Espinoza Expository Reading & Writing 15 October 2012 Animals v Humans The world is filled with ideas and topics in which people get to decide if it’s right or wrong‚ but how do you which one is truly right? Facts and proven statements are what makes you decide on the one if more accurate then just having a person say what they think. On an article titled “A Change of Heart About Animals‚” by Jeremy Rifkin has information on how animals‚ “are more like us than we ever imagined.” I disagree. I
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newspaper published an editorial “A Change of Heart about Animals” September 1‚ 2003 by Jeremy Rifkin‚ author and president of the Foundation on Economic Trends‚ in which Rifkin suggests that the center of the human experience is about extending concern to wider and wider realms to the species we share the world with (34). He implies throughout the article that animals like us‚ feel pain‚ experience stress‚ affection‚ excitement‚ and even love (33) . He claims that animals should be treated better because
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inhumane treatment‚ a controversial issue is whether animals are entitled to their rights. While some argue that only humans have rights‚ others contend that animals should have the same privileges as humans. The author of “A Change of Heart about Animals‚” Jeremy Rifkin‚ claims that animals should have better treatment. Rifkin rhetorically changes one’s view on this subject without the consent of the reader. Rifkin begins by showing the animals’ human qualities‚ then giving a counter statement to
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Dear Editor‚ After reading the article A Change of Heart about Animals by Jeremy Rifkin . I conclude that Rifkin is really interested in the way animals feel and the research that proves animals are just like humans . He is persuading us to think that animals are just like us by giving lots of examples of animals having emotions just like humans do. There is also lots of science that leads me to believe animals are just like us. Like the studies researchers have done on pigs‚ they need attention
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Jeremy Rifkin expresses his knowledge on how animals are compared to humans in his article “A change of heart about animals.” Rifkin argues that science has shown that the differences between animals and humans are less than we think. I agree that animals are very similar if not close to being on the same level as humans. Most people would assume that animals are very different from us; this could be due to the inabilities we think we have to communicate with animals. Jeremy Rifkin states‚ “The
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“A Change of Heart about Animals” by Jeremy Rifkin. This article talks about how animals are so much like us. Jeremy Rifkin asserted in his September fifth letter announcing that creatures were equipped for each feeling an individual was‚ and requesting that all individuals augment a feeling of balance and compassion to living creatures equivalent to that they would give an alternate person. This is clearly preposterous and‚ in the event that you truly make a stride back and take a gander at the
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worry less about those around us and worry more about what we’re going to consume for dinner or how many likes a picture of yourself will get.. In Jeremy Rifkin’s article‚ (published by Los angeles Times) “A Change of Heart about Animals”‚ he describes that animals are more like us humans than we think and that our empathy needs to constantly become stronger towards animals. Rifkin gives us a plethora of rhetorical ways to persuade readers to feel more towards animals. One strategy Rifkin utilizes
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Jeremy Rifkin is an American writer‚ public speaker‚ and activist who wrote a meaningfully dense article for the Los Angeles Times titled "A Change Of Heart About Animals." His article defends animal rights and disputes many myths regarding animals. Rifkin argues that animals do have a sense of individualism‚ they experience emotions‚ they learn from past experiences‚ and that “They are more like us than we imagined” (). After reading the article‚ I can personally say that I agree with Rifkin‚ albeit
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815198 Mrs. Salgado English 4p October 16‚ 2012 A Change of Heart About Rifkin Jeremy Rifkin in the article “A Change of Heart About Animals” describes how the lives of animals are all for the benefit of the human race and how animals deserve more respect. Many concerned and caring people believe that animals should be treated with love and respect. The reality of this is that Rifkin seizes to comprehend that the life without using animals as a benefit is highly unlikely and would just further
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“100 Million animals are killed in U.S laboratories for biology lessons‚ medical training‚ curiosity driven experimentation‚ chemical‚ drug‚ food and cosmetic testing.” -peta.org. The Rifkin article discusses about the pain animals feel. According to Rifkin Animals feel the pain as if they were a human bean. Innocent animals are being killed each day just for the fun of it or for some kind product testing. He believes we ought to change the way we treat animals. The way we treat the animals has to be
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