Axia College Material Appendix B Final Exam • Access the Electronic Reserve Readings link on your student Web site for Week Nine. • Select one of the topics below and read both articles that present opposing sides of the argument surrounding that topic. o Animal experimentation o Outsourcing o Media violence • Answer the following questions in paragraphs of approximately 100 words demonstrating your critical and creative thinking skills. 1. Identify if the topic you chose, as
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Animal Testing According to Utilitarianism, Animal testing is morally good because it brings about great utility. Animal testing has contributed to many life-saving cures and treatments. As a consequence of the polio vaccine, tested on animals, it reduced the global occurrence of the disease from 350,000 cases in 1988 to 223 cases in 2012. Around 2.5 million women walk on the breast for cancer survivor walkathon with great happiness. Happiness is increased because all those family members who had
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Child Soldiers in Africa Starting around the 1980s, a horrible new source of warfare was introduced to Africa. This method is using children for warfare, or in other words, children soldiers. A child soldier is any boy or girl, under the age of 18, who is forced to join and operate within an armed force or armed group in any capacity. It does not only refer to a child who is carrying, or has carried, weapons. The method of using children in combat was first introduced in Africa in the lowlands
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Animal testing is defined as “the use of non-human animals in research and development projects, especially for purposes of determining the safety of substances such as food or drugs” (“Animal Testing”). Unfortunately, some cosmetic companies treat animals unethically during testing; this brings into question whether or not the practice of animal testing can be considered ethical, or even necessary, in regards to cosmetic purposes. Those with pro-animal testing views may argue that the practice of
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Alternative Ways to Animal Testing In the world today, science has seen its better days. Scientific methods developed and invented scientists have been used to demonstrate and explain almost everything in the world. Researchers studying biological issues have produced reports informing about the issues that surround us. For example, in tests that require human spacemen have been conducted using non-human animals for biological animal testing all over the world. Research has shown that about
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English 122 Nature vs. Man In the world now there are views of what can or should be done with the environment, use what is available to save any animal/plant/bug for the future. Then there are the options that go between those two extremes. Looking at some of the views from our readings as well as other sources, we’ll see what is looked at as right and wrong ways to use and preserve nature. There are many views on how the Earth should be used or preserved, but the how to do it with the world’s
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Action Plan Goal: A completed Extended Project by January 2014 How: A 5,000 word essay Tasks Date Choose my question/title (can be changed later) | | Watch: * Maximum tolerated dose – animal testing * Animal rights – mad world * Monkey’s rats and Me – BBC | | Look into the history of animal testing: * http://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/resources/animal-testing-essay-writing-resources/resources-for-student-essays-history-of-animal-research/
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What if you were Tested on? “The worst sin to our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that’s the essence of inhumanity” (Shaw). The use of animals in research and developmental projects, especially for purposes of determining the safety of substances such as foods or drugs is substandard. Animal testing is any scientific experiment or test in which a live animal is forced to undergo something that is going to cause them pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm. Animal
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Animal Rights vs. Animal Welfare In the first half of the 20th century, standards for the care of livestock, lab animals, and pets began to improve. Animal ‘rights’ were the rights of animals to shelter, food, and water. There was a pronounced emphasis on improving the quality of life of the animals used by humans, but not on eliminating their use for humans altogether. However, for the last 50 years or so there has been a huge argument over the roles of animals in today’s society, specifically
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Questions have been raised about whether the Criminal Code Amendment (Animal Protection) Bill’s main purpose is really to enhance the protection of domestic animals or is it rather to protect the commercial and trading interests of the animal industries. These amendments would deter the investigators who have been extremely successful in exposing animal cruelty. Remarks have been made regarding the bill not being concerned with people who witness the animal cruelty firsthand, but only if one records
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