...Have you ever wondered the benefits of animal tests? Well, there aren’t many. they delay the releases of cures for many diseases, they yield defective results, and they kill/injure 1,000s of humans and animals each year. This is why I argue that they should be banned from the world. I see how an innocent bystander like yourselves would be fooled by the shroud of lies surrounding animal tests and I hope this can make you see the truth. My first reason is that these tests actually delay cures from being released, not hurry them up like they're supposed to. For instance, blood transfusions were delayed a whole 200 years by animal studies! In addition, The polio vaccine was delayed by another 40 years because of … ( big surprise) monkey tests! My last piece of evidence is...
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...want to pursue. The second is the college student that has no idea or plan when they come to college. All freshmen have to take “gen eds” and you can tell which students might find these pointless. I, however, did not find these pointless, and I am here to tell you why these “gen eds” and a liberal education are important whether you have a plan or not. When I first came to UWO I pretty much had my future mapped out. I was set out to be an elementary school teacher. At first I thought the paired classes idea was ridiculous and pointless. Why do I need learn...
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...Imagine that you are going to the animal shelter to adopt a kitten. You adopt the cutest one there. On your way home you notice that the kitten seems so happy that it is now going to have a home. Instead, when you get home you put the cat in stocks for a month, all the while you’re either force feeding it, depriving it of food and water, burning it, or hitting it all this because you can! Until finally you strangle it, break its neck and then decapitate it to make sure it’s dead. Feel uncomfortable? You should be, that is the way that the animals are treated during animal experimentation. Scientists are wasting countless lives of animals to cruel experiments that should never have been done. First of all most animal tests are not needed and are done in poor fashion. According to the article “Animal Welfare”, “First the test that was done...was for products that had already been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This meant that the test didn’t need to be repeated. Second, the same test could have been done on human subjects who...
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...The data protection act, of 1998 was created to give relevant companies the opportunity of holding information about their customers in their possession. This information is vital to the running of many businesses of today, as customer data is required to get information about the company across to them, and it is vital that contact can be made between the company and the customer and so companies tend to go out of their ways to ensure they do not breach the terms of the act on any way or form. When the act was made various rules were instated so that the right to holding peoples personal data could not be abused or mis-used, these include the following -data must be discarded if no longer up to date or relevant -data MUST be up to date and relevant -all people's personal data must be kept as securely as possible These rules are all good and well in writing, but when it comes to enforcing them, who is to say what 'securely as possible' is, and who is to say if data is 'relevant' or not. This is where complications come into the data protection act, the definitions of various guidelines/rules given are not entirely clear to all users. The data protection act could be pointless because of the fact that there is a possibility that criminals could have their identities protected due to the act, e.g. if someone is requesting their data, it may not be released because of the data protection act...
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...Pointless Art or Meaningful Symbols? Hipsters, rockers, goths, hippies and other similar modern trends all have one thing in common: tattoos. This obviously doesn’t mean that everyone who are dressed in the code of these trends have tattoos on them but most adults do. Now, many individuals, when they hear “tattooed people” might imagine a person with tattoo’s instead of sleeves but that’s going from one level of extreme to another. Tats can vary in different sizes; from small to big and from single tats to connecting them all together into an enormous one. Tattoos represent so many different things that it’s impossible to mention every single meaning. Some of the things that tattoos stand for are family, friends, unforgettable memories, meaningful quotes or pictures… So all permanent body art always has a meaning behind it otherwise it’s just a plain meaningless sketch with empty symbols. So if it represents someone’s character, why do they get judged or laughed at? Often people get discriminated for having ink on their bodies by many believers who either think that your body is a gift and you should keep it safe or they may believe that tattoos represent something evil or even satanic. Obviously, we shouldn’t really care what others say but at some point it may touch us in the sense of differing from others and making ourselves feel bad about our body. Yes, our body and our life is a wonderful gift that we should treasure but why should others care about what we...
