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Assisted Suicide: An Easier Way Out
Number of words: 565 - Number of pages: 3.... help in assisted suicides to the
fatally ill would prevent anything like this from happening. The Second Circuit
Court of Appeals created a law that prohibited physicians from helping their
patients die (Lemonick, p.82). Now, patients who are terminally ill and who
wish to die might decide to kill themselves in a manner that is less humane than
with a lethal injection or dosage of medicine. This new law makes it much
harder to get proper help in attaining an assisted suicide. This clearly would
cause many more problems than it would do good.
Last, there are many ways that using t .....
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Smoking
Number of words: 234 - Number of pages: 1.... decreased from
more than 60 percent to about 25 percent; however, the percentage of women who
smoke cigarettes increased. Smoking also became more prevalent among young
adults, with about 29 percent of high school seniors admitting to smoking in
1975; but by 1987 this proportion decreased to 18.7 percent. There are programs
that exist to help smokers quit. Some involve group support, whereas others use
aversive techniques in which participants smoke many cigarettes rapidly to the
point of becoming sick of them.
More than 30 million persons in the U.S. say that they would like to
quit smo .....
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Chicken Pox
Number of words: 346 - Number of pages: 2.... immune systems are infected, the disease can become quite serious. If a pregnant woman contracts the disease during the first or second trimester there may be a congenital birth defect. If the disease is contracted within five days of birth the child risks being infected seriously with the disease and should be vaccinated immediately. The disease usually runs its course within two weeks, leaving the person infected healthy, as well as immune to any further infection from the same virus.
There is a vaccine for this disease called 'Varicella-zoster immune globulin', and a medicine .....
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The Ebola Virus
Number of words: 452 - Number of pages: 2.... Your internal organs liquefy and you vomit them up.
In reality, the virus has attempted to turn its host into a virus. You are dead
before you have even started to show signs of this virus. It is believed that it
is some sort of mutated form of AIDS because it started in the original spot as
AIDS did, Kinshasa and moved along the highway ripping its way through Northern
Africa. As of now there are an estimated 150 000 people who have died from this
virus. This figure is in Africa alone. In October 1989, monkeys were dying by
the hundreds in a building 2 miles away from the White House. They .....
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Life, Death, And Politics: A Run-Down Of The Abortion Debate.
Number of words: 2501 - Number of pages: 10.... of the fetus. Ultrasound, fetal therapy, and
amniocentesis graphically reveal complex life before birth, and it is this
potential human life that is at the heart of the debate.
In order to form an opinion on this matter, we must first question and
define several common factors which are numerously debated.
I. When does human life begin?
Scientists identify the first moment of human life as that instant when
a sperm cell unites with an ovum or egg cell. The billions of cells that
collectively make up a human being are body cells. Unless manipulated, these
body cells are and remain wh .....
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Hypnosis In Psychology
Number of words: 987 - Number of pages: 4.... different practices.
The authoritarian approach emphasizes the power of the hypnotist.
This approach, spawned by Mesmer and others, is still widely exploited by stage
hypnotists and is consequently often the conceptualization held by the uniformed
lay person. Even many trained physicians implicitly adhere to this view, which
in it's extreme form involves some powerful and charismatic hypnotist exercising
some strange power over a hapless and weak-willed subject. In essence, the
hypnotist gets the subject to do something he or she wouldn't ordinarily do such
as stop smoking or .....
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Psychoanalysis
Number of words: 1310 - Number of pages: 5.... objects, although the resemblance between the symbol and the original object may be vague or farfetched. The laws of logic, indispensable for conscious thinking, do not apply to these unconscious mental productions.
Recognition of these modes of operation in unconscious mental processes made possible the understanding of such previously incomprehensible psychological phenomena as dreaming. Through analysis of unconscious processes, Freud saw dreams as serving to protect sleep against disturbing impulses arising from within and related to early life experiences. Thus, unacceptable impulses a .....
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A Definitive Argument On Euthanasia
Number of words: 910 - Number of pages: 4.... biggest debates surrounding active euthanasia is its moral ethics. Doctors feel that “the intentional termination of the life of one human being by another—mercy killing—is contrary to that which the medical professions stands…” (Rachel, 473) and to commit such an act would be sacrilegious. However, as Rachel points out, a strong case can be made against this philosophy. In an example given by Rachel, he shows that in a case where a patient had an incurable, painful disease, passive euthanasia would be wrong. By withholding treatment, the doctor might be prolonging the patient .....
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The Process Of Changing A Newborns Diaper
Number of words: 1108 - Number of pages: 5.... newborn. It should be soft yet washable. Sometimes things can get a little messy and you will want to be able to disinfect. Put all these supplies at easy access to you where you will be changing the newborn. Make sure supplies are at the foot of the changing area. This will keep little hands from reaching them. All the cellophane should be off the packages. Take the diapers out of the packaging and stack them at a hand's reach. You should not have to walk away as soon as you start changing the baby.
You are ready to change. Start by placing the baby on the changing surface with its .....
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Number of words: 581 - Number of pages: 3.... (e)
symptoms lasting at least one month. (Famolaro, Maternal and Child Post
traumatic... 28)".
Children are now becoming realized as significant sufferers of
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is particularly
bad for children under the age of 11, because they lack many of the skills
needed to protect themselves. Furthermore, this vulnerability is enhanced when
the child is exposed to any maltreatment. According to recent studies,
"Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is a common sequella of severe or chronic
maltreatment of children, particularly among sexually maltre .....
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