Problem: Many people consider their pets members of the family and are very sad when they die, but what if you could clone your dog, cat or bird?

A scientist in New Orleans, who has proved his ability to clone other animals, is now offering the possibility to pet owners here in Wisconsin.

Scientists have not been able to clone dogs, cats or other pets, but if and when the time comes, several companies will be ready and able to do the job.

The question is: Are you ready to clone your pet? Brett Reggio is betting on it.He is working on his Ph. D at Louisian State University. He's successfully cloned a goat five times and wants to try the process on family pets. So he started a business called Lazaron. "What Lazaron provides is the first step in the cloning process. "He said."It's for curing and storing the fiberglass cells that will be used for cloning."

"Your first reaction is yeah! I think I'd like that." said Donna Schacht, a pet owner.

"I don't believe you can ever replace a special love," pet owner Paulette Callattion said.

Most pet owners will tell you freezing your pet's DNA in hopes of one day cloning it is a personal decision.

Scientists say that cloning your own pet doesn't mean that the offspring will have the same intelligence, temperament or other qualities that your pet has.
1. Are scientists allowed to clone pets?
2. What is Reggio's occupation?
3. Has he cloned anything?
4. What?
5. How many times?
6. What does he want to clone next?
7. Did he start a business?
8. Called what?
9. Which stage of the cloning procedure does it perform?
10. What is stored in this step?
11. What are they used for?
12. What is Schacht's first reaction?
13. What about Callattion?
14. How can pet owners prepare for when cloning is legal?
Answer: 1. no
2. doctoral student
3. yes
4. a goat
5. five
6. pets
7. yes
8. Lazaron
9. first
10. fiberglass cells
11. cloning
12. she likes it
13. Doesn't think it replace a special love
14. freezing their pet's DNA

Problem: Existentialism () is the work associated mainly with certain late-19th- and 20th-century European philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences, shared the belief that philosophical thinking begins with the human subjectnot merely the thinking subject, but the acting, feeling, living human individual. While the predominant value of existentialist thought is commonly acknowledged to be freedom, its primary virtue is authenticity. In the view of the existentialist, the individual's starting point is characterized by what has been called "the existential attitude", or a sense of disorientation, confusion, or dread in the face of an apparently meaningless or absurd world. Many existentialists have also regarded traditional systematic or academic philosophies, in both style and content, as too abstract and remote from concrete human experience.

Sren Kierkegaard is generally considered to have been the first existentialist philosopher, though he did not use the term existentialism. He proposed that each individualnot society or religionis solely responsible for giving meaning to life and living it passionately and sincerely, or "authentically". Existentialism became popular in the years following World War II, and strongly influenced many disciplines besides philosophy, including theology, drama, art, literature, and psychology.

The term is often seen as a historical convenience as it was first applied to many philosophers in hindsight, long after they had died. In fact, while existentialism is generally considered to have originated with Kierkegaard, the first prominent existentialist philosopher to adopt the term as a self-description was Jean-Paul Sartre. Sartre posits the idea that "what all existentialists have in common is the fundamental doctrine that existence precedes essence", as scholar Frederick Copleston explains. According to philosopher Steven Crowell, defining existentialism has been relatively difficult, and he argues that it is better understood as a general approach used to reject certain systematic philosophies rather than as a systematic philosophy itself. Sartre himself, in a lecture delivered in 1945, described existentialism as "the attempt to draw all the consequences from a position of consistent atheism".
1. Who is thought to be the first philosopher to be an existentialist?
2. Did he call his way of thinking existentialism?
3. Who did he say is responsible for having meaning in one's life?
4. Instead of what?
5. Did this way of thought become popular after the second World War?
6. What are some other disciplines that existentialism influenced?
7. Where do these philosophers believe that thinking begins?
8. Instead of?
9. Is authenticity the main value of this type of thinking?
10. What is the main value then?
11. And what is authenticity?
12. What type of world does an existentialist think we live in?
13. What is the beginning point of an individual called?
14. Is that a feeling of happiness and order?
15. What then?
16. What do people who hold these beliefs think about academic philosophies?
17. Were those who thought this way called existentialists at the time?
18. Who was the first one to call himself by this term?
19. Does Steven Crowell believe that it is easy to define existentialism?
20. When did Sartre lecture about this?
Answer: 1. Sren Kierkegaard
2. No
3. each individual
4. society or religion
5. Yes
6. theology, drama, art, literature, and psychology.
7. with the human subject
8. the thinking subject
9. No
10. freedom
11. its primary virtue
12. meaningless or absurd
13. the existential attitude
14. No
15. disorientation, confusion, or dread
16. too abstract and remote from concrete human experience.
17. No
18. Jean-Paul Sartre
19. No
20. 1945

Problem: New Mexico is a state in the southwestern region of the United States of America. It was admitted to the Union as the 47th state on January 6, 1912. It is usually considered one of the Mountain States. New Mexico is fifth largest by area, the 36th-most populous, and the sixth-least densely populated of the 50 United States.

Inhabited by Native Americans for thousands of years before European exploration, Nuevo Mexico was colonized by the Spanish in 1598 as part of the Imperial Spanish viceroyalty of New Spain. Later, it was part of independent Mexico for a short period before becoming a U.S. territory and eventually a U.S. state as a result of the MexicanAmerican War. Among U.S. states, New Mexico has the highest percentage of Hispanics, including mostly descendants of the original Spanish colonists who have lived in the area for more than 400 years beginning in 1598. It has the second-highest percentage of Native Americans as a proportion of the population after Alaska, and the fourth-highest number of Native Americans after California, Oklahoma, and Arizona. The major Native American nations in the state are Navajo, Pueblo, and Apache peoples. The state's demography and culture are shaped by these strong Hispanic and Native American influences and expressed in the state flag. Its scarlet and gold colors come from the royal standards of Spain, along with the ancient sun symbol of the Zia, a Pueblo-related tribe.
1. Where is the state of New Mexico located
2. When did the Spanish colonize it?
3. When was it admitted into the United States?
4. What major Native American nations live in the state?
5. What county was it a part of before it became a U.S. territory?
6. Which are three states that have a higher number of Native Americans living there?
7. How does it rank in populatioin density compaired to other U.S states?
8. Would it be considered one of the Mountain States?
9. What was shaped by the states strong Hispanic and Native American influences?
10. What war is responsibhle for it becoming a United States territory?
Answer:
1. southwestern Unites States
2. 1598
3. January 6, 1912
4. Navajo, Pueblo, and Apache
5. Mexico
6. California, Oklahoma, and Arizona
7. It is the sixth least densely populated state
8. yes
9. the demography and culture
10. the MexicanAmerican War