"Orwell's Animal Farm is more than a fairy story. ... Although Orwell's originally titled novel, "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story", combined with the use of animals as characters in the novel, may appeal to children, the content of Animal Farm goes beyond any magical or make-believe story. ... However, Animal Farm is not simply a satire on the Russian Revolution. ... The sheep in Animal Farm are the brainwashed and blind supporters of the totalitarian regime that exists on the farm and portray the innocent public during the Bolshevik revolution. ... Such is not the case in Orwell's A...

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Using a variety of allegorical devices in his satire, Animal Farm, Orwell creates an insightful allegory that explores the consequences of communism through the Russian Revolution. ... In this case, by using such a text type to embody his views on the Russian Revolution, George Orwell satirizes and represents individuals and events in history in his dystopian novel Animal Farm. ... His speech was about his dream of an animal paradise where the farm animals are free from the tyrannical rule of Farmer Jones, who has no regard for the well-being of his livestock. ... In Animal Farm a key chara...

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An example of an abuse of power takes place in George Orwell's fable, Animal Farm. ... He fits the animals unable to rule themselves by saying "the whole management and organization of this farm depend on us" "(36). He devalues the animals by stating that with their intelligence and skills the farm will fail, reminding them of the importance of having pigs in leadership to protect the farm. ... This speech marks the rise of power and downfall of equality on Animal Farm proving the growing view of superiority by the pigs. ... Squealer,in this passage, uses rhetoric to excuse the pig's...

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As the only literate animals on the farm, the pigs misuse language and rhetoric to mobilise the revolution and to establish their supremacy in the purportedly egalitarian farm soon thereafter. ... This is first demonstrated by Old Major, a member of the pig intelligentsia, who uses powerful language to command the thoughts and actions of other farm animals and garner support for the rebellion. ... Following the death of Old Major and the establishment of Animal Farm, the pigs, especially Squealer, lead the farm, using authoritative language in corrupt ways in order to maintain dominance over ...

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In Animal farm Orwell uses his symbolic farm to represent the communist system. ... The barn at Manor Farm is where all on the democracy issue among the animals come up. ... Napoleon, based on Joseph Stalin, is the pig who becomes the leader of Animal Farm after the Rebellion. ... He never shows interest in the strength of Animal Farm itself, only in the strength of his power over it. ... Snowball, based on Leon Trotsky, is the pig who challenges Napoleon to run Animal Farm after the Rebellion. ...

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Personification is used in Animal Farm to express the characteristics of the people and organizations that played an important in the Russian Revolution. ... Orwell uses personification as an efficient way to express the nature of the targets of his critique in the time Animal Farm was written. ... The seven commandments in Animal Farm were painted on the barn wall to maintain order in the farm, and to stress the basic principles of Animalism. ... This use of the allegorical device of dramatic irony in Animal Farm leads the readers to create personal judgements and raise their concerns about t...

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The Farm Bill provokes debate in many areas that we have been studying this spring. ... The Farm Bill is voted on and enacted every 5 years. ... The Farm Bill is not merely a single law that addresses a specific issue. ... But what exactly is so wrong with the Farm Bill? ... The poisons and toxins used to ensure a full yield of GMO's or GE's are clearly related to an increase in infections, disabilities, disorders, and contaminations to both humans and animals. ...

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When George Orwell wrote the book 'Animal Farm', he did so in a style noted for its direct manner and its easiness to understand. ... To answer this question with total confidence as to Orwell's opinion, we must be aware of his personal feelings towards the revolution that took place in Russia, and translate it to the rebellion of a group of farm animals. ... Out of all the characters in 'Animal farm', Benjamin the donkey comes closest to the author's voice. ... Therefore we can ask ourselves, would Benjamin accept the uprising of the animals against the pigs, as ...

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Animal Assisted Therapy, or AAT as referred to in recent studies, is a type of therapy involving actions between people and trained animals as a form of treatment. ... They promote the idea that farm animals' therapy can relate to people with mental disorders and made a study, which was developed in the context of "Green Care", that contained animals, plants, gardens, or landscapes as an intervention to a specific group of people. Using these methods to study a certain amount of people, men and women, with different problems resulted that farm animals increased self-efficacy amo...

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Animal experimentation is unreliable to humans. ... Therefore, it is impossible to find an animal with the same characteristics of a human (Thomas, Replacing Animals). ... In the United States, animal testing is regulated by the Animal Welfare Act (AWA). Nevertheless, AWA excludes 95% of animals used in research; mice, rats, farm animals, and cold blooded animals, like fish and reptiles. ... The animals often go crazy and even rip their hair off (Budkie, The Facts About Animal Experimentation). ...

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His narrative about him going to Polyface Farms helps him find out the way animals should be treated in factory farms. Before that, he mentioned Matthew Scully's book "Dominion" and how the book describes American factory farms as these unpleasent places for animals. Pollan uses the contrast between these two farms to support his thesis saying that, although there are farms that kill animals, we can still choose to eat the ones that have been slaughtered in a respectful way. ... Although Singer and the animal activists posed a strong argument revealing how animals in factory farms are tre...

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If a farm animal lived a happy life but was then killed for food, does that make it better than a factory farm? ... Ultimately, I don't agree with how factory farms are managed and I don't agree with corporate experiments on animals for better consumer products, but I do agree with eating meat for a balanced diet and I do agree with medical animal testing. ... (Www.humanesociety.org) Although I find these numbers disgusting I do still believe in Hares view that the central issue is not whether it's moral to kill animals, but how many animals we ought to cause there to be &ndas...

