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Anti-Social Personality Disorder
Number of words: 2523 - Number of pages: 10.... is "emotionally retarded" .
The sociopathic behavior problems that start as a child have links to heredity, a family with a pre-disposition to perform crimes, alcoholic parents that do crimes, irresponsible behavior that persists and parents that do not discipline. The child that will eventually be a sociopath exhibits certain feeling inside that they are inadequate, shamed and because of that they are teased and made fun of. The child characteristics of a future sociopath consist of being incapable of following the rules. The youngster will skip school, bully, steal! , torment anima .....
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Homosexuality
Number of words: 834 - Number of pages: 4.... have a dim future on purely physiological grounds (Levin 355).
Since Mr. Smith isn't using his teeth for chewing, his digestive system will
suffer from disuse. The result will be Mr. Smiths deteriorating health. Levin
incorporates the evolution process into this example. He states that Mr. Smith
descended from creatures who enjoy the use of such parts. Creatures who do not
enjoy using such parts of their bodies will tend to be selected out. In
particular, human males who enjoyed inserting their penises into each other's
anuses have left no descendants. Homosexuality is likely to ca .....
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Abnormal Psychology: Mental Disorders
Number of words: 2495 - Number of pages: 10.... with the disorder have a
ten times greater chance of developing the illness than children who have
abnormal parents. If both parents have the disorder the chance of their off
spring having the disorder jumps to forty times that of of an off spring with
normal parents. Some times as equally as important as finding what causes
a disease is finding what does not cause a disease. It is said that
Schizophrenia is: not caused by a domineering mother and/or a passive father,
not caused by childhood experiences, poverty, or not caused by the feeling of
guilt or failure.
People who have .....
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The Ebola Virus
Number of words: 483 - Number of pages: 2.... all nurses and
others have to go through and do. The CDC has classified the Ebola virus as
a Biosafety level 4, which means that the greatest safety precautions are
taken.
This Ebola cell is shaped as a long filamentous, and sometimes are
also found in "U" shaped. The virus consists of a coiled strand of RNA
contained in a envelope derived from the host cell membrane that is covered
with spikes.
The transmission of the Ebola virus occurs by direct contack with
bodily fluids of and ifected patient. The handling of chimpanzees that aer
either ill or have died from the virus ca .....
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Death
Number of words: 343 - Number of pages: 2.... but not cure AIDS.
There are many ways to prevent AIDS. I believe the leading way is
abstinence. No sex until your sure of your sexual partners past sexual history
should you consider sex. If you must have sex then have safe sex. Safe sex
includes using any instrument or object which does not allow bodily fluids to be
exchanged. Preventing AIDS is something we all can do. No one is forced to have
sex (unless raped), no one is forced to do drugs with infected needles and no
one wants it, so people should get smart and wake up! AIDS, say it, think it
over in your head, AIDS will kill peop .....
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Prader-Willi Syndrome
Number of words: 1433 - Number of pages: 6.... and
anything else they can stuff in their mouths.
"The ingenuity and determination of PWS children in surreptitiously obtaining
edibles is almost legendary and belies their cognitive defects. Serial weighing
may be the only way to discover whether such a child is, in fact, stealing
food"(Finey,1983).
PWS occurs in about l in 10,000 births. It occurs in both males and females
equally and is found in people of all races and all nations.It is one of the ten
most common conditions seen in genetics clinics.
Young people with PWS resemble each other very much.Most of the ti .....
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Lyme Disease
Number of words: 1400 - Number of pages: 6.... or on the trunk, especially the thigh, buttock or
the under arm. This spot expands, often with central clearing, to a
diameter as large as 50 cm (c. 12 in.). Approximately 25% of patients with
Lyme disease report having been bitten at that site by a tiny tick 3 to 32
days before onset of ECM. The lesion may be warm to touch. Soon after
onset nearly half the patients develop multiple smaller lesions without
hardened centers. ECM generally lasts for a few weeks. Other types of
lesions may subsequently appear during resolution. Former skin lesions may
reappear faintly, sometimes before r .....
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An Essay On Abortion. Both Sides Of The Issue Are Stated
Number of words: 1460 - Number of pages: 6.... for 18 and 19 year olds. Recently the U.S. rate
dropped 6 percent overall but the rate of abortion among girls younger than
15 jumped 18 percent. The rate among minority teens climbed from 186 per
1,000 to 189 per 1,000.
The most popular procedure involved in abortions is the vacuum
aspiration which is done during the first trimester (three months or less
since the women has become pregnant). A tube is simply inserted through the
cervix and the contents of the uterus are vacuumed out. The most commonly
used type of second trimester abortion is called dilation and evacuation.
Since the fe .....
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The Psychological Effects Of Using Steroids
Number of words: 1169 - Number of pages: 5.... is being produced and therefore the body shuts down functions involving testosterone (Mishra 2). Given the right training stimulus and diet, these steroids enables the user to process protein into muscle fibers at astonishing rates, creating increased muscle size and strength with a drop in body fat (due to an increase in metabolic rate) . They are, in effect, the chemical essence of manliness, physical power and masculine aggression (Nichols 38).
Synthetic steroids were developed in the 1930’s to rebuild and prevent the breakdown of body tissue from disease. In the 1950’s, synthetic .....
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Conquering The Smoking Habit
Number of words: 532 - Number of pages: 2.... or social activity in moderation may serve as useful substitutes for cigarettes, even in times of tension. The choice of a substitute depends on what will achieve the same effects without having any appreciable risk.
Once a smoker understands his own smoking behavior, he will be able to cope more successfully and select the best quitting approaches for himself and the type of life- style he leads.
Because smoking is a form of addiction, 80 percent of smoker who quit usually experience some withdrawal symptoms. These may include headache, light-headedness, nausea, diarrhea, and c .....
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