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    Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game,” is about a hunter who is wants to hunt down another ultimate predator, a man.The main character, Sanger Rainsford, is hunted down like an animal by General Zaroff. He must survive the hunt for three days, using a combination of his intelligence, strength, skill, and instincts in order to survive the General’s deadly game, and win back his freedom. He is given only one tool, a knife, and then released into the forest to be the prey.…

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    shelter, also tracks from what looked to be a human. I made my way through the dense jungle and found the Chateau, I knocked and an abnormally large man named Ivan answered the door. I later learned that he portrayed the traits of deaf mute. When another man came into view from inside, Ivan saluted, that man’s name, General Zaroff. He made it clear that he and Ivan trained in southern Russia and Ukraine’s military, making them Cossack.…

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    versus Man during this story is the general hunting Rainsford as if he is an animal. Rainsford already thinks that the General is insane for wanting to trap innocent people on an island and trying to kill them. Anyway the General manages to find a way to change Rainsfords mind. “‘Your brain against mine. Your woodcraft against mine. Your strength and stamina against mine’” (10). Rainsford disagrees with the general's choice of wanting to hunt humans. The only way the General changes…

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    Can you imagine being hunted by another human being? For Sanger Rainsford, a hunter from New York, this crazy scenario has come true. The short story “The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell, portrays Rainsford’s struggle to survive. When he falls off of a boat, Rainsford swims to a mysterious island, where he meets a man named General Zaroff. Zaroff likes to hunt humans because he is not challenged by hunting animals. Later in the story, Zaroff hunts Rainsford. Even though Rainsford faces…

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    begin to imagine eating a plate full of only vegetables. Where is the meat? People get the meat that everyone has come to love from hunting. Hunting animals is morally acceptable. Hunting is just a way of life and has been for thousands of years. People rely on hunting for resources. It is up to the humans to thin out the populations of animals. To start things off, hunting has been apart of human's everyday life since the beginning of time. There are many people out there that think hunters are…

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    On the first page of The Moral Equality of Humans and Animals Mark Bernstein states: “Several hundred million animals are annually hunted in the US; no humans are similarly exploited” (Bernstein 1). This phrase indicates Bernstein’s opposition to hunting. Hunting can certainly be destructive and exploitive; it has caused unjustified ecological destruction and has driven species to total extinction. I wouldn’t call hunting at large an act of exploitation though. I grew up in the backwoods of…

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    online a lot of himself in South Africa hunting photos, claiming giraffe meat are best to eat meat, sparked outrage in Sweden, people were attacked (Shunwang, 2016).” This news shows the bad influence on the ruthless hunting of animals, but he said to excuse himself, hunting activity in South Africa was entirely legal. Hunting specific animals is not only beneficial to humans, but also conducive to animals. The news that the guy defended for himself on hunting wild animals was reported by the…

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    extinction, and safety of others? Big game hunting is also a big business for wealthy few, it has become a dreadful and unacceptable sport that was taken too far, from where people have been killed and populations has been unstable. A stable population, safe sports and environment are more imperative than just a trophy of a piece of animal that is kept to represent the success of hunting. Trophy hunting should be tamed before its end tragically. Trophy hunting should be tamed before it increases…

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    Introduction: Hunting is a past time enjoyed by friends and family. Hunting gives people, a sense of adventure, accomplishment, fun and bonding; however, does hunting question the morality of how humans treat the lives of other living species? Should hunting animals be put to a stop for the brutality of the nature or be continued for the better and inevitable death of the animals? Kelley & Rule (2013) talk about how hunters use two types of patterns. The two different patterns are love and kill.…

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    natural world as directly linked to their well beings, shown through natural occurrences like humans’ mutually dependent exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide with plants. The Native Americans have perpetually upheld wildlife and the environment to the same level as humans – making that belief the ceremonious foundation of their culture, religion, and tradition, especially regarding their use of animals. Hunting has evolved over millions of years, initially being used as means of survival…

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