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The Zoo Animal ControversyA debate that has recently been brought into focus in the public eye is that of whether wild animals should be kept in aquariums, zoos, and other wildlife sanctuaries. Recent tragedies, like the one at Sea World in Orlando, Florida, where a trainer was dragged to her death by a whale, has increased continued scrutiny on the needs of wildlife and how captivity hinders their physical and psychological well-being. Some argue that animals in captivity provide a number of services for both the animal kingdom and humans. Others contend that the benefits are small or can be achieved by some other means. Indeed, when one examines the opinions in favor of keeping wild animals in captivity, such as in a zoo, one finds that these arguments can be discounted with viable alternatives that are more humane in the treatment of wild animals. In effect, keeping animals in zoos is not justifiable. One reason that zoos and wildlife sanctuaries are so popular is that they feed a major tourist industry wor |
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The Industrial Revolution and AmericaThe Industrial Revolution affected America in many ways, Economically, Socially, politically, and finally morally. The revolution started off in Great Britain in the early 1700's and didn't come to America until 1782 when William Slater brought his experiences to the US. Creating the first Textile Mill in the states, Slater and his crew built the mill in Pawtucket Rhode Island, providing close proximity to a river and waterfall which powered the mill. Eli Whitney an American inventor had a contract with the US to produce ten thousand guns in less than ten years, Whitney quickly discovered the idea of interchangeable parts, if all gun parts were made the same it would take less time. By 1824 the United States adopted the idea of interchangeable parts, doing |
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The Basics of ObamacarePresident Obama's plan to insure healthcare for all marks a positive step for the well – being of our country's citizens. Still, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) also known as ObamaCare has been one of the most controversial topics of our time. In order to understand why this is such a controversial topic we must understand exactly what this act means to the people. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) states that with limited exceptions, every resident of the United States must have health insurance that must meets certain basic requirements. Beginning in 2014, individuals who do not acquire health insurance will be subject to a fine. This fine will rise over time, reaching $895 per person or 2.5 percent of income, whichever is greater, by 2018. Beginning in 2014, each state is to establish an Affordable Insurance Exchange. Separate exchanges are to be established for individuals and small businesses with fewer than 50 employees. The in |
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Free Labor and Slave LaborThe rise of the industrial revolution is a time in our history that has built and shaped our economy and capitalist systems today. A huge part of what and how our economy was built back in the eighteenth century was due to the 'golden age' of slavery. Capitalism and slavery go hand in hand in explaining this time when the 'new world' was beginning to develop, when staple products became high in demand. Slavery of the native people, European people and mainly the African people assisted in the labour problem. Slavery and servitude, although are very sensitive topics to speak on, I believe that this form of immoral labour was highly profitable and an extremely huge reason as to how our economy formed in this time. In the sense of economy, slave labour was profitable based upon labour supply, the contributions to capitalism in the new world and the contributions to agriculture and important staple crops. This was extremely damaging to our perception of human life and how litt |
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Freud and MarxIn the book "Civilization and its Discontents ", Sigmund Freud tries to compare and differentiate the psychoanalysis to other accepted scientific disciplines. But first of all we should establish the key point of the text. The main idea of "Civilization and its Discontents " is that human beings are divided in to three parts: super-ego, ego, and the Id. These three parts are in a constant fight to rule us as human beings, but we should get the three terms in sync in order to live in stability. The super-ego, represents our conscience, telling us what's right from wrong that have been embedded in our minds we were kids. It is the voice of the aspect of our psyche that is looked as the mental cop that policies our thoughts and behaviors. The super-ego controls the actions of the ego in the form of a "conscience" and consequently imposes a sense of guilt and need for self-punishment on the individual (126). Guilt is the super-ego's calling our attention to our own failure. Of all three |
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African American Literature - Freedom and SexualityThe freedom and desire of sexuality is pertinent for humans. It is important that each person has a positive mindset about the subject, but due to racial oppression and slavery, many African American writers have opposing views on sexuality. While some like to flaunt their sexuality, others are more careful to the dangers that it may entail. One of the main highlights of the twentieth century is the Harlem Renaissance, which permitted blacks to flourish in the arts and literature. This led many black writers to freely express their thoughts and ideas on sexuality. A few authors who discuss the various ideas of sexuality in their writings are Gwendolyn Bennett, "To a Dark Girl, " Claude McKay, "America, " Langston Hughes, "Red Silk Stockings," and Harriet Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. " In this essay, I will be discussing the fact that although the topic of sexuality has a restrained history for African Americans, as they were suppressed from freedom of their sexuality |
