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Cathy's Sharp Teeth
728 wordsSteinbeck's East of Eden In the novel, East of Eden by John Steinbeck, Catherine Ames is one of the main characters. She is introduced to the reader as a monster and as time goes on, she possesses both monster like and animal qualities. As Catherines her gets older and wiser, she gets more evil and displays her monster and animals like characteristics. She knows she is powerful and indestructible. She has manipulated and tricked many people her life causing them to go to the extreme... death. Ca...
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University Of Melbourne
331 wordsSinger, Peter (1946-), Australian philosopher and bioethicist. Born in Melbourne, Australia, Singer studied at the University of Melbourne and at the University of Oxford, in England. He began his career lecturing ethics at Oxford from 1971 to 1973. He subsequently worked at various universities in North America and Australia. In 1977 he became a professor of philosophy at Monash University, in Melbourne. Singer also became closely associated with the university's Centre for Human Bioethics, whi...
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Trina Leaves McTeague
1,554 wordsMcTeague, or Animalism - Unpublished The last decade of the twentieth century in America saw a rise in programs for human's "self betterment". A popular form of betterment is that of the inner animal. Interest in Native American animal mysticism, vision quests, and totem animals have increased dramatically in the past few years. No forms of media have been spared; Calvin Klein's supermodels come on during sitcom commercials to tell viewers they need to be a beast, or to get in touch with their a...
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Animals And Machines From Humans
2,148 wordsMovies and novels such as "Planet of the Apes" and 2001: A Space Odyssey are called Science Fiction because they portray situations that seem extremely unrealistic concurrent with contemporary philosophy. "Planet of the Apes" depicts a world where apes rule while humans are subjected to servitude and confinement. These apes speak intelligibly and are human-like in appearance and behavior. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, the highly advanced computer, HAL 9000, an acronym for "Heuristically programmed A...
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Structure On The Chacma Baboon
396 wordsThe chacma baboon, like all living things, has a scientific classification. It is in the family Cercopithecidae. It's scientific name is Papio ur sinus, which means that Papio is it's genus and ur sinus is the species. The chacma baboon is in the Chordata phylum. The kingdom of it is Animal. The chacma baboon is also a Mammal for the class. The order of the chacma baboon is carnivore because it eats other animals. The chacma baboon also has a structure to it. For instance, it has strong limbs. A...
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Conley's Stud
1,316 wordsDoing what comes naturally Sexual Selections: What We Can and Can't Learn About Sex from Animals by Marlene Zuk 252 pp, California Stud: Adventures in Breeding by Kevin Conley 219 pp, Bloomsbury It is often claimed that their pantheon of deities allows Hindus the freedom to explore all manner of lifestyles, each with the blessing of one of the gods. If you are faithful, then that's fine because Sita was faithful. If you are an adulterer then that's also OK, because Indra was a terrible fornicato...
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Different Moral Status From Animals
5,086 wordsThroughout 'On Certainty', Wittgenstein's aim is to remove the false pictures created by traditional philosophers, by uncovering the true way that our language functions in our lives, and showing the irreconcilable difference between this and the way that philosophers use language in different situations. While Wittgenstein criticises the theories of traditional philosophers, he himself does not come up with an alternative theory, as it is the theorising of philosophers that he sees as creating ...
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Animals To Different Moral Treatment
505 wordsMost of us believe that we are entitled to treat members of other species in ways which would be considered wrong if inflicted on members of our own species. We kill them for food, keep them confined, use them in painful experiments. The moral philosopher has to ask what relevant difference justifies this difference in treatment. A look at this question will lead us to re-examine the distinctions which we have assumed make a moral difference. It has been suggested by Peter Singer 1 that our curr...
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Robotic Evolution
1,249 wordsFrom this question Mills gives an ultimatum that asks someone to pick between two pleasures. There are the higher pleasures of being satisfied, as a beast, or the lower pleasures of being dissatisfied, as a human. There are several factors that come into view, if you choose one of these paths. But we as humans know what it is like to be human, but we will never know what it is like to be an animal. We can only assume. Animals are content with their life-as far as we know. They do not have to thi...
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Anthrax Bacterial Vaccination
388 wordsAnthrax, in Other Words Death The Anthrax Bacterial Virus is very deadly. If the right precautions aren't taken and any animal or human comes in contact with, it the infected one will suddenly become severely ill and then die within so many days. What this means is that before you come in contact with the virus, the Anthrax Bacterial Vaccination is highly recommenced, in case of any unwanted infections. The Anthrax Vaccine is not experimental or in the process of being investigated, it has been ...
