Ancel Key's Starvation Study1# In this movie, Ancel 's goal was to learn what are the affect of hunger on a person. He also hopes that with this information, we can have a better idea about how to help the starvation people, especially those who survived at the end of War World II. The study inclu...

Ancel Key's Starvation Study1# In this movie, Ancel 's goal was to learn what are the affect of hunger on a person. He also hopes that with this information, we can have a better idea about how to help the starvation people, especially those who survived at the end of War World II. The study inclu...

Is Hunting Morally Acceptable? There are many hunters in the United States. The average hunter is a 42 year old, white male. As time goes by, there are fewer places for sportsman to go hunting. A new US Fish and Wildlife survey shows that the number of hunters has declined by 7 percent, to 13 mi...

Cloning Cloning is a form of genetic engineering in which the DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) of a person, animal ,plant or bactirium is used to produce a perfect or near perfect genetic replica of the original...meaning a new individual is created from a single cell. Despite its relativaly new int...

Raccoons breed between January and March, the peak is around Feburary. The male raccoon pairy only to mate, and they don't form long term pair bonds with the female. The females pregnancy only lasts nine weeks, and the young begin to follow their mothers on excursions by early June. Younger fem...

The Holocaust, what is the true depth of the word? As sad as it may seem, it affected the lives of millions because of the hate inside of one certain group of people, the Nazi's. Dehumanization is to deprive human qualities such as individuality or compassion. Victims of the Holocaust wen...

AI: Artificial Intelligence Film Review Description and Critical Discussion: This is because a robot, if it is to have human level intelligence and ability to learn from its experience, needs a general world view in which to organize facts. It turns out that many philosophical problems take new ...

Do you know anyone with an incurable disease? Even if you don't, I do. My uncle suffered a cruel and painful disease, also known as AIDS. He past away when I was young so I really did not understand the amount of excruciating pain that he lived with everyday, that just got worse as time prog...

Elie Wiesel's Night is a direct testimony as to what extent a concentration camp can change a person - to what point the human mind can be perverted and to how far the human body can be twisted. Wiesel's narration is so raw and candid one can actually sense Elie's dramatic shift in ch...

Genetic Enhancement: Out of Our Reach How would you feel knowing that a child was killed before it even had a chance to live, or knowing that food you are eating can cause some kind of un-curable disease in the next couple of years? As you know, scientists are always researching new products t...

Euthanasia may be defined as the action of killing an individual for reasons considered merciful. Throughout history Euthanasia (mercy killing) is a topic that has brought about many different opinions. There have been many discussions as well as court cases surrounding this controversial issue. Eve...

Mencius and GoodnessMany books that we have read this semester have to do with Confucianism. Before taking this class, I had heard of Confucianism, but thought of it as a religion. I have come to understand that it is more of a philosophy or attitude that deals with human beings. It has to do wit...

Man's essential characteristic is his rational faculty. Man's mind is his basic means of survival-his only means of gaining knowledge. Man cannot survive, as animals do, by the guidance of mere precepts. He cannot provide for his simplest physical needs without a process of thought. He needs a proce...

In "Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville, the main character,Bartleby, and the narrator form a parallel to each other, and alsocompliment each other in terms of humanity. Both also lose part of theirhumanity as a result of the inhuman business environment in which they findthemselves. ...

EuthanasiaEuthanasia is defined as the act or practice of ending the life of an individual suffering from a terminal illness or an incurable condition, as by lethal injection or the suspension of extraordinary medical treatment (Dictionary.com). Euthanasia is distinct from assisted suicide. In ass...

To the populace in the Western world, the word "ego" has negative implications. Menwho have become affluent through hard work and sacrifice have been labeled as"self-centered" because the majority of mankind has explicitly manifested their angrythoughts about certain people who have a vast amount o...

Animal Farm: The Animal RevolutionGeorge Orwell3-11-00Back in the early 1920's a revolution occurred in Russia. A new government was formed and a new ruler took order. Russia was no longer Russia but now the Soviet Union. The Czar ruler was overthrown and communism was the new government. In the ...