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Hemophilia
<view this essay>.... by having it.
A person with does not bleed harder or faster than a normal person would when injured, but they bleed longer because their blood is unable to form a firm clot. Small cuts are normally not a problem, but sometimes bleeding in the joints occurs due to a person's body growth. This results in swelling of the affected joint and extreme pain when the joint or muscle is moved.
It is reported that one in ten thousand males get A. It has been calculated that worldwide there are approximately 350,000 people with severe or moderate , although B is 5 times less common that A. All races, religions, and economic groups are affected by .
is a bleed .....
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Smoking: I Can Stop Whenever I Want
<view this essay>.... anti tobacco commercials on Television and on every single
pack of cigarettes isn't there for nothing. It's there to prevent all of you
teens to get hooked on cigarettes or even think about starting to smoke.
Smoking is legal almost everywhere in the world, but it shouldn't be because
Marijuana smoking isn't. Cigarettes are addictive and they usually lead the
smoker to marijuana use or to other kind of drugs. That's why I think that young
teenagers shouldn't start smoking at young age. All of you people out there who
think that they can stop whenever they want, well I have news flash for you. 1
out of 10 smokers succeed in quitting smoking in United-States. Ev .....
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The Plague In 1347
<view this essay>.... since they new that death was upon them. At the beginning of the plague when the people were not blaming God, they began to praise God asking forgiveness for they’re since so that they can be accepted upon in the kingdom of God upon death. Many individuals made large donations to churches making almost all the churches extremely wealthy.
It had turned into a matter of survival, however survival eventually turned to death. Many occurring symptoms of this plague began from bloody noses as a fatal prognostic. Then certain tumors in the groin or under the armpits would form, some as big as a small apple, others as an egg. Afterwards purple spots in most parts of .....
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Elephantiasis
<view this essay>.... of the legs is
usually treated with elastic bandages and frequent elevation of the legs.
The leg and foot, may swell to elephantine size. There may be allergic
reactions like itching and localized swelling. The body may also react by
causing calcium tissue to be deposited around the worm, walling it off and
eventually causing its death.
In humans, the mature worm lives tightly coiled in the lymphatic vessels
where they reproduce. The female holds the fertilized eggs in her body.
Later the embryos, called microfilariae, are discharged alive. An
interesting feature of these worms is the periodic swarming of the
microfilariae in the bloodstream. In mos .....
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Neural Networks
<view this essay>.... models, the ANN's retain enough of the structure observed in the
brain to provide insight into how biological neural processing may work (He90).
Neural networks provide an effective approach for a broad spectrum of
applications. Neural networks excel at problems involving patterns, which
include pattern mapping, pattern completion, and pattern classification (He95).
Neural networks may be applied to translate images into keywords or even
translate financial data into financial predictions (Wo96).
Neural networks utilize a parallel processing structure that has large
numbers of processors and many interconnections between them. These processors
are much .....
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Euthanasia
<view this essay>.... Dr. Kevorkian and his suicide machine have made themselves known
through this technique. The machine injects a lethal dosage into the "patients"
blood stream, killing then painlessly within ten minutes.
The first type mentioned above is known as "active voluntary
euthanasia." This is where a conscious, mentally competent person, usually with
a severe physical ailment, loses the will to live. Many have said that keeping
them alive is just prolonging their death, a form of cruel and unusual
punishment. They may ask that life support equipment be disconnected so that
they can die quickly, painlessly, with dignity. Most doctors are trained to try .....
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Abilities Of People With Disabilities
<view this essay>.... Commission, stated, "The
most significant barrier to employment for [people with disabilities] truly
is attitude." One way to show the effects of discrimination of people with
disabilities in the workplace is to show ways people with disabilities are
discriminated against and to show what is being done to stop this raping of
the human heart.
Got a weight problem? Sure, there are a lot of diets you could try,
but why not exercise your right as a victim and strike back at
discriminatory employers? You might not lose any weight ,but at least you
can get the job you deserve. This is possible because of the courts and the
Equal Employment Opportunity Comm .....
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Males In The Nursing Profession
<view this essay>.... good starting point would be to analyze the reasons why men
choose nursing as a career. It is believed that men get into the
profession for all the same reasons women do. To be more specific S. Boughn
(1994), states three main reasons why men enter nursing: " psycho-social
motivation as defined as the desire to care for others; practical
motivation, specifically as related to job security and salary; and
feelings of power and empowerment." Contrary to societal views about males
and caring, the masculine gender does have a sensitive side. For example,
many men like nursing because of the satisfaction that comes from helping
others or from saving a life. I .....
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