Circuses

book, No Animals Were Harmed: The Controversial Line between Entertainment and Abuse by Peter Laufer, Peter Laufer decides to go investigate different ways humans use animals for amusement, and he has one section that goes over the abusive Mexican circuses and how they underfeed all their animals. This shows that animals are abused just for entertainment and that the people who do this show little to no remorse because if they did then they would have already…

Animal Rights Tilikum was the first owned whale in the Sealand of the Pacific aquarium that was isolated from the other orcas in his own pool; Tilikum was taken from his natural habitat as an adult, and suddenly was forced to make a dramatic change to being in an isolated pool. Because of this dramatic change, it caused Tilikum stress, depression from being alone, and anxiety from being in an enclosed tank instead of having a free amount of miles to roam. This unfair treatment leads to Tilikum…

Animal Cruelty should be criminalized because animals are been abused for entertainment, tormented in factories and it’s causing an increase in animal extinction. Animal cruelty is denied by many to be considered a crime. Those who go to Zoos and Circuses and aren’t aware of the damage been done to those animals behind those curtains and cages, they live in denial. Our generation is full of new ways to keep us entertained yet we still have animals play a role in this. It comes to the point…

You don’t beat your kid when they learn to walk on two legs and fall, why do it to animals? Animal cruelty has become a real problem in circuses. I believe that the “traditional method” is not working, and that positive reinforcement is the way to go. First off I would like to explain the “Traditional method”. The “traditional method” starts by ripping the baby from the mother. Then “breaking” the elephants by making them stand for 23 hours a day. After the baby elephants are broken they are…

story Oedipus the King, some theatres have used different masks that are used for specific characters like for the peasants the will have much different masks and as well as cloths than the royal family, the seer, the council and the corus. Some circuses also use Commedia Dell’ Arte for performances were a performer will wear a mask while doing a stunt or clowns will wear mask to entertain children. Some Commedia Dell’ Arte performances will be pantomimes were the will were masks and do thing…

My view on the topic after my research When I originally started this project my initial standpoint was that all forms of animal captivity are wrong. I still stand by this in terms of SeaWorld, circus animals and wildlife parks that simply do not care about the animal’s welfare but what has really changed my mind on the topic is UK Zoos. From communicating with Flamingo Land, Blackpool Zoo and Belfast Zoo, it seems like they all have one common goal in mind; conservation and making sure the…

Entry 1: Today we discussed the public sphere. In summary, we discussed the emergence of the “mass audience”, the low/high culture binary, and determining where the idea of “the public” comes from. We have a conception of the public sphere from the bourgeois class. The set ideal is that of a private (civil society) and the public (state-mediates crises). This public sphere is formed and operated through the norms of publicity. There are five norms that make up publicity: status as person is…

act and preach his ideas under this stage name. He was acting as only an amateur until 1897 when it became his profession. He had a privileged upbringing as his family was wealthy so he had many opportunities to visit ballets, operas, plays and circuses. This would have helped to influence his interest in performing and acting and, although his family loved visiting the theatre, they highly disapproved of Stanislavski going through with the profession…

Play is defined as “a range of voluntary, intrinsically motivated activities normally associated with recreational pleasure and enjoyment.” Although it is often associated with children and rarely so with adults, the importance of play is being undermined. In the excerpt from “Reclaiming the Power of Play” by Stephen T. Asma, he largely argues that play is indeed vital for humanity. However, some of the objections the author raised up against the claim that play is vital for humanity is because…

He then relates the circuses (which as he states are often million dollar companies) to ethnic tribes. “It's not at all uncommon to see three and even four generations working side by side.”(page 67) It makes a lot of sense to me that such a situation would be ideal in the future…