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How Alcohol May Affect Human Behaviour
<view this essay>.... of alcohol on human behaviour
From the above facts it is clear that alcohol has a major impact on the lives of
Australians. This is particularly more so because it is not illegal and because
it is so widely used.
The effects of alcohol on a individual's body vary according to: (2)
with the amount consumed.
the way the alcohol is taken.
the individual's body (size weight, health).
the individual's experience.
the individual's mood.
the circumstance in which alcohol is consumed (with food, in a social
gathering, with other drugs etc.)
The immediate effects of alcohol on an individual varies but can produce a wi .....
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Tumors
<view this essay>.... even after tissue damage. Normally, new cells are produced at a controlled rate, keeping the overall number of cells nearly constant. Feedback mechanisms that stimulate or inhibit cell division regulate the growth of normal cells. However, in some cases, the body's normal regulatory control mechanisms are unable to stop the growth of cancer cells and this causes the development of a tumor. Whether or not the tumor will be cancerous or not is determined at this point by a process called differentiation.
Differentiation is the process by which normal cells undergo physical and structural changes as they develop to form different tissues of the body. Different .....
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A Career As A Paramedic
<view this essay>.... Detail of the information
B. Second supporting information for the sub-topic
1. Detail of the information
2. Detail of the information
Conclusion:
To become a paramedic takes a lot of training and requirements, but there is constantly room for advancing, and the result of saving someones life is well worth it. A paramedic experiences much stress and sometimes trauma every day that he or she is on the job. The thrill of a paramedic is only part that you get to see, but there is much more involved in this career than you or even I know of.
The career of a Emergency Medical Technician involves saving lives. The E.M.S. is only as strong as .....
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The Respiratory System
<view this essay>.... blood in the capillaries at the same time; carbon dioxide leaves the blood and enters the alveoli. As this exchange takes place, the blood becomes bright red. It then enters the pulmonary venous system. In this system, small vessels join to form larger vessels the largest vessel, the pulmonary vein carries blood to the left side of the heart back into the body tissues.
The Larynx is a hollow chamber in which the voice is produced, at the upper part of the windpipe; it is also called the voice box. It leads from the lower portion of the pharynx to the trachea and is next to esophagus, behind the skin and connective tissue of the throat. The larynx is supporte .....
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Cognitive Development In Children: Experiment
<view this essay>.... of three to 11.
Apparatus:
Some sets of three sample story pairs were used for this experiment, along with
a rating sheet, to record the responses from the children.
Story Pair One:
A. A girl (boy) who is named Susan (Jim) is in her (his) room. She (he) is
called to dinner. She (he) starts to go into the dining room, but behind the
door there is a chair: On the chair is a tray with 15 cups on it. Susan (Jim)
doesn't know that all of this is behind the door. She (he) pushes on the door,
the door knocks against the tray, and bang, goes the 15 cups! They are all
broken.
B. A girl (boy) named Mary (Robert) wants to get some candies. But her (his)
mothe .....
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Assisted Suicide
<view this essay>.... First of all we will examine why anyone would want to take their own life and decipher the differences between a rational suicide and an irrational suicide. Secondly we will look at ways assistance has played in the area of suicide. Next, we'll look at what the constitution says and see if any of the states have allowed suicide. Finally, we'll study some of the cases that have been brought before the American courts.
Suicide has become a big part of American society, year after year more people are taking their own lives for many different reasons. A lot of philosophers have broken down all the reasons of suicides into two different categories, rational su .....
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Pursuing A Career In Psychiatry
<view this essay>.... school to diagnose and treat patients with severe mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders. They also order and oversee diagnostic tests and procedures, formulate treatment plans and offer psychotherapeutic and medicinal treatment (Durgin 1). Psychiatry offers an exciting, challenging, and rewarding career; it also requires the most extensive training of any of the professions.
Since the beginning of civilization, people have attempted to understand the causes of human emotional behavior. Most primitive societies believed that mental illnesses were caused by a demon who took possession of the victim’s body. The early civilizations would treat the mental il .....
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Use Of Marijuana As Medicine
<view this essay>.... has many unique uses as a form of treatment. It has been used
effectively to combat the nausea caused by chemotherapy, to reduce the internal
pressure of the eyes of glaucoma patients, and to prevent the “wasting syndrome”
in AIDS and cancer patients (“Marijuana for the Sick” A10). As an alternative to
using actual marijuana, modern science has developed a synthetic form of THC,
the active chemical in marijuana. However, this synthetic drug, called Marinol,
is useless for most everyday treatment because it has the unpleasant side effect
of being a powerful sedative. A member of Milwaukee's AIDS community, said that
a friend of his was taking .....
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