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Quit Smoking!
Number of words: 926 - Number of pages: 4.... smoke causes the amount of cholesterol clogging the arteries to rise dramatically. Smoking also makes the walls of the arteries harden which increases the chance for the artery to rupture. Another drug in cigarettes, nicotine, causes your blood pressure to rise, your heart rate to rise, and your heart increasingly requires more oxygen to keep pumping.
Along with heart disease, smokers are afflicted with life threatening cancers. “Cigarette smoking is the major cause of cancer of the lips, tongue, salivary glands, mouth, larynx, esophagus, and middle and lower pharynx”(Kim and Saltzbe .....
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Pro Choice: Letter To The Editor
Number of words: 294 - Number of pages: 2.... is denied to someone by the government, undoubtedly
something very wrong.
It is such the case with making abortions illegal. By outlawing abortions,
you are outlawing a woman's choice for how she will live her life. The
government has in a sense become a "big brother" and has decided what is good
for her and what is not. When government goes beyond foreign affair and the
protection of it's citizens, into the controlling of lives and decisions that we
make, it is no longer a government. It becomes something that goes against every
single principle and idea that this country was founded .....
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Adrenoleukodystrpohy
Number of words: 337 - Number of pages: 2.... in a noisy room or over the telephone
~Visual disturbances i.e. Field cuts, strabismus, & visual
activity
~ Focal or generalized seizures
~Hyperactivity
~Tends to progress rapidly with increased spasticity and paralysis,
visual and hearing loss, loss of ability to speak or swallow.
~Inability to move themselves anywhere at all from one place to
another.
Diet Goals
~to decrease the exogenous source of VLCFA- food sources of
fats, cholesterol, grains, nuts, fruits and vegatables skins,
milk (very restrictive diet)
~to decrease the endogenous production of VLCFA with the
inge .....
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The Dawn Of A New Age: PCP
Number of words: 3327 - Number of pages: 13.... class of chemicals [figure 1.0] (Souza 1993). In pure
form, it is a white powder which readily dissolves in water. The cyclohexamines
are known for their the potent neurological effects, with PCP being the most
potent. Almost every variation has been administered to, or abused by, humans
at some time (Nintey Fifth Congress, 1978). All these compounds have similar
pharmacological effects, which vary considerably according to the amount
administered. Small doses produce a `drunken' state, in which subjects report a
numbness in the extremities, while some species (like dogs and cats) bec .....
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Biosafety Protocol: Is There A Need For One?
Number of words: 1684 - Number of pages: 7.... is still being determined.
A. Some experts warn that there is a danger that biotechnology
can create mutant hybrids.
B. Biotechnology has the potential to harm the economies of some
developing nations.
C. The last and possible the most important argument for an
international biosafety protocol is in the name of ignorance
and caution
III. The United States, Germany, Japan, and Australia are the only
countries opposed to the biosafety protocol.
IV. The ne .....
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Death
Number of words: 840 - Number of pages: 4.... driving off the road. She swerved back on the road really hard, which made the car flip over four times. Then we were rushed to the hospital and stayed there for about an hour. My sister and I were all right but my dad was in critical condition. My dad ended up only loosing his pinky finger. Just being in that situation made my outlook on life and different. I couldn't bear the fact that my dad would be gone forever. Being a Christian I was brought up to believe that people who believe in Jesus Christ would have a greater destiny in heaven. But in these two situations with , I .....
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Suicide Solution
Number of words: 540 - Number of pages: 2.... if
everyone who attempts or had attempted suicide were not stopped, the
impact would be noticed.
Another popular argument for stoppers, people who want to prevent
suicide, is that nothing can be bad enough. Yet how do they know this?
They do not have to put up with the same stuff the suicide victim does
everyday. How could they possibly know what the potential suicide victim
feels. Just as a severely burned victim may wish to be allowed to die in
peace, the suicide victim wishes the same. To die in peace with no
argument from others.
The argument of "look at the people you .....
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The Human Genome Project
Number of words: 937 - Number of pages: 4.... of that
decade. In the United States, the Department of Energy (DOE) initially, and the
National Institutes of Health (NIH) soon after, were the main research agencies
within the US government responsible for developing and planning the project. By
1988, the two agencies were working together, an association that was formalized
by the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to "coordinate research and
technical activities related to the human genome". The National Center for Human
Genome Research (NCHGR) was established in 1989 to head the human genome project
for the NIH. NCHGR is one of t .....
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Reye Syndrome
Number of words: 1085 - Number of pages: 4.... and infants. Over sixty percent of reported Reye's Syndrome
cases occur in children under the age of sixteen, with the majority of these
cases being in children under six. Although less than five percent of Reye's
Syndrome cases occur in people over the age of sixty, the elderly are often the
most severely affected, due to old age and weakening immune systems. Infants,
while hindered by their young age, can often fight the infections of Reye
Syndrome better, for reasons doctors do not yet fully understand. The severity
of Reye's Syndrome is classified on a scale of 1-5, with one and t .....
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Doctor Assisted Suicide
Number of words: 1062 - Number of pages: 4.... suffering of many ill people.
People have a right to die if they choose to. The only problem is that some states have decided to not allow physician assisted suicide. For example, people like Dr. Kevorkian has been under much scrutiny for assisting in deaths. I don’t necessarily agree with his bedside manor and his “icy okey-doke” (Goodman, 495) But when somebody decides to take his own life, it is up to the individual to do so.
Another problem is the moral issue. Is assisted suicide moral or immoral? If a person is terminally ill and is going to die from the illness, then the only thi .....
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