The Most Important Decision of My Life We are all making choices and taking decisions in our everyday life; however‚ good ones lead us on the right path while bad ones bring us into the middle of nowhere. Throughout my life‚ the hardest decision that I’ve ever made would definitely be choosing to get a career or to continue working to earn money right away. People even said I usually make strange choices‚ but they are not strange for me. That moment‚ I knew I’ve chosen the right one. I’ve
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The Monkey and the Crocodile Monkey loved to play and swing in the forest canopy. It was not only his home‚ but it was his stage as well. He could move quickly through and around it like the cheetah that raced on the savannah. But Monkey showed his speed and agility not on the land like swift Cheetah‚ but rather‚ high above it. It is in leafy trees that Monkey lived‚ ate‚ and played. He traveled by running along the branches and gracefully leaping from tree to tree. Monkey provided entertainment
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Birds‚ bees‚ bats‚ apes‚ worms‚ even humans have a communication system. We all share the art of language in one form or another. Some scientists say that language is what sets humans apart from every other species. Other researchers wonder if animals can learn the human language. What sets us apart from animals? What set us apart are the rules and grammars that we human have‚ which makes it not possible for animals to learn the human language. Another factor that contributes to why animals cannot
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Nicholas Destino Professor Thomas English 101 10 November 1997 Do Animals Have Emotions? Somewhere in the savannas of Africa a mother elephant is dying in the company of many other pachyderms. Some of them are part of her family; some are fellow members of her herd. The dying elephant tips from side to side and seems to be balancing on a thin thread in order to sustain her life. Many of the other elephants surround her as she struggles to regain her balance. They also try to help by feeding
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The closest living relative to humans are primates. The study of primates and their behaviors is primatology. Primatology provides a better understanding of the many aspects of the research‚ preservation and conservation of primates. The field of primatology has been fortunate to have several outstanding scientists‚ among them Jane Goodall‚ the late Dian Fossey and Birute Galdikas. Each of them has accomplished considerable works documenting and interpreting the lives of chimpanzees‚ gorillas
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Are apes capable of using the language? During the recent time frame scientists have shown that such mammals as chimpanzees‚ gorillas‚ and orangutans are capable of learning and using ASL (American Sign Language) and several artificial languages like‚ for example‚ «Yerkish.» However‚ there is a controversy in how far that ability of great apes spans. There are two different groups of researchers‚ experimenting with language and apes‚ those who are in favor of a «traditional» approach‚ and those
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Movies and novels such as "Planet of the Apes" and 2001: A Space Odyssey are called Science Fiction because they portray situations that seem extremely unrealistic concurrent with contemporary philosophy. "Planet of the Apes" depicts a world where apes rule while humans are subjected to servitude and confinement. These apes speak intelligibly and are human-like in appearance and behavior. In 2001: A Space Odyssey‚ the highly advanced computer‚ HAL 9000‚ an acronym for "Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic
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In “Digging up the Roots”‚ Jane Goodall (1994) argues that people should stop destroying the world and start caring about nature. She also talks about how love and care should not be for humans only‚ but also for anything that lives around you such as nature. Goodall then sadly mentions how people are killing the living things around them including themselves without feeling guilty or responsible for it. Goodall describes her relation toward nature with passionate feelings joined with a sound of
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Instructor Crooks English 1A September 9 2014 Assignment Two: Argumentative Essay In the article “Why Animals Deserve Legal Rights”‚ Author Steven M. Wise argues in favor of animal rights based on the premise that all animals are autonomous. Furthermore he states that the term ‘rights’ has been widely debated and is arguably not affordable to all humans. Wise research indicates that rights are widely believed to be based on autonomy. And Wise does not believe we have an accurate grasp on the
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A Rhetorical Analysis of "On Liberty" John Stuart Mill‚ an English philosopher and a political economist‚ had an important part in forming liberal thought in the 19th century. Mill published his best-known work‚ _On Liberty‚_ in 1859. This foundational book discusses the concept of liberty. It talks about the nature and the limits of the power performed by society over an individual. The book also deals with the freedom of people to engage in whatever they wish as long as it does not harm other
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