When it comes to sporting goods, there are not many stores to choose from. Of the few stores around the United States, there are two stores at the top. These stores being: Dick’s Sporting Goods and Academy Sports and Outdoors. Auburn and the surrounding area are lucky enough to have both. They each have their pros and cons, like any store, but for the sport enthusiast Dick’s is the way to go. In Auburn, Alabama my general census stays true that Dick’s Sporting Goods is the better of the two due to its convenience, goods and services, and price compared to quality.…
Horrifying, isn’t it? This procedure is female circumcision, or Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). There are four types. Type 1 is the removal of the clitoris and surrounding tissue. Type 2 is excision of the inner labia and clitoral tissue. Type 3 is the most prevalent in Somalia and the most extreme. Not only is the labia and clitoral tissue cut and removed, the outer lips are sewn shut with only a small hole left for urine and menstrual fluid. Type 4 is everything else; branding, piercing, cutting, stretching, vaginal cutting, etc. Though, most of the world is making great strides to prevent it from happening, it is estimated that over 125 million women between 18 and 49 still had this done to them. In Africa and Asia it is still very prevalent. In Somalia, over 97.8% of women between 15 and 49 have had their genitals cut and sewn.…
Female genital mutilation is the term used for operations or removal of all or just part of the external parts of female genitilia.This practice has for a long time come under increasingly intense international scrutiny from the news media, feminist and human rights organizations. The main reasons for continuation of FGM are firstly, as a rite of passage from girlhood to womanhood; a circumcised woman is considered mature, obedient and aware of her role in the family and society.Secondly, FGM is perpetuated as a means of reducing sexual desire of girls and women, thereby curbing sexual activity before and ensuring fidelity within marriage.…
It has been estimated that approximately 125 million females have undergone female genital cutting. The purpose of this procedure is to ensure that young girls will not grow up and have the desire and enjoyment of sex. The term used in the text is to “purify” the women. This procedure is usually done at a very young age. In many religions, genital cutting is the step towards a girl becoming a woman.…
Lack of understanding of female circumcision (in a social context) has led to it’s becoming a subject of much controversy and debate in political, academic and religious fields, mainly by Westerners and Europeans.…
In order to take a stance on circumcision, one must know some things about circumcisions. A circumcision is a procedure done to male patients. The doctor conducting the procedure first numbs the penis. Then the doctor grabs the prepuce (foreskin) and tears the synechia apart. The prepuce is held and a vertical slit is cut into the bottoms side of it. A device is laid over the prepuce, and the excess skin is cut off using a scalpel or surgical scissors. This procedure removes about one third of the penile skin, takes ten or so minutes to complete, and is often not felt, with the exception of the initial numbing, by the baby boy. Circumcisions are helpful in improving the quality of hygiene, prevention of some diseases, and his sexual partner’s health.…
The article, “No Controversy: 5 Fantastic Arguments for Better Birth Control Access” addresses some of the benefits of birth control and increased access to it. Financially, birth control benefits businesses as providing female employees with coverage for FDA approved birth control methods costs significantly less than providing the coverage and maternity leave for an unplanned pregnancy. Women also benefit as birth control allows them to take better care of themselves, provides health benefits, and allows them more professional opportunities. In addition, tax payers pay over $12 billion a year towards planned pregnancies which could be diminished greatly if access to birth control were to be increased. This article also discusses how Affordable…
A very much heated and touchy talked about debate is whether or not to circumcise our nations young baby boys and the opinions are vast. Circumcision involves the surgical removal of the foreskin of a male (Our Sexuality, Pg 112). Some parents choose to remove the foreskin due to obligatory cultural and religious beliefs. Others argue that it is more hygienic, aesthetic, and will prevent STD’s later in the young boys life. However, this is a very neglectful argument and does not take in an infinite amount of counter arguments. If I were to have a son, I would not choose to have him circumcised due to the pain infants and young boys go through, its comparison to female circumcision, the loss of sensitivity, it being ultimately the boy’s choice,…
The procedure of circumcision has been around for thousands of years, indeed the earliest known Egyptian mummies-who lived around 1300 B.C-were circumcised, and there are documented engravings and pictures that show it was commonplace even before that (Dunsmuir et al, 1999). In modern times however, circumcision is still common in many countries, even in countries where there is no religious belief that requires it. It is often carried out shortly after birth with the mother and father being the ones who ultimately give consent for the surgeon to carry out the procedure. This has led to the discussion of the ethics of neonatal circumcision and whether it is immoral to make this decision for the child.…
