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- 21301: A Look At Animal Testing
- A LOOK AT ANIMAL TESTING "They're Pinky and the Brain They're Pinky and the Brain One is a genius; the other's insane They're laboratory mice Their genes have been spliced They're Pinky, they're Pinky and the Brain, Brain Brain, Brain, Brain." This theme song to a popular cartoon is a farce dealing with ... obtained from experimentation is irreplaceable. While animal rights groups such as PETA advocate abolishing all animal testing that inflicts pain on animals, proponents of testing cite laws and regulations which minimize pain and discomfort. PETA's position is based on the belief that "humans are not superior to animals (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)." The vice president of the Humans Society of the United States (HSUS), an animal rights ... wears off (United States Department of Agriculture 48). For humans this topic is still being debated, but animals are put to sleep every day when an owner or veterinarian decides the quality of the animal's life will be too low for it to go on living. These few but important changes in animal research legislation have aided in improving animal welfare. PETA believes that the benefits of animal research ...
- 21302: Anorexia And Bulima
- ... persons with anorexia usually do not outwardly exhibit these feelings, tending instead to be childish in their thinking, in their need for parental approval, and in their lack of independence. Psychologists theorize that the patient's desire to control her own life manifests itself in the realm of eating--the only area, in the patient's mind, where she has the ability to direct her own life. In striving for perfection and approval, a person with anorexia may begin to diet in order to lose just a few pounds. Dieting does ... is common to many. Researchers describe these families as warm and loving on the surface. Evidently, this loving atmosphere masks a series of underlying problems in which family members are excessively involved in each other's lives, and overly dependent on one another. Apparently, they often are unable to deal with conflicts within the family. Either they deny that conflicts exist, or they become so overwhelmed by numerous petty conflicts ...
- 21303: School Uniforms
- ... away and the subject is forced to conform to the same outward appearance as every other subject. Another problem that will surface due to the implementation of school uniforms is the suppression of the individual's creativity and expression. Many students' express who they are through the way they dress. If a teenager wants to show the rest of the world that he loves Jesus, then he or she might wear a T-shirt that states a positive view on the subject. Similarly, a student might want to wear green colored clothing to show his or her support for St. Patrick's day. School uniforms would end both of those examples listed within this paragraph and many, many more. The last issue that needs to be addressed is the unnecessary burden that will be placed upon ...
- 21304: School Violence
- ... our heads, one might conclude that children are more violent today, than they were in recent years. But, school violence is not a new issue for the nineties; School violence has been around since the1950's, but then it was more an issue of juvenile delinquency than violent behavior. The difference between the two generations is that today student conflicts are more likely to be solved with the use of weapons ... express their out of control emotions. Others use manipulation as a way to control others or get something they want. Violence is a learned behavior. Like all learned behaviors, it can be changed. This isn't easy, though. Since there is no single cause of violence, there is no one simple solution. The best you can do is learn to recognize the warning signs of violence and to get help when ... I propose the following strategy: Police officers in every school; Metal detectors at each doorway; Some type of dress code-banning “big clothes” where weapons can be hidden; Hall monitors- hallways, doorways, restrooms and cafeteria’s; Train certain school personnel in weapon usage. Allow them to carry and store weapons on campus. If students knew someone else on campus had a gun to protect students, they may think twice about ...
- 21305: Cry the Beloved Country: The Power of Love
- ... are many different levels of power in the world, but no level has complete power over anything else. Love is a power that God has given to man, but it cannot be controlled. Man doesn’t have power over love. He can search for it in many different places, but the power he is searching for remains in God. A human has no control over their likes and dislikes. People cannot make something better or worse than it is. Love is the same. One cannot help it if they love something. People or things can touch a person’s life, and they naturally grow to or learn to love it. There are different definitions of love, but the true definition lies with God. People can spend their entire lives searching for more power. The ... in the direction that best suits them, but God controls what will happen when one does turn the power. No man can control sickness, death, or natural disasters. The only thing that matters in man’s life is what he does for the glory of God. The most important power that man has is the power of choice. Man has the choice to follow God. Love is a strong part ...
