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Facts On AIDS
Words: 502 / Pages: 2 .... sitting next to someone 2. touching or shaking hands 3. eating in a
restaurant 4. sharing food, plates, cups or utensils 5. using bathrooms, water
coolers, or telephones 6. swimming in a pool or using a hot tub 7. donating
blood 8. being bitten by mosquitoes or any other insects
Symptoms:
Symptoms may not show for 10 years after you become infected by the HIV virus.
A month or two after exposure to the virus there may be flu-like symptoms that
may last a week to a month and is often mistaken for those of another viral
infections. More persistent or severe symptoms that may not surface for a
decade or more: - swollen lymph glands - recurrent fev .....
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Euthanasia: The Right To Die
Words: 2101 / Pages: 8 .... dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a
time when it is wrong, as well as useless to resist."
-Steward Alsop, Stay of Execution
Euthanasia has become an issue of increasing attention because of Dr.
Jack Kevorkian's assisted suicides. As of October 21 Kevorkian has assisted in
nineteen suicides. Because of the increasing number of suicides in Michigan,
Gov. Engler signed an anti-suicide law in late February that made doctor-
assisted suicides a felony. During the 21-month trial period of the new law
anyone assisting in a suicide can be sentenced to up to four years in prison and
fined more than $2,000 (Reute .....
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The Dangers Of Smoking Marijuana
Words: 1055 / Pages: 4 .... of Indian Hemp. They
are Cannabis Sativa, Cannabis Indica, and Cannabis Rudderalis. These three
plants vary in size and mood altering effect. The hemp plant ha s many
uses and has been farmed for centuries. Marijuana can be taken in three
ways, by eating, made into a tea, or smoking (the most popular). Smoking
it can be done three ways, through a pipe, a joint, blunt. A joint is a
rolled piece of paper that is twisted at the ends. A blunt is normally an
emptied cigar wrapper filled with marijuana. In a blunt you can fit much
more marijuana. Though a blunt isn't always purely marijuana, it can be
mixed with other drugs such as angel dust. .....
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Reversing The Aging Process, Should We?
Words: 1620 / Pages: 6 .... discovery of DNA as an opportunity
to play G-d by changing the aging process. Man has a natural tendency to play
the role of G-d. Man has a an inherent need to affect others, be it through the
vises of war, power, manipulation or politics. However man’s natural tendency to
play G-d has reached it’s final manifestation. By attempting to slow down the
aging process man is using himself as the ultimate canvas, to play the role of
the omnipotent.
Research into the process of aging began in 1961(Rose, Technology Review:64).
Since then a great deal of time, money and effort have been appropriated into
discovering the causes of aging, it can therefore .....
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Health
Words: 1162 / Pages: 5 .... health psychologists,
and gerontologist , concentrate their area of study on determining health
status over the course of adulthood, and determining the nature and origin of
age-related diseases. They are also concerned with describing the effects of
health on behavior and describing the effects of behavior on health. The goals
of these specialists are: prevention of diseases, preservation of health,
and improved quality of health for those suffering from disability and disease.
What does it mean to be healthy? Health is a state of complete physical
, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease, illness
or infirmity. .....
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Attitudes Toward Abortion
Words: 4317 / Pages: 16 .... control variables on , the notion of ritual interaction, stemming from the writings of Collins (1981), Durkheim (1912/1954), and Goffman (1967), will be used to examine the effects of religiosity, feminism, and conservativism on . I will show that there is not only a direct relationship, as many prior studies assert, but also that there is an interaction effect of the amount of interpersonal contact with others. That is, interaction with others intensifies the effect of other attitudes on .
A THEORETICAL MODEL
Attitudinal Effects
In the literature on abortion attitudes (e.g., Granberg, 1978; Barnartt and Harris, 1982; Granberg and Granberg, 19 .....
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The History Of Medicine
Words: 1138 / Pages: 5 .... accidental or
battle wounds, cutting up animals, and even cannibalism. Tools used as
weapons were being used to make incisions. Licking and sucking were
replaced by bloodletting , scarification , amputation, and surgery with
stone tools. Copying the acts of previous monkeys, the first casts were
made of dried mud put directly on wounds. Fire brought not only burns, but
cautery .
Civilization came to be around 12,000 BC. Diseases were treated if
minor with domestic remedies such as diet, herbs, plasters, and massage.
Often, if the case was severe, the patient was killed to relieve the
community of his burden, or the healer was summoned. Old .....
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Schizophrenia
Words: 1712 / Pages: 7 .... behaviors and emotions. For instance they may laugh at something like a close friend dieing or cry on a funny part of a movie. Disorganized schizophrenics also talk in a nonsensical manner. They make up their own language or just talk backwards. Catatonic is set apart from the others because of the persons with it unique catatonic, or motionless, state. These people spend lomg periods of time weeks, months, and occasionally years motionless or in other words "dead to the world" (Hamilton 120). When they do snaqp out of their catatomic state they are extremly hostile and aggressive. Last is paranoid which is characterized by the false beliefs or del .....
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Cancer
Words: 1507 / Pages: 6 .... therefore
spreading the cancer.
Neoplasms are generally classified into two groups: malignant and benign.
Malignant tumors, or abnormal tissue, grow more rapidly than benign tissue and
they invade normal tissue. Benign tissue is structured similar to normal tissue
while malignant tissue is abnormal and has an unstructured appearance. Of
greater importance, benign tissue does not metastasize, or begin to grow in
other sites, like malignant tumors do. Cancer always refers to metastasized
tumors but the term tumor is not always necessarily cancer. A tumor is any
living tissue that is distinguishable as abnormal living tissue. After a
cancer fo .....
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Blood And Excerise
Words: 1269 / Pages: 5 .... is not
directly oxidized for fuels is sent to the liver, where it is stored as glycogen.
In the process of exercise, glycogen is released into the blood stream to form
glucose.
Lactate is Good
As coach and athlete you must learn how to teach the body to handle lactic acid.
It is imperative, if you want successes in today's highly competitive field of
athletics to train your muscles, body and mind to accomplish gains in
performance even in the presence of lactic acid. Coaches and athletes should
design training programs with this being a primary focus. This is done by two
basic components of training. Long Slow Distance (LSD) training beyond the
n .....
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