Monday, November 16, 2009

Blog #6

Paraphrase:

"Feinberg (2002) explains that these statutes create a legal responsibility for people not to maltreat animals but do not clearly assign rights to the animals themselves."

Since this essay discusses about the questions of animal rights and emphasizes that animals should be given protections from human harm; this source clearly supports the writer’s idea about animals should be given more rights and have more protection. This paraphrase appears in the introduction of the essay, so it provides the reader a general idea of the whole essay.

Quotation:

“No legal rights have been granted to animals”

This quotation also appears in the introduction of the essay “Radical But Right”. This is one very crucial supporting idea of the essay. The writer chose to directly quote this sentence instead of paraphrasing it because it perfectly fits the writer’s idea so no change need to be made. As what I mentioned before, this research appears in the introduction of the essay, so it gives the readers a broad idea of what the essay is talking about.