|
ESSAY TOPICS |
|
MEMBER LOGIN |
|
|
|
Health Essay Writing Help
Dreams
Words: 676 / Pages: 3 .... memory storage and reorganization.
Contrary to popular belief, dreaming is not caused by eating certain
foods before bedtime, nor by environmental stimuli during sleeping. Dreaming is
caused by internal biological process. Some researchers have proposed the
activation-synthesis hypothesis. Their neurological research indicates that
large brain cells in the primitive brain stem spontaneously fire about every 90
minutes, sending random stimuli to cortical areas of the BRAIN. As a
consequence, memory, sensory, muscle-control, and cognitive areas of the brain
are randomly stimulated, resulting in the higher cortical brain attempting to
make som .....
|
Psychoanalysis
Words: 1348 / Pages: 5 .... of their minds, thus helping the unconscious become conscious. Many cases of hysteria were cured this way, and in 1895, Freud, along with another fellow physician, published their findings and theories on the study of hysteria. In The White Hotel by D. M. Thomas, the character Lisa does not exhibit the above form of hysteria, but rather a manifestation of reality. Her own reality has become too imprisoned, and she escapes it by creating another Lisa that is nothing like her person.
The traditional psychoanalytical theory states that all human beings are born with instinctual drives that are constantly active even though a person is not usually consc .....
|
Nature / Nurture Or Both !
Words: 1344 / Pages: 5 .... In
fact, the more we understand about development and behavior, the more obvious
it becomes that nature and nurture are similarly influences rather than
determinants, not only singly but also in combination. Here below, I will
endeavour to expose the leading theories dealing with the question of nature vs.
nurture. I will also try to present the third, new-emerging approach meant to
solve the mystery of “ What is it that makes us who we are?”
“Our genes made us. We animals exist for their preservation and are
nothing more than their throwaway survival machines.” This is what Richard
Darwin states in his book: The Selfish Gene. In his in .....
|
Aromatherapy
Words: 1071 / Pages: 4 .... and well being as well. It consists of pure essential oils obtained from a wide assortment of plants. These have been distilled or cold-preserved from roots, bark, flowers, and fruit (what). History shows that has been a vital part of caring for the mind body and soul. Our ancestors have inhaled the sweet aroma, which was used to stimulate the mind. started when a chemist named Rene-Maurice Gattefosse became interested in healing the body by using all natural essential oils. He came across the technique of using distilled plants and fruits for a wonderful smell. His mind pondered on the question could this sensational smell stimulate the mind in .....
|
Cholera
Words: 597 / Pages: 3 .... very effective. People who travel in areas where Cholera is widespread
should not drink the local water. They should cook all foods that may have
been exposed to water. Peru, already afflicted by economic ills and
feastering guerilla insurgency, is now plagued by an epidemic of Cholera.
As of February 25, 1991, the disease had claimed 90 lives and infected at
least 14,000 people. It is the first major outbreak of Cholera in the
western hemisphere since early in this century. In Peru, local authorities
have moved quickly to stem the epidemic, which is spread by poor hygiene
and contaminated water, raw food, and fish. To avoid spreading, health
off .....
|
Alzheimer's Disease
Words: 736 / Pages: 3 .... in this region were lost. But a ten percent loss is relatively
minor, and cannot account for the severe impairment suffered by Alzheimer's
victims.
Neurofibrillary Tangles are also found in the brains of Alzheimer's
victims. They are found within the cell 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 .....
|
Depression
Words: 2097 / Pages: 8 .... any mental illness has been understood as a disease. wasn’t regarded on the same level as other diseases until the publication of Pinel’s Traile medico-philosophique sur l’alienation mentale ou la manie in 1801 (Murphy 127). This documentation caused extensive research on mental illness for the next fifty years. During that time large numbers of asylums for the mentally ill were established, and the search was on to understand and treat mental illnesses (Macpherson 368).
Through the 1900’s the treatment of was developed with electroconvulsive therapy, antidepressant drugs, and different psychological support therapies. Electroconvulsive .....
|
Women's Right To Choose Abortion
Words: 374 / Pages: 2 .... child also suffers. Most of the time the mother of the
unwanted child is very young and inexperienced or too poor to take care of
the child. The child is usually malnourished, has no medical care, and
gets very little attention or love. The foster care system isn't any
better. Only a small percentage of the children are adopted by suitable
parents. But the rest remain in the foster care system, where there is
little or no personal care. In both cases, the child has a poor education
because of the lack of attention and discipline. He grows up to be
unproductive individual or a menace to society. Many get involved in drugs
and crimes. These ind .....
|
The Ebola Virus
Words: 483 / Pages: 2 .... scientist have been able to diagnosed the virus y a
technique called ELISA(enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay, this technique
looks for specific viral proteins mode from the infected patient. When the
virus is detected there is stricked safety precautions 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 sp .....
|
Wolfgang Kohler's Experiment And Insight Learning
Words: 517 / Pages: 2 .... of the reach of just one stick and gave
Sultan two sticks that could be fitted together to make a single pole that was
long enough to reach the banana. After fiddling with the sticks for an hour or
so, Sultan happened to align the sticks and in a flash of sudden inspiration,
fitted the two sticks together and pulled in the banana. Kohler was impressed
by Sultan's rapid “perception of relationships” and used the term insight to
describe it. He noted that such insights are not learned gradually through
reinforced trials. They seemed to occur in a flash when the elements a problem
are set up appropriately.
In another experiment boxes were put .....
|
|
|