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the design in all things on Earth, the moral standards in society, and the faith in God’s word. Look at nature and you see beautiful design. You can see it in animals like bees, which use specific dances to communicate (Richards 141). Graceful gazelles have a cooling system in their brains to cool them down while escaping enemies (Richards 134). Also, army ants build nests out of living worker ants to protect eggs since they are always moving (Richards 143). Thought was put into these…

the poem indicates that the animals perceived Enkidu as their equal; they thought of him to be one of them. One part of a passage showcases Enkidu’s beast mentality by describing Enkidu as an “offspring of the mountains, who eats grasses with the gazelles, came to drink at the watering hole with the animals, with the wild beasts he slaked his thirst with water” First, this quote removes…

The Food of Civilization: Humanity, the Natural Order, and the Epic of Gilgamesh The Epic of Gilgamesh is widely known as an epic about early human civilization and what it means to be human. While these ideas are often researched and discussed in scholarly works, there is one aspect of civilization that is frequently overlooked: food. Food and it’s procuration are one of the three basic needs of a human—as we all known from mister Abraham Maslow and the various forms of Psychology 101 taken at…

We all should be aware of our own biases and prejudices; this is just one of the numerous themes in the Disney/Pixar film, Zootopia directed by Bryon Howard, Rich Moore and Jared Bush. The film connects the themes through the city of Zootopia, a place where anyone can be anything. All animals inhabit Zootopia to make a life and to be something other than: prey or predators. Despite the cohesion in the city the two groups exists and each animal identifies with one. Throughout the movie, there are…

partnership and if humans and animals were to be considered truly morally equal, humans would be obligated to interfere with these unethical natural relationships and prevent this suffering. Humans would for example have the obligation to protect gazelles from lions in the same fashion as humans would protect small children from lions, as Regan allows no distinction between humans and animals. Because there is no current system of policing the natural world, so the argument goes, humans are…

Throughout the course of human history there have been accounts of a beast faster than a deer, brave enough to come out the victor in a battle with a lion, hardly seen by mankind, and armed with a single horn growing out of its forehead. Without a fossil record to either confirm or dissipate these accounts. Could it be possible that the animal in question is merely a figure of our imagination? Should these accounts be put upon the shelves of mythology with the tales of Zeus and Odin? This topic…

This excerpt shows the staunch stance that leaders of the feminist movement were willing to take against the Church. The adoption of freethought philosophies into their declaration proved to be a significant turning point, especially with the acceptance of newfound scientific claims by Charles Darwin regarding his theory of evolution. After looking into the relationship of religion and feminism, the alliance of feminism and science will now be assessed. In the latter part of the 19th century,…

Taxidermy means for hunters to hunt large animals and dangerous fame after the show. The main motivation for the development of taxidermy as an art and science technologies, increasing interest in natural history, especially since the Enlightenment and the rise of private collections. Regardless of ancient human specimens in the history of Egypt, China, Iran, etc. from the mid 17th century and early 18th century, the first use of chemicals to protect the skin, hair and feathers of animals and…

There are three things that are certain in life: death, taxes, and parents being fucking exhausted. As soon as your offspring emerges from the womb your life as a parent becomes one of little to no sleep. I've been tired for three and a half years. Kids have all the energy in the world; sometimes it feels like their body just naturally produces crystal meth because they're all over the place and rarely stop. Between the long nights in the baby stage to the just continuous chasing that goes on…

Change is often not needed, however, it is required to be accepted by civilization. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Enkidu is a man placed on Earth simply to teach Gilgamesh a lesson. Enkidu is physically a man, but mentally a child. Enkidu changes from a boy to become a full man and a part of civilization. Enkidu loses his innocence when he begins to transition into civilization, gaining knowledge yet becoming distanced from nature. When Enkidu was placed on Earth by gods, he was roaming with…