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Singapore - Tourism and GamblingOver the past decades, Singapore has utilized globalization to the fullest and experienced successful economic bloom. With the government's active support in tourism, the newly built casinos have brought tourist revenue to a stunning value of S$18.8 billion (Citrinot, 2011). Income generated from tourism in the form of foreign exchange earnings will be added to the national income and essentially contributes to the economic growth of Singapore. However, globalization is a double-edged sword; while it helps to boost a prosperous economy, there are insidious social effects that tag along. One of which is excessive gambling. To counter the problem of gambling, the social media could be greatly utilized and social safeguards have to be implemented to prevent addictive gambling. The problem of gambling is not new to Singapore. The Singapore Pools, established since 1968, was formed to tackle illegal gambling. Over the years, more betting channels and gambling systems evolved such a |
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Plato and the Apology of SocratesIn his Apology of Socrates, Plato presents an imaginative version of Socrates' defense against the accusations that he did not believe in the city's gods, brought in new gods, and corrupted the youth. As Plato's Socrates defends himself, he says many things that seem to be bound to antagonize the jury, from reminding the jury early in his defense of how he angered the leading authorities in Athens, to his suggestion toward the end that he should be rewarded rather than punished for his behavior. The question therefore arises: did Socrates deliberately bring down upon himself the verdict of guilty and the punishment of death by antagonizing the jury? I will argue that Plato's Socrates does commit "suicide by jury " because of Socrates' own arrogance and his appearance of being a wise guy, unintentionally, is his own demise. Socrates believes that what he has done is the right thing to do and will not try to defend himself against the right thing. Socrates enjoys taunting the men and ev |
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Summary of Critical ThinkingCritical thinking is important in today's society because critical thinking skills give individuals the ability to not only understand what they have read or been shown, but also to build upon that knowledge without prior guidance. Critical thinking teaches students that knowledge is endless and constructs upon itself. Critical thinking is not merely conditioning memorization or the skill to catch onto lessons automatically. Critical thinking allows individuals the ability to think clearly and rationally and these skills are important for whatever one chooses to do in life. If one decides work in medicine, marketing, education or the legal profession, then critical thinking is clearly significant. Critical thinking skills are not limited to a specific subject area. Individuals who are able to think well and solve problems systematically have an asset that is valuable for any career, as well as survival in society, and making strides towards creating a critical society. Critical th |
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The Scarlet Letter - The Importance of SymbolismHawthorne's novel "The Scarlet Letter" was published in 1850 and when it was first released it did not do well. It was not until later that it became popular and a success as a book. Although Hawthorne wrote many novels, none of them were as successful as "The Scarlet Letter". It was set in Puritan Boston in the early years of a Massachusetts Bay Colony. Many things can affect what happens in a story and one of those things is setting. In the Scarlet Letter, there is the symbolic significance of various settings: the scaffold; the forest, which ironically becomes an oasis of freedom for Hester and Dimmesdale, though everyone else views it as the devil's territory. The scaffold in the town center symbolizes the harsh judgments in Puritan society. Puritan culture exhibits an unforgiving policy for those who do not do what Puritanism says is right and holy. The scaffold is a place in the Scarlet Letter in which Puritan punishment takes its course, through the scorn |
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1776 - View of the American Revolution1776, written by David McCullough, studies the rich history of the American Revolution from multiple points of view of the war, weaving together an epic that has stood the test of time. Though the book flows in a chronological order, McCullough focuses mainly on General George Washington and his colleagues Nathaniel Greene and Henry Knox, who, without their bravery, intellect, and perseverance, would have led the Continental Army to ruin. By focusing on the soldiers, the very heart of the Continental and British Armies, as well as the people on the top, like King George III as well as George Washington and crew, McCullough makes the story of the American Revolution both intensely human and passionate. The soldiers of both the British and the Continental armies are given strong backgrounds that show both sides as human, as well as giving the reader a reason for how the Continentals eventually won, despite the Brits seemingly displaying every advantage. Though it might not have seemed i |
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Concepts of Beauty in LiteratureHave people become blind of beauty? Or too caught up? In Elaine Scarry's reading On Beauty and Being Just, she argues that our responses to beauty are perceptual events of reflective significance for the individual and for society. Impulsively, beauty indeed catches our attention and brings copes of itself into being (Scarry). It brings the act of replication into existence and can "distract" us – it is inevitable. "The beautiful thing seems – is – incomparable, unprecedented; and that sense of being without precedent conveys a sense of 'newness' or 'newbornness' of the entire world. It is the very way the beautiful thing fills the mind and breaks all frames that gives the 'never before in the history of the world' feeling" (Scarry). Scarry's evidence show that we need to be proactive in looking for beauty and educating ourselves. In other words, beauty draws us toward a greater concern for justice. Things come in and out of foc |
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Feminist Mores in Charlotte Bronte's Jane EyreThe women who make history are not the ones who are pliant, become who others want them to or by take the easiest path. The women who make history are strong. They stand up for what they believe in and have sound morals that they adhere to. In addition, the women who make history are the ones that change the standard, and break tradition in order to pave a path that is brighter for other women to follow. However, becoming the woman who is strong enough to make these groundbreaking decisions is difficult due to the feminist mores that society has placed on them. Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre is a feminist bildungsroman set in the early 1800s. During this time,women were expected to serve as model figures of domestic society, accept their social standing with motherhood as their greatest goal. In Jane Eyre, Jane refuses to accept the conventions of the Victorian woman and makes a name for herself by her own means-through fiction. In Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, Bronte uses Jane as |
