Medical Marijuana Should Be Legalized Melinda W. Knowles COM 220 January 31‚ 2010 Dr. Kim Capehart Medical Marijuana Should Be Legalized Despite these considerations‚ the United States government is reluctant to legalize marijuana for medical use. Even though marijuana is an illegal substance and considered by many to be a gateway drug‚ it should be legalized for medical purposes because it is proven to be more effective than prescription drugs in the treatment of many serious medical
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My ultimate career goal would be to become a medical pathologist. A pathologist is someone who diagnoses diseases in a patient by analyzing tissue samples and blood work‚ and interpreting the results in order to diagnose someone with a disease. I want to become a pathologist because I have always been fascinated with crime and crime scene investigation. I know that a pathologist is sometimes referred to as a medical investigator. They can sometimes work with police departments to help determine someone’s
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the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men (Evans 4).” In this quote‚ Leonardo da Vinci show that it has been centuries since his time and yet we still haven’t changed the harsh and cruel acts that people do to animals. It’s saddening how‚ man still hasn’t changed their ways and tried to adopt a better method to deal with such a controversial and attention seeking topic. We have given rights to many people since then and now would be a great time for us to give animals their rights
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in esthetics‚ I am not 100% sure what path I want to take down the “esthetics road.” Being in the medical field interests me a great deal; both my mother and my grandmother were involved in hospital careers‚ so now it could be my turn. Medical estheticians work for a dermatologists or plastic surgeons‚ and usually have a background in a health-care profession‚ nursing is a good example. A medical esthetician might provide skin care treatments before or after being operated on; such as‚ exfoliating
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Animals should not be kept in captivity at zoos Many of us have been to a zoo at least once in our lives before. Zoos are premises for the captivity of animals‚ where they are studied and displayed for the public to see. Have you ever stopped to think of the trauma that the animal went through while being taken from its family and its home‚ to be locked behind a cage for the rest of his life? Do you remember leaving the zoo that day knowing a whole lot more about animals than you did before? Although
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Prompt: Should animal experimentation be allowed to test drugs? Animal testing is the use of animals for scientific and medical research purposes. Animal experimentation is very prevalent nowadays and it became a common and an accepted means of testing by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Animal testing‚ however‚ dates back to many centuries even before Christ. It had started in Greece as indicated by the writings and the records of Greek physicians of the third and fourth centuries BC .Aristotle
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Annually‚ one billion farm animals are slaughtered after living lives filled with abuse and pain; however‚ approximately one million are slaughtered every hour for food. Animals have no legal protection and are denied behavioral expression in food factories and farmhouses. In the food industry‚ cses of abuse are very well known among employees and companies‚ but is never brought to court. Animals deserve to have rights in the food industry and should be protected under the law. Birds‚ specifically
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Animal deserve to have rights‚ not necessarily the same as human rights‚ but the right to live freely‚ the right to not be used for the benefit of humans and the right to not be treated poorly. Everyday‚ animals are hurt and abused just to make some of people’s belonging. Many people do not think of what is behind closed doors‚ where their items comes from‚ and how it is made. Since the beginning of time animals have always been used for the benefit of humans. But not everyone realize that what us
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Should animal testing be banned? Should animal testing be banned? This question has always been highly debated and has periodically been in the headlines of tabloid newspapers due to its controversial nature. In this essay‚ I will highlight both sides of the argument giving equal weight to each‚ in an attempt to address some of the issues arising from this topical subject. Those who disagree with animal testing claim that it is harmful‚ cruel and scientifically lacking practice. They also
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Question: How should humans and animals relate? Objection 1: Animals have rationality. Their actions reflect their beliefs (MacIntyre 55). If animals believe humans are friends‚ their actions towards humans will be friendly. Humans should recognize their common rationality with animals and establish an interdependent‚ mutually beneficial‚ give and take‚ human-animal relationship. Humans and animals can provide eachother "protection and sustenance" (MacIntyre 1). Human and animal interdependence
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