As the world becomes globalized, countries are trailing behind their cultures and their identity, for them to be cohesive with the Western ideal. The alteration in clothing style, religious beliefs, family roles are few of the examples of the impacts of which Westernization has had on developing countries. With that said, a medical practice common in developing countries such as Uganda, Sudan and Iraq, is female circumcision (Keilburger, 2013). Often linked this practice to Islamic teachings, it is incorrect as in this religion, merely male circumcision is encouraged, proving the fact that this practice roots to generations of cultural beliefs (Keilburger, 2013). “The communities where FGM is practiced explains Dr. Shaw, place high value on virginity, so the custom is seen as protection for young girls from premarital sex”. (Keilburger, 2013: 1) Adding on, developed nations across the world including Canada do not allow for such treatment to be performed on women as it is believed here to be inhumane and child abuse (Keilburger, 2013). Despite scarce records of such mutilation to occur to Canadian women in secrecy, there are laws preventing physicians, doctors and…
I. Today I’m going to talk about my lovely country Persia, which we know it as Iran now. Here is a video that shows how great we were and how we are now.…
Circumcision practiced here in America is a terrible form of torture and mutilation, and should be outlawed. Originally circumcision was cutting a small piece of the tip of the foreskin on Jewish babies, not a complete removal of the foreskin organ. The notion that babies don 't feel pain during circumcision, is false. It is a serious surgical procedure, routinely performed without anesthesia, and has serious consequences for the baby. The foreskin is the sexual equivalent in a man, to the clitoris in a woman. We condemn female circumcision, and refer to it as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Circumcision, as practiced by our medical community, evolved out of erroneous thinking. The medical community now denounces circumcision as a completely unnecessary surgery in infants. Most other countries do not practice this form of torture. Even Muslim countries, where circumcision is widely practiced, remove only the tip of the foreskin, and not the entire thing. When a society has common practices that are wrong, it is up to individuals to speak out against these wrongs. Circumcision in America is a terrible and cruel form of male genital mutilation, and it should be stopped at once.…
Fran Hosken illustrates the procedure as "the use of thorns to hold the bleeding sides of the vulva together, or a paste of gum Arabic, sugar, and egg is used. The entrance to the vagina is thus obliterated which is the purpose of the operation. The legs of the girl are tied together immediately after the operation, and she immobilized for several weeks, until the wound of the vulva has closed, except for a small opening that is created by inserting a splinter of wood or bamboo." Female Genital Mutilation has been practiced on girls as young as six-months-old. Fran Hosken also reports that at least 84 million women and girls are mutilated today in the Continental Africa, the Persian Gulf, and the southern part of the Arab Peninsula. The mortality rate due to female genital mutilation is extremely high; but no accurate records are kept comments Fran Hosken. Women and young girls are forced to undergo this experience for numerous reasons. One of the major reasons is for acceptance because a woman is considered dirty and polluted unless she is mutilated. These myths are constructed to validate and continue the female genital mutilations, from which men derive power and control over women as a group reveals Fran Hosken. "Research shows that genital mutilations are increasingly performed in the modern sector in Africa, including hospitals, often on small babies, stripped of all traditional rites," writes Fran Hosken. Women of no age should have to undergo this tortuous procedure. This procedure is used to place value on young women. Young women in underdeveloped countries are often married off to families with money to bring wealth to her…
Circumcision is our nation’s most practiced procedure, however the procedure itself is becoming more and more controversial as time goes by. Most decisions on whether to perform a circumcision or not is not related to medical facts, but cultural opinions instead. Some religions believe in circumcision while some do not. There are some down sides medically from a person not being circumcised such as urinary track infections and so forth. There are some draw backs to the procedure, but many are not affected by the procedure.…
Everything About Plagiarism Everyone plagiarizes once in their life whether it be by accident or intentional. This is very common and can lead to many consequences which can lead to failing a class or worse. Plagiarism is when someone takes work from another person and uses it as their own without giving any credit. Plagiarizing work is like saving up for a car that you really need for work but instead, you use that money to buy useless things like expensive food, clothes etc.…