Leon Kass

Napoleon is a pig from the book Animal Farm by George Orwell. Napoleon has gone through one of the largest dynamic changes in the book. He started off as a quiet pig in support of the rebellion, but his desire for power turned him into to a dictator leading a totalitarian state. He has changed by becoming more oppressive, more like humans, and corrupt throughout the book. In the beginning of the book he was described as, “a large, rather fierce looking Berkshire Boar… not much of a talker, but…

Jeff was in an innocent broccoli plant minding it’s own business in a fine garden. Suddenly a lumbering giant came striding towards the plant. Swiftly it began to strip and tear broccoli from the plant consuming Jeff in the process. It devoured every sprout on the plant and left the decimated plant to rebuild, literally from the ground up. The woodchuck lumbered away, on the search for other fodder. Jeff was fully digested and was happily ensconced in the neck muscles of the woodchuck. But…

The movie Amores Perros, directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, was a nominee for best foreign film at the US Academy Awards. The film has a great depiction of life in contemporary Mexico City. The atmosphere let off by this film describes social conflict and social inequality that exists within many Latin American countries like Brazil, Mexico and Argentina. Amores Perros is organized as three distinct but interlinked stories. The title is translated as “Love’s a Bitch.” The stories each…

Ice Age: Meltdown The 2002 animated film, Ice Age: Meltdown is based off of global warming. The main characters: Manny, Sid, and Diego all came together at one point in time to create their own herd. Manny, being the leader of the pack is very lonely and depressed, being the only mammoth left on Earth. Sid the is the hyperactive, annoying sloth, whose family abandoned him long into his adulthood, and Diego is the mean and irritable tiger, who left his pack to join Manny and Sid. Manny, Sid,…

emerges as the leader of the Animal Farm after the Rebellion. He used military force to intimidate the other animals and combine his power. In his almighty talents, Napoleon proves more betrayal and deception that his opponent Snowball. Snowball, Leon Trotsky, is the pig who challenges Napoleon for control of the Animal Farm after the rebellion. He is intelligent, passionate, eloquent, less subtle and less devious than Napoleon. Snowball appears to win the loyalty of the other animals and…

Whether you’re taking on the task of a couple of feeder pigs in your backyard to feed your own family or trying to start your own small hog farm so much of success lies in the details; the little things than no one thinks to ask before they dive in feet first. Beyond the fences, the feed, and the shelter there exists a wide band of gray area between surviving with pigs and thriving with them. Here, a few of the things we’ve learned (some the hard way) and hope others don’t have to: 1. Don’t…

For years, the people of Russia suffered under an unfair and unjust government. But now we have a chance to support a moral government under the Bolsheviks, who are focused on the interests of the people. The changes that the new government brought, are based on ideas that were necessary for the welfare of the people of Russia. But why were Bolshevik humane philosophies necessary? Because before the Bolsheviks rose to power, the Tsar Nicholas II ruled over Russia with his twisted ideas and…

Something One could relate the novella, Animal Farm, to could be “War Pigs” by Black Sabbath. The song “War Pigs”, by Black Sabbath is about the evil ways of war and how people use it for their own benefit. The line from this song One could relate to the text is “Politicians hide themselves away They only started the war Why should they go out to fight? They leave that role to poor”. This line could be related to how the pigs don't do any work on the farm and only give orders to the inferior…

Benjamin: Utopia Society Have you ever thought of just laying back in the sun with not a care in the world. I’m Benjamin and my moto/saying is “nothing really annoys me, I'm not that kind of [donkey], I'm quite laid back about most things”(Mark Lawrenson). I’m the oldest animal, least tempered so I really have no motive to take action or put input into anything that really goes on, unless it’s a cynical remark. My imagination of an utopian society is everyone is not worried about anything and…

Greedy wolf Once upon a time, when all animals could speak there was a clever dog who lived in the farm. Unfortunately, the farmer was very lazy and unwise. Therefore, a dog named ‘Jack’ had to care for the farm. There was a wolf who was really evil and he had really sharp teeth. Every first day of the month, the evil wolf from the mountain behind the farm, came down to the farm and attacked some sheep. Since the farmer was lazy and foolish, Jack had to think and considered ways to find wise…