.... is cruel and inhumane and often unnecessary. The American Medical Association believes that research involving animals is absolutely essential to maintaining and improving the health of the American people. They point out, that virtually every advance in medical science in the 20th century, from antibiotics to organ transplants, has been achieved either directly or indirectly through the use of animals in laboratory experiments. They also emphasize that animal research holds the key for solutions to AIDS, cancer, heart disease, aging and congenital defects. Lastly they insist that, the result of these experiments has been the elimination or control of many infectious ....

.... to work as secretaries, clerks, and many of the mentally demanding office jobs. There are exceptions though such as the big 250 pound butch women and the skinny frail men who switch roles and that is perfectly fine. This becomes a problem when the massive dumb man wants to be a successful secretary with his amazing eight words per minuit typing speed and the skinny little twig woman wants to be a lumberjack. Men and women have to realize that some jobs are meant for someone more fitting then what they are. When god created women, he gave them the ability to have children. This advantage kind of gives women superiority over men. I'm sure if men were able to they would ....

.... limit on our harmless activities. “If we are willing to set a number upon our liberties, then we are without liberty.”(Cunningham, 1986) The Ninth Amendment makes this point quite clear. “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”(Cunningham, 1986) If the citizens of the United States are willing to set a number on the liberties then we will become slaves in our own country. This country has been suppressing the liberties of people through their thwarting of protests and demonstrations that supposedly “posed a threat” to the public. This suppression has been a violatio ....

.... natural systems are extremely vital to life but will eventually breakdown if they are overloaded. The well-being and survival of the earth is linked to the environment. The lives of those from future generations and are own depend upon us handling the earth with care. Knowing how sensitive the earth can be corporations are not doing enough for the environment. Belching chimneys, strong detergents, smoking incinerators, exhaust fumes from automobiles are the cancer of modern society. Poisoned by carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide is the air we breathe. Our rivers are filled up with industrial waste, trash and broken bottles, and stained with oil. Each and every y ....

.... its in their school, workplace, community, or even in their own homes. Telling a joke with a racial slur seems commonplace and we don’t think twice about laughing at one of these jokes when we here one. We tell ourselves that they are just jokes, but not to those who they are ridiculing. We are all perpetrators of this and we usually feel that these types of jokes are harmless. They can be harmless and maybe at times we even think they are funny, but they are also hurtful and degrading. Some of the biggest racists are those who think that they are not racist and really are. Why are these people some of the biggest racists? It is because they cannot comprehend what i ....

.... author refers to these as part of the "masculine code of conduct" an item every male must follow verbatim. "On Self-respect " faces the every day pressures of adolescent life. The main premise of this essay is that you must respect yourself for anyone to respect you. Both essay's rely on self respect to relate to the rites of passage in today's society. Peer pressure is a very major dilemma in that friends or peers try to get a person to do what they, the majority, like and not what the individual likes. Peers create some of the so-called rites, then when one follows more start to follow, then it becomes the scenario of the lemmings following their leader off of the ....

.... teenage women drop out of school each year. Many of them endure in dramatic social and economical hardships and become dependent on welfare. Continuing this article, I also found out that 43% of all adolescents become pregnant before the age of 20. I feel as though many women do not know how to resist peer pressure or temptation, I feel, as though they should resort to abstinence. Abstinence is without a question the best policy, and should be emphasized as not just the preferred choice, but the safest- to prevent pregnancy as well as some diseases that range from troublesome to deadly. Abstinence gives teens a better chance to develop into successful adults. In additi ....

.... The teacher tied the kid to a chair and sprayed him down with Raid insect killer. When I expressed disbelief, she swore it was true. Another interviewee that grew up in the early twenties attended school only through the eighth grade. After that he helped his father on the farm. In the typical school day today, a student has to do a lot more than cheat on a test to get in any real trouble. Some things that get kids in a lot of trouble now include looking up porn on the Internet and fighting. Swearing in class is usually punished with mild reprimand from the teacher. Fifty years ago, and even only twenty years ago, you didn’t dare say even the mildest swear word i ....