Essays on Living Things

In Tom Regan's article “The Case for Animal Rights,” he makes the case for the rights of animals on the basis of equal treatment of all living things that possess inherent value. He argues that morality should be centered on the equal treatment of all living entities, rather than the reduction of suffering and the amplification of pleasure. Consequently, Regan's involvement in the animal rights movement is based on three issues: the elimination of all commercial forms of animal testing, animal agriculture and animal hunting. Ultimately, Regan's argument stands as a sound defense for animal rights on the grounds ...

Humanity has developed and flourished over the span of centuries. As civilizations grew and develop, humans learn many things about nature. Ancient people realized the benefits of nature to humanity and began using it for hunting food, acquiring resources to build homes and to protect them from numerous threats from the environment. As humans learned other benefits of nature, they started to interfere with the environment and greatly change the way it was used. People started to change the structures of land and to remove trees from the forest in order to build farm lands and cities. People continue ...

INTRODUCTION

Modern science and technology has made fascinating discoveries and incredible innovations. There have been amazing advances in all areas and disciplines from engineering and robotics to science and medicine. It is the latter that has made some of the greatest advances and innovations. Human beings learn more and more everyday about how to treat illnesses and prevent diseases. They have also learned so much about the how the human body works; right down to the genes that make all living things what they are. It is possible today for scientists to understand how genes affect traits and that sometimes ...

An ecosystem shapes the kind of species of animals and plants that lives within it in some ways. For instance, a Tropical Rainforest Ecosystem is one perfect example of an ecosystem inhabited by various kinds of animals and plants (Ewers et al., 2015). In particular, the tropical rainforest ecosystem is in the tropical regions of the globe mostly associated with warm and at times hot climate. Animals that are adaptive to this climate and as well as adaptive plants and vegetation characterize the ecosystem (Gagic et al., 2015). The tropical rainforest ecosystem has influenced the environment in some ways. ...

Discussion Board 1

Discussion Board 1

Living things have specific superior characterizes that distinguish them from nonliving items. Living things are characterized by their internal organization, which is composed of cells (Alcamo, 1998).

A rock to a snail

Ideally, a snail is a living thing while a rock is a nonliving. The two differ widely based on the eight characteristics of living things. A snail performs nutrition to obtain energy and experiences respiration as energy is released for use in the cells. Also, a snail moves to different locations since it responds to stimuli and it excretes due to chemical reactions in the body. Additionally, a snail ...

This research is about radiation exposure to pregnant females. Pregnant females are often exposed to radiation from medical equipment such as X-Ray machines, security scanners, hazards from nuclear facilities, and other equipment in the workplace. There has been raising concerns as to whether radiation has any impact on pregnant females. While some argue radiation is harmful, some people believe radiation has no impact. This paper will review evidence gathered from previous investigations. The paper will discuss radiation and its impacts on the pregnant females. The paper will conclude with a summary of the findings. Radiation can be classified as ...

Introduction

The process of learning in animals and humans come through a series of situations that come together to motivate, and ignite the brains and enable them to repeat specific actions in the face of certain circumstances. The basic logic presented by psychologists and biologists is that there is intrinsic motivation based on the brain which controls the nerves and models of an animal or human being. This implies that an external variable triggers an extrinsic motivation that gets the organism to ignite the internal or intrinsic motivation in order to undertake certain actions and internalize it in order to ...

I see the world as a dear friend who welcomes me happily each morning and shows me a variety of new opportunities. Individuals see the world with different perspectives; honestly, I always see the world as my well-wisher who allows life to unfold each day with different promises. I believe the objective of human life in this world is to feel oneness with the world that surrounds and nurtures us. In other words, a person finds inner meaning to his life only when he is able to understand what the world communicates to him on a daily basis. Interestingly, ...

The anthropocentric approach to the environmental ethics is one of the main approaches as it touches on a significant part of the relationship between human beings and nature. This approach is the idea that humans are the most valued in the universe and take the central role. In other words, human beings have the power and dominion over other living things in the universe, including plants and animals. The approach gets its roots mainly from the Bible and science. In the Bible, God is said to have given humans the power to look after the creation. Scientists view human ...

