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The Many Cries of the Trail When most people think of the ancestry of history in the United States, many think of the first settlers, Christopher Columbus and the Pilgrims. Not many recognize the Native Indians, Indians were the first people to settle in the lands and the many to be taken away from their sacred motherland. White Americans had said that they feared the Indians because they we’re aliens who took over land more so savages. President Andrew Jackson was the supreme ruler of the…

According to the World Health Organization, “more than 70 million people have been infected with the HIV virus and about 35 million people have died of HIV.” Unlike other viruses, our bodies are unable to get rid of HIV. So once an individual contracts it, they have it for life. This virus attacks the host’s immune system which—in turn—opens up the possibility of other diseases to wreak havoc within the body. To be more specific, AIDS.gov states that HIV’s objective is to attack key points…

protect them from diseases that the immigrants might carry with them. According to an article posted by Southern Medical Association (2015), illegal immigrants kids expose the public to highly communicable diseases, such as tuberculosis(TB), syphilis, gonorrhea, polio, diphtheria, smallpox, and many other contagious diseases. They argue that these people could harm everyone in the United States. Leathy (2016) also supported this idea. In his article, he listed 6 diseases; TB, measles, whooping…

Human subjects are an essential part of conducting research intended to improve human health. The ethics in scientific research is critical and the relationship between the researchers and human subjects should be based on honesty, trust, and respect. In the following cases of “The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment” and the Guatemalan “Normal Exposure” and Inoculation Syphilis Experiment, went against all ethics of research. The Tuskegee experiment was a study of the effects of untreated Syphilis in…

Grant Foreman discusses the tragic events that occurred during the Cherokee’s travel to Indian Territory in the 1830s. Grant Foreman argues that diseases were the main struggle for the Cherokee Tribe. In Grant Foreman’s Indian Removal: The Emigration of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians, Grant states that the Cherokee Indians “had suffered much from disease and several deaths had occurred among them” (Foreman, 256). Measles and cholera were the main diseases that affected the Cherokee…

of sexually transmitted diseases within their city. This policy of toleration has proven to benefit the Dutch in terms national STD and teen pregnancy rates, with the Netherlands consistently having lower rates of teen pregnancy, HIV, Syphilis, Gonorrhea, and Chlamydia when compared to other European countries as well as the United States (Wade). The idea that prostitution is not something the people accept or empathize with and yet the government still allows it to exist is a great…

One in four college students has an STD. Some of these STDs are curable, however, many are not, and one will live with it for the rest of their lives. Overall, the CDC estimates the 19 million new sexually transmitted infections occurs each year (10 Truly Shocking Stats On STDs and College Students, 2015). Schools should have more sex education. The reasons to why is because there are a lot of teens are getting pregnant, STDs, and STIs. Students need information about in order to make choices,…

The history of birth control goes back as far as 3000 B.C. when condoms were made out of fish bladder or animal intestines. In 1916 Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in Brooklyn with contraceptives that she smuggled from Europe. At this time “birth control was a radical idea that challenged conventional notions of women’s sexuality and reproduction” (483). Before 1916 both genders struggled to get birth control. In 1873 The Comstock Act allowed mail carriers to confiscate…

Prostitution has been defined as “the act or practice of engaging in sexual activity for money or its equivalent.” With the exception of a few counties in Nevada, the United States has criminalized prostitution based on the premise that it is degrading to sex workers, the vast majority of whom are female. Proponents of criminalization also argue that it reduces the demand for human trafficking victims as well as the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Despite the prohibition of prostitution…

prostitutes work in legalized brothels they are often required to be checked for diseases. "16 years of mandatory testing, [and] over 100,000 tests -- there has never been one case of HIV in a Nevada brothel. The ladies are checked weekly for gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis, and monthly for HIV.... Nevada only contributes one half of one percent of all the sexually transmitted diseases in America, partially attributed to the success of the brothel....” said Dennis Hof, the owner of a brothel…