Would You Wear Your Dog? ... (Mahatma Gandhi) Being asked if they would wear dog or cat fur, most people would probably rigorously say no and give me a weird look. ... He also argues: "I argue that there can be no reason-except the selfish desire to preserve the selfish privileges of the exploiting group-for refusing to extend the basic principle of equality[ ] to members of other species.I ask you to recognize that your attitudes towards members of other s...

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Her stepfather, Alfonso, is portrayed as the villain of the narrative, first demanding sex from Celie's sick mother and then demanding it from young Celie herself. ... Eventually Harpo realizes that Sofia is not like Celia and the other submissive women in his life. ... Celie concedes that she didn't mean what she said, and after a long discussion, the two women become friends. ... At first she is very hostile to Celie, calling her ugly, but eventually these two women also become good friends. ... She admits to Shug that sex with him is without passion. ...

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This idea would better explain some of the early Stoic's metaphors, such as the dog which is tied to a cart which has no choice but to follow the cart. It is only up to the dog to follow happily or be dragged (Long & Sedley, p. 386). ... This is incomplete in his view because it cannot simply be fate that a child would be born but that the women, but that fate would determine the parents have sex to fate the birth of the child (Long & Sedley, p. 339). ... Though there are still variables for saying that a child is fated to be born to a woman, such as sex being fated to bring about the r...

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J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan (1904) circulates in the popular imagination as a happy tale for children that, through the adventures of Peter and the other children in Never Land, celebrates playfulness. As Mark Twain commented, "It is my belief that Peter Pan is a great and refining and uplifting benefaction to this sordid and money-mad age; and the next best play is a long way behind- (qtd. in Jack 158). Tellingly, Twain's comment that Peter Pan is uplifting seems to depend on ignoring the fact that each of the "lost- boys is a baby who has fallen out of his pram "when the nurse is looki...

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A disease not to be taken likely that often affects pregnant women is postpartum depression. ... For women, the age of onset is sometimes later in the ages of 20 to 30. ... A ringing telephone might seem loud as a fire alarm bell, or a loved one's voice as threatening a barking dog. ... Postpartum depression is a psychiatric mood disorder that affects pregnant women. ...

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Surprisingly worldwide women make up 76 percent of the population of serial killers. ... Also he even mounted a dog's heads and a stake. ... He had enjoyed the company of a dog and cat throughout his childhood. ...

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Chapter One The narrator assures us that the book we are about to read is true, more or less. The parts dealing with World War II are most closely associated with actual events. Twenty-three years have passed since the end of the war, and for much of that time the narrator has been trying to write ...

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Humanities are the broad areas of human creativity and the studies essentially involved with values and generally not strictly objective or scientific standards. As I perceive it, humanity deals in all the areas of human creativity. It is the lense through which an individual perceives her or his morals, culture, views and values. Humanities also deals with the emotional side of our consciousness, rather than mathematics and the scientific aspects of life. Humanities, as one would guess by its name, pertains to humans and does not pertain to God, Buddha, Allah or any other higher power or spir...

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The pacifist author Kurt Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse-Five in the late 1960's as the Vietnam War was ending. He used his own military experience from World War II to write this particular book. The main character is Billy Pilgrim who is actually Kurt Vonnegut himself. Vonnegut, like Billy Pilgrim, emerged from a meat locker beneath a slaughterhouse into the moonscape of burned-out Dresden. His surviving captors put him to work finding, burying, and burning bodies. ...

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"Galveston became Atlantis- (198). Arguably the most terrible natural disaster in American history, occurred on September 9, 1900, a date which will live in infamy for Galveston. In Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson, the Great Storm moves through the streets one fateful Saturday like a "mailman deliver...

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Facts ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES Our ancestors were economically self-sufficient. They produced what they needed. They engaged in various industries. Many of their products reached neighboring countries such as Siam, Cambodia, India, China, Japan, Borneo and the Moluccas. Agriculture. There used...

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There are three women sitting at the next table. ... He mentions how he introduced himself to her, how it took time for her to actually believe that he himself did not really care about "The Dog Incident" and, while remembering her smile, he admits that she was the only girl that she ever showed Allie's base-ball mitt to. ...

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