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Cosmetic Testing On Animals

... tests, they are done to establish the safety of a product and the ingredients. However, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) which regulates cosmetic products, does not require animal testing. Some of the tests used on animals are eye irritancy tests, acute toxicity tests, and skin irritancy tests. In eye irritancy tests, a liquid, flake, granule, or powdered subezce is dropped into the eyes of a group of albino rabbits. The animals are often immobilized in stocks from which only their heads protrude. They usually receive no ...

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Drugs And High School Life

... drugs are: Depressants; Stimulants; Inhalants; Hallucinogens; and the Marijuana Family. The Depressant field is the largest and includes prescription drugs(such as Valiums, percasephs, and many others), narcotics(such as any drug derived from opium and Synthetic narcotics), Sedatives(alcohol and Barbiturates). The Stimulants field would include Amphetamines, Cocaine, Caffeine, and Nicotine. It doesn’t have to be illegal to be a psychotropic drug for cases like caffeine and nicotine. The Inhalants field would include Hair-Spra ...

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Life Outside Our Biosphere

... established either on other planets or on orbiting space stations. This will lessen strain on the world's land resources by providing more agricultural area, and will help solve problems associated with overcrowding. In our solar system, a few planetic possibilities exist for colonization. Mars, one of our closest neighbors, was previously a prime choice until it was explored more in depth. Scientists have now found it to be a red, rocky, barren desert with little atmosphere, no water, and containing no life. If Earthlings were to sett ...

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Nobody's Gonna Talk Like That Under My Roof!

... Many of those who are among the "older group" would like to think that today's youth are chaotic and without values, or that it is just a factor of immaturity, which is probably true, but there is more to the issue than purely immaturity. Many things come into play when analyzing the cause of difference in interaction and dialogue such as social standing, self-confidence, and levels of maturity. First, it is important to understand societal perspective; In effect, one must analyze where society has placed a group of people in order to ...

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Persuasive Essay: Overpopulation

... religions, and nationalities. Our planet now provides for approximately 5.8 billion people, with projections of around 10 billion by the year 2050. Two billion of these are extremely poor, the poorest of which live in absolute poverty and misery. One very serious effect of the population explosion is its detrimental effects on the global environment. Increasing amounts of food, energy, water, and shelter are required to fulfill the needs of human society. Much of our energy is derived from the burning of fossil fuels-releasing millions of me ...

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Happiness

... search of . One meaning can be explained when someone tells a joke. If one finds the joke funny, they laugh. This condition of happiness is the most temporary one, for it only lasts a moment. No one will be affected deeply into their emotions by a joke. It is more like a comical relief. Another way of happiness is when something good happens to someone. Maybe getting a good grade on a test or getting a raise at work. This kind of happiness usually comes from personal accomplishment. One will be happy if they know they did something g ...

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A Fight!

... day both of these very close friends were in a classroom together with a group of other students in the same room, one person started to call another a name to get recognised by other students as being ‘big' and win respect from them. The two friends were the same age, and strength and didn't want to look bad in front of the other students, so the two friends said a comment back to each other in defence. It started of as a small game, but by the end of the class, it was getting serious. This continued for about 3 weeks, then one day they ...

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The Violent Reality Of Gangs

... However, by looking at the way humans are influenced in society, I believe there is good evidence to point the blame at several institutions. These include the forces of the media, the government, theatre, drugs and our economic system. On the surface, gangs are caused by peer pressure and greed. Many teens in gangs will pressure peers into becoming part of a gang by making it all sound glamorous. Money is also an crucial factor. A kid (a 6-10 year old, who is not yet a member) is shown that s/he could make $200 to $400 for small part tim ...

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The Family Is A Social Institution

... assumption of family-related role behaviors. Which ever we may define family, all families have common functions like regulation of sex; procreation; socialization of children and distribution of good and services. In our society today, other institutions have taken over a part or most of these functions but we have taken a new function- emotional gratification. The more depersonalized our society, the more we depend on our family to provide emotional and intimate ambience to come back to. Our society has moved away from the tradition ...

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Who's Right Is It Anyway?

... bound together to form an exoskeleton, organs, and tissue. In this light, there really is not much to life. Out of the 5 billion who inhabit the planet, very few of them shall emerge to be true world leaders. The rest will just lead a mediocre life of work and little play. The taking of ones life can be argued from a populist view as well. It makes little sense to preserve life in an over populated world. True, one less person here or there will not make a large dent. Yet if everyone who attempts or had attempted suicide were not stopp ...

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Sex: The Ultimate Zen

... the death of a loved one is a healthy thing to do, but to let it consume the rest of the living’s life is completely unhealthy. These same feelings could be put towards sex as well. By detaching one’s self from the emotional part of it, there would be no regret, no guilt, no worrying, no sense of betrayal. It could be considered something fun to do with a friend, or merely something to pass the time. One problem with sex is the emotional attachment that one gets to the other person after the act. This attachment is stronger in w ...

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The Death Penalty

... idea of capital punishment for many crimes. Turkish law supports the idea of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. The Greeks and Egyptians even executed citizens for many crimes. Socrates and Jesus are among some of the most famous people who were executed. Although was widely accepted through out the United States, not everyone approved of it. In the late eighteenth century, opposition to gathered enough strength to lead to important restrictions on the use of in many northern states, while in the United States, Michigan, Wisconsin, a ...

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