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ANIMALS IN ENTERTAINMENT

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    Animals that are used in entertainments are captives that are forced to endure punishment to perform confusing, painful, repetitive acts. Circuses would lose their appeal if people found out the cruel methods that are used train the animals, cramped confinement, bad travel conditions, and poor treatment that the animals undergo. Most circuses travel 30,000 miles for 11 months and visits 140 cities in North America. Since circuses are constantly traveling from city to city most animals do not get the necessary care that they should. They probably don’t even get the basic necessities they need to survive very often such as food, water, and veterinary care. Most the animals that are very large and are usually active are forced to spend their lives in cramped cages and trailers used to transport them from act to act. They usually have only enough room to stand and turn around. Most of the animals are only let out of their cages for small periods of the day when they perfor...
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Racism and Education

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 We recognize that education at all levels and all ages, including within the family, in particular human rights education, is a key to changing attitudes and behavior based on racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and to promoting tolerance and respect for diversity in societies; we further affirm that such education is a determining factor in the promotion, dissemination and protection of the democratic values of justice and equity, which are essential to prevent and combat the spread of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. Introduction: Education can be a means to retain as well as to eliminate inequality. As it can serve two contradictory purposes, two opposite results may ensue. Education can reinforce or diminish inequality. Purposeful government strategies are necessary for diminishing inequality because, without them, “a family’s social, cultural and economic status tends to act as a rifle-barrel setting an educa...
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