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Suicide
Number of words: 1187 - Number of pages: 5.... hard to fail.
That's when I figured she didn't really want to die. It was a cry for help,
and she didn't know of any other way to ask for it. I stayed a week with
her through this trying period in her life, and found out it was partly
because of her French exchange student boyfriend. They weren't broken up,
but he had to go back to France, and she couldn't see him as much as she
would have liked to. Her mother started taking her to a psychiatrist to
help her through her depression. If we hadn't have done this she might not
be with us today. Now, she has a fairly normal life. She has a job at .....
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Birth Control At Schools
Number of words: 472 - Number of pages: 2.... emotions and feelings are still very immature; therefore, passing out condoms may be promoting teenagers to have sex. Parents think giving free condoms to children sends mixed messages on what to think about sex education or how to have sex.
Promoting safe sex and distributing free condoms in high schools are great ways to control the rampant spread of sexually transmitted diseases and high levels of teen childbirth. Whether it is a lack of knowledge or a lack of not caring, it is prominent that children need to be influenced to have safe sex. Teachers and staff members are not pu .....
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Steroids And Their Affects On The Human Body
Number of words: 1201 - Number of pages: 5.... her voice grew deeper, and she even had
the beginnings of a mustache. These are all the usual symptoms of anabolic
steroids.
Steroids were not always used for sports, they started out the same way
most drugs did, medicinal purposes. Victims of starvation and severe injury
profited from it's ability to build new tissue quickly. They also helped
prevent muscle tissue from withering in patients who had just had surgery.
Steroids are used to treat Addison's disease.
Anabolic steroids are drugs that come from hormones or from combinations
of chemicals that achieve the same result as hor .....
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Baseball
Number of words: 775 - Number of pages: 3.... I was working was to make
sure the catcher's were wearing their face mask when they were warming the
pitchers in the bullpen. At first, the athletes thought I was telling them to
put their mask on as an authoritative figure; however, after I explained to them
it was for their own good, and I was only looking out for their safety, they
realized why I was doing it. I believe one way to get the respect of the
athletes and coaches on a team is to let them see you care about them, and you
as the trainer care about them winning.
Warming and cooling down before and after practice is ano .....
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Anthrax: Chemical Warfare
Number of words: 455 - Number of pages: 2.... as simple as an aerosol can or a pesticide spray device. Anthrax spores can be placed in a artillery shell that could explode and spray the bacteria over a wide area. Engineers also reportedly built small unmanned planes that could deliver anthrax to neighboring countries, flying low and undetected. Similar unmanned aircraft can be used as a inexpensive biological warfare arsenal.
"If you delivered anthrax against Jerusalem or Tel Aviv, you could be looking at thousands of casualties, maybe even ten thousands," said Dr. Kathleen Bailey, senior fellow at the Lawrence Livermore National .....
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Euthanasia In Today's Society
Number of words: 1883 - Number of pages: 7.... 1). Research has shown that the vast majority of
these people are just asking for sympathy and don't really want to die but
rather hear the calls of there loved ones begging them not to go on with the
procedure. They want the attempt to fail. The second type of euthanasia involve
people who are suffering from an illness that makes them unable to communicate
(Johanson 2). These type of people are those who are in comas, paralyzed, or
simply so sick that they cannot make meaningful sounds or other communication
(Johanson 2). This is a much more accepted type of euthanasia. Especially .....
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Tourett’s Syndrome
Number of words: 876 - Number of pages: 4.... groups (motor tics) and by grunts, barks, and sniffling sounds (vocal tics) (“Encyclopedia” 375). The definition of tic is rapid, repetitive movements of individual muscle groups (“Encyclopedia” 374). Tics are also seemingly random. In order to be diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome, a child must exhibit multiple motor tics and one or more vocal tics several times a day for a period of at least a year (Neifert 126). The swearing is often perceived to be most distressing or dramatic aspect of Tourette Syndrome and has received the special medical term of coprolalia (Faqs about TS 4 .....
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Alcoholism
Number of words: 880 - Number of pages: 4.... notably denial. (1)
Vanessa Gibson, senior lecturer, University of Northumbria at Newcastle informs alcohol’s main ingredients are ethyl and water, and is made by fermenting fruits and other grains (1).
The chance taken by alcoholics when he or she drinks while on the job can be a deadly choice. Alcoholics will take the chance of putting themselves, along with other co-workers in danger when intoxicated by alcohol. An alcoholics work performance is compromised because of the disease. Being intoxicated while on the job risks work efficiency. MEDSOC states that “there is an increased li .....
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Teenage Stress
Number of words: 746 - Number of pages: 3.... and behavior patterns. The problems occur; however, when stress becomes excessive. It can become destructive and can turn into distress. Too much stress on your mind and body can make you feel miserable, worried, sad and ill. Contrary to popular belief, stress is not the pressure from the outside, such as divorce, death, burned supper, vacation that didn’t seem like one, and isolation. Those are simply the stressors, causes to the stress, but your response to those situations constitutes the actual stress.
Teenagers face a specific kind of stress. It could be problems at home, with p .....
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Phobias
Number of words: 833 - Number of pages: 4.... dictionary. Five
articles, namely “When fear takes over”. “Everyone does it”, “Social
Anxiety”, “The fight to conquer fear”, and “Adam: A Child's Courageous
Battle Against Mental Illness.” Will be of no value in supporting the
thesis. The facts in these sources are almost scarcely useful in supporting
the thesis. However, the first article completely discusses a persons
struggle with schizophrenia and the way in which the person tries to
overcome the obstacle. The second useless article is about a child named
Adam who is courageous in overcoming his battle. The next artic .....
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