In many studies it has been stated that college age students are more likely to pick up a few pounds during their stint in school. The research conducted in this study will be used to determine the nutritional awareness of college students. In this study females will be compared to males to determin...

During the past decade, genetic engineering has been a very controversial issue facing our world that ultimately questions our power as humans to control nature. Genetic engineering has many potential benefits, such as curing all diseases, growing more food, and altering our genes, but these advan...

The idea of cloning humans has always stirred debate, raising moral and ethical issues. As research and experiments continue delve into the frontiers of technology and science, we inch closer to the possibility of cloning becoming a reality. In fact, it is unrealistic to assume it will nev...

In both the junior high as well as the high school I attended, students were expected to participate in various health classes in order to meet graduation requirements. Because of these classes I was required to take, I consider myself to be somewhat knowledgeable on the subject of human healt...

Cloning in Brave New World by Christopher M. Earhart It has been said that Muhammad is the "Seal of the Prophets," meaning that he was the last. However, our world has recently been graced by another prophet in Aldous Huxley. Huxley's prophetic vision is unmistakable in his science-fiction nov...

Euthanasia is defined as painless killing of a person who has a painful, incurable disease or incapacitating order. When someone is faced with a dying loved one, these issues become more than mere exercises in ethical philosophy. This subject can and does become horrifying predicaments that may see...

We often think of morality in terms of right versus wrong or good versus evil. If a person chooses wisely and makes good decisions, they have morals, but if a person is evil then they have no sense of morality. Phaedra's situation is complicated and cannot easily be characterized in terms of good ...

To understand Peter Singer and his work, it's helpful to examine his views on animal rights, euthanasia, and charity. Peter Singer is an Australian utilitarian philosopher and is a professor at Princeton University. His views have been evaluated by many people and have been disapproved of ...

Cloning: How far will it go? Everyday people find themselves at a crossroads that requires a decision as to which path to follow. In the past few years, scientists have gained knowledge about cloning that could impact our lives for centuries to come. As a society we are at a crossroads and we w...

Cloning: How far will it go? Everyday people find themselves at a crossroads that requires a decision as to which path to follow. In the past few years, scientists have gained knowledge about cloning that could impact our lives for centuries to come. As a society we are at a crossroads and we w...

One of the ideas of Marxism was that of 'alienation' – the idea that humans as a species were alienated from their human nature in the face of technological and industrial advancements; in short, as a side effect of capitalism (Marx, Tucker, & Engel). Socialists unhappily herald ca...

After hearing the other students in the class speak of the infamous John Keats, my curiosity became sparked. I began to ponder how any man could possess such great writing talent that it had a whole spectrum of students perked by it. This spark of curiosity is what has "pushed" me to loo...

In his play, Antigone, Sophocles makes a great interpretation of tragic drama. His genius created a striking conflict between two characters Antigone and Creon that is developed through out the story from the very beginning until the last pages. Both of the characters have their unbreakable ideas an...

What do the words, "We, the people of the United States" and the reasons for the creation and existence of the United States of America mean to you? To me, they mean that people that sought freedom from religious persecution, economic oppression and equality under the Declaration of Ind...

A GIRL OR A BOY . . . YOU PICK In the July 23, 2002 issue of the Los Angeles Times Newspaper, there was an article entitled "A Girl or a Boy, You Pick" written by Aaron Zitner. The article discusses the embryo-sorting technique called pre-implantation genetic diagnosis or "PGD" and how embry...

"A good ends does not justify an evil means" (Olen and Barry, 476). In other words, treating animals as though they are our property, using them only to benefit us and in most cases hurting them is not morally justifiable. In Tom Regan's article "The Case for Animal Rights"...

What is abortion? According to the Webster's 21st Dictionary, abortion reads as the following; pregnancy before full development of the fetus. (1) However, abortion means many different contexts to different individuals. For example, to a single mother on welfare who may already be raising othe...

"The Loman Family and Their 'Problems of the Spirit.' In his 1950 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, William Faulkner lamented the dearth of "problems of the spirit" in modern literature and pointed out the importance of "the old universal truths...love and honor and...

Should Human Cloning Be Permitted? For years, part of the American public, and humans in general, have been fascinated with the possibility of creating human li...

It has been said that as long as the human species is in a living state conformity shall be part of how human society functions and part of man's natural tendencies. The more people already agree upon or share a particular idea, the more easily a newcomer will in turn be converted to that id...

Lord of the Flies is a novel in which William Golding comments on human nature through a group of boys marooned on a deserted tropical island. William Golding is an Oxford University graduate who also served in the Royal Navy during World War II. In addition to being an author, poet and playwrigh...

Conscience in The Crucible Conscience is the awareness of right and wrong. In the Crucible, the idea of conscience in strongly emphasized. Miller himself said, "No critic seemed to sense what I was after [which was] the conflict between a man's raw deeds and his conception of himself; th...

Is This Really the Future of Transplants?? After a baby is conceived and has made it through the fallopian tube it becomes an outer shell of cells with an attached inner group of cells. When this has happened it has reached the blastocyst stage. In this stage the outer cells nourish and provide pro...

Few issues have fostered such controversy as has the topic of abortion. The participants in the abortion debate not only have firmly-fixed beliefs, but each group has a self-designated appellation that clearly reflects what they believe to be the essential issues. On one side, the pro-choi...

Human cloning has always caught the public imagination even though scientists are afraid of the public's reaction. For years, scientists have been telling us that human cloning was impossible and would never be possible. Yesterday's science fiction is today's reality. Human cloning ...