Heart About Animals” by Jeremy Rifkin‚ 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 doesn’t understand that life without using animals as a benefit is highly unlikely and would just complicate the already complex world we live in today. To some point I can agree with Rifkin‚ but highly disagree with him
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about Animals‚ written by Jeremy Rifkin is about how animals are very similar to human beings. Some animals are capable of having emotions and the mental ability to complete tasks as humans can. Rifkin emphasizes how animals should have better treatment due to the lack of compassion and acknowledgment among animals. He uses distinctive types of rhetorical techniques to persuade his audience to agree and feel his pain for these creatures. For instance‚ Rifkin uses pathos in his writing to get
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Jeremy Rifkin ’s "The End of Work" Assignment #2 by Sugumar Sivagnanam 233722 Sec. C Dominic Lozada 228223 Sec. B Mike McDonald Sec. C Presented for M.N. Kiggundu Business 42.210 Individuals tend to develop a false sense of security concerning the certainty of their jobs. After working for an organization for fifteen or more years‚ it is difficult for them to understand that their employers may no longer need their service. Jeremy
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Rifkin is able to make his audience believe that we should do more for animals by using very negative language when talking about how we currently treat animals. At the end of his article there is a paragraph where Rifkin asks a lot of questions. Almost all of his questions have negative words. For example‚ he talks about "animals subjected each year to painful laboratory experiments" and "raised under the most inhumane conditions." He also says that animals are "for slaughter and human consumption
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Writing Course: Semester One. Long Beach: CA State UP‚ 2008. 29-32. Edlund‚ John R. “Letters to the Editor in Response to ‘A Change of Heart About Animals.’” Expository Reading and Writing Course: Semester One. Long Beach: CA State UP‚ 2008. 36. Rifkin‚ Jeremy. “A Change of Heart About Animals.” Los Angeles Times 1 Sept. 2003: B15. In this assignment sequence‚ you will learn how to use Aristotle’s concepts of ethos‚ logos‚ and pathos to analyze editorials and opinion pieces. You will read an
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I would personally like to thank Jeremy Rifkin for his earth-shaking findings published in “A Change of Heart about Animals”. Without Rifkin’s article‚ I never would have realized that animals can experience pain‚ suffering‚ and affection (2). The global community is truly indebted to Rifkin for proving‚ for the first time ever‚ that animals are actually living‚ breathing creatures—a truly groundbreaking scientific achievement‚ no doubt. The truth is: Rifkin has proven nothing new and merely demonstrated
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byproducts or results. Jeremy Rifkin also elaborates on the ignorance caused by the pursuit of knowledge in Biotech Century. “Fears over the possibility of transgenic genes jumping to wild weedy relatives heightened in 1996 when a Danish research team … observed the transfer of such a gene – something critics of deliberate-release experiments have warned of for years and biotech companies have dismissed as a remote or nonexistent possibility.” (Rifkin 315) Rifkin explains that the transfer of genes
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Change of Heart About Animals‚" Commentary‚ Sept. 1: Jeremy Rifkin argues that science has shown that the differences between animals and humans are less than we think and that we should exte nd more “empathy” to animals. I disagree. In nature‚ animals naturally kill and eat each other. If the hawk does not care about the feelings of the rabbit that it eats‚ why should humans be any different? Is Rifkin saying that nature is wrong? Rifkin goes so far as to say that pigs need social contact and
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Karenne Uribe Mrs. Ponce English 12.6 13 December 2014 In this article‚ “A Change of Heart about Animals‚” Jeremy Rifkin argues that animals are the same as humans because they have emotions‚ cognitive abilities and are self-aware. Rifkin supports his argument by using the rhetorical tools of comparing and pathos. His purpose is to encourage people to take action in order to treat animals more humanely. His audience is people who read the LA Times and his tone is compassionate. Rifkin’s purpose
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Munro‚ adopted from foster care at a year old‚ who was convicted and pled guilty to murdering 44 people. One year of the system lost him. David Burkowitz‚ “The 44-calibre killer” killed 6 people. Kenneth Bianchi‚ “The hillside Strangler” killed 10. Joel Rifkin‚ adopted at 3 weeks old from foster care‚ was convicted and pled guilty to 17 murders. And finally Gerald Eugene Stano‚ adopted‚ killed 80 women. All have a few things in common that being that they were foster kids and that they are murderers.
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