Michael Eric Dyson

College or professional, even in high school, a rivalry between two teams is always a big deal. The stakes are even higher when this rivalry comes between a city. Rochester Hills is home to two very different colleges, Oakland University and Rochester College. When the two meet it is much like the U of M versus MSU during football season. The RC versus OU hockey matches, known as the Battle of the Jug, is one of the biggest hockey series of the season. The Battle for the Jug is one of the few…

Animal Farm Responses: Response #1: How are the pigs and their role in the governance of Animal Farm a symbol for more educated and more intelligent members of society that are required to do little physical labour? In Animal Farm by George Orwell, the author uses the animals and the roles that they play in the story as symbols for different classes of people in a real society. The role that a particular species assumes in Animal Farm is closely related to the real characteristics of that…

basement was listening to the sex pistols on his vintage record player. His name was Steven Hyde, a brutally honest and down to earth, radical dude. As the last note from johnny rotten's mouth is growled out, “I wanna be anarchy”, Eric walks in. “Hey man”, says Hyde. Eric asked how's it hanging as he looks into hyde's tinted shades. “Its pretty chill I guess”. “ So, the gang is gonna go out tonight to a disco record burning party. “I'm there, man, might meet some chill people. “What?!”…

In chapter 5, page 70, Squealer uses a form of propaganda to entice fear into the other animals of the farm. Most of the animals are non-intelligent, hence, they would not know the pigs ulterior motive. “You don’t want Jones back do you?” Squealer uses a Jones as a fear/threat to convey what’s happening on the farm is for the better and if they didn’t comply with the changes, life would be back to the way it was with Jones. However, this causes confusion with the animals on account of the…

Six year olds. Teenagers. Adults. Seniors. All of these age groups would come watch Kiss perform. After the show everyone would tell Kiss how much fun they had. Kiss went through all of these troubles and still ended up becoming one of the biggest bands ever. Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley formed Kiss who as a group, created a legacy because of their costumes and behaviour. They had a hard time finding other members, an amazing legacy, and a member going away. The band Kiss was all in separate…

Beauty over Pain: Getting Rid of Animal Testing “The question is not, can they reason, nor, can they talk. But, can they suffer?” -Jeremy Bentham. By a show of hands, how many of you would cause your pet intentional pain? Would you prod them, lock them up, or inject them with possibly toxic products? That is what most reactions would be. Well, it turns out you may be using one or more animal tested products a day without knowing. Today’s society will do just about anything to get rid of basic…

Directed by Lee Toland Krieger, Age of Adaline is an enchanting film of a woman, who in 1937 mysteriously stops aging after a tragic accident causing her to live a lonely life for the fear of revealing her secret; however, the plot is implausible because of its circumstances. Adeline Bowman was born on New Years Day in 1908, got married, had a child, and became widowed at a young age when her husband had an accident at work. Her daughter rapidly approached the age of 29, the same age that…

"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." John Lennon's quote shows how he took his mother's advice to always be happy and tried to remain happy even though people might try and bring him down. The assassination of John Lennon was unjust because he was a kind person…

Humans always need to be entertained, and whether it is a football game or watching an orca unnaturally balance a person on their nose during a show they always have a natural need to be impressed. The use of animals for human entertainment has gone on for centuries now, and throughout the past century it has been done in the most unethical and immoral ways. While reading chapter 6 in the book Animals and Society I was able to understand and agree with the bias explanations of the author when…

One of the many commandments Napoleon broke was commandment one, whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Napoleon broke this commandment along with the other pigs when in the end of the book they all learned how to walk on their hind legs, two legs. By doing that is should have made them an enemy of animal farm, but because Napoleon and the pigs are viewed as superior than the other animals they got away with it. The pigs did this in the first place so they could be more like humans and almost…