...Jane Goodall Jane Goodall, known as the world’s foremost expert in chimpanzees. She was born on April 3, 1934. Goodall spent 45 years of her life studying wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. Goodall was honored as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire; she was also named a United Nations Messenger of Peace in 2002. Andrea Koczela, the author of, “Blogis librorum. A blog about books. Rare books” listed all awards Goodall received, which including the French Legion of Honor, the Medal of Tanzania, the Kyoto Prize, and the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement” (Blogis librorum. A blog about books. Rare books). Goodall went outside the traditional normality and she guided science and the women’s roles into...
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...It is argued that the lives of our hunter-gatherer ancestors were “nasty, brutish and short”, but the observations made by Jane Goodall in Gombe illuminate the complexities of the hunter-gather lifestyle of chimpanzees that can be compared to those of our predecessors. In her novel, In the Shadow of Man, her decade-long observations detail the key patterns in which the chimpanzee’s social interactions and structures, along with their ability to problem solving show the many similarities between human societal characteristics and the chimpanzee’s. Reinforcing that chimpanzee communities function and evolve with many of the same eccentricities as man, therefore, it is contradicting to summarize the lives of chimpanzee’s as simply “nasty, brutish...
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... The ending point of fighting over if evolution is true seems unreachable and the reason is what’s called “Survival of the Fittest”. Only the better one, the stronger one can survive. The same principle can also apply to an idea, or any ideas. In Jane Goodall’s essay “In the Forests of Gombe”, she tells the readers her own experiences when lives in a forest with chimpanzees, and her thoughts about religious beliefs and science. Jane Goodall believes that science, true knowledge is not the only part of the world, perhaps only a small part of the world, and religious beliefs are another way to explain the mysteries of life. In the world of science, god is like a joke, because it is against every pieces of the information that they study since no evidences can prove that god exist. On the other hand, a religious person believes the existence of god. It really is not important who is right or wrong in this case. They are all human and living together. Science and religions are both telling the truth of life, but in a different form. Science is direct, it tells one the lesson right away, but religion helps people to believe in themselves. Science and religions share a same principle, both of them are essential to our daily life. Although science contradict religions, but the existence of both together is not mutually exclusive and better for the future generation. Over centuries, the relationship between science and religion is like fire to water, incompatible, yet there...
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...made by Dr. Jane Goodall in Gombe illuminate the complexities of the hunter-gather lifestyle of chimpanzees that can be compared to those of our predecessors. In her ethnography, In the Shadow of Man, her decade-long observations detail the key patterns in which the chimpanzee’s social interactions and structures, along with their ability to problem solve show the many similarities between human societal characteristics and the chimpanzee’s. Reinforcing that chimpanzee communities function and evolve with many of the same eccentricities as man, therefore, it is contradicting to summarize the lives of chimpanzee’s as simply “nasty, brutish and short”. Dr. Goodall’s extensive documentation of the social structures amongst chimps is an important component in breaking down the complexities of their relationships as well as making it possible to start creating parallels to human social norms. One example of this can be seen in the chimpanzee Mike and his rise to power. When Goodall started her work, Mike was ranked at the bottom of the adult...
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...November XXXX “A Question of Ethics” Left Unanswered In her essay “A Question of Ethics,” Jane Goodall, a scientist who has studied chimpanzees for years, tries to resolve a complicated ethical dilemma: Under what circumstances is it acceptable to cause animal suffering to prevent human suffering? Her answer, however, remains somewhat unclear. Although Goodall challenges scientists to avoid conducting unnecessary tests on animals, she does not explain the criteria by which scientists should determine necessity. Goodall argues that her readers have an ethical obligation to protect animals from suffering, but she also implies that it might be necessary sometimes to abandon that obligation. She points out that animals share similar traits with human beings: they have a capacity for certain human emotions, and they may be capable of legitimate friendship. Goodall’s evidence for this claim is an anecdote from her research. She recounts that one chimpanzee in her study, named David Greybeard, “gently squeezed [her] hand” when she offered him food (62). Appealing to readers’ emotions, Goodall hopes to persuade readers that the chimp is “sociable” and “sentient,” or feeling (62). According to Goodall’s logic, if researchers are careful to avoid tests that cause human suffering, they should also be careful to avoid tests that cause suffering for other life forms. When Goodall asserts that scientists shouldn’t mindlessly Lopez 1 Opening summarizes the article’s ...
