Imagine being trapped in a cage and having to live based on someone else’s schedule. Well that is zoo animals feel every single day. Animal captivity has been around for hundreds of years. Animals were held as creatures of worship and used for gladiatorial contests. It wasn’t until the 1800s that public zoos became more common. As they became more common the focus on educational purposes became less and the animals began being treated abusively and being mishandled. Zoos should be shut down.…
In this Kristin Hoganson’s Fighting for American Manhood, Hoganson investigates the courses in which thoughts of masculinity surrounded the political arguments over America 's part in other countries’ affairs in the last days of the nineteenth century. With an obvious gendered dialect, American government officials on both sides of the civil arguments over war and colonialism summoned an assortment of thoughts of manhood, including topics of generational contrasts, the reverence of the men who…
Tender Buttons clearly showed the profound effect modern painting had on her writing. In these small prose poems, Stein meticulously puts images and phrases together, often in surprising ways—similar in manner to cubist painting. Her writing, characterized by its use of words for their associations and sounds rather than their meanings, received considerable interest from other artists and writers. In fact like an artist, she is throwing random colours to paint an object as it is. However, in…
page 17, it says,” Ten miles from the island, outside the city of Cape Town, a team of scientists and volunteers has transformed a warehouse into a penguin rescue center. They work with astonishing speed. The warehouse contains hundreds of round enclosures, each large enough to accommodate 100 penguins. Other areas of the warehouse have been designated for washing penguins”(Tarshis 17). This supports my claim because this shows how the humans have joined together so they can help clean the…
the people to switch from muscles to machines. Some of these factors were political, such as exploration and colonialism, sea power, political stability, government support and growth of private investment. And others were agricultural, like the enclosure movement. Weaving used to be a cottage industry, people used to make clothes at home and sell them. However, as machines became more common, people wanted to use them but they couldn’t fit them in their houses so they started weaving clothes at…
1) Centrioles are a paired feature of animal mitotic spindles that protrude away from the centrisome of cells and are primarily tasked with the creation of microtubules. The microtubules give way to mitotic spindles, which play a vital role in both mitosis and cytokinesis as they give cilia and flagellum the ability to generate motion and they ensure both newly formed cells contain paired centrioles during the later stages of cell division. Kinetochores are protein structures that produce…
community for the rest of their lives. But Seaworld takes the babies away in just 1 year. In one case, a baby orca was taken from the wild and died only six years later. Another example is when they abducted two polar bears and kept them in the same enclosure for 20 years. After separating the two polar bears, Szenja, the male polar bear, died because of his isolation. Once they deliver these animals to their designated Seaworld, they are put into small tanks. These tanks for orcas are only 34…
inescapable donations and unfortunate deaths, the moments in their lives which are most emotionally traumatic are centred on this lack of belonging. The narrator of the novel, Kathy, realizes that she is different from the people outside of the enclosure, ‘’the moment when you realize that you really are different to them; that there are people out there, like Madame, who don’t hate you or wish you harm, but who nevertheless shudder at the very thought of you…’’. Madame is a woman who comes and…
In the National Geographic interview written by Simon Worrall, “Former Trainer Slams SeaWorld for Cruel Treatment of Orcas," author and former SeaWorld trainer John Hargrove sheds light on the mistreatment of the killer whales. Hargrove also talks about his book, Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish, where he shares anecdotes from his life as a trainer and what led him on his journey to orca advocacy. The interview is also full of Mr. Hargrove’s opinions…
Apple iPhone 5s and Samsung Galaxy S5 After only a decade, Smartphone Technology improved almost every aspect of our daily lives; checking the weather, news, using social media, messaging, and even maps, almost everything on a single device. Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co.--two big smartphone industries that have been competing to win consumer’s trust and patronage since 2011. Both of them are making remarkable products aiming to give users convenience, connection, and better…