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Animal Rights Terrorism Animals all across the worlds are terrorized day after day, whether it's for the use of cheap food, safe medicines or the making of a new product. ... Because the help of the helpless animals in the factories, farms, or laboratories when being put to wrong use is physical cruelty. Cruelty to animals is degrading and considered to be wrong. ... The Federal report highlights animal terrorism by Woolf, also states, "that seventy-seven cases involved the release ("liberation") of animals, a sort of animal rights activity" (2). ... Congress passed an Animal Enterpr...

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Animal rights seek to guarantee animals with a sense of entitlement. ... In this manner, both human beings and animals are all animals (Ryder, 2004). ... Animal rights will ensure that animal farming is conducted in a manner that reduces the suffering of animals. ... The consumption of animal meat is a practice central to the animal rights debate. With regard to animal suffering, most animals are transported a...

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Condescension to animals that are pets and people's companions, which, normally, has too little to do with taking insightful care of them, represents, most probably, one of the best possible outcomes of human and animal relations. Various aspects of ethical issues arising from people's responsibility to animals are discussed nowadays. These discussions address the highly sensitive and challenging issues of hunting wild animals, breeding farm animals to be used as food, and carrying out experiments on animals. ... Great amounts of chickens and other farm animals should be killed every...

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Most farms in the United States have been consolidating themselves into extremely large farms, in order to eliminate the number of farms and increase the rate of production. ... Many farms in today's world are failing due to a lack of sufficient land and sources in order to begin and sustain a functional environment for the animals and their ability to increase production. ... Animals are often crammed into tight spaces. ... This is where the animal rights activists come into play. ... The main concerns of the animal rights activists are primarily focused on the welfare of the animals as ...

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Where there is livestock, animals graze the land, then waste from those animals is used to fertilize the soil. ... Industrial farms disregard that need for balance. ... Factory farmed animals are selectively bred to produce the maximum amount. ... Corn is used to feed the animals one consumes. ... Food is traveling farther than ever from farm to plate. ...

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The issue of whether animals have sense perception (are sentient) is important for those who use animals in research. ... Some of the opponents of animal experimentation argue that some or all types of animal research are not scientifically valid. ... PETA dispatches undercover investigators to laboratories, slaughterhouses and farms. ... The difference in physical make up of humans to animals should be enough to warrant not using animals in experimentation. ... It is not enough that animal experimentation is harmful or even fatal to animals; the human species is now at risk from the anima...

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A few years later in 1865, congress would establish a program for imported animals that have been classified as diseased. ... This was done as a preventative to keep diseased animals used as food consumption. ... Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service manages and regulates the genetically engineered organisms, administering the Animal Welfare Act and carrying out wildlife damages management activities. ... The National Agriculture Statistic Service directs the surveys each year as a part of the Agricultures Department's farm census. ... It prioritizes in homes for ownership, farm ...

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Runoff from farms carries sediments, nutrients, salts, pesticides, and fertilizers. ... Growing levels of these pollutants in the surface waters reduce their ability to support plant and animal life and makes them less attractive for recreational use. ... Feedlots that hold animals in close quarters are the leading source of pollution. ... The Environmental Protection Agency is now developing new federal standards for controlling pollution for feedlot farms. They are issuing tighter regulations to close the loopholes that allow factory farms to turn our rivers and lakes into manure sewers....

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"Animal Farm" written by George Orwell in 1945 is a parable about the Russian Revolution. It describes farm animals banding together to overcome their farmer, who exploits their work and products. So animals take control of the farm and create principles of Animalism, which are allegory to the principles of Communism created by Carl Marks. Orwell describes how this new system is deteriorating; at the end of the novel, when pigs seize power and start exploit other animals, author says that eventually common animals cannot distinguish pigs among people. ...

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Ah, the Pandora's box opened by the mere mention of animal experimentation. ... In terms of sheer utilization, animals today are more valuable than ever before. We not only eat, ride, shoot, wear, trap, hunt, and farm animals, but the medical field experiments on over 17 million animals per year. ... The United States government has also established guidelines for animal testing, limiting subjects to healthy, bred-for-testing animals " FDA regulations prohibit abuse and the use of sick or injured animals (United 2). ... The humane treatment of animals in all of our animal-related ...

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Because industrial farm techniques operate with complete disregard for health, and the environment; citizens must know the consequences resulting from use of such dangerous and harmful methods which quite simply outweigh the benefits. ... Industrial farms advertise they manufacture food the only way possible in the world today, using mono cropping techniques, an abundance of chemicals, and biotechnology. Applying these methods bring environmental costs, health costs for growers, consumers, and animals. ... Animal evidence from poisons produces much faster results but then chemical companies a...

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His extensive experiments with growing plants and animals substantiated his observations that a declining soil fertility, due to a lack of organic material, major elements, and trace minerals was responsible for poor crops and in turn for pathological conditions of animals fed deficient foods from such soils, and that mankind was no exception. ... Bromfield returned to his native Ohio in 1939 and used his wealth and interest in agriculture to create Malabar Farm, named for the coast in India, which became the most widely known and publicized experimental farm in America. ... In 1940, he pur...

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Animal Testing/Experimentation: Why not? ... Humans are animals, in a sense. ... Moreover, while animal testing improves or advances the life of human beings, animal testing also benefits animals as well. ... Animal rights activists assert that animal testing is essentially cruel. ... Even though the fact that more than ninety nine percent of the animal used in research are from farms. ...

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