Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres is one of her most famous and most studied works.Among several conflicts across the novel,one is often unnoticed.That is the conflict between factory farming and organic farming,represe...Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres is one of her most famous and most studied works.Among several conflicts across the novel,one is often unnoticed.That is the conflict between factory farming and organic farming,represented respectively by Ginny’s father and husband,and by Ginny’s lover and the neighbor.Through a depiction of the expansion of factory farming and the failure of organic farming in the novel,Smiley exposes animal cruelty in factory farming,and attaches importance to animal welfare and human-animal relationship.展开更多
We are going to tell you some stories that took place in old Tibet, before the Democratic Reform in the late 1950s. about how, for the sole "crime" of being slaves or serfs, people had their limbs amputated,...We are going to tell you some stories that took place in old Tibet, before the Democratic Reform in the late 1950s. about how, for the sole "crime" of being slaves or serfs, people had their limbs amputated, eyes gouged out or noses cut off. These stories of horror might be beyond comprehension of any person with the least sense of human civilization, even though they are real. The system of serfdom practiced in old Tibet featured a combination of civil and展开更多
Goal of this research is to detect possible relations between animal-related attitudes and verbal aggressiveness as well as types combining such parameters. The sample collected in 2015 contains two adult education cl...Goal of this research is to detect possible relations between animal-related attitudes and verbal aggressiveness as well as types combining such parameters. The sample collected in 2015 contains two adult education classes equivalent to secondary school level (class A = 23 inmates and B = 12 inmates, all male) at a correctional facility. Questionnaires were used. Network analysis software (Visone) and conventional statistics (SPSS) are used for calculating network variables (indegree, outdegree, katz, pageranketc) and implementing Spearman test and Principal Component Analysis. Inmates who have adopted an animal-friendly value system and are too coward to react against torture of animals, maintain a repressed emotion. If they do not intervene and provoke, then they are also not targeted by others. No reaction against torture is also connected with a deep-rooted aggressiveness. Concerning superficial aggressiveness, a profile, whose characterize is multiple verbal aggressiveness, can be attributed to repressed emotions. A type is torturing and indifferently restricts his aggressiveness, as he can satisfy his need of dominance by being aggressive towards animals. A type of inmate who loves animals and reacts against their torture, presents the most restricted and relatively smooth aggressiveness, as he discharges his repressed emotions to this reaction. Under condition of indifference, keeping pets is not evidence of loving but of a need of companionship. As for the deep-rooted aggressiveness (over-extroversion), it does not seem to be triggered by any repression.展开更多
The thesis analyzes and comments on the two main characters in The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn so as to reveal the truth that to win both physical and psychological freedom in the society, we must learn to stand on ...The thesis analyzes and comments on the two main characters in The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn so as to reveal the truth that to win both physical and psychological freedom in the society, we must learn to stand on ourselves. It begins with a brief introduction to the author, the novel and the paper thesis. Then, the author discloses the freedom-fighting process of the two main characters and the functions of Mississippi River and the raft in The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn: On the hegira,Huck realizes the cruelty, greed, murder, trickery, hypocrisy, racism, and a general lack of morality of the society; Jim, with his in telligence and compassion, wins his freedom; the Mississippi River and the raft are symbols of freedom. Finally, the author reveals that to win both physical and psychological freedom, one must rely on his or her own efforts.展开更多
Heathcliff is the protagonist in the great nov-el Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.The goal of this paper isto analyze the background,characteristic,and inner world ofHeathcliff.Through the specific and profound anal...Heathcliff is the protagonist in the great nov-el Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.The goal of this paper isto analyze the background,characteristic,and inner world ofHeathcliff.Through the specific and profound analysis,it ex-plains the inevitability of Heathcliff’s tragic love and life.展开更多
文摘Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres is one of her most famous and most studied works.Among several conflicts across the novel,one is often unnoticed.That is the conflict between factory farming and organic farming,represented respectively by Ginny’s father and husband,and by Ginny’s lover and the neighbor.Through a depiction of the expansion of factory farming and the failure of organic farming in the novel,Smiley exposes animal cruelty in factory farming,and attaches importance to animal welfare and human-animal relationship.
文摘We are going to tell you some stories that took place in old Tibet, before the Democratic Reform in the late 1950s. about how, for the sole "crime" of being slaves or serfs, people had their limbs amputated, eyes gouged out or noses cut off. These stories of horror might be beyond comprehension of any person with the least sense of human civilization, even though they are real. The system of serfdom practiced in old Tibet featured a combination of civil and
文摘Goal of this research is to detect possible relations between animal-related attitudes and verbal aggressiveness as well as types combining such parameters. The sample collected in 2015 contains two adult education classes equivalent to secondary school level (class A = 23 inmates and B = 12 inmates, all male) at a correctional facility. Questionnaires were used. Network analysis software (Visone) and conventional statistics (SPSS) are used for calculating network variables (indegree, outdegree, katz, pageranketc) and implementing Spearman test and Principal Component Analysis. Inmates who have adopted an animal-friendly value system and are too coward to react against torture of animals, maintain a repressed emotion. If they do not intervene and provoke, then they are also not targeted by others. No reaction against torture is also connected with a deep-rooted aggressiveness. Concerning superficial aggressiveness, a profile, whose characterize is multiple verbal aggressiveness, can be attributed to repressed emotions. A type is torturing and indifferently restricts his aggressiveness, as he can satisfy his need of dominance by being aggressive towards animals. A type of inmate who loves animals and reacts against their torture, presents the most restricted and relatively smooth aggressiveness, as he discharges his repressed emotions to this reaction. Under condition of indifference, keeping pets is not evidence of loving but of a need of companionship. As for the deep-rooted aggressiveness (over-extroversion), it does not seem to be triggered by any repression.
文摘The thesis analyzes and comments on the two main characters in The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn so as to reveal the truth that to win both physical and psychological freedom in the society, we must learn to stand on ourselves. It begins with a brief introduction to the author, the novel and the paper thesis. Then, the author discloses the freedom-fighting process of the two main characters and the functions of Mississippi River and the raft in The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn: On the hegira,Huck realizes the cruelty, greed, murder, trickery, hypocrisy, racism, and a general lack of morality of the society; Jim, with his in telligence and compassion, wins his freedom; the Mississippi River and the raft are symbols of freedom. Finally, the author reveals that to win both physical and psychological freedom, one must rely on his or her own efforts.
文摘Heathcliff is the protagonist in the great nov-el Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.The goal of this paper isto analyze the background,characteristic,and inner world ofHeathcliff.Through the specific and profound analysis,it ex-plains the inevitability of Heathcliff’s tragic love and life.
