Essays on Torturing

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Please Stop Your Aid in Enabling Others to Harm and be Cruel to Animals

I am writing on behalf of the animals that are sold at your store that are mistreated and kept in hazardous conditions by one of your major wildlife suppliers, Holmes Farms. Though this business is already under investigation thanks to PETA’s campaign against Holmes Farms and Petco has stated that they have cut ties with this supplier, your business has continued to do business with them. This mistreatment was discovered initially after an activist for PETA got a job at Holmes Farms and discovered ...

Abstract

The slaves in the Southern part of US faced inhuman treatment where they were by law, the property of their owners. The slaves were subjected to harsh treatments including working for long hours in the fields while returning at night only to be met by meager food to fulfill their hunger needs. The husbands were taken from their wives with professional slave catchers tasked with tracking the runaway slaves and torturing those who were suspected to have the intentions of escaping. To be able to save the slaves and make them see the light of freedom, it was necessary ...

Analysis of Different Poetic Forms

The Torturer's Apprentice is a haunting dark poem about an individual relaying their experience to a trainee torturer. The last ending five words of the first stanza alludes to freedom and the creation of bridges. The torturer believes that he or she will only be free when they manage to mend bridges with the people they are torturing. The ending words are; “day”. “Was”, “free”, “see”, “bridge” and “way”. All these words together reveal the persona’s desire to escape their trade. They note that they “began this journey young and free” (Line 3). It seems like torture does ...

Traditionally, animals have been assumed to respond to changes in the environment the same way as humans do. This assumption has been continuously used for product testing, research, and educating of living animals. Animal experimentation is done in a broad range of environments, including agricultural facilities, universities, hospitals and independent laboratories. This technique is used to assess the safety of the products such as cosmetics, chemicals medical services, and household products. However, animal-based testing methods have failed the human needs due to varied reactions of various animal species to these commodities. Moreover, the methodology has received severe criticism from ...

In Shonda Rhymes’ “Scandal”, the appeal of the film comes from the opportunity it offers to the viewers to get closer to the close world of American politics, and into the White House. By making the President of the United States humane and likable, the filmmaker ensured that the audiences would find the show fascinating and intriguing. In the last episode of the show’s 2nd season, namely episode 22: “Who’s Your Daddy”, Olivia Pope and her team manages to hide the issues of the election fraud and to reestablish the authenticity of the show comes from its ...

Let us back track to the stories of the horror that gripped the United States on September 11, 2001. Almost every American can recall stories of the deadly attack that shook the country in ways that remain vividly in the minds of many persons. Now, take a look at the global news as countries such as France and Belgium have tasted the horror that gripped the United States in 2001. It is clear that terrorists continue to wreak havoc on the whole world. These terrorist attacks occur all over the world and despite the fact that no attack has ...

The poem is about the king of Uruk, who was partially a man and partially an animal. He built a magnificent temple. The king of Uruk was very beautiful in relation to physical terms. The king was also very wise and strong. Despite the fact that Gilgamesh appeared like a small god, he was very evil in that he raped women carelessly and anyhow. He used forced labor and facilitated the oppression of the people in the society he was a king (Daimon 18). This text is still available and readable up to today. The oral versions of the story were also common ...

Question 1

The government of the former President George W. Bush was lenient in the control of torturing of terrorist suspects. In a statement through the department of justice, his government issued a document confirming the torturing of Al-Qaeda suspects. One of the most common ways of torturing suspects was through waterboarding. This is a technique of covering a suspect with a cotton cloth over the head then pouring water over it to block any breathing avenues (the mouth and nose). The technique is extremely painful and has numerous resultant effects of the individual that is tortured. Sources close to the former president that have ...

The freedom of movement using a plane was restricted to those only in the ‘fly ‘list. This was also enforced by increasing the surveillance electronic gadgets in both airports and bus stop stations. The individual freedom of privacy was breached due to the increase of electronic surveillance by intelligence agencies. Anyone entering or leaving the country had to be inspected and was to provide legal identification. All the foreigners had to provide a clear and understandable reason as to why they were entering the country. However, the ability of the citizens to move around the country did not have a wide scale ...

Torture as a form of weapon has been in practice since ancient times and is a common tool used by the military to extract crucial information from enemy informants and spies. In the US, torture takes place at several different levels. Domestically, the US prison systems are the primary locations where select prisoners can be elaborately tortured in many different ways without the outside world having any knowledge of such happenings. This paper, however, will focus on the known use of torture in the past administrations, torture methods used by the US Military (especially offshore), some of the rules and regulations ...

