Part A - Introduction 1/2 page MAX 1. What are and where do they come from? The term "human rights" is a relatively modern invention. It covers under its umbrella three different types of rights: ' the fundamental freedoms or classical civil liberties, ' ethnic and religious rights ' socio-economic rights. Some constitutions have enumerated t...
Computers Mimic the Human Mind The mind-body problem has captivated the minds of philosophers for centuries. The problem is how the body and mind can interact with each other if they are separate and distinct. One solution to the problem is to replace any mental term with a more accurate physical description. Eliminative Materialists take this i...
Georgia Oak By: Aiden Rector I am Aiden, and I speak for the trees. The Georgia Oak has many different names. For example Quercus Georgiana, Georgia Oak, and Stone Mountain Oak. It is in the Fagaceae Family. The Georgia Oak is native to the southeast United States and lives in Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. It is a small deciduous tree gr...
The rapid development of the technology for cloning has led to moral debates around the world on whether or not to ban creating human clones. With the advancement of clone technology two states, California and Michigan have already banned the cloning of humans. "Everybody who thought it would proceed slowly and could be stopped was wrong, said Le...
In the United States, the media has a tendency to report only the negative details of everything. Such was the case in the late 1960's and early 1970's when the pesticide DDT was investigated and eventually prohibited. Most of the claims against DDT remain unproved to this day. There were three main allegations against DDT: that DDT caused the de...