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| Abused calf |
Monday, May 12, 2014
Objective Summary Blog Post #2
In the book "Understanding Animal Abuse" By Cliffton P. Flynn, the author talks about how family abuse typically leads to animal abuse and many other forms of abuse. Many surveys have lead to the conclusion of at-home violence leading to out of home violence. In a recent survey, people were asked that in certain situation, would it be appropriate for a man to hit his wife. Over 90% of the respondents who said yes, in that situation it would be appropriate for the man to hit his wife, had been abused as a child, or had experienced one of their parents abusing the other. The author also states that over 62% of imprisoned females have admitted to abusing animals. The author explains how many beating of family crimes have been led to by the abuse of animals at a young age. The author concludes the chapter by introducing a few theories that would be talked about in the following chapters.
Monday, May 5, 2014
Essential Question Blog Post
Essential Question: Should animal abusers be punished more harshly?
Claim: Animal abusers should be punished more harshly, because of the lasting, damaging effects on the animals.
Reason: The physical affects on the animals are gruesome and despicable. Animal abusers do not get caught enough and therefore, typically go unpunished. If the laws on animal abuse were better enforced, with people actively seeking animal abusers and following through with the punishments, rather than letting an animal abuser out of jail earlier than their set time, there would be less animal abuse, because of it being easier to get caught, and with less leeway on the punishments.
Claim: Animal abusers should be punished more harshly, because of the lasting, damaging effects on the animals.
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| Starved animal
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Monday, April 28, 2014
Objective Summary Blog Post
Summary of Chapters 1-2 "Understanding Animal Abuse" by Cliffton Flynn.
In chapters 1-2 of "Understanding Animal Abuse" Flynn emphasizes the importance of understanding the commonity of animal abuse in todays world and how it relates to many other crimes. The author explains how many criminals abused animals when they were younger and were exposed to it by adults in their life. He also points out how many reports of animal abuse were linked to people with mental illnesses. The author also shows how their have been many test between college students and middle school students and the tests prove that more of the middle school students have been shown to have witnessed animal abuse or have committed it, showing how animal abuse is getting more common. Flynn also states that they have also ran multiple test with imprisoned criminals and asked them if they had abused animals as children, and 96% of them admitted to doing the most harmful forms of animal abuse such as killing, physically inflicting pain on them, touching them sexually, or having sex with the animal. The author concludes the chapter by describing what leads to abusing animals.
Flynn, Clifton P. Understanding Animal Abuse: A Sociological Analysis. New York, NY: Lantern, 2012. Print.
In chapters 1-2 of "Understanding Animal Abuse" Flynn emphasizes the importance of understanding the commonity of animal abuse in todays world and how it relates to many other crimes. The author explains how many criminals abused animals when they were younger and were exposed to it by adults in their life. He also points out how many reports of animal abuse were linked to people with mental illnesses. The author also shows how their have been many test between college students and middle school students and the tests prove that more of the middle school students have been shown to have witnessed animal abuse or have committed it, showing how animal abuse is getting more common. Flynn also states that they have also ran multiple test with imprisoned criminals and asked them if they had abused animals as children, and 96% of them admitted to doing the most harmful forms of animal abuse such as killing, physically inflicting pain on them, touching them sexually, or having sex with the animal. The author concludes the chapter by describing what leads to abusing animals.
Flynn, Clifton P. Understanding Animal Abuse: A Sociological Analysis. New York, NY: Lantern, 2012. Print.
Friday, March 21, 2014
Response to survey
We were surprised by not getting any results. Our link lead to the survey but would not record our results for us to see. I would assume that most people know a good amount about animal abuse. You can always give us personal feedback by commenting on this post!
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Discussion Blog Post Question #3
Determine whether Rosie has forgiven August or not.
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| Rosie (elephant) with Marlena and Jacob |
Rosie has not forgiven August. August seems to believe that Rosie has forgiven him from all of his beating her, because once she cooperates, he begins to be in a good mood at all times. August, before finding out Rosie only understands Polish, would beat Rosie until she bled because she did not understand his English. He would beat her terribly with a bull hook causing many open wounds. As the story progresses and Augusts mood hangs from constant anger to constant thrill, he starts to believe Rosie has forgiven him, particularly because he would give her watermelons and ginger ale. There are many times when August looses his temper with Marlena, in from of Rosie, where you can see Rosie is still very scared of him and uneasy. Rosie also has seen the many painful things August has done to Marlena such as beating her. causing much anger toward August to build up in her. Rosie realizes that August is evil, and Jacob and Marlena truly love her and care for her. Toward the end of the novel, Rosie sees that August is putting Marlena and Jacob in danger and realizes that she's had enough. "She lifts the stake as though it weighs nothing and splits his head in a single clean movement" (309). Rosie decided to take all harm away from Jacob and Marlena by killing August. She never truly forgave him, she could always see through his tricks.
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Discussion Question Blog Post #2
Going back to the prologue, now that we know the characters quite well, discuss who you think killed who and analyze why.
Marlena kills August. In the prologue, there is a description of a female with crazed-looking eyes, killing a man. Splitting his head open with a stake, to be exact. Now that we have learned more about the characters and their feelings for each other, we can make an educated guess about who killed who. We have just learned that Marlena does in fact love Jacob, and we have known for a while that Jacob is deeply in love with Marlena. August discovers this and goes insane. He starts to beat Marlena and Jacob and call them offensive things. August has recently started using a silver-tipped cane and wearing a silk hat. After all the beating and name calling August has done to Marlena, Jacob and to Rosie the elephant, Marlena has a right to want August dead. In this quote we see a description of what seems to be August, "That son of a bitch was standing with his back to her, red-faced and bellowing, flapping his arms and swinging his silver-tipped cane. His high-topped silk hat laying on the straw beside him" (4). This is enough information for us to assume this is August. "She lifted the stake high in the air and brought it down, splitting his head in half like a watermelon. His face pated open, his eyes grew wide, and his mouth froze into an O. He fell onto his knees and then toppled forward into the straw" (4). This shows Marlena killing August after everything he has out her through.
The description of Marlena killing August further proves that Jacob is a better fit for her, as I argued in my last post, because for her to kill August, he must have don't terrible things to her.
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| From left to right: August, Jacob and Marlena. |
Marlena kills August. In the prologue, there is a description of a female with crazed-looking eyes, killing a man. Splitting his head open with a stake, to be exact. Now that we have learned more about the characters and their feelings for each other, we can make an educated guess about who killed who. We have just learned that Marlena does in fact love Jacob, and we have known for a while that Jacob is deeply in love with Marlena. August discovers this and goes insane. He starts to beat Marlena and Jacob and call them offensive things. August has recently started using a silver-tipped cane and wearing a silk hat. After all the beating and name calling August has done to Marlena, Jacob and to Rosie the elephant, Marlena has a right to want August dead. In this quote we see a description of what seems to be August, "That son of a bitch was standing with his back to her, red-faced and bellowing, flapping his arms and swinging his silver-tipped cane. His high-topped silk hat laying on the straw beside him" (4). This is enough information for us to assume this is August. "She lifted the stake high in the air and brought it down, splitting his head in half like a watermelon. His face pated open, his eyes grew wide, and his mouth froze into an O. He fell onto his knees and then toppled forward into the straw" (4). This shows Marlena killing August after everything he has out her through.
The description of Marlena killing August further proves that Jacob is a better fit for her, as I argued in my last post, because for her to kill August, he must have don't terrible things to her.
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