We may claim that time is producing more civilized human beings, but our frustrations and the violence within us continue to mount. Animals are one aspect of the ecosystem that’s paying the price for our indulgences and research. Myriad animals are being killed each day just so that they could be hung on drawing-room walls as evidence of our bravery or so that we could cut them open as a new excuse for science. Slaughtering of animals for the sake of food is a cause that could be justified, but countless animals are becoming victims to violence that is uncalled ...

Introduction

NATO or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an agreement between participating countries to support and give assistance to other allied countries who have signed treaty to the agreement. This concept of supporting each other and giving each member a sense of security when it comes to attacking elements from external parties give members of the organization a chance to grow and give attention to aspects of development without necessarily being fully or over-concerned about how they are going to fair in case military operations rise against them. Considerably, NATO’s role is to serve as the safety-net that every country ...

Leo Tolstoy’s short story, Death of Ivan Ilych, tells the story of a man in his middle-forties about to die of unknown causes. Because of this, the protagonist, Ivan Ilych, begins to reflect on his life, whether he was able to lead a good and fulfilling life or not. As he became successful at work, he spent less time with his family as his relationship with his family became intolerable. While Ilych was well-loved by his colleagues, his wife and daughter do not share the same affections towards him. The only one that truly showed compassion towards him is his ...

Introduction

PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is an American organization for animal rights. It gives voice against four major issues regarding treatment of animals such as fur farming, using animals for entertainment, factory farming, and animal testing. PETA also fights against eating animals, killing of animals, keeping chained dogs, bullfighting, and cock fighting. Even though the organization’s intention is good to save the life of the animal, PETA is often considered as unrealistic and extremist. PETA states that creating the institution of breeding, as “pets” are selfish. According to Newkirk, who led PETA, the word “friends” ...

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II is a bestseller book, authored by Iris Chang. The book is based on the atrocious acts, committed by Japanese army after Nanking was captured by them. The book is a realistic portrayal of massacres and rapes by Japanese in Nanking. The book also presents how Chinese people still remember the horrifying incidents of Nanking. This paper intends to discuss the book and delves deep to examine several other related aspects. ‘The Rape of Nanking’ portrays the rape and massacre in Chinese capital of those days, Nanking. Japanese army captured ...

The Black Cat is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and was first published in 1843. The story is opened up by an unknown narrator who states that he is insane in spite of the unnatural story of horror he is about to tell. He confesses a great love for animals in the beginning of the story by stating that pets respects the fidelity of friendship better than humans. He was married with a wife and together they loved domestic pets with one of their pets being a black cat named Pluto. The narrator later on developed an alcohol problem which ...

Mass media is a very powerful tool that helps communicate ideas and information to a larger audience. With the advent of technology and its constant progress, people from all parts of the world gained access to mass media and was able to subscribe to it every minute of the day. The need to communicate later on became more important with the introduction of globalization, where interchange of ideas, products, and certain aspects of culture among nations became necessary as a means to improve economies, environment, and cultures. Now that it is able to reach almost, if not everyone, in the world, its ...

Torture is an act of deliberately imposing ruthless physical pain on an individual who is under arrest or physically restrained and is unable to protect himself or herself against the pain being inflicted. This paper is going to synthesize Christopher Hitchens’ essay titled , “Believe me, it is torture” and David Wallace’s “Consider the Lobster”. It is not an easy task to judge Hitchens’ point of view of categorizing water-boarding as inflicting physical pain and the underlying contention on the fact that no human being should be subjected to torture (Hitchens 3). I am in support of this ...

War on Terror:

Can Torture be Ethical? Torture involves intentionally causing mental, physical agony, or even both, on an individual without legitimate reason. This includes threats to family members and loved ones. Torture has been used as a punishment, to threaten or control people, to furnish information or just to satisfy brutal impulses. Governments have been instrumental in using torture to keep power in their very own hands, to enforce their own political viewpoint, to remove antagonism and to device specific policies. Before scrutinizing the legal validity of torture and inflicting pain, it should be considered that pain occurs even in ...

