A) The caustic, bitter remarks about the company CEO in the newspaper were obviously slanderous.
The word slanderous is defined as malicious and false. Caustic is defined as sarcastic which in turn can be false and similarly, bitter is defined as angry and hurt which in turn can be malicious.
Top of the Food Chain is about how horrible the human race is to one another and to other living beings. Poison was used to get rid of the mosquitoes they had. That didn't work so they brought in geckos, that died from the poison because they ate the mosquitoes. Then, some cats ended up eating the dead geckos which made the cats die. The whole process caused rat infestation. So the people brought in more cats to resolve the issue which made the cycle start all over again multiple times.
Zhu wenli change over the course of the story due to the difficulties that she had experienced when she was sent to the labor camp. Zhu wenli was once a female teacher that used to teach the narrator. Hope this answers the question. Have a nice day.
It has been over 50 years since the United Nations (UN) Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed by most governments in the world and yet the abuses continue to grow.
Freedom of Speech and Human Rights are taken for granted in the west, but recent years have seen conditions deteriorate around the world. As early as 1997 for example, Human Rights conditions were reported to remain unchanged compared to previous years, or in some countries, actually worsen, around the world. In 1998 for example, the UN reported that even though over a hundred governments had agreed to help outlaw some of the worse violations of rights, torture was still on the increase.
As the “New World Order” marched on towards the new century it did not look as bright and cheerful for most peopleas we would have imagined, or hoped, it to be.
With the war on terror triggered by the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001, the situation for human rights seems to have deteriorated, with not only terrorists committing human rights violations, but also powerful governments who are sacrificing rights for security. Amnesty International, in its 2004 report noted the set back for international values of human rights: