In How to do Animal Rights, Isacat brought to light the issue which includes humans are becoming responsible for the mass extinction of animals. Humans have been the “enemy” of animals for millennia’s, because of the actions we’ve been taking against them. These actions include eating, wearing, killing them for sport, and experimentation, all to meet the demands of the increasing number of people living in the world. This reading is engaging to me both socially and culturally, both topics are brought about with the phrasing of ‘Animal Holocaust’. Originally when I read the article the comparison between the ‘Animal Holocaust’ and the actual Holocaust, I wasn’t able to see the connection. However after looking at it more closely I was able to draw the parallel. Socially viewed; in the Holocaust people were killed only because one man didn’t like them, and since he was ruler everybody else just fell in line. By …show more content…
In paragraph thirteen Isacat states this “We could not have evolved without animals and they gave our species food, clothing, shelter and tools”, Isacat then quoted Woody Allen; "More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.” These two statements leave me with the question that if humans choose the wrong path, and we continue down that road, we’re going to keep kill trillions of animals a year and continue to polluting the earth, how long until it’s just all gone? How long until the animals that help humans evolve are lost to this world and humans can no longer evolve? Will we eventually just go extinct like the animals? If the environment isn’t fixed how long until global warming takes full effect and the word is like a desert? I’ve never thought of these things happening until now, and it changes my view on the
The strongest window to the theme of “the Cattle Car complex” is a quote saying, “The Holocaust fades like a painting exposed to too much sun.” (Rosenbaum, 5) When a painting is exposed to sunlight, the colors begin to fade. In most paintings, the color adds to the message being portrayed in the painting. When a painting uses darker tones, the message is dark. When this detail is faded, the entire meaning of the painting is changed. In this quote, the holocaust is being compared to this, and similarly, when the occurrences of the holocaust are told in a way that trivializes them, the message of the event is changed, or no longer present. We trivialize the events of the holocaust by stripping it of important elements until all that is left are dates and numbers. This belittling of the information destroys the meaning, and takes away lessons we are left with after something like the holocaust. The importance is stripped from the event. This is why it is necessary that while teaching of the holocaust the important elements are not taken away.
The long-term aim is to develop an approach to ethics that will help resolve contemporary issues regarding animals and the environment. In their classical formulations and as recently revised by animal and environmental ethicists, mainstream Kantian, utilitarian, and virtue theories have failed adequately to include either animals or the environment, or both. The result has been theoretical fragmentation and intractability, which in turn have contributed, at the practical level, to both public and private indecision, disagreement, and conflict. Immensely important are the practical issues; for instance, at the public level: the biologically unacceptable and perhaps cataclysmic current rate of species extinctions, the development or preservation of the few remaining wilderness areas, the global limitations on the sustainable distribution of the current standard of living in the developed nations, and the nonsustainability and abusiveness of today's technologically intense crop and animal farming. For individuals in their private lives, the choices include, for example: what foods to eat, what clothing to wear, modes of transportation, labor-intensive work and housing, controlling reproduction, and the distribution of basic and luxury goods. What is needed is an ethical approach that will peacefully resolve these and other quandaries, either by producing consensus or by explaining the rational and moral basis for the continuing disagreement.
The Holocaust was the genocide of approximately six million people of innocent Jewish decent by the Nazi government. The Holocaust was a very tragic time in history due to the idealism that people were taken from their surroundings, persecuted and murdered due to the belief that German Nazi’s were superior to Jews. During the Holocaust, many people suffered both physically and mentally. Tragic events in people’s lives cause a change in their outlook on the world and their future. Due to the tragic events that had taken place being deceased in their lives, survivors often felt that death was a better option than freedom.
The Holocaust was a very impressionable period of time. It not only got media attention during that time, but movies, books, websites, and other forms of media still remember the Holocaust. In Richard Brietman’s article, “Lasting Effects of the Holocaust,” he reviews two books and one movie that were created to reflect the Holocaust (BREITMAN 11). He notes that the two books are very realistic and give historical facts and references to display the evils that were happening in concentration camps during the Holocaust. This shows that the atrocities that were committed during the Holocaust have not been forgotten. Through historical writings and records, the harshness and evil that created the Holocaust will live through centuries, so that it may not be repeated again (BREITMAN 14).
Firstly, Art Spiegelman made use of certain animals to stand for human characteristics is appropriate to the cultural context of the Holocaust. Adolf Hitler’s idea of Jews are not belong to human race but vermin began the Holocaust during the World War II. As he said: “The Jews are undoubtedly a race, but they are not human” (Andrew Loman). Under his domination, Er Sturmer, a Nazi newspaper publication, and some anti-Semitic publications think the image of mice is a suitable image to describe Jews because they believes Jews should be eliminated as vermin. At the time, mouse were cultural stereotype of Jews in the most of Nazi Germnay’s eyes. In Maus, Art Spiegelman used Nazi Germany’s idea of Jews are disease carrying vermin to depict Jews as the image of mice. Secondly, Animal imagery helped Art Spiegelman to reveal the social reality of the Holocaust in an entertaining way during the period. Art Spiegelman did not want to take the ethic risk of representing the issue of racism directly, so he follows the form of Disney cartoon with their way of transfer aspects of racist to entertaining way, which was an American mass culture in the twentieth century. He used different animals to differentiate the race. For example, he used cat and mouse, which are innate antagonism, to metaphor for that Nazi Germany’s duty was to wipe them out. In the book, he depicted Jews as mice, Germans as cats, Poles as pigs and Americans as dogs. Art Spiegelman vivid represents the relationship between Jews, Germans and Poles by using food chain, like cat and mouse. Art Spiegelman shows a more pleasant way to differentiate the race characteristics during the period of the Holocaust by using animal imagery but not human
The Holocaust is considered the largest genocide of our entire world, killing more than 600,000,000 Jewish people during the years of 1933-1945. The memories and history that have filled our lives that occurred during the Holocaust are constantly remembered around the world. Many populations today “think” that constant reminders allow for us to become informed and help diminish the hatred for other races still today. These scholars believe that by remembering the Holocaust, you are able to become knowledgeable and learn how to help prevent this from happening again. Since the Holocaust in a sense impacted the entire human race and history of the world, there are traces of the Holocaust all across our culture today. As I continue to remember the victims of this tragic time period I think of all the ways that our world remembers the Holocaust in today’s society. Through spreading the word, works of media and memorials across the world, I am continually reminded of the tragedy that occurred.
