mOrE cOngO =)

Oh my gosh, I loved the book Congo! It was amazing, I hated to put it down whenever I had to. I was worried that I wouldn't like reading the book because of the scientific aspects, but since it was about animals I think that's how it held my interest. I used to like monkeys and stuff too, it's crazy how they taught them language and sign language. The whole book made me want to travel to a rainforest sometime in my life.
Now the bad part. I hated the movie Congo! It was horrible, and totally screwed up everything that happened in the book. Main aspects of the book were left out, or completely switched. In the movie the consortium didn't even exist. And the movie also added the extra character from Romania. I think I would've liked the movie if I hadn't read the book but since I did read the book, the movie just seems horrible. But when books get made into movies, the movie ends up usually being horrible in most cases anyway.

Animal Cruelty & Pet Shelters

My final research paper for my Intermediate Composition class is about the links between animal cruelty, child abuse, domestic abuse, and other forms of violence. I find this topic very interesting. When I was younger I used to watch those ASPCA shows all the time. I also used to want to be one of the animal cops like on the show. This paper just amazes me at the different stories I have found of people abusing animals. I don't understand how they are able to do that to such an innocent creature. Now, I'm not all for PETA and whatnot, but I do think animals have rights. To me they were made by God just like us, and deserve equal treatment. I also found it facisnating at how animal cruelty at a young age can lead those people to commit more serious crimes as adults. I'm actually kind of enjoying this paper, just because it's a topic I'm interested in. It's surprising because I normally hate my composition class.