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Research Involving Humans, 2006.
A discussion and analysis of the claims made about research involving humans in the article "Reframing Research Involving Humans" by Francois Baylis, Jocelyn Downie, and Susan Sherwin.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 44.95
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Francois Baylis, Jocelyn Downie and Susan Sherwin in "Reframing Research Involving Humans" depict their intervention as members of the 'Network on Feminist Health Care Ethics' into the development of ethical guidelines on research involving humans in the 1990s. They argue that to prevent exploitation clinical studies involving women or other oppressed groups should first be required to demonstrate that the results produced will be of specific benefit to the individuals or to the group in question. This essay critically examines this claim with particular reference to issues of exclusion and exploitation.
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Estrus in Humans, 2005.
Examines why humans do not display estrus, a phenomenon whereby the female exhibits certain physiological changes and emits secretions to attract the male for reproductive purposes.
2,336 words (approx. 9.3 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 71.95
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Animals do not engage in human courtship rituals, asking potential partners for dates and engaging in long, sensitive conversations in an attempt to win over their trust. Instead, animals mate almost mechanically, often at set times of the year known as 'mating seasons,' in which the females enter into a hormonally induced period known as estrus, designed to attract males in order to ensure the birth of a new offspring of litter. The paper shows that such mating rituals would prove rather unsuitable for humans, since the idea of women entering a similar state of estrus is ludicrous, not to mention detrimental to the organization and smooth running of society. Indeed, civilization would become quite vulnerable if all its attentions turned to mating at certain times of the year. The paper shows that to ensure its successful existence, humans have lost this display of estrus, instead resorting to the more familiar mating rituals such as dating and wooing to ensure reproduction through a singularly pleasant means. Furthermore, reproduction among humans can theoretically take place at any time. This paper explores the phenomenon of estrus and why humans have lost this overt phenomenon, so essential to most other species.
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"The mechanics of animal reproduction usually distinguish between attractivity, proceptivity, and receptivity. Attractivity is the degree of attractions a female elicits in males, proceptivity is the female's use of signs to elicit a male's interest in reproduction, and receptivity defines how females respond to males' reproductive leads (4). In animals which exhibit estrus, these elements occur almost mechanically when a female enters estrus, or heat. In humans, however, Harris theorizes that human reproduction has evolved into a process-oriented rather than product-oriented system (4). Harris explains that "human courtship is a process that occurs over time and is the result of the behavior of both interactants" (4)."
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Psychological and Behavioral Processes in Humans and Animals, 2002.
This paper compares and contrasts psychological and behavioral processes of human and animals; knowledge of animals gains a deeper comprehension of the similar processes in humans.
1,130 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 39.95
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This paper discusses that both humans and animals have strong psychological needs that modify attitudes and behaviors. The author states that cognitive processes, including thinking, feeling, memorizing and perceiving, strongly influence the entire welfare of animals and humans. The paper concludes that there are acute differences between the humans and animals in their psychological processes that mutate their behavior.
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"Research demonstrates that learning about psychological and behavioral processes of both animals and humans can greatly assist psychologists, physiologists, biologists and most of all general public in ameliorating human/animal interaction and in the successful management of all animals. Over the years, physiological processes have been studied thoroughly and paid much attention to, however, psychological needs and behavioral processes associated to them have neither been examined nor researched, thereby neglecting the most cardinal facet of both animal and human behavior for exploration of the same proves that animals like humans have strong psychological needs that modify and determine their behavior."
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Humans and the Environment, 2005.
A look at the relationship between humans and the environment through an analysis of four poems.
855 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 30.95
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Many times in writing, writers use simple relationships between humans and the environment to show a deeper, more general theme, such as survival or equality. This paper examines how Sara Orne Jewett's "A White Heron," Stephen Crane's "Open Boat," Jack London's "To Build A Fire," and Charles W. Chesnutt's "The Goophered Grapevine," all deal with humans interacting with their environments as a tool to show their ideas or to teach a lesson. It also looks at how, although each of these stories has significant thematic differences and plots, all four have a fair share of similarities.
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"The two poems that have the most in common thematically are London's "To Build a Fire," and Crane's "Open Boat." Both stories use a relationship between humans and the environment to represent the strength of nature and survival (Prof. Rubenfeld, HLI 118, Spring 2005). In London's story, a man who is traveling in the Yukon, where the temperature is 75 degrees below zero, to go meet a group of his friends. Instead of going with a group of people and taking the main trail, which is safer and more practical, the man goes off with just a dog and takes a less traveled path (London, "To Build a Fire,"). He manages fairly well with the cold, building a few fires on the way to keep warm, until he falls into a water spring. It is so cold that if he doesn't build another fire he will face certain death, so he attempts to build one, only to build it under a snow covered tree."
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Vision in Goldfish and Humans, 2007.
A comparative analysis of the use of vision in humans and goldfish.
