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Abortion: Life Or Death Ä Who Chooses?
Words: 4436 / Pages: 17 .... human who is still to small to cry aloud for it's own
protection, have been accused of having a 19th Century approach to life in the
last third of the 20th Century. But who in reality is using arguments of a
bygone Century? It is an incontrovertible fact of biological science - Make no
Mistake - that from the moment of conception, a new human life has been created.
Only those who allow their emotional passion to overide their knowledge,
can deny it: only those who are irrational or ignorant of science, doubt that
when a human sperm fertilizes a human ovum a new human being is created. A new
human being who carries genes in its cells that make that .....
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Multiple Personalities: Do They Really Exist?
Words: 1521 / Pages: 6 .... can exist in
one of the personalities and not the others. The person can switch at any
given time from one personality to another, often not realizing it. This
can account for memory loss and time loss in the primary personality, who
often does not have access to the memories of the other personalities. A
common misconception among the general public is the confusion of MPD with
the disease of schizophrenia. Schizophrenics do NOT have distinct
personalities, rather, they have hallucinations of voices outside their
heads. Schizophrenia is caused by brain malfunctions and can be treated
with drugs, whereas suffers of MPD cannot because MPD i .....
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Therapeutic Touch : Its Effectiveness On Surgical Incision Site Pain
Words: 2750 / Pages: 10 .... to determine
if therapeutic touch is an effective intervention for patients experiencing
surgical incision site pain within the first forty-eight hours after surgery.
PROBLEM STATEMENT
The question posed for study is: "Is therapeutic touch an effective
intervention for decreasing a patients surgical site pain within the first
forty-eight hours after surgery?". The independent variable is therapeutic
touch. The dependant variable is decreasing surgical site pain. The population
to be studied will be patients on a thirty bed medical-surgical floor of a Lake
Charles hospital. Fifty surgical patients will be studied over a four week
period. The .....
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Legalization Of Marijuana For Medicinal Purposes
Words: 1084 / Pages: 4 .... is a product of the hemp plant. The leaves and flowering top of this plant are usually dried and then smoked or eaten. It causes a state of relaxation and does not produce hyperactivity or impair vision like other drugs, such as, cocaine or methanfedamines. Marijuana as opposed to cocaine and methanfedamines is not addictive. Cocaine and methanfedamines are however legal for specific medical uses. When marijuana is mentioned in emergency room episodes, it is only in conjunction with other drugs. This is because marijuana can not induce overdoses like other, more harmful drugs.
Harvard psychiatrist Lester Grinspoon describes several possible benefi .....
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Suicide In Our Society
Words: 993 / Pages: 4 .... attempted suicides.
Suicide prevention isn't happening until it's too late. One high school,
in a small town in Quebec, had four suicides in seven weeks. After these had
happened, the school invited parents in to discuss suicide prevention. (CTV News
11:00 p.m. January 6, 1997.) These might have been able to be prevented if
communities would assume their roles and discuss it on a regular basis and not
have suicide be a word that is whispered but never spoken.
The myth that those who talk about suicide will never actually go
through with it is completely false. Most people who do kill themselves give
some sort of clue before doing so. It .....
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Alcoholism
Words: 319 / Pages: 2 .... He argues with my mom and is always
in a bad mood, when we confront him with the problem, he denies it. I see
that he tries to cut down, but he never stops."
Many people who drink, try to relieve pressure or soothe their
feelings. "Those who stay with the habit, become increasingly dependent on
alcohol or drugs, are using these substances as a medication of sorts or a
way to soothe feelings of anxiety, anger, or depression," says Daniel
Goleman in his book, Emotional Intelligence.
Many clubs and organizations around the country including S.A.D.D.
(Students Against Driving Drunk) and M.A.D.D.(Mothers Against Drunk
Driving) make the public awa .....
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The Effects Of Stress, Alcohol Outcome Expectancies, Gender, Coping Styles, And Family Alcoholism On Alcohol Consumption
Words: 1424 / Pages: 6 .... students. Do people drink more or less when
stressed? Do alcohol outcome expectancies lead to higher or lower consumption?
Is a history of family alcoholism positively or negatively correlated to
personal consumption? Do the tested variables play mediating or moderating
roles in stress-related drinking? This research will determine the answers to
these questions, and determine the strength of the correlations, if any.
Introduction
The main question that this statistical model will answer is as follows:
Is there any correlation between drinking and gender, alcohol expectancies,
family alcoholism, stress, and coping styles?
Gender .....
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Depression And Its Effects
Words: 1416 / Pages: 6 .... changes (Cited in Matsumoto, 1995, p 232).
Rosenhan & Seligman (1995) state that, " there are two kinds of depressive disorders; Unipolar depression in which the individual suffers only depressive symptoms without ever experiencing mania, and bipolar depression in which both depression and mania occur" (Cited in Rosenhan & Seligman, 1995, p 352). Furthermore, Rosenhan & Seligman (1995) go on to say that, normal depression differs in the degree of symptoms to unipolar depression. Both have similar symptoms but, unipolar differs in the severity, frequency and duration.
Depression and Sociodemographic Groups
Blackman (1995) points out th .....
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Miscarriage
Words: 1710 / Pages: 7 .... describing the different stages that a woman can have a at. The first one is threatened /abortion that means that the woman experiences vaginal bleeding during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy. The bleeding may be light or heavy and may or may not be accompanied by lower abdominal discomfort and backache. It is a relatively common situation. The second word used is, spontaneous /abortion, and it indicates that the abortion occurred naturally and that it was not induced. Complete abortion means that all the products of conception-the fetus, placenta, and amniotic sac-have been expelled from the uterus, and that the uterus is empty and a scrape is n .....
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Suicide
Words: 1192 / Pages: 5 .... Judas committed after turning Christ into the authorities. He voluntarily hung himself from a tree to compensate, he thought, for his actions. Both Judas and Socrates fit the definition of because they took their own lives.
The reasons for why people commit listed on www.psycom.net include reasons that are very selfish. It says ends all your problems in one fell swoop and since you are so different from everyone else and can never fit in, no one will really care and you can have the final say-so in life. In this exit, you will make people feel as you do. The site also claims that it is not the individual's fault for feeling suicidal, b .....
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