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Selective Female Infanticide in Miletus, 2001.
By analyzing records found in the Delphinion, or Apollo's sanctuary, in Miletus, one can conclude that those migrating to the city practiced female infanticide.
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This paper discusses how the list of names found in the Delphinion, or Apollo?s sanctuary, in Miletus served as a record of citizenships granted to immigrants between 228-49 B.C. These immigrants often were mercenaries that came to Miletus to serve, thereby gaining citizenship in this prosperous town. It argues that by viewing the disproportionate records of males to females, it is apparent that female infanticide was a common practice.
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"The significantly disproportionate ratio of sons to daughters evident in the family groups recorded on the Miletian citizenship tablets reveals that female infanticide was widely practiced throughout the Hellenistic time period. Because so little is known about familial life during this age, and since this is ?the largest single body of statistics available? about Hellenistic demography, this record may spawn differing interpretations about the disproportion; namely, a father?s not including his daughters or the absence of daughters due to marriage at the time the records were created. However, what is known about these migrating families and the assumptions that can be made about them prove these explanations to be unlikely. Rather, the data seems to vindicate the selective termination of female infants."
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Charles Darwin's Concept of Natural Selection and Sexual Selection, 2006.
An objective study of Darwin's theories of natural selection.
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In this paper the author reviews the books that Darwin wrote; "Origin of Species and The Descent of Man", which lead to his theories of natural selection. He discusses the theory of how types of living things (species) arise in different places and how the four theories of Darwin were developed ; diversity, competition , survival of the fittest and adaptation. The paper concludes with natural selection and the concepts of sexual selection that support Darwin's theory of the origin of species.
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"However, natural selection is not the only process responsible for evolution; another process is sexual selection. Darwin anticipated that sexual selection would be a potential criticism of evolution through natural selection and therefore put forth great effort to explain these occurrences. Thus, sexual selection refers to selection acting via effects on mating success. Natural selection, then, refers to effects on other fitness components like viability, survival. Darwin recognized the two processes as mutually exclusive."
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Selective Mutism, 2004.
This paper discusses selective mutism, wherein, speech and language skills are intact, but selectively used.
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This paper explains that, for a very long time, selective mutism was believed to be triggered by some severe trauma; however, recent research has shown it to be a part of a larger social anxiety disorder. The author points out that the psychiatric manual ?Diagnostic and Statistical Manual? (published in 1994 and known as DSM IV) lists selective mutism under ?Other Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence?, suggesting that it does not fit well into the diagnostic system of the manual. The paper relates that, in selective mutism disorder, which emerges after previously normal language development, children don?t actively choose to be mute, but become mute when present in situations that produce anxiety within themselves; it is now widely viewed as a form of social phobia with possible biologic predispositions.
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How Common is It?
Diagnosis
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"In one example, a child who was almost five years old started preschool, and after two weeks, refused to speak to either the teacher or his classmates. He also cried at arrival and would ask his parents to take him home. At home he spoke, but only to his mother, but spoke clearly and in complete sentences. He communicated only nonverbally with his father and siblings. When the parents took him to the pediatrician, the doctor could not get him to speak."
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Infanticide in England and Scotland, 2001.
An analysis of infanticide in 17th and 18th century England and Scotland.
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This paper discusses how infanticide, has been practiced throughout human history, but was made explicitly illegal during the seventeenth century throughout Europe. It looks at how, no longer charged as murder, infanticide was made its own capital crime, constructed to assume guilt, specifically targeting single women. It examines how the fact that it was deemed necessary to create and enforce the Infanticide Acts reveals the concerns of the society which produced them and how their enforcement reveals the desperate position of single pregnant women.
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"To lawmakers in the seventeenth century, infanticide was deemed important enough to create new laws that specifically discouraged the practice. Instead of dealing directly with the crime of killing an infant, these Acts, passed in England in 1624 and Scotland in 1690, focused on the concealment of an unmarried woman's pregnancy, differentiating it from a married woman's pregnancy. Under these Acts, the death of an illegitimate newborn was presumed to be the fault of the mother unless she had assistance during delivery or told at least one person that she was pregnant. "
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Female Infanticide, 2002.
