topic that surfaces in the minds of many: are loveable house pets and the "meat" animals people consume one in the same? If so, why is it morally okay to eat the "meat" animals? Clement describes the similarities between a common household dog and farming pig. She also explains why many people feel more morally attached to companion pets as
shops or cottage factories. Elliot and the other children, as described in the PBS documentary entitled “The Orphan Trains,” were “a source of cheap labor” (Tovares, par. 10). Well, consider this: Elliot’s mother dies when he was just two years old, and his alcoholic father had been raising him. The people who had loaded Elliot and thousands of other children onto trains bound for rural destinations in the mid-1800s through the early 1900s did so to save these children from a life of what the PBS documentary
1. What do you see as the strengths and weaknesses of capitalism? Give some examples: Strengths: • Sense of free agency and choice all around • Incentive to work and create • “miracle of exchange” • Natural way to allocate Resources • Controls prices and profits through natural law of supply and demand- less supply and more demand= prices up • In human nature • Social Good • Equality • Greed that causes competition • Democracy • Growth • Happiness • Harmony. Weakness: • Dishonestly • Greed • Unstable