increased after George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act was put in place‚ mandating annual testing in all 50 states (“Standardized Tests”). In the United States‚ standardized testing is used to measure the performance of educational institutions and teachers‚ distributing funds accordingly to those institutions based on the results. There is currently controversy over the enforced use of standardized testing. Some say that it maintains
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Standardized Tests Standardized tests are a heated debate in the country as of today. Many people believe that standardized tests do not truly show a student’s knowledge. Students are more focused on passing a test instead of actually learning the content. Not only do these tests hinder students‚ they also affect teachers as well. Standardized tests may seem good in theory‚ but in fact‚ they may be doing more harm than good. The Importance of Standardized Tests To begin with‚ this whole phenomenon
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Animal Testing: The Destruction of Animals Animal testing‚ also known as animal experimentation‚ is the use of non-human animals in experiments and development project‚ usually to determine toxicity‚ dosing and efficacy of drugs before proceeding to human clinical trials (Biology online). These tests are to examine new products‚ such as vaccines‚ shampoos‚ household products‚ cosmetics‚ foods‚ and personal care products on the animals so they are “safer” for the consumer‚ which never is an absolute
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100 million animals are used in animal testing every single year to further the understanding of species and the impact of different modern medicines. There are many organizations that are extremely against the use of these animals in medicine‚ saying that it is “cruel and inhumane”. Compare these 100 million to the 56 billion animals slaughtered for food for humans. Those 100 million almost seem like a small amount‚ don’t they? The animals used in scientific testing have contributed to many life-saving
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spends $14 billion out of their $31 billion annual budget on animal researching(Humane Society International; Conlee; US National Institutes of Health). Animal testing has become a very controversial topic to discuss. Experimenting on animals is cruel because even though there are alternative ways to test people still believe that testing on the animals is a better way to do things. Acts of cruelty against the animals‚ and the fact that animals are different from humans seem to be big issues in the controversy
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that have split the world in half. Animal testing is one of these many disputes‚ that may not have an end. Animal experimentation‚ or animal testing if you will‚ is when animals of different species are being tested on‚ varying from space research to agricultural testing. People in our world may disagree on the purpose of animal testing on the grounds of how cruel‚ and unruly it is to do to poor innocent animals. On the other hand‚ some people say that animal testing may have possibly been one of the
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Animal abuse happens all around the world. Different types of animals are abused and a diverse group of people abuse them. Hurting an animal is not right; some animals cannot even defend themselves from humans. Abuse can happen in urban and rural areas. Some surveys suggest the average person who abuses animals is male and under 30 and the average person who hoards animals is female and over 60. The most reported animals that are abused are dogs‚ cats‚ horses‚ and livestock. The most abused though
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Animal Experimentation Each year millions of animals are maimed‚ genetically manipulated and otherwise killed or hurt due to animal experimentation. This is‚ however‚ an utterly controversial issue with a great deal of emotions and ideas regarding the ethics of this practice. Animal experimentation has been around for centuries and was repeatedly used throughout the history of biomedical research. Nonetheless‚ the ethical revival of realization on the moral status of animals only began in the 1970’s
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Chapter 3: Decision Making 1. External trade policy is an exclusive competency of the EU; this is justified in the theory of fiscal federalism by: a. scale economies b. diversity in local preferences c. negative spillovers d. local informational advantages 2. What is the theory about optimal allocation of tasks to different levels of government called? a. Qualified majority voting b. Fiscal federalism c. Intergovernmentalism d. Social solidarity 3. The Federal Government of Canada
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