Problems of Urban Life   Modern urban life has produced entirely a new environment, a new standard of life and a quite changed circumstance with the new inputs  of technology. It has created lots of new problems which were quite unknown to the people of yesterday. As the world today is changing rapidly, more rapidly than most of us can imagine or are at least prepared for. Till recently men lived...

Death Penalty Should Be Avoided   Hanging, g firing squad, electrocution, gas and lethal injection are all methods of execution used by the American government to Punish murderers. Thirty-eight out of fifty states and Washington DC have the death penalty as a method of punishment. Lynching, in contrast to capital punishment, is the unauthorized, illegal use of death as a punishment. The usual alternative to the death penalty is long-term or...

Animal Rights Animal Rights are the moral right of animals to be treated with respect and without exploitation. Some people believe that animals have rights just as human beings have rights; opinions range from extreme views of total animal liberation by animal rights activists to the practical improvement of the relationship between animals and humans as shown by legislation, and animal welfare organizations such as the Royal Society for the Prevention...

The Monster of -Aids will Wipe out Humanity   More than 30 million people around the world are currently infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). New HIV infections have levelled off or even declined in most developed countries, but the virus is spreading rapidly through much of the developing world. In some areas of sub-Saharan Africa, one in four adults are...

The Roots of Dowry System   Particularly in Indian societies the dowry forms part of an exchange of wealth between intermarrying families; it is often accompanied by some payment made by the groom to the bride’s family, called the bride price or bride wealth. Bride wealth is still a fundamental part of certain African cultures, whereas dowry payments have most often been found in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and some European...

Evaluation and Education   Education and evaluation are inter-related processes. Evaluation is as old as the process of education itself. Education in its wider sense implies not only acquisition of knowledge, but also development of abilities, skills, personality qualities which are important in individual’s personal and social life. The function of evaluation in education is to provide a systematic assessment of the development of these qualities as an outcome of educational...

Home Schooling   Is home schooling a better decision for our children? Mr. Xavier’s seven-year-old daughter was attending a community school well she is terminally ill, she has Down syndrome, three holes in her heart, and her immune system is very bad. She went to school for a year, and while she was attending public school she miss half of the school year, due to her being in poor health all...

The Cloning Debate Cloning is a form of non-sexual, or asexual reproduction in which all the offspring are genetically identical to each other and to the parent that gave rise to them. All the identical organisms-parent and offspring-collectively form a “clone”; and each individual is said to be a “clone” of all the others within the clone. Cloning is said to be used for many positive reasons, but the fact remains...