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SOURCE ANALYSIS: Source Type: Citation: Suitability: Credibility: Bias: Accuracy: Cloning is the process by which a genetically identical copy of an organism has naturally occurred or been created in a laboratory (Genetics Generation, 2015). The most significant cloning example was attained in 1996, where ‘Dolly the sheep’, the first mammal clone was created by somatic cell nuclear transfer by Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell (University of Utah, 2016). Since…

Life: The Good, The Bad, & The Philosophical You are living if you have hit rock bottom and soared through the skies; you are not living if you have only walked on level land. Samuel Johnson is a 1700 English writer known through his impeccable articulation of words, shown most famously illustrated through his letters. With the utilization of precise diction, extended sentences, and wide range of subjects, Samuel Johnson is above qualification to embellish countless recollections of different…

The Mayan Civilization The ancient Mayan lived in the Yucatan around 2600 BC. Today this area is southern Mexico, Guatemala, northern Brazil and western Honduras. By 250 AD, the ancient Maya were at their peak of power. The history of Mayan civilization is divided into 3 principal periods: The Preclassic (2000 BC-250 AD), Classic (250 AD – 950 AD) and Postclassic (950 AD – 1539 AD) periods. The preclassic period of Mayans extend from 2000 BC till 250 AD. In this era Mayans switched from their…

It was the first day of class at SMU and I arrived to my first writing course twenty minutes early with a backpack full of brand new school supplies ready to take my freshman year by storm! I was prepared for this new chapter of my life that would be filled with taking endless notes, reading innumerable pages, and studying countless hours at the library until the information was implanted into my brain. I would ask myself, “It’s just that simple, right? If I go to class and follow…

Interesting Facts about the Dire Wolf There are many interesting facts about the dire wolves just as with other animals, however since the dire wolf does not exist anymore, there are many people who take it that the dire wolf is nothing but a mere myth. Interestingly, the dire wolf is not a myth; they actually existed before they went extinct after the last ice age. The dire wolves were known scientifically by the name Canis dirus, and they actually existed, inhabiting North America as well as…

In Southern history slavery has been of mammoth economic importance. The South used the slaves in growing cotton. The cotton picked by the slaves made up over 80% of the exports from America (U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Slavery: Cause and Catalyst of the Civil War, 1). The cotton export was the most important business in America, for both the south and the north. Slavery was one of the most cost effective means of production to earn money in a labor intensive…

In “the Urban Revolution”, Gordon Childe identifies ten specific criteria in a process that he believes transforms villages and defines a city, civilization, or society. It is through this process that we can easily categorize and compare settlements and cities from ancient times. Two of these criteria, social stratification and occupational specialization, address important aspects of any civilization, such as the existence of specialists in fields like politics and religion. These aspects are…

is the greed "God give you everything for your need, not for your greed" and yet human still fighting for it but what if this greed went to a level insanity that you never saw? Then hear this tale, many years ago, in the ice age period when the mammoths were alive, those big creatures where haunted all the time by another one who was…

Age doesn’t always determine wisdom and the present doesn’t determine the future, experiences you’re put through determine everything. Any event in life can teach a person something new and help you reach goals. For me, hunting has shown me just that season by season. I started going out hunting with my dad at the age of seven, even though I wasn’t old enough to actually be the hunter. At these times, hunting for me meant wake up, go out, and fall asleep in my chair while dad hunts. Throughout…

From the 1770s onwards the West Indies were becoming less important because Cuba and Brazil could produce cheaper sugar. Many of the plantations in the West Indies were closed down and the demand for slaves fell. For example, in 1771 Barbados imported 2728 slaves but one year later they imported none. If this was the case the decision to abolish slavery would have been easier as it was no longer needed and was slowly dying out. Furthermore plantation owners had to pay a substantial amount of…