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...battle as a satirical allegory for human conflict. Thoreau chooses to use ants as a metaphor to make it clear to the reader that war is futile, pointless, and a waste of life. “The Battle of the Ants” begins with Thoreau casually walking out to his wood-pile as he stumbles upon the battle between the red ants and the black ants. After this, he compares these ants to humans, making the allegory apparent from the start. “It was the only battle which I have ever witnessed… On every side they were engaged in deadly combat, yet without any noise that I could hear, and human soldiers never fought so resolutely” (575). Thoreau uses hyperbole early in his essay to reinforce its anti-war theme as he describes the fighting ants to be in the middle of war. However, he implies that this war is miniscule by reminding the reader of its setting: a wood-yard. Thoreau goes on to describe an even smaller battle he witnesses between two ants, again, amid the chips, giving more scope to the idea that war is irrelevant compared to the broader schemes of the world. “I watched a couple that were fast locked in each other’s embraces, in a little sunny valley amid the chips, now at noonday prepared to fight till the sun went down, or life went out… They fought with more pertinacity than bulldogs” (575). Thoreau also manages to include more nuances in this passage, one being a comparison between the ants and bulldogs, in turn, a comparison between human war and the persistent...
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...gets the courage to dive in and emerges into a “new” world. Grendel doesn't go too far the first night, but as time goes by, he goes farther and farther each time. He soon has one of his first encounters with human beings and it's not so great. As he is stuck in a tree and after receiving no response to his cries for his mom, a bull furiously charges at his leg but he soon realizes that the bull will always strike low as he says “He'd struck too low, and even in my terror I understood that he would always strike too low: he fought by instinct, blind mechanism ages old.” (21). The humans showed him otherwise... While still stuck in the tree, humans that appeared believed that Grendel was a tree spirit until he spoke. Right away the humans were terrified, and he realizes...
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...In this essay I will be presenting an argument against the existence of Christian God. I will show how the Problem of Evil is a big factor when concerning Gods existence. I will explore the ideas of how God’s benevolence is contradictory to how the world is. I will also be presenting arguments for the existence of a God but countering them with my points along with philosopher’s theories. J.L Mackie said “if a good and powerful God exists, he would not allow pointless evil, but because there is much unjustifiable, pointless evil in the world, the traditional and powerful God could not exist.”[1]. When we talk about a benevolent God the problem arises of Evil in the world. It’s a problem because God is attributed as being Omnipotent, Omniscient...
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...In this paper, I will argue in support of Wykstra’s criticism of the Evidential Problem of Evil’s (EPE) claim that ‘probably, there exist pointless evils’. I will contest the arguments against Wykstra’s criticism and give alternative examples. Wykstra’s Argument Wykstra asserts that man’s cognitive limitations cannot be compared with the omnipotent and omniscient nature of God, and it is unsurprising that the evil in the world is inscrutable to us. To illustrate, he utilizes the good parent analogy. We view the relationship between God, a perfectly loving being, and humans as analogous to that of good parents and their children. Loving parents permit the administering of a painful injection for vaccinations to their young child. The child cannot comprehend this suffering, but this does not allow the claim that the medicine (evil) is pointless, nor does it undermine the love of the parents (God). Criticism of Wykstra Wykstra’s response is deemed inadequate as some argue: A) God should comfort humans, just as you would expect loving parents to comfort their child. B) A perfectly good being would reveal his reasons to you for allowing this suffering, just as a parent would to their child. In response to A, we ask the question: Why does a parent comfort their baby? Not because the baby will understand, but partially because they are helpless to do anything else. These acts can be seen as more a form of ‘self comfort’ for a parent. Subsequently, self-comforting acts are not...
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...certain things to get through it all? In Dave Barry’s essay he states many things saying guys like neat stuff and like taking on pointless challenges. His tone is also in a joking matter for his essay, meaning not everything he says is serious. It’s probably there for comedy relief. Many of the things he says may be true but this doesn’t account for every guy out there. Though it might have happen sometime in a guy’s life doesn’t really mean it’s every day in their life. In his essay he has it broken down into three sections stating guys like neat stuff, really pointless challenges and do not have a moral code of some sort. Guys liking neat things doesn’t really mean like something that is clean like he states. It’s more mechanical base for most guys but there are some guys fascinated by other things than just cars and technology. Some can be interested in art, food, read and much more. That is a bias thing that most people think that guys find neat. When coming to challenges guys don’t back down from one any matter how stupid or meaningless it is. They like to be first or like to prove they are better than others. Yes, there will be some guys out there doing pointless challenges that make no sense at all. Though there are some challenges out there that guys would take seriously and try their best to do well at. For example, trying to impress their boss so they can get the promotion, they have always wanted. Also trying to make impress that one girl they want to have but they have...
