Animal Testing
.... eye, pulmonary and brain surgeries must develop the necessary skills before patients' lives are entrusted to their care. Neither computer models, cell cultures nor artificial substances can pose as flesh, muscle, blood, bone and organs working together in the living system. Only a living being can do this, which is an animal.
Animal testing promotes medical break throughs that save millions of lives. The testing of animals has produced not only medical cures, but it has also lead to ways of treating many diseases, developing protective vaccines and drugs, and many new surgical procedures. A few of these break throughs are .....
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Catching The Spirit
.... my coach told me to go and shake their hands. I looked at him twice to see if I heard him correctly, because I am a competitor and after a loss, I am not too happy. Though, I shook their hands. Afterwards, I was proud of myself, and the incident gained me respect from my opponents and the people in the stands.
Sportsmanship is pleasant to see. It shows that athletes have learned morals, ethics, and integrity from their athletic experiences. Student- athletes, who display good sportsmanship, are positive role models within their school and their community. They know that good competition builds character and shapes attit .....
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Human Rights And Trade In China
.... Government soldiers then proceeded to kill them in cold blood. The incident was a tragedy for the victims, obviously, but it was also devastation to their democratic purpose. The Chinese government’s blatant disregard for any human rights have caused other Chinese people to shy away from starting their opinion, because they are fearful of being killed in the same way. Right now, China is rising to become one of the largest and most populous countries; therefore it would behoove the U.S. to make an effort to instill some respect for human rights into their government.
Undoubtably, U.S. dollars may be lost if the U.S. is over .....
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Is Television Good Or Bad?
.... or entertain (otherwise life itself would be entertaining!) I think that these programs should not be shown. Comedy programs, however, make viewers laugh, feel better, and make people generally happier. These programs should be encouraged, instead of the ‘real life’ dramas.
Sports programs and broadcasts of sporting matches are very good. With them, fans of the sports can watch only parts of a match, or watch while they are at work. Without these services, people who are ill or disbled or people that had to work on weekends would miss out on sport all together. These programs show only relevant parts of the match and often includ .....
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Age Of Reason
.... the study of letters and resolved no longer to seek any other science than the knowledge of myself, or of the great book of the world”(16). The knowledge of oneself, and of his so-called “book of the world,” can be obtained solely through a process of reason. He argues that it is reason alone “which constitutes us men, and distinguishes us from the brutes”(13). Therefore, according to him, the human being is an elite animal, distinguished by his (or her) ability of rational thought. It is this nature as a rational animal that puts humans in their supreme position amongst all life. Descartes maintains further that reason “ .....
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Media And Society
.... 8 and under, because they cannot tell the difference between real life and fantasy. Violent images on television and in movies may seem real to these children and sometimes viewing these images can even traumatize them with bad dreams and other types of things.
Despite the negative effects media violence has been known to generate, no official changes have been made to deal with this problem that seems to be getting worse every minute. The United States has shown this violence so much, that movies such as “Natural
Born Killers” and television shows such as “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” are viewed as normal, everyday ent .....
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The Women Of Irag
.... motherhood. These weren’t suitable careers for women which threatened to drive them into the dangerous path of the consumer race.
Eventhough the first move toward salaried employment of women in Iraq came in 1923, when a teachers’ training Institute was opened. 2 This still left some lower class women without a job. There was also some women that were still getting descriminated. It is worthy of note that almost 90 percent of employed women belonged to upper and middle class families and that most of them were educated.
The primary education for girls had begun early in the century, 3 the first secondary school for girls opened .....
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Native American Virtues
.... weren't given food and friendship, they surely would've died off and Indians would have been free to continue their successful way of life.
Many Indians lived by a strict code of conduct. Though the specifics varied because of the vastness of the country, the general concepts were
· Social: live and let live
· Environmental: use the land and its bounty; don't abuse it
· Crime: an eye for an eye
· Political: the best interest of the group was more
Imagine the awesome nation we'd have today if these ideals were practiced within our culture and incorporated into our government!
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Racism
.... will be discussed in this proyect: blacks, American Indians, Latinos, Asians, women, and homosexuals. These groups are faced with strong discrimanting issues every day, and as long as our society is ridden with race-based problems, we will need race-based remedies. And while we have come a long way, we still have a long way to go.
In 1963 the civil rights reformation was speed up by Martin Luther King Jr. As the speech, of "I have a dream" was performed in washington, on August 28. By this time discrimination, social issues, and violence, such as the Ku Klux Klan, was already present. We must sadly confront the issue that h .....
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Women And Society's "Glass Walls"
.... allow male athletics to acquire nearly half of the university funding. Extended funding allows the fields of male athletics to be more "luxurious" with options for its members; thus, much interest is lost in female athletics by females. A loss of interest from the females creates indifference to female athletics by society, thus contributing to university views that see female athletics as unworthy and pointless of the spending. Recognition of women's professional basketball has come about only recently, with the formation of the woman's national basketball association (WNBA). Prior to the WNBA, female athletics were .....
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Peer Pressure Around Us
.... we feel the pressure either from parents or from ourselves to try and improve. We don’t want to compromise the integrity of our family.
School is important to all of us and the pressures that come from the schools are high. We all have the pressures of achieving good grades, and doing well so that we can succeed in the future for us and our families. In school, you feel the pressure from your friends to do well because they might be doing better than you. It’s hard to avoid your the pressure from your family when it comes to getting good marks in school.
I feel that pressure is hard to avoid either from our friends, fam .....
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Thomas Gordon: Active Listening
.... organism is in a state of “disequilibrium” because there is something going on inside him. He wants, or needs something.
In order to bring the organism back to a state of equilibrium the child begins to talk. Gordon gives the example of hunger. When a child is hungry, he must communicate his hunger to someone else. He selects a signal he thinks represents his hunger to the other person. The child picks a code (encoding process) and perhaps says, “When is dinner ready, mom?” The mother might decode the message accurately and understand that the child is hungry. However, she might decode the message inaccurately and communicati .....
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