Your assignment is to write two (2) introductory paragraphs:
• one introductory paragraph will be structuredDEDUCTIVELY• one introductory paragraph will be structuredINDUCTIVELYYou will need to establish your opinion, either for or againstsome or all of the contents of the prompt. Then you will need to develop your thesis, develop or limit your thesis, and then youwill need to identify and define the points or ides you believesupport the stance you have taken in your thesis.
There are two possible responses written below that appear to justify some kind of argument. You are welcome to chooseone of these proposed topics, or you may decide to developyour own topic from the reading(s). The choice is yours.
Idea One: Human Rights versus Animal Rights
Take one side or the other of the question of whether animalshave rights. It is a given that the Constitution of the UnitedStates of America guarantees “human” rights, where does itguarantee animal rights? Is it reasonable for Singer and Mason to ask society to begin thinking about guaranteeing animalrights, or is that a silly idea?
Idea Two: Dominion
Read “Genesis,” the first book of the Bible, and decide whether or not the question of eating meat is a religious question andcan, therefore, be decided on religious grounds. Which text in“Genesis” seems to take the side of this question? Are theconflicting texts in “Genesis that make it difficult to knowwhich side of the argument is most sound? And in passage 1:26, what is the intended meaning of the “dominion” in this passage that gives man dominion over animals? How clear is this statement? How ambiguous? How unclear? (You be clear.)
First Person – Do not write in the first person. Writing in thirdperson is preferred, although second person is acceptable in a process analysis paper that “givesdirection.”