Panda Experience at a Museum

The architecture of the building was quite impressive. Its not a normal museum where it looks like a nice fancy building from the outside. In my opinion, it looks pretty historic. The building was made up of concrete with carving designs on it. Most museum I have seen looks more modern with marvel and glass layout. This way of display shows that this museum connect with life and history that of what it holds inside. As I walk around the building, there was a statue of a saber tooth tiger and seats with the replica of a dinosaur spine. The saber tooth statue was really big but its was not too scale. The actual animal bigger than what they have on display. This shows that homo sapiens would like to recreate close to a life sizes extinct animal for us to learn about them. It was amazing to see how big of a creature this animal can be. Whats more amazing is that replica of the spine of a dinosaur. Even tho these chairs a 8 times bigger then what its suppose to be, have a spine that you can sit on is pretty big. Imagine the original sizes of it and it is connect to all the other spine of the creature. This spine could form a chain as long as 20 feet. What we can learn from these two animal is that even tho they are extinct now, we have to learn who use to rule this plant as some of the most dominating things on earth.

As the panda sees this hollow empty shell of this turtle, it made him feel sad to see that nothing was left other then the shell. I couldn't imagine if the panda going extinct and all was left was their fur or paw or head. Just having a piece of the animal to be on display for others to see is not all that great if you don't have the full animal. For knowledge purposes I think if would be better if some how homo sapiens can reserve the entire animal like on the second floor.

   Even tho its better then nothing, and its also for education, stuffing animal still seems a bit wrong to being seen on display. But at least people have the decency to recreate each animals natural habitat in the museum. Weather is a deer in a forest, or a lion with its pack, or a bird in its nest, I don't think I would get offend seeing pandas stuff as long as they are being display in their natural habitat such as eating a bamboo or sleeping. 

 However, being on the third floor would scare me a bit if I would see other pandas in jars or reading about how people experiment on them. Even when I saw all the other animals in jars or pictures of experiment I feel like they have no sympathy for these poor animals. I know its for learning but the relationship between homo sapiens and other animals would turn to worst if this method of teaching get abuse. I feel that if you are going to do this to an animal weather its already dead or alive, you should respect the creature in the end and display things with some dignity to these creatures.

Leadership, Ethics, Animal

"The feeling or emotion, when a person is moved by the suffering or distress of another, and by they desire to relieve it" (pg 399) is part of what compassion mean. Writing with such tone of voice can be hard to manipulate. Dictions, punctuation, sentence structures are components to give writing a set of tone such as compassion to emphasize the meaning behind the story. With compassion you can connect the story to the audience to give a sense of emotional feeling toward the audience. It could also be use the opposite way, making the audience give emotion to the story. Compassion gives great impact when you want to have an effect on people. With such strong feeling the audience is reading, it some times can't be help if people want to react to what they just read. An example of this is if you were to write a compassion story about an animal at the shelter, people might feel obligated to wanting to adopt the animal

  

"This inability to feel their victims' pain allows them to tell themselves lies that encourage their crime" (pg 413) is what most predictor do to themselves. Many people only think that since they are doing these action that its ok. But in the end rape, molestation, and assault are all the same.No matter who did it or the reason behind it its illegal and its unethical. Rapist for example, once they rape their victim they might not stop because they think that since its sex that the other person will be fine with it since both people are getting pleasure but in reality its not that way. Only those that can actually feel others pain can react differently when they attack their victim. Those people can rethink their action so that they might not start the attack in the first place. However, for those predictors that don't think this way horrible actions would only occur.     

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Leadership, Ethics, Animal

"The feeling or emotion, when a person is moved by the suffering or distress of another, and by they desire to relieve it" (pg 399) is part of what compassion mean. Writing with such tone of voice can be hard to manipulate. Dictions, punctuation, sentence structures are components to give writing a set of tone such as compassion to emphasize the meaning behind the story. With compassion you can connect the story to the audience to give a sense of emotional feeling toward the audience. It could also be use the opposite way, making the audience give emotion to the story. Compassion gives great impact when you want to have an effect on people. With such strong feeling the audience is reading, it some times can't be help if people want to react to what they just read. An example of this is if you were to write a compassion story about an animal at the shelter, people might feel obligated to wanting to adopt the animal

