Topic 1: Introduction to Anthropology and Culture Kottak‚ questions from chapter 1‚ 13 DVD questions from chapters 1‚ 2‚ and 3 Kottak Chapter 1 1. What do you think is unique about anthropology: its holism or its comparative perspective? Can you think of other fields that holistic and/or comparative? I think that holism is a unique part of anthropology because it’s the study of the whole human condition: the past‚ present‚ and the future. It’s also about the biology‚ society‚ language‚ and
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4 Minute Speech against animal testing We should stop the use of animals for research and testing purposes. Animal research/testing refers to the use of non-human animals for testing or experimenting on. The use of animals for testing is used in the fields of: Biomedical research‚ security‚ evaluation‚ and education of a product. Every year animals are subject to experiments so painful and damaging that no one would ever do them on humans. Deciding whether or not to do animal testing is a
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There is a common saying that peace is never bad‚ war is never good. But if we look back in the history‚ a thing is clear. That there have been wars since prehistoric ages‚ they marked an important part of our evolutionary process‚ and today we still study them with great fascination.So yes‚ although I don’t support war and violence‚ i have to admit the reality which it is that war and violence are an inevitable part of human nature. I have chosen this topic because war and conflict are a thing which
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Many people believe that animal testing should be banned‚ but should it really be banned? There are many pros and cons to animal testing‚ including medical breakthroughs and animals being put through pain and suffering. This debate will be discussing all of the pros and cons‚ to come to a final conclusion to determine whether animal testing should or should not be banned. Animal experimenters experiment on animals because they believe the animals will react to products just like a human. There are
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Animal Testing‚ a cruel and heartless act that people practice. They make animals suffer so much. Cruel experiments with all types of animals‚ with rats‚ guinea pigs‚ dogs‚ cats‚ and even chimps. Everyday more and more of these helpless animals are tortured with‚ experimented with‚ some unimaginable experiments taking place in these cruel labs. Animal testing‚ also known as animals experimentation‚ animal research and in vivo testing‚ is the use of non-human animals in experiments that seek to control
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learn language. In 1973‚ Terrace set out to do something similar to what other scientists did but with‚ he hoped a more primary focus on whether a chimpanzee really could use language in the same way that humans use it. He arranged for the baby chimp to be adopted by Stephanie LaFarge‚ a respected older student of his who was bringing up her own family in an apartment in Manhattan. In selecting LaFarge‚ he neglected the most important factor which was having an expertise in sign language. According
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Biological Psychology Worksheet Answer the following questions in short-essay format. Be prepared to discuss your answers. What is biological psychology? Basically‚ biological psychology is the study of behavior in regards to the intricacies involved in the relationship between physiological and psychological processes of human and animals. Often biological psychological is being regarded as neurobiology or behavioral neuroscience. In other words‚ it could be said to be the interwoven network
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monkeys with attenuated and dead forms of the virus. Out of desperation for working vaccine‚ after observing one monkey surviving during the vaccination trials‚ one of the researchers injected herself with the tested vaccine given to the surviving chimp. By doing so‚ she skipped the entire clinical trials portion of developing vaccines and had the vaccine fastracked to be mass-produced. While this movie was more scientifically accurate then most other movies‚ there are still several aspects of
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were exposed to how animals get treated and how they get slaughtered they would know that it’s wrong because they have rights just like humans do. Pollan emphasizes that equality between animals and humans is important when he writes‚ "To exclude the chimp from moral consideration simply because he’s not human is no different from excluding the slave simply because he’s not white" (Pollan 207). Animals are usually not talked about when it comes to equality because they aren’t the same as humans‚ which
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These chimps have been poked‚ prodded and infected for so long that they deserve some retirement‚ and the regulations have an important principle called the “three R’s’ of animal testing: reduction‚ replacement‚ and refinement. These three principles can be used to improve the animals’ conditions. For example‚ scientists can reduce the amount of animals used in research while gaining the same amount of information. They can replace animals when it is possible to‚ like what the Use Committee and Animal
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