... the Biological Diversity Bill, 2000, the Patents (Second Amendment) Bill, 1999 and the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Act, 2001. The knowledge holder may be a source of biological material (where the medicinal plant itself is obtained) or a source of knowledge only (where information as to the properties of a plant is sufficient for research purposes as the plant is available ... from other sources), or both (where a plant sample as well as the information relating thereto is needed). Where biological material is sought to be obtained, the main protective framework is...

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... her career as a student becomes torturous. By using the always-expanding resources of the world-wide-web, students can be given cheaper instructional books that will give them all their material in one place with updated content being added in near real time too. This is crucial to ensuring the contents of the subject matter reach the students, all while doing ... that weight the equivalent of carrying around a laptop, can be potentially interactive and result in happier, healthier and more educated students that have actually participated in their understanding of the material. Fritz M...

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... . To elucidate these points, Eighner notes that he has come to two conclusions after ten years of dumpster diving. The first is that there is no value in the abstract. Material things that most individuals collect and put in their homes have no inherent value to the process of life. Second, Eighner has come to conclude that ... material possessions are transient while ideas are more transcendental. As such, the author believes that material possessions essential have no value. What Eighner argues is that a society that is driven by materialism has essentially no meaning. Further unless i...

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... Farm by George Orwell, the story of the pigs and other farm animals ironically represents the corruption found within a society based on equality. The novella satirizes the idea that personal, material gain leads to ones happiness. Here Orwell shows that society thrives on the competitive nature of people using capital incentive. Therefore members of the society spend their entire existence to ... try to make money or receive a material, tangible reward and shown when confronting a horse about the purpose he finds in life "Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than just ribb...

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... -ward rich's, none so rich inward" (Thoreau 15). Through this he is stating that the true luxuries and wealth of life are not so much in the form of material things but are gained through living simply and disregarding most man made necessities. He doesn't mean that we should completely give up everything we own but more of the false ... luxuries of civilization and remove ones self from the complicated ways of modern day society. If Thoreau was alive today, he would be horrified at how attached we are to material possessions. The world that surrounds us today has transformed into a hurr...

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... three and is often referred to as the argument from affinity. The theory differentiates between what is immaterial, invisible, and immortal and what is material, visible, and perishable; with the soul being immaterial and the body being material. He believed that the soul, once the body has died, will go to the world of forms. However if the soul had been unpurified ... ...

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... we live, but also the very goals and desires that control the trajectory of our lives and everyday behavior. Mass production of advertisements and commercial imagery represent the ideology American material culture, tapping into the depths of desire for the typical American, like Bernays' women and their desire for equality. Since the id is the secret driver of desires that animates ... of the object. More than clothing, soda, and cars are being sold. A life, goal, and dream are being sold: values of the id. Therefore, advertising reflects way more than mere material values; it expresse...

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... caught up in the pressures of trying to conform to the expectations of society. Their personalities therefore change, almost to the point of non-recognition. In their quest to achieve material things, a modern man in today's society misses or forgets the essence of who he really is. Rousseau states, "Since men enjoyed very great leisure, they used it to procure many ... only do they make man less sufficient, but new discoveries or innovations can also bring about new disease, ailments, and bad habits. Rousseau claims that the modern man's quest for material power, or virtue, creates ine...

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... that have their whole lives ahead of them. American society- seems to be on top of teenagers and preventing child porography concerned with preventing child pornography and protecting children from material with sexual content sets the scene for children to be sexually exploited in prison...

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... the soul in each of ourselves. A persistent tapping on the shoulder, so to speak, has been felt in all of our minds at some point. This force, invisible to the material world, has the ability to make itself known, when we feel something is off, missing, or almost forgotten. The root of our deepest problems and detachment from life, stem from ... ...

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... life where self-discipline is the key word. Monks for males and nunes for females abstain from all the pleasures in life, they start by shaving their head, abandoning any material possession, and also for those affiliated with the Mahyana branch of Buddhism to follow a strict dietary plan. This state of deprivation allows devotees to focus on their spiritual goals and ... ...

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... zygotes. Some variants of Christianity deem IVF licit however based on a strict set of guidelines. For example Orthodoxy and Anglicanism both deem IVF licit in cases where; both parents genetic material is used, there is no surrogate used, no third party sperm or ova and no wasted or terminated embryos. Christianity and the secular society face many bioethical issues which are ... ...

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... to struggle death and support immortality. Means of technology these days develop many circumstances to avoid the idea of death or to make life longer. First, cloning of genetically identical material could one day provide away to generate cells, body parts or even entire bodies, but it also bring with it some almost insuperable ethical problem. Therefore, some people support this ... ...

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... trying to change the ways of nature through the pursuit of knowledge may become beyond destructive. Abusing one's gift of knowledge further extracts the excellence within, often taking away the material aspects in life. Frankenstein labored to seek pride in his own knowledge by creating something out of humanity, which was irrelevant. A person must not seek to impress others by using ... ...

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... lonely. My contention is that as rates of consumerism rise, the number of people content or happy with their quality of life declines. I would argue that people hide behind their material goods, trying to solve their problems by purchasing things, things they probably do not really need and things that will not make them happy. Consumerism, in my mind, breeds want ... ...

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... existence of complex molecules. Continuing upward in the hierarchy of biological organization, complex molecules cluster together into organelles to form part of a larger structure. These include a nucleus that carries genetic material, mitochondria that generate energy, ribosomes that manufacture proteins, and a thin lipid membrane that surrounds the cell. These numerous organelles in turn cluster together according to their function and form part ... ...

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... the Archbishop whenever a symbol is deciphered or an allegory understood, whenever the surface of present events is drawn aside to reveal a sacred myth. In an early typical narrative crisis the material present gives up all significance for Latour: "The Passion of Jesus became for him the only reality" (20). Signposts to that paradigmatic Christian story abound throughout the novel: the "cruciform ... ...

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... areas. Each group utilized a meter tape to measure distances from an arranged starting point. The ground underneath each meter mark was examined and notations were made stating what type of material was present. The choices for the various types of ground cover included rock, bare soil, dead wood, leaf litter, living plants and trash. After one hundred meters of ground was ... ...

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... it scares me when he says that religion will eventually and inevitably disappear. This especially scary because you can see religion disappearing slowly in our world today, where money and material wealth is becoming more important than enjoying a life in any form of spiritual way. I just hope that if religion ever disappears from our civilization I am not around. This is the ... ...

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Genetic manipulation has to do with rearranging, adding, or deleting genetic material for the purpose of bringing about desired changes in living organism. Since the seventies scientists are able to improve and extend life by genetic manipulation. Many scientists believe that throughout ... ...

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... process of bio-engineered foods can trigger an irreversible impact on the ecosystem. During the progression of genetically fixing foods, a genetically fixed crops or animal may unintentionally leak the genetic material to the environment, or carry the amended hereditary information to its offspring and thus hybridizes the natural breed. This contamination will eventually results in an extinction that can not be ... ...

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