying to figure out what foods have protein, whole grains, beans, nuts, eggs, and peas are all high in protein, as well as all dairy products. To be the healthiest, one’s diet should include a variety of whole foods. Excess protein actually puts stress on the liver and kidney and is also linked with calcium...
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...you couldn’t get hamburgers because killing cows was illegal. Ethos Statement: Bullfighting is seen as a symbol of Spanish culture and it is a very valued tradition because, according to Ernest Hemingway in his non-fiction book Death in the Afternoon published in 1932, “Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.” Exigency: I think most of us are bad inform about what really happens before and after a bullfight. The first thing that comes to our mines when we see pictures or videos about bullfighting is animal cruelty, but this is not true. Thesis: Bullfighting should be viewed just as a cultural tradition and not as an animal cruelty. Preview: First we’ll let the beast out to the bullring and explain to what extend bullfighting is so culturally important for Spanish people, then we’ll confront the bull and see what are some lies from the opposition, and finally we’ll conclude our chore and explain you why you should accept bullfighting as a cultural tradition. (Transition: Lets start by explaining you the value of bullfighting for the Spanish culture.) Body I. According to the Total Spain website, last update on 2010, “Supporters of bullfighting regard it as a deeply ingrained, integral part of their national culture.” A. Bullfighting traces its roots to...
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...silently on the floor in front of me. They didn’t move, didn’t cluck”. Ultimately the ways the chickens are treated is inhumane, brought up in crammed cages, and disease infested sheds, feces everywhere, while ammonia fills the air choking anyone who inhales, all while getting pumped with drugs, getting debeaked and abused just to get slaughtered alive down the road. 2. The common treatment practices are chickens get genetically manipulated and regularly dosed with drugs to make them grow faster and larger. The average breast of an 8-week-old chicken is seven times heavier today than it was 25 years ago. Because of this unnaturally accelerated weight gain, these very young birds frequently die of heart attacks and lung collapse, something that would almost never happen in nature. According to Feedstuffs, a meat-industry magazine, “Broilers now grow so rapidly that the...
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...convincing reasons to support my opinion, including how captivity causes many health problems in marine mammals, these helpless creatures suffer from boredom, most of these poor innocent creatures face abusive treatment by their caretakers, thus shortening their life span by quite a lot, and marine mammals breed very poorly in captivity with very high infant death rates. So keep an open mind and choose to spend your money on family activities this summer that do not contribute to animal suffering. For starters, many wonder first where they all come from, or more importantly how they capture them. Dolphins are sometimes purposely injured by the capture teams to force the rest of their pod to stay behind into the trap, due to that dolphins never leave behind sick or injured friends or family members. But most times, capture teams on their boats bang long metal rods against another to scare a pod to shallow waters. Nets are raised at the end of the shallow waters to prevent any from escaping, and nets are dropped over dolphins as they panic in fear and they are lifted onboard. Those who throb back and forth on deck have their backs cut with knives, in fact, if you paid attention to the...
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...part of the main; if a Clod be washed away by the Sea, Europe is the less, as well as a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were: any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in menkind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” Donne was trying to tell that everything has it end, that if something affects one it can affect them all because everyone like him is involved in menkind, and he realized that when he got ill. It is exactly how it happens with a tree, it starts from the seed, the stem, then comes the flowers that later produces fruits, and in the end one day it is fading. That is how it happens with humans beans, they get born, they grow up, produce and in the end they die just like the trees are fading. We live in fear every day in this world because we know that one day the clock will stop for us just like our heartbeats will stop beating anymore, and then I believe that all the fear we had felt will disappear forever. But it is also apparent that in this paragraph Donne could also mean that even that people die and are not anymore on this earth, they can still continue living in the life after death, things that are mentioned in all the holy books that were send from god. Donne was pointing out peoples mortality and he is trying to remind...
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...the city of Mexico with his wife and two daughters. Both he and his wife Elena own two beautiful houses. Dago works at a Levi Strauss’s Mexico division as an executive while his wife is a manager of a computer equipment company. Dago and his wife enjoyed the life they were living and were satisfied with everything that has happened in their lives. But, one day Dago was informed by his boss that the company he was working for was closing. Life for Dago went completely downhill from this point on. Dago was forced to move to his other house and eventually had to sell that house due to financial problems. His wife wanted a divorce and Dago had no choice but to cross the border. Dago arrived in Nebraska and expected an enhanced lifestyle but, things just got worse for Dago day by day struggling to find a job and survive. When Dago arrived there he received a U.S. ID and papers in exchange for $1,200. When he had come back home his papers were missing. Finding a job was difficult and stressful for Dago. He started to become hopeless and was scared for what will happen next. As time went on Dago finally got in touch with his father’s cousins wife and she invited...
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...humans very sick such as fever, diarrhea, and abdominal pain. The US pork is also banned in some countries because of a drug called ractopamine, which makes their growth speed faster. Pork is very perishable, so it can make people depressed as well, because of the nutrition that is not fresh (Main 2013). Science does not lie by the observed evidence. Therefore, people must consider listening more carefully about what science says about eating pork. If the percentage of bad pork is eighty-three, then people should immediately stop eating pork products. Statistical variables on pork must be enough for anyone who tends to eat pork again. Otherwise, peoples’ lives are going to be unhealthy and so cancer...
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...dictionary on on-line brutality is the state or quality of being ruthless, cruel, harsh, or unrelenting (Brutality, 2000). Many large corporation run most of the farms today due to the economy and regular farmers not being able to afford to run let alone own a farm, factory farming has become the way to do business, despite the fact that animals are meant to graze on green pastures and drink from clean watering holes many animals are instead being confined to small cages, being brutally abused, getting sick and dying. Today’s farming isn’t green pastors and blue drinking water like the movies would led us to believe. Today’s farming means wire cages with animals piled on top of each other with no room to move, barren dirt lots, darkness and never being raised with their families. This lifestyle only leaves these beautiful animals completely stressed which leads to self-mutilation...
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...It seems like any situation could come about and Native Americans would adapt and find a way to make things work. The Natives seemed to just have a special love and understanding when it came to their habitat and ways they used those resources. They were never known to waste anything or take any blessing for granted. I mean they really respected other mammals and comprehended their role. To Natives, animals were respected as equal in rights to humans (www.pantheism.net). If this does not prove to you that they respected their resources then I do not know what could. Imagine today if people were viewed as equal to humans. I understand that population size and things have caused America to move into the direction it is in terms of usage of animals as food. This does not excuse the fact that animal cruelty and things like slaughterhouses exist. America had a very harsh way of getting the food that we need and there need to be some moral changes when it comes to the respect we should give to the very things that are keeping us alive. When the white settlers began to innovate and build their institutions around the Natives they did not know what to think. The techniques of farming and raising animals to kill for food were outlandish to the Natives. Indians viewed the white man’s attitude toward...
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