...Dear West Fargo Public Schools School Board, I am writing to you today about the important controversy between many people about weather drug dogs should be allowed to randomly and suddenly search schools, both inside and outside. Some people think that having drug dogs search schools randomly and occasionally is a good idea. I can see where they are coming from, but in my opinion, I don’t think that it is necessary to have drug searches at schools. I am going to be discussing when the appropriate time and circumstances where drug searches should be held, and how it can affect the school district all together. First, I believe that if the drugs aren’t physically in the school or being carried around by people in the school nobody should...
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...In order to become a service dog owner, there are multiple requirements needed not only for the owner itself, but also for the dog. The owner must be aware of the public education that the dog needs, the legal rights that are needed for the owner and dog. The requirements that are needed, and lastly the history of the service dog. Service dogs were developed after World War 1. A school in Germany trained German Shepherds to guide blinded veterans of the war. However, the school did not stay in existence for very long. Dorothy Harrison Eustis was a wealthy Philadelphian who experimented with the training of the German Shepherds as working dogs. She advanced the modern dog guide movement in the United States. Morris Frank was the first American...
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...1. Every February, the Denver Dog Show takes place at the Denver Coliseum. Dogs are judged in a multitude of categories, with the best dogs being those who look the best, are the best performers, or are the best at following directions. The highest performing dogs have the opportunity to go on to further levels of competition where they are faced with higher scrutiny and face tougher competition. To an outsider, the metrics on which the dogs are judged may seem confusing for their lack of connection to the dog’s overall demeanor and “dogliness.” 2. To prepare for the competition, trainers must bond with their dogs and go through hours of training and practice. This practice, for young trainers, may come at the expense of their schoolwork. 3. Schools...
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...While it is often debated that every lab counts, that they are always discovering new information on how to cure diseases everyday. Despite this idea, not every experiment saves a life or finds a cure, some are fatal and go wrong. There is not always a point in testing if you know you are not going to solve something while doing damage at the same time. For instance, Ryan Ballinger a student at Indiana State University reports, “I say any kind of animal testing is wrong because we have so many new inventions now. Why can't one of those inventions help us test products without using animals?” In making this comment, Ballinger is arguing that there is no need for animal testing when we are living in the 21st century and have all these inventions that could do that work instead of putting it all on animals. Ryan also points out that, “We also do not know how these medicines could affect us because some medicines affect us in different ways than animals.” What Ballinger is trying to explain is that this leads to wastefulness when we do not know if it is even going to work on humans in the first place, they are also putting lives in danger testing drugs that worked on animals but do not know the effect of humans. Lastly, a former National Cancer Institute...
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...laboratories have conducted many harmful acts on animals. Some animal rights groups have fought to stop these parties they include the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the Animal Liberation Front, PAWS, and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Suffering and Exploitation and Trans-Species Unlimited. There are various different tactics used by these animal rights groups. They range from raising awareness, to lobbying to public demonstrations, against institutions which have taken advantage of helpless animals. Public demonstrations were the most effective. 1 Hurt Fido and Suffer the Consequences: Tactics and Impacts of the Animal Rights Movement “I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it”- said Abraham Lincoln. Animals are abused around the world, in circuses they are used in tricks. The American Museum of Natural History inflicted male cat’s brains with lesions to give the cat sexual urges for other species. The best known animal rights movement in the world is, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) which was founded in March, 1980, in Norfolk, Virginia by Ingrid Newirk and Alex Pacheco. The Animal Liberation Front, founded in 1976, by Ronnie Lee, has received the reputation of being the most violent organization when saving animal, along with, Progressive Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) and the Trans-Species Unlimited (TSU) the Coalition to End Animal Suffering and Exploitation...
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...1.07 Ethics Directions: Complete the tasks below. Replace the highlighted text with your own answers. Copy and paste your answers to the student comments box in 1.07 and submit for grading. For each of the following four cases, explain why you would either approve or disapprove the proposed research experiments. Evaluate each proposal based on the four main principles of ethical research provided in this lesson. Every research experiment must follow all four principles to be considered ethical. Copy and paste your answer only for each case to the student comments section of 1.07 and submit for grading. It is not enough to just approve or deny, you must also Case 1: The Psychology Department is requesting permission from your committee to use 10 rats per semester for demonstrations in a physiological psychology class. The students will work in groups of three: each group will be given a rat. The students will first perform surgery on the rats. Each animal with be anesthetized. Following standard surgical procedures, an incision will be made in the scalp and two holes drilled in the animal's skull. Electrodes will be lowered into the brain to create lesions on each side. The animals will then be allowed to recover. Several weeks later, the effects of destroying this part of the animal's brain will be tested in a shuttle avoidance task in which animals will learn when to cross over an electrified grid. The instructor admits the procedure is a common demonstration and...
