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- 831: The Platypus
- ... will begin to use up its supply of oxygen. The nesting burrow has an entrance above water level to increase oxygen supply, whereas the dwelling burrows are located below water level. The platypus has a bill like a duck, and a tail like a beaver. Some believe it is a cross between a duck, beaver, and fish. The platypus lays eggs and suckles its young. Roughly half the size of a ... flat-footed. On the hind legs of the male, there is a spur. The spur is used as protection against predators. The spur is hollow and is linked to a poison gland. The platypus’s bill is soft, flat and rubbery, and it is very sensitive due to the large amount nerves in the bill. The platypus uses its bill to search for food and to find its way underwater. The positioning of the nostrils on the bill, allow it to breathe while the rest of its body is ...
- 832: Livestock and Wastes
- ... lysine is the only synthetic amino acid that is currently priced to be feasible to use in swine rations. North Carolina regulators are paying more attention to livestock waste now. On October 1, 1995, Senate Bill 1080 went into effect. This law imposed mandatory statewide setback requirements on all new or expanded factory hog farms, raising 250 or more hogs. Under the senate bill 1080, all new hog houses and waste lagoons must be at least 1,500 feet from any occupied residence, 2,500 feet from schools, hospitals, and churches and 100 feet from any property boundary. Spray fields must be at least 50 feet from any residential property boundary and from any perennial stream or river, other than an irrigation ditch or canal. In 1996, Senate Bill 1217 was passed for more regulation hog farms. The law directed the state to develop a system of general “nondischarge permits” for animal operations above certain size thresholds. Factory hog farms with 250 or ...
- 833: Gun Control- A Firing Issue
- ... the majority of violent crimes that take place. They wish to instill many types of bans and waiting periods on firearms, making it nearly impossible to obtain a handgun. In fact, in 1993 the Brady Bill, which mandates a waiting period on buying firearms, was passed. Their arguments range from protecting children to saying that guns are diseases, but when one looks at the facts, though, the arguments of gun control ... support their claimā€¯ (Silver 78). The 2nd Amendment supports gun owners, and hard evidence that it does otherwise is nonexistent. Gun control advocates have been lobbying for 7 years for the passage of the Brady Bill, which makes a waiting period mandatory for all national firearm sales. Ironically, the passage of this bill in 1993 has done nothing to reduce crime; in fact violence has risen still since the passage of the bill. This bill, which was most definitely oversold by its supporters, has become the prime ...
- 834: Martin Luther King- I Have A D
- ... as such by sanctioned power, dared to dream of what the country could be at its best, in the face of what often was its worst. For example, in December, 1955, days after Montgomery civil rights activist Rosa Parks refused to obey the city's rules mandating segregation on buses, a bus boycott was launched and King was elected as president of the newly formed Montgomery Improvement Association. As the boycott ... unfathomable goal of abolishing federal and state-sanctioned segregation and discrimination was accomplished in only a few short years. King was asked by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to aid in the struggle for civil rights in Birmingham, Alabama. Thus, he was there because injustice was present (154). He was not content with a system that saw his people or people of any color, as second class citizens. He set out ... circumstances. Above all, King follows his method of careful reasoning and is convinced that his arguments will persuade his audience (153). King, quickly realized that the best strategy to liberate African-Americans and gain them rights was to use nonviolent forms of protest. He wanted to eliminate the use of violence as a means to manage and establish cooperative ways of interacting. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" ( ...
- 835: Animal Experimentation
- ... agencies and private organizations have adopted regulations governing animal care and use. Discussions about laboratory animal use have also been influenced in recent years by the emergence of groups committed to a concept termed "animal rights." Some of these groups oppose all use of animals for human benefit and any experimentation that is not intended primarily for the benefit of the individual animals involved. Their view recognizes more than the traditional interdependent connections between humans and animals: It reflects a belief that animals, like humans, have inherent rights" (Regan, 1983; Singer, 1975). Their use of the term "rights" in connection with animals departs from its customary usage or common meaning. In Western history and culture, "rights" refers to legal and moral relationships among the members of a community of humans; it has ...
- 836: Freedom And The Constitution
- The First Amendment of the United States Constitution protects the right to freedom of religion and freedom of expression from government interference. Freedom of expression is made up of the explicit rights of freedom of speech, press, assembly and to petition the government for a redress of grievances, and the implied right of association and belief contained in the First Amendment. The Supreme Court interprets the extent of the protection afforded to these rights. The First Amendment has been interpreted by the Court as applying to the entire federal government although it is only expressly applicable to Congress. Furthermore, the Court has interpreted the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as protecting the rights in the First Amendment from interference by state governments. Two clauses in the First Amendment guarantee freedom of religion. The establishment clause prohibits the government from passing legislation to establish an official religion or ...
- 837: Bioethics
- ... consists of documents, codes of ethics and reports, which while not necessarily enforceable, strongly urge researchers experiments on human subjects to observe certain standards of conduct. A. FEDERAL AND PROVINCIAL LEGISLATION The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms governs here. Some of its provisions in effect make certain kinds of experiments illegal. "Any experimental activity which endangers the protected values is thereof illegal."~ Another is according to current case law, "treatment ... the Law, any experiment performed on a person to bring out any new medication may result in criminal sanction (homicide, damages for harm, suspension). Here are a few examples given by the Charter of the Rights and Freedoms. The experiment should be so designed and based on the results of animal experimentation and a knowledge of the natural history of the diseased of other problem under study that the anticipated results ... was prepared on ethics. It was responsible for construing ethical guidelines for the people to abide by. Although the report deals with ethics in the bio-medical studies, it emphasizes more on other issues. ANIMAL RIGHTS EXPERIMENTATION ON FETUSES euthanasia, abortion, genetic engineering Since the law states that most experimentation performed on animals and humans is unethical yet provides fruitful results, it should be left to the people to make ...
- 838: Loophole Or A Conspiracy?
- ... I wonder why we the consumer, are in this position? I cannot come up with one straight answer. However, I have a theory that maybe Microsoft is behind all of this. As you may know, Bill Gates (CEO, Chairman) of Microsoft has a business marketing agenda of his own. Bill Gates stated that he should sell his products cheap and affordable for the average consumer. After he sells the product to the public, the consumer will have no other choice but to purchase and use the Microsoft products. This is where Bill comes in for the kill. Bill is going to increase the price for the other products and cash in on the profits. Why do you ask, because majority of the computers in the world ...
- 839: Justice
- ... income supply for existing as a human. The puritan system requires that people at least be willing to contribute to society in order to receive a subsistence income. Finally, the Individual view holds the property rights of the individual to be sacred: no one may forcibly deprive him of his goods. I will argue for the last alternative. Individualism is an extension of Locke's idea of property rights. An Individualist believes each person owns his own life, the fruits of his labor, and his property. No one may deprive him of these property rights. He is free to act as long as his actions do not interfere with the property rights of others. At this point it is important to define what money is. Money is an exchange ...
- 840: Covenanted Governments
- ... people. Common man made up the rules to follow and others followed them because they made them and they were in their interest (property). Government became a contract between man and man. It protected individual rights (natural rights) in exchange for freedom. How is this possible? According to the rational behind this, man is obviously very ambitions and greedy, desiring things of the world, and seeing himself as an individual outside of nature ... So once again it is seen that people got together out of necessity and tacitly agreed to live together in a society of sorts where protection from the real world existed, in exchange for absolute rights. Another influential figure was Rousseau. His theory of a compact/covenant form of government runs a little more optimistic that the previous men mentioned. He felt that humans were intelligent, and rational, that reason ...
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