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Abortion In America And Elsewhere
<view this essay>.... political, and economical terms.
It would be an advantage to consider looking for answers in other countries. Nations struggling with this same issue may give insight into possible reasons or causes and effects from various laws and sanctions. South Africa presently is in a state of political reform and struggles with social identity. However, because it exists in this state, issues such as this are highly controversial. Clearly from looking at the huge majority of South Africans, abortion is a morality issue, but is addressed from a political overview. Despite the overwhelming 80% majority of South Africans who do not support the practice of committing an .....
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AIDS
<view this essay>.... whose immune systems have been greatly weakened) or cancers.
In the early 1980s deaths by opportunistic infections, previously observed
mainly in organ transplant recipients receiving therapy to suppress their
immune responses, were recognized in otherwise healthy homosexual men. In
1983, French cancer specialist Luc Montagnier and scientists at the
Pasteur Institute in Paris isolated what appeared to be a new human
retrovirus—a special type of virus that reproduces differently from other
viruses—from the lymph node of a man at risk for AIDS. Nearly
simultaneously, scientists working in the laboratory of American research
scientist Robert Gallo at the .....
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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
<view this essay>.... to uneven development of symptoms between right and left sides
'Sclerosis' refers to "destruction" of tissue
The History of ALS
A French doctor named Charcot first identified ALS in 1874. It is one
of the most devastating diagnoses a person can receive. ALS is said to start
between the years of 40 and 70, with the exact average being 45.6 years old.
The most classic case of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is Lou Gehrig. Lou
Gehrig was a New York Yankees first baseman, who from 1923 to 1939, had never
missed a game and had a life time batting average of .340. However, the
symptoms of ALS emerged in 1938, and in 1939, he was diagnosed with the disease.
At .....
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False Memory Syndrome
<view this essay>.... inaccurate. Rather, the syndrome may be diagnosed when the memory
is so deeply ingrained that it orients the individual's entire personality
and lifestyle, in turn disrupting all sorts of other adaptive behaviors.
The analogy to personality disorder is intentional. False memory syndrome
is especially destructive because the person assiduously avoids
confrontation with any evidence that might challenge the memory. Thus it
takes on a life of its own, encapsulated and resistant to correction. The
person may become so focused on the memory that he or she may be
effectively distracted from coping with real problems in his or her life.”
Jo hn F. Kihlstrom, Ph.D. .....
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Ebola
<view this essay>.... ebola comes from or what the original host is.However, scientists know
that man is not ebola's natural host(3).The host was first suspected of being
carried by monkeys in the African rain forests(4), but in one case the monkeys
at a holding facility broke out and had to be killed.
In the pursuit of a cure and an origin, there have beenseveral teams of
scientists whose top priority is to find theviruses origin(5). The teams have
trekked through the rainforests of Africa to collecting different species of
animals,bugs, and plant life. Bugs are also collected from the hospitals and
from the surrounding huts of the villages. So far 36,000specimens .....
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Schitzophrenia, Childhood, Mental, Anxiety And Other Disorders
<view this essay>.... are. A common example of a mental disorder is down
syndrome. There was a television program in the early 90's that featured a boy
that had to live with this terrifying disorder. This show was very
inspirational for all people with disorders. The boy's name was Corky who
fought all aspects of the disorder. Them being from physical triumphs to just
everyday kids harrassing him at school. The show was taken off the air in 1993
because of sponsers.
Records of types of disorders are unknown along with many of other
records of treatments to people inflicted with a disorder. This is mainly
because in the early 1900's people thought that people with disorde .....
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Anabolic Steroids
<view this essay>.... testosterone to boost performance by the
1940's. The first synthetic anabolic steroid was developed in 1953, having a
strength building effect five times stronger than the natural hormone
testosterone. Not since the development of the anabolic steroid has any
performance enhancer been so effective and so desired by athletes. Today, black
market sales of anabolic steroids are topping $400 million per year. One
million Americans, half of them adolescents, use black market steroids (Schrof,
54).
Anabolic steroids are synthetic compounds that resemble the natural male
sex hormone testosterone. Male hormones have two different effects in the body.
Hormones .....
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Schizophrenia
<view this essay>.... and federal levels, legislators
looked at the high cost of long-term psychiatric hospitalization. Social
scientists guaranteed them that community-based care would be in the best
interests of all concerned: the mentally ill and the general, tax-paying public
(Barry 13).” It was believed that a social breakdown syndrome would develop in
chronically mentally ill persons who were institutionalized. The
characteristics of this syndrome were submission to authority, withdrawal, lack
of initiative, and excessive dependence on the institution.
While deinstitutionalization was kindhearted in its primary logic, the
actual execution of the concept has been great .....
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