Archive for the ‘Pressing Issues’ Category
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Cloning is already a reality yet discussions about cloning ethics rarely occur. This is strange, because cloning gives a new type of power to researchers that hasn't existed until now. Cloning effects how humans live and what kinds of lives we have, so the area is one that ...
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Consumerism is the predominant way of life for people in advanced civilizations worldwide. It has become the standard approach for billions worldwide. There's little question that consumerism has done much to alleviate man's suffering. But progress has not arrived without cost.
Consumerism is being spread throughout the world ...
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
The issue of stem cell research pros and cons is timely, due to recent decisions by the administration of President Barack Obama of the United States. President Obama has called for the immediate lifting of a ban on embryonic stem cell research that had been imposed by his predecessor ...
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Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Anyone who's been alive in America for the last few decades realizes just how much the prison population has grown. Jail is now so common that 1 out 3 Americans is currently locked up. A new study by Pew Research group says the cost of keeping so many ...
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Saturday, February 21st, 2009
Globalization is currently a pressing issue because it affects billions of people worldwide. The concept of globalization pushes people of all cultures closer to a one world government type of structure. If people all over the world are much more reliant on purchasing goods and services from other ...
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Just a few short months ago, globalization looked like an irreversible trend. Developing economies were beginning to thrive, and more of them interacted with the developed countries than at any other time in history. Now with the global economic crisis taking root worldwide, the question of whether globalization ...
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
One of the greatest challenges faced by the Obama Administration is one that has eluded Presidents going back to the 1970s. Ever since the 1973 energy crisis, the price our nation pays for energy (in political and economic terms) has been a subject of much discussion by politicians. ...
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
In which we examine the problems with cloning humans
Human cloning seems like an inevitability. When you consider how much progress man has made in the arena of cloning animals, you realize that scientists will want to bring the same technology to bear on humans. The idea of clones ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Human Cloning is something the world needs to be ready for. Ever since Dolly the Sheep was first cloned in 1997, the concept of human clones, and what that would mean to society have been debated many times. The area of human cloning is one that is rife ...
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