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Teen Pregnancy
<view this essay>.... futures as productive adults. Teenagers must take the responsibilities that come along with being sexual active. There are so many ways to prevent an unintended pregnancy.
A very popular form of birth control are condoms. They are inexpensive and can be found anywhere, from your neighborhood drugstore to a vending machine at a public restroom. A condom is sheath that fits over the penis made of either latex, plastic or animal tissue. Condoms are also refered to as a rubber, safe or jimmy. It catches semen before, during and after a man ejaculates.It prevents pregnancy by preventing the sperm from entering the vagina. There is however a risk that you might get .....
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East Of Eden
<view this essay>.... at an
early age and never go away. Cathy was rejected as a child and then she
grew up with resentment in her creating evil. The resentment never went
away so the evil just built up. This is a step in the direction of crime
and guilt.
Revenge is pursued when a person is rejected by others. With
revenge comes more evil and crime. "I am sure my self that there would be
fewer jails"(Steinbeck p.355) Revenge causes people to do bad things
which gets them into trouble. When revenge takes over the person becomes
obsessed and they tend to go physco." I think that if rejection could be
amputated, the human would not be who he is. Maybe there would be fewer
cra .....
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Sexual Abuse And Repressed Memories
<view this essay>.... using the theory of repressed memories. As a result, many people have been convicted of crimes that happened many years before. The real question is which of these repressed memories actually existed and which are just false memories? This has caused many controversies in the field of psychology.
Many people believe in the theory of repressed memories. Psychologists argue that people store different experiences in the right and left halves of their brain. The left stores sequential, logical, language-oriented experience; the right stores perceptual, spatial experiences. When people try to retrieve right-brain information through left-brain techniques, t .....
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Assisted Suicide
<view this essay>.... end their life, you will probably end up in jail. I feel that being forced to live in intolerable conditions is the real crime. People such as Dr. Kevorkian should not be punished for doing a good deed. He should in fact be praised for heeling the pain of a dying person. Having to live a life where every passing minute is dreaded is something that no person should have to experience. Money is a big issue to everyone whether they admit or not. Should a person and their family be forced to spend thousands of dollars a day on medical expenses just so the patient can continue living a life he doesn't even want to keep? This medical treatment, in some in .....
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Gregor Mendel's Theories Of Genetic Inheritance
<view this essay>.... to study inheritance which lead to
his law of Segregation and independent assortment.
Mendel's Law of Segregation stated that the members of a paror of
homologous chromosomes segregate during meiosis and are distributed to
different gametes. This hypothesis can be divided into four main ideas. The
first idea is that alternative versions of genes account for variations in
inherited characters. Different alleles will create different variations in
inherited characters. The sescond idea is that for each character, an organism
inherits two genes, one form each parent. So this means that a homolohous loci
may have matching alleles, as in the true-breeding plants .....
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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
<view this essay>.... (2) SIDS is seen more in the fall, winter, and early spring; (3) and the infant dies suddenly, it’s unpredictable, and occurs during sleep. #2
There are many different beliefs on what actually causes SIDS. One belief is that many of the infants that had died were born small for gestational age, the mothers of these infants were found to be smokers while they were pregnant. Secondly many of the infants were found to by lying face down at the time of their death. Another important issue that has been further investigated is that SIDS may be the result of the combinations of many syndromes. Such as: gastroesophageal reflux mixed with respiratory disease. .....
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Abortion Is Murder
<view this essay>.... ANY human being -- NO ONE can be excluded. There are, however, a human beings that is ignored the protection to thier rights to life everyday. The aborted children. I dare the negative to PROVE that a child in her mother's wound is alive!
Does the negative actually believe that a human being is alive when and only when a human being has fully developed? If this is true, then most of here are not alive. The human specie is only fully grown at adulthood, many of us here are not adults yet -- and by that definition, it wouldn't matter if your shot and killed on the street because "your not fully developed". We are a stage in development -- teenager -- just .....
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AIDS - Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
<view this essay>.... cure or vaccine now exists for AIDS. Many of those infected with HIV
may not even be aware that they carry and can spread the virus. Combating it is
a major challenge to biomedical scientists and health-care providers. HIV
infection and AIDS represent among the most pressing public-policy and public-
health problems worldwide. COSTS
I think that the AIDS epidemic is having a profound impact on many aspects of
medicine and health care. The U.S. Public Health Service estimates that in 1993,
the lifetime cost of treating a person with AIDS from infection to death is
approximately $119,000. Outpatient care, including medication, visits to doctors,
home health aids .....
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