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Cigarette Smokers Are Bad For Nonsmokers
Number of words: 377 - Number of pages: 2.... If some one gets cancer
in the lungs that person is most likely to pass away because there is no
cure for the lung cancer right now. If you are living with a smoker you
have a twenty five percent chance of dying from a heart attack. It even
hurts children by giving them bronchitis, asthma and ear aches. There are
about 45 gasses, liquids and metals that cause cancer in the smog.
Smoking costs a lot of money for the people in Canada. It costs the
Canadian economy roughly three hundred and fifty dollars for each Canadian.
Most of these costs come from treating diseases caused by tobacco and fr .....
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Heart Attacks And Its Causes
Number of words: 950 - Number of pages: 4.... one fourth of heart attacks occur in people with no known risk factors at all (Cowley, 1997).
The hypothesis that high levels of cholesterol cause heart attacks may be attributed to this: LDL, or "bad" cholesterol, induces cells to produce proteins in the arterial walls of the heart and the veins leading to the heart. Macrophages eat the fatty substances in the heart and then die, causing a build up in the veins. Conventionally speaking, the blockage of LDL would be the onset of a very fatty diet. However, it has never been proved that the cholesterol is the cause of the injury to the a .....
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Japanese Medicine
Number of words: 950 - Number of pages: 4.... tactics on the balancing of Qi. Qi was developed through traditional Chinese medicine. About 2,500 years ago, in the mountains of Northern China, Taoist priests practiced Qi labeling it the vital life force. They believed that this source was inseperable from life itself. Through Traditional Chinese medicine it is phylosophized that Qi is displayed as both yin “interior”, and yang “exterior”. According to the Chinese Qi exists in all opposites we experience, such as hot and cold, and night and day. Although yin and yang are looked upon as opposites, they are actually insep .....
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Faith Healing
Number of words: 2423 - Number of pages: 9.... they shouted, 'lord have mercy on us'…Jesus felt sorry for the blind men and touched their eyes. At once they could see"(Lucado). Jesus healed to prove that he was the son of God. He healed to show people true miracles, healed to show people that God was real. By showing people concrete evidence of God’s existence and power, Jesus was able to gain many followers.
Since the time of Christ there have been many people who have claimed to be faith healers. Some of the first were the Royalty who ruled the monarchy. The kings already claimed to have the divine right. Because they had th .....
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Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy
Number of words: 1341 - Number of pages: 5.... an 18th century figure known for telling extremely tall tales of his adventures. In 1977 an English pediatrician by the name of Meadow first described “,” when he discovered that the mothers of his epileptic patients were inducing their children’s seizures. Due to the extremity of the abuse, nine percent of Munchausen victims die at the hands of their perpetrator, which is the child’s own mother ninety-eight percent of the time (Feldman 147). MSBP is a perplexing and unfathomable disorder. In an attempt to understand it we must look at the characteristics of the offende .....
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The Quest To Understand The Origins Of Humans
Number of words: 1286 - Number of pages: 5.... not responsible for the killings, instead gods were. When people can
not handle problems, which arise every day in front of them, they try to
hide under the mask called god, but by doing that they do not solve them,
they only ignore and try to escape their everyday problems, which makes
everything worse. The desperate attempt to explain their own existence took
people to the creation of many various myths, which also incorporated in
them many different aspect of the culture and everyday life of their
creators. This connection between people and the myths is actually
illustrated on .....
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About Medical Marijuana
Number of words: 1519 - Number of pages: 6.... with AZT and
other drugs.
Glaucoma: Marijuana, by reducing intraocular pressure, alleviates the pain and
slows or halts the progress of the disease. Glaucoma, which damages vision by
gradually increasing eye pressure over time, is the leading cause of blindness
in the United States.
Multiple Sclerosis: Marijuana reduces the muscle pain and spasticity caused by
the disease. It may also relieve tremor and unsteadiness of gait, and it helps
some patients with bladder control. Multiple sclerosis is the leading cause of
neurological disability among young and middle-aged adults in the Un .....
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Assisted Suicide
Number of words: 2366 - Number of pages: 9.... a big part of American society, year after year
more people are taking their own lives for many different reasons. A lot
of philosophers have broken down all the reasons of suicides into two
different categories, rational suicide and irrational suicide. A rational
suicide has been given five basic criteria that usually must be met for the
person's act to be considered rational. The five criteria which a person
must show for their suicide to be considered rational are, "the ability to
reason, realistic world view, adequacy of information, avoidance of harm,
and accordance with fundament .....
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The Right To Die
Number of words: 715 - Number of pages: 3.... who are our designated healers (doctors) cant heal the sick then the control should be past over to the individual.
Those people who suffer from terminal illnesses are forced to live out life while losing their dignity. Families are forced to watch their loved one deteriorate and in the mean time put their own lives on hold to care for the ill patient that has lost all will to live. Watching a loved one slowly fade in the most horrible task for any human being. If the patient is extremely ill families can see there pain and feel the heart break that our laws enforce.
Hundreds of tho .....
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The Genetics Of Violence
Number of words: 2634 - Number of pages: 10.... the
hereditary basis for impulsivity. While these studies continue to search for the
genetic source of aggression, child testing programs, drug manufacturers, civil
rights activists, lawyers, and anxious citizens await the resulting testimony of
the scientists. The social implications of the genetic search for aggressive
tendency is seen by some as a great step forward, by others as a dangerous power
with the ability to give birth to another Holocaust, and by still others as
racist.
At one time, it was believed that one’s character could be determined
from the bumps in one’s skull. Muc .....
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