Pitbull

Any dog owner and lover would agree that their pets are like family. Each animal with their own personality, responses, and temperament. Breed specific legislation, or breed banning is an ordinance passed by local government basically banning a specific breed or group of breeds of dogs that are considered dangerous. I strongly believe that banning specific dog breeds is not an effective way for keeping the public safe from dog bites or attacks. The ban does not notice differences in each dog 's…

I’m a former journalist and public-relations professional who always wanted to write novels. So, about four years ago, while the country was still in recession, I took a deep breath and quit my day job. (I have to thank my husband, Mark Funk, for making that possible.) The decision to finally pursue my childhood dream was a complete leap of faith. I flailed around a lot, writing and rewriting the first paragraph of my novel 327 times (that’s just a guess) before I realized I’d never reach the…

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We got older, and I got meaner. My childhood boyfriend asked if I could please hold onto the flimsy cardboard cutout of his WWE belt until he finished doing his chores inside. I flung the belt on the swing seat shortly after he walked inside and decided to talk to his little sister for a while. The belt blew off after one gust of the wind and fell immediately into the mud sitting below. My boyfriend walked out of the sliding door and his posture immediately sank. He ran towards the cardboard…

stopped sending her pictures of dog I liked but I still looked. One day I was in my child development class and my mom sent me a picture, I remember my heart started racing waiting for the picture to download. She sent me a picture of a bunch of blue pitbull…

Cicadas chirping. The sweltering heat and the sweetness of the tangerines. Her hands find their way across the ocean of blankets and rest on my feet. “What are you doing, weirdo?” She only grins and shrugs. “I dunno. Your feet smell nice, ya know?” “Ewww!” I’m giggling and I pull my feet away shyly. Cicadas chirping. Chloe’s dad brought over an electric fan from the attic. The current of air keeps the sweat off of my face. “You want to go downstairs? You do know that it’s colder down there,…

Even if the shelter does decide to continue to not adopt out Pit Bulls, there are other options than euthanization. For instance, there are numerous rescue centers that will take in dogs deemed ‘vicious,’ like Pits Bulls, to keep them from being killed. One of these rescue centers is located in North Carolina. Fortitudine Vincimus Rescue Center, also known as “The Fort” was founded by Jake Gardner in 2012. According to Judi Brinegar’s article (2014), “Pit Bull Rescue Seeks Help,” “The Fort" is…

field that Jackie Robinson played on in the past, and that Muhammad Ali has bowed down to a Cuban boxer whom he knew he could not defeat (Speech, 11). The Cha-Cha-Cha, the Salsa, ropa vieja, and many musicians like Celia Cruz, Gloria Estefan, and Pitbull are seen throughout both the United States and Cuba. Love, passion, pride, patriotism, education, and family are all important values in the two countries (Speech, 13). By stating all of the similarities, the differences cannot be ignored. The…

One parent raises a child with an iron fist, but ironically does it with a perfect record of honesty; another parent raises a child with passivity and saturates their lives with lies; in this scenario, which one of the parents is right. Each culture in this world thinks that they have parenting figured out, yet we all can have bad kids that turn into bad adults. As a parent, you have a huge role in creating the path in which your children will travel; they can easily be raised with so much love…

“you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future’’. No matter what everything is connected from the music you listen to , too the day Hitler invaded poland. What you do now will change history. The deadliest war in human history with millions of casualties and even more civilians killed, all caused by one man, Adolf Hitler. Hitler got his hatred for the jews during WW1 on the western…