This paper explores the issue of female infanticide in China. In other words, the deliberate murder of baby girls by their parents, who do not want to keep them, purely because they are girls and not boys.
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This paper offers an overview of female infanticide as it occurs within China. Information is provided regarding the occurrence of female infanticide, those involved, those who are being harmed/adversely or affected by the handling of this problem, identification of efforts conducted to stop the pattern and the likely consequences and outcomes if this pattern continues. The paper then provides an examination as to how different systems of justice evaluate female infanticide. Finally the paper includes a plan of action as proposed by the author, to combat this terrible problem.
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"Data suggests that female infanticide and prenatal sex selection have created a "missing girl gap" of 30 million in China (Phillips, Fawcett & Pankhurst, 2003). As reported by Jeffrey (2002), female infanticide, sex selective abortions, the abandonment of little girls, and the neglect of baby girls in China remain problems due to the traditional preference for sons, and the family planning policy, which limits urban couples to one child and rural couples to two."
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Infanticide, 2004.
An in-depth analysis of the phenomenon of infanticide, the act of killing a newborn baby.
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This paper discusses the horrendous act of infanticide. The paper claims that this practice has been evident in many cultures all over the world, dating back hundreds of years. The paper presents the apparent reasons behind the committing of infanticide. The paper identifies the legal aspects of this act, explaining it as both a substantive criminal offense as well as a partial defense to murder. The paper focuses on Australia's approach to infanticide.
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"Infanticide is the act or practice of killing newborns or infants. It has been committed or performed in every continent and in every level of culture from the poorest hunters and gatherers to the richest and most advanced classes of people and from the time of our ancestors to modern age (Milner 1998). The act or practice has been so rampant that there is enough evidence on record to show that it has been more the rule than an exception and this evidence reflects that parents themselves kill their infants under distressing and stressful situations. The practice or act was so frequent in England in the 19th century that both the medical and the private communities had to think of ways to control the crime (Milner) described by medical practitioners as savage in a contradiction to human progress."
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Infanticide: Overview and Analysis, 2008.
The author of this paper discusses both the social consequences of infanticide in traditional third world countries and the social acceptability of neonatal euthanasia in Western cultures.
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This paper discusses the social consequences that will result in traditional third world countries from gender imbalance due to a bias in male children, sex-selective abortion and female infanticide. Furthermore, the paper discusses the modern Western issue of the killing of infants who suffer from incurable illnesses. Specifically, the paper assesses the social acceptability of some nations in Western Europe that have in recent years attempted to enact legal protocols for neonatal euthanasia, by which the most severely ill infants may legally be killed following consultation between physicians, parents, and authorities.
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"In contrast to the problem of mass, sex-selective infanticide in traditional cultures, in the West the issue of the killing of infants who suffer from incurable illnesses has recently arisen. It is important to clearly distinguish such euthanasia from infanticide proper, although opponents of such euthanasia are likely to argue that the distinction is not valid ("Outrage," 2004). In fact, euthanasia of both the elderly, the incurably ill, and infants (especially newborns) with incurable illnesses has taken place as long in Western nations as it has in other cultures, but only in recent years has it become a matter of controversy. One example of the controversy coming into a public debate is in the Netherlands, where in 2002, medical doctors from the University of Groningen working in cooperation with state prosecutors worked out what has come to be known as the Groningen Protocol, a set of guidelines for physicians treating severely ill infants who may not be capable of survival. According to these laws, physicians, in consultation with the infant's parents, social workers, and prosecutors, have the prerogative of making a decision concerning euthanasia in select and clearly limited situations. Of approximately 200,000 children born in the Netherlands annual, it is estimated that 600 of the most severely ill may be subject to physician-assisted euthanasia (Verhagen & Sauer, 2005). Whether this new attitude toward neonatal euthanasia will prevail and become more widely accepted remains to be seen."
