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    Hundreds of years ago the inhabitants of small coastal towns talked of mermaid encounters. All the way back in the 1600’s a mermaid was said to have entered Holland through a dike and she was injured while traveling. She was nursed back to health at a nearby lake‚ and she eventually learned to speak Dutch‚ did chores‚ and even converted to Catholicism. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration there are even cave paintings of mermaids that were painted during the late Paleolithic

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    circuses‚ zoos‚ aquariums and even hunting. Truthfully‚ no one deserves such a treatment of not being able to live the life that they were given for someone else’s advantage. A statement given by Peter Singer‚ author of Animal Liberation says‚ “All the arguments to prove human superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering‚ the animals are our equals.” Animals were put on this earth for their own purpose and not for humans to use for their own well being which is why vegans are animals greatest

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    Sanders in his arguments is explaining how the trinity is the gospel and all three persons are involved in the work of salvation. However‚ many people‚ in their Christian lives‚ tend to forget the Father and the Spirit because it was Jesus who died on the cross and brought forgiveness and salvation. Sanders is pointing out that Christians need to understand that being fully united with Christ is always being united with the Trinity God‚ not just the Second person (Sanders 172). For the fuller‚ richer

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    I do not find any of the traditional proofs for God’s existence persuasive‚ and I will go over each argument one at a time to explain why I do not find them persuasive‚ starting with Anselm’s ontological argument‚ then Aquinas’ cosmological argument‚ and finally Paley’s teleological argument. First‚ Anselm’s ontological argument is not persuasive because the argument can be used to prove things that do not exist. The faulty logic is shown in Gaunilo’s Lost Island Objection because instead of putting

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    has no effect on zoo animal health without considering animals that were not raised in the zoo but placed there further into adulthood. Each of these arguments contain gaps that lack information and other views of the issue. Scholars Chris Draper‚ William Browne‚ and Stephen Harris fill these gaps in their own research as they display their argument on the unsuccess of formal inspections in Britain zoos in regulating whether or not they meet welfare requirements. The research of these men not only

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    The Wager Research Paper

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    The Wager Everybody was done eating when my cousin asked me if I would do a little wager with him. I was sitting there thinking what would it be. I had a feeling that he was in the advantage when he asked‚ but still trying to be competitive and to show off a little bit I accepted the challenge. My cousin was already forcing me to eat the leftover sliced jellied cranberry sauce with salt on it‚ because his school‚ Nicholls State University beat my school‚ Southeastern Louisiana University in their

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    it can both‚ prevent harmful ideas from spreading‚ or suppressing the freedom to express an idea to society. The question regarding the legitimacy of no-platforming as a tool of activism can be rebutted as seen in the debate for‚ or against no-platforming. For against no-platforming‚ it is argued that no-platforming is

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    what causes people to entertain certain reactions and emotions. If a person holds a position on morality‚ they are expected to be able to support that position with moral reasons but in the understanding of emotivism‚ a moral reason to support an argument does not exist other than as a tool to influence other people to share our reaction.

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    Arguments Against FERPA

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    Jenna Vanderpool Mr. O’Connor AP English Literature 12 January 2015 FERPA: Flaws in Educational Regulations for Political Alleviation Privacy plays a major role in every aspect of life from professional to personal. Our lives should not be displayed for everyone to see unless we give the say so. Schools and other educational institutions promote this right to students through the federal law of Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act‚ FERPA. But FERPA is not always the best avenue to follow when

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    Arguments Against Dualism

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    The first argument I put forward to support dualism is; the brain and mind of human beings are different from each other. They both have unique properties and distinctive roles in human beings. The brain has definable characteristics that can be observed and analysed (Robinson‚ 2012‚ p.2). For example the activity of the brain when sleeping is examinable on electroencephalograms (Marieb & Hoehn‚ 2013‚ p.452). A magnetic resonance imaging reveals the location of different functions of the brain (Marieb

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