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    Sonnets 5 and 6 from Shakespeare’s Sonnets, a collection of sonnets written by William Shakespeare, represent themes such as procreation, the passage of time, beauty, love and mortality. Shakespeare’s sophisticated use of rhetorical methods, persuasive techniques, metaphors, repetition, structural framing, combined with his aesthetic values create a parallel in these two sonnets. In both sonnets, he tries to convince the handsome young man to marry and beget children so that the youth 's incredible

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    Joshua J. Castro Professor Iyer Pol-1 10 October 2014 Episode – 05 An Analysis of Michael Sandel 's Justice Can the value of human life be determined by dollars and cents? Is one life more valuable than another, or can one be tossed aside like the leftover change someone receives after buying a hamburger from McDonald 's? Placing a monetary value on someone 's life is nearly impossible to do, as can be seen in Episode 05 of Michael Sandel 's Justice series. Episode 05 is split into two parts

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    the globe, has become a substantial debate throughout a majority of nations. The incorporation of a new type of reproduction in the United States has a plentiful amount of benefits for certain animals and objects, but duplicates of humans is hard to comprehend for many people across America. Currently, cloning is an interesting topic that could become a new way to improve reproduction of animals and humans, prevent diseases, and increase the overall health of Americans. The incorporation of cloning

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    Especially in this present time and an increase in technology, people are unknowingly exposing themselves to harmful mutagens and agents that can cause a variety of health problems. This has become an increasing problem regarding reproductive health in men and women. Xenoestrogens are synthetic chemicals that mimic estrogen in the body. (Fertility-Health.com, 2008-2015). What is interesting about estrogen in the body is that it is present in the male and female body, but usually only associated

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    than that between females. It is suggested by the authors that the material contribution by each of sexes to the next generation is what determines the reproductive rate of the population. In an instances where one sex contributes more to the reproduction and survival of the offspring than the other this sex will become the limiting factor for sexual selection, and will be subject to greater loss of fitness if an importer mate choice is made. In terms of contribution to offspring both male and

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    Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, is Victor Frankenstein’s illusion and like all illusions it can only be told by the one who has experienced it. According the online article “Frankenstein’s Dream”, there is a rift that emerges between sleeping and waking and blurs the lines between an illusion and it’s telling; the telling can only guess or identify one state of being or one idea of things experienced (Fraistat, Jones). Victor awakes twice from his hallucinations during the creation scene of Frankenstein

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    In many Arthropoda (Arthropods), sexual cannibalism is quite common. Female Mantodeas (Mantids), commonly referred to as Mantis from their genus, have been known to decapitate their male counterparts before, during or even after sexual copulation. Sexual cannibalism varies widely amongst the species of Mantids, where some species lack this behavior all together. Males often take part in ritualistic dances to court a female and are very cautious of their proximity before attempting to mount. Although

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    In this naturalistic observation study I looked at the differences between male and females regarding their actions upon greeting another person. I looked at the frequency in which they hugged or performed a different action (e.g. waving, speech, other etc.). Ultimately this information was used to find whether males or females hug when greeting more often than the other gender. The variable of interest in this experiment are gender and the action upon greeting.Gender is conceptually defined as the

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    Philosophy 1001-001 A Defense of Abortion in Pregnancy Reduction In this paper I will discuss the relevance of J.J. Thomson’s argument in her article, A Defense of Abortion, to that of pregnancy reduction and if there is any relevance, if there are exceptions or situations where that might change. J.J. Thomson’s argument in A Defense of Abortion is that the one thing a person has rights to is his/her body and the right to control what happens with it. Thomson also states that there is an innate

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    telepathy. While they are able in some cases to reproduce asexually, sexual reproduction seems to be the more often used method. The asexual reproduction of Gaea produced Uranus, the Mountains, and Pontus. Later her sexual reproduction with Uranus produced numerous offspring. While the use of sexual reproduction was human-like (obviously not exclusive to humans but still human-like), the use of alternative reproduction was represented in the myths. An example of such an alternative would be the

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