Cited: Page Biesold‚ Horst. Crying Hands: Eugenics and Deaf People in Nazi Germany. Trans. William Sayers. Washington‚ DC: Gallaudet University P‚ 1999. Deafness.about.com/cs/featurearticles/a/holocaust.htm. 28 November 2009. “Some of Hitler’s Victims Were Deaf”. Berke‚ Jamie. 2 January 2011. Jewishexponent
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In the next decade the technology to design children’s genetic traits will become available. People will have the power to engineer their children to be smarter‚ stronger‚ taller‚ and even predetermine the gender. This technology is referred to as Eugenics‚ but the products are commonly called designer babies. Although this technology isn’t entirely available it is causing quite the debates. Which leads many people to think: what are the pros and cons to genetic engineering? According to Stephen Baird
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Modern Sex and How to Manage It: Sex Manuals and the Creation of Sexual Knowledge‚ 18701914 by Hannah Witton 1 Contents Introduction: The History of the History of Sexuality 3 1. Scientia Sexualis Vs Ars Erotic: Knowing Ignorance in the Late Nineteenth Century 9 2. Creating Sexual Knowledge 18 3. Dispersing Sexual Knowledge 29 Epilogue: Sex War and War Sex 40
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Week 6 1. James A. Tyner‚ “The Geopolitics of Eugenics and the Exclusion of Philippine Immigrants from the United States‚” The Geographical Review‚ 89‚ no. 1 (1999)‚ 54-73. In this article‚ Tyner explains the pseudoscience and logic behind the discrimination against Filipino immigrants during the early 1900’s. Using eugenics as justification‚ the government made it clear that America was to remain a white-dominated country with little tolerance for immigrants. A prime example of this anti-immigration
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In the novel Maus II by Art Spiegelman you hear first hand from a survivor of Auschwitz the experiences of the holocaust and the horrific consequences of racism. Race is something that has developed over time and is constantly changing. Race is something that is seen differently by different people. “There is a continuous temptation to think of race as an essence‚ as something fixed‚ concrete‚ and objective. And there is also an opposite temptation: to imagine race as a mere illusion” (Michael Omi
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The sun beats down on your back as you haul your catch of the day back home to feed your family. There’s your wife‚ Cassandra‚ and your twin sons‚ Abel and Lysander. And you? Your name is Nero. The four of you live on Malaga Island in Maine. You’re a fisherman while your wife takes care of the children at home. The year is 1912. You were minding your own business as you brought the fish home‚ when one of your neighbors comes over to you. They tell you the news. The Governor of Maine is having you
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time on such experimentation. In addition to concerns about specific harms to children‚ people have frequently expressed fears that a widespread practice of such cloning would undermine important social values‚ such as opening the door to a form of eugenics or by tempting some to manipulate others as if they were objects instead of persons‚ and exceeding the moral boundaries inherent in the human condition. Arrayed against these concerns are other important social values‚ such as protecting personal
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discuss such delicate issues‚ we have to question ourselves‚ “What exactly is privacy?” Privacy is defined as “the right to be let alone” (Warren & Brandeis‚ 1890). However‚ privacy is not such a simple concept. For ease of understanding‚ privacy‚ in this essay‚ is the ability of an individual or group to seclude information about themselves and to possess the right to retain anonymous. Privacy can be generally broken down into three categories - physical‚ organizational and informational (Wikipedia
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controversy surrounding euthanasia centers around a two-pronged argument by opponents which characterizes euthanasia as either voluntary "suicides"‚ or as involuntary murders. (Hence‚ opponents argue that a broad policy of "euthanasia" is tantamount to eugenics). Much hinges on whether a particular death was considered an "easy"‚ "painless"‚ or "happy" one‚ or whether it was a "wrongful death". Proponents typically consider a death that increased suffering to be "wrongful"‚ while opponents typically consider
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Narratives are powerful instruments that harmonise the universal ideas‚ attitudes‚ and values of our world. It offers perspectives and views from around the globe regarding central experiences through timeless compositions that connect people within and across cultures. The exploration of contextual concerns in narratives‚ across time periods‚ is discussed to illuminate the challenging morality of humanity. The comparative study of 16th century Shakespearean play script‚ Othello‚ and Andrew Niccol’s
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