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The largest problems of humanity are not the technology centered issues. However, they are large problems that can be fixed with future inventions of better technology. For example, in order for humans to live healthy, we rely on clean air, clean water, and clean soil. We need a planet that can sustain us. In order for that to happen, the planet Earth needs to have the help from humans to maintain its ability to provide clean air, water, and soil. Humans use tons of dirty energy that pollutes the air, water, and soil. The logical solution is to ...

The first image that comes to mind when thinking about the ethical implications of defense engineering is the first scene in the movie Real Genius, where several men who represent a counsel of defense are sitting around a table watching video clips of a new weapon that is being developed at Caltech University. This was an idea for the end of the 20th century. The movie was filled with ethical questions and moral imperatives that imply the ideas of ethical technology in the military. Science, University Students, and Engineers make a significant contribution to the advancement of defense technology. ...

Introduction

Charles Robert Darwin was a naturalist born on 12th February 1809 at a place called Shrewsbury in England. However, he died on 19th April 1882 in London. In his lifetime, one of his greatest achievements is about the evolutionary theory of living organisms (Bowler). He was able to achieve this success through the voyage he embarked in 1831. He traveled for five years all over the world with the HMS Beagle. Through his traveling, he was able to study different specimen and thus his evolution theory was developed. This fact caused him to write the book titled as On ...

The problem

Living things cannot thrive alone but depend on each other for survival. Organisms (human beings, plants, and animals) must maintain a balance of nature to enable them to survive in different environments. However, some issues arise that cause environmental imbalance problems and affect the relationship between these organisms. Sharma defines environmental pollution as any adverse change in the chemical, biological, and physical characteristic of land, water, or air (Sharma 1). Environmental pollution is a major imbalance that greatly affects lives of these organisms. The problem of environmental pollution continues to raise many concerns in the world today. The rapid ...

The posit that the human person is nothing but a body and that all its components and experiences can be explained regarding the body, without acknowledging the existence of a rational soul, forms the basis of the materialist theory (Cohen 2). The notion of materialism opposes the hylomorphic account of spirit as a reality different from matter a philosophical theory developed by Aristotle. According to Aristotle, living things are compounds of matter and form. He argues that a living thing soul (form) is what causes the existence of the body (matter) defines a soul as that which makes a ...

Human exceptionalism is a long held belief that humans are at any time essentially and categorically different and better than any other beings that exists within the environment. Within this belief, there is an elevation that humans deserve better and they deserve respect from the environment and its beings. The aspects of human exceptionalism propels humans as the ultimate being whose powers are unlimited and one who is at right to take away or include that which benefits them. It relegates all other beings into a particular condition of submission. In this essence, while humans are not limited to ...

Chapter #16:

Question 1. Insect-eating birds will decrease in number since their source of food has been reduced. The birds may also migrate to warmer areas during this period.

Question 2.

The habitat is the specific place where the organism lives e.g. a fish’s habitat is water. On the other hand, niche is the position and the role played by the organism in an ecosystem. It includes how the organism obtain food and shelter, the mode of survival, and the mode of reproduction (Sutton & Anderson, 2009, p. 46). For instance, a lion’s niche in the ecosystem is that of a predator.Question ...

Conventional Farming vs. Organic Farming

Agriculture is the process by which food in grown on a large scale. It is larger than just the family garden that is intended to sustain a family for a year. Agriculture is intended to sustain an entire community and when it is practiced on a very large scale, it is done to feed thousands. Cultures around the globe have been involved in food production to sustain communities for tens of thousands of years or more. According to John Unsworth at IUOAC Agrochemicals, “Up until the 1940s inorganic substances, such as sodium chlorate and sulphuric acid, or organic chemicals ...

