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The Worlds Fight Against Microbes
<view this essay>.... fever begin with fever and muscle
aches, and depending on the particular virus, the disease can progress until the
patient becomes deathly ill with respiratory problems, severe bleeding, kidney
problems, and shock. The severity of these diseases can range from a mild
illness to death (CDC I).
The Ebola virus is a member of a family of RNA (ribonucleic acid)
viruses known as filoviruses. When these viruses are magnified several thousand
times by an electron microscope they have the appearance of long filaments or
threads. Filoviruses can cause hemorrhagic fever in humans and animals, and
because of this they are extremely hazardous. Laboratory studies of the .....
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Tobacco: Opposing Viewpoints
<view this essay>.... settlers earned their living in America from tobacco. King James attempted to decrease the profit made by tobacco growers by imposing heavy tariffs on their tobacco crops. Tobacco use was very well established by this time however, so the taxes didn’t slow production or demand. Many countries at this time had prohibited or restricted use of tobacco. Harsh punishments for smoking tobacco were enacted in Russia, Turkey, and other countries, especially China where tobacco sellers were decapitated.
Cigarette smoking did not become popular until the late eighteen hundreds. Although the U.S. was not the first country to use cigarettes, in eighteen eighty three Americ .....
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Abortion: A Women's Right And Choice
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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 1,000. .....
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Cigarette Smoking
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places should remain since it is their right, smoking in public places
should be banned because second-hand smoke will endanger non-smokers health
and it pollutes the enviroment.
Smokers feel they have had the right to smoke in a public place for so
long that it should not be taken away. Resturants and businesses should be
allowed to set their own smoking rules, based on demands of the customers.
Also business may decrease if they do not allow smokers the right to smoke,
ecspecially bars and restaurants. The work place is another problem for
smokers, now they have to go outside even in the winter to have a cigarette,
even though they used to be .....
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Angina Pectoris
<view this essay>.... Bypass Surgery
17 Angioplasty
18 Self-Help
20 Type-A Behaviour Pattern
21 Cardiac Rehab Program
22 Conclusion
23 Diagrams and Charts
26 Bibliography
INTRODUCTION
In today's society, people are gaining medical knowledge at quite a
fast pace. Treatments, cures, and vaccines for various diseases and
disorders are being developed constantly, and yet, coronary heart disease
remains the number one killer in the world.
The media today concentrates intensely on drug and alcohol abuse,
homicides, AIDS and so on. What a lot of people are not realizing is that
coronary heart disease actually accounts for about 80% of all sudden deaths.
In fa .....
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The Right To Die
<view this essay>.... fifty states.
However, many oppose the idea of physician assisted suicide. Those who oppose physician-assisted suicide, or PAS, say the Hippocratic oath alone is an example of why PAS can never be legal. The Hippocratic oath is an oath that every doctor must take. The Hippocratic oath states "I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody if asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect"(Weir 5). Opponents agree it is all right for a doctor to opt to not resuscitate, or to cut off life support. However, they say it is not all right to chose to use PAS when suffering with a terminal illness. Opponents fear that if PAS is legalized for use with ter .....
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FGM: Female Genital Mutilation
<view this essay>.... health risks. The reason I am against
even explaining the health risks to the people that practice this is, because
whenever you have people that believe enough in something to base their entire
life around it, there is nothing you can do or say that will get them to change;
it would be like talking to a wall. They will only change when the people
themselves that live by these traditions get fed up with all the side-effects
caused by the practice of FGM. It is every person and community's right to
decide for themselves, without the intervention of outsiders, to decide to do
whatever they want to do to their bodies and minds.
I know, "these women .....
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Critique On The Concept Of Intelligence
<view this essay>.... in his or her life. If a particular person score is above the average for his or her age, then that person is considered to be of a high IQ. There has to be a better way. A person that has not learned a certain amount of information by a certain age is not a stupid person, they are just ignorant to some information that has not been presented to them. This can be determined by several different factors. It can be due to the school a person went to, the upbringing a person had, or even a disability that did not allow this person to have the same advantages that others had. None of these three factors make a person stupid. Yet an IQ test is based on wha .....
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