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Medieval animal trials: Why they’re not quite as crazy as they sound. Illustration by Robert Neubecker In the fall of 1457, villagers in Savigny, France witnessed a sow and six piglets attack and kill a 5-year-old boy.
Today, the animals would be summarily killed. But errant 15th-century French pigs went to court. Do Elephants Have Souls? “Big ears” by Emmanuel Keller; altered with permission (CC BY-ND 2.0).
Caitrin Nicol Keiper. The Savage Sea. Voices in Time You can hardly regard any creatures of the deep with the same feelings that you do those of the shore.
For though some old naturalists have maintained that all creatures of the land are of their kind in the sea—and though taking a broad general view of the thing, this may very well be—yet coming to specialties, where, for example, does the ocean furnish any fish that in disposition answers to the sagacious kindness of the dog? The accursed shark alone can in any generic respect be said to bear comparative analogy to him. The Moral Status of Animals M Nussbaum. Was Darwin Wrong About Emotional Expressions? Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots.
Orangutan Cultures and the Evolution of Material Culture. Darwin, C. R. 1890. The expression of the emotions in man and animals. 2d edition. Edited by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. On the Nature of Things by Lucretius. 14 Stories That Prove Animals Have Souls. Wired Magazine: Organs for Sale. A genetic death sentence.
Dispute over Mental Competency Blocks Transplant. Lego.png (548×474) Donor boom after TV kidney hoax. Some 12,000 more people have registered as organ donors in the Netherlands since a Dutch TV hoax that featured a "competition" for a kidney.
The Big Donor Show was revealed to be a hoax as the fake donor was apparently about to reveal her choice of patient. But Dutch media say the number of people registering as organ donors has jumped since the hoax. Organ Donor's Generosity Raises Question of How Much Is Too Much. Synthesis Essay Materials. The two synthesis essay questions that follow are examples of the question type that has been one of the three free-response questions on the AP English Language and Composition Exam as of the May 2007 exam.
The synthesis question asks students to synthesize information from a variety of sources to inform their own discussion of a topic. Students are given a 15-minute reading period to accommodate the additional reading required for the question. Synthesis Essay Materials Sample 1Below is a sample synthesis essay question, sample scoring guidelines, comments from the Chief Reader about the sample student essays, seven sample student responses, and scoring commentary about each sample.
Approximately 300 AP English Language and Composition students from eight schools in New York, Maine, Texas, Tennessee, Washington, Florida, and New Mexico wrote responses to this synthesis topic. AP English Language and Composition Synthesis Essay #1 (.pdf/84KB) Using Sources. The AP English Language and Composition Exam. Exam Content An English exam was among the first AP offerings in 1956.
In 1980, a separate exam in AP English Language and Composition was introduced. Multiple-Choice Questions For sample multiple-choice questions, refer to the Course Description. AP English Course Description (.pdf/670K)Free-Response Questions Below are free-response questions from past AP English Language and Composition Exams. Note about "Form B" Exams Prior to the May 2012 exam administration, for selected AP subjects, another version of the exam called "Form B" was administered outside of North, Central, and South America. Statistical literacy guide. Power (Statistics) News and 'News Analysis': Navigating Fact and Opinion in The Times. Overview | Why is it important to be critical consumers of news media?
How do we discern fact from opinion in The New York Times, and in other news reports? In this lesson, students will become familiar with the layout of the NYTimes.com home page and learn how news and opinion articles are labeled and organized for clarity. Then students will carefully consider the difference between fact and opinion and create guiding questions to help discern between the two when reading a news or opinion piece from any news source. Finally, they will use their guiding questions to compare two pieces on the same news event, separating opinion from fact on the sentence level. Materials | Student journals and access to computers or tablets and the NYTimes.com home page Warm-Up | Note to teachers: Before class, you may wish to review The Times’s Readers’ Guide to familiarize yourself with the different kinds of articles students might encounter daily in the paper.
Evaluating Arguments and Checking Sources. Ruth Fremson/The New York TimesTheodore Ogunbiyi-Roche, 10, drank a large soda in Times Square in Aug., 2012, as New Yorkers debated Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to prohibit sales of large sugary drinks.
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The show, which follows the exploits of six-year-old Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson, first seen as a kiddie beauty pageant contestant on “Toddlers and Tiaras,” and her family. The Thompson/Shannon family resides in a tiny home by railroad tracks in rural McIntyre, Ga. America’s New Favorite Apocalypse: Here Comes Honey Boo Boo - Hollywood Prospectus Blog. TLC, formerly known as The Learning Channel, has officially become television’s no. 1 #human_shaming channel, showcasing some of the worst humans in the world in dire situations (usually unbeknownst to them), whom viewers can then passively bully and judge from the comfort of their own homes. Without these freaks, what sense of normalcy could we project upon our own lives? How reality TV like ‘Honey Boo Boo’ can shape debate on poverty. View 3 photos » Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson reads a book to her doll on "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.
" Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? - Edward Jay Epstein. De Beers proved to be the most successful cartel arrangement in the annals of modern commerce. While other commodities, such as gold, silver, copper, rubber, and grains, fluctuated wildly in response to economic conditions, diamonds have continued, with few exceptions, to advance upward in price every year since the Depression. 10-Carat Diamond Ring Sells For $1.2 Million. Inside ‘Real Housewives’ Star Taylor Armstrong’s Lawsuit Settlement. "My Wood" by E.M. Forster - Classic British Essays. Natural Resources. Cultivation and Its Discontents. The Clutter Culture - Feature - UCLA Magazine Online. BBC Future column: Why we love to hoard. Here’s last week’s column from BBC Future. Mnmlist. Lower Costs and Better Care for Neediest Patients. If Camden, New Jersey, becomes the first American community to lower its medical costs, it will have a murder to thank. McAllen, Texas and the high cost of health care.
Yin and Yang. Do No Harm. Obesity Pragmatism. Health activists are in a tizzy over sugar and fast food, which they blame for the obesity “epidemic.” 100 Ways to Fight Obesity: A New Freakonomics Radio Podcast. Bob Dylan shills for Victoria's Secret. Allen Ginsberg, Revisited by His Right-Hand Man: Pt. 4. Allen Ginsberg. 2007 Cadillac Escalade TV Commercial w/Bob Dylan. Carrie Buck's Daughter. Nazi Science. Sure, I Remember That: Full Transcript. Memory and Forgetting. Elizabeth F. Loftus. Adding Memory. Sports and pop culture. Chuck Klosterman: Why the DVR robs sports of all of their drama. Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture: A Collection of Previously Published ... - Chuck Klosterman. Roger Federer as Religious Experience - Tennis. Race. Color Lines - W. Ralph Eubanks. Articles and essays. Rhetoric and media. Solving Big Problems. Media and the Internet. Learning and Education. Autobiography-of-malcolm-x - 11_saved. Frederick Douglass Takes the Ell. William Deresiewicz Trims the Ivy.
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