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Vegetarians
<view this essay>.... edition listed only 350. Clearly, the American diet is changing. The growing mainstream status of vegetarianism is reflected in recent articles in popular magazines. For example, Newsweek, in 1986, referred to our healthier eating habits as "vegetarian chic," and Time, in 1988, praised the new vegetarian preferences of health-conscious young adults. Indeed, many individuals have stopped eating meat for health reasons, although some have also been influenced by the animal liberation movement, religious beliefs, concerns about world hunger, or an awareness of the environmental damage caused by livestock production. But whatever their motives,one thing is clea .....
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Ericsson Paper: Motor Learning
<view this essay>.... a large extent the role
of genetics, in which Ericsson reasons that there has been no great correlations
between the attainment of superior performance and inherited traits. The
purpose of this paper is to show agreement with Ericsson's theory, but only to
the extent that deliberate practice is just one of many factors which must be
included in order to gain expert status. Also, the task at hand can be a major
determinant of how large a role practice plays in improvement. For example, in
endurance sports such as marathon running, some are genetically endowed with a
high aerobic capacity/VO2 max, and if these "special" people develop and
improve their perform .....
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The Roy Adaptation Model
<view this essay>.... 1980, Roy and Reihl advocated a single unified model of nursing and
suggested this would insure stability of the discipline of nursing. They
maintained concepts and propositions of other models could be combined in
summary statements related to person, goals of nursing and the nursing process.
According to Fawcett, this position is a simplistic solution to a difficult
problem. Nursing, with its limited experience with metaparadigms and conceptual
models, is not ready for restrictions on its ways of thinking. It's my belief
that this act of advocating a single unified model was an act of multi-oppressed
thinking influenced by men, the Roman Catholic Chu .....
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Albinism
<view this essay>.... as well, compared to other family members. At
present researchers have found 10 different types of oculocutaneous albinism,
and five types of ocular albinism. Newer laboratory research studying DNA has
shown that there are numerous types of changes in the genes of those with
albinism, including within families.
The most common types of oculocutaneous albinism are called "ty-negative"
and "ty-positive". Persons with ty-negative albinism have no melanin
pigmentation, and more difficulty with vision. Those with ty-positive albinism
have very slight pigmentation, and generally less severe visual difficulties.
Tests were done on the hair roots of individu .....
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Dead End: Teenage Suicide
<view this essay>.... count. In some states, for example, a death certificate cannot list the cause of death as suicide unless the victim has left a note. Suicidolgist estimate that only about one-fifth to one-third of the people who kill themselves leave notes. In addition, in some cases the police do not find a suicide note because the relatives the friend who found the body destroyed the note.
The statistics offer a lot of fact about suicides, but they do not tell why someone wants to die. I believe that many teenagers who attempt and those who commit suicide are really crying out for help. They want the unhappiness and strains in their live to end, but they really d .....
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Alzheimer's Disease
<view this essay>.... of mental powers. AD causes dementia. At first a person's memory may become impaired and they become forgetful, depression may set in, personality may change, and simple tasks become difficult. The dementia interferes with normal functions.
Memory failure was once thought to be a normal process of aging, but studies of the elderly indicate that it is the result of some disease process. In fact the symptoms of were dismissed as normal consequences of human aging. After that, in the 1980's, AD came to be recognized as the most common cause of intellectual deterioration in the elderly and the middle-aged. Now it is also recognized as the major si .....
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Factors That Influence Drug Addiction
<view this essay>.... availability of the drugs, the route of administration, withdrawal symptoms, penalties of use, and psychiatric health influence this process. It is the influence of each of these biological and psychological factors that creates, maintains, and subsequently sustains addiction.
The availability of the drugs play the most prominent role in the addiction process. Simply stated, if drugs and/or alcohol did not exist there couldn’t conceivably be a drug addiction. Nevertheless, drugs and alcohol do exist, so it isn’t their existence that effects the addiction, but how readily available to the addict each substance is. The Vietnam Veterans, who used heroin during .....
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Anti-Social Personality Disorder
<view this essay>.... of other mental illnesses that are incurred in childhood as a result of heredity, trauma and the lack of emotional development. The lack of moral or emotional development which gives a sociopath a lack of understanding for other people's feelings which enables them to be deceitful without feeling bad about whatever they do. The under developed emotional system as explained in the video "The World of Personality Disorders volume 5" says the sociopath is "emotionally retarded" .
The sociopathic behavior problems that start as a child have links to heredity, a family with a pre-disposition to perform crimes, alcoholic parents that do crimes, irresponsible beh .....
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