Pope John Paul II

Walking around a pet shop, I spotted fish resembling neon specks floating in a pool of water. As I looked closer, I witnessed a light show being performed by swimming schools of fish. This phenomenon grabbed my curiosity. I found an article by Sarah Zielinski with the title, “The Glow-In-The-Dark Kitty: A fluorescent green cat could help in the fight against AIDS.” “The ultimate goal of this line of research, though, is to figure out how to make humans resistant to HIV, the virus that causes…

political issues but was diagnosed with Huntington’s chorea. Dylan visited Guthrie often and the following April performed in New York's Gerdes Folk City as the opening act for John Lee Hooker. He played a set of Guthrie-styled folk songs with his own lyrics. A New York Times review on Dylan helped him draw the attention of John Hammond, an A&R man with Columbia Records. Dylan signed with Columbia and produced his first album, Bob Dylan, in 1962 (Bob Dylan Biography). After releasing a few more…

sin. Stating that “Sin is an offense against reason, truth, and right conscience; it is a failure in genuine love for God…” (Brady, Bernard 2008). The church recognizes that racism is a persistent social phenomenon that needs to be stopped. Pope John Paul II even went to the extent to call racism a “plague” which suggests that racism is more than prejudice. With dealing with racism the church calls for the use of The Spheres of Interaction. The first sphere explains that responding and dealing…

embryo for research purposes any worse than simply discarding it? The largest opposition of course, comes from religious groups. The Catholic Church believes that the embryo is precious human life, not to be destroyed for the purpose of research. Pope John Paul II once said: “Experience is already showing how a tragic coarsening of consciences accompanies the…

Against the Spanish Armada is a historical motivational speech to the Troops at Tilbury. The Speech was delivered on August 9, Old Calendar (August 19, New Calendar), 1588 by Queen Elizabeth I of England. She gave this speech to the land forces at Tilbury in Essex in preparation for the expected invasion by the Spanish Armada. Queen Elizabeth I wanted to motivate her troops to ready for battle, as well as, to establish herself as a worthy sovereign for whom her people should be willing to fight,…

Science and religion have proven to work together for centuries now. Science refers to knowledge gathered through observations and experiments based on a series of hypotheses and theories. On the other hand, religion involves a belief in something based on absolute truths delivered as a gift from God. Additionally, religion provides us with faith and morals. Both science and religion are aimed at providing us with the truth, yet they just utilize different ways of thinking to go about it. While…

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.…

Wrecking Ball. She began the letter by stating the perspective she is writing from and wants Miley to interpret this as “the spirit of motherliness and with love”. O’Connor is no stranger to controversy as she famously tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live, but she finds very astonishing about the path Miley is on. She continues her letter by making many remarks that warn young Miley. The words she used may seem harsh to any other person, but she has nothing but…

Many people are familiar with bone marrow stem cell transplants because it has helped save the lives of many patients for decades. Stem cells are biologically defined as “unspecialized cells found in living things and are able to renew themselves and develop into other cells by means of growth and repair so long as the host is still alive. They can also be manipulated to become tissue or organ specific cells” ("14 Key Pros and Cons of Embryonic Stem Cell Research”). However, controversy…

The cloning of the sheep Dolly created a controversial issue of using human embryos in research and cloning of humans. Roe vs. Wade made abortions legal in the United States. This led to researches legally experimenting on 20 live-born fetuses. Five years later, Steptoe and Edwards reversed infertility by creating Louise Brown, the “test tube” baby. They destroyed approximately one hundred human embryos inx5 Ntheir in vitro fertilization experiment. Elizabeth Carr was the first IVF baby born…