- 21306: Invisible Man
- Invisible Man In the Emerson's paint factory, the narrator first gets a job adding dope to bad paint and then is sent to work down in the basement of a building, where the oils for the paint are produced. The then gets into a fight with his foreman, and neglects his job of watching pressure gauges. His neglecting causes an explosion at Emerson's Paint factory and he is injured in the blast, and has to be taken to the hospital. Brother Jack was the leader of the Brother hood. He was the one who sought out the narrator ... was a women in the Brotherhood, who was married. The narrator wanted to suduce her to find out what she knew, but she turned out to know nothing at all. The symbolic significance of Mary's cast-iron coin bank is of what black people stand for to white people. The coin bank made the narrator angry, because it was symbolic of blacks, being slaves to white people, and how ...
- 21307: A Farewell to Arms: Summary
- ... Summary Main Characters and Description of Each Lieutenant Fredric Henry (Tenente) -The story is told from his point of view. He is a young American in the Italian army during WWII. Rinaldi -One of Tenente's best friends, he is also a Lieutenant. Catherine Barkley -A nurse who works with a group of British nurses. She and Tenente fall in love later in the story. Setting: The story takes place in the 1940's, during WWII. The place changes along with wherever Tenente goes, because the book is told in first person. The story moves from Italy to Milan, to Udine, to Caporetto, to Montreaux, and many other places and war fronts. What is the major conflict? The story is something like an Ernest Hemmingway's “Romeo and Juliet”. It is a story about love and war. In the beginning of the story, Tenente and Catherine Barkley fall in love. The conflict is that while Tenente is in war and ...
- 21308: Like Water for Chocolate: Family Relationships
- ... If a person wants to stand on her own two feet, I recommend undertaking the care and feeding of something. It could be children.” “By doing that you come to understand your own limitations.” Yuichi’s role was to be faithful reflections and a purpose of Eriko and her life. His existence itself made Eriko like her own life and told her limitation of herself after Yuichi’s real mother died. “ I still went to my part-time job, but after that I would clean house, watch TV, bake cakes: I lived like a housewife.” Even though Mikage was not related to the ... could not marry with her lover who, then, married with her sister. The youngest daughter did not play a role of listening to her mother and be an obedient daughter and she loved her sister’s husband. As a result, the family members fall in apart and sister’s family had to live mother and the youngest daughter. In Pom’s Engagement, Pom had to marry with someone who she ...
- 21309: Antigun Control
- ... lights, lay down, and close your eyes. All of a sudden you here a crash of glass in your kitchen. You rush to your feet and put your ear to the door listening to what’s going on downstairs. You begin to hear the voice of two men as they start going through the living room, making their way to the stairs, right outside your room. What do you do? You aren’t going to confront them since its just you—remember you thought you heard two of them right? Well you are really stuck in your room and all you can do is sit there hoping that they leave soon and don’t harm you. Now if it were at my house things would be a little bit different. For starters I would get out my shotgun from my closet and begin to see what is gin ...
- 21310: Drug Testing
- ... It is also very hard to decide if the test is an invasion of employee privacy. “The ethical status of workplace drug testing can be expressed as a question of competing interests, between the employer’s right to use testing to reduce drug related harms and maximize profits, over against the employee’s right to privacy, particularly with regard to drug use which occurs outside the workplace.” (Cranford 2) The rights of the employee have to be considered. The Supreme Court case, Griswold vs. Connecticut outlines the idea ... that every person is entitled to a privacy zone. However this definition covers privacy and protection from government. To work productively especially when the work may be physical it is nearly impossible to keep one’s privacy. The relationship between employer and employee is based on a contract. The employee provides work for the employer and in return he is paid. If the employee cannot provide services because of problems ...
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