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...importance of religion, ritual, traditions, and culture in the world. At first, the film seems to be a jumbled mixture of images and non-verbal sounds, but in fact it is strategically linked and results in one final theme: Life. 3 For centuries, humans have made themselves superior over our predecessor: Earth. While science has proved that the earth,with its animals and nature, have existed long before we have, we continue to oversee its power and lose our humanity. Our humanity, in my opinion, is not what makes us human biologically, but rather internally and cognitively. According to the dictionary, humanity is described as "the quality of being humane" and followed by words such as compassion, brotherly love, understanding, sympathy, and consideration. Is humanity an instinct, something we are born with? Or is humanity learned, taught, and projected? There are many things that we can relate to being human. Biologically, the DNA that lies within the cells that make up our physical body can tell whether we are human.We can also relate being human through cognition, which is the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge of understanding through thought, experience, and the senses, though it is compared heavily to chimpanzees. Compassion, another important aspect to solidifying humanity, is crucial to the discussion of human nature, and its relation to media is an overlooked factor that I...
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...Infosys: Company Profile About Infosys: Infosys Limited was started in 1981 by seven people with $250. Today, Infosys is global leader in "next generation" IT and consulting, with revenues of $6.04 billion. Infosys defines, designs and delivers technology enabled business solutions that help Global 2000 companies in Building Tomorrow’s Enterprise. Infosys provides a comprehensive range of services by leveraging our domain and business expertise and strategic alliances with leading technology providers. Infosys service offerings span business and technology consulting, application services, systems integration, product engineering, custom software development, maintenance, re-engineering, Independent Testing and Validation, Business Process Outsourcing, and IT infrastructure services. Infosys pioneered the Global Delivery Model (GDM), which emerged as a disruptive force in the industry leading to the rise of offshore outsourcing. The GDM is based on the principle of taking work to the location where the best talent is available, where it makes the best economic sense, with the least amount of acceptable risk. Infosys has a global footprint with 64 offices and 63 development centers in US, India, China, Australia, Japan, Middle East, UK, Germany, France, Switzerland, Netherlands, Poland, Canada and many other countries. Infosys and its subsidiaries have 130,820 employees as on March 31, 2011. Establishment: Infosys was founded on 2 July 1981...
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...instance an obligation not to injure a donkey or horse that belonged to the neighbor, in actual sense we owed the obligation not to the animal but to our neighbors. Issues of moral became a concern only to the limited scope when humans who were cruel or known to subject the nonhumans to suffering were generally thought to be capable of maltreating humans. Just like the above, the obligation related to the animal in question was actually owed to the other human beings. Nonhumans were viewed as having little moral significance. This essay will focus on Jane Goodall assertion that ‘Who are we to say that the suffering of human being is more terrible than the suffering of nonhuman being, or that it matters more’? (1990). Some scholars believe that human being suffer more as compared to the nonhuman beings and they deem the latter as things and equals them to machines. On the other hand, some scholars such as Goodall argue that humans are not unique from other nonhuman being and thus the same compassion and consideration shown to human being should also be shown to animals. This essay will focus not both sides of the argument in order to get a clear understanding of how nonhumans being are perceived....
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...Infosys: Company Profile About Infosys: Infosys Limited was started in 1981 by seven people with $250. Today, Infosys is global leader in "next generation" IT and consulting, with revenues of $6.04 billion. Infosys defines, designs and delivers technology enabled business solutions that help Global 2000 companies in Building Tomorrow’s Enterprise. Infosys provides a comprehensive range of services by leveraging our domain and business expertise and strategic alliances with leading technology providers. Infosys service offerings span business and technology consulting, application services, systems integration, product engineering, custom software development, maintenance, re-engineering, Independent Testing and Validation, Business Process Outsourcing, and IT infrastructure services. Infosys pioneered the Global Delivery Model (GDM), which emerged as a disruptive force in the industry leading to the rise of offshore outsourcing. The GDM is based on the principle of taking work to the location where the best talent is available, where it makes the best economic sense, with the least amount of acceptable risk. Infosys has a global footprint with 64 offices and 63 development centers in US, India, China, Australia, Japan, Middle East, UK, Germany, France, Switzerland, Netherlands, Poland, Canada and many other countries. Infosys and its subsidiaries have 130,820 employees as on March 31, 2011. Establishment: Infosys was founded on 2 July 1981...