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Building a Strong FamilyIn people lives, forming a common family is easy but creating a complete family is important. Meanwhile, it is true that each member in the family generally behaves with different characteristics depending on their age, gender, personality and life experiences. Apparently, strong families are playing a significant role in the society these days by showing the families specific roles, functions and interaction among family members. Likewise, to improve family relationship is one of the most essential element to shape family development and is also a challenge every family faces. In fact, there are three main effective techniques for people carry out by improving communication, sharing love and care, as well as showing trust and respect which are strongly suggested here in the purpose of strengthening a solid relationship in the family. Being a part of a family under the same roof, it is inevitable to get along very well with family members. Meanwhile, there are few effective sugges |
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Family Values - True Wealth in Life"A happy family is but an earlier heaven". Quotations like these remind me that I am currently residing in a temporary heaven. Support, respect, family time, faith, honesty and humor all are amazing qualities instilled in me by the gracious and amazing people I call my family. So many stories and situations come to mind where I was taught a lesson about one of these values: Times arise in my memory bank when I sit back and realize the magnitude of the impact that they have had on me. It is these stories that make me who I am and what I represent. When my brother, Tony, went to Trine University in 2011 to pursue a Business degree and play football, we were all very excited as a family. When football started up for him, we were at every single game and cheered him on; thus, support has never even been a question in the Miranda household. When I am on the football field or baseball field, I never have to worry about a family member not being there. What a wonderful feeling to k |
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Concepts of Class in As I Lay DyingThe main interest Iv'e had with this class is the behavior of someone inside a particular class. How they act different or others look differently upon them just based on their social class. In this semester though we've only gotten brief glimpses into the lives of different people so we never really saw this on a large scale. That was until reading As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner. The story of the Bundrens really displays the affects of a social class on a large scale. Not only showing their actions but also their emotions and beliefs that are all based on the social class they come from. As it regards to the Bundrens, if one trait could be aspired to the entire Bundren family it would be that they are poor. Despite all their differences individually, as a collective they are poor. Although this common trait is materialistic it somehow controls the family physically all in a similar manner. The actions of the Bundren family is a direction causation of their social class. The negati |
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The Fracking ArgumentDiscussion Fracking is a concern that can ruin our environment. Americans need to stand up against fracking and demand safer alternative forms of energy. Fracking is a poorly regulated way to obtain natural gas as we transition from dirty fossil fuels. Also, fracking can cause health problems because of the toxic chemicals that leak into ground water during the fracking process. This can have a big effect on those that rely on wells for drinking water. However, with the detractors that fracking has, there are those that support it. Fracking can help create jobs in the area where it is taking place, and when done responsibly is a safe process. There is also a new alternative called hydrofracking which can help reduce environmental harm. It uses liquefied propane gel instead of water to help release the natural gas (Nearing, Brino 2011). What exactly is fracking? Hydraulic fracturing commonly referred to as fracking, extracts natural gas and oil from rock that lies very deep underneath |
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America and the Incorporation of the Bill of RightsThe United States Constitution was one of the most revolutionary documents of all time. It was originally intended to apply only to the federal government, while the individual states would have their own sets of laws that they would follow. However over time, the Constitution began to apply to the states as well as the federal government. Looking back at what changed is a rather long process, but an important one as it is quite possibly the most important legal development in the history of the United States government. The most famous section of the United States Constitution is the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the Constitution, and mainly focus on the civil liberties of citizens. When we talk about incorporation of the amendments of the Constitution, we are mainly talking about the Bill of Rights. Incorporation is the name given to the process of applying each of those amendments to the states. There are two different forms of incorporation, s |
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Children of Narcissistic ParentsChildren of Narcissistic Parents The Dilemma of the Golden Child and Scapegoat It is very difficult for a child with a narcissistic parent to function very well in life. The children of narcissists have an especially pronounced dilemma; they lack the proper coping mechanisms and quite often the necessary resources to deal with their narcissistic parent(s). Often being involuntarily assigned the role of a Golden Child or Scapegoat, a child with a narcissistic parent is at a marked disadvantage from birth. In most instances, to rub salt into the pre-existing wound, they are denied the thing that most children should be recipients of at that birth, a parent's unconditional love ("Narcissism ", n.d.). . Narcissistic parent(s) have strong tendencies to be stifling in certain areas, and completely neglectful in others, which reinforces the inconsistencies that their children suffer in most every other area of their lives. Often a narcissistic parent will seem to be a loving and considera |
