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“Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe seldom executed.” Benjamin Franklin. Hammurabi is an old king of Babylonia. He wrote 282 laws, called Hammurabi’s Code. The laws were carved into a Stele. He reigned from 1792 to 1750 B.C. Was Hammurabi’s laws fair? There are three areas of law where Hammurabi’s Code can be shown to be just. These are family, property, and personal injury laws. Examples of justice can first be found in the area of family laws. The first just law is “If a married…

accines: Why Public Places Should Demand Them Due to the recent anti-vaccination movements, many people believe that requiring vaccinations may put their children at risk for a number of illnesses (NVIC), and that they are morally obligated to not expose their child to unnecessary danger (Slate). The efforts of pediatricians across the country to clear up misconceptions on vaccination safety has not only been ineffective, but counterproductive (Nyhan). Diseases, such as the measles are very…

from http://media.capella.edu/coursemedia/drph8120/forceField/forceField.asp Marmot, M., Friel, S., Bell, R., Houweling, T., & Taylor, S. (2008). Closing the gap in a generation: Health equity through action on the social determinants of health. The Lancet, 372(9650), 1661-1669. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(08)61690-6 Selivanova, A. & Cramm, J. (2014). The relationship between healthy behaviors and health outcomes among older adults in Russia. BMC Public Health, 14(1), 1183.…

Losing blood was thought to be beneficial to people's health.The doctor would open a vein with a sharp piece of wood or a lancet, which is a small two edged surgical knife. The opening of the vein causes blood to flow out of the body and that will in hope get the bad bacteria out of the blood. Bloodletting is considered one of medicine's oldest practices. Bloodletting was the…

The Peace in Cannabis Good evening fellow classmates, and teachers, what is the worst thing that may occur if marijuana is legalized? Alcohol is legal..., so what’s the big deal about marijuana being legal? I can assure you that marijuana is much more safe and helpful than most prescription drugs out there. We as a student body should be able to point out and recognize the dangerous and safe substances. Now I'm not saying that you should just smoke away…

My research paper will be on the importance of vaccinating your children. In the article Measles outbreak highlights vaccine debate Dr. Friedlander reports in Disneyland, "more than 80% of the reported cases occurred in unvaccinated people." This helps show how you can't always rely on herd immunity and that if people had been vaccinated the measles outbreak we had in 2015 wouldn't have traveled so far or infected as many people. In 5 myths surrounding vaccines – and the reality; I will talk…

The Silent Killer: Lethal Injection Torahiko T. Black Troy University The Silent Killer: Lethal Injection In reading this paper one will be able to acquire knowledge about lethal injection, its history, major cases that lethal injection applies to, stats on the number of cases in Florida that have used lethal injection, and lastly the author of this papers general thought on lethal injection and why it’s a good form of punishment. Also to add one will be able to learn, daily there are…

In MIT Student Joanna MacKay’s essay, Organ Sales Will Save Lives, she argues that the selling of human organs should be legalized. She mentions that government regulation of human organs would save lives since people are suffering and dying. No drugs can cure a failed kidney so people use dialysis, a long, expensive, temporary solution. MacKay notes that in the year 2000 there were 2,583 American deaths waiting for a transplant and 50,000 worldwide (157). There is a long wait list for…

The Brief History of Controlled Drugs video was a very interesting and highly detailed video. The video opened with how opium was a big seller over the counter. Opium users had their own place to interact with the drug privately. Famous Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge and he explained that it helped him to write great poetry. Napoleon Bonaparte discovered cannabis from the Asia Minors. The people of Asia Minors been smoking cannabis for centuries. Bonaparte brought the cannabis back to France for…

(2014). Nature, 513(7518), 282. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.nu.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/1564433531?accountid=25320 Lancet, T. (2015). Ebola in west africa: Getting to zero. The Lancet, 385(9968), 578. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(14)62478-8 Out of Africa. (2014). Nature, 514(7521), 139. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.nu.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/1613916464?accountid=25320…