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...are given medication and regular therapy to help them improve their daily lives. For some, however, this is not enough. Service dogs are animals specifically trained to aid their disabled owners in their everyday lives. Service dogs are a common type of professional working dog and have several branches/classifications. Each classification is trained to preform specific tasks and are given different privileges/rights when it comes to public access. A service animal preforms specific tasks or provides aid in another form to their disabled owner while other professional working dogs are focused on aiding non-disabled persons (Watson par 7). It is extremely important for the...
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...youngest a senior in high school. My husband made sure my boys had a dog to grow up with, Foxy, who was never allowed in the house. According to Greg, dogs were meant to be outdoors. Greg thought having a dog would teach our boys responsibility. That being said, he was the one that would have to get out and clean up after her, take her out to the dog park to run and was constantly making sure she was feed and watered properly. When Foxy died, he said”no more dogs!” Well, one day a friend of mine, who had a cute little Chihuahua, was given another. They decided that their little dog Ruby did not want a companion, and asked me if I would like the most adorable short haired doe eyed, caramel colored, two pound female Chihuahua. I was absolutely thrilled! Just the thought of this precious sweet little girl coming to live with us gave me such joy! Think about this now, I live in a house full of men. You bet I jumped at the chance to have a charming little dog to dress up and be able to buy cute little dog dresses for. Yes, I could be one of those fancy little ladies that carry their dog around in a purse! When Greg came home and found me with my new found love, he said, “You need to march back over there and give that dog back. We don’t need anything that we have to take care of; you got enough to do now without having to worry about a dog!” He was not as thrilled at all. I told him he didn’t have to worry about a thing that she was going to be my dog. He firmly stated his...
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...The book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a novel by Mark Haddon. The book is written in the perspective of a fifteen year old boy named Christopher John Francis Boone, who is never directly stated to have the autism spectrum condition, but it is strongly suggested that he does as many of his behaviors are indicative the autism exceptionality. Christopher lives with his father, Ed Boone, who is a boiler engineer who has been raising Christopher alone for the last two years since his mother, Judy, seemingly passed away from a heart attack. One night, Christopher discovers that his neighbor’s dog, Wellington, has been killed with the use of a garden fork. Wellington’s owner, Eileen Shears calls the police and Christopher...
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...from messages on the TESL-L listserv around 1999-2000 by Nigel A. Caplan 1. The parents of a teenager are called to the school to talk about the young person's smoking grass behind the school buildings after school. (3 characters) 2. You are stuck in an elevator between the 48th and 49th floors. There are 5 people in the elevator, including one pregnant woman and a delivery man with a large hand truck and a blind person with a seeing-eye dog. (5 characters - and, no, no one is allowed to play the dog!) 3. You are in an New York City bus and someone is playing a radio very loudly. The driver asks the radio-player to stop and refuses to drive while the radio is on. You are in a big hurry and want the radio turned off. Other passengers think that it is freedom of speech to play a radio. (about 5 characters) 4. A couple is in a restaurant to celebrate Valentine's Day. There is a fly in the woman's soup, but the waiter is not helpful. (3 characters) Anthea Tillyer City University of New York (USA) ABTHC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU 1. You are strolling in a department store. Walking around, you see a person who seems familiar, but you're not sure. On a whim, you decide to stop the person and find out of s/he knows you. It turns out, after some questioning, that the two of you went to the same high school, but at the time the other person weighed 25 kilos more. That's why you couldn't recognize him/her. 2. Two friends are waiting in line to get into a movie, talking about casual things. Suddenly...
