I feel that our tax dollars is being wasted on animal criminals that enjoy their day in jail, while we are working our butts off at work or school, criminals are probably enjoying a nice game of basketball or having fun weight lifting. Criminals are supposed to be punished for a crime that they committed not be treated as if they are kings. ... We spend our tax dollars on these types of animals, lets take our tax dollars and go spend it on our schools and more important stuff. ...

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• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Rand implies that this natural state is how man is supposed live, "We cannot understand this new life which we have found, yet it seems so clear and so simple." ... Rousseau believes that the natural state is living as an animal. ...

• Word Count: 888
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The juxtaposition of this line can be seen in the words "cold" and "wonderful" because the woman feels like she is living the typical life of an older woman, which society thinks should be simple, calm, perfect, and yet she finds this life "cold," as she longs for something more than the "wonderful" life she is supposed to be living. ... In a further stanza, the line, "very gently, he scooped tiny pink animals/into the palm of his hand/and told me to touch them," suggests that the father is presenting new life and new opportunities to his son, opening his future and identity up to greater thin...

• Word Count: 2322
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Hannah Ardent presents the antique perception of labour, which is highly negative, regarding activities that only serve to sustain life and supply for the fundamental necessities of the body as slavish, degrading and those who engaged is such labouring as, "something akin to a tamed animal." ...

• Word Count: 3163
• Approx Pages: 13