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...Intro to Ethology First Word Stuff… Ethology- the scientific study of animal behavior Entomology- the scientific study of insects etymology- the study of the history of words and how their form and meaning have changed over time. 2, The Legacy of Ethology Konrad Lorenz- He developed the idea of an innate releasing mechanism to explain behaviors that are instinctive. Experimented with supernormal stimuli such as giant eggs or dummy bird beaks that could release the fixed action patterns more powerfully than the natural objects for which the behaviors were adapted. He shared a Nobel Prize in 1973 with Karl von Frisch and Niko Tinbergen in the area of Physiology or Medicine. Most of his work surrounding ethology was done between 1949 and his death in 1989. Niko Tinbergen- He is well known for developing the four questions he believed should be asked about any animal behavior regarding Proximate and Ultimate Mechanisms. A Major portion of his research surrounded supernormal stimuli and he was known for collaborating with Konrad Lorenz based around the fact that one could build an artificial stimulus more effective than the original stimulus. The majority of his work was done in the 1960’s and early 1970’s. Karl Von Frisch- An Australian ethologist whose work centered around the sensory perceptions of European honey bees. He was awarded the Nobel prize in 1973 along with Konrad Lorenz and Niko Tinbergen for his work in behavior physiology regarding communication...
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...Animal Experiments Should Be Prohibited Ducduy Tran Solbridge International School of Business Animal experiments should be prohibited Nowadays, following the development of society, many environmental implications have also risen, such as air pollution, water pollution, and greenhouse effect…These problems cause a lot of dangerous diseases which can kill people. Scientists are trying hard to discover the treatment for these diseases. In order to achieve that, they have to use several methods, and animal experimentation is one of those. Some people think that, animal experiments give people a lot of benefits. I agree with this opinion, but I think it’s only true in the past because these days, thanks to the development of technology in medicine, animal experiments is now not necessary and should be prohibited for the following reasons. The first reason I object to animal testing is that, animal experiments are unethical. To be more specific, animals were always unconsidered and were seen as unemotional beings so people thought experiments on animal are normal and necessary. However, after doing many research, scientists proved that animals have feelings just like human beings do. From the article “Do Animals Have Emotions? Of Course They Do!” by Marc Bekoff, author of The Emotional Lives of Animals, said that emotions are the presents that our creators gave us, both animals and human have them, thus when we describe the feelings of animals we will no longer use the quotation...
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...to an approach that studies many aspects of a multifaceted system. Cross-cultural: discovering general patterns about cultural traits Two broad classification of anthropology Biological (Physical) Seeks the emergence of humans & their later evolution (called human paleontology) and how & why contemporary human populations vary biologically (human variation) Study the fossils of human, prehumans & related animals Human genetics, population biology & epidemiology Cultural How & why cultures vary or are similar in the past & present Archaeology: study of past cultures Anthropological linguistics: study of language Ethnology: study of existing & recent cultures Archaeology Seek to reconstruct the daily life & customs of peoples who lived in the past but also to trace cultural changes & to offer possible explanations for those changes Deal with prehistory (time before written records) Historical archaeology: studies the remains of recent peoples who left written records Must used info from present & recent past in trying to understand the distant past Linguistics Study of languages Had to construct a dictionary & grammar, then could study the structure & history of language Study changes that have taken place over time Historical linguistics: study of how languages change over time & how they may be related Descriptive: focus of linguistics Discovering & recording the principles that determine how sounds...
