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Assisted Suicide
Words: 1355 / Pages: 5 .... the physician, or doctor that assisted the patient,
should both go to hell. "We don't own ourselves, we are entrusted to God and
the taking of life is the right of the one who give it."
There are also many cultures that believe in this act of dying. Certain
cultures believe that they have the right to end a person's life, only if the
person is suffering with an illness that will only get worse. "In China and
some parts of India, it is an ancient custom to drown newborn girls if they
think they will live a useless life."
The Dutch believe in the act of assisted suicide as many other religions.
They believe that it is easier to end a life .....
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Sickle Cell Anemia
Words: 752 / Pages: 3 .... and organs. This lack of oxygen can damage the body’s organs and limbs, and it causes sever pain to any affected area. Also, since sickled blood cells last only 10 to 20 days in the bloodstream, compared to a normal red cell’s life span of 120 days, the “sickled” cells result in chronic anemia (abnormally low levels of red blood cells).
is most common in people whose ancestors came from parts of Saudi Arabia, India, Africa, and the Mediterranean region. Persons of South American, Central American, or Cuban origin may be affected also. Health experts estimate that approximately 2 million Americans currently carry the trait, while another 72,00 .....
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Marijuana As Medicine?
Words: 1661 / Pages: 7 .... in the 10,000 years of usage, no one has ever died from smoking marijuana. (Medical Marijuana, www.norml.com) Marijuana should be studied more extensively for its medicinal purposes, and should be legally available for doctors to prescribe to their patients, judging by their therapeutic need for it.
The oldest known medical use of marijuana dates back to the Emperor Shen-Nung in China in the 28th century BC. He prescribed it for such things as constipation, malaria, and absentmindedness. (Medical Marijuana, www.normal.com) Marijuana was also commonly used medically in, but not restricted to ancient Egypt to treat sore eyes, ancient India as .....
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Teenage Drinking
Words: 629 / Pages: 3 .... alcohol companies glorifying drinking through commercials, radio ads and movies. It is estimated that by the time a teen turns 18 he/she has seen an estimated 100,000 beer commercials. With teens making up a large number of TV viewers and radio listeners, they are exposed to these advertisements on a daily basis. Some ads put out by beer companies seem to be directed at a younger crowd. Take for instance the Budweiser frogs and iguanas. They have a playfully image that can be received by children and teens.
It is known that drinking alcohol has very negative effects on the human body. Molecules in the alcohol act as neurotransmitters and tu .....
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The Differences And Similarities Of Pneumonia And Tuberculosis
Words: 2432 / Pages: 9 .... after three days of unsuccessful treatment it was
discovered that she actually had active tuberculosis. This misdiagnosis shows
the similarities between the two diseases and how easily they can be confused.
Pneumonia
Pneumonia is a serious infection or inflammation of the lungs with
exudation and consolidation. Pneumonia can be one of two types: lobar pneumonia
or bronchial pneumonia. Lobar pneumonia affects one lobe of a lung while
bronchial pneumonia affects the areas closest to the bronchi (O'Toole, 1992).
In the United States over three million people are infected with pneumonia each
year; five percent of which die.
Etiology
There a .....
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Abortion
Words: 1427 / Pages: 6 .... are over three times more likely to abort than those with incomes above twenty-five thousand. Unmarried women are four to five times more likely to abort than married and the rate has doubled for 18 and 19 year olds. Recently the U.S. rate dropped 6 percent overall but the rate of 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 s 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 .....
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Plants, Spirits, And Healing
Words: 546 / Pages: 2 .... communities because they have the
power to communicate with the spirits. The shaman learn from a spiritual
teacher and are asked to protect people from harm, to cure the ones with
poor health, and to help with affairs of the heart.
Amulets are believed to have traditional magical powers, and are
used to protect the wearer from evil and illness. Some can be made of
various items including teeth or bone. Masks are used in ceremonies. The
medicine man usually wears the mask to inspire fear and belief. Australian
Aboriginal groups have initiation rites, that can involve pulling teeth,
bloodletting, or burning and scaring of the body. Th .....
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Partial-Birth Abortion And Its Affect On The American People
Words: 1336 / Pages: 5 .... is a topic that has caused a massive controversy in the past few years.
In September, 1993, Brenda Pratt Shafer, a registered nurse with thirteen years
of experience, was assigned by her nursing agency to an abortion clinic. Since
Nurse Shafer considered herself to be "very pro-choice," she didn't think this
assignment would be a problem. She was wrong. This is what Nurse Shafer saw:
"I stood at the doctor's side and watched him perform a
partial-birth abortion on a woman who was six months
pregnant. The baby's heartbeat was clearly visible on the
ultrasound screen. The doctor delivered the baby's b .....
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Dreams
Words: 1481 / Pages: 6 .... happens during a dream.
Since you can do this you don't have to be restricted to do all the things
you do in real life but you could do whatever you like because it's your
mind that's controlling you not your body and gravity. For example, you
could fly or walk through walls.
The powers of dreams
The dreaming world could be a very powerful thing so much so that
it causes a baby to be born because of lucid dreaming. In a true story
taken from the book called Living with Dreams a woman dreamt that she just
had a period in her dreams. This was so realistic that she actually thought
she had a real period not one dreamt up in a dream. A few days later .....
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A Look Into Alzheimer's Disease
Words: 638 / Pages: 3 .... feed himself or to communicate with others. After seven years of painful suffering, he died.
The symptoms of Alzheimer's disease are rather easy to distinguish and classify. Patients of the disease lose much of the information that they have recently learned and cannot learn anything new. They begin to constantly misplace objects, often repeat themselves, and usually become confused in simple situations. When in relatively simplex places patients may become lost or even forget where they are. Psychologically however, patients begin to become depressed most of the time and be anxious or confused. Some become restless and can barely ever sleep.
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