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The Gag Rule of 1836-1844 was a House rule that set out to table all petitions from anti slavery groups. The reason for this was the growing support of the abolitionist movement that was flooding congress with petitions and angering southerner congressman who owned slaves. In an effort to stall the anger from these petitions, Henry Laurens Pinckney decided to bring to the House a set of three resolutions. The first stated that congress had no right to interfere in a state's decision on the issue of slavery. Secondly, he declared Congress could not entangle itself with the District of Columbia’s decision on the legality of slavery and lastly, he declared a ruling that all petitions regarding the abolition of slavery be tabled. These resolutions…

According to Broad, ag-gag laws refer to the “Laws aimed at prohibiting unauthorized individuals from taking photographs and videos of animals agricultural operations.” From the perspectives of big agriculture, they think undercover videos are harmful to their farm owner’s privacy given that their family members work and operate in the farms day in and day out. Big agriculture also thinks undercover videos damages their farm business. They state advocacy campaign’s videos were selectively edited…

n the article it mentions “ag-gag” laws; ag-gag is a term that was coined by Mark Brittman in 2011 in a New York Times column. These laws are essentially anti whistleblower laws that relate to the agriculture business. Farmers fear a few things when it comes to these whistleblowers. One, they don’t want people sneaking on to their farms to unknowingly film them. Trespassing is already a crime but these laws make it easier to prosecute these people. They also don’t want people taking jobs under…

Lady Gaga: Top 8 Memorable Interview Quotes By Ginn Andrews Lady Gaga has proven in the last few years to be much more than “the next Madonna”. Her fans, affectionately called Little Monsters by the icon herself, have known it all along, and the woman has worked for her permanent spot in pop culture history. Number Eight: On Being A ‘Firefighter’ “I’ve come a long way through a lot of heartache and pain, but none of it made me damaged goods. It made me a fighter.” Gaga is engaged to Taylor…

6 of the Most Gag-Worthy Things Ever Found in Food Eating is supposed to be a nourishing and satisfying experience. It 's a time to sit down with friends and family to socialize, relax, and savor the experience of life. At the very least, you don 't expect something to go horribly wrong. Think the term 'opening a can of worms ' sounds gross? That 's nothing. Check out six of the most gag-worthy things ever found in food. (And, unless you 've got a really strong stomach, don 't read this…

A scene in Evil Dead II involves Annie and Ed Getley arriving at the cabin and finding a trail of blood leading to a chainsaw and proceed to attack Ash because they believed he killed Annie’s parents. The film does not follow the route of a traditional horror film, which would have properly explained the motives of Annie and Ed while connecting it to the overarching motives of the film. Instead, shortly after Annie and Ed arrive at the Cabin, the film leads into a gag in which Henrietta’s corpse…

In stark contrast to Blood of a Poet, Horse Feathers is a simple and direct comedy that uses a great combination of both visual and verbal gags to entertain the audience. This film is a great example of how both sight gags and verbal jokes can capitalize off one another. In every scene of the film, there are visual gags, such as when Pinky (Harpo Marx) cuts the cards, when Professor Wagstaff (Groucho Marx) is visiting Connie (Thelma Todd) and keeps leaving the room and returning, and when…

Self Portrait: In the self-portrait I tried to use a mix of the two strategies into one photo. I incorporated the strategies of contradiction and also exhibitionism to portray the destruction of stress. I tried to express a contradiction of my personality through the visualization of a gag, and the process of stress causing the contradiction of my true personality. The gag, which is stretched is to appear as it is skin being stretched. This is supposed to symbolize the contradiction of my…

build a protein. In protein coding the sequence is always in groups of three nucleotides. These groups of three are called codons. Every codon has one amino acid in a protein. All proteins need to start with the ATG codon. Most biological activities are carried out by proteins. In order to have the DNA sequence that reads ATG-ACT-CAT-GAG-TGA to be translated into the RNA to build a protein there has to be proteins that are not the same to be able to perform this function. The DNA also needs to…

The gag rule characterized a political prevention of discussing slavery in the legislation, which sanctioned for little to no progress to occur in the abolitionist movement. Without the ability to discuss slavery, innovative ideas and criticisms of the act could not ensue, stipulating the continuation of human degradation. Desiring an end to the gag rule, abolition supports sought to abolish this rule by constructing petitions against the silence. The gag rule rested critical, as it represented…