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An Essay On Abortion. Both Sides Of The Issue Are Stated
<view this essay>.... or fetus is alive. This life imposes on us a moral obligation to
preserve it and that abortion is tantamount to murder (Kolner 5).
In the United States about 1.6 million pregnancies end in abortion.
Women with incomes under eleven thousand 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
abortion rate has doubled for 18 and 19 year olds. Recently the U.S. rate
dropped 6 percent overall but the rate of abortion among girls younger than
15 jumped 18 percent. The rate among minority teens climbed from 186 per
1,000 to 189 per 1,00 .....
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Schizophrenia
<view this essay>.... types of that are diagnosed in today’s society. These are disorganized, catatonic, and paranoid .
Disorganized can start to show signs in early adolescents. These people portray inappropriate behaviors and emotions. For instance they may laugh at something like a close friend dieing or cry on a funny part of a movie. Disorganized schizophrenics also talk in a nonsensical manner. They make up their own language or just talk backwards. Catatonic is set apart from the others because of the persons with it unique catatonic, or motionless, state. These people spend lomg periods of time weeks, months, and occasionally years motionless or in other words "dead to t .....
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The Need For Sleep
<view this essay>.... and goes to a deep sleep known as stage four. These stages are
all during the time known as Non-REM sleep, or Non-Rapid Eye Movement sleep.
The first stage is a very light sleep with relaxed muscles. The second is
characterized by brain waves getting larger. The third and fourth stages
are where the sleeper is in a deep sleep in which their brain waves are
huge and slow which makes this stage the hardest to wake from. After an
hour or so, you shift into a highly active stage characterized by rapid eye
movements, hence the name REM sleep. Suddenly your brain waves are almost
the same as if you were awake. You're in the dreaming stage, which occurs
several .....
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AIDS
<view this essay>.... stage of detection and in the final stage of
AIDS, during the midcourse of the infection they are less infectious. There
are several things that one can do to prevent becoming HIV positive. One items
is that you can practice abstinence, or on a more realistic view, one should be
monogamous and always use condoms. It has been researched that the use of
condoms lowers the risk of becoming HIV infected by 90%. Although this
protection is not 100% it is the only way that actually helps prevent you from
getting the virus. I think that society should make condoms more accessible to
young people, I believe they should have condom machines in girl and guys school .....
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Mumps
<view this essay>.... age children, but young adults may catch the disease. Everyone born
before1957 has already had mumps. After one attack of mumps, you will have
lifelong immunity. The mumps virus is spread by contact of another person's
discharge from the nose or mouth. The virus is present in these discharges from
six days before symptoms to nine days after the glands begin to swell. The virus
will then incubate for two to three weeks before symptoms appear.
Symptoms include headaches, jaw being painful and tender to the touch,
fever, and difficulty swallowing. The swelling usually disappears after seven
to ten days. Some complications includedeafness (usual .....
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Social And Personal Effects Of Alcohol Consumption
<view this essay>.... alcohol, and also the percentage of the alcohol content. The higher the alcohol content of the beverage consumed, the more alcohol will enter the blood stream. The amount and type of food in the stomach also affects the rate of absorption. Drinking when the stomach is full will cause less intoxication, because of the food in the stomachs fats and proteins, which slow the rate of alcohol absorption.
After alcohol passes through the stomach, it is rapidly absorbed through the wall of the intestines into the blood stream and carried to various organ systems of the body, where it is metabolized. The kidneys pass small amounts of alcohol and through ur .....
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Mental Disorders
<view this essay>.... in the 1790s. At that time the Parisian physician Philippe Pinel (1745-1826) abolished physical restraints, introduced moral (psychological) treatment, and began objective clinical studies. Thereafter, in clinical work with large populations of patients in institutions for the mentally ill, the major types of were outlined and methods of management and treatment were developed(3).
Classification.
The division of into classes is still inexact, and classification varies from country to country. For official record-keeping purposes, most countries follow the International Classification of Diseases of the World Health Organization (WHO). For clinical use .....
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The Case For Euthanasia: Should Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legalized?
<view this essay>.... most notably, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, are of the opinion that not only
should patients be able to abstain from treatment, but if they have a
terminal and/or extremely painful condition, they should be able to seek
out the assistance of a doctor in order to expedite their death with as
little pain as possible. Contained herein are the arguments for and against
the le galization of doctor-assisted suicide, as well as where the state
courts stand in respect to this most delicate of issues. In the hopes of
clarification, we must first distinguish between active and passive
euthanasia. Passive euthanasia involves the patient's refusal of medical
assistance. It involves .....
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