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The Right To Die
Number of words: 1564 - Number of pages: 6

.... a doctor to opt to not resuscitate, or to cut off life support. However, they say it is not all right to chose to use PAS when suffering with a terminal illness. Opponents fear that if PAS is legalized for use with terminally ill patients, it will not be very long before its uses broaden and people other than the terminally ill decide to try and benefit from the law (Kamisar 409). They are worried that PAS will become a dinnertime conversation, as common as football or music. Some fear that by legalizing PAS, the physician will be given too much power ("Assisted" 394). Also religious views .....

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Abraham Maslow's Theory Of Human Needs
Number of words: 818 - Number of pages: 3

.... a person does not feel the second need until the demands of the first have been satisfied. 1. Physiological Needs. These needs are biological and consists of the needs for oxygen, food, water, and a relatively constant body temperature. These needs are the strongest because if deprived, the person would die. 2. Safety Needs. Except in times of emergency or periods of disorganization in the social structure (such as widespread rioting) adults do not experience their security needs. Children, however often display signs of insecurity and their need to be safe. 3. Love, Affection and Be .....

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Number of words: 937 - Number of pages: 4

.... criteria for GAD are: A. Unrealistic or excessive anxiety and worry about life circumstances for a period greater than 6 months, during which this person has been bothered by these concerns for more days than not. B. The person has difficulty controlling the anxiety and worrying. C. The anxiety and worry are associated with at least 3 of the following symptoms: 1) Restlessness or feeling keyed up or on edge 2) Being easily fatigued 3) Difficulty in concentrating or mind going blank 4) Irritability 5) Muscle tension 6 .....

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HIV/AIDS Seminar
Number of words: 614 - Number of pages: 3

.... really going to listen? As a community, we can encourage HIV/AIDS testing, but will it be taken advantage of? Since these are adults being familiarized with HIV/AIDS, how to contract it, the consequences, and the raw statistics, they will probably disregard all of the information. Education on the issue of HIV/AIDS obviously needs to begin at an earlier age. Since this is such a controversial issue, the age at which education should begin is debatable. The children need to be mature enough to handle the concerns and they need to be young enough to begin practicing measures of safety that .....

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Insanity
Number of words: 838 - Number of pages: 4

.... to wrestle women and completely embarrass them. After defeating numerous women, he declared himself the “inter-gender wrestling champion,” which created major controversy in the wrestling industry. People had a very hard time telling whether he was being serious or not. Andy’s humor was like no other, and people had a hard time accepting it. Early in his career, Andy appeared to be fairly normal, but several of his acts had many believing otherwise. For instance, Andy would set the alarm on his clock to wake him every hour, just so could smoke two packs of cigarettes. Even to this day, .....

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Euthanasia And The First Amendment
Number of words: 779 - Number of pages: 3

.... is when the physician administers the death causing drug or agent”(Death and Dying,92). The most recent case is that of The State of Florida v. Charles Hall. “Charles Hall is dying of AIDS and challenged the State of Florida to let him die by a self-administered lethal injection without fear of prosecution”(http://www.rights.org/ deathnet/open.html). On January 31, 1997, a Judge ruled that Charles Hall could take his own life with the aid of a doctor. Senior Judge S. Joseph Davis, brought in from Seminole County, “found that Florida's strict privacy law and the equal protection claus .....

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Medical Miracles On The Horizon
Number of words: 1141 - Number of pages: 5

.... of mankind and in solving them. People in the field of medicine will continue, as they have in this century, to address and participate in almost all concerns. For example, methadone is currently being used as a therapeutic intervention for some drug addictions. In addition, various medications are now being given in the treatment of criminals, like anti-psychotic drugs to curb aggressive or violent behavior in schizophrenics. A new and improved group of antidepressants is also being used to treat and reduce the growing rate of suicide in all ages of our society. Because a very .....

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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Number of words: 1015 - Number of pages: 4

.... disrupting their daily life and lowering self-esteem. To determine whether or not a person has ADHD, specialists must consider several questions: Do these behaviors occur more often than in other people of the same age? Are the behaviors an ongoing problem, not just a response to a [temporary] situation? Do the behaviors occur only in one specific place or in several different settings? In answering these questions, the person's behavior patterns are compared to a set of criteria and characteristics of ADHD. The Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) presents this set .....

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Definition Of The Oedipus Complex
Number of words: 2140 - Number of pages: 8

.... intensive self analysis in 1897, shortly after the death of his father. Freud says it is only the male child that we find the fateful combination of love for the one parent and simultaneous hatred for the other as a rival. Freud believed Oedipal was a normal part of human psychological growth and it is during this stage children produce emotional conflicts. Other psychoanalysts believed that girls experience a parallel called the "Electra Complex". This comes from a Greek legend of a women named Electra who helped plan the murder of her mother. The Oedipus Complex originates from a m .....

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Rabies
Number of words: 322 - Number of pages: 2

.... developed. After individual consideration in certain cases a decision may be made to administer rabies vaccine to prevent the development of rabies. What Can Be Done to Prevent Rabies? Since there is no treatment for rabies the major emphasis is am preventing it. Below is a list to some ways of limiting the spread of rabies: 1. Domestic cats and dogs should be currently immunized against rabies. Check with your veterinarian about current recommendations for rabies vaccine (periodic booster shot are required). 2. If you have livestock you should check with your veterinarian ab .....

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