The population of human beings had been showing a rapid increasing during the past several hundred years due to the adequate food supply and the top position where human species is in the food chain. However, many people are concerned about that one day the Mother Earth may not be able to provide ad...

Mankind has deceived its furry, finned and scaled friends by its disgraceful disregard for their basic rights as living beings. Nowhere is it written that humans, while perhaps the most developed of all species, are the rulers over their nonspeaking counterparts. Whether or not a person believes ...

Glynn Isaac Defines "the Homebase Hypothesis" It has been argued since Darwin's day that the great apes were man's nearest living relatives, and as evidence emerged during the late 1960's of the hunting propensities and simple tool use of chimpanzees (Goodall 1986), anthropologists found more and...

Animal cruelty has been prevalent since ancient Roman times. They would bring wild animals from throughout their far-reaching empire and put them in an area where they would fight to death, to the great amusement of huge crowds of Roman citizens. A popular belief of the time was farm animals sho...

What Makes Us Human? When I asked to write about what makes us human and how are we different than other primates I thought this question would be easy to answer. After all we are arguably the most intelligent creatures on this earth. How hard could it be to compare our intelligence to that of ...

Anger is only one letter short of danger, yet it varies from angel by only one letter. Anger causes a great deal of harm. The question still remains, "Is human nature inherently violent?" Many arguments have been made to both support and invalidate this theory. As humans, we cannot e...

A satire is a literary work in which human foolishness and vice are criticised. Satire employs humour and wit to ridicule human institutions or humanity itself, in order that they might be remodelled or improved. Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal' qualifies as a perfect example of s...

In the novel Grendel, John Gardner's use of the first-person point of view completely alters Grendel from the manifestation of Beelzebub into a keen quasi-human being. This transformation is shown through Grendel's feelings toward fellow creatures and enemies. Also, the rational si...

Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring definitely captured the spirit of the 1960's. The title referred to the silence of the various birds and wildlife that were muted by the overuse of pesticides. This book gave the nation a rude awakening towards the dangers of some pesticides, such as DD...

Endangered species are living things whose population is so reduced that they are threatened with extinction. Thousands of species are included in this category. The International Union for the Conservation of nature and Natural Resources publishes a list of threatened mammals, birds, reptiles, am...

Today, the use of pesticides has increased dramatically because of the growing population and the demands this population. The high increase in population means more food must be produced and spreading of diseases is more likely. Like other organisms, humans compete with other species for food and...

For thousands of years, mankind has searched for the true meaning of freedom. There are people all over the world believing that America symbolizes freedom. For the people who live in America, they believe that they have freedom. America is a free country; you have the freedom of speech and free...

"Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson is a passionate and scientific look at the harsh reality of the effects of chemical pest controllers otherwise known as pesticides. Released in 1962, this piece of Carson's writing history would become the founder of the modern environmentalism and st...

The idea of a perfect race was first thought of way back during World War II, by Adolf Hitler. He wanted a nation of tall, healthy, intelligent, blonde-haired humans and these were the beginnings of biological engineering. The experiments carried out on the Jews, in the concentration camps, were ut...

Guns, Germs, Steel, and controversy: Diamonds unique look at evolution and history. Through out Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond attempts to explain the dominance of certain ethnicities. The backbone to this book and the questions that Diamond asks and answers, stem from a question asked o...

"Then the Lord God formed man of the dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being" (Genesis 2:7). The Bible states the above as the moment man became a being, and from this being civilization was created. To a believer, this would ...

Cloning.........Legal? As our world travels into a new millennium, the progress of shifting gears manually is becoming obsolete. Cloning has branched into many separate divisions. Scientists throughout the world have undergone strenuous research of cloning humans, animals, and many more subject...

Cloning.........Legal? As our world travels into a new millennium, the progress of shifting gears manually is becoming obsolete. Cloning has branched into many separate divisions. Scientists throughout the world have undergone strenuous research of cloning humans, animals, and many more subject...

In the science fiction movie "The Matrix" people are ruled by Artificial Intelligence (AI), machines made by men to make life easier on the human race. This form of industrialization has also begun in our world today. We have given birth to a host of machines that think for themselves, hoping they w...

Perfect Misunderstanding: As Understood by Epistle I of "An Essay on Man" Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Man" is a crowning achievement, as it enjoys, simultaneously, the arching comprehensiveness of a distinguished volume, and the judicious simplicity of poetry. Bri...