Running Head: PROGRESS REPORT 1 PROGRESS REPORT 3 Progress Report Weltee Wolo Rasmussen College Author Note This paper is being submitted on May 12, 2017, Vicki Phillips’s Contemporary World Literature G335/LIT3191 course Timeline contemporary literature Authors and their work Historical Events Showing the Context of the Writing 1904 Constantine Cavafy-waiting for the Barbarian He revived Greek poetry both locally and internationally. His poetry was a self or historical reflection he was going through. In this poem, he poetry a state that is in despair when their hope does not turn up. The officials place their hope on the arrival of Barbarians to save their city. At evening the barbarians were yet to arrive and every one was scared 1873 the long depression 1882 Anglo-Egyptian war 1919-1922 – Greece defeated in Greco-Turkish war 1920 Marcel Proust-in search of lost time Revolutionized the modern writing through this monumental novel. The novel was published in seven volumes. The novel is not only complex with 2000 characters but also bulky. The author recalls his early life as a child in the Guermantes way. He recalls how a nurse “sang me to sleep with that old ditty” 1871- end of Franco- Prussian war 1900-1905 : death of his parents 1914 world war I 1925 Franz Kafka-the trial Introduced the fusion of realism with fantastic. His works are attributed to the themes of absurdity, guilt, and alienation of incomprehensive measures. The trial shows the trial of a man, Josef k who is a chief cashier at a local bank. He is arrested on his 30th birthday by unknown un-identified agents from an agency, which they do not identify without even being told of his crime. The main character, K, is persecuted by being stabbed. His final words were ”like dog” 1914: world war I 1958 Louis Aragon-holy week Was a great contributor to the surrealist movement that saw a resurgence in French art and writing. Aragon work on the holy week covers the march 1895 when napoleon was in a struggle to gain authority from king louis the 18th. He uses the imagination and reflection of the characters to flashback on their roles and characteristics. The author also shows his own personal reflections during the French invasion by Germany. The king is unable to keep his reign and runs away. The most notable episode is at the end where Theodore say he “ sees no sense to die for the crippled king who has fled away or Napoleon with his imperialist police state” 1914: world war I 1919 France occupies Germany territory 1919-1924- Dadaism 1920- 1970’s surreal movement 1922-1953 – Stalinism movement 1933-1945 World war II 1933 -1939 the commune journal launched 1940 Germany invades France 1948 Bertolt Brecht – the Caucasian ...

1. Running Head: PROGRESS REPORT
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PROGRESS REPORT
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Progress Report
Weltee Wolo
Rasmussen College
Author Note
This paper is being submitted on May 12, 2017, Vicki Phillips’s
Contemporary World Literature G335/LIT3191 course
Timeline contemporary literature
Authors and their work
Historical Events Showing the Context of the Writing
1904
Constantine Cavafy-waiting for the Barbarian
He revived Greek poetry both locally and internationally. His
poetry was a self or historical reflection he was going through.

2. In this poem, he poetry a state that is in despair when their hope
does not turn up. The officials place their hope on the arrival of
Barbarians to save their city. At evening the barbarians were yet
to arrive and every one was scared
1873 the long depression
1882 Anglo-Egyptian war
1919-1922 – Greece defeated in Greco-Turkish war
1920
Marcel Proust-in search of lost time
Revolutionized the modern writing through this monumental
novel. The novel was published in seven volumes. The novel is
not only complex with 2000 characters but also bulky. The
author recalls his early life as a child in the Guermantes way.
He recalls how a nurse “sang me to sleep with that old ditty”
1871- end of Franco- Prussian war
1900-1905 : death of his parents
1914 world war I
1925
Franz Kafka-the trial
Introduced the fusion of realism with fantastic. His works are
attributed to the themes of absurdity, guilt, and alienation of
incomprehensive measures. The trial shows the trial of a man,
Josef k who is a chief cashier at a local bank. He is arrested on
his 30th birthday by unknown un-identified agents from an
agency, which they do not identify without even being told of
his crime. The main character, K, is persecuted by being
stabbed. His final words were ”like dog”
1914: world war I
1958
Louis Aragon-holy week
Was a great contributor to the surrealist movement that saw a
resurgence in French art and writing. Aragon work on the holy
week covers the march 1895 when napoleon was in a struggle to

3. gain authority from king louis the 18th. He uses the imagination
and reflection of the characters to flashback on their roles and
characteristics. The author also shows his own personal
reflections during the French invasion by Germany. The king is
unable to keep his reign and runs away. The most notable
episode is at the end where Theodore say he “ sees no sense to
die for the crippled king who has fled away or Napoleon with
his imperialist police state”
1914: world war I
1919 France occupies Germany territory
1919-1924- Dadaism
1920- 1970’s surreal movement
1922-1953 – Stalinism movement
1933-1945 World war II
1933 -1939 the commune journal launched
1940 Germany invades France
1948
Bertolt Brecht – the Caucasian Chalk Circle
Shaped the epic theatrical views by making the spectators see
the drama as everyday reality surrounding them. They saw that
the reality of life as a human construction that can be changed.
I like when the judge uses the “Solomonic” decision-making by
drawing a chalk circle and tells them to pull the child from the
circle and then divide the child into halves. The woman who did
not pull the child was declared the mother of the child
1914-1918: the first world
1933: Adolf Hitler takes over the leadership in Germany
1933-1945 World war II
1945-1956: the fall of Hitler reign and era of the cold war.

