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Written Word Literary Culture
595 wordsThe Gutenberg Elegies is not only about the loss of the printed word, but of books, literature, reading, history, culture, language, sensibility, the past, community, faith, the self and the soul. Responsible for their unfortunate extinction is technology, or so Birkerts says. Birkerts is out to speak up for the act of reading, to stand by the printed book, and to defend the literary culture that books and reading created. Reading, the book, and literary culture are put in jeopardy, not only by ...
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Board Of Education Intelligent Design
801 wordsIf you " re planning a vacation later this year, better make sure it's not in Kansas. According to recent reports, the state's overall IQ has just taken a nosedive. What has caused this "giant step back into the nineteenth century" as one person called it? Quite simply, the State Board of Education voted to de-emphasize evolution in state testing and to give local school boards the option of deciding whether or not evolution would be taught. Nationwide, the reaction has been vehement. On ABC's "...
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Differences In Animal Phyla
939 wordsBecause they are grouped in the same kingdom, the nine animal phyla share the same fundamental characteristics- they are multicellular, heterotrophic eukaryotes that obtain nutrients through ingestion, they lack cell walls, they have nervous tissue and muscle tissue, and they reproduce sexually and have a unique embryonic life cycle. However, the animal phyla have a great number of differences as well. Some are visible to the naked eye, while others are less obvious, and still more cannot even b...
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Essay Titled Jay Gould
1,097 wordsIt has been over 100 years since English naturalist Charles Darwin first told the world his revolutionary concept about how livings things develop. Evolution through natural selection and adaptation was the basis of his argument as it remains to this day a debated subject by many. Across this nation, a "return" to "traditional" values has also brought the return of age old debated topics. One issue that truly separates Americans is the issue of creation versus evolution. Since the 19 th century,...
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Attempt To Explain Evolutionary Theory
1,372 words... tenuously resolve to examine science face on rather than turn away from it. Tennyson condemns the notion that ignorance is a valid path to faith. Tennyson makes no attempt to refute the authority of science in its explanation of the corporeal world, but he does question whether scientific reason should have a role within the discussion of spiritual matters. CXXIV represents the climax of Tennyson's spiritual journey, as a passage that boldly asserts his new personal faith, a faith that is in...
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Psychedelic Drugs Physical Body
1,003 words... on on the attention itself in a specific chakra, brings about a condition in that chakra, in which its vibration structure is harmonically and geometrically aligned in all of its planes of manifestation or rates of vibration. This creates common node points in the inner plane structure of the chakra. Vibrations of different frequencies and different wavelengths all begin and end together at these common node points. This is made possible by the fact that the wavelengths of the various vibrat...
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Psychological Egoism Human Nature
709 wordsWhy do elder horses protect the foals despite the fact that they are often not related? Why do baboon troops put the young baboon males in the front to protect the group from predators? Why do young men go to the front to save their country from war? The traits described above are forms of altruism. Individuals sacrifice their own fitness to protect that of others. Yet when you look at it in the Darwin evolutionary scheme of things, why would this occur? Would not these genes be weeded out over ...
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Socio Theological Analysis Of Gardners Grendel
1,085 wordsSocio-theological analysis of Gardners Grendel In his novel Grendel, John Gardner presents readers with his own understanding of the essence of metaphysical conflict between ideologically motivated irrationality and evolutionary purposefulness, described in the original story of Beowulf. The character of Grendel can be thought of as the embodiment of existentialist values, which is why the line of his arguments appears to be very progressive. In fact, it might seem that Grendel's philosophy corr...
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Psychological Egoism Psychological Egoist
1,642 wordsAltruism Why do elder horses protect the foals despite the fact that they are often not related? Why do baboon troops put the young baboon males in the front to protect the group from predators? Why do young men go to the front to save their country from war? The traits described above are forms of altruism. Individuals sacrifice their own fitness to protect that of others. Yet when you look at it in the Darwin evolutionary scheme of things, why would this occur? Would not these genes be weeded ...
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Million Years Ago Permian Extinction
1,401 wordsAnthropology Is human extinction possible? Why does this happen? What causes a species to be extinct? Can human race prevent it? To answer these questions we must first define what extinction means, what types are there and why do they occur. As extinction is a continual product of natural selection, since the dawn of competition spawned by the first meiosis event, natural selection has altered all life on earth, precariously engaging in life experiments some that work and some that dont. Those ...