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Children and NeglectAlexandra Carpio Psychology 101 Professor. Macaluso Children that experience maltreatment during early development have been shown to experience a wide range of social, emotional and psychological sequelae (Kaufman et al., 1989). The research from Flynn et al. (2014) focused on the effects of maltreatment throughout early-mid and mid-late adolescence. The study focused on low self-worth, low relationship quality, internalization and externalization of symptoms (i.e. depression and physical aggression, respectively) within a developmental-organizational context. Developmental-organizational perspective encompasses the development of human behavior throughout various stages of life, particularly in adolescence. Childhood maltreatment includes a broad range of types, including emotional and physical; studies have concluded that forms of maltreatment result in low self-worth and cause children to be prone to have poor relationships throughout their lives. The researchers hypothesized t |
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The Brooklyn BridgeThe Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City and is one of the oldest bridges of either type in the United States. Completed in 1883, it connects the boroughs of Manhattan andBrooklyn by spanning the East River. It has a main span of 1,595.5 feet (486.3 m), and was the first steel-wire suspension bridge constructed. It was originally referred to as the New York and Brooklyn Bridge and as the East River Bridge, but it was later dubbed the Brooklyn Bridge, a name coming from an earlier January 25, 1867, letter to the editor of theBrooklyn Daily Eagle,[7] and formally so named by the city government in 1915. Since its opening, it has become an icon of New York City, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964[6][8][9] and a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1972.[10] The Brooklyn Bridge was initially designed by German immigrantJohn Augustus Roebling, who had previously designed a |
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The Laws of Human RightsHuman rights are legal obligations owed by states and public authorities to everyone. This means that governments and public authorities must act in a way that respects human rights. Governments must also pass laws to ensure that individuals respect each other's human rights. Every human being has human rights regardless of their particular situation or characteristics. The human rights of people in the UK are legally enforceable through the Human Rights Act 1998 (see below). The Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) incorporates the rights found in the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law. History of the European Convention on Human Rights and Human Rights Act The European convention on human rights is an international treaty which protects the human rights and fundamental freedom in Europe. Drafted in 1950 by the then council of Europe after the second world war and coming into play September 3, 1953, it contains a total of 18 Articles and six Protocols and gives practical form t |
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Dark Imagery in Heart of DarknessAt the beginning of the book, the doctor makes a peculiar request: to measure Marlow's skull "in the name of science ". His significance in this act changes from literal at that point in the novel to figurative when taken in context with the later events in Heart of Darkness. When the doctor asks in Marlow has a family history of mental illness, there is immediate foreshadowing about the madness that is to come in the novel. Characters such as Fresleven and Kurtz entered Africa as rational, decent civilians underwent significant psychological distress during their time there. When the doctor says that "those men never come back ", he means it in both a literal and a figurative sense "they physically never return to his office, but also that they don't come home in the same state of mind as they had left in. The doctor himself admits that these men never come back, so he's never able to re-measure skulls in order to track a change or do anything "in the name of science ". He is me |
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Beowulf and the Three MonstersIn the book Beowulf, the hero Beowulf managed to kill three fierce monsters: Grendel, Grendel's mother, and the dragon. However, the three battles differed from each other as Beowulf had been through more, becoming older, weaker and more prudent. The last battle against the dragon led to Beowulfs death. It is a symbol of the fall of the age of hero, the spirit of facing death with bravery. Unlike the battle with Grendel when Beowulf was still young and ambitious, the battle with the dragon showed Beowulfs weakness, discreetness and courage. In his fight with Grendel, Beowulf alone used his bare hands to tear off Grendels arm without hesitation. It was a victory without suspense. However, facing the dragon, which was actually weaker than Grendel, Beowulf wore arms with a huge shield and even took eleven warriors with him. He was an old man then, unable to attack impulsively and arrogantly any more. Life experience taught him prudence, and he knew his death was coming. In the battle, Beowulf even failed to use his sword, and ended with incurable wounds on himself. Time and |
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Somatic Cell Nuclear TransferThe U.S Food and Drug Administration (2014), defines a somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), cloning, as the method in which organisms are asexually produced from the cell of another organism creating an identical copy of the donor cells DNA. According to the University of Utahs genetic science learning center (2014), cloning technology has been around for over a century with the first demonstrations of artificial embryo twinning dating back to the year 1885. Biotechnology scientist, Xiangzhong Yang (2006) stated in an article he wrote on nuclear transfer cloning that in 1997 Steen Willadsen produced the first successfully cloned mammal with Dolly the sheep by somatic cell nuclear transfer. This experiment proved that mammals created by somatic cell nuclear transfer could become fully developed (Genetic Science Learning Center, 2014). The decades |
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