... things up to the worst of it all. The readers can take away that just because you believe something different then somebody else, doesn’t make them or you a bad person or different in any way. This topic shows that long before the concentration camps, Jews were being singled out and treated terribly. The study of the Holocaust matters to show people what happened so that others can learn from it and learn to accept people no matter what their religion. It must not be forgotten because the people who suffered in it should be remembered. It was a terrible time that should never happen again. All of the laws passed leading up to the Night of the Broken kept increasing Hitler's power and ability to persecute the Jews because there was little reaction to his actions; the violence and persecution increased leading to the final solution because of this indifference.
For many years, people time and time again denied the happenings of the Holocaust or partially understood what was happening. Even in today’s world, when one hears the word ‘Holocaust’, they immediately picture the Nazi’s persecution upon millions of innocent Jews, but this is not entirely correct. This is because Jews
There is no doubt that the Holocaust is one of the best remembered and most studied genocides in human history. There are very few who would be puzzled by the mention of the Holocaust in today’s world as it’s impacts have been immense and lasting. Many lives were lost during this time, and many atrocities occurred- torture and persecution were pushed past the boundaries of most people’s imaginations. Throughout modern history, the Holocaust has been documented over and over again as the worst genocide- and perhaps even the worst crime- in human history. Many historians have even said it was a unique occurrence that is unparalleled by other crimes in human history. This being said, it is not difficult to argue this statement when observing and analyzing the many components of the Holocaust and of other horrible crimes that have happened.
Some might of said that things couldn't get worse. But destruction spread even farther than the heart of the Holocaust. This, is where it gets interesting to study about the Holocaust. It starts to bring out anger and other actions fr...
The Maus series of books tell a very powerful story about one man’s experience in the Holocaust. They do not tell the story in the conventional novel fashion. Instead, the books take on an approach that uses comic windows as a method of conveying the story. One of the most controversial aspects of this method was the use of animals to portray different races of people. The use of animals as human races shows the reader the ideas of the Holocaust a lot more forcefully than simply using humans as the characters.
Extinction is no longer just a natural process. It is an enemy, slowly changing our world into a barren wasteland where life is as rare as a flower in the Arctic Circle's winter. The wolf, the tiger, the caribou, the elephant, the bison, the cheetah, the sequoia cactus, the redwood tree – all of these and so many more things are on the verge of disappearing from our planet forever. Extinction is the most pressing environmental issue of our time, because if it continues the way it is going without anything being done to counteract its causes and consequences, there will soon be no environment left for there to be debates about.
Art Spiegelman’s Maus is a novel about the Vladek and his experience as a Polish Jew during the Holocaust. It narrates the reality of the Holocaust wherein millions and millions of Jews were systematically killed by the Nazi regime. One of the themes in the story is racism which is evident in the employment of animal characters and its relationship with one another.
Humans are destructive. Not a lot of us think about how what we do affects the world around us. We almost act like we are the only ones on this planet. We go around polluting and destroying our world with no regard for our actions. The things that live out in the wild are paying the price for it. Every day that passes there is another animal or plant that is placed on an endangered list. This is happening at an alarming rate. Because of man’s desire to expand and conquer their surroundings, there are animals and plants that are on the brink of extinction that will not be around for our kids and future generations to enjoy if something is not done about it now. This problem has been going on for hundreds of years. There are animals and plants that can only been seen in paintings or early photography. It is because of our early ancestors that we have this problem today and we have to do more to prevent more animals and plants from disappearing forever.
Everyone’s all seen those wildlife shows on tv. The shows on National Geographic and such, showing animals in beautiful environments, everything lush and growing and nothing at all wrong that could threaten these creatures and places. But, have anyone seen the other side? The side where all these beautiful creatures and plants starve, are decimated by predators that have never been there before, and sometime even become poisoned by their very own homes and habitats? Of course no one has. That doesn’t mean that its not happening. It is happening, and its happening everywhere. And guess who is to blame? People. Society. Humans as a race pollute the environment, hunt animals simply for their parts, fish way more than humans will ever need just for the sake of money, introduce new species to new places for our own gain, and even purposefully destroy entire regions just for human expansion. And its starting to take its toll. While it is true that nature is constantly in flux and certain species come and go, humans are causing more species to disappear in the past few hundred years then nature has ever caused since the age of the dinosaurs, and therefore it is up to humans to repair the damage caused, be it cleaning the environment and habitats of these creatures, or taking more direct action to protect and preserve the species that are on the brink of extinction.