Identify areas for improvement, where appropriate, and recommend improvements.Week 8 Peer Review 2 SubmissionPeer Review AssignmentPeer reviews should provide feedback to a peer on the criteria expected in the paper.
Week 8 Peer Review 2 SubmissionPeer Review AssignmentPeer reviews should provide feedback to a peer on the criteria expected in the paper. The Feedback Form is located at the bottom. Follow these instructions:1. Use the essay paper below (Assignment 3) complete the Peer Review Feedback Form.2. Comment on all criteria, noting strengths and / or areas for improvement on the feedback form.As you read the paper, address these criteria:3. Provide positive feedback, where appropriate, on the criteria.4. Identify areas for improvement, where appropriate, and recommend improvements.The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:o Recognize the elements and correct use of a thesis statement.o Recognize transitional words, phrases, and sentences.o Identify effective sentence variety and word choice.o Identify positive qualities and opportunities for improvement in writing samples.o Analyze the rhetorical strategies of ethos, pathos, logos in writing samples and for incorporation into essays or presentations.o Correct grammatical and stylistic errors consistent with Standard Written Englisho Recognize how to organize ideas with transitional words, phrases, and sentences.
Assignment Three: Government Regulation on Pit Bulls: A Crime or a Punishment?
Prepared by: Allison Rada
• Breed Specific Legislation (BSL) is one that concerns dog victims, dog owners, and communities alike. For years the media has brought attention to the violent acts of pit bulls and similar breeds. Recently, certain states have enacted BSL in order to protect their communities. However, victims of dog attacks are no longer the only victims as BSL has gone into effect. Families have lost their own dogs, members of their family, to euthanasia because they are deemed “dangerous.” State or local governments should not enact different laws regarding certain animals as the breed is not responsible for the acts but the owners and behaviors.• BSL is a statute or regulation that is directed toward one or more specific breeds that are known as “dangerous” (Weiss, 2011). The first form of regulation started in 1980 when Florida’s City Commission passed an ordinance requiring pit bull owners to complete registration forms and prove public liability insurance of $25,000 (Weiss, 2011). Four years later, a New Mexico town and Cincinnati, Ohio passed regulation regarding pit bulls (Weiss, 2011). Today over 700 U.S. cities have enacted BSL (“State-by-State,” n.d.). Pit bulls are descendants of an English bull-baiting dog, a dog bred to bite and face larger animals; once baiting large animals was banned people started dog fighting instead (“Pit Bull Cruelty,” n.d.). The pit bulls that were not used for dog fighting were the perfect family pet due to their affection and gentle demeanor with children (“Pit Bull Cruelty,” n.d.). Though dog fighting is a felony offense in all 50 states, it still has a strong subculture; owners will prepare their pit bulls for dog fighting by encouraging aggression on other dogs and animals as well as starving and beating them to encourage aggression giving them the reputation of being “inherently dangerous” (“Pit Bull Cruelty,” n.d.). Animals are a product of their environment, so being raised to behave in a certain manner is the result of the owner and behavior rather than the individual animal. Pit bulls that are not raised for dog fighting are gentle creatures and service dogs. If the pit bulls are banned then the same individuals will find another breed to train to behave in the same demeanor.• The BSL was enacted due to specific occurrences of foul pit bull behaviors. Almost seven years ago, Dominic Solesky was mauled by a pit bull in the alley behind his rowhouse in Towson, Maryland causing trauma surgery at John Hopkins Hospital and a year of rehabilitation (Knezevich, 2013). As the family was in court for five years trying to get restitution for Dominic’s injuries, legislators in the House and Senate set liability for all dog owners if the victim were under thirteen years old; this has caused apartment complexes to choose between their pets and their homes, homeowners associations drawing up policies to ban pit bulls, and shelters seeing an increase in pit bulls (Knezevich, 2013). In 2011, a pregnant woman died due to blood loss and shock, one of her pit bull pets being the sole attacker; her husband who arrived home from work to find his wife unconscious on the floor stated that he doesn’t blame the dog and plans on burying his wife with their dog’s cremated remains in her casket and further went out to say it was not the breed’s fault (“Dog Bite Fatality,” 2011). Though in these situations a pit bull was the attacker, from 1965 until 2001 there have been at least 36 different breeds responsible for a fatal attack; when taking the registered dog population into consideration with the number of dog bites, pit bulls actually came in at the bottom of the list at .0012 percent (“The Truth,” n.d.). The American Canine Temperament Testing Society conducted testing on several different breeds and the results determined that pit bulls achieved a passing rating of 83.9 percent, a rating higher than Beagles at 78.2 percent and Golden Retrievers at 83.2 percent (“The Truth,” n.d.). These statistics are further proof that the breed is not responsible for the attacks, but the behaviors taught on to them as well as their owners.• Pit bulls have such a poor reputation, one would not believe them to also be service dogs or helpful to people. In Prince George’s County in Maryland where a breed ban exists, last spring Danielle Guglieimi was told she had two days to send her service pit bull Storm elsewhere (Greenwood, 2013). Sparing her pit bull’s life, she did just that. After she suffered injuries from falls while without her service dog, a judge ruled that the American Disabilities Act takes precedence over the breed ban, so service dogs in that county are not included in the ban (Greenwood, 2013).
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