Pro-Con Clinical Trials

Clinical trials have always been a slightly murky area. They need to be done, yet often people do not approve of the way things are being done. Where's the meeting line? Can a compromise be made? Should there be a compromise?


Clinical trials should be stopped and only done on animals. People are treated unfairly and do not understand what they are getting themselves into. Informed consent exists but the researchers speak in large words and do not take the time to make sure that the prospective participants understand everything. Many researchers lie about the true purpose of their trials. For example, the Tuskegee Trial where a trial was done to see how syphilis affected black men. These men were told they were being treated for "bad blood" but never received any treatment. The researchers told them they would help them get better, but actually only wanted to wait until the men died to see what exactly caused the deaths. Such clinical trials should not happen.


Clinical trials need to be done. They help find life-saving cures and further the world in medicine. Without them the public would be given drugs without knowing the full effect that it has on humans, because no one had tried it out. More people would be hurt than helped without clinical trials. Clinical trials save lives. Cures are found and drugs are made safe for the public to become healthy and to keep creating ways to help people survive disease. Without this process people would die from the simplest diseases. Clinical trials have been around forever, and there is a reason they have been used, and that is because they work and are helpful.

The Voysey Inheritance

This play to me was not the best. I felt like I got lost quickly and there was no incentive to bring me back into the show, except the fact that one of the actors had been on Gilmore Girls (I'm a girl, what can i say?). Anyways, as complex as these investment schemes are, the story line held little interest for me. I felt like nothing was resolved and that really nothing changed from the beginning to the end of the play. The actors, I think acted extremely well, but the story line was fairly dull. Now, these investment schemes are very dishonest and I can easily believe that such things happen all the time, it is very frightening. The people who do this to me are stupid, sure the money might make it seem all worthwhile but the guilt, which we see both the son and father in the play deal with, seems to be to me not worth it. These risk takers must have iron nerves or something, there's no way I would be able to handle deceiving so many people for my personal gain. Although people hurt each other on purpose today just as the scam artists of these investment schemes, sure its not always intentional and the person being hurt doesn't find out right away but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

Homecoming

Homecoming...well i think it's a great week of events in order to get some students involved in activities as well as bring up class pride and community. Although, as much as I love homecoming week, I must admit certain aspects do tend to be slightly pointless. Many activities never get participation, where many students are just lazy. Homecoming week, I think, is a fun time to screw around with classmates and add some excitement to, sometimes, a rather dull school year. I think it is a worthwhile event because, not all, but many more students tend to go to sports events and participate in school functions, especially many of those who do not do so otherwise. The week does seem to bring classes together, as well as the school for a period of time, sure you never get entire participation, but there is definitely more than there would be otherwise. The value in homecoming is just that, to get the classes to find community together and learn to work together, and find pride in their classmates. Sure, it is a lot of effort for staff and certain students, but i think that the benefits of being able to pull the majority of the students together on common group for just some plain fun is important. Although, the culture brought about by certain aspects of Homecoming are not so great. It is creating a culture in which looks are of extreme importance. If a girl doesn't, perhaps (not for all girls), get asked to the dance by a boy, she feels of less importance and often the view of self worth for her is lowered, and why because during this time often a girl feels her importance is built up by whether or not she is asked. One thing I personally don't really like about Homecoming is the voting for court and king and queen. The voting process is always upon who is most popular, or people can be voted in as a joke, and that I think is not what Homecoming should be about, not for a Christian School. We should be voting in whom we believe represents our school best in all aspects not just physical attributes. I do love homecoming tradition and think that they are important to keeping a school as a community, but certain aspects I know that can't, although like reasons for voting in court, I wish they could change. I think that Homecoming is successful in creating community between classes as well as for the school as a whole.