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Depression
<view this essay>.... is an illness, which is caused by chemical changes in the brain. Few
people think that a physical illness is the sufferer's fault-and no one should
think depression is, either.
Like any other illness, depression has certain symptoms. Once these have
been recognized, you can take measures to treat them. Some are: feeling sad,
worried or depressed; feeling as if your life is dreary and unlikely to improve;
had crying spells; become irritated over little things that didn't used to
bother you; find you no longer enjoy hobbies and activities that once made you
happy; feel a lack of self-confidence or feeling like a failure; lost your
appetite, or are eat .....
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Euthanasia
<view this essay>.... to live and
decides to end their life rematurely, saying that they are going to die
anyway, why bother with waiting. It is the same with anyone. Everyone will
eventually die, so why doesn't every one just kill themselves now? It is
because there are things they want to do and see, there is life they still
have yet to experience. The same thing is true for a terminably ill person,
they could do alot in that six months. They write an autobiography or a
novel, do a lot of reading or traveling, who knows? It has been said that
trials and pain make us stronger. Even if someone is in pain, that pain
could make them mentally stronger than if they give up and .....
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The Human Genome Project
<view this essay>.... will include
a resource of genomic maps and DNA sequence information that will provide
detailed information about the structure, organization, and characteristics of
human DNA, information that constitutes the basic set of inherited
"instructions" for the development and functioning of a human being.
The Human Genome Project began in the mid 1980's and was widely examined
within the scientific community and public press through the last half of that
decade. In the United States, the Department of Energy (DOE) initially, and the
National Institutes of Health (NIH) soon after, were the main research agencies
within the US government responsible for developin .....
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How Nutrients Get In, And Wastes Out.
<view this essay>.... of the main nutrients needed
for cellular respiration to occour. Starch is a large molecule, a polymer of
glucose. Dextrin and maltose are intermediate products in the digestion of
starch. Some foods contain carbohydrates in the form of sugars. These are the
simple sugars, such as sucrose (cane sugar) or lactose (milk sugar), that must
be processed into smaller units. Occasionally, the simplest form of sugar, a
monosaccharide such as glucose, is present in food. These monosaccharides do
not require digestion.
Proteins are polymers composed of one or more amino acids. When they are
digested, they produce free amino acids and ammonia.
Vitamins are a vit .....
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Your Brain
<view this essay>.... different ways of
looking at the world. Your two hemispheres are as different from each other as,
oh, Micheal Wilson and Shirley Maclean. The left brain controls the right side
of the body (this is reversed in about half of the 15 percent of the population
that is left-handed) and, in essence, is logical analytical, judgemental and
verbal. It's interested in the bottom line, in being efficent. The right brain
controls the left side of the body and leans more to the creative, the intuitive.
It is concerned more with the visual and emotional side of life.
Most people, if they thought about it, would identify more with their
left brain. In .....
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Dissociative Identity Disorder
<view this essay>.... would
psychologically flee from full awareness of their experience. Dissociation
is often a defensive pattern that continues into adulthood and will result
in a full-fledged dissociative disorder.
Dissociative disorders main feature is a disturbance or alteration
in the normally integrative functions of identity, memory, or consciousness.
If the disturbance occurs in memory, Dissociative Amnesia of Fugue results;
important personal events cannot be recalled. Dissociative Amnesia with
loss of memory may result from wartime trauma, a severe accident or rape.
Dissociative Fugue is indicated by not only loss of memory, but also travel
to a now location .....
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Abortion
<view this essay>.... Many children are not so lucky, in fact 32 million unborn babies have been killed in the 21 years since was legalized. This slaughter of innocent human beings must stop. Using as a means of birth control should be illegal.
These babies that are being killed are not just worthless fetuses. They are tiny little humans beings. A tiny six week old unborn baby has forty six chromosomes in every cell which is the scientifically verifiable human genetic code and he has brain waves that can be measured. The end of human life can be defined as the moment when brain waves cease but many ignore the scientific evidence of brain waves in unborn babies .....
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What Is Euthanasia?
<view this essay>.... death good? All of these questions can be answered differently by each
person. It is generally taken today to mean that act which a health care
professional carries out to help his/her patient achieve a good death.
Suicide, self-deliverance, auto-euthanasia, aid-in-dying, assisted suicide
-- call it what you like -- can be justified by the average supporter of
the so-called "right to die movement" for the following reasons: The first
reason is that an advanced terminal illness is causing unbearable suffering
to the individual. This suffering is the most common reason to seek an
early end. Second, a grave physical handicap exists that is so restricting
tha .....
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