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experiments (Rachel Hajar). Animal testing has also led to many medical advancements such as the development of penicillin and finding the first effective treatment for tuberculosis. However, in the past 40 years the public has been questioning how humane animal testing is and whether or not we should continue it. This has sparked several animal rights groups to form such as PETA, with the goal to terminate animal…

The Death Penalty: Cruel and Unusual Punishment The death penalty is a cruel process of a bygone era and has no place in modern day civilized society. The death penalty has evolved from a punishment for crimes such as petty theft and adultery to the absolute punishment for crimes such as the rape of a child, kidnapping, treason, and murder, to name a few however the death penalty is fraught with errors. According to the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) Innocence List (2015), during the…

got me thinking about Capital Punishment. In society, there are rules that each citizen must follow to be considered a good citizen. The rules put in place are usually determined by an educated group of people who create these rules to benefit their community. In some societies, certain acts are punishable by death. The logic behind this is fascinating. For example, if an individual is a killer, most would agree that the person is a harm to their society. The people may agree that the most…

According to The Humane Society of the United States, over two billion chickens, cattle, pigs, sheeps, lambs, and turkey were killed for food in 2015 in the United States alone. Supporters of animal right believe that all animals, not just household pets and exotic creature, have an inherent value; we believe that all animals have a right to live…

The first African-American born in the United States was William Tucker, born to the colony of Jamestown in 1619 (Smith),twelve years after its establishment. Since then, all “colored” people in the United States were used as slaves, and despite how hard they worked, were never treated like that of indentured servants, who were freed after a certain number of years of working…

require care, feeding, exercise, grooming, and health. She also mentions that people should consider the long lifespan of animals as one may encounter problems in those years. Barley then mentions the benefits of adopting, including fostering. She states that adopting is far better than buying because all the animals are trained and have already been spayed/neutered, vaccinated, and microchipped. Throughout the article, Barley uses a professional and easy to follow tone. For example, her tone…

The simply war theory could be a for the most part Christian philosophy that makes an attempt to reconcile 3 things. Taking human life is seriously wrong. States have a requirement to defend their voters, and defend justice. protective innocent human life and defensive vital ethical values generally needs disposition to use force and violence. the speculation specifies conditions for judgement if it's simply to travel to war, and conditions for the way the war ought to be fought. though it…

punishment in the mid 20th century. Western also touches base on racial inequality in regards to imprisonment in the United States and the overall effect it has on one group of people. Western begins his book with a brief history of American penitentiaries, naming two famous institutions, Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia and Auburn State Prison in upstate New York. Eastern State was the first generation of American prisons developed by the Quakers; they used solitary confinement as a…

so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery” (Stowe 51). This excerpt from Stowe’s novel accurately depicts the lack of beauty Stowe, slaves, and the abolitionists saw in the United States with slavery still being…

Every year thousands of patients who are on the United Network for organ sharing transplant waiting lists die, as the number of allografts that become available do not meet the demand. Although selling organs for transplants can be highly dangerous the number of fatalities due to the lack of organs available for transplants would greatly decrease if selling organs for transplantations was legalized. People who do choose to donate organs should be able to make that choice alone, which would…