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...What is Anthropology??? • • • 20:41 Anthropology • Scientific Approach, OBJECTIVE • Study of Humankind- human groups • Seeks to produce useful GENERALIZATIONS about people and their BEHAVIORS • To arrive at an UNBIASED UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN DIVERSITY • Only scientific discipline that attempts to embrace an understanding of all of humanity • Helps us understand ourselves an others Anthropology Perspectives • Holistic Approach (broadest view) o To view things in the broadest possible contest o To cover the whole scope of humanity o To provide a total or composite view o Human culture as a system, functional whole, all parts relate o Biocultural Perspective Studies both the PHYSICAL and SOCIAL EX: kuru disease (neurological disease)- disease caused by culture, transmitted by mortuary practices • Cultural Relativism o To view the beliefs and customs of other peoples within the context of their culture not one’s own o Practice of not judging other cultures based on the standards of one’s own culture o ENDOCENTRISM Group centeredness Tendency to see ones own culture as the center of everything The measure or standard against which all other lifeways are evaluated Tendency to consider ones own culture as superior or better than all others o Anthropologists must be unbiased, objective o Involves an effort to remain unbiased in ones observations o Acknowledges that cultures are DIFFERENT, but NOT RANKED o No right or wrong cultures...
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...Margaret Wilcox 1893 Circular saw Tabitha Babbit 1812 Computer program Augusta Ada Byron 1842 Cooking stove Elizabeth Hawk 1867 Dam and reservoir construction Harriet Strong 1887 Direct and return mailing envelope Beulah Henry 1962 Dishwasher Josephine Cochran 1872 Drinking fountain device Laurene O'Donnell 1985 Electric hot water heater Ida Forbes 1917 Elevated railway Mary Walton 1881 Engine muffler El Dorado Jones 1917 Feedback control for data processing Erna Hoover 1971 Fire escape Anna Connelly 1887 Globes Ellen Fitz 1875 Grain storage bin Lizzie Dickelman 1920 Improved locomotive wheels Mary Jane Montgomery 1864 Improvement in dredging machines Emily Tassey 1876 Improvement in stone pavements Emily Gross 1877 Kevlar, a steel-like fiber used in radial tires, crash helmets, and bulletproof vests Stephanie Kwolek 1966 Life raft Maria Beaseley 1882 Liquid Paper correction fluid Bette Nesmith Graham 1956 Locomotive chimney Mary Walton 1879 Medical syringe Letitia Geer 1899 Mop-wringer pail Eliza Wood 1889 Oil burner Amanda Jones 1880 Permanent wave for the hair Marjorie Joyner 1928 Portable screen summer house Nettie Rood 1882 Refrigerator Florence Parpart 1914 Rolling pin Catherine Deiner 1891 Rotary engine Margaret Knight 1902 Safety device for elevators Harriet Tracy 1892 Street cleaning machine Florence Parpart 1900 Submarine lamp and telescope Sara Mather 1845 Suspenders Laura Cooney 1896 Washing machine Margaret...
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...Practice Test #1 Sentence Correction 1. To meet the rapidly rising market demand for fish and seafood, suppliers are growing fish twice as fast as they grow naturally, cutting their feed allotment by nearly half and raising them on special diets. 2. Organized in 1966 by the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Breeding Bird Survey uses annual roadside counts along established routes to monitor changes in the populations of more than 250 bird species, including 180 songbirds. 3. Less than 35 years after the release of African honeybees outside Sao Paulo, Brazil, their descendants, popularly known as killer bees, had migrated as far north as southern Texas. 4. Excited about the prospects of harnessing Niagara Falls to produce electric power, Nikola Tesla, the inventor of alternating current, predicted in the mid-1890's that electricity generated at Niagara would one day power the streetcars of London and the streetlights of Paris. 5. The airline company, following through on recent warnings that it might start reducing service, announced that it was eliminating jet service to nine cities, closing some unneeded operations, and grounding twenty-two planes. 6. The list of animals that exhibit a preference for using either the right or the left hand (i.e., claw, paw, or foot) has been expanded to include the lower vertebrates. 7. Obtaining an investment-grade rating will keep the county's future borrowing costs low, protect its already-tattered...
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