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Euthanasia: Precious Life
<view this essay>.... is wrong. It is inherently wrong, but
it is also wrongly judged from the standpoints of self-interest and of practical
effects.
Before presenting my arguments, it would be well to define “euthanasia”.
An essential aspect of euthanasia is that it involve taking a human life. Also,
the person whose life is taken must be someone who is believed to be suffering
from an incurable disease or injury from which recovery cannot reasonably be
expected. Finally the action must be deliberate and intentional. Therefore
euthanasia is intentionally taking the life of a presumably hopeless person.
It is important to be clear about the deliberate and intention .....
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Mad Cow's Disease And Mad Man
<view this essay>.... ready. Everything is perfect…except…You won't be grilling steaks, the only burger you can grill these days are veggie burgers and don't even think about hotdogs…they were dangerous before the meat went bad. You won't even be able to have the Jell-O surprise Aunt Sally made so well. You may not have to imagine this scenario if man does not change its' destructive ways.
It all started 200 years ago, with a disease known as "Scrapie". Scrapie is a naturally occurring disease of sheep found in many parts of the world and is one kind of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE) that affects a sheep's nervous system. Scrapie's main target organ is the brai .....
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Endotracheal Suctioning
<view this essay>.... normal saline is used to lubricate the suction catheter for easier passage down the endotracheal tube and to ease the discomfort of suctioning for the patient (Ackerman, 1993).
Purpose
The purpose of this research problem is aimed at looking at the effects that instilling normal saline into an endotracheal tube prior to suctioning has on a patient’s oxygen saturation. Oxygen saturation (SpO2) is defined according to Taber's (1993) as “the ratio of amount of oxygen present in a known volume of blood to amount of oxygen that could be carried by that volume of blood” (p. 1398). Ackerman (1993), primarily concentrated on the measurement of SpO2 via a puls .....
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The Human Brain
<view this essay>.... HEADING PAGE NUMBER
1. Inside the Head 10
2. Inside the Brain 11
3. Areas and Jobs 12
INTRODUCTION
NOTE: All words in bold print will be found in the glossary.
The human body is divided into many different parts called organs. All
of the parts are controlled by an organ called the brain, which is located
in the head. The brain weighs about 2.75 pounds, and has a whitish-pink
appearance. The brain is made up of many cells, and is the control centre
of the body. The brain flashes messages out .....
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How Has AIDS Affected Our Society?
<view this essay>.... receiving immunosuppressive therapy", were recognized in otherwise
healthy homosexual men. In 1983 French oncologist Luc Montagnier and scientists
at the Pasteur Institute in Paris isolated what appeared to be a new human
retrovirus from the lymph node of a man at risk for having AIDS. At the same
time, scientists working in the laboratory of American research, scientist
Robert Gallo at the National Cancer Institute, one of the National Institutes of
Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and a group headed by American virologist Jay Levy
at the University of California at San Francisco isolated a retrovirus from
people with AIDS and from individuals having conta .....
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Abortion
<view this essay>.... for nine
months. Having the option to perform an abortion can solve that obstacle.
Taking away this right would be invading on a woman's constitutional liberty.
The unwanted child also suffers. Most of the time the mother of the
unwanted child is very young and inexperienced or too poor to take care of the
child. The child is usually malnourished, has no medical care, and gets very
little attention or love. The foster care system isn't any better. Only a
small percentage of the children are adopted by suitable parents. But the rest
remain in the foster care system, where there is little or no personal care.
In both cases, the child has a poor educa .....
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Should Athletes Use Creatine?
<view this essay>.... Creatine Monohydrate, your muscles become saturated with Creatine. The more Creatine that your body holds the more your muscle holds water. (Zeibak, 1) This process, called cell volumizing, it allows your muscles to swell and also provides a more favorable environment for protein synthesis and growth. (Zeibak, 1) When this happens, your muscles become larger and stronger, with, the ability to refuel faster. (Zeibak, 1) Creatine is normally obtained by the foods that we eat. The highest sources of naturally occurring Creatine are meat and fish. After a meal, Creatine is absorbed from the blood into skeletal muscle through the activity of muscle surface tran .....
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Abortion: Abusive Parents
<view this essay>.... to the child welfare board
they would be thrown in jail without a second thought, but just because a child
is not yet born doesn't that mean that a mother can do anything she wants to it.
Take a child who has been born, then goes through the pain of having an abusive
parent. If the parents are exposed to the authorities they will go to jail and
lose the rights to the child, and with proper counseling and therapy the child
will live a normal life. Yet, if the child is unborn, the mother can do
whatever she would like, even if it means harming the baby and the authorities
can do nothing. When the baby is born, the child might have irreparable brain
dama .....
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