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Memory
Number of words: 1594 - Number of pages: 6.... as suppressed memories. Sexual abuse of children and adolescents is known to cause severe psychological and emotional damage. Adults who were sexually abused in childhood are at a higher risk for developing a variety of psychiatric disorders, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and mood disorders. To understand the essential issues about traumatic , the human mind’s response to a traumatic event must first be understood. The is made up of many different sections with each having different consequences on one another.
Can people remember what they were wearing three days ago? Most .....
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The Respiratory System
Number of words: 763 - Number of pages: 3.... part of the windpipe; it is also called the voice box. It leads from the lower portion of the pharynx to the trachea and is next to esophagus, behind the skin and connective tissue of the throat. The larynx is supported by ligaments from the hyoid bone, at the base of the tongue. Going into the trachea
The trachea, is a section of respiratory tract in the neck, extending between the larynx and the bronchi and lying in front of the esophagus. The trachea, also called windpipe, is made up of numerous cartilaginous half-rings, the open ends are near the esophagus. These rings, located one above .....
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Aspirin
Number of words: 769 - Number of pages: 3.... Though Hoffmann was confident that ASA would prove more affective than
other salicylates, but his superiors incorrectly stated that ASA weakens the
heart and that physicians would not subscribe it. Hoffmann's employer,
Friedrich Bayer and Company, gave ASA its now famous name, aspirin.
It is not yet fully known how aspirin works, but most authorities agree
that it achieves some of its effects by hindering the flow of prostaglandins.
Prostaglandins are hormone-like substances that influence the elasticity of
blood vessels. John Vane, Ph. D., noted that many forms of tissue injury .....
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Abortion
Number of words: 696 - Number of pages: 3.... would want to have the
loving child. Just think you come home from work one day, and all of the
sudden your kid gives you a great big hug. That shows love. And after a long
days work, wouldn't anybody want some love from a child. Yeah when they are
little they scream, and kick, but they also give love, and affection, and can be
the cutest thing. And if you abort, you wont get that will you?
Some people also just want to make amends for what they have done.
Maybe they have screwed up in their life and don't want there parents to know.
Or maybe they just aren't ready for a kid. Well .....
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Critical Summary Of Cultural Effects On Eating Attitudes In Israeli Subpopulations And Hospitalized Anorectics
Number of words: 773 - Number of pages: 3.... they revolve their lives around. Studies conclude that people in
professions where physical appearance is of extreme importance are more
likely to develop an eating disorder. In the Western world, over the past
two decades eating disorders have increased substantially. People believe
that this increase in eating disorders is due to the fashion industry. The
fashionable female figure of today has become thinner and more tubular
(Szmulker, McCance, McCrone, & Hunter, 1986).
In the world today, Apter believes that thinness is more and more a
symbol of the feminine ideal. He f .....
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Euthanasia
Number of words: 2972 - Number of pages: 11.... treatment and let them die. Many critics of the medical profession contend that too often doctors play god on operating tables and in recovery rooms. They argue that no doctor should be allowed to decide who lives and who dies.
The issue of is having a tremendous impact on medicine in the United States today. It was only in the nineteenth century that the word came to be used in the sense of speeding up the process of dying and the destruction of so-called useless lives. Today it is defined as the deliberate ending of life of a person suffering from an incurable disease. A distinction i .....
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Anorexia And Bulimia
Number of words: 1019 - Number of pages: 4.... disorders
generally mid-teens to early twenties.
2. What are the causes of the eating disorders Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia?
There are many theories, but no clear picture. It is an over
simplification to blame the mass media's presentation to blame the mass media's
presentation of the ideal shape: though western society's increased emphasis on
the slim, fit body places pressure on many people.
We know there are many factors affecting the development of the
disorders- biological, psychological and sociological- so the relationship
between parent and child need not to be seen as the domi .....
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Angina Pectoris
Number of words: 5928 - Number of pages: 22.... media today concentrates intensely on drug and alcohol abuse,
homicides, AIDS and so on. What a lot of people are not realizing is that
coronary heart disease actually accounts for about 80% of all sudden deaths.
In fact, the number of deaths from heart disease approximately equals to
the number of deaths from cancer, accidents, chronic lung disease,
pneumonia and influenza, and others, COMBINED.
One of the symptoms of coronary heart disease is angina pectoris.
Unfortunately, a lot of people do not take it seriously, and thus not
realizing that it may lead to other complications, and e .....
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Steriods
Number of words: 541 - Number of pages: 2.... cheaper then marijuana or cocaine. A ten week cycle of testosterone cypinate and methandrostone costs only about one hundred dollars. Steroids are also very hard to trace because of their water base composition. They can pass through the body within two days. All these benefits of steroids help an athletes become more competitive and increase their chance of being a winner. Of course everybody wants better biceps and triceps but when using steroids to achieve this goal there is a large price to pay.
However, steroids should remain illegal because they physically deteriorate the whole bod .....
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Assisted Suicide And Canadian Law
Number of words: 226 - Number of pages: 1.... doctor. She suffered from a terminal
illness called ALS (a.k.a. amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig's
disease). The disease progressively worsens until it robs the individual of all
their abilities (like walking, control of body movement, swallowing and
breathing) until they are totally dependent on mechanical devices to survive.
Before she ended her life, she brought the debate over assisted suicide
and the right to die to the Supreme Court of British Columbia (which was denied)
and then to the British Columbia Court of Appeal which was lost. She fought
though for the right to ch .....
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