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Darwin Jay Gould
1,122 wordsCreationism vs Evolution: Through The Eyes of Jay Gould It has been over 100 years since English naturalist Charles Darwin first told the world his revolutionary concept about how livings things develop. Evolution through natural selection and adaptation was the basis of his argument as it remains to this day a debated subject by many. Across this nation, a return to traditional values has also brought the return of age old debated topics. One issue that truly separates Americans is the issue of...
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Big Bang Theory Life On Earth
1,412 wordsCreationism is a religious metaphysical theory about the origin of the universe. It is not a scientific theory. Technically, creationism is not necessarily connected to any particular religion. It simply requires a belief in a Creator. Millions of Christians and non-Christians believe there is a Creator of the universe and that scientific theories such as the the theory of evolution do not conflict with belief in a Creator. However, fundamentalist Christians such as Ronald Reagan and Jerry Falwe...
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Teaching Of Evolution Church And State
1,448 wordsCreation: Where do We Come From? The issue of teaching creationism in the public schools has long been debated. Over the years many different arguments have been made. First creationists tried to have the teaching of evolution outlawed. This issue went to the Supreme Court in 1968, where in Epperson v. Arkansas the high court ruled against banning the teaching of evolution. Soon after this decision creationists began to call for equal time, or the equal treatment of creation theory and evolution...
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Essay Titled Sexual Selection
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University Of Wisconsin Bone Tissue
880 wordsGreg Graffin The band Bad religion was formed in the early eighties and has now been around over 15 years and has released over eight albums, the lead singer has continued his schooling and now has one bachelors degree, a masters and is working on his Ph. D. Greg Graffin was born in 1965 in Wisconsin. His mother and father were divorced after his birth. In 1976 his mother his brother and him moved to San Fernando valley California, which is now the punk rock capital of the world. Like millions o...
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Evolution Of Man Ability To Manipulate
1,660 wordsHuman AncestoryThe evolutionary relationships of Australopithecus and Homo are still argued today among top anthropologists. The direct human phylogeny is not certain, and many links to modern man from four million years ago are possible. What is not argued, however, is that the evolution of man was an evolution from the neck up, rather than from the neck down. After our transition from the arboreal region of Africa to the terrestrial area of the savanna, our physiology below the neck, for the m...
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Selfish Gene Evolutionary Theory
1,177 wordsNatural selection Which of Richard Dawkins books is still one of Amazons hot 30 in nature and science? Not his most recent offering, Unweaving the Rainbow. Could it be Climbing Mount Improbable, from the early 1990 s, or even The Blind Watchmaker, from 1986? No, it is The Selfish Gene, first published more than 25 years ago. If you guessed right, you have a clue to why the popular-science market is getting harder for publishers. Assume, simple-mindedly perhaps, that we read science writers becau...
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Sexual Behavior Human Behavior
448 wordsIn The Naked Ape, Desmond Morris provides an alternative explanation of the causative factors underlying various human behavior patterns and societal and cultural activities. He develops his theme around such human activities as feeding, grooming, sleeping, fighting, mating and care of the young. He compares human traits and behaviors with those exhibited by animals, mainly the primates, in like activities. His point is that understanding the evolutionary source of many behaviors can throw new l...
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York W W Norton Neutral Stimulus
1,968 wordsHow has preparedness theory attempted to integrate a Pavlovian model of the acquisition of specific phobias with this biological specificity? What is the status of Preparedness theory today? When confronted with a phobic object or situation an individual appears to have little control and no alternative but to avoid the feared object or situation (Ohman &# 038; Soares, 1993). Consequently, individuals with a phobia can be vulnerable to anxiety induced automatic reactions to an object or situatio...
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Force Of Gravity White Dwarf
2,676 wordsAlthough they are tiny in size, white dwarfs have played a great role in astronomy. These compact stars are very different from familiar objects like our sun. They also pose a seemingly endless series of puzzles, whose solutions provide new insights into many areas of physics and astronomy. To unravel a wide variety of phenomena such as cataclysmic variables (novae, dwarf novae), planetary nebulae, and some types of supernova, we have to understand white dwarfs. These stars may even hold clues t...
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