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    shelters nationwide every year.” (Pet Statistics, ASPCA.org) The animals that enter the shelters are abandoned, abused or lost. With the numerous amount of animals entering shelters each year there is not enough money or space to provide these animals temporary homes. . According to ASPCA.org, “Of the dogs entering shelters, approximately 35% are adopted, 31% are euthanized and 26% of dogs who came in as strays are returned to their owner.” The act of euthanasia is humanely putting the animal to…

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    that people try to alter on a dog is vocalization because they do not want their dog to irritate them with their constant barking. Many owners would request procedures to devocalize their dogs such as laryngeal paralysis that remove vocal fold masses. Often, this would hurt the dogs physically and emotionally. Humans should not be devocalizing their dogs through surgery, or with any alternative methods, because it restricts their way of communicating with other dogs and humans, and causes…

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    Dogs are lying in the streets all over rundown and gang parts of big cities, fighting for their lives because they were hurt and abandoned. The dog lost in a dogfight, his owner lost $25,000, so he beat his dog and left him in the street to die. Dogfighting is a huge problem, and needs to be considered animal cruelty. Dogfighting should be considered animal cruelty because dogs are forced to fight, no matter the condition if their health, they are used as a profit, and they are abused, neglected…

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    wants Jake to buy a stuffed dog. He uses logos to convince Jake that it is a good idea to buy the dog because it will “brighten up [Jake’s] flat” (78). However, in these lines, Bill has a sarcastic and joking tone, so he really does not mean for Jake to buy the dog. This shows that he is condemning others who might buy things just for their looks. Bill also describes buying the stuffed dog as a “simple exchange of values” (78). Jake can trade his money for one stuffed dog. While consumerism…

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    we lost a dog. “Lets the dogs out” my Mother ordered,me I did as she requested and let the dogs outside. As I looked outside I saw the wind picking up and the clouds began to join together, and soon they covered our small house in the suburbs. “Mom,it looks bad outside do we let them in?” I’d ask waiting for a reply but she wasn’t paying any attention while she started to prepare for the storm. Ten minutes have passed and the dogs are still outside, my mother finally told me to let the dogs…

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    application form. 0ver a backdrop of screenshots of the software 5. Narration A field application allows staff to use iPhones for the identification of lost animals. Staff will be able to scan QR codes attached to the collars of lost animals, or photograph the animals. This data will then be uploaded to a database with a time and date stamp along with the lost animals’ location data. Over video of the field application in use 6. Narration Student volunteers from Stony Brook University will…

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    Moreover, a story that I compare my story with would be “Dog” by Richard Russo. This story was about a boy who always wanted a dog. The boy’s name was Henry, who lived with his mother and father, who slowly split up without him knowing. Henry would bring up the idea of having a dog during breakfast, lunch and even dinner. He would constantly leave books lying around, so his parents would set eyes on them and change their mind about getting him a dog. None of that worked, which just made Henry…

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    Cats and dogs are dissimilar and identical in their own ways. Alterations in these two are what makes them unique. Cats and dogs differ in vision, smell, Speed, endurance and intelligence. There difference is what allow them to be helpful in every way even for humans. If , cats and dogs had everything in common they would be boring and un-interested. having certain characteristics that no one has is something that allows them to fit with our needs. Cats and Dogs are known as predators which…

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    author also wanted us to feel the dog’s pain in the line “As we teased her with play, blood was filling her skin” and “We found her twisted and limp but still alive” (Clugston, 2010). I think that we can also see that the emotions we felt for the dog and his owner, are also emotions that we feel in our life when dealing with the illness and death of our loved ones, such as our family or close friends. With the reader/ response technique of writing, we can see and feel all of the emotions that…

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    not one second wasted on narrative “blank space”. But what happens to this model when the story a film strives to tell is a story not of action but of wandering? This question is raised by Iranian filmmaker Marzieh Meshkini in her 2004 film Stray Dogs. In order to tell this gripping tale of two Afghani children living on the streets of Kabul, Meshkini employs some tools of conventional cinema such as symbolism and allusion, but deliberately manipulates the pace of her film, creating a…

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