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An Attempt At Understanding Dreams
Number of words: 3418 - Number of pages: 13.... in
the dream or I just ignore it and tell the bad guy that he can't hurt me because
I know it's just a dream. I have no idea until today how I'm able to do that,
but it really makes me wonder. I also don't know why I had that dream a few
weeks after the movie and not the same night I watched it, especially that I had
completely forgotten about it until the night of the dream, at least consciously.
Anyway, I decided to use the chance of having to write a paper for
Psychology 201 (especially that I hardly write papers because I'm an Engineering
major), and I almost instantly knew .....
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Birth Control At Schools
Number of words: 476 - Number of pages: 2.... emotions and feelings are still very immature; therefore, passing out condoms may be promoting teenagers to have sex. Parents think giving free condoms to children sends mixed messages on what to think about sex education or how to have sex.
Promoting safe sex and distributing free condoms in high schools are great ways to control the rampant spread of sexually transmitted diseases and high levels of teen childbirth. Whether it is a lack of knowledge or a lack of not caring, it is prominent that children need to be influenced to have safe sex. Teachers and staff members are not pu .....
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The Effects Of Alcohol On People
Number of words: 2158 - Number of pages: 8.... has played a significant role in religious backgrounds and
ceremonies in the past. In Greece there was a god of wine which was named
Bacchus. The Romans drank vast amounts of wine and other alcoholic
beverages. Wine and beer both have a very long background and or history.
Alcohol was used to supposedly relieve stress and the drudgery of day to
day life. (History of Alcohol , page1)
Gin houses used advertisements like " drinkers can drink for a
penny and get dead drunk for two pence " to lure in alcoholics or drinkers.
(History of Alcohol , page 1)
Prohibition was a temperan .....
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Alzheimer's Disease
Number of words: 819 - Number of pages: 3.... bodies of nerve cells in the cerebral cortex, and
take on the structure of a paired helix. Other diseases that have "paired
helixes" include Parkinson's disease, Down's Syndrome, and Dementia Pugilistica.
Scientists are not sure how the paired helixes are related in these very
different diseases.
Neuritic Plaques are patches of clumped material lying outside the bodies of
nerve cells in the brain. They are mainly found in the cerebral cortex, but have
also been seen in other areas of the brain. At the core of each of these plaques
is a substance called amyloid, an abnormal protein not us .....
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Meningitis
Number of words: 682 - Number of pages: 3.... and can kill in 24 hours.
The disease is often followed by a variety of after-effects, some permenant and physically disabling and some less obvious, affecting the patient emotionally. Although many people will make a quick and complete recovery others will need a lot of support and care over the weeks and months following there illness. Unfortunately it is impossible to predict which after-effects if any an individual will suffer from. The after-effects are similar of the two forms of bacterial is considered much more serious then viral since it is fatal in about 1 out of 10 cases. Bu .....
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The Healing Process
Number of words: 1056 - Number of pages: 4.... break
out of the glass bubble, to develop the attitude of happiness. For example, in
"The Process of Change: Variations on a Theme by Virginia Satir says on Page 89
that "successful change-making turns out to involve struggle, necessitating
skill, tenacity and perspective". The struggle occurs when a foreign element
produces chaos until a new integration occurs which results in a new status quo.
Kurt Lewin echoed this view in saying that an old attitude has to unfreeze, the
person experiments, a new attitude develops and a refreezing occurs.
Janis and Prochasky suggest a person starts in r .....
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Diabetes
Number of words: 1110 - Number of pages: 5.... of the symptoms of type 1 are urgent thirst, excessive urination, weight loss, fatigue, and irritability. Because it is inherited, this type can not be prevented.
The second type of is type 2 , or "non-insulin dependent" . In this type, insulin is produced by the pancreas but is ineffective. This type usually affects obese middle-aged and older people and can affect nearly all races. The risk of developing this type increases with age. Similar to the first type, it is also hereditary but is triggered by obesity. Some of the symptoms of type 2 are thirst, excessive urination, weight loss, .....
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Haemophilia
Number of words: 1118 - Number of pages: 5.... hereditary disorder in which bleeding is due to deficiency of the coagulation
factor VIII (VIII:C)3. In most of the cases, this coagulant protein is reduced
but in a rare amount of cases, this protein is present by immunoassay but
defective. Haemophilia A is the most common severe bleeding disorder and
approximately 1 in 10,000 males is effected. The most common types of bleeding
are into the joints and muscles. Haemophilia is severe if the factor VIII:C
levels are less that 1 %, they are moderate if the levels are 1-5% and they are
mild if they levels become 5+%.
Those with mild hae .....
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Medicine: "Microsurgery: Sew Small"
Number of words: 893 - Number of pages: 4.... idea of what microsurgery involves.
Twenty-five years ago, this man's thumb would have been lost. But in the
1960s, surgeon's began using microscopes to sew what previously had been
almost invisible blood vessels and nerves in limbs. Their sewing
technique had been developed on large blood vessels over a half century
earlier but could not be used in microsurgery until the needles and
sutures became small enough. The surgical technique, still widely used
today, had taken the frustrating unreliability out of sewing slippery,
round-ended blood vessels by ingeniously turning them into tria .....
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Malpractice Or Poor Judgement?
Number of words: 946 - Number of pages: 4.... in the long run, and the condition is only going to worsen. Take for
example the United States, where surgeons annually pay an average of $75,000 on
insurance premiums. On top of these premiums, doctors who practice very
defensively add as much as $21 billion US to the health care bill every year.
Twenty percent of the tests prescribed by doctors were not necessary, but they
are the result of defensive practising by doctors who do not want to be held
liable.
This condition, already appearing in India, could become the downfall of
their present health care industry. Doctors are b .....
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