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Twenty Five Years War For Independence
3,263 wordsOne must decide the meaning of "progressive historiography. " It can mean either the history written by "progressive historians, " or it can mean history written by historians of the Progressive era of American history and shortly after. The focus that was chosen for this paper is more in keeping with the latter interpretation, if for no other reason than it provides a useful compare-and-contrast "control" literature. The caveat is this: the focus of this report is on the predominant question of...
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Live In A World Iron Cage
1,829 words... s. Products are produced and marketed collectively, no matter how seriously industry tries to diversify product lines. What I would like to argue here is that consumers are incorporated into the capitalist system, not by the compulsive exercise of power by industry, but as a result of the interaction with industry. In other words, consumers can make their decisions through the interaction with industry by way of commodities, and in this interaction, categorization works as a determinant fact...
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Alternatives To Animal Animal Testing
1,807 wordsThe application of animals to test a large number of products from household compounds and cosmetics to Pharmaceutical products has been considered to be a normal strategy for many years. Laboratory animals are generally used in three primary fields: biomedical research, product security evaluation and education. (Animal Experiments) It has been estimated that approximately, 20 million animals are being used for testing and are killed annually; about 15 million of them are used to test for medic...
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Infected With Hiv Alternatives To Animal
1,779 words... C. If humans inhale a small amount of prussic acid fumes it can kill them. However, toads, sheep and hedgehogs can drink it without any harm; Scopolamine can kill humans with a dose of just 5 milligrams. To dogs and cats about 100 milligrams was considered harmless. Information like this can be misleading when scientists try to determine safe damages. Penicillin, the first antibiotic, was experimented first on mice. Its application on guinea pigs would have entailed dangerous consequences, b...
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Heroin Addicts Anabolic Steroids
4,574 wordsThere are few other social problems that are surrounded by more myths and misinformation than drug use. The confusion actually starts with the meaning of the term. Many people believe that only illegal substances such as heroin, cocaine, or marijuana are drugs, but alcohol and tobacco alter the minds and moods of those who use them and can be just as dangerous as illicit drugs. Also drug use is not limited to a few deviants on the margin of society. Drugs are a big business: Canadians spend bill...
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Prisoners Dilemma Market Failure
1,736 wordsMARKET FAILURE AND UNCERTAINTY In this essay I would like to argue that market failure is the reason for hierarchy. I will argue that market failure leads to uncertainty and that uncertainty leads to incomplete contracts. To explore the notion of incomplete contracts I have used the ideas of Milgromand Roberts. They describe how incomplete contracts can lead to a relational contract oran implicit contract. I will argue that relational contracts can lead to the formation of organisation. Once an ...
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Germ Line Therapy Genetically Engineered
4,617 wordsAbstract This paper sets out to defend human genetic engineering with a new bioethical approach, post-humanism, combined with a radical democratic political framework. Arguments for the restriction of human genetic engineering, and specifically germ-line enhancement, are reviewed. Arguments are divided into those which are fundamental matters of faith, or bio-Luddite arguments, and those which can be addressed through public policy, or gene-angst arguments. The four bio-Luddite concerns addresse...
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Violence Against Women Liberal Feminists
4,119 wordsSECTION ONE: Liberal vs. Marxist Feminism Liberal feminists believe that oppression and inequality must be justified. In other words, any inequality between genders must be explained and justified, in order for it to be accepted by the liberal feminists. According to our textbook, the liberal feminism originated from the social contract theories. Such theories state that all forms of social domination or authority must be justified, according to the textbook. Liberal feminists hold a view that e...
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Isaac Asimov Industrialized Nations
8,173 wordsThe Book of Genesis tells the story of creation of man. God said to man, be fruitful and increase in numbers; fill the earth and subdue it. Prior to the nineteenth century, it was believed that God would provide for those who came into the world (Day 101). But, in 1798, this view was shaken by Thomas Malthus An Essay on the Principle of Population, in which he concluded that while population increases geometrically, agricultural production only increases arithmetically. Current evidence shows th...
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Physician Assisted Suicide Passive Euthanasia
10,265 wordsI. Introduction In a 1988 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, an article titled Its Over Debbie describes how an anonymous doctor administers a fatal dose of morphine to a woman dying of ovarian cancer (Anonymous, 1988). In a 1989 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, ten doctors associated with the nations leading hospitals and medical schools declare their belief that it is not immoral for a physician to assist in the rational suicide of a terminally ill person (W...
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