Following the recent state of terrorism activities, the American government is at the limelight of public scrutiny on the methods they can employ to interrogate terrorist suspects. Previous observations on the way American military teams treat suspects brought controversies. Some people say that they are too lenient while others say that there is no need for torture in extraction of useful information from criminal suspects. Torture is defined as the infliction of physical pressure to a person in order that the person may reveal all relevant truths about a specified subject. Most American specialized officers use psychology and some other ...

A quick glance at headlines from different news sources regarding recent stories on the country of Bahrain shows a country in strife. One BBC story whose headline read, “Second day of protests rocks Bahrain” ran a lead photo that depicted cars burning in the street and people running around in chaos. The New York Times ran a less dramatic photo on a page dedicated to following news stories in the problems in Barain. Their depictions appeared to be written in a more hopeful tone than those of the BBC, but were still charged with uncertainty and protests break out. Their most recent article ...

Abstract The following paper discusses three offenders from three recent incidents. The discussion will strive to analyze the behavior of these offenders and their justification for their behavior from the available details regarding the incidents.

Girl who shot herself in leg at Grady High out of jail

The details of the incident can be found at http://waga.m0bl.net/r/1fa2kd. Morgan Tukes a senior at Gradys High School is only 17 years of age and is accused of several charges including accidentally shooting herself in the school parking lot. The 17 year old was also accused of hit and run charges in October. Her charges involved fleeing and attempting to elude, ...

Introduction

Torture refers to the deliberate act or practise of inflicting injury or physical pain on another person. However, animal and psychological torture also exists. Parties inflicting torture on others also do so as a form of coercion, punishment, interrogation, political re-education, punishment, or deterrence. There are different methods of torture which vary from one year to the other and from one country to the other. Psychological torture methods include sensory deprivation, blackmailing, solitary confinement, threatening to kill or hurt the victim`s loved ones, and exposure to loud sounds. On the other hand, physical torture methods include kneecapping, oxygen deprivation, ...

Takashi Miike's 1999 film Audition is an artful yet horrifying tale of a mild-mannered widower (Ryo Ishibashi) who, in his attempts to find a new wife, falls for a young woman Asami Yamasaki) who is far more than meets the eye. Miike's signature dreamlike mise-en-scene, complete with moody and atmospheric cinematography and strong, vulnerable performances from both leads, creates a twisted romance/revenge film that strongly addresses issues of gender roles and divisions within relationships, particularly as they are applied to Japanese culture. The film explores and critiques notions of romanticism normally found in modern romantic dramas, as the representation of relationships and sexuality in ...

Fallacies of False Generalization

With fallacies of false generalization, or defective inductions, assumptions are made about people or things that may not necessarily apply to the situation at hand. In the case of Abu Ghraib and other morally ambiguous scenarios, the justification the soldiers may have had falls along these lines. By placing these terror suspects in cramped cells, and attributing some of the worst aspects of who they were hunting to everyone at the base, the soldiers there made a false generalization that everyone there was a terrorist and did not deserve human respect. By generalizing these prisoners based on their mere presence inside ...

Ethics Violation in Abu Ghraib

The word ethics spans an adage of definitions advanced by various scholars in the world. Right from the days of Emmanuel Kant and other notable Geek philosophers, the term ethics has been accorded with the treatment or the study of the moral right or wrong of human actions. It is in this trajectory that this paper tries to establish the moral wrong or right that is advanced by the American soldiers in the Iraqi Abu Ghraib Prison, also called Baghdad correction facility. The paper tries to establish the various ethics and human rights violation in the prison and the ...

‘Man’s Search for Meaning’ is a very much acclaimed book, written by internationally distinguished psychiatrist, Victor. E. Frankl who is an Austrian Jew. The author is a holocaust survivor and has witnessed the panic of Nazi rule as he spent several years in the Nazi death camps during the period of World War II. The author in this dark phase of his life learnt some very useful skills and traits of human behavior. He came to know how a man keeps searching the meaning that keeps him motivated in his life. The author as an eminent psychiatrist has developed his own ...

Torture is an act where a person inflicts pain upon the other without the latter’s consent. Torture can be done in a multitude of ways such as burning a part of the person’s body, inflicting wounds through the use of sharp objects and crushing an important body part. There are people who enjoy inflicting pain upon themselves or to others because it gives them happiness. Some would say it is part of their devotion to their religions. Many laws and policies have been enacted around the globe in prohibiting torture to others and to one’s self but not many ...