THESIS One of the greatest public health interventions that has had an impact on fighting diseases is vaccination. According to Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary‚ a vaccine is any suspension containing antigenic molecules derived from a microorganism‚ given to stimulate an immune response to an infectious disease. The 19th century and the 20th century were known for the great achievements of great vaccine scientists such as Louis Pasteur and Edward Jenner. A substantial amount of vaccines prevent
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person‚ just seventeen years of age‚ to be tried in a juvenile court‚ receiving a lesser sentence for murder than an individual just six months older in age who committed the same crime? I think not. Trying juveniles as adults should be consistently allowed because punishment should be based on the severity of the crime‚ not the perpetrator’s age. When drawing out the outline of our country’s justice system‚ our founding fathers thought little about consequences of crimes committed by juveniles. Children
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Marijuana should be legalized Marijuana is a misunderstood drug. Many assume that the usage of marijuana‚ or cannabis‚ is dangerous‚ but it can be the exact opposite. So why is the legalization of marijuana in the United States such a problem for many people today? Considered to be a gateway drug and the reason for the downfall of our youth nowadays‚ marijuana has developed a negative reputation. Marijuana should be legalized for medicinal purposes‚ it’s less harmful than tobacco and alcohol‚ and
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9/27/2010 Recycling should be mandatory Producing electricity is the number one cause of air pollution in the United States. Lighting is up to 35% of America’s electricity consumption. Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a one hundred-watt bulb for twenty hours‚ a computer for three hours‚ or a TV for two hours. Americans throw away enough aluminum every month to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet. All of these are reasons why recycling should become a mandatory process
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Grade 12 Academic English ENG4U0 GMOs Should Be Banned Sarah Vongphakdy Ms. Schabowska Friday‚ February 28‚ 2014 Sarah Vongphakdy Ms. Schabowska ENG4U0 28 February 2014 GMOs Should Be Banned Fabricated genes (GMO’s) financially benefit corporations and consumers‚ but only because people are not aware of its hidden implications. Because of these implications‚ GMO’s have been banned in many countries such as Australia‚ Europe‚ and Germany (Meyer‚ 2010). The use of genetically modified
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Cloning Should Not be Legalized Human cloning has been a very controversial issue for a number of years. In order to understand cloning better is important to recognize what cloning is. A clone is an exact genetic replica of a DNA molecule‚ cell‚ tissue‚ organ‚ or entire plant or animal. This may be done through reproductive cloning or therapeutic cloning known as stem cell cloning. (Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research) Human cloning raises the issues of whether or not a cloned person
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I am a curious if cannabis should be legalized? Cannabis: an expensive‚ can ruined someone’s life. Cannabis is also known as weed and in a lot of people’s opinions cannabis is one of the most dangerous drug in the world. They are right. This drug can lead to on harder drugs for example crystal meth or ‘meow meow’ otherwise known as M-cat. This is otherwise known as a gateway drug. Cannabis being a gateway drug in many occasions has lead people to these deadly drugs. With it being the most attainable
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Paul Davis Mrs. Solis English 101 11 December 2013 Should the Death Penalty be Allowed? I am writing my research project on why the death penalty should be allowed and practiced by our government. People who are against the death penalty would say executions and court dates are too expensive and that the death penalty is harsh and immoral. People who choose to commit such horrible crimes should face the death penalty because our founding fathers supported capital punishment and did not consider
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War should be banned War is characterized by international violence on the part of large bodies of individuals organized and trained for that purpose on the national level‚ some wars are fought intentionally between rival political fiction‚ other are fought against an external enemy. Wars have been fought in the name of religion‚ in-self-defense to acquire territory or resources‚ and to further the political aims of the pressure state’s leadership. War is in itself is a disadvantage to the
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Should College Athletes Be Paid George McCray Research and Writing Professor Pittell Strayer University Corruption‚ scandals‚ suspensions‚ firings and a systems that is systematically flawed all the while the fact of the matter is that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a organization that is bringing in billions of dollars each year yet the labor force generating the money gets a scholarship that many athletes believe doesn’t pay enough for everything that is needed
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