Unit 7 The Dog that Nobody Wanted ? Ⅰ Objective ? Understanding the passions between human being and animals ? Telling stories of King and its narcotic stories ? Aware of difference between straight news and feature news stories ? Ⅱ Time Arrangement ???? Text: 1 hours ???? Discussion: 0.5 hour ???? Reading Sill: 1 hour ? Ⅲ Related Information ????? Animal Passion Man can imagine the suffering of others. That's why he cannot do to others what he would experience as a possibility of suffering himself. Since we do not know how animals experience pain, we have to assume that animals feel the same pain we would under identical circumstances. That is the bottom limit of my ethics. In that sense, nature is permanently pointing us toward our responsibilities. Still, you cannot escape violating these ethics, even if only to survive. Native Americans used to ask their prey animals for forgiveness. Western man has invented original sin for this. I would like to tell something about my relationship with my dog Nouscha now. This "relationship" has shown me that her logic is different from mine. She only knows the logical connective "and". She unequivocally links one event to another. But they must be events that are important to her, and the link must be made in a few seconds. I on the other hand think that there is a law of cause and effect, which is a typically human product. In fact, there is no cause and effect in nature. Everything is as it is. My dog "knows" this better than I do, and that is often the cause of misunderstandings between us. She maintains the sober and consistent philosophy that you have to take things as they come. People usually don't do this, and that is the main cause of their suffering. That is why they invented religion, to make this suffering acceptable. People have an option to suffer. For people, suffering can become a Passion. Animals don't have such freedom. They cannot choose one option and not the other. We have chosen to "associate" with animals in a way that is beneficial to us. Animals haven't chosen this association, and do not benefit from it in any way. That makes us responsible. We should take this responsibility seriously by gaining knowledge about the animals, trying to find out what their interests are and by looking after them as best we can. This means we have to put ourselves in the animal's position; animals cannot put themselves in our position. In that sense our relationship with animals will always be asymmetrical. We have to "give" and in principle animals don't have to give us back anything. Our problem is that humanity as a species has become so successful, that it's starting to work against us. Space on this planet has become limited, and nature is forced back more and more. It seems like a nice option to drive back animals into separate areas, but it won't work at all. In the same way, western man thought to confine native Americans and the aboriginal in reservations, where they could supposedly "preserve their own culture". But we don't know enough about their needs to do justice to every species of animalor plant life. We are not capable of repeating evolution in a short time. The only solution is for man to step back and to realize that his success will be his downfall. Another possibility is that nature is still strong enough to strike back. BSE, climate changes, aids etc. are clear examples that nature isn't just passively letting us violate her. But should we wait for that? Eventually it will turn out that the greatest Passion of all time is the awakening of man: man who finds out that he has paid a terrible price for his success. ? ????? Preview Questions ? What are the obvious features of King? He’s wild-natured; part German shepherd, part husky in blood. He’s not good-looking, with his huge head; stubborn; a little bit nasty. ? ?? What’s the real reason for Gallagher’s leaving canine division? He can’t do without old company Buddy. But as a man he can’t show his true feeling of his emotional dependence on animal. ? Ⅳ Emphasized Points ? Key Words 1.?? words on “dog” in text: canine; kennel 2. cop: police (slang) 3. growl: snarl, grumble 4. mesh: web, net 5. scruffy: nasty, dirty 6. uncanny: mysterious, super-natural 7. kennel division 8. play tug of war 9. motion toward ? ? Ⅴ Text Comprehension ??? Structure Analysis ? Division Paragraph Main Idea  Part I L1-L7 After their first meet, Gallagher brought King home. ?  Part II L18-L24 Memory of his first dog: Buddy . ?  Part III L25-L39 King’s rough training  Part IV L40-L48 King’s first job established his reputation. ?  Part V L49-L64 King’s story of challenge and his achievement. ?  ? ? ??? Comprehension Questions ???? Gallagher said that King “got real spirit”, what does that mean? Comparing with Buddy, King is a little ugly. But inside his bone, he’s irresistible, full of wideness. He doesn’t like being told what to do and he has a bewitched might to perfect Gallagher’s job. ? ???? “You can mold most any dog into a good canine cop. But King? He’s molded my life. He’s truly a once-in-a-lifetime dog.” Explain this sentence. It’s fortunate for Gallagher to hit King at first sight and meanwhile for King to be chosen by Gallagher. They are all once in a while in life to be with the Mr. Right. King changed Gallagher’s gray life by giving him confidence and therefore, shaped his later life. ? ???? Tell by your own words of stories of King’s first task and his big challenge. ? ??? Topic for Discussion ???? Have you ever raised any king of animals or hear about animal’s story? If yes, share your story with the group. 　 ? VI Reading Skill ???? Feature Story in a Newspaper Feature stories offer news of the emotions is the way Jon Franklin, twice a Pulitzer winner, has described. What, then, does a real feature story look like? Consider these as possible characteristics: ??? You can read it, if you want to, in a single sitting on the day the story was published. ??? You can read a short one in five minutes and a long one in 15 minutes. ??? It is NOT a news story but can be inspired by the news. ??? It has, at its heart, human interest. ??? It illuminates lives lived in our time. ??? It takes advantage of an expanded set of language and narrative strategies. ??? It can be written and reported within the normal timeframe of journalistic enterprise. Each one of those characteristics deserves it own essay. But for now, I'll offer a couple of recent examples of the noble feature story from my hometown newspaper, the St. Petersburg Times. ? "Feature Writing" will always be an imprecise mode of expression, with an imprecise history. The book "Best News Stories of 1924" compiled stories in several categories, including Feature Stories, Human Interest Stories, Interviews, and Personality Stories. Most of these stories, from the vantage point of our time, look like features. One additional complicating factor: In the last 30 years, my time frame, news stories have been written with more feature elements, and many features are written right off the news. So the lines between news and features have blurred. In that same time period, many newspapers have dropped their Sunday magazines and converted their general feature sections to cover special topics, everything from food to health to technology. As a result, the habitat for the traditional stand-alone feature has shrunk, and, with it, the habit of reading good stories that used to draw many of us to the newspaper in the first place. 　 ? Ⅶ Homework ??????? Preview Unit 8? ??????? Home reading: Some Sort of Magic