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According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, ivory is the ‘hard creamy-white modified dentine that composes the tusks of a tusked mammal’ (‘Ivory’). Yet, elephant ivory also has many other meanings to different groups of individuals. For example, to some people in Africa ivory may signify ‘livelihood’, to some individuals in China it may relate to ‘tradition’,…

There have been numerous detestations against the use of animals for research. A number of animal rights activists have in fact waged protests against companies and individuals who make use of laboratory animals to conduct scientific studies and to develop new products like cosmetics, household products and medicines. Those who are against animal testing argue…

“The Pain Scale” by Eula Biss is a very controversial and interesting piece of writing in which Bliss attempts to determine a scale to measure her pain. However, the writer begins to realize that the duty of associating pain with a number and measurement is much harder than it appears due to the fact that…

Ganesh is a popular god in the Hindu religion. Ganesh means, “Lord of the Ganas” ganas being a part of Shiva’s divine army. Ganesh is the son of the goddess Parvati and god Shiva. He is believed to bring success and great fortune to his worshippers. The tenth century, Indian sculpture, Ganesh and Siddhi, is…

For my Lab Animal research project I will be discussing the Spiny Dogfish (Squalus Acanthias) and its contribution to our society through biomedical research. This dogfish has large eyes, a pointed snout with spines in front of its two dorsal fins (Bester, 2018). In front of each dorsal fin they have spiky, ungrooved, venomous spines,…

The Sixteenth Unifying Principle relates to both the strengths and deficits of my personal development thus far in my existence. The deficits were in the isolated, fragmented manner of which I navigated from one aspect to the next without comprehension of how these aspects of experience or objects of knowledge were actually interconnected. I had…

Sharks are known as the dangers of the sea. When people hear about sharks, they relive the bloody, horrific scenes from the 1975 movie, Jaws. Since the 1980s, the number of shark attacks has increased (Huveneers, Whitmarsh, Thiele, Meyer, Fox, & Bradshaw, 2018). Likewise, the media covering these attacks and fatalities has risen as well,…

Henry David Thoreau, the author of this piece, lived in the mid-1800s. Throughout his life, Thoreau was an author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist. The Stanford Dictionary defines transcendentalism as a religious and philosophical movement that focused on the belief that everyone has inherent goodness; however, society…

The Surrealist theory is used to examine human animal relationships because Surrealism seeks to revolutionize human thoughts and actions. The theory advocates for human understanding of consciousness in the perspective of human-animal commonalities in the period between the First and the Second World Wars, Surrealism was at its highest peak. The proponents of the theory…

People and money are the two key resources for an organization. ‘Human beings are the lifeblood of any enterprise. They are the company’s most vital asset’ (Plumbley, 1976). Recruitment and selection have been the important human resource functions of an organization which are been thought of matching process between applicants and enterprises. Selection process begins…