Introduction

An effective and excellent leader has many skills, both recognized and unrecognized. He or she is a problem solver, the person who encourages others to act on decisions that he or she thinks will benefit the whole, instead of just one person. He or she is sensitive to the needs of others, and he or she makes sure that when faced with a difficult decision that he or she is just, fair, and ethical.These decisions are usually very difficult, and sometimes many people or communities rely on a quick, decisive, and right action. Leaders are not always the popular ...

Introduction

There are environmental chemical processes which require light to react. These processes are called photochemical reactions. Photochemical reaction is commonly initiated due to the absorption of solar energy or light. When molecules absorb energy in the form of light, the atoms are converted in a transient excited state (Larson & Weber, 1994). This transition state or excited has completely different physical and chemical properties with the initial state of the molecule. The excited states also have more tendencies to react since they are considered stronger acids and stronger reductants that the initial state of the molecule. The excited state of ...

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There is no denying the fact that in the modern world people give their special attention to the food. For instance, there are a lot of cuisines and recipes in the modern world. Each of them mostly includes vegetables, fruits, animals’ meet or fish. However, our society lives in the wonderful but difficult times. The rising of humans’ population creates huge problems to agriculture specialists everywhere. Therefore, in order to find a way to feed all people in the world scientists focus on insects and their useful features. As a result, researchers found out that they ...

There is no controversy regarding whether there is a climate change on earth or if there is real climate change. The controversy is as a result whether the human is a fundamental cause of the climate change on the planet and to the enhanced greenhouse effect, or whether the changes in climate is attributable to the natural cycle that has existed in the several years ago. Always, there are natural tendencies that affect some places of the world more than the other regions, but loads of studies and scientists assert that the climate changes are the causes of the ...

Abstract

Adequate clean water is essential for the health of every living thing on this planet. Humans create tons of pollution, effect the weather patterns that cause droughts, and there is a history of over-use of the aquifers in the form of wells and pollution from fracking which are detrimental to the survival of all living things. Global climate change, especially since the Industrial age began, has affected the entire planet in various ways. There have been larger storms as a result of climate change. There are serious droughts because of climate change. The ice caps are melting because of ...

Poseidon was a great Greek god whose purpose was to protect all the waters of the earth and was also referred to as the god of the seas, rivers, lakes, ponds, streams and all water bodies . Myths have it that Poseidon had immense power over water and could cause natural disasters such as floods, storms, rough seas as well as cause water to spring from the earth. Poseidon used the trident as his weapon of choice and was considered the second most powerful god, a purpose he accomplished with his weapon. The term blue planet is used to describe ...

“The land ethic,” which is found in the work of Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, is a theoretical philosophical framework. In it, Leopold tries to confront the weaknesses which he say encompass common environmental conservation. Leopold, a trained forester, and hunter, cherished and recognized the benefits of nature (Leopold, 2014). Having lived through the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, he witnessed fertile top soil in southwestern Wisconsin blown away by the wind and eventually sip into the sea. These he observed were as a result of human activities and wondered how, despite the profit motives of man ...

One only has to view the world aquifers data from the graphics at the website by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, located at the California Institute of Technology, to see that the most vulnerable aquifers in United states are in California, Florida, Alabama, and Georgia. Underground water systems take up one third of planet Earth and the basins for aquafers are drying up because of human activity. Some aquifers are sufficient to maintain life, in areas with frequent rainfall and have smaller populations and ones that have adequate means of recharge, others are depleted so fast, the ground is sinking ...

According to the United Nations website, the list of Sustainable Development Goals the United Nations agreed are important for the world are; “No Poverty, Zero Hunger, Good Health and Well-Being, Quality Education, Gender Equality, Clean Water and Sanitation, Affordable and Clean Energy, Decent Work and Economic Growth; Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure; Reduced Inequalities, Sustainable Cities and Communities, Responsible Consumption and Production, Climate Action, Life Below Water, Life On Land: Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions, and Partnerships for the goals.” At first glance, these goals seem utopian, as they represent the ultimate dream of a wonderful life for all of ...