The definition of aids is a serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles. The United States has been hit, and has been a huge victim, of the HIV/Aids virus. But more importantly our whole world has been hit...

Teenagers and Sex Kelly, 17, slips into the health resource office at E high school in Brooklyn where she quietly asks for a free condom. She says her visits to the room on the second floor where the condoms are kept in a locked file cabinet, give her a powerful ...

The United States is currently being faced with hundreds of tragic problems that greatly affect our nation. These days there are so many, that it is very challenging to choose just three. I decided to do some research on the Internet and figure out which challenges are the most important to young pe...

Do you like the thought of telling your parents that you are pregnant or have contracted HIV? I didn't think so, but did you know that condoms are a way of preventing those issues if you are sexually active? In a society, that promotes sex, through the use of music videos, internet, television ...

Every time I see those people outside Dougherty sitting on the benches smoking, I can't help but ask myself, "How can people be persuaded to even begin smoking, when it is a known fact that smoking is not only addictive, but fatal as well?." Propaganda is one of the major reasons why ...

Should Marijuana be legalized? United States is facing many controversial issues today. The highly controversial issue that comes up in Newspapers again and again concerns the legalization of Marijuana. Some people support and believe that legalization is the only solution left for ...

Many American students have the misconception that bilingual education is just another "blow-off" or "easy-A" class; yet "more world languages are spoken in the United States today than ever before" (Crawford, par. 1). What many blind teenagers and some adults fail to...

Marijuana is a drug that has been in the media for years. There is a constant debate about if it should be used medically. The world is afraid of what they do not know about marijuana; for years we've been told, "say nope to dope." While marijuana can help for medical purposes it c...

Needle Exchange Programs The current method of drug control consists primarily of law enforcement agencies seizing and imprisoning offenders, rather than administering proper treatment. Although, the United States Government has spent billions of dollars in fighting drugs, particularly throug...

Officials that distribute condoms on school campuses have often been accused of immorality. As stated in the article, Condoms in Schools, "courts have tended to defer to school boards decisions and allow condom distribution programs to stand, but legislators have tended to re...

Children in the sex trade - and, in particular, as their involvement as prostitutes - is something that we don't hear about often. Newspapers, television, and radio stop it from coming on centre stage for one reason - because it makes people uncomfortable. And why wouldn't it? Just the mere suggest...

More than three quarters of parents and teachers say that they want their students to be taught a wide range of issues in sex education courses, including: sexual orientation, abortion, contraceptives, and the emotional consequences of sex (Parents 20)(Abstinence-Only 7). The United States governme...

Animal Experimentation The United States government should come up with alternatives to animal experimentation. The use of animals in research, testing, and education is an issue of increasing concern to the American public. An increasing number of adults and teenagers are concerned about the wel...

Making Money vs. American Health Every year more and more Americans are looking to lose weight and are willing to spend whatever it cost to do the trick. Close to $35 billion a year is spent on weight loss aids and the number is increasing every year (Anderson). As one can imagine, organizations...

Marijuana is the most common drug used in the world. Because it is the least dangerous drug, most curious people will start off with marijuana first before attempting to do other drugs. Marijuana is made with dried leaves and flowering tops of an Indian hemp plant cannabis sativa. People use mar...

"Since the 1950s, some athletes have been taking anabolic steroids to build muscle and to improve their athletic performance" (www.steroidabuse.org). They feel their bodies becoming stronger and their ability to perform increase. Although a stronger body and better performance result fr...

Students may be allowed to dig up as much information as they'd like for an article, but that doesn't mean that it will be allowed to print it. Schools all over the world are cutting out articles, words, names and just not allowing the paper to be circulated around the school, for the r...