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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...