Pit Bull’s Aggression; Nurtured or Innate? Pit Bulls have a fearsome reputation as killers, attack dogs and receive a lot of negative reactions from the press and the general public. A lot of these connotations may be true in some cases but it is primarily the owner’s fault that their dogs behave as they do. The word "vicious" functions to vindicate the breed and cause a lot of negative reactions from the press and the general public. The phrase; “bred to kill” and “aggressive killer” are thrown around without hesitation from those that are not familiar with the breed.
But in reality the natural laws governing businesses had nothing to do with evolution but rather the laws of supply and demand. As depicted in the text and the video, Spencer and Sumner used this same Darwinist ideology, “survival of the fittest” but was applied at the micro-level of human society, claiming that the weak and the unfit, including children, would eventually die out as a result of competition, fitness, and natural selection of the rich and powerful thus advancing the progress of humanity. In 1889, as a gesture to all the Social Darwinists; businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie
A: Yali's question in Guns,Germs, and Steel, The Fates of Human Society was "why is it that white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?" With that being said, Yali is attempting to ask how did white people develop technology beyond the technology in the black people's possession, and why didn't the black people develop technology to the extent of the white people? B: Pizarro's capture of Atahuallpa explains thoroughly why Europeans colonized the New World instead of the Native Americans colonizing Europe. The reason why Europeans colonized the New World instead of Native Americans colonizing that was displayed in the capture of Atahullapa is technology. Technology is crucial to Pizarro's capture of Atahuallpa and for European conquest in the New World since Pizarro's men were equipped with guns, armor, steel swords, and ships needed to travel vast distances across Oceans, whereas the Native Americans were equipped with lesser advanced technology such as no armor and stone tools.
Rifkin fails to realize that Koko was a special case and doesn’t represent the entire gorilla population. Koko is only able to use sign language and communicate because humans taught her to. Not all animals can learn sign language. Gorillas are one of the more intelligent species so they were able to. But does Rifkin expect a pig or a dog to be capable of the same feat?
In this analysis the activist approach to animal rights is too extreme. The progress mankind has achieved in industrialization, technology, mathematics, and science first began when humans decided to stop chasing their food. They domesticated animals which allowed them to experience more free time in which they could focus on more advanced
The effect of global warming on the polar bear population and lack of substantial measures to stop the extinction of this species has resulted in public outcry in recent years. However, Wente argues that the public is being deceived by scientists who have become fixated on manipulating the plight of the polar bears to obtain “more media face-time” (par.11) instead of conducting “actual polar bear research” (par.11). Wente references researchers Zac Unger and Kelsey Eliasson to assert that, contrary to popular belief, the polar-bear population is not declining and in fact much bigger than it were 40 years ago. The most effective technique employed in Wente’s persuasive strategy is her appeal to emotion. Wente understands that her audience is particularly sensitive about the state of the polar bears so she opens with a dramatic claim that polar bears will soon be “only left in the zoos” (par.1) and the population will decline by “two-thirds by mid-century” (par.1).
Grabbing the Bull by the Tail According to Robert Britt of Live Science, a human being on this Earth is almost twice as likely to die from a lightning strike rather than a dog attack (Britt, Live Science). And that’s not just a pit bull attack, that’s an attack by any kind of dog. Yet our nation’s media is flooded with accounts of pit bull attacks and maulings while officials around the world are calling for breed specific bans on pit bulls in cities, states and even countries. Breed specific legislation on any level for pit bulls is not necessary, ineffective and should not be put in to effect. In order to understand why the pit bull has such a negative connotation in our present society, readers first need to know of the pit bull’s
Humanity as a Whole Eliminating warfare is the next stage in the evolution of the planet. In Margaret Mead's essay, "Warfare Is Only an Invention-Not a Biological Necessity" she argues that warfare is nothing but a "bad invention" (page 20). She also presents two other opinions, that warfare is a "biological necessity" (page 20), and also "sociological inevitability" (page 20). In her essay, she uses examples from history to back up her stance on warfare. Mead said, "...warfare of this sort is an invention like any other of the inventions in terms of which we order our lives, such as writing, marriage, cooking our food instead of eating it raw, trial by jury, or burial of the dead..." (page 20).
They believed the human was greater than animals in all ways. Darwin challenged this idea when he wrote his book on evolution Origin of the Species of Man after his journey to the Galapagos. He said all organisms evolve, including human beings. Humans originated from Monkeys or some other form of primate. This opposed the assumption that humans were superior to animals in every way.
-The interplay between heredity, biology, and the social environment provides the nexus for any realistic consideration of crime causation. • 2. What biological factors does this lesson suggest might substantially influence human aggression? -Like Charles Darwin in the nineteenth century, Konrad Lorenz in the twentieth century proposed that aggression is found throughout the animal kingdom and is also inherent in human beings. -Lorenz also claimed that instinct provides motivation and direction to human thought, and that humans value