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Infanticide, 2007.
An analysis of the theories of infanticide in the animal kingdom and a look at the insights it provides into primate behavior.
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This paper discusses the phenomenon of infanticide in the animal kingdom, particularly among primates. It discusses the two ways of looking at the phenomenon from an anthropological perspective and then looks at it from the biologist's point of view. The paper particularly discusses the case for infanticide as a reproductive strategy and suggests that it is a strong case which provides interesting insights into the behaviors of other primate species, especially humans. The paper then describes some of these insights.
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"Still, infanticide should be regarded as a reproductive strategy among males. After all, it remains within the female's best interest to mate with a newly dominant male, even if he has killer her infant. Ultimately, this is because the female, having lost her offspring, needs to remain reproductively competitive and to mate with a male. Additionally, if she mates with a non-dominant male, who has not killed her offspring, she runs the risk of the dominant male repeating his actions. Accordingly, she is obligated to mate with the dominant male in order to decrease the risk that her infant will be killed again. It may also be the case that the mothers who are victims of infanticide are physically incapable of preventing the guilty males from mating with them because of the differences in size between the sexes."
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Peter Singer's Views on Infanticide, 2008.
An argument against Peter Singer's justification of infanticide expounded upon in his book "Practical Ethics".
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This paper criticizes Peter Singer's views on infanticide in "Practical Ethics". Singer believes that children should not be considered people until they have existed outside the mother's womb for at least a month and that physicians are morally justified in killing disabled infants. The paper considers this a disturbingly utilitarian approach that weighs human life on the basis of how useful and convenient it is to society and to those who will care for it. The paper claims that this approach offers an intellectual justification for the Nazis' behavior in WWII. At its most dangerous, the paper concludes, Singer's concept of the utility of infanticide may unjustly allow people to determine who should live - and who should die.
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"In our western culture, we are very often taught that all human life is precious and that the lives of the very young are particularly precious - not least of all because they represent the future. Controversial ethicist Peter Singer, however, feels otherwise. Specifically, Singer has long held the view that children should not be considered people until they have existed outside the mother's womb for at least a month (thirty days) and that physicians are morally justified in killing some infants "on the spot" if those infants are disabled. In Singer's estimation, are not self-aware (therefore not human) and their lives are certainly of no greater value - actually of lesser value - than that of dumb animals like the chimpanzee or dog (Klusendorf, para.1; Singer, 122-123). Singer proceeds to argue that infants are not rational, self-conscious beings with a desire to live. Indeed, if killing an infant child (most especially a disabled one) will increase the happiness of other parties (principally the parents but, really, anyone who might stand to gain from the death of the infant) than taking the child's life is permissible; it is, in short, a profoundly utilitarian approach that weighs human life on the basis of how useful (and how "convenient") it is to society and to those who will care for it. As a final addendum, Singer insists that infanticide is only objectionable if its commission would bring about unhappiness to the parents (Klusendorf, para.5-8). It is a stunning moral view and a deeply troubling one."
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Infanticide, 1991.
This paper discusses the history and cultural study of infanticide, the killing of infants, including case studies of African and South American tribal societies. Abstract.
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"Throughout recorded history, and most likely earlier, babies have been killed or left to die. This practice, called "infanticide," was done for many reasons, all of which reflect particular aspects of human social behavior. Whether for survival, due to the need to lengthen the time interval between siblings, to superstitions regarding deformities and twins, to economic hardship, ancient man has practiced this form of "natural selection." The two case studies presented in this report, the !Kung and the Yanomamo, both adhered to this process, though it was always with much thought and even sorrow.
As history has shown, the definition of "defective" or "deformed" has varied from civilization to civilization. The ancient Greeks viewed an infant with any debilitating birth defect as a candidate for infanticide, while the Germans of 1940 ... "
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Selective Mutism in Children, 2005.