  

"This inability to feel their victims' pain allows them to tell themselves lies that encourage their crime" (pg 413) is what most predictor do to themselves. Many people only think that since they are doing these action that its ok. But in the end rape, molestation, and assault are all the same.No matter who did it or the reason behind it its illegal and its unethical. Rapist for example, once they rape their victim they might not stop because they think that since its sex that the other person will be fine with it since both people are getting pleasure but in reality its not that way. Only those that can actually feel others pain can react differently when they attack their victim. Those people can rethink their action so that they might not start the attack in the first place. However, for those predictors that don't think this way horrible actions would only occur.     

Lady and the Tramp

This painting is called "Portrait of a Lady with a Dog" and it was painted by Marco Benefial. This painting shows a lady with her dog or also known as her pet. As simple and straight forward this picture might look it actually represent a part of history that talks about the love for animals such as dogs for human companion. Back in the late 1600s people didn't have the need for dogs to be there pets. Dogs are just like any other animal so why would they have them in their house to take care off. Well this lady apparently had a different mind set of this canine and decided to get one as her pet. This represent a huge turn in the dog and human relationship. This lady from the looks of it has taken care of her dog as if it was her own child. The dog is sitting on a nice pillow, looks well groom, and looks happy as well.  This relationship looks so strong that she wants to get a portrait of only her and her dog. This shows that dogs are capable of being raise by human as tho they were part of the family. This portrait basically symbolized the great relationship humans and animals can have together

Real Fur is just Wrong

I was researching an organization called PETA( People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) which is about preventing animal cruelty. I read an article about people killing animals for their fur and I was shocked in the amount of death of animals due to this selfish act. It’s bad enough that we killed animals for food but if you are going to kill animals, at least have a legit reason for it and not something so useless like for a coat. We are giving up a life of an animal. People just see the result of the fur but not the effect of how to get it. People need to be aware that killing animals for fur is just wrong and they also need to be aware that the communities need to stop this animal cruelty as soon as possible.

            As humans, we need to realize that all creatures are the same. Why do we want to kill animals? That’s the question people need to ask themselves. PETA talks about the animal cruelty and how we need to spread the word and information so that we can prevent this unethical ways. Media such as teachings in school, news, and awareness signs are being place everywhere in the world but this is not enough. The percentage of animal deaths decline with the help of PETA but we as a community can do much more such as form a organization at places like UT to support this protest. APA came to UT with a goal of making Austin a no kill city and because of this leap Austin is slowly becoming what APA had envision. We need to do the same, we need to start an organization that can make Austin a no animal cruelty city. PETA has this special day called “Fur-free Friday” on November 26 which is a day dedicated to teach the public about the inhumanity of skinning animals for their fur. Places like Washington have this event but not Austin. We can help support PETA by setting up this event in Austin to teach about the animal cruelty that is going on in the world.

            Personally as a natural science major, I kind of feel a bit disgusted when I hear from my professor that UT have locations where they use animals for experimental purposes. I would protest about this idea and since my goal and major are both connected it makes it more motivational for me to gather my peers around me to follow me. Since APA came to UT with a goal of saving animals, people like us who love animals can gather together with the APA group and form an additional goal to teach about animal cruelty to people at UT. All it takes is a little support from APA and from people around us and we can create a club just like APA. Baby steps such as posting up flyers about this club and spreading the words are ways we can reach this goal. Things like setting an example in the leadership, ethics and animal class can also play a big role in stretching this goal for the future. If our class can make a big impact in the animal world then people who will take this class after us might feel inspire to create the same vision that we are trying to do. With all these procedures, getting supporters and spreading the knowledge of animal cruelty can increase drastically. As a result, the goal to prevent animal cruelty such as skinning animals can be stop.

            With such leadership that we are performing I can use this same quality of mine to take me farther in my college experience. I can create new goals and take part in leadership position to try to spread my own ideas and acquired new purposes while I’m in college. Things I learn while being in the Leadership class like realizing that there are more to life then just humanity. There are natures and creatures that who are suffering because of us and I want to somehow fix this problem. Most importantly people like us should rise to the occasion to become the leader that will better the lives of tomorrow.