For Jurgis and his family, the slave master is the ruthless and greedy meat packing industry, whose leaders value their workers no more than the animals they slaughter. "The Jungle" shows the relationship between the animals that were being slaughtered and the workers who were slaughtering them, from very early in the novel. ... (Pg. 35) Here is another part of the story that shows the relationship between the animals and the people of packing town. ... (Pg. 35) This passage, explaining the brutality of the slaying of the animals in the stockyards, also shows how similar the lives of the worke...

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In the eyes of Englishmen the slaves were not merely seen as individuals with own rights. ... Although there were some individuals who opposed slavery, most of the Englishmen viewed slaves as strangers and they commonly referred to them as savages, pagans, and uncivilized, often comparing them to animals (Foner 97). ... The coupling of the Protestant religion and freedom in the European colonies gave slaves a window of opportunity to join the Protestant faith, in an attempt to gain their freedom and basic rights. ... Although slaves were converting to Christianity, they were still not good eno...

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" As well they also compared them to animals. ... The Declaration of Independence was basically an outline for what was going to be acceptable and what was not, and they listed the rights that each man would have. ... Because during that time slaves were not considered as a person, they were strictly property therefore they were not entitled to any rights. ... Whenever America gained its independence and wrote the Declaration of Independence they did not include the slaves to the rights and freedom that every man received....

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As a result, the US Supreme Court and the Chief Judge ruled in favor of the infamous Dred Scott Case that as far as they were concerned, blacks were only 3/5's human and therefore had no rights that the white man was bound to respect. ... When the European used the word "nigga" towards blacks, it was used as a mental whip to force blacks into the image they had created blacks: mentally dead and equal only to the animals of the plantation. ... Like, Bunny Plaskett who remembers the pain of life in the United States before the civil rights. ... The Civil Rights Era in America was about B...

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It's bad enough to have certain personal privileges taken away, but to also treat a human being like an animal is barbaric. ... Other than the beatings, and the lack of rights, slaves still had to put up with "mind games" that "proved to slaves that they could never really make it if they ran away to freedom." ... Other times, he would think he"d be doing well, and move up in the world, soon to find out he would be divided up as property with farm animal and possessions. ...

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As we know, English wild man has deep roots in English literature and popular culture and encompasses a remarkable variety of types-from fully human to almost animal, from essentially moral to irredeemably corrupt, which may all be the similarities to Caliban; therefore, the interpretations of Caliban are abundant and various. ... Since people in that day firmly believed man as a rational animal who can and should control his baser passions, Caliban, the epitome of the darkest side of human nature, naturally earned no sympathy or appreciation. However, this view began to change toward the e...

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They were portrayed as savages that came from the wilderness, and considered some kind of animal. ... For many years, the black Americans struggled to be a part of the society with the same rights as whites and also some organizations as the Ku Kux Klan attempted to stop their efforts. ... It was obvious that although slavery was abolished, the blacks did not have the same rights as the whites. ...

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They were malnourished and treated no better than animals. ... At the convening of the Estates General in August of 1789, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen was adopted which declared that "all men are born and remain free and equal in their rights- (Fick 1990, p.77-78). ... But the one issue that they were all united in was their animosity towards recognizing the rights of the mulatto population as full citizens. ...

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Some slaves were even whipped like animals, and hardly ever fed anything. ... A sailor who sometimes worked on slave ships said that they were separated from their families and connections with as little concern as calves and pigs are selected out of a lot of domestic animals. ...

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The boy is in the stable for the majority of the story, like an animal (Mountain Victory 751). ... The future would prove no better as the KKK was formed and the civil rights struggles that would carry themselves from reformation to today's contemporary America. ...

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13 days after the mass shooting at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC, Pharrell Williams' song "Freedom" was released on June 30, 2015. Williams' motive for writing the song is to show that he is advocating freedom because slavery is still being practiced around the globe. Pharrell went around the...

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