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- 1451: Crisis: Generation X
- ... is amazed at the hard floors and lights that would never fail. It is here that he learns to reject the lifestyle of his mother's and Neil's (father). Tyler does not drink, do drugs or smoke, he refrains from this because he believes it will make him like his parents. The rejection of his fathers morals is more and more evident when he pays visit to Neil's house ...
- 1452: Racism in Colleges
- ... and influence the way that teens think. The all black schools even resemble the schools of old. They have minimal funding and substandard equipment. They are always in the worst neighborhoods and are filled with drugs and violence. In all white high schools, on the other hand, students are not accustomed to being around blacks. This might be one of the reasons that blacks and whites do not mix well in ...
- 1453: The Conflicts of the Black Race: Delayed Economic and Educational Progress
- ... made then, our community does not seem to have kept up with our ancestor's rate of self-improvement. Not only are blacks still disrespected by other races, problems also plague us such as poverty, drugs, and miseducation. To make matters even worse, we also have a serious lack of unity. Some of us feel as though it is not our responsibility to help other blacks when they are in need ...
- 1454: Animal Rights
- ... been developed with animal testing.(Bioethics, 148) There are many reasons given for it to be necessary to work with animals in research. First scientists must be able to test medical treatments for effectiveness and drugs for their toxicity before being tested on humans. Also new surgical techniques before being used on humans must be tested on living things with circulatory and pulmonary systems like ours. No "computer models, cell cultures ...
- 1455: Genetic Engineering
- ... of organs for transplantation into humans in the United States and abroad. Fish are being genetically engineered to grow larger and at a faster rate. According to U.S. News and World Report, many pharmaceutical drugs, including insulin, are already genetically engineered in the laboratory. Many enzymes used in the food industry, including rennet used in cheese production, are also available in genetically engineered form and are in widespread use. Genetic ...
- 1456: The Element Cesium
- ... used in photoelectric cells, spectrographic instruments, scintillation counters, radio tubing, military infrared signaling lamps, and various optical and detecting devices. Cesium salts have also been used medically as anti shock agents after administration of arsenic drugs, and in an experimental cancer treatment using the isotope Cesium-137. Cesium compounds are also used in glass and ceramic production. Property Temp. C Values Density 20 1.9 g/cm^3 Melting Point 28 ...
- 1457: Cloning
- Cloning In many controversial topics around the world, such as abortion, gun control, legalized drugs, the death penalty, and cloning (to name a few), we can find differing positions, and opinions. Many of these arguments, can be narrowed down to two different views, or constructs: individualistic and communitarian (an image ...
- 1458: Astrology
- ... haunts a more conscious experience of life. There is an unearthly quality to the Pisces sensibility that is associated with the twelfth house. This is a place of monasteries and hidden meanings, astral experiences, dreams, drugs and superconsious states of mind. Pisces is a sign that deeply reflects its ruler, Neptune, the planet of fantasy and illusion, romanticism, compassion, sympathy and the supernatural. Like the vibration of Neptune, the Pisces mind ...
- 1459: Vivisection
- ... they don't scratch (2:55). Testing is conducted to assess the potency, effectiveness, or toxicity of substances that have established or potential usefulness for medical, scientific, or commercial purposes (1:39). For instance, new drugs are tested for efficiency and safety before clinical trials are conducted on humans. Tests on animals are done to establish safety levels for humans of known toxic substances (1:40). Although testing might seem like ...
- 1460: The Rain Forest
- ... a mystery forever (http://www.stevensonpress.com/intro.html). Many of the plants in tropical rainforests are used for medicines by both people in the forest and hospitals throughout the world. One-fourth of the drugs that are sold in the United States have products that come from rainforests (http://www.ran.org/ran/). From something as important as a treatment to help fight heart disease to an over the counter ...
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