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Abortion
Number of words: 475 - Number of pages: 2.... abortion, makes an exception when the fetus is
killed in the process of saving the mother.6 About 83% of Americans
approve of abortion in cases of rape, or when the fetus is abnormal or
likely to suffer a disability later in life.7
Pro-life “supporters” oppose abortion because they believe a fetus
is a person from the moment of conception. A 22% minority of the United
States population oppose legal abortion according to a 1985 Newsweek poll.8
The anti-abortion groups include the National Right to Life Committee,
March for Life, and the Pro Life League.9 The Roman Catholic chur .....
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Diabetes
Number of words: 373 - Number of pages: 2.... abnormal. People usually die
from diabetic coma until they figured out how to use insulin therapy. In both
forms it could cause a kidney disease from high blood sugar levels; bad sight
from blood vessels in eyes rupturing, less blood going to the limbs could make
them have to cut them off. They have high blood pressure which increases heart
attacks and strokes in diabetes too. Type II
This type is found in mostly in people over 40 it progresses slowly
unlike type I. The insulin in the pancreas is produced in good levels but does
not work right. It does not let the glucose in to the tissue .....
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Dreams
Number of words: 853 - Number of pages: 4.... we are snatched into another dream that is completely irrelevant to the preceding one. Why?
Mankind has been baffled since the beginning of time as to why they [] occur. Minds from all over the globe have united, and each person has attempted to formulate theories of their own as to why all of this is occurring inside our conscious and subconscious mind. Though none of these theories have been proven to be 100% correct, it probably will not be too long before someone gets on the right track to proving why happen. No one person is an expert when it comes to , nor does one individual dre .....
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Our World In Medicine
Number of words: 1226 - Number of pages: 5.... one -half million years ago. Throughout most of this
time, they knew little about how the human body works or what causes disease.
But medicine has gone through many stages throughout history.
In prehistoric times, people believed that angry gods or evil spirits
caused disease. To cure the sick, the gods had to be pacified or the evil
spirits driven from the body. In time, this task became the job of the first
"physicians".3 The first - known surgical treatment was an operation called
trephining. Trephining involved use of a stone instrument to cut a hole in a
patient's skull. Scien .....
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Death Can Come Too Late: Active And Passive Euthanasia
Number of words: 2561 - Number of pages: 10.... as "killing,"
where passive euthanasia is viewed in the more favorable light of "letting
one die". My question is this: how are the two morally different? Examine
the following case:
Perry L. was a nineteen-year-old who played in a local band, loved
the outdoors, and planned to become a doctor. One night in 1989 while
driving a skidoo he ran headlong into a tree. Perry no longer has any
cognitive abilities, he does not recognize anyone that he once knew, he
cannot communicate in any way, and he has no meaningful control over his
body or its functions. Perry will never recover .....
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Dioxins
Number of words: 850 - Number of pages: 4.... found to have cancer. After much research it was found that Agent Orange which contained , specifically 2,3,7,8, TCDD, was responsible for these medical conditions. After the Agent Orange controversy lost their space in the spot light for some time until the mid-eighties up to now.
are released in four major ways. One is the incineration and combustion of products containing chlorine, which happens mostly in our municipal incineration plants. A second source is the manufacturing of chlorine and chlorinated products. The third source are the industrial processes involved in processing .....
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The Relationship Between Food Concentration, And Respiratory Activity
Number of words: 373 - Number of pages: 2.... concentration ranged from 30% to
0.12%.
The hypothesis in this expriment was that the most respiratory activity
would take place with 60% sucrose concentration. Since yeast fermentation
requires sucrose and water, aproximately equal proportions of both would yield
to the most respiratory activity.
Once the sucrose concentration was serially cut to the desired level,
the experimenter added 5 ml of yeast suspension to each one of the ten test
tubes.
Then, ten small test tubes were placed invertedly into each one of the
large test tubes, making sure no air bubbles remained within the .....
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AIDS
Number of words: 1737 - Number of pages: 7.... than common practice among heterosexual men or women. In addition, it turned out that rectal sex was a particularly effective way to transmit the disease, and rectal sex is a common practice among gay males. For these reasons, the disease spread in the gay male population of this country immensely more quickly than in other populations. It became to be thought of as a "gay disease". Because the disease is spread primarily by exposure of ones blood to infected blood or semen; Immunodeficiency Virus drug addicts who shared needles also soon were identified as an affected group. As the epidemic .....
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Alcoholism
Number of words: 989 - Number of pages: 4.... I had been living with my mother. She was a young
parent and did things that most mother did not. For instance, as a child she
would leave me alone and sometimes physically abuse me. Therefore, I sometimes
had a hard time understanding why she treated me so differently. On the other
hand, I always received my explanations from my great-grandmother whom I called “
Mema”. I am not the only individual who considered her to be this type of
caring person. Everyone that had known her, thought she was remarkable.
Unfortunately, she started getting ill and during her times of need, I
took .....
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Birth Defects
Number of words: 2396 - Number of pages: 9.... heart disease and
intestinal problems where surgery is required. Parents feel very helpless and
guilty in many of these and similar situations, feeling as if they are abnormal.
However most can learn to walk, talk, dress themselves and eat. Special work
programs are available that can help the child reach their education level. Also
these work programs help takes off the many stresses facing parents. They no
longer have to go it alone.
Tay Sachs disease is another selective genetic disorder that destroyed
nerve cells. This causes mental retardation, loss of muscle control and .....
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