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A Discussion On Animal Rights - Term Papers

A Discussion On Animal Rights

"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; The Declaration of
Independence holds these rights to be self evident and unalienable. In the
eighteenth century when these words were written they were called natural rights,
today we call them human rights" (McShea 34). The issue of whether or not to
grant animal rights such as those that humans retain, is a greatly disputed
issue. Philosophers, clergyman, and politicians have argued the point of animal
rights for years, but without success. Animal right is an extremely intricate
issue that involves the question of animal intelligence, animal activist groups,
and the pros and cons of granting animals their rights.

Psychologists around ...

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the Garners decided
to try to teach chimpanzees American Sign Language or Ameslan. The Gardners and
others studied these chimpanzees, Washoe, Lucy, and Lana. These three
chimpanzees learned to use and could display a working vocabulary of 100 to 200
words. They also distinguished between different grammatical patterns and
syntaxes (Sagan 615). Besides distinguishing, the chimpanzees also inventively
constructed new words and phrases. For example, when Washoe first saw a duck
land on water, she gestured "water bird," which is the same phrase used in
English. Washoe invented that gesture for the occasion (Sagan 615). Lucy also
displayed her creative mind by signing "candy drink" after tasting a watermelon.
The description "candy drink" is essentially the same word form as the English
"water melon" (Sagan 615).

Another method of bridging the communication gap between humans and
animals is by computer. At the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center in
Atlanta, Georgia, ...

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acts to make sure that their point is apparent
to all. Like PETA, ALF also seeks to end all human exploitation of animals, but
unlike PETA, ALF will use any means possible to achieve their goal. ALF
originated in England in 1974 by a man named Ronnie Lee. An anonymous woman who
goes by the pseudonym "Valerie," organized the American branch of the ALF after
training in terrorist techniques in England. The American ALF made their
American debut on Christmas Eve in 1982. She and two other members broke into a
lab at Howard University in Washington, D.C. They liberated thirty cats used in
research to study the effects of drugs on nerve transmissions (Reed 38). The
activists found the ...

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