Many animal species the female is often bigger and stronger than the males of the same species. ... Some people believe that animals or even living things should have certain rights. It is hard to argue what such rights they should have considering they cannot provide their opinion. The Animal liberation perspective is one that says factory farming is not moral (Schmidtz). ... Although many plants and animals are not able to argue for their rights, I believe that there are certain things that should be put in place to help conserve nature. ...

• Word Count: 1009
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He has written numerous papers on Aboriginal land rights and customary law and thus I believe that he is more than qualified to write on this subject. ... It was only in the 1992 Mabo decision that the Australian High Court recognised that indigenous people had rights to their country before European settlement. ... By importing new plans and animals, the British destroyed natural plant life and hastened the extinction of many animal species. ...

• Word Count: 507
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

King sheds much light on the history of the Native Culture, the incarceration of the seventy-two Indians at Fort Marion in the late eighteen hundreds, and the continuous fight for Native rights. ... "Why are you talking to the animals?. ... Animals don't talk. ... This excerpt also expresses how, even though animals are a very important part of Native Mythology, because they are not important to Christianity, they are devalued in all of society. ... But the fight for Native rights thrives. ...

• Word Count: 1156
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Rather than fostering tolerance and promoting acceptance, it seems that cultural relativism provides legitimate support for the deprivation of human rights across the world. As Neil Levy argues 'moral relativism leaves us unable to make necessary criticisms of human rights abuses, of the systematic oppression of women, indeed, of the very destruction wreaked by the colonial powers on their colonies. ...

• Word Count: 1818
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

Like in India, dowry system, animal sacrifice in the temples, unequal rights to females etc. however, today these wrong systems do not exists that dominatingly as they were in past, and it was possible because of people who did put forward their opinion on these habits and showed courage to condemned them. ...

• Word Count: 592
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Competition is especially emphasized during the rights of passage (or the transition time between childhood and adulthood) Most people are sent to a training group to learn their new human rights and duties before receiving their rights of passage. ... During these rights the initiates must learn the new adult tribal laws in a "cram course" or else they are considered failures and regress to a lower class for the rest of their lives. ... For example, in one experiment, baby laboratory animals were given mild electric shocks. When they reached adulthood, they tended to cope better with stre...

• Word Count: 2054
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The existence of behavioral traditions--that is, patterns of behavior transmitted by social rather than by biologic hereditary means--has definitely been established for non-human animals. ... The question of whether the difference between the mind of man and that of animals is one of kind or of degree has been debated for many years, and even today reputable scientists can be found on both sides of this issue. But no one who holds the view that the difference is one of degree has adduced any evidence to show that animals are capable of a kind of behavior that all human beings exhibit. ... The...

• Word Count: 4734
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As the walls of civilized society crumbled, the boys gave into their animal desires and disregarded the only element of order apparent on the island. ... confidence and justification to commit atrocious acts of violence; ultimately causing them to do things they would never in their rights mind do. ...

• Word Count: 920
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

As we know, English wild man has deep roots in English literature and popular culture and encompasses a remarkable variety of types-from fully human to almost animal, from essentially moral to irredeemably corrupt, which may all be the similarities to Caliban; therefore, the interpretations of Caliban are abundant and various. ... Since people in that day firmly believed man as a rational animal who can and should control his baser passions, Caliban, the epitome of the darkest side of human nature, naturally earned no sympathy or appreciation. However, this view began to change toward the e...

• Word Count: 2369
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Kung people still have traditions that have been passed down for hundreds of generations such as their poison arrows, their trance ritual, their wide knowledge of over five hundred species of plants and animals "knowing which are edible, harmful, cosmetic, and medical. ... This in no way makes them animal like, wild, or undomesticated. ... In this situation, the bushman would be treated as animals, and the very fact that people are considering this process proves that they are seen as animals already. ... The reserve was originally established to protect the land and resource use rights o...

• Word Count: 3399
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Some of the social issues that concern Indians are the promotion of democracy, freedom from discrimination, independence of thought, and rights of women and children. ... This company values herbal remedies, creating products that are not tested on animals, and packaging their products in recyclable materials. ... I rarely look to see how the products I'm using are made, if they are tested on animals, or even if they are damaging to the earth. ...

• Word Count: 2503
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Arthur witnessed the civil rights movement at it took place in Leesburg County, Georgia, just as he was entering adulthood. ... Our cultural values emphasized a mutually beneficial relationship with nature, other animals, and especially other humans. ...

• Word Count: 2124
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Environmentally, the tourism industry has led to challenges such as environmental pollution, enormous waste management problems, displacement from lands, human rights abuses that have brought great harm to many indigenous peoples and communities globally. ... Large numbers of tourists and cars in mountains can also threaten wild animals. ...

• Word Count: 1995
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

"Pattern thinking is Aboriginal thinking. There is no big boss. Patterns are about belonging" (Stockton, 1995) 'Pattern thinking is 'Aboriginal way'; triangle thinking is 'Western way'. Patterns are about belonging. Nothing is separate from anything else. The land is not separate ...

• Word Count: 2069
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate