Week 4 Discussion Previous Next  Mendel's Principles and Contribution to Modern Biology Mendel used mathematics and experimentation to derive major principles that have helped us understand inheritance. His ideas were totally different than the explanation for passage of characteristics from parents to offspring that was common to his time. Discuss at least two of his […]

Week 4 Discussion 1.) Following Pogge, how do some of the world’s largest Multinational Corporations (MNCs) violate international human rights standards? 2.) Explain negative duties-–i.e., to avoid certain actions, and their role in human rights protection. 3.) Define the elitist perspective of Cultural Relativism . Do you agree? 4.) Explain Kanarek’s attack of cultural relativism […]

  Week 4 Dangerous Drug Interaction Project                                                                          Dangerous Drug Interaction Project      This week, you will create an educational item about dangerous drug  interactions. Choose two drugs from different categories of drugs that  we have studied thus far in the course that can have a dangerous  reaction if taken incorrectly. Research the drugs' interactions with […]

  We are using the Statecraft simulation in this course to help us understand some of the concepts we have (and will) explore in the course, and to give you a sense of some of the difficult trade-offs that decision-makers must confront in dealing with global problems.  As complex as the simulation may be, however, […]

Watch Watch "Prosecutors drop criminal charges in Newport News due to 'bad interrogation'" on YouTube https://youtu.be/Vybt0VHRj_k Discuss whether the police department made the right decision by dismissing the case against the juvenile? Why? Scenario: Mr. Lemoine, who was 22 years old, molested his friend's five-year-old daughter in the back yard of her home. Mr. Lemoine went […]