Critical Analysis : ' Critical Anthropomorphism '

When taking gender into consideration, there is one person who is responsible for many radical ideas, that is Judith Butler. Butler argues that gender is socially constructed and that instead of being either male or female from birth, gender is a product of repeated performance in everyday life. (Butler, 1999).

Lutz, P. L., & Dunbar-Cooper, A. (1982). The nest environment of the American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus). Homestead, Fla: National Park Service, South Florida Research Center, Everglades National Park.

While the seclusion of the Creature prevents him from using metacognition to aid him in his need for human interaction, the Creature’s metacognition allows him to become aware of the correlation between his physical appearance and his

The article The Opposite Sex: with Lisa May Stevens excerpted from the book Lousy Sex, by Gerald N. Callahan dives deep into the concept of gender that we humans have deemed a taboo subject. This article sought to question what gender is and why humans feel the need to have it. Callahan explores other species that ignore our strict rules regarding gender and thrive just the same. This article was extremely fascinating and helped me to open up my perception as to what gender truly is. It was also surprising to me that so many other people are confused as to what gender really is. Humans have tried so hard to make gender black and white, but it is often more flowing and unique to each person. Gender is an amazingly interesting topic that seeks

For the majority of Chapter three and four of the book, The Natural Alien, Everdeen has made several points about different aspects about categories. From the forming of categories, he suggests that we tend to objectify things based on solely on sight. This helps understand how we study animals as objects as opposed to studying them as subjects. The purpose of the paper is to try and discuss how these categories form, why they are destroyed, how they are recreated, and why they objectify things.

According to this theory, living beings were classified on an ideal pyramid that represented the simplest animals on the lower levels, with complexity increasing progressively toward the top, occupied by human beings. In the Western world of the time, people believed animal species were eternal and immutable, created with a specific purpose, as this seemed the only possible explanation for the incredible variety of living beings and their surprising adaptation to their habitats. The book and study investigated animal behaviour and then compared human behaviour to it as a similar

When I peered downwards, tiny wrinkled fingers emerged from within. In its place appeared a tiny monkey with tufted black hair. His eyes, chocolate with golden flakes, danced with mischief. His nose was upturned as hay littered his face. He must’ve thought me strange as he cautiously walked on his small knuckles, his nose quietly fogging up the glass. First we mirrored each others actions through the fogged up glass, however, soon enough a full game of hide and seek commenced. As a crowd formed, the chimp and I happily continued our game: leaping, laughing, and a continuance of smiling. The game lasted at least twenty minutes, and throughout I noticed the way his eyes brightened with excitement and his teeth bared while giving a smile. I understood Jane Goodall’s reasoning behind her work; the importance of showing that these creatures aren’t mindless or unimportant. That was the day I found an unlikely friend, one I didn’t even suspect and yet I easily bonded

Despite of the different perspectives from philosophers on whether animals have conscious or not, most animals are depicted as cognizant. This indicates that they can think; distinguish their own surrounding besides endure suffering and gratification (Griffin, 2001). The animals experience and understand in a different perspective as compared to human beings. Animals have different levels of consciousness whereby some poses higher and others lower mental perspectives

The author starts by showing how animals are concisions by telling a story of a chimpanzee. The chimp was offered a nut, it then dropped in on the ground and grabbed the person’s hand, as to say no thank you but I appreciate it. Then the author describes the quality of life of animals. ”In the labs, these very sociable creatures often live isolated from one another in 5-by-5-foot cages, where they

He refers to the work of Sokol-Chang, Fisher, and their colleagues whose goals of “(a) calling for deeper theoretical and empirical analysis of the active role of women in human evolution, and (b) calling attention to understudied topics that might be missed by male minds” are excellent goals and is among what is needed for the fields of evolution and psychology to progress rapidly in understanding and learning. In his work, Buss discusses how he believes the above goals can be rapidly accelerated. He also believes that evolutionary psychology courses, sociology courses, and gender studies courses taught in schools and universities today are not well-handled when it comes to feminism, and can be seen by some people to even be at odds with feminist goals, such as gender equality. Buss says that “…the moral principle of achieving gender equality cannot rest on the empirical claim that women and men are psychological clones of each

“Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two different cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.” (Kate Millet, page 443 in Richard Nelson Jones 2001)

Professor Terrence Deacon, an American Neuroanthropoligist; for his undergraduate attended Fairhaven College of Western Washington University from 1972-1976 as an Interdisciplinary major. Later attending Harvard’s Graduate School of Education from 1977-1978 in Philosophy and Cognitive Development. Ultimately pursuing a Ph.D. from Harvard in Biological Anthropology from 1978-1984. Later he joined the Harvard faculty as an assistant professor of biological anthropology, he was promoted to an associate professor. In 1992 became an associate professor of biological anthropology at Boston University and he was an associate at McLean Hospital and the Harvard Medical School.

When Best Buy first opened it was an event that an electronics store could hold such a variety of products, have knowledgeable employees, and offer competitive prices at the same time. Although in 2012 it was reported that revenues for Best Buy increased, the company still fell victim to the problems of having a decrease in net income and operating cash flow. “The company reported revenues of (U.S. Dollars) USD 50,705.00 million during the fiscal year ended March 2012, an increase of 1.93% over 2011. The operating profit of the company was USD 1,085.00 million during the fiscal year 2012, a decrease of 54.30% from 2011. The net loss of the company was

The critical theory arose from the Frankfurt School, the collective works of German theorists. Critical theory’s roots are centered on the works of The Institute for Social Research and those researchers who promoted Karl Marx theory of idealism. Intellectuals at the school developed kritisch Therorie, the critical theory of society, which was created to directly interpret Marxism. These theorists wanted to revise Marx’s theory that capitalism and the concept that the best way to change the structure of society and politics was a revolution.

Apart from this Freire describes the progress of critical consciousness as five-part model as semi –transitive state, in which individuals are pre-occupied entirely with survival. The net stage is the transitivity of consciousness which enables to reflect their roles and responsibilities. In the third stage , a state of naïve transitivity “ which is charecterised by an over simplification of problems and the level of critical transitivity which enables the students in more depth analysis of problems ,then comes fantasized consciousness . Finally the individual moves in to critical consciousness, the awakening of critical awareness resulting from educational efforts and favorable historical conditions.