984 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 34.95
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This paper addresses the similarities and differences between the way that humans see and the way that goldfish see. It examines how adaptation behavior in both humans and goldfish has developed the vision that they have overall as a species today and how, although they may see very differently from one another as a species, there are specific reasons for the type of vision that each species has.
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"Vision that is seen in the goldfish may not seem important to many people, but it is actually quite fascinating in that it is much more developed than most people would expect it to be for the size and apparent intelligence of the creature. Overall, goldfish have developed full-spectrum vision so that they will be able to see the micro-flashes of static electrical charge and bio-luminescence that appear when a creature hunting with sonar sends sound waves through waters rich in micro-fauna in order to search for its prey (Schaerer & Kirschfeld, 2000). This full-spectrum vision has also proved to be very effective in sensing many and various tell-tale signs that come from the bow-wave that a rapidly moving predator makes as it cuts through the water (Schaerer & Kirschfeld, 2000)."
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Pheromones in Humans: The Sixth Sense, 2002.
An explanation and examination of the concept of pheromones in humans.
2,441 words (approx. 9.8 pages), 16 sources, APA, $ 74.95
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This paper discusses the biological aspects of pheromones in humans. Pheromones are chemicals that drive reproductive behavior in many species. Research in recent decades has shown that human beings are no exception.
Introduction to Pheromones
The History of Human Pheromone Research: Specific Studies
The Biology Behind Pheromones in Humans
The Future of Pheromones
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"Pheromone research has been done across several species. Pheromones are chemicals that drive reproduction behavior within many species. Research in recent decades has shown that human beings are no exception. Pheromones are social-environmental chemical stimuli that are produced by one individual and detected by another individual of the same species (Kohl, 1996). In most circumstances, this pheromone communication leads to physiological and behavioral changes, affecting both individuals involved. Pheromones elicit their influence on an animal whether or not an animal is conscious of its involvement, and likewise, may not be aware if they are compelled to respond."
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Humans and Nature, 2002.
Showing how humans interact with nature by examing three stories.
600 words (approx. 2.4 pages), 0 sources, $ 21.95
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This paper introduces, discuss and analyzes three stories, Native American trickster tales "Coyote, Skunk and the Prairie Dogs," and "Owlwoman and Coyote" and "Walden," by Henry David Thoreau. Specifically it looks at the depiction of the interactions of humans and nature, their similarities and differences, and what relevance the depictions have for Americans today.
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"His time there was serene, and he said, "Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me. Where I lived was as far off as many a region viewed nightly by astronomers. We are wont to imagine rare and delectable places in some remote and more celestial corner of the system, behind the constellation of Cassiopeia's Chair, far from noise and disturbance. I discovered that my house actually had its site in such a withdrawn, but forever new and unprofaned, part of the universe" (Thoreau 79). He spent his time listening to the natural sounds, gazing on their wonders, and thinking about the lifestyle that allowed him such peace and pleasure, literally living as one with nature."
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Rights of Non-humans, 2004.
A discussion about whether natural non-humans have rights?
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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This paper presents a discussion of environmental ethics that focuses on the question of whether it is plausible to say that natural non-humans have rights. The paper presents the views and arguments of various people to answer the question in terms of ethics, morality, and values.
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"Value is discussed by Kaufman as instrumental at human disposal and intrinsic not at human disposal. However, the reference to derivative value which is identified according to whether an object such as a car has in fact been put at human disposal, is a useful one for discussing the plausibility of nonhuman objects' rights. That is because it implies that value as humans perceive it can be considered not as a property embedded in a material object meriting what is referred to as direct moral standing, but..."
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Humans and Chimpanzees: Similar Yet Different, 2003.
Compares humans and chimpanzees.
1,243 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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This essay provides an examination of the differences and similarities of humans and chimpanzees, followed by a summary of the research in the conclusion.
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"According to Charles E. Oxnard (1987), gaining an understanding the human lineage is one of the main problems in studying human evolution; however, many fossil hunters appear to believe that this means that their task is to find the fragments of the precise human ancestor in the field. ?Likewise, many laboratory workers seem to believe that this means that their task is showing that a particular fossil remnant is that ancestor. Even in the public mind, studying human evolution seems to be this matter of going from 'missing' to 'found' links? (2001:1). However, the likelihood of finding such a ?missing link? are remote, but comparison in the fossil record allow scientists to evaluate the amounts and kinds of morphological differences that have existed among related biological organisms (Oxnard 1987)."
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Gods and Humans, 2005.
An analysis of Homer's portrayal of gods and humans in his epic "Iliad".
2,762 words (approx. 11.0 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 82.95
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This paper examines how gods and humans have complex relationships in Homer's "Iliad". It looks at how the portrayal of the Olympians given by Homer is in keeping with contemporary Greek thinking. It also considers whether perhaps Homer secretly hated the gods and uses the "Iliad" to lampoon them. It discusses how it is in their interactions with mortals that the Olympians seemingly "ungodly" behavior shows itself and through which Homer illuminates the relationships between gods and mortals.
