Defend or refute Darwin’s statement: “Of all the differences between man and the lower animal, man’s sense of moral conscience is by far the most important.” Include an analysis of moral choices or conflicts by two characters in this unit and one example of the same from history or personal experience to support your position. Support your argument with specific examples from two of the works from this unit and one example from history or your own personal life experience. Your speech should be five to ten minutes in length. You will deliver the speech to your class, or your teacher may ask that you upload a recorded version to share digitally instead. Don't forget to follow MLA guidelines for in-text citations and a works-cited page. Click here to view the MLA Style Guide.

I don't know the texts you went over in class; however, I think I know what Darwin meant. I would defend his statement, and I will tell you why. He states that "man’s sense of moral conscience is by far the most important". Unless you believe "lower animals" have a conscience and the ability to reason/think, then you'd too agree that only man has the capacity to think/reason. Because man has a conscience--the ability to sense right from wrong--they're able to make decisions. Thus, having self autonomy. Because of this, man isn't an animal. They don't follow instinct but their "gut". Animals act out of nature. Man acts out on reason. (Of course, each reason is personal).

-I hope this was able to help you. An interesting topic this one.

it is natural to stand at the beginning of a research project and feel overwhelmed by the amount of published research that exists in databases, literature reviews, and reference pages. at the same time, each new research project brings the hope of discovering something new. overwhelming though a project may be, starting at the foothills of a new thread of research is a great privilege, and is best approached as an opportunity to learn rather than a drudgery. as a researcher/writer, you have the chance to dive more deeply into less frequently encountered pools of knowledge.

depending on the topic or scope of your research, it is also natural to spend many days and weeks - and in some cases months and years - searching. no matter how great or small the scope of research is, the serious researcher needs to reserve adequate time to perform a thorough survey of published articles. for an undergraduate course project, finding five or six sources might seem like plenty of material to review, but graduate-level writing projects typically involve up to 20 sources minimum.

note that the main point here is not to say that it is only the number of research articles matters most, but rather that having a broad spectrum of papers to choose from you choose your topic for at least the following two reasons: 1) a larger pool of sources provides you with a broader perspective of the topics within your scope of research and 2) along the way you will find many topics within your field that you do not want to write about! so, one particularly effective way of viewing research is not finding the absolute minimum sources to "get by", but rather to find a variety of sources that you can an artist uses negative space to "carve" shapes out of a dark guide you toward topics that are more directly relevant to your topic.

the good news is that as you research you may find that some of your sources that were published in the same decade or so will cite and reference each other.

one of the joys and privileges of research is being able to follow your curiosity; if you are truly curious about your topic, and authentically driven to find out as much as you can, then even the articles you don't find interesting will be useful for a future project, and no energy will be wasted.

i would say the correct answer is not concrete.