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Animal Liberation and Social Construction of Nonhumans

orangutans development of tool use and their layman descriptions which compare their actions with those of humans, there are hints...

The Entertainment Industry and Animal Cruelty

her primates, big cats or any other untamed creature whose home is recreated by the ignorance of man. Zoos are merely a place for...

Babe Film and Oppression

In five pages this paper examines how animal oppression is portrayed in this 1995 children's film and also in Animal Farm by Georg...

Aristotle, Rational Freedom, and Causal Necessitation

In five pages causal necessitation is considered in relationship to moral responsibility and fate and includes Aristotle's work's ...

Earthquakes and Animals

In seven pages the link between earthquakes and animals is made in terms of animal behavior prior to an earthquake and if there wo...

The Ethical Dilemma of Animal Testing

The biomedical testing of animals is examined in five pages through a fictional proposed law that ban animal testing with the exce...

Humans, Animals, and Moral Obligations

to maintain a state of consciousness is no proof that it does not exist elsewhere. Consciousness is not something specific ...

Animal Testing Alternatives

doses of a chemical until half the group dies. Even though other countries abandoned this practice years ago in favor of alternati...

True or False Animals Are All Created Equal But There Are Some That Are More Equal Than Others

existence is it considered more equal than others, which is why ants are stepped on with careless effort, a milk cow is destroyed ...

Peter Singer's Practical Ethics Analyzed

for this thesis by first indicating that if we have concern for other humans that is non-dependent on their abilities, race or int...

Animals and the Study of Consciousness

The nature and extent of consciousness in animals has been the source of hot debate in the scientific community. This paper examin...

Two Classical Era Ethical Theorists on Animal Experimentation

comes to the living world as a whole, inasmuch as species perceive issues of control in significantly different ways. If utilitar...

A Look at Chameleons

Chameleons prey primarily on insects but they also take other small animals as the opportunity presents itself. Their tong-like f...

Animal and Plant Evolutionary Examples

Each has a definitive place in the worlds ecology. As our first example of the contention presented above, take the...

Animal Cognition and Intelligence

Those misgivings largely fell away with Griffins studies into the communication systems of bees. He used that work to prove anima...

Animals and Their Value

These questions are and should be posed in a significantly introspective light with regard to the typically uncaring attitude that...

Animals and Minds

In five pages this paper examines if animals have minds with the differences and similarities that exist between the mental facult...

The Environmental Impact of the Element Cadmium

of problems with cadmium have not been ignored. Such concerns have been voiced over the past twenty-year or so and early issues h...

Using Facebook, Twitter, and Other Tools at Work

First Amendments rights for free speech seem to always be in the news. There are cases when this issue is confusing-exactly what i...

Major Features of the Cell

This paper discusses cell theory and compares and contrasts the major features of plant and animal cells. There are three sources...

The First Amendment and Art

This essay presents a scenario in which the writer is presumed to be the major of a city who is confronted with a problematic situ...

An Explanation and Possible Solutions Regarding a Seven Year Old Child's Antisocial and Aggressive Behavior

(Papert, 1999, p. 104+) - believed that children are not merely a collection of empty vessels waiting for information to fill the ...

Proving the Kin Selection Theory and Altruism

In five pages the kin selection theory of Dr. W. Hamilton is considered in relation to insect and animal altruism that includes ki...

Collective Violence from a Social Psychological Perspective

In five pages this paper applies the self justification theory articulated by Elliot Aronson's The Social Animal to Holocaust acti...

Animal Testing and Ethics

In eleven pages this paper examines social theory and ethics in this consideration of the animal testing controversy. Nine source...

Animal Consciousness, Physicalism, and Personal Identity According to Nagel and Locke

the only species that truly does not understand the depth and intensity that animals possess in their special consciousness. When...

Rights of Fathers in the UK

if this is non bias is present in reality it should be reflected in the way fathers rights are interpreted. However, in UK law and...

Content and Process Based Motivation Theories

relationship (Armstrong, 2009, p320). Process theories place an emphasis on the differences that are found in employees, and inste...

Issues in Australian Law

The second basis of the appeal was that evidence of an alibi had been excluded by the initial trial judge under s.150 of the Crimi...

Women's Suffrage Movement In Canada

women voting was by no means in the best interest of the country at large and the family unit in particular. Clearly, at the foun...