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    intelligent individuals should try to reproduce with other intelligent individuals as much as possible and‚ on the other side of this‚ the less intelligent individuals should avoid reproducing altogether. Galton is a huge contributor to the development of eugenics or race improvement. This is the same thought process that Hitler and the Nazi’s were trying to implement during World War

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    At worst prenatal genetic testing can be used to apply discriminatory selective tactics or a process known as eugenics. Because of this‚ prenatal genetic testing should be limited to testing for diseases‚ birth defects‚ chromosomal abnormalities‚ or genetic diseases and should be regulated to not allow abuse of screening for non-disease conditions‚ such as selection for sex and for eugenic purposes. Comprehensive Description Every parent-to-be anticipates a healthy baby‚ but it can be hard not to

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    Adolf Hitler considered education to be a very important factor in Nazi Germany. When he wrote ‘Mein Kampf’ while serving out a prison sentence at Landsberg‚ Hitler wrote “whoever has the youth has the future”. In Hitler’s Germany‚ education would be the key that ensured that he had “the youth” of Germany. Hitler’s view on education was that it served a sole purpose – to ensure that a child was loyal to the Nazi state to ensure that the Third Reich lasted for 1000 years. A lot of the Nazi education

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    Past Vs. Present: Has Anything Changed? One question many people have after learning about the Holocaust is “Have we learned anything from this horrible event?” Although America fought against this atrocity‚ in many ways we helped bring these types of ideas to Germany. In a post-World War II world‚ our country has faced many challenges when it comes to viewing certain people and races unequal to others. In no other sector of society is this more apparent than our legal and judicial system. The idea

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    rejected the established Classical School‚ which held that crime was a characteristic trait of human nature and that rational choices were the foundation of behavior. Lombroso‚ using a scientific approach and concepts drawn from physiognomy‚ early eugenics‚ psychiatry‚ and Social Darwinism‚ argued that criminality was inherited‚ and that the "born criminal" could be identified by physical defects‚ which confirmed a criminal as "savage‚" or "atavistic." While his particular identifying characteristics

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    Secondly‚ imagine that you live in this world. Describe how you envisage your life‚ including the good and bad. Include the kinds of issues that people living in this world would have to deal with everyday. The film Gattaca is based on the theme of a eugenic society in which science and medicine are imperative in the running of the world. Medicine in this movie has the ability to genetically engineer humans before they are born. The geneticist selects the best genes from the mother and father to create

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    Stockport‚ the Borstal Recreational Centre and the Juvenile Delinquency Panel from the City of Nottingham Education Committee. At the heart of these was the perception of social class‚ supported by medical and legal institutions following the theory of eugenics; a

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    simply "dumping grounds" for unwanted or extremely dependent people; however the character of these institutions changed for the worse. One of the factors causing this change was the invention of the philosophy of eugenics in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The philosophy of eugenics combined the religious tradition of degenerationism (belief that low-functioning people were sinners) with the sciences of genetics and evolution. This philosophy resulted in all of society ’s evils being blamed

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    DNA is the “blueprint” for the individuality of an organism. The organism relies upon the information stored in its DNA for the management of every biochemical process. The life‚ growth and unique features of the organism depend on its “blueprint”. The parts of DNA which have been linked with specific features or functions of an organism are called genes. Molecular biologists have discovered many enzymes which change this structure in living organisms. Some of these enzymes can cut and join strands

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    IMMIGRATION ESSAY America was always and still is a nation filled with diverse groups of people‚ many of whom emigrated from many different countries. There were always people coming into the United States. However‚ from the 1870s through to the 1920s‚ a new wave of immigration took place‚ one that was explosive and history-altering. Immigrants came from all over the world in search of new jobs‚ lives‚ and opportunities; some came out of force‚ due to their poverty-stricken countries. Although

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