To be Hunted or Hung?

I was very interested in one story over the other.  I was motivated by The Most Dangerous Game.  There was on quote in the story that really bothered me.  General Zaroff says, "I had to invent a new animal to hunt."  This man obviously has some serious problems.  I think he needs to see a therapist badly.  Maybe if he didn't live on an island alone with just a "Deaf and dumb" Cosack and a pack of mean hounds he wouldn't be so bored with hunting animals and have to resort to humans.  The general is a murder and is very sick.  He not only murders the humans but he does a cat and mouse game with them.  He gives them three days to live and when he kills them he puts their heads on his wall.  Are you kidding me?  Who the hell would be in their right mind to put a head humans head on their wall?!  This man seriously shocks me.  I was so glad when Mr. Rainsford won the game and beat the general at what he does best.  I laughed and wanted to say "Suck on that, General!"  I was NOT a fan of General Zaroff.  He has some very serious mental problems that needs to be looked into.  He needs to be locked up for life.  The other story was weird.  I did not enjoy it.  I felt it had no point to it and was very confused by what the author was trying to get at.  I think it is weird to write about a man who got hung and than you are given a strange false hope that he is still alive because he escapes and gets away.  Then all of the sudden he has a vision of his wife all ready for him when his neck snaps and he dies of a broken neck.  I found this story gross and disturbing.  I was not a fan. Overall I think I would be interested in writing my paper on The Most Dangerous Game because I think I could write something solid.  I am not sure what I would go off of on it because there is so many options but I am sure I could figure something out.  So to be hunted or hung?  Hunted.

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

This story was different.  It is a very descriptive story and I thought it was a little too much and became overwhelling.  I finally figured out that Omelas was a place that everyone dreamed off going.  It was described as a paradice and "perfect" place to be.  I of course do not blieve that any place could ever be perfet it is just not possible.  The story started out as a wonderful place and a place everyone should want to be and in the end it turned out to be a bad place.  It was a place full of evil and sick people.  It was described as place full of selfish people that only cared about themselves and their own happiness.  The story described how people think their is a happy and perfect place but that you will find out there is not.  Overall, I found the story to be quite interesting but not my style of reading.

Research Paper Writing in Progress

I don't normally mind writing papers but this paper came at a really bad time.  I have multiple midterm tests and writing a serious achidemicly based paper when I have so much gong on was hard.  I found it hard to have as much time to write the paper as I would have liked.  I tried to do as much research as a possibly could and than put it all together in a paper that made me convince my point of view while be scholary.  I do not know how good my paper is but I hope it is good enough to get an A or B.  I am hoping that I can prove my point in this paper the way it should be.  I found it was kind of hard to find a lot of information that I could use efficiantely.  I tried to condense my topic down to the law enforcement officials and punishments.  I knew that I could not have such a broad topic in a 6 to 10 page paper.  I was trying to make sure my paper was at a level appropriate for college.  I do not know if I accomplished this but I certainly tried.  I found citing information was the hardest part.  I do not plaggerize and so I just tried to make sure I always gave credit to those who needed it.  The works cited page is probably really wrong but I tried and looked in my books.  I did all that I could with the time I had available.  I hope my paper does not seem like a high schoolers paper.  I can only hope and wait and see.

Class

In class I like the rectangle thing we do. I feel like it's a fun and motivation class activity. I like switching it up and getting away from the boring normal class schedule. Power points are okay but I do them in every other class and they just don't work at eight o'clock in the morning. I don't like reading out of the books. I feel like it's tedious and takes up too much time. I like when we plan out what we are going to write in our papers. I feel like it helps me figure out a good strategy for my pre-writing of a paper. I enjoy hearing stories about how sheltered the Midwest is from the rest of the country. Overall I like doing stuff that I don't do in every single other class.

Animal Cruelty

The topic that I have chosen for my reasearch paper is.... Animal cruelty.  I was thinking on my thesis statement being "Animal cruelty crimes need more harsh of punishments".  I have been brainstorming that I have come up with some major points to go under my thesis statement.  My major points will be the current law, states that have ASPCA, how animals or abused/ways they are abused, why people abuse animals, how to make the laws stricter, and ask the audience why this topic is over looked by Americans daily.  I believe that animal cruelty can be prevent but America is not doing enought to prevent it.  I think that it could be prevented by harsher laws, more animal cops, large fines, the public being aware, the public stepping up to report animal cruelty, and more volunteers to stop the animal cruelty.  I just do not understand how a person can look into an innocent dog or cat's eyes and then physically harm him or her.  It makes me sick.  I could never do any harm to any animal and I just wish that everyone else would do the same.  I think that if the public is scared of the punishments and knows that people are looking out for animal cruelty the number of abused and murdered animals will go down greatly.  I will bring in a number of statistics to my paper to really show how serious this topic is.  Animal cruelty is no joke!  We all need to do our part and crack down on the sick humans hurting all of the innocent animals.

Research Paper

I found out something very interesting about myself today in class that I had not realized before.  When we were told to pick 3 topics that really get us going and what we would like to write 10 pages about, I found out that my entire list was about being against killing.  The three things I choose were abolishing the death penalty, having no kill animal shelters, and stopping poaching.  I am extremely motivated to help animals in any way I can.  I am so against animal cruelty, I just need to find a way to truly make a difference in stopping animal cruelty.  My major is nursing but I want to have the ability to be licensed to join an police group against animal cruelty also.  I would be so happy having two jobs that involving saving animals and people.  I am just really disgusted with killing and torturing anyone or anything.  I found that I am definitely going to write about this in my research paper.  I am not sure which topic motivated me the most or which one I can accurately and effectively get my point across.  I think I have decided I want to talk about animals in my research paper but I have many topic I could do like: hunting, poaching, rainforest deforestation, endangered species, euthanizing animals in humane societies, and animal cruelty as a whole.  I feel so strong about them all.  Any advice on which one I should write about?  I am excited for this paper because I am motivated to have research to back up my points and convince others to make a difference also.