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"Essential to understanding the relationships between gods and mortals in the Iliad is the awareness that some of the mortals themselves are semi-divine, being descended from various gods, not all Olympian. Achilles of course is the son of a mortal father and the goddess Thetis, daughter of Oceanus, a Titan. Aeneas figures prominently as a nearly unconquerable Trojan and in addition to being remotely descended from Jove by his ancestor Dardanus (also an ancestor of Priam) is also the son of a mortal father and the goddess Venus, herself a daughter of Jove according to Homer. Glaucus is descended from Aeolus, the Greek wind-god and a cousin of Sarpedon, himself a son of Jove."
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Dogs and Humans, 2007.
This paper discusses how the relationship between dogs and humans has evolved through history.
2,554 words (approx. 10.2 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 77.95
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This paper traces the relationship between man and dogs from pre-historic to modern times. The paper first discusses recent discoveries that have disproved assumptions about the first domesticated dogs. The paper also explores the various functions dogs served in different cultures, from hunting, guarding and more recently as pets and companions. The paper includes a section on how dogs have been portrayed in literature. An annotated bibliography is included with the paper.
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"Dogs also were valuable as sentries, and were important in transport, both for pack saddles in the Plains areas, and for dog-drawn sleds used by the Mandan in the north. The Plains Indians had a device called the "travois," Fiedel writes, which was made of two long poles attached at the dog's shoulders, "with the butt ends dragging behind the animal; midway, a ladder-like frame, or a hoop made of plaited thongs, was stretched between the poles, and could carry a load up to sixty pounds or more. "
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Psychology: Motivation and Emotion In Humans, 2002.
Critical analysis of psychological article on motivation in humans by renowned author Todd A. Ryska.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 8 sources, $ 62.95
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This seven-page research paper will present a critical analysis of the article "Perceived purposes of sport among recreational participants: The role of competitive dispositions" by the renowned author Todd A. Ryska (2002). While examining the article for it's content, theme and approach, the paper will highlight the role of competitiveness, motivational goals and how the achievement theory of motivation influences the sportsman's perception thereby evoking his various emotions and bringing a change in the personality in general and behavior as well as performance in particular.
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Four Poems and the Power of Humans Over Animals, 2002.
This paper serves as an argumentative essay debating the point that the only humane way in which human beings can aid terminally- ill pets is to put them down.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper argues that the destruction of animals is actually more beneficial than allowing them to suffer, and that the power that human beings hold over animals establishes this right. Four poems dealing with this subject shall be cited in order to drive home this point. These poems are "WoodChucks" by Maxine Kumin, "Snake" by D.H. Lawrence, "The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop, and "Traveling through the Dark" by William Stafford.
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The Difference Between Humans and Animals, 2007.
This paper explores human choice and instinct in "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell.
1,418 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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The paper reveals that many people have tried to define what it really means to be human but there is still no definitive answer that everyone will accept. The paper relates that one of the most definitive essays on humanity and society and one that is often overlooked, is "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell. The paper discusses how Orwell shot an elephant and then looks at the psychological, ideological and social issues that were involved in the shooting. The paper also examines three books that address the subject of what it truly means to be human and the reasons behind the actions of humanity. The paper discusses human choice and our basic differences from animals.
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"From examining Orwell's essay, it is easy to see that he is discussing his own adventure but also the human adventure. Shooting the elephant is something that Orwell had to deal with, but the feelings that he went through about being laughed at and the need to be respected belong to almost every human being at some time in their lives. Socially and ideologically the elephant was shot because Orwell wanted to be accepted and treated decently. Psychologically the elephant was shot because Orwell felt that he had to do something and did the best thing that he could find to do."
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Allergy in Humans, 2007.
This paper describes the causes, reactions and treatments for allergies.
1,407 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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This paper presents an in-depth discussion of allergies, including current and projected treatment options. The first recognition and identification of allergies is described as well as the development of medication to treat symptoms. Additionally, the different types of allergies are detailed, and how their various reactions are seen in humans. The paper concludes by describing the medication and treatment options for allergy sufferers. This includes a scientific discussion of drug interactions and a discussion of allergy management.
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"Statistics say that almost half of the American population suffers from some allergic reactions and 50% of them show in the eye area (Myers 2005). Quite often, these reactions, which appear in the eye area, are due to exposure to new particulates, pollution, and genetic factors. The allergic response starts when the body's immune system reacts to the substance, called immunogen or allergen. The reaction can be innate or acquired in time. The mast cell appears linked to chemotaxis, vasodilation and anti-coagulation. Mast cells help control vascular permeability and repair injured connective tissue. ....."
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