Dogs = Humans

Are dogs like humans? That is the same thing as asking is an apple like a head of cabbage. The answer to both are no. Humans are humans. Dogs are dogs, but that doesn't mean I don't see dogs as equal to me. Brains are specific to each species. People think that our brains are the same as monkeys, but there is a slight difference. There is a difference in everything, but it wasn't put here to be different.

Animals think different and act different. What a lot of people don't realize is that we are animals. In the end, animals are still living creatures just like us. Some might breathe different, but they are still breathing. We treat animals like we treated each other just one hundred years ago.

 For an example, a lion is in its own place in Africa. Somebody takes the lion and puts it in a zoo in America. The lion escapes the zoo and is shot and killed. Doesn't that sound a lot like slavery, which we fought to abolish. We kill an animal for killing a human, which is meat, but we feed them, and they were meant to eat meat. We give people awards for killing the most fish or bringing in the largest deer. An animal's instinct to kill is like our instinct to kill.

"If we went a step further and granted dogs rights of personhood, they would be afforded additional protection against exploitation. Puppy mills, laboratory dogs and dog racing would be banned for violating the basic right of self-determination of a person." I totally agree with this statement. We should just let animals free and live how they were meant to. If an animal want to live with a human and the human is feeling the same way, let it be, but voluntary. Keeping a living this as property is wrong. They deserve rights.  

  

SAT Essay

          Any and everybody who is thinking about going to college should take the SAT first. Colleges look at these scores and see if the student is worthy of attending their school. The colleges may look at these scores, but are the scores correct?

         "This essay, which was added to the SAT in 2005, counts for approximately 30 percent of a 

test-taker’s score on the writing section." A computer grade this portion, so the company that makes the test hires people to grade the essay. The essay graders get bonuses if they can grade about thirty essays in an hour. That only gives two minutes to grade each essay. Reading, analyzing, and rating an essay has to take more than two minutes. If this is the time frame for one student's essay, than this two minutes can mean the world to the student. Looking over or misreading one part of the essay can be the difference between getting into a dream college or getting into a "plan B" college. For these people to grade an entire essay in two minutes is outrageous, so the student must use the time only on writing the essay an not trying to recall events for the essay.

             The student only gets a certain amount of time for the essay. Many students waste time trying to recall events for the topic of the essay. The best way to go with the topic is to make things up. It takes more time to recall an entire event then it takes to make one up. Since time is crucial, it is best to make things up. Talk about a trip you never took or a thing you never bought. It's not lying. It's creative writing.