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Death
<view this essay>.... right and he was going to be out of there in no time. But I was wrong, and I learned that life wasn't like that and it didn't always happen that way.
Having a near experience myself, my thoughts about also took a different turn. I never thought would even come near me. Last year in May, my sister, dad, and I were driving down to California. And it was about seven o'clock in the morning and my sister was driving. Then she fell asleep and starting driving off the road. She swerved back on the road really hard, which made the car flip over four times. Then we were rushed to the hospital and stayed there for about an hour. My sister and I were all right b .....
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Dreaming: Function And Meaning
<view this essay>.... and that dreams always contain important information about the self
or some aspects of one's life which can be extracted hy various methods of
interpretation. This camp takes its credo from the Talmudic aphorism that
"and uninterpreted dream is like an unopened letter." There is also a third
camp occupying tltL middle ground, that believes both
of the extreme positions on the function and meaning of dreams to be
partly right and partly wrong. Its proponents argue that dreams may have
both physiological and psychological determinants, and therefore can be
either meaningful or meaningless, varying greatly in terms of psychological
significance. .....
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A Look Into Alzheimer's Disease
<view this essay>.... home most of the time dreaming about imaginary things and repeating stories over and over again. His memory gradually receded and he began to lose control of bodily functions such as his ability to feed himself or to communicate with others. After seven years of painful suffering, he died.
The symptoms of Alzheimer's disease are rather easy to distinguish and classify. Patients of the disease lose much of the information that they have recently learned and cannot learn anything new. They begin to constantly misplace objects, often repeat themselves, and usually become confused in simple situations. When in relatively simplex places patients may become lost or .....
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Steroids
<view this essay>.... is by high
school athletes trying to get into college. Most sports activities are
weight lifting, power lifting, and body builders are the primary steroid
users. Over 50% of male and 10% of female bodybuilders report using
steroids.
Some side affects to using steroids for men is rage, which is when
you can no longer control your attitude and it boils over resulting in
massive hysteria. Also shrinking of the male reproductive organ. Later in
life the pecks will start to look more like breasts. In women they will be
basically taking the hormone they lack to be a man, so their voice deepens,
body hair develops. They start to look more like a man.
Some .....
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Antibiotics
<view this essay>.... organisms such as
bacteria, fungi, and molds. Others are wholly or in part synthetic - that
is, produced artificially.
Penicillin is perhaps the best known antibiotic. Its discovery and
later development is among mankind's greatest achievements. Antibiotics
have enabled the medical profession to treat effectively many infectious
diseases, including some that were once life-threatening.
How Antibiotics Work ?
Antibiotics can be bacteriostatic (bacteria stopped from multiplying)
or bactericidal (bacteria killed). To perform either of these functions,
antibiotics must be brought into contact with the bacteria.
It is believed that antib .....
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Conquering The Smoking Habit
<view this essay>.... it may work; the cigarette is sometimes used as a tranquilizer. But the heavy smoker, the person who tries to handle severe personal problems by smoking heavily all day long, is apt to discover that cigarettes do not help him deal with his problems effectively.
When it comes to quitting, this kind of smoker may find it easy to stop when everything is going well, but may be tempted to start again in a time of crisis. Physical exertion, eating, drinking, or social activity in moderation may serve as useful substitutes for cigarettes, even in times of tension. The choice of a substitute depends on what will achieve the same effects without having any appreciable .....
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Suicide Solution
<view this essay>.... organs, and
tissue. In this light, there really is not much to life. Out of the 5
billion who inhabit the planet, very few of them shall emerge to be true
world leaders. The rest will just lead a mediocre life of work and little
play.
The taking of ones life can be argued from a populistic view as
well. It makes little sense to preserve life in an over populated world.
True, one less person here on there will not make a large dent. Yet if
everyone who attempts or had attempted suicide were not stopped, the
impact would be noticed.
Another popular argument for stoppers, people who want to prevent
suicide, is that nothing can be bad enough. Y .....
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Leprosy
<view this essay>.... for , Hansen’s Disease is derived from (1). is a disease that usually affects the skin, nerves and the mucus membranes (: the Disease 1).
The bacteria which causes is called Mycobacterium leprae. This particular bacteria is a cousin to the tuberculosis bacteria and shares many of the characteristics (A Brief 2). The bacteria is very slow developing and attacks the nerves, especially those of the hands, feet, and also the face. When the bacteria affects the nerves, they become swollen and numb which causes a loss of sensation in that particular area (2). Due to this loss of feeling sufferers are more susceptible to burns and other injuries. These in .....
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