2009年10月24日星期六

Effect of quotation

I read the "radical but right". In its second paragraph, writer used the quotation "In many cases, humans have 'duties regarding animals that are not at the same time duties to animals' (Feinberg, 2002,p.51)." to explain the topic of this essay, which addresses the question of animal rights. And at here writer used the "Duty regarding animals" compare with "Duty to animals" to stress that although people put some statues to protect animals, they have not remedied the problem, because "the rights that they try to put into effect are not as much as animals truly deserve." Writer choose to present the research material in this way is not only explained her mind clearly by a comparison sentence, it is also let reader think more about if they go a right way to protect animals, and if it is necessary that animals need their rights.

The research gives prominence to the thesis which is "under current laws we have some obligations toward animals, but they do not have right themselves" in this essay. After the research, writer can go easy to explains that why some obligations toward animals does not what animals really wanted, they need rights belong to themselves, it is radical but it can solve problems basically.

2009年10月10日星期六

Victory writes history

In China we have an adage:"Losers are always in the wrong." It means that winner makes the rules and histories, and losers live by them. Maybe it is a little extreme, but actually, the history written by the winners are far from the losers'.


The best instance is Adolf Hitler, who is the leader of Nazi Germany during World War II. In history textbook, he is the one who waging a war of aggression and massacred many of Jews, he is greedy and cruel, he broken the world peace and brought a lot of pains for humans around the world, he like a devil form the hell. But is it the truth? I mean certainly he is fighting and made numbers of people suffered from wars. But everything has two sides. From a homeless to an overlord of the world, he is an incontrovertible talented chief, he promoted economic growth rapidly and implemented proactive social security policy, they all let his country rise miraculously. He want to establish one united world but his greed lead to failure. In fact, the ultimate peace is the global unity which he can not finished. If he conquered the world several years ago, I think the history will be opposite. He may be a hero in history and everyone will remember his name by his struggle and achievements instead of his cruel and greedy.