Two years ago when my family had achieved the american dream of purchasing a house for ourselves, my parents had finally given me the chance to get my very own pet. The majority of the population had either a cat or a dog as their pet, but for me I always wanted a guinea pig. I had named my guinea pig Nacho Manchitas Reyes, “Manchitas” because he had black spots and Reyes because I wanted him to feel like he belonged in the family. Although I loved having him around I wasn't such a good parent at first, I would occasionally forget to feed him or refill his bottle. My mom told me that he was my responsibility and if I didn't take responsibility she would return him to the shelter. At that point I had realized that someone was depending on …show more content…
Being punctual about whether to get my guinea pig food and water made me take this lesson and put it in use for my life. I make sure to bring my assignment on time with no excuses. I became determined to do every task that was given to me. As I thought my guinea pig to be able to adapt to the various different places, so will I be. Being able to adapt to the new things will help me adapt to the new environment that I will be in. where I will be on my own and put all the things I learned from simply taking care of a guinea pig on to the real life. When I was taking care of my pet I also learned to manage my time. Which I will utilize when given tasks as I manage my time to see what tasks to start on and when I will be able to have time for myself. Now that I’m eighteen years old I am considered an adult, to make my own choices, to be independent, to not rely on others as much as I used to. If you can adapt to the small things that come in your life, you will be able to adapt into the bigger things that come in your way. Which I know that I will be able to achieve to make my own choices as I start creating my life on my
Faye is fighting to re-home animals that have been abandoned and abused. Since 2012 she has re-homed more than 60 dogs, and about 20 kittens. Faye says, “I would do anything no matter what to save one animal.” It’s as if her whole entire life revolves around saving animals. Faye thinks just by adopting an animal you can help animal abandonment. Also, Faye has her own book on why animal abandonment isn’t good. Although Faye thinks her job is stressful, she thinks it’s easy because she enjoys doing her job and helping animals find a home.
Alastair Norcross in his article “Puppies, Pigs, and People: Eating Meat and Marginal cases “expresses the moral dilemma based on factory farming. Norcross gives an example of a man named Fred. Fred has to torture puppies in order to be able to enjoy chocolate. This is because when puppies are brutally tortured and then brutally killed they release a chemical called cocoamone. This chemical enhances the taste of chocolate, so Fred is killing puppies for gustatory pleasure. Any morally sound person would be appalled at what Frank is doing to these puppies and that is the basis of Norcross’s article. He is arguing that raising animals on factory farms and what Fred is doing are both morally wrong, because in both cases we are brutally killing the
More than half of American households have a pet and this trend is just spreading more and more. The main reason people are keeping pets is for the companionship that pets offer. Normal household pets, such as dogs and cats, offer people the attention and the feeling of always having a companion by one’s side that people may not get from other humans. Pets nowadays are often treated as a regular member of one’s family and people will spend a lot of money for their pets. In 2014, Americans has spent an estimated $58 billion on their pets along with hours of care for them (Yuhas, 1). Regardless of the type of pets people may choose to have there is always a common emotional bond that ties the human with the animal between all loving pet owners. This emotional bond benefits humans in various ways.
Intro - Did you know that in Bolivia guinea pigs which they call “cuy” are used and eaten as a traditional meat. There are a lot of landforms in Bolivia, like rivers and volcanoes. In Bolivia they get a lot of rain, they have a dry and a wet season. Guinea pig is a major diet in Bolivia. They are the traditional meat because they take up less room than traditional livestock. In Bolivia they don’t only eat guinea pigs, they mostly eat corn, potatoes, beans, and rice. Guinea pigs is pretty much the only thing that they eat that we don’t eat. The main meal for most Bolivian’s is lunch known as “almuerzo”. The meats that Bolivian’s usually eat is beef, pork, or chicken. Even though they may eat pork and beef, they mostly eat chicken.
Animals have long been an integral part human culture. Up until the mid-nineteenth century, humans got around by horse and carriage. Animals have always been essential to human survival; man has always used animals for resources. Given the time spent together, animals and humans have developed bonds and relationships. Today, there are millions of domesticated animals. These animals become a part of each family their taken care by. People have come to love their pets like family. The bonds and relationships that develop between humans and animals are much like human to human. This relation is prevalent in the novel The Mouse and the Motorcycle. In the story, a relationship between Ralph, a mouse, and Keith, a boy, develops. The two entities strike an impressive friendship that resembles that of two human best friends that have known each other for years. Over the course of the story, Keith loses trust in Ralph and it becomes Ralphs mission to earn it back. Depicted in this novel is a relationship that progresses between two strangers and the lengths friends are willing to go to for those they love. Creatures of completely different species become a united family. Animals and humans develop bonds like that of family which leads to remarkable friendships.
