Communications 320 Midterms David K. Anderson Excelsior College 1. To what degree have changing demographics in the United States and the changing worldwide immigration patterns affected intercultural communication? The changing demographics as well as the worldwide immigration patterns have brought the need for effective intercultural communication. The need to uphold and understand intercultural communication has been realized as a result of this phenomenon. For example in the
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To what extent is animal experimentation considered ethical? Every year more than 25 million animals are used to develop new medicines and the majority of these animals are either euthanized or die from the experiments. This makes many people question our motives and moral principles. Should we continue to allow scientists to use animals for their research? Is research experiments really necessary? Is it alright for us to kill animals just so that we can benefit? The debate between supporting or
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Humans in experimentation: such an abstract ideal to wrap one’s head around. Movies portray such experiments with extreme dissections‚ and advanced technology. Experiments concluding of tests that test capabilities of humans physically and mentally‚ to observe how much the body reacts to drugs‚ chemicals and much more. Experiments that are physically painful‚ as well as torturous to the subject participating in the event. Many of these portrayed experiments seem quite extreme to become a reality
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Prisoner experimentation is an issue that has affected prisoners all across the world. When participants are being experimented on‚ most of the time‚ there was no consent given to the experimenter. In these cases‚ the experiment should not be performed. In most cases the subjects‚ have little understanding of the experiment and should be able to stop being tested on if they please. Although using prisoners for experiments‚ is not a terrible thing to do‚ because most of the prisoners being tested
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Animal Experimentation: A Necessary Evil It is time for society to realize that no one benefits from the suffering of animals used in expensive and useless experiments. Animals may not be able to speak like humans but it does not negate the fact that they are capable of suffering. The human species has taken the liberty of deciding what is valuable in the world‚ and therefore they prize themselves as the highest level of the food chain. The human species has used animals for transportation‚ food
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Week #7 Assignment 1. What are three reasons to use NFS? 2. Which command would you give to mount on the local system the /home directory hierarchy that resides on the file server named plum? Assume the mounted directory hierarchy will appear as /plum.home on the local system. 3. How would you mount the same directory hierarchy if it resided on the fileserver at 192.168.1.1? 4. How would you unmount /home? 5. How would you list the mount points on the remote server named plum that the local
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Questioning morality and ethics is the most complicated arguments out of the issues that circulate in the debate of animal experimentation. The defendants would argue that animals cannot be considered morally equal to humans. Most would comment something along the lines‚ “There is a hierarchy in nature‚ and denying it is not warranted” like Tibor R. Machan would describe the argument. The human moral community‚ for instance‚ is often characterized by a capacity to manipulate abstract concepts and
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this pain‚ they do not fully protect the animals being tested on. Animal experimentation has been practiced since 500 BC (ProCon.org). The laws do not prohibit pain necessary for the experiment. Animals anguish in pain year in and year out due to the unnecessary experiments executed on them. This is inhumane and cruel. The scientist performing these experiments are monsters and they need to be stopped. Animal Experimentation needs to be illegal in all states. Many laws have been put into place to
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Animal experimentation saves lives and makes vaccines for diseases. But‚ millions of animals die for experimentation and it doesn’t work every time‚ even people die because of false information. Animals are important in their habitats and kingdoms. If people take them‚ then they can’t do their jobs. Animal experimentation is not needed for us because of how many animals die for it and how many false procedures there are that also kill people. Animal bodies are different than human bodies‚ meaning
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Mackinnon states‚ “Even those who support animal rights sometimes agree that the uses of animals in experimentation can be ethically supported if they serve important and worthwhile purposes (386).” I support the reformist position in means that which allows people to eat meat‚ requires certain size cages and ventilation‚ however‚ I do not agree with animal experimentation. Peter Singer states‚ “Nonhuman animals lack certain capacities that human animals possess‚ and that this may justify
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