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...In the lecture given by Maria W. Stewart, who was an African American educator, uses multiple different forms of rhetorical strategies to create a powerful speech, where as in this lecture the most dominate strategy that reoccurs is the use of hyperbole. With the use of hyperbole, Stewarts compares servile labor to the equivalent of slavery. Within the lecture, Stewarts states in the beginning of the text, “Few white persons of either sex, who are calculated for anything else, are willing to spend their lives and bury their talents in performing mean, servile labor. And such is the horrible idea that I entertain respecting a life of servitude...” , so reviewing the text, Stewarts compares that of pointless demeaning work, compared to slavery...
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... Catherine Cahill Philosophy 201: Philosophy and Contemporary Ideas August 8, 2012 Self-proclaimed atheist H.J. McClosky attempts to promote atheism as a superior belief to that of theism in his paper “On Being an Atheist”. McClosky begins his paper by referring to philosophical arguments for the existence of God as proofs. Right away there is a problem with this language and the usage of the word proof if one intends to argue with the majority of philosophers who present arguments for the existence of God or most standard arguments. The basic outline of a philosophical argument follows that an argument is either inductive or deductive. A deductive argument holds that the premise entails the conclusion and an inductive argument holds that a premise renders the conclusion likely to be true. Neither form claims to have empirical proof but only to convey validity and soundness of an argument to be accepted by one who is sane, rational and possesses properly working faculties. Secondly, before abandoning an argument for the question of God’s existence because it cannot be definitively proven...
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...New Guinea started farming the crop known as sugar cane. They planted it, and then they chewed it. Surprisingly, they liked it so much that sugar became a part of their religion! Humans have fallen in love with sugar thousands of years ago, and are still deeply attached to it today. In “Your Favorite Drinks Can Wreck Your Body” by Russ Lloyd and “Banning Large Sodas is Legal and Smart” by Lawrence O. Gostin, they examine the growing problem of sugary drinks in the United States. People and children are ingesting more sugar than ever. Sugar is in everything we eat, a lot of sugar in some drinks, and people are just eating way too much of it now. Some people say that the sugary beverages they are drinking aren’t all that bad; however, I believe that sugary drinks are terrible because it is bad for your health, addictive, and it can lead...
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...the next 100 years. He then goes on to talk about how the world feared that we would be overpopulated by 2030, however no we are at 6 billion and on a steady decrease. Then commented on how we believed we were running out of natural resources of every kind and that he machines are going to take over the world. He wraps it up with that the concern of all these things was pointless. Worrying over these things was dumb and we should just try to live our lives. I feel that all these “worldwide disasters” were pointless to freak out over. The global warming and cooling is all part of the world’s cycle, if an ice age happens, I’m sure we’ll be able to survive it. The only reason we feared the overpopulation of the world was because of China and India. I have honestly never heard of running out of resources. I have hoped by this time we as a world have watched plenty of sic-fi movies with killer robots, that we would always have a failsafe program built into the robots software so we could stop any robot uprising. All worldwide fears were just a bunch of people overreacting and not being calm about anything. By this point it is obvious that I agree with the author. They may have seemed like a huge deal at the time, however in retrospect the issues were simple things that eventually blew over. I feel that everyone just needs to relax and take all these problems with a grain of...
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...STAAR Today, twenty-five states require standardized testing from age 8 to 16. The stress and anxiety can be too much for children to handle. Standardized tests should not be given and people should be more aware of the children who can't move on to the next grade from failing it. This is a very big problem, and it is so stressful to have kids take a test on something that cannot define who a they are as an individual. STAAR Testing is one of the many names of these standardized tests (TAKS, TABS, TAAS.) Each time a different one is given, it gets much harder. A student's inability to take a test should never define who they are. These tests are irrelevant to 60 percent of jobs later in life. One parent, who disagrees with the...
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