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Women's Right To Choose Abortion
<view this essay>.... carrying
the fetus 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 c .....
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Depression And Its Causes
<view this essay>.... in brain chemistry, which can be triggered by illness,
stress, frustration, or grief. After two or three years, a more normal
chemistry reappears on its own, and the person is cured, even without
medical treatment. But if the brain alteration goes untreated, a majority
of the people will attempt suicide, and 17% will succeed.
Depression can also occur during childhood and adolescence. Some
causes for depression include a family histoy of verbal, physical, or
sexual abuse. The separation or loss of a loved one, a family history of
depression, incarceration, pregnancy, lower social statuses, homosexuality,
and mental retardation could also cause a .....
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Cigarette Smokers Are Bad For Nonsmokers
<view this essay>.... their eyes water and
throut hurt. The people who smoke in front of others don’t even seem to
concern about the other people around him or her. Even if a smoker is not
smoking being around that person can be irritating because they still stink.
The smell of smoke is horrible and I could never live with someone that
smokes.
Cigarette smoke is not only annoying it also damages the heart and
lungs and is killing about 3000 Canadians per year. If some one gets cancer
in the lungs that person is most likely to pass away because there is no
cure for the lung cancer right now. If you are living with a smoker you
have a twenty five percent chance of dying from a hear .....
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Beauty
<view this essay>.... article states that symmetry shows abundance of sexual hormones,
health, and strength of the immune system. They support their hypothesis of
symmetry's affect on the abundance of sexual hormones with various scientific
evidence. Two psychologists, Steven Gangestead and Randy Thornhill measured the
symmetry of hundreds of men and women in college. They also asked them to
complete a personal confidential survey that gave information on their health
and sex lives. What they found was that the men and women with better symmetry
had started having sex 3-4 years before the people with average symmetry.
Gangestead and Thornhill also completed another survey involvin .....
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Euthanasia
<view this essay>.... significantly increased the capacity to sustain life : patients who would in the past have died from natural causes can now be sustained almost indefinitely as a result of the intervention of artificial life support equipment or other medical or surgical procedures.
While this has generally been a desirable development , it has also had some negative consequences in that, in some instances, the dying process is unnecessarily prolonged. There are two main arguments against that severe pain can and that if some form of killing by doctors, or others were made legal, it might easily be abused and people might be put to death for reasons unconnected with merc .....
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Two Sides Of The Brain
<view this essay>.... have distinctly different ways of
looking at the world. Your two hemispheres are as different from each
other as, oh, Micheal Wilson and Shirley Maclean. The left brain controls
the right side of the body (this is reversed in about half of the 15
percent of the population that is left-handed) and, in essence, is logical
analytical, judgemental and verbal. It's interested in the bottom line, in
being efficent. The right brain controls the left side of the body and
leans more to the creative, the intuitive. It is concerned more with the
visual and emotional side of life.
Most people, if they thought about it, would identify more with
their left .....
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Eczema
<view this essay>.... skin disease, but it does effect around 1 in
10 people. Its causes aren’t fully understood yet, but eczema seems to occur in
people with family or personal history of allergic asthma, rhinitis,
conjunctivitis, food allergies, icthyosis vulgaris, and keratosis pilaris.
Eczema has always seemed to be a genetic skin disease, but until recently the
researchers have been unable to identify a specific gene involved in the passing
on of eczema. Now, doctors believe they have found a gene that causes eczema,
but since it is not present in all cases of eczema, they believe that there is
more than one gene that can cause eczema. Also, a maternal pattern of
inhe .....
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The Functions And Disorders Of The Liver
<view this essay>.... Glycogen is produced by the liver. It is an
"instant" energy source because many times the body does not use all the
glycogen when it is produced. The glycogen is called instant because when
not used it stored ready to use when needed. When this energy is needed
the liver releases it into the bloodstream like when playing football.
The liver is not just an energy producer it is an important filter
for keeping out harmful substances of the body. The liver also regulates
the amount of red blood cells in circulation by breaking down and absorbing
the cells. As a filter the liver absorbs harmful chemicals and even some
poisons and breaking them down .....
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