... physically to tell him , this also shows how dependent they are on technology . If you see throughout the movie they use telephones to communicate for example when Trinity is escaping the agents in the first scene she makes use of a telephone to escape . The telephone is a very important part of ... were very dependent on technology and that the Matrix is also technology and that the whole spaceship they lived on had a lot of technology , for example the computer that ran the power of the whole spaceship. The games like Kung fu etc. Throughout the movie everything , including the space...

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... (Kuhse 1998, p. 373), then death, in this instance, cannot be considered more evil than living. This can be proven in Kuhse's famous truck driver example where a truck driver and his co-driver have an accident in which the driver becomes trapped in the wreckage and starts to burn. The driver begs his ... about to drown his cousin sees him slip and fall into the water. Jones stands by as he watches his cousin drown. In this parallel example there was no difference between the two situations apart from one cousin being killed and one cousin being allowed to die. According to Nesbitt's diff...

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... 2012, 630). Extrinsic racists will believe that some races will have different advantages and disadvantages due to what race they are part of. For example, extrinsic racists will argue that many African Americans are less intelligent from other groups of races because they are simply African Americans. On the ... ). The main idea the intrinsic racists hold is that they neglect the deep difference of intelligence, courage, or honesty between various races. For example, many white Americans believe that they are morally superior to other racial groups because they are simply white. They ju...

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... creations" (Transcendent man). What Kurzweil means by "technology will eventually achieve singularity" is that eventually an artificial intelligence or A.I. will have a conscious such as a human does. A perfect example can be taken from the movie "I, Robot" which the robot thinks for it self and basically is aware of its surroundings. Although with nanotechnology, we could manipulate the nanobots ... from all sentient being. With Transhumanism, advances in genetic engineering will allow humans to tinker with the biological genetic codes and DNA to eliminate any pain receptors, nerves, e...

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... same story for people getting judged. Ethnicity is a term which represents social groups with a shared history, sense of identity, geography, and cultural roots which may occur despite racial difference. For example, a person's ethnicity can be defined as Irish, German, Italian, Jewish, Puerto Rican, etc. Ethnicity and race are different because race determines the color of your skin whereas ethnicity determines ... individual, a group, a race, or their supposed characteristics. Prejudice is usually referred to as a negative attitude, especially when it is a hatred or intolerance for cer...

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... " or "wrong", one needs to calculate if the result of the action consequently increased the happiness of the majority of the people. For example, he states, "a sacrifice which does not increase, or tend to increase, the sum total of happiness, is considered as wasted" (P. 25). ... of the two extremes, can arrive with reason. Happiness is explained as the goal or end for individuals as they complete their functions with virtues. For example, a function of a chef is to make good food, which makes him or her "a good chef." He also asserts that happiness is ... be self-sufficient and incapabl...

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... that despite the long geographical distances, some things are similar everywhere (Singer, Erickson& Wiley InterScience, 2011). The book further draws attention to the challenges affecting women in the society. For example, the author claims that as she was trying to learn more about Monique, she discovered that Monique had some problems within her marriage, which caused her much unhappiness. After interacting ... follow by usurping cultural control behind the closed doors (Association of American Geographers, 2001). Remarkably, the commonly marital relationship that the author discovered ...

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... of the god on the child or giving the child a special religious name. Rites of entry into adulthood also connect the individual to the sacred tradition of the culture. For example, in Buddhist Thailand, young men become sons of Buddha through a ceremony in which they reenact key parts of the historical Buddha's search for enlightenment (see Theravada Buddhism). In Jewish bar ... blessed bread and wine, which represent the body and blood of Christ) for the first time. Weddings and funerals are two other ceremonies of passage laden with sacred meaning. For example, in tribal societies, re...

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... for the mental ability of humans, consisting of assigning things and events certain meanings that cannot be grasped with the senses. Articulate speech is a good example. The meaning of the word dog is not inherent in the sounds themselves; it is assigned, to the sounds by human beings. Holy water, ... relationship between culture and topographic area suggests the concept of culture type, such as hunting and gathering or a special way of hunting. For example, the use of the horse in bison hunting in the Plains or the method of hunting of sea mammals among the Eskimo; pastoral cultures .....

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... anthromorphic as opposed to spiritual personas. These are exemplified by the patriarchal organisation of the divine family and the frequent use of patronymics, for example "Athene, daughter of Zeus". This patriarchal ordering of Gods is based upon the Homeric society in which children were known as "daughter/son ... view with each god or goddess having specific roles attributed to him/her. However, despite the gods often being instigators of events; for example the Trojan war- Aphrodite appears to cause it, but ultimately the war is caused by Paris who steals Helen by abusing Menelaos" h...

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... plant and animal species. If a species does not have the natural genetic protection against particular pathogens, an introduced disease can have severe effects on that specie. For example, rabies and canine distemper viruses are presently destroying carnivore populations in East Africa (Campbell). Domestic animals often transmit the diseases that affect wild populations; demonstrating again how ... affected multiple terrestrial and aquatic species, and limited distributions are frequently a consequence of other threats; populations confined to few small areas due to of habitat loss, for...

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... one among many possible sequences or states of a system, such as a sequence of alphabetical letters, auditory sounds, binary digits, or DNA bases. Information is communicated when another system (for example, a reader, listener, computer or living cell) responds selectively -- that is, when information is coded, transmitted, and decoded. The meaning of the message is dependent on a wider context ... state have identical energy. God does not have to intervene as a physical force pushing electrons around, but instead actualizes one of the many potentialities already present -- determinin...