4. 1954- received the Stalin peace prize
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Humans and Other Living
Creatures
Chapter 7
Learning Objectives
rion for extending or denying
rights to
animals.
for product
testing and for scientific research.
animal
rights.
.4 Create an argument for or against animal rights.

5. Overview of Animal Rights
“They
have none” to “They are equal in moral status to humans.” Most
reasonable views, as with many issues, fall somewhere between
these two extremes.
The analysis of the moral status of animals involves several
questions.
The first question is what, if any, rights they possess. The
question of
rights is complex, and there are still contentious debates as to
what
rights, if any, humans have, let alone other sentient nonhumans.
The second question involves the treatment and use of animals.
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Humans use animals in various ways

6. Main Philosophical Arguments
Rene Descartes
than unconscious machines.
clock that needed oiling.
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No Soul, No Rights
soul; if you

7. do not have a soul you do not feel pain or pleasure, therefore,
they
do not have any rights.
Animal Rights
es:
1. If you do not have a soul,
Then you do not have rights.
2. Animals do not have souls.
3. Therefore, Animals do not have rights.
Kant- Animal Rights
1. If you do not have rationality;
Then you do not have Rights.
2. Animals do not have rationality.
3. Therefore, Animals do not have rights.
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Reductio Adsurdum
1. If you do not have rationality;

8. Then you do not have Rights.
2. Babies do not have rationality
3. Therefore, Babies do not have rights.
Rationality/ Moral Responsibility
1. If you do not have rationality; then you do
not have Moral Responsibility.
2. Animals do not have rationality
3. Therefore, Animals do not have Moral
Responsibility.
Utilitarianism: Animal rights
1. If you have the capacity to feel pain or pleasure, then you
have
rights.
2. Animals have the capacity to feel pain and pleasure.
3. Therefore: Animals have rights.
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9. People have Rights too
1. If you have the capacity to feel pain or pleasure, then you
have
rights.
2. People have the capacity to feel pain and pleasure.
3. Therefore: People have rights.
Crazy Utilitarian Argument
1. People have rights.
2. Animals have rights.
3. Therefore, people and animals have the same rights.
People are equal to Goats.
Equivocation in the term rights
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What Rights do animals have?

10. ot specified what rights each have - there is no
reason to
assume they have the same rights.
Babies = Animals
-
Babies = Goats
1. Babies have rights.
2. Animals have rights.
3. Therefore babies and animals have the same rights.
Babies are equal to Goats, cows, dogs cats….
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Immanuel Kant
-conscious and are there merely as a
means

11. to an end. That end is man. … Our duties towards animals are
merely indirect duties towards humanity.
Kantian Counter argument-
Potential rationality
1. If you have the potential for rationality, then you have rights.
2. Babies have the potential for rationality
3. Therefore, babies have rights.
Animal Potential Rationality
1. If you have the potential for rationality,
Then you have rights.
2. Animals do not have the potential for rationality.
3. Therefore, Animals do not have rights.
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The Notion Potential Rationality
Applied
people

12. with brain injuries, and people in comas or vegetative states all
lack
the potential for rationality - as such, on this view they lack
rights.
Food and Farming
USA.
livestock.
DOWNED ANIMAL PROTECTION ACT
OTECTION ACT
make it
unlawful for any stockyard owner, market agency, or dealer to
transfer or market nonambulatory livestock, and for other
purposes.
- It shall be unlawful for any
stockyard
owner, market agency, or dealer to buy, sell, give, receive,
transfer,
market, hold, or drag any nonambulatory livestock unless the
nonambulatory livestock has been humanely euthanized.'.

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Animal testing has led to human
deaths
suspected, based on clinical (human) studies: 1907
that animal studies indicated that there was nothing to fear
from asbestos: 1965
asbestos: 1986
Polio
conception of the nature of the human disease based on
misleading experimental models of disease in monkeys.”
― Dr. Albert Sabin (scientist credited with development of
polio
vaccine, along with Dr. Jonas Salk)
Penicillin
1940s, for

14. penicillin would probably never been granted a license, and
possibly the whole field of antibiotics might never have been
realized.”
Sir Alexander Fleming (scientist credited with discovering
penicillin)
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FDA and Animal Testing
duced to the market
between 1976 to 1985, 52 percent were either withdrawn or
relabeled because of severe side effects not predicted through
animal studies.
Rats and Mice
chemicals found to be cancer-causing in rats were not cancer-
causing in mice.
caused cancer in mice.