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    How would you feel getting chemicals dropped into your eyes and on your skin‚ being confined into a small cell waiting to be tortured? Now why is it fair to do this to animals? There are so many reasons why animals should not be used for scientific research. Animal testing is unethical‚ and completely immoral. Not to mention it is unnecessary and there are many newly developed options that avoid animal cruelty. Additionally‚ animal testing has been proven to be ineffective and inaccurate. To begin

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    Let’s go on a safari! Oh wait... Imagine a world without animals. This is what we are going to be facing if we don’t stop destroying habitat for animals when we build things. That’s why we made zoos so that people could come and ordinarily learn about animals without destroying habitat or going to another country to see them. Although raising animals in captivity makes them lose almost all survival instinct since everything is given to them. It’s still a good idea to have zoos to help endangered

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    Elements of Religious Traditions Paper Defining a religion can be a difficult task and there is no simple definition that can completely describe it. Every culture and society has some form of religion and some maybe specific to that culture and not practiced anywhere else in the world (Fontaine‚ 2013; Molloy‚ 2010). The vast diversity of religious traditions can be discerned by examining their understanding of what is sacred. For example‚ many religions believe in a single deity that is held

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    The Tradition of Textiles in India | | India has a diverse and rich textile tradition. The origin of Indian textiles can be traced to the Indus valley civilization. The people of that civilization used homespun cotton for weaving their garments. Excavations at Harappa and Mohenjo Daro‚ have unearthed household items like needles made of bone and wooden spindles‚ suggesting that the people would spin cotton at home to make yarn and finally garments. Fragments of woven cotton have also been found

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    experts believe that‚ if not controlled‚ the rate of the increasing population of Africa will have disastrous effects. Over two hundred years ago‚ a man by the name of Thomas Robert Malthus wrote an essay on the effects of population and the food supply titled "An Essay on the Principle of Population." This essay dealt with the growth of population and if not restrained‚ how it would destroy man’s subsistence here on Earth (Geyer 1). Much of what he wrote applies to not only Africa‚ but also the entire

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    In Griselda Pollock’s article Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity‚ she elaborates on her beliefs that modern art history selectively celebrates normalized gendered stereotypes of females and female artists and their works1. She makes four arguments to support her beliefs based on references to works of art and literary works. The arguments are structured in a way that allows the readers to understand them through long discussions with added evidence from referenced works or personal experience

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    The 1920s was a decade of tremendous tension between forces of tradition and modernity‚ and with it came a difficult struggle for Americans between modernization and “traditional” values. Women began moving up in the world‚ bad habits started to form‚ and a more organized sense of racism was building. Americans started to establish a constant conflict within and between themselves on which metaphoric path they should take. After World War I‚ American women began to see themselves in a new light

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    Elements of Religious Traditions Paper Pamelia J. Pointer University of Phoenix World Religious Traditions ll Religion 134 Dr. Johnny Boudreaux July 30‚ 2010 Elements of Religious Traditions Paper Unique in their own way there are numerous religious traditions‚ some of the religion traditions include: Buddhism – this is a means of existing based on the experience of Siddhartha Gautama‚ Christianity – earth’s largest belief‚ foundation of Jesus Christ teachings‚ Hinduism – collection

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    Caledonii Tradition Generations ago‚ when Scottish people were separated by clan and the in-fighting and warring were a large part of everyday life for the peoples‚ the Roman Empire invaded. When the Romans invaded Scotland it is thought that their Latinized nickname for the peoples was Caledonii and this is how the tradition and its followers got their name‚ the original name is still unknown due to the secrecy of the group‚ more on that below. This spur of attempted colonization caused the Caledonii

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    generations come together to form a culture. The cultural values practised through generations create a tradition. Thoughts of one generation differ from those of the other and so do the values. So‚ a conflict of two generations is inevitable. Whenever a new idea tries to assert itself at the cost of something that has been followed conventionally‚ and the new idea claims to be progressive‚ we say that tradition is becoming an obstacle to progress. The question is whether this is the whole truth. The

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