Research @ Flintridge Sacred Heart

Izabel Mah y Busch 20' (book) At the beginning of chapter one in Anxiety: A Very Short Introduction, the authors first go over an abstract of what anxiety is. In the abstract, they come to the conclusion that anxiety is an emotion and is unavoidable. They describe anxiety as being a feeling that something bad is going to happen but not knowing precisely what it is. Based on that experience of anxiety the authors come up with statistics regarding anxiety. The statistics come from both the United States and the United Kingdom and revolve around adults. More and more adults feel more stressed in the modern world than they had prior. Along with basic statistics on adults’ experience with anxiety, the chapter also includes statistics on how many people suffer from clinical levels of anxiety. After contextualizing anxiety in the modern world then the writers discuss the word anxiety as a whole. They show the roots of the word and show the word translated in different l...

Elizabeth Rosenberger '20 (book) Animal Rights & Human Morality was written by Bernard E. Rollin with the goal to promote animals rights and the fair treatment of them by humans in a legal manner. Within this book I focused on two sections, “Do Animals Need Rights? Their Legal Status Today” and “Legal Rights of Animals Today”. Bernard E. Rollin is a Professor at Colorado State University in “philosophy, biomedical science, and animal science”. Rollins has written many influential books focused on “animal rights and the philosophy of consciousness”. Rollin’s intended audience is for researchers, students, philosophers, veterinarians, scientists, and any person who is challenging their perspective on animals rights in legal terms. While reading the section, “Do Animals Need Rights? Their Legal Status Today”, Rollins explains that animals “rights” today are for “people who own or use animals as primary objects of moral concern, rather than the animals themselves. Rollins e...