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Morality And Legality Of Abortion
Number of words: 546 - Number of pages: 2.... in the case that he/she inadvertently kills another in an accident.
There are severe repercussions for rapists and assault of another person. We
also often assert that to harm oneself intentionally or in a way that could
have been prevented by our own precaution is wrong. These examples include the
seatbelt and helmet laws and the ingestion of harmful drugs. In keeping with our
common and lawful morality that is careful to protect human life, the legality
of abortion appears incongruent.
An important question of this issue is of the point at which the life
conceived inside a woman .....
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Euthanasia: The Right To Die
Number of words: 2062 - Number of pages: 8.... Kevorkian has assisted in nineteen suicides. Because of the increasing number of suicides in Michigan, Gov. Engler signed an anti-suicide law in late February that made doctor-assisted suicides a felony. During the 21-month trial period of the new law anyone assisting in a suicide can be sentenced to up to four years in prison and fined more than $2,000 (Reuters, 1993).
With the passing of this law I thought that most people would be against the right-to-die, not so. In a poll cited in a 1991 issue of USA Today eighty percent of Americans think sometimes there are circumstances when a pati .....
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Comparing Treatment Approaches
Number of words: 1189 - Number of pages: 5.... become successful in a treatment program. The problem with this point of view is that cocaine has not been shown to be very physically addicting, as there are no major symptoms of withdrawal that the patient is trying to combat by self-administering more of the drug. By making the drug ineffective in the blood stream, addicts would not receive what is thought to be positive reinforcement through cocaine's effects on the dopaminergic systems in the brain, but there is no evidence to prove that it would therefore stop them from taking it in increasingly higher doses, until the amount of drug in .....
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Anorexia Nervosa
Number of words: 1420 - Number of pages: 6.... 70 pounds. Throughout the starvation process, the patients either deny being hungry or claim to have full stomach after eating just a few bites.
This disease occurs at any stage of development, but emerges first in adolescence. Recent estimates suggest that out of every 200 American girls between the ages of 12 and 18, one will develop anorexia to some degree. While most patients are female, about 6 percent are adolescent boys. Occasionally, the disorder is found in older women and in children as young as eight years old.
In the classical text on anorexia, Garfinkel and Garner (1892) maint .....
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Female Genital Mutilation And Culture
Number of words: 419 - Number of pages: 2.... by thorns or other fasting devices, until a scar forms to close the entrance to the vagina. The legs of the little girl are tied together for several weeks until the wound heals; a tiny opening is created by inserting a splinter of wood to allow urination. Thus virginity, which is considered especially important by Moslem men, can be proven.
These dangerous operations result in permanent damage: hemorrhage and shock, which may be fatal; many infections including tetanus, scaring which obstructs normal childbirth and may result in the death of both mother and child; infertility due to infectio .....
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AZT
Number of words: 1540 - Number of pages: 6.... Zidovudine, or ZDV. The structural name of AZT is 3'-azido-3'-
deoxythymidine. AZT works by inhibiting the process of copying DNA in cells.
More specifically, AZT, inhibits the reverse transcriptase enzyme, which is
involved in the DNA replication process. When DNA is replicating in a cell,
there is a specific enzyme that works along one side of the original DNA strand
as the DNA is split into two strands, copying each individual nucleotide. This
enzyme is only able to work in one direction along the nucleotide string,
therefore a different enzyme, or rather a series of different enzymes is .....
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The Trials Of Toilet Training
Number of words: 807 - Number of pages: 3.... by imitation, learning by teaching, a partial
reinforcement schedule with rewards that increase the need and the negative
reinforcement of disapproval are all employed. Children learn best by imitation
and teaching with the aid of a hollow doll. The child gives the doll a drink
then is told the doll has to "peepee" and he must help her. After the child
assists in removing the doll's pants, the liquid is released. The child must
observe the flow of liquid. into the potty chair. The adult and the child then
praise the doll and the child then assists the doll in redressing and emptyi .....
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Should Athletes Use Creatine?
Number of words: 639 - Number of pages: 3.... by the foods that we eat. The highest sources of naturally occurring Creatine are meat and fish. After a meal, Creatine is absorbed from the blood into skeletal muscle through the activity of muscle surface transporter molecules. (Dr. Omar, 3) Creatine Monohydrate involves a workout with. You can’t just take it and expect to see results.
One of the myths that have appeared around Creatine is that it is only beneficial for weightlifters. (Zeibak, 1) That is not true. It’s just that weightlifters were the first to discover creatine’s ability to extend workout time and decrea .....
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Antibiotic Resistance
Number of words: 646 - Number of pages: 3.... taken until all the
medicine is gone so the disease is completely finished. If it is not, then
this will just give the bacteria some time to find a way to avoid the
effects of the drug.
One antibiotic that will always have a long lasting effect in history is
penicillin. This was the first antibiotic ever to be discovered. Alexander
Fleming was the person responsible for the discovery in 1928. In his
laboratory, he noticed that in some of his bacteria colonies, that he was
growing, were some clear spots. He realized that something had killed the
bacteria in these clear spots, which ended up .....
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Should Marijuana Be Legalized For Medical Purposes?
Number of words: 2281 - Number of pages: 9.... scheduling under
Federal law is determined “according to [its] effects, medical uses, and
potential for abuse” (Claim V). In this classification system, marijuana is a
Schedule I drug, grouped with heroin, LSD, hashish, methaqualone, and designer
drugs. These are drugs having “unpredictable effects, and [causing] severe
psychological or physical dependence, or death” (Claim V).
A closer analysis of the DEA's Federal Scheduling system reveals that,
according to various studies by physicians on both sides of the legalization
debate, marijuana does not meet the requirement .....
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