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It has come to my attention that living in a tiny house when I’m older will benefit me in more ways than just satisfying my need for one.  I could go on and on, but for starters, tiny houses can help you to save tons of money, live a greener lifestyle, save tons of time, make room for nature, take your home on the road, bring out your creativity, make things the way you like it.  

Picture this: you just graduated college.  It is time to find a place to live.  Should you move back home with your parents, rent an apartment, or buy a house that you probably can’t afford?  None of the above!  Build yourself a tiny house!  Make it just the way you like it.  When living in a tiny house, you don’t have to spend a ton of money on fen, property taxes, heating and cooling expenses, general maintenance, or a mortgage.  Also, tiny houses consume significantly fewer resources to heat, cool, and construct the house.  Tiny houses take up less space and require less electricity than the average house.  After a long day of working at your new job, do you really want to come home and have to complete a bunch of house chores?  Well, in a tiny house, it won’t take you nearly as long to clean the floors, etc. compared to how long it would take to complete the same tasks in an average sized house.  Want to travel the world, or easily relocate but have the comfort of sleeping in your own bed every night?  You can easily transport your tiny house! Just put it on some wheels and attach it to the back of your car.  Get creative with how you want to organize all of your belongings in such a small space because in the end, it is your tiny house after all, and you can design it to be just the way you like it.  

Whether you are retiring, or just kicking off your life in your own, tiny houses are the way to live.

– Isabella Dube

Men need to hold other men accountable”
“The boys watching today will be h e boys of tomorrow
It’s only by challenging ourselves to do more that Ed can get closer to our best “

Sexism, oppression, and the battle of the genders, for thousands of years roles have been assigned to each gender and have been set there by society forcing us into believing those roles are who define us as people. These roles are been ingrained in everyday life that they have become almost unrecognizable. The roles of women being soft spoken, kind, gentle, and submissive but these characteristics aren’t who women are as a whole. Just like men’s roles as brave, bold, and strong aren’t their roles either. These roles are society’s roles forced upon us throughout history and ingrained in our minds. Gillette’s commercial is speaking up against these roles by telling their buyers to speak up and break out of these confining gender roles. Gillette encourages to take that step forward to stop the next generation into falling into those confining general roles. In the commercial they often said the phrase “boys will be boys” followed by a scene which showed one father stepping up and stopping a fight between two young boy. By stopping the fighting and not just saying “boys will be boys” they are saying that parents should be taking a step forward in making sure not to let parents assign their kids gender roles. Taking that step forward is taking action and becoming “the best a man can be”. Being a better version of yourself is setting a good example for the next generation. The clips of men saying sexist things and being sexist in the commercial is to raise awareness of sexism in everyday life and to hold men accountable. The point of the commercial isn’t to vilify all men but to hold men accountable for their sexist ways. All men are sexist but it’s the men who chose to accept their sexism and grow from it are the men are the men being “the best a men can be”. The commercial also touches up on the point that the boys watching the sexist behavior of other men are the men of the future. That is why it is so important to change sexist ways and gender roles so that the future generation will learn and change the behaviors of the past.

Liliana Sapiel

     It should be forbidden to use species of animals for research purposes and cruel experiments. 

     Animal testing is cruel and inhumane.  For example, animals used in experiments are commonly subjected to force feeding and inhalation, long periods of physical restraint, as well as food and water deprivation, burns, wounds, and more pain, and killing by carbon dioxide asphyxiation, neck-breaking, decapitation, etc.  Humans would not normally treat other humans like this, so they should not treat animals like this to benefit themselves. 

     Alternative testing methods now exist that can replace the need for animals.  For example, in vitro tests ate tests done in glass dishes, such as studying cell cultures in a petri dish, can produce more relevant results than animal testing because human cells can be used.  Animals should not what humans rely on to test their products out on to make sure that they are safe before using them. Humans should try their own products on themselves in a not so harmful way using human skin cells in a Petri dish or another alternative to animal testing because products can still react differently on animals compared to actual human skin or in the human body. 

     Most experiments involving animals are flawed, wasting the lives of the animal subjects.  For example, since the majority of animals used in biomedical research are killed during or after the experiments, and since many suffer during the studies, the lives and wellbeing of animals are routinely sacrificed for research that is poor due to incorrect interpretation of data, unnoticed technical issues, absent control groups, selective data reporting, varying and/or inadequate software systems, and fraud.  The loss of the tens of thousands of animal’s lives do not make the testing worth it, especially, when the lives of many of the animals are wasted as experiments often go wrong. 

     In conclusion, there are alternatives to animal testing and therefore, it should be banned as it is cruel, inhumane, and wasteful.  

– Isabella Dube