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Happy Birthday Charlie!. This is not a Kleenex. This is a tissue. Darwin’s little known 2 nd Voyage on The Basset . Evolution South Park/Simpsons mash-up Video. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=94b_1179711831&p=1.
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Evolution South Park/Simpsons mash-up Video http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=94b_1179711831&p=1
"Darwinian analogies of "survival of the fittest" into social argument. Many social Darwinists insisted that biology was destiny, at least for the unfit, and that a broad spectrum of socially deleterious traits, ranging from "pauperism" to mental illness, resulted from heredity. The word "eugenics" was coined in 1883 by the English scientist Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, to promote the ideal of perfecting the human race by, as he put it, getting rid of its "undesirables" while multiplying its "desirables." ' Daniel Kevles, Yale U
Satire “trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly” Merriam Webster. (2009). “Satire.” Accessed 2 Feb. at http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/SATIRE.
“I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.” (J. Swift)
Logos vs. Pathos LOGOS= logic, think brain, science, evidence divorced from feeling e.g. statistics, graphs, maps related to famine e.g. citing The Constitution, military death tolls e.g. evolution as paradigm for the Sciences PATHOS= sympathy, empathy, i.e. feelings. e.g. pictures of starving children, case studies e.g. pictures of American flag burning, flag-draped coffins e.g. creationism as paradigm for Christianity
Sacrosanct Function: adjectiveEtymology: Latin sacrosanctus, probably from sacro sanctus hallowed by a sacred rite Date: 16011 : most sacred or holy : inviolable 2 : treated as if holy : immune from criticism or violation Merriam Webster. (2009). Sacrosanct. Accessed 2 Feb. at http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/SACROSANCT.
Self-Recognition in Apes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJFo3trMuD8
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