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…Animal Dreams The Discovery of Life Through Death In Barbara Kingsolver's novel Animal Dreams, the protagonist, Codi Noline, is unable to become self aware until the death of her sister, Hallie. Throughout the novel Codi's dependency on her sister…

…People “dream about whatever they do when they’re awake. Dreams, what [one] hopes for, [are] not separate from [one’s] life” (133; ch.12). In Barbara Kingsolver’s novel, Animal Dreams, each character’s hopes, aspirations, and hardships are intricately…

…the information obtained from experimentation is irreplaceable. While animal rights groups such as PETA advocate abolishing all animal testing that inflicts pain on animals, proponents of testing cite laws and regulations which minimize pain and discomfort. PETA's…

…to the legal status of farm animals. A Supreme Court opinion, Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), made this official by classifying slaves as a species of "private property." Even after slavery was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, American blacks, other…

…the Royal SPCA. This group’s purpose was to make acts of animal cruelty punishable by law. As a result of the RSPCA’s activism, the Martin’s law was eventually expanded to ban all types of animal fighting. Animal experimentation—commonly referred…

…an instinctual thing. But you kick 'em once, hard in the ribs, and they respect you." This seemed extreme. "I could never do that to an animal," he said. "He might get mad." "You could always poison the mutt," Bruce said with a straight face. "You know--grind up…

…drugs. A lack of proper animal experimentation delayed the use of penicillin for a decade because Alexander Fleming, in 1929, didn’t use mice. It was only in 1940, when Howard W. Florey, Ernst B. Chain and others at the University of Oxford finally showed…

…of animal experimentation. Immunizations against polio, mumps, measles, rubella, hepatitis, and so on have been made through animal research. Efforts to understand AIDS and Alzheimer¡¦s disease are ongoing. Animal research has played a big role in advances…

…<Tab/>There is a fine line between working toward a cause effectively and overdoing it. Animal rights activists cross this line time and time again with their outrageous protests attempting to abolish the use of animals in scientific…

…of diabetics to prolong their lives. Animal experimentation was essential for developing organ transplantation procedures that save thousands of lives annually. Yet groups such as PETA want humanity to abandon this progress and stop all further…