Hamster

When contemplating what I wanted to achieve, looking back on my childhood, I had an assortment of animals such as, hamsters, rabbits, and dogs. Taking a look down memory lane, I can remember having a tenderness and yearning for animals from the past until now, I have nursed and taken care of animals for so long On the day I graduated high-school I was sure I wanted to become a veterinary technician. Caretaker for my animals, I have medicated and cared for them when they were ill, including…

school. In the end I only used it during free periods and lunch so I wouldn’t miss class time. It hurt, a lot. I recounted this experience to my friends, but none of them really understood what I felt; it was like I was trapped in one of those giant hamster balls. Sometimes I felt like it was the teachers who were uncomfortable by it, but who knows? There wasn’t really an evidence for this claim, but I was livid and frustrated at what was laid out in front of me. My blood would boil whenever I…

The testing of animals is overall is bad ethics and poor science. In a booklet by Peta, they explain the difference between the use of animals verses if humans would be used, how the animal is in pain, examples of cruelty displayed, research conducted, non animal methods, and a conclusion to what you can do to help the cause. This pamphlet explains that the role animals play in this conducted research is not their choice. Animals should not be put into pointless suffering to test a product…

“Embryonic stem cell research will prolong life, improve life and give hope for life to millions of people.” This quote by Jim Ramstad is about the benefits of Embryonic Stem Cell Research. “Stem cells provide an opportunity to investigate the mechanisms that regulate embryonic development, cellular differentiation, and organ maintenance” (Ramalho-Santos and Willenbring 35-38). Embryonic stem cell research has been around for many years. It has proven to be very beneficial to the medical world,…

Number Fifteen: They Only Released One Album. Despite the Sex Pistols being so revered, they only released one album before they broke up. Nevermind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols was released in October 1977 and the band broke up in January 1978. Number Fourteen: Sid Vicious Only Played on One Song of Nevermind the Bollocks. When Vicious started playing bass with the Sex Pistols, he didn’t really know how to play the instrument. For this reason, former Pistols bassist Glen Matlock and…

I remember this day beginning like any other day, early morning making the rounds, feeding my son, shower, making a shopping list. In these normal everyday mundane routines you never think about an event that can hit you in the face with a huge dose of reality. Within seconds your whole world can turn upside down with one event. I was in my early twenties, it had only been a year ago that I had gotten married and moved to Nevada with my husband. My husband answered the phone, I knew…

Of Mice and Men Animals are murdered, tortured, and abused every day, but it is overlooked “in the name of science.” The use of animals for experimentation can be traced back to the second century. The first person known to have performed these experiments was named Galen, also known as “the father of vivisection.” Although, the first writings were believed to have originated from the Greeks, Aristotle and Erasistratus were among the first to perform on living animals. Animal testing is not a…

“Each year, more than 100 million animals—including mice, rats, frogs, dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, monkeys, fish, and birds—are killed in U.S. laboratories,” (“Experiments”). Animal experimentation is extremely wrong and be put to an end. Countless innocent animals get put through numerous tests as if they do not have feelings or emotions. Animal testing has been going on far too long, and is not helping in the way it should. Most animal experimentation is still continuing for…

What if our bodies had their very own repair kits? Repair kits that could heal damaged and diseased cells. With today 's technology and medical advances we do, it is called stem cells but it comes at a cost. There are two kinds of stem cells, adult and embryonic. Adult stem cells are undifferentiated cells, found throughout the body after development. Removing these, do not harm the patient. Embryonic stem cells are obtained from left over early-stage embryos in assisted fertility treatments.…

through experimentations each year and end up dead (“How Many Animals are Used”). Animal experimentation is when animals go through examination to determine the effects that a product has on humans. Different types of animals, such as rats, mice, hamsters, and cats, are put into cramped cages when waiting for their turn. These animals appear for experiments whether they are healthy or not. During testing, the poor living organisms experience pain, misery and sometimes death. Each test is for…