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    Animal Rights has been a controversial topic for thousands of years. They date back to the Romans and Greeks in the sixth century BC. The belief for the inalienable rights of animals has been both fought for and fought against by many around the world. Some groups of people are very strong in these beliefs and take major actions to get the attention of society. Regardless of beliefs, animal testing and animal rights are important issues that should be recognized as such. One of the first…

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    Speech On Pitbulls

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    Pit bulls are a breed of dog that is mixed with a terrier and a bulldog. They originated from the United Kingdom in the 1700s. The pit bull was made for bloodspot , witch is hunting other animals, people, and fighting other dogs. Years later they had to stop the bloodsport, and Great Britain but a dog welfare out, but it didn’t stop them from fighting it just went underground and became a gambling thing. It soon would make its way over to the United States for dog fighting and hunting. So…

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    Bully Myth Essay

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    dogs such as, the American Pit bull Terrier, Staffordshire terrier, and Staffordshire bull terrier are all descendants of the ancient molosser dog from the British Isles. These medium size dogs were bred for hunting, protection, fighting, and bull baiting activities. These dogs served in the military, were presidential pits, and nanny dogs for parents. But, myths say these particular dogs have locking jaws, have a bite force of 1,600 pounds per square inch, and attack more people than any other…

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    Aggressive Breeds The essay I chose is by Lisa from Howell, Michigan. Site http://thisibelieve.org/essay/139917/. Lisa writes about aggressive breeds of dogs and the pit bull being one of them. I believe that there is no such thing as an aggressive breed of a dog. People often claim that American Pit-bull Terriers (Pit-Bulls) are an aggressive breed of a dog. That is frustrating to me as I have a Pit-Bull, and she is not aggressive. I knew when I decided to get a Pit-Bull pup that I would be…

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    We often think of wolves of killing and wasting their food whereas in reality, “About half their meals come from kills, and on average 5 percent of their winter encounters with moose result in kills. The other half of their winter meals are scavenged (animals that died from other causes); the majority of the moose they eat are scavenged. They dig many of the scavenged meals from beneath the snow . . . pg. 87 (Haber & Holleman, 2013). Haber contends “Wolves are master hunters, but by no means are…

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    For example, “Everybody was having fun at the mule-baiting. All but Janie”(Hurston 75) Janie saw how the mule was being abused physically and Janie felt the same way with the relationship between her and Jody. The mule is a symbol to Janie’s mistreatments that she is facing with Jody, the sufferings of abuse…

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    Keats Life Of Allegory

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    As Marjorie Levinson compellingly argues in Keats’s Life of Allegory: The Origins of a Style, these contemporary reviews saw in Keats’s poems namely, a social-ego enterprise of a middling class, the self fashioning gestures of the petty bourgeois. Levinson is primarily interested in Keats’s style as the manifestation of his class ambition, but her argument is equally germane to Keats’s conceptualization of negative capability: it is part and parcel of his self-fashioning gestures. In a letter…

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    Once an animal becomes extinct there is no bringing it back, it is gone for good. That is why it is important that people do not delay and start to use proper care and help protect these species that are endangered in North Carolina. The ecosystem is a fragile system and the strain caused by a certain animal going extinct could possibly cause the entire ecosystem to collapse Which would be a tragic thing; it would not just affect the environment, but it could also affect humans and their daily…

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    “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe is a short story detailing the revenge of a man that could not endure the insult of a rival (183). The theme of this mid-1800’s horror story is alluded to in the title, a cask of desired Spanish sherry used as a lure. Temptation for a man whose weakness happens to be alcohol. Weaknesses are used repeatedly to goad the plot forward, giving warning to all that anyone can be reached by those they trod upon. Montresor is the man who tells this story…

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    room on their wedding night. She did not bother to tell Juliet’s parents what their daughter was doing; she had approved of Romeo and Juliet’s marriage despite their families’ indifference for each other. This proves the Nurse to be guilty, She is baiting Juliet into thinking that her and Romeo could spend the rest of their lives together when she knows that will never happen because of the feud. The Nurse soon changes her mind about Romeo and all men for that matter when she states “There’s no…

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