A discussion regarding the causes of selected mutism and how the disorder affects the child, their family, school and society as a whole.
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This paper discusses selective mutism. It then examines the causes of the disorder, the indicators of the disorder in children, and the process of the disorder as it affects individuals in their youth. The paper also discusses how the disorder affects society, family, and school, with further examination of how these entities tend to view children affected by selective mutism.
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"Selective mutism was originally termed "elective mutism" because many believed that a child's lack of speech was due to the child's will, and not a medical condition. The disorder afflicts children prior to the age of five, and first becomes a societal issue when the youth enters the educational system ("Selective", n.d.). The indicators of selective mutism include an apparent lack of communication from the child during specific social situations. This mute condition is most likely not apparent in other social situations; yet, it may be present at school, family events, or when attending certain events. Selective mutism is a disorder that slowly begins to affect the child's ability to interact with others in social situations, as well as hinder the child's performance in school ("Selective", n.d.). "
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Selective Process, 2002.
How to select a CEO.
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This paper outlines the selection process that will be used to hire a prospective candidate for a CEO position in a finance firm.
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Infanticide: To Kill or Preserve Life For the Greater Good of Mankind., 2002.
A discussion on abortion and anti-abortion perspectives in the United States.
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The following paper looks at the ideals and ethics of infanticide and abortion with reference to religious perspectives, community opinions and historical views. The writer makes reference to legal cases and statistics showing the rise in abortion in the United States.
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"Infanticide is the murder of children either before or after its birth, according to French Criminal Codes infanticide is only the murder of the infant after its birth therefore the death of a new born baby, however within the English legal system it is classified as the destruction of life from conception to the age of three years old (Walsh PG).
Infanticide normally happens when the food supply is limited, this can be seen to occur within Chinese and Eskimo communities. Moreover, female infanticide is more common especially within strong patriarchal communities, and also within communities where a child is deformed or touched by evil, for example twin, these may be slain at birth (Anonymous PG)."
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The New Deal and Banking: A Selective Legislative Analysis, 1998.
A paper which examines the legislation relating to Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs, in a bid to recover the American economy from the Great Depression.
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The New Deal was Roosevelt?s answer to the Great Depression and was aimed at the three R?s -- relief, recovery and reform. This paper reviews a selection of legislative laws that represent the three phases of the New Deal and their impact at the time on the economy and government. The paper makes use of historic references and economic theory principles to further clarify the intent of the legislation. In conclusion, it addresses agencies created during that time and points out legislation that is currently in effect today. The paper also explains how the legislation impacted the household through micro economic policies and theories, as well as money and banking.
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Introduction
Emergency Banking Act
Federal Emergency Relief Act
Agricultural Adjustment Act
National Industrial Recovery Act
Glass-Steagall Banking Act
Social Security Act
Fair Labor Standard Act
Conclusion
Bibliography
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"On May 12 the Federal Emergency Relief Act, setting up a national relief system, passed and established the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) which appropriated 500 million dollars for quick relief. This act also created the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) with 250,000 immediate jobs for individuals between the age of 18 and 25. Members were supplied with food, shelter, transportation, clothing, medical care, and limited education. Projects undertaken by the CCC were reforestation, road construction, soil erosion, flood control, and development of national parks. Critics to the CCC claimed that this was ?make work.? By its end in 1941, 22 million persons had worked at over 1500 CCC camps across the United States."
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Selective Attention, 1990.
This paper discusses the relationship of the process of conscious attention to perceptual processing of information in the prespeech memory buffer. Tables.
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"Does Selective Attention (mechanism that further processes information in a prespeech memory buffer) inhibit the processing of unattended information or is there a cognitive mechanism that automatically processes input even if humans are not attending to it? The research attempts to answer this question through an exploration of the effects of auditory color-word interference on a visual Stroop interference task with a spoken response.
The context within which the conducted research can best be understood begins with some early work in the field conducted ... In this early work where subjects monitored (selectively attended to) input, Broadbent found that (1) ... "
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