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    you ever been to the circus and seen the animals performing tricks and entertaining the audience. You might have enjoyed it‚ but the animals didn’t. I believe that circuses should be illegal because they can make animals become very aggressive‚ they can make the animals very unhealthy and‚ animals in circuses may become depressed. The first reason why I believe that circuses should be illegal is because it can make animals very aggressive. Some may argue that not all circus animals become aggressive

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    Elephants have a historical role in the circus‚ which is often hard for people to let go of‚ because it becomes connected to tradition. Excepted values of what society holds as morally right becomes blurred allowing for the abuse of animals‚ specifically elephants‚ to continue and for this abuse to not be stopped by proper regulation. Ringling Bros. has a long standing record of having elephants in the show. Abuse is common to find in the circus with elephants outside of their natural habitat. There

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    English analysis – Circus cat‚ Alley cat The short story “Circus cat‚ alley cat” is written by Anita Desai and is on three pages. The short story is about Anna‚ a circus performer who becomes a nanny for an English family. Anna is performing with tigers and lions in an exciting show. The narrator is a child and has a wild imagination. When Anna is babysitting the children‚ the narrator often imagines that Anna cracks her whip‚ and controls the cats. One day Anna’s baby is taken away from her‚ and

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    “‘My new game‚ as you so appropriately call it‚ is a circus’” (Morgenstern 76). ~This marks the beginning of The Night Circus or Le Cirque des Réves. “The card inside is not a note of sympathy nor a condolence for her loss. It contains no greeting. No signature. The handwritten words across the paper read: Your move” (Morgenstern 80). ~The card was in response to the “death” of Celia’s father; this is the beginning of the “challenge” that will act as the antagonist throughout the book. “‘I suggest

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    Circus performers are people of great courage. They have to make a living out of entertaining people that pay good money to watch them and want to get their money’s worth. They have a lot of pressure from that‚ as well as peer pressure from their fellow performers. Not only do they have pressure from that‚ they have to worry about the very acts being preformed from playing with swords and fire to hanging from a wire hundreds of feet in the air. If their not focused on what they are doing‚ they can

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    Ten Fast Facts about Animals in the Circus 1. Every major circus that uses animals has been cited for violating the minimal standards of care set forth in the United States Animal Welfare Act (AWA). 2. Animals in circuses spend about 11 months of the year traveling. 3. During travel‚ animals may be caged or chained for long distances and hours‚ forced to stand in their own waste‚ in extreme temperatures. 4. Standard circus industry training tools used on animals include bullhooks

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    Circus trainers are abusing elephants! Have you ever thought‚ ‘there is no way a circus elephant can do all of those tricks without being abused’? These rangelers abuse not just elephants but other circus elephants‚ like tigers‚ and monkeys‚ and etc. There are so many ways that elephants are being abused. One way elephants are being abused is by using bullhooks and ropes. The circus trainers are using ropes to choke and burn the elephants. The elephants are being abused by bullhooks too. The elephant

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    Philip Pagan Professor Daniel Eng 122-1K 2 January 2017 Practice Essay Did you hear? Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus‚ as well as a vast variety of other forms of animal entertainment‚ are either shut down or in the midst of doing so. This is due to the events that have happened in the past few decades involving these types of recreation‚ from the death of competitive swimmer Keltie Byrne that the past away in 1991 after being submerged under water and dragged around a tank by three orcas

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    state of Connecticut experienced a terrible accident‚ this fire did more than just take the lives of many by also affecting others in a mental aspect. This accident was that of the Hartford Circus Fire. It was a fire that resulted in the entire destruction of a circus and lives lost by many of the circus’ very own staff‚ along with many spectators. Many years later‚ the cause of this fire is still up to some speculation among authorities. This essay will dig into the event of the fire‚ the

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    Circus Animal Abuse

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    Abuse In The Circus Chains‚ spikes‚ and pain is the everyday life for an animal in the circus. Performance animals‚ who experience cruel training‚ extreme punishment‚ and abuse from their handlers should be released from the circus. When people go to the circus‚ they picture a place filled with excitement‚ love‚ and entertainment. In reality‚ the place people used to love when they were children doesn’t exist‚ but is substituted with a cruel and joyless place where the animals that amazed them

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