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... anthromorphic as opposed to spiritual personas. These are exemplified by the patriarchal organisation of the divine family and the frequent use of patronymics, for example "Athene, daughter of Zeus". This patriarchal ordering of Gods is based upon the Homeric society in which children were known as "daughter/son ... view with each god or goddess having specific roles attributed to him/her. However, despite the gods often being instigators of events; for example the Trojan war- Aphrodite appears to cause it, but ultimately the war is caused by Paris who steals Helen by abusing Menelaos" h...

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... struggle for personal authenticity and this personal authenticity requires the integration of life and death. In our society, we tend to fracture people into labels for the sake convenience; for example, the economically disadvantaged person living on the street becomes labeled as a "bum" or "loser" instead of human being who is suffering from the social condition that they are being subjected ... beings. These labels help to create the spirit of abstraction and there is nothing more evident of the spirit of abstraction then the technology that encompasses our daily lives. For example, ...

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... was held in 1912 in London. Rather than being a fringe movement, it was hailed by a number of luminaries of the day. For example, Charles Darwin's son presided, while Winston Churchill led the British delegation. Among the Americans present were the presidents of Harvard and Stanford universities and ... many of these same subjects are being addressed with therapeutic abortions and genetics counseling. In America, breeding for a better race was supported. For example, the Pioneer Fund, an American eugenics foundation, proposed that American pilots should be encouraged to have more child...

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... was held in 1912 in London. Rather than being a fringe movement, it was hailed by a number of luminaries of the day. For example, Charles Darwin's son presided, while Winston Churchill led the British delegation. Among the Americans present were the presidents of Harvard and Stanford universities and ... many of these same subjects are being addressed with therapeutic abortions and genetics counseling. In America, breeding for a better race was supported. For example, the Pioneer Fund, an American eugenics foundation, proposed that American pilots should be encouraged to have more child...

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... that the Earth is becoming significantly warmer, it has been shown that human effects can alter the Earth's climate at a local level. An example is desertification, the process in which arid, infertile conditions arise in a region that previously was not desert. This is known to have occurred ... or element of the environment becomes unavailable, human inventiveness and problem-solving skill will compensate for this by substituting something else. The historic example usually cited is the substitution of coal for wood as the principal fuel of Western Europe, after the forests there becam...

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... globalization have been deemed as the three main antecedent that influence culture Religion has rigid boundaries that cultural values constantly transgress. Infact even at times religion crosses religion boundaries for example the practice of polygamy is allowed in Islam (up till 4 wives) but in our eastern culture the news of a person walking the isle the second time let alone fourth time ... rejoicing over alcohol had to be kept aside in Pakistani culture die to Islamic beliefs. But religion is a very small factor in cultural formation. India and Pakistan stand as prime example. Even ...

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... ."(16) All the classical Western virtues, Dewey holds, are instantiations of one or more of these four dispositions that he proposes as the "cardinal virtues of moral theory."(17) For example, integrity, love, and justice are forms of wholeheartedness and amenability to practical wisdom. Courage is wholeheartedness, amenability to practical wisdom, and energy - and so on. The shortcomings of this simplified ... tool since it can not be used to distinguish between particular virtues. Third, it can not even be used to distinguish between virtues and vices, since many vices - cruelty for ex...

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... strength and quickness ready, [Rikki] must keep himself thin", thus showing that Ricki can think logically enough that he can stop himself from becoming fat. Another example is of a dog named Teem who learns from his aunt that it is bad to bit sheep if he is a sheep dog because if he were to ... examples showed that by using their intelligence to plan ahead or overcome obstacles, animals can be put on the same intellectual scale as Man. The second example of animals showing that they can be just as intelligent as Man is through the intelligence shown by animals that live by codes of cond...

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... to animal experimentation, and different methods of animal experimentation. There are some advantages to animal experimentation. Conditions for the animals are getting much more humane (Newscientist.com). For example, A science major, Emma Hockly, and her team of students from Oxford University studied enrichment on mice with Huntington's disease under three conditions: large cage with nine other mice ... research to (Newscientist.com). Human reactions to drugs can't be predicted by animal research due to such differences (PETA). No animal reacts exactly the same way to treatment (PETA)....

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... (U.S. Food and Drug Administration). The reason for that is very simple, animals and humans have great differences in biology and genetics. Mice, for example, have millions of genetic differences between their own species, consequently, the test results vary from mouse to mouse. These results are so diverse, that ... sound fascinating that an animal shares almost all of their DNA with humans, but that is not as extraordinary as someone might think. Bananas, for example, share half of their DNA with humans, and yet, people do not use that fact to express how human beings and bananas are ...

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... this should be done at the earliest possible stage. Furthermore, Muslims regard abortion as wrong and haram, in other words it is forbidden. For example, if a woman becomes pregnant due to committing adultery or purely being careless, she cannot abort her child simply to avoid shame or hide her ... are exceptions to this general rule because there are circumstances in which abortion may be necessary. But even these exceptions have very strict limitations. For example, if a child has serious deformities, some may say the pregnancy can be terminated; however this must be done before the s...

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... the past. Displacement A meaningful definition of displacement is when the language is used to denote a context taken from a present situation of the speaker. For example, it allows human to make their stories and also think about their future. It also enables humans to refer to things that are not seen in their ... bee, there is an exception because they can exhibit displacement of a limited type which tells workers were it has found nectar (Nieh and Roubik, 1998). This example proves that bees have a low level of displacement as they use dances to identify the workers about a place of...

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... of understanding of emotions and habits different species may possess. People can act in the wrong way even out of their best intentions. For example, there is no consistency in the behavior of vegetarians who discriminate animals and creatures that are not animals on the basis of the arbitrary ... which Herzog identifies as, "a club that outnumbers current vegetarians in the United States by a ratio of three to one," is a stunning example of the lack of responsibility on the part of people who believed themselves to be committed to saving animals' lives by not eating them (242). & ... o...

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