Circus

The article “After SeaWorld, a ‘Blackfish effect’ on circuses and zoos?” by Kelly Wallace has gotten a lot of people feeling mixed emotions. In this article it says, “the public has completely changed its opinion on exploiting and killing animals for entertainment.” In SeaWorld animals are being killed and parents are not ok with this. This is no longer fun and educational for their kids. SeaWorld has banned the use of the bullhook which is a tool that helps handle and train the elephants. This…

N.Y. (WENY) -- Come one come all to Circus Culture in Downtown Ithaca. It is the city's very own circus school, but it is not your mainstream circus academy. There are no animals and no clowns, but the new Circus School is filled with a lot of 'monkeying around'. "It was really important to me that this is very much a circus of this community. It's made up of people who live here, who gravitate here to Ithaca and appreciate our community and also circus. So it's going to look different in…

One big thing one may see is the effects of color in this book. Black and white are the main color of the circus but there is also a hint of red. The color black represents death and mystery. The color black also represents night, most of this books events happen at night for example celila being dropped of with marco, celia going to the dinners, the circus happens at night. White represents the idea of innocence. Celia is a innocent child with special powers thrown into a life she had no idea…

In the story Water for Elephants, 93 year old Jacob Jankowski recalls the story of his life, and more specifically, his experiences in the circus. In the exposition, Jacob flashes back to a disaster that occurred when he was a young man. All of the animals in the circus have escaped and are running wild around, and Jacob searches desperately for his wife. As memory fades, he once again becomes the old man that he is. Throughout the novel, he drifts in and out of memories, lacing the past with…

In 2011 Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus agreed to pay a $270,000 fine after facing charges from the USDA, the United States Department of Agriculture. The corporation did not admit wrongdoing after settling says Reuters who wrote the report for the New York Times on this case (1). The corporation is justifying their decision to pay as purely business with their show adapting to what people want and are interested in seeing. The mistreatment that elephants face in the show is often…

last time I journaled, I have completed Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants. The novel concluded on page 331. In the second half of the book, the action really picked up and left me never wanting to put the book down. August, the elephant man of the circus, would beat Rosie, because she never listened. It was so hard for Jacob to watch August beat this innocent animal. Finally, one day Jacob discovered Rosie could not understand English, but rather knew the Polish language, which is why she never…

Various books but somewhere also equal The most books have similarity’s in Gothic Elements. You can compare them to different books and you will find something that could be similar. In The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern leads the Supernatural to extraordinary things “her momentary glee at the adjustment is crushed by the pain that follows as the ring continues to close around her finger, the metal burning into her skin.” (Morgenstern 24). You will also find the Supernatural in “Fall of the…

different settings. Some settings in the big top exit 8 mall, Ivan’s domain, and finally the circus. The circus is one that they don't talk about a lot, but it's still important. The other two are very important in this novel. One setting is the big top exit 8 mall, and this is the main setting in the novel. This is because they normally don't talk about stuff out of the mall except a few of the circus but that is not a lot. I think this because, it shows how Ivan introduces himself on pages…

in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, somehow got loose when the truck hauling 14 big cats stopped south of Atlanta on its way from Florida to Tennessee. "We stopped in Georgia to feed and water the cats and for a quick rest break for the driver, and that's where we believe the animal escaped and was later confronted by law enforcement," Payne said. Suzy was headed back to its European owner, animal handler Alexander Lacey, after the circus this year ended its 146-year run, Payne…

last very long. The streets were filled with people scattering as an elephant ran loose. The “Wrongling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus” had lost their entertainment elephant, Fluffy, to the the city. This incident occurred as the circus was on their way to George Mason University for a performance. Fitzwilliam Darcy, a 55 year old man whom is the manager of the circus, stated to us that this is very unusual for the elephant to act out the way he did, “He has never done anything like this…