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...Evolution and Creation Rodger Fickel COM170 July 7th, 2013 Winifred Winstead Donnelly Evolution and Creation For several decades there has been a debate between creation and evolution, and which one should be taught in schools. While many individuals on both sides of the issue wonder why it even matters, it should not be understated how important these topics are for ideas ranging from humanities place in the world, to how antibiotics work. Evolution sits at the very heart of scientific understanding, while creation rests within the realm of humanities spiritual views. History of the debate. Evolution, at its most basic level, is the idea that tiny changes over a long period of time will eventually add up. The concept, although not called evolution, dates back to some of the earliest Greek philosophers, such as Anaximander of Miletus who proposed that life began in the ocean and eventually moved onto land. Empedocles (c. 490-430 BC), postulated that what is seen as birth and death is the joining and separating of elements which cause the countless “tribes of mortal things.” The concept of evolution took a bit of a downturn in the early middle ages, resurfacing during the renaissance and eventually leading to the observations of Charles Darwin. Since then scientists have discovered deoxyribonucleic acids, sequenced the human genome, and traced the ancestry of humanity back nearly 200,000 years to a tribe in Africa because of how they have come to understand Evolution...
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...to go to school, to learn, to try to fit in an environment different from what we are already used to. It is very healthy to bring ourselves out of our comfort zones, but what happens when our schools, intentionally or not, push us down as individuals instead of pulling us up when we may already have so many other factors against us. Jonathan Kozol’s article "Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid." is essentially about Kozol visiting various different schools and how the environments are and the podcast titled “Three Miles: This American Life” conducted by Chana Joffe-Walt show the unfortunate obstacles students of low- income families have to overcome for their education. I believe that although the education system should not take full responsibility for the low income students’ failure because there are other factors involved, it is certainly part of the problem. When students are not encouraged, they don’t do their best. They believe that there is no use in even trying. Furthermore, when students are limited in what they can learn, they may begin to believe that it does not matter what becomes of them; society doesn't care about them developing into the best they can be. Lastly, when students see all that they are not receiving, this makes them feel that they are not...
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...A TEACHER’S GUIDE TO THE SIGNET CLASSIC EDITION OF GEORGE ORWELL’S ANIMAL FARM By HAZEL K. DAVIS, Federal Hocking High School, Stewart, OH S E R I E S W. GEIGER ELLIS, ED.D., E D I T O R S : UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, EMERITUS and ARTHEA J. S. REED, PH.D., UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, RETIRED A Teacher’s Guide to the Signet Classic Edition of George Orwell’s Animal Farm 2 INTRODUCTION Animal Farm is an excellent selection for junior and senior high students to study. Although on one level the novel is an allegory of the 1917 Russian Revolution, the story is just as applicable to the latest rebellion against dictators around the world. Young people should be able to recognize similarities between the animal leaders and politicians today. The novel also demonstrates how language can be used to control minds. Since teenagers are the target not only of the educational system itself but also of advertising, the music industry, etc., they should be interested in exploring how language can control thought and behavior. Animal Farm is short and contains few words that will hamper the reader’s understanding. The incidents in the novel allow for much interactive learning, providing opportunities for students to dramatize certain portions, to expand on speeches, and to work out alternative endings. The novel can be taught collaboratively with the history department as an allegory of the Russian Revolution, allowing students to draw parallels...
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...The company has open door days where their employees can come in and give them ideas on what they think should go on within the company to make it a better environment and they do their best to make it happen. The theory that fits best with the Wegmans Foods Markets would be minimax theory talks about giving employee’s a chance for promotions within the theory. Wegmans Food Market’s do the same thing offering promotions within the company. Another thing that these have in common is that they both the minimax theory and Wegmans Foods Markets both see that if you give your employees more benefits than they deserve their employees with work harder and the employees might be to advance within the...
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...A friendly desert community where the sun is hot, the moon is beautiful, and mysterious lights pass overhead while we all pretend to sleep. Welcome to Night Vale. Hello listeners. To start things off I've been asked to read this brief notice: the city council announces the opening of a new dog park at the corner of Earl and Summerset near the Ralph's. They would like to remind everyone that dogs are not allowed in the dog park. People are not allowed in the dog park. It is possible you will see hooded figures in the dog park. Do not approach them. Do not approach the dog park. The fence is electrified and highly dangerous. Try not to look at the dog park, and especially do not look for any period of time at the hooded figures. The dog park will not harm you. And now the news. Old Woman Josie out near the car lot says the angels revealed themselves to her; said they were ten feet tall, radiant, and one of them was black; said they helped her with various...
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