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Ethical Problem: Drinking Alcohol
<view this essay>.... off and on for the better
part of three school years and the second semester of my first college year.
If I just considered the legal side of things, then this should have been
an easy decision for me because of the fact that I was under age and it is
obviously illegal for persons who have not yet turned twenty-one to consume
alcoholic beverages. This would be the fifth stage of moral functioning,
Legality. If you think at this stage, you will follow the rules and laws all
the time.
The law, however, did not prevent many of my friends from drinking nor did
it do much in the way of stopping them after they had started. The law was too
easy to .....
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Alcohol
<view this essay>.... decrease heart
rate, lower blood pressure and respiration rate, and result in decreased reflex
and slower reaction times. Skin may be cool to touch but to the user may feel
warm or normal, profuse sweating may accompany alcohol use. Loose muscle tone,
lose of fine motor coordination,odor of alcohol on the breath,and a stagging
"drunken"gait.
The effects of alcohol intoxication are greatly influenced by individual
variations among users. Some users may become intoxicated at a much lower Blood
Alcohol Concentration (BAC) level that I am about to show you. Along with
drinking their are different levels to it:
0.02-0.03 BAC: No loss of coorination,slight e .....
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Small Pox
<view this essay>.... this horrible disease.
Small pox which was often refereed to as a life threatening disease, is
caused by a virus, which was not discovered until the nineteenth century. Most
of the victims whom acquired small pox, was a result of face to face contact.
It is passed through the nose where tiny particles are released when the
infected person sneezes, also by the mouth where particles are once again
ejected when the victim coughs. The disease can be transmitted by dried small
pox scabs and through materials the infected person has come in contact with.
The virus is reproduced in the lymphoid tissue and released into the body.
Virus reproduction begins wh .....
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Euthanasia
<view this essay>.... the divine function, and interfere with the divine plan.
is the practice of painlessly putting to death persons who have incurable , painful, or distressing diseases or handicaps. It come from the Greek words for 'good' and 'death', and is commonly called mercy killing. Voluntary may occur when incurably ill persons ask their physician, friend or relative , to put them to death. The patients or their relatives may ask a doctor to withhold treatment and let them die. Many critics of the medical profession contend that too often doctors play god on operating tables and in recovery rooms. They argue that no doctor should be allowed to decide who lives an .....
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The Human Heart
<view this essay>.... about 250-350 gm (9oz).
Blood supplies food and oxygen to the cells of the body for their
life needs and removes the waste products of their chemical processes. It
also helps to maintain a consistent body temperature, circulate hormones,
and flight infections. The brain cells are very dependent on a constant
supply of oxygen. If the circulation to the brain is stopped, death ensues
shortly. Since heart attacks are the number-one cause of death in the
United States, the heart gets a great deal of attention.
The heart's wall has three parts, Muscle tissue, or myocardium, is
the middle layer. The inner layer, or endocardium, that lines the inside of
the h .....
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Sickle Cell Anemia
<view this essay>.... and cured.
Symptoms of Sickle Cell Anemia are pale skin, short of breath, easily
tired, and whites of eyes turn yellow.
Ethnic or special groups affected with Sickle Cell Anemia are mostly
blacks, and Hispanics of Caribbean ancestry. The disease also affects some
people of Arabian, Greek, Maltese, Sicilian, Sardinian, Turkish, and Southern
Asian ancestry.
How transmitted type of gene or chromosomes that causes the disease.
Sickle Cell Anemia is a sex linked gene. One way somebody could get this
disease is if both parents are a carrier for Sickle Cell Anemia. There is one
in four chance that a baby will have the disease.
How the disease is dia .....
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From The Menstral Cycle To Birth
<view this essay>.... luteum secreetes estrogen and progesterone to incease the development of the endometrium and prevent uterine contractions. If there is no fertilization of the egg, high levels of estrogen and progesterone activate and negative feedback inhibiting the release of FSH and LH. Without FSH and LH the corpus luteum deteriorates causing uterine contraction to expell the endometrium. However, if the egg is fertilized the level of estrogen and progesterone must remain high so the endometrium is not shed. The outer layer of the egg mass(blastocyct) produces a hormone(HCG) to maintain the corpus luteum for the first 3 months of pregnancy so it can provide high levels .....
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Down Syndrome
<view this essay>.... phenotype and genotype maps of afflicted patients by combining fluorescence hybridization, and Southern blot dosage analysis, therefore mapping out the chromosomal makeup of Down's patients. Their research revealed abnormalities on the twenty first pair of chromosomes. With the new research findings, Down's syndrome was traced to it's source, an error in cell development and the mutation of autosomal cells which results in three major types of Down's syndrome.
Trisomy 21, involves the presence of extra genetic material on the twenty first pair resulting from an anomaly in cell division during the development of egg or sperm during fertilization. About 95 .....
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