Since the beginnings of society’s division into a hierarchy of man’s importance, the bottom of the social pyramid was always those seen as lacking morals. Whether immoral qualities were synonymous with skin color or occupation, a supposed lack of moral integrity allowed for those higher in stature to impose at times grueling oppression upon the degraded. As society evolved many advances pushed for equality among the masses so that each man or woman was allowed the freedom of bias or judgment. However, no matter how advanced the human race, there is still a hierarchy and at the lowest of its levels lies prisoners. Prisoners in modern times are often seen as morally deficit and depraved monsters that deserve the worst of punishments to repent for their crimes. Consequently, since prisoners occupied the lower levels of society’s class division history suggests that they are to be subject to the oppression of their proclaimed superiors, the unchained population. The use of prisoner’s for medical research has gone from something that has been considered adequate to something that is unacceptable and inhumane.
Kristin found out that Bea was from a laboratory and decided to give her a loving home. In the first years of Bea’s life she was mute, pathologically fearful, and terrorized from the trauma she experienced for the laboratories. She even shook when someone approached her, and rolled over and urinated every time a man was around. When Kristin would take Bea to the vet she would shake uncontrollably with fear. This just goes to show how the trauma from these animal laboratories effects the animals. Luckily, from the love and care from Kristin Bea transformed into a healthy dog without fear of her new owners or veterinarians. This story shows that these animals need love, attention, and care that they are clearly not getting at the laboratories. (Williams, and
The people who learn by experience' often make great messes of their lives, that is, if they apply what they have learned from a past incident to the present, deciding from certain appearances that the circumstances are the same, forgetting that no two situations can ever be the same... All that I am, all that life has made me, every past experience that I have had - woven into the tissue of my life - I must give to the new experience. That past experience has indeed not been useless, but its use is not in guiding present conduct by past situations. We must put everything we can into each fresh experience, but we shall not get the same things out which we put in if it is a fruitful experience, if it is part of our progressing life... We integrate our experience, and then the richer human being that we are goes into the new experience; again we give ourself and always by giving rise above the old self.
The lesson that applies to both my life and the novel would be how significant it is to understand the past experiences of other people, and acknowledge their hardships to be able to connect as well as having a deeper bond with them. Limón states, “Suddenly, the monk wished he had been born sixty years sooner so that he could have seen the city as it was during the days of the Indian woman’s people…A thought was taking shape in his mind as he fixed his eyes on one of the straps. Slowly, an idea crept forward into his consciousness, and he finally understood that something deep within him was beginning to share Huitzitzilin’s melancholy for what was irrevocably gone.” (Limon, 82). This quote is very significant in the sense that it provides an impact on father Benito’s major character development at the end of the novel. Thus, through the course of discussing the history Huitzitzilin’s experienced, he is realizing how vivid and significant her memories are in the eyes of an India women who witnessed the world with a different perspective. Ergo, putting myself in the shoes of others has allowed me to view and have different perspectives on the way I view life. It has allowed me to become a better person in the sense that I will not demean another person because he or she don’t share the same life experiences as I have. As well as not sharing the
In this dissection that was conducted there were aims to be able to do within the dissection for example; to identify all organs in the pig and sheep’s digestive systems, describe the internal structures of different organs, and link the function to the structure.
Today, Haiti is widely accepted as the poorest country in the western hemisphere. Sixty-percent of Haitians are living below the poverty line and there is a seventy-percent unemployment rate throughout the country. Five out of ten people in Haiti do not have clean drinking water easily accessible to their household, the average life expectancy is 63 years old, and the country suffers from a high infant mortality rate.
Throughout my live, my behavior towards change has evolved into a more mature acceptance of the inevitable. As an adolescent, I failed to contemplate the reasoning behind changes that occurred within my life. I neglected to seek the deeper meaning of why modifications were being implemented. However, as an adult, I consider the rationale and possible outcome of the change taking place. I have grown to realize that the success of each individual situation depends on the attitude it is approached it with (Blais & Hayes, 2011).
“A dog is a man’s best friend” goes much deeper than the phrase might initially imply. Recently many medical journals have begun to identify with the many and varied benefits of pet ownership. Men have always relied upon animals for work, transportation, and survival. As times have changed, man has begun to appreciate a different bond with animals. Gone are the days of animals running free outside around the homestead, for now animals are allowed inside and are considered by many to be an integral part of our daily lives! Medical studies have found that animals have a much greater intelligence level than originally thought. Through proper training and experience, animals are not only household pets, but also are becoming an accepted form of medical treatment.
As I waited outside my mother’s home on a chilly afternoon, I had seen a dog barking at an innocent white cat. Of course my mom lived in a neighborhood that was polluted with animals. Maybe, it was because she grew up on a farm with about five dogs so for her to see animals was a normal thing. Somehow, she was gifted to love and nurture. The vibe she gave was natural and impossible to miss.
I have taught myself several things in life, but one of them sticks out more than all the others, and that’s the lessons I have taught myself during my experiences with my first two jobs. These learning experiences I have had have helped me to mature and grow into an adult, and they have changed my life for the better.