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Throughout the course of many years, animals become endangered and lose some of its population day by day. It has become a trend to hunt animals and use parts of the animal for uses such as the hide for a blanket or the meat to eat. Either way, it’s pretty safe to say the population of some species are dying out, and people need to do something about it. Since the invention of many weapons like rifles, handguns and bombs etc. people use those weapons to clear out territory that previously…

Hesse G. Sambaan September 25, 2017 Comp II What’s wrong with the animal rights by Vicki Hearne Vicki Hearne thinks that there is more for animal satisfaction for happiness that is the personal achievement. Animals find happiness in their work that they do that you can call “talent”. She believes that animal right advocates got all it wrong, making some of the animals suffer and they are more concern of arguing than the animal’s happiness. The essay was persuasive, she uses her own knowledge…

What to do with a Corpse: An Analyses of Cultural Funerary Practices and Their Applications in Amazonian, Borneo and Western Societies It is a universal constant that all people die. However, the question of what to do with the body of the deceased is less directly answered. Funerary rituals are shaped by culture, and this “death culture” varies greatly in terms of practice, significance, and meaning, to those who exercise them. This idea of unique variation can be prominently seen in the death…

habitat loss, illegal trade, being hunted and sometimes killed affects the living conditions of these animals. Let’s start with orangutan which are the world’s famous tree climbing mammals that are losing their habitat on the two remaining islands; Borneo and Sumatra. Orangutan is a Malayan word meaning person or man of the forest. Their population has decreased from 66,000 to 45,000 over ten years (“Orangutan Coservancy”, n.d)). They are also traded illegally when they are up to seven years old…

Tattooing In The Workplace Tattoos have been apart of American culture as long as the country itself. People use it to display messages that have deep meaning to them, or simply something that they find pretty. Regardless of why they got the tattoo, they can be fired from whatever job they have because of the art they choose to display on their skin. There are laws protecting one from being fired for their sexuality, gender, and race, but none for having tattoos. An employer can fire their…

India, Sudan, China, Canada, Australia, Malaya, Burma, British Guiana, and British Honduras. The United States had control of the Philippines, Samoa, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Sumatra, and Java, Borneo. Accordingly, France had control of Algeria, French West Africa, Tunisia, Vietnam, and French…

Harbor the U.S. needed a plan that would set the Japanese back enough for the American troops to regain a foothold in the Pacific. The Japanese had already conquered many of the small islands surrounding its mainland, including Guam, Cavite, North Borneo, Rabaul, Singapore, Java, and Bataan.…

The Argumentative Idea on Race Classification The concept of race and when and where it first arose has been attempted to be explained by many philosophers over a multitude of centuries. However, the question still remains upon the abstraction of whom planted the initial idea. In the novel The Idea of Race, edited by Robert Bernasconi and Tommy L. Lott, Bernasconi and Lott have combined a slew of essays written by different philosophies on the phenomenon of race. Four major philosophers who…

The topic of this article is about change and dominance. The author of this article Tom Law, mentions that the English language is very dominant especially in the state of Wales. People from Wales do not speak their native language anymore, because the English language has been taken over. In 2011 only 20 % of the population of Wales could speak Welsh, which is a low number and much lower, then it used to be. Back in 1840’s 80 % of the population spoke Welsh as their native language and they…

Japanese. These women because they can look back and reflect on their experiences, serve as historical reference to some of the atrocities committed by the Japanese during World War II. Through this new evidence, historians can create new perspectives on a historical period in time. This theme of harsh treatment at the hands of the Japanese is also prevalent in Toshiyuki Tanaka work Hidden horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II. This book describes the acts of cannibalism towards…