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Being An Athletic Trainer
Words: 719 / Pages: 3 .... aid and treating major injuries is a major aspect of this field. An athletic trainer has to see if the player is able to compete with their condition in a matter of minutes. An athletic trainer also has to prescribe and support equipment to allow athletes to continue playing.
Personal and physical characteristics are important to any career. Some jobs are more demanding than others physically. While others suggest a challenge more mentally than physically.
Physically
For an athletic trainer, physically you must be able to communicate well with athletes on proper use of equipment and confer with coaches and physicians. You also have to kneel, s .....
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A Pro-Choice Argument
Words: 2114 / Pages: 8 .... that they are justified in bringing harm to these "murderers". But the biggest mistake they make in their assumptions is that "pro-choice" does not mean "pro-death."
Having to deal with an unintended pregnancy is possibly one of the most difficult challenges a woman has to face. Having a child is a huge financial burden on a woman as well as her family. Many women lack sexual education, such as which contraceptives are available to them, where to buy them, and how to pay for birth control, which can be very expensive.(Small steps are being made to help with the latter problem. Recently, Maryland became the first state to offer insurance coverag .....
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The Plague
Words: 577 / Pages: 3 .... of
transmissions from rats to people, or people to people in the United States
occurred in 1924 in Los Angeles. In that epidemic there were 32 cases of
pneumonic plague with 31 fatalities. Since then there have been around 16 cases
a year in the United States, most connected with rock squirrels and its common
flea Oropsylla montana.
The most dangerous type of plague is pneumonic. It can be spread through aerosol
droplets released through coughs, sneezes, or through fluid contact. It may also
become a secondary result of a case of untreated bubonic or septicemic plague.
Although not as common as the bubonic strain, it is more deadly. It has an
untrea .....
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Alcoholism
Words: 2067 / Pages: 8 .... becomes so used to the drug that it now needs alcohol to function without pain. is not a disease experienced only by adults. , like any illness, can strike at any age. Ten percent of the adult drinkers in the U.S. are considered alcoholics or at least experience drinking problems to some degree. Surveys have shown that more than one out of three Americans have a personal friend or relative who has had a drinking problem for ten years or longer. Almost two out of three Americans report that they know someone who drinks too much. It is estimated that there are 18 million alcoholic or problem drinkers in the U.S. For every alcoholic there are a .....
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Autism
Words: 311 / Pages: 2 .... event that triggers autistic
disorder. About 7 in every 10 children and adolescents with autistic disorder
also have mental retardation or other problems with their brain function or
structure.
Recent studies estimate that as many as 14 children out of 10,000 may
have autism or a related condition. About 125,000 Americans are affected by
these disorders, and nearly 4,000 families across the country have two or more
children with autism. Three times as many boys as girls have autism.
Researchers are still unsure about what causes autism. Several studies
suggest that autistic disorder might be caused by a combination of biological
factors, .....
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Teen Smoking
Words: 276 / Pages: 2 .... risk of penalty of law.
Recent studies show that a large percentage of teens today are getting
their cigarettes from stores, mostly gas stations or convenience store. As
teens continue to be able to buy their own cigarettes, more and more communities
begin to impose stronger punishments on merchants who sell to the teens.
One community has experienced success in their attempts to stop the sale
of tobacco products to minors. Woodridge, Illinois, started a program seven
years ago which forbade and strictly punished the sale of tobacco products to
minors. The entire program includes local licensing of vendors, repeated
undercover inspections to se .....
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Psychoanalysis
Words: 2215 / Pages: 9 .... Jean Martin CHARCOT tried to rid the mind of undesirable thoughts through hypnotic suggestion, but without lasting success. Josef Breuer, a Viennese physician, achieved better results by letting Anna O., a young woman patient, try to empty her mind by just telling him all of her thoughts and feelings.
Freud refined Breuer's method by conceptualizing theories about it and, using these theories, telling his patients through interpretations what was going on inside the unconscious part of their minds, thus making the unconscious become conscious. Many hysterias were cured this way, and in 1895, Breuer and Freud published their findings and theories in St .....
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Haemophilia
Words: 1118 / Pages: 5 .... to inherit haemophilia from
both sides of the family, which is rare.)2 The other chromosome is likely
to be normal and she can therefore compensate for this defect.
There are two types of haemophilia, haemophilia A and B. Haemophilia A
is a hereditary disorder in which bleeding is due to deficiency of the
coagulation factor VIII (VIII:C)3. In most of the cases, this coagulant
protein is reduced but in a rare amount of cases, this protein is present
by immunoassay but defective.4 Haemophilia A is the most common severe
bleeding disorder and approximately 1 in 10,000 males is effected. The most
common types of bleeding are into the joints and m .....
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Euthanasia: The Right To Die
Words: 922 / Pages: 4 .... to you.
One notable euthanasia case would be Sue Rodrigous. She had a disease
known as Lou Gehrig's disease or ALS, which is a rare incurable disease of
the nervous system. ALS gradually destroys the nerves that control the
muscles. The results of which are weakness, paralysis, and eventually
death. That is what Sue Rodrigous was suffering from for well over a year.
Knowing that her condition was only going to get worse, and eventually,
after the pain and suffering, would result in death, Sue wanted to die. She
wanted people to remember her as a lively healthy woman, not just a body
lying helpless in a hospital bed. With that thought in mind, Sue .....
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Man-made CFCs Are Jeopardizing Our Future
Words: 2014 / Pages: 8 .... (CFCs) are a group of chemical compounds, which are widely used as propellants for aerosol spray cans. These compounds are greatly responsible for the depletion of the ozone layer in the stratosphere (Gutnik 54). CFCs are most commonly used as the propellant in spray cans, the coolant in refrigerators and air conditioners, in foam and plastic insulation, and in industrial solvents (Caldara 20).
Industry began using CFCs in the World War II era. In 1973, atmospheric chemists F. Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina of the University of California at Irvine postulated the connection between ozone depletion and CFCs. Although CFCs wer .....
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