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The Safety Of Using Cell Phones
<view this essay>.... everywhere due to the lack of concentration of drivers. According to Drs. Donald A. Redelmeier and Robert J. Tibshirani, “…driving with the use of a cell phone can be likened to driving with a blood alcohol level of about 0.10 per cent. The chances of getting into a car accident while using a cellular phone is nearly equal to the chances of having an accident while slightly drunk.” (Kolata, par.1) The distractions caused by talking on the phone are causing more accidents as the amount of cell phones being used increases. “The risk (of accidents) gets even greater if the person is discussing something important or especially is in the middle of an argument .....
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Effects Of Drugs On The Body
<view this essay>.... Cultural attitudes also make it difficult to distinguish between the accepted use of certain drugs and the abuse of those drugs. Alcoholic beverages have been used by people in many societies for thousands of years. Yet alcohol is one of the most widely abused drugs.
The regular use of certain drugs causes dependence and the use of the drug becomes a habit that is hard to break. Drug dependence is both psychological and physical. Psychological dependence involves a craving for the psychological experience a drug provides. Physical dependence means that the user builds a tolerance to the drug. When this happens the user needs more and more of t .....
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Which Is The Best Contraceptive: Condoms Or The Pill?
<view this essay>.... sheath placed over the erect penis before penetration, preventing pregnancy by blocking the passage of sperm" (A Guide To Contraceptive Choices). Because this sheath is blocking the passage of any sperm entering the vagina, the percent of effectiveness is quite high. In fact it only has a 2% failure rate. Failure may be caused by possible holes in the condom or by storing it in unfavorable conditions for periods of time.
The pill is an oral contraceptive containing the hormones estrogen and progestogen. "This form of birth control suppresses ovulation…by the combined actions of the hormones estrogen and progestogen" (A Guide to Contraceptive Choices). The .....
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Biofeedback
<view this essay>.... that created it so that source can understand and
have control over it (O'Hair, D.)." The principles of biofeedback date
back more than a half a century. "Biofeedback" is a term that was coined
in the late 1960's. The theories involved in biofeedback and
psychophysiology began with the study on homeostatic mechanisms. The human
organism insures its survival through the maintenance of homeostasis. In
order to control or altar behavior, a person must have information that is
available through the senses.
In biofeedback, the client obtains information about his
biological state from feedback from the sensors. Margolin and Kubic (1944)
conducted an early example .....
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AIDS/HIV
<view this essay>.... become infected with the AIDS disease you may not have any
symptoms of the disease for the next ten years. People with the HIV virus
usually look and feel healthy and may not even know that they are infected.
Even though they don't look or feel sick, they can still infect others.
When the symptoms do start to happen they can be like the ones of many
common sicknesses such as swollen glands, coughing, fever, and diarrhea. It is
usually characterized by severe weight loss and fatigue. The AIDS disease
makes the less serious conditions harder for your body to control or get rid of
because of the loss of many of the white blood cells in your body. The most
com .....
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Pregnancy, Lactation, And Infancy
<view this essay>.... nutrients to proceed smoothly. Without folate the neural tube fails to develop completly during the first month of pregnancy.
A healthy pregnancy depends on a sufficient weight gains. Women who begin their pregnancies at a healthy weight need to gain about 30 pounds, which covers the growth and development of the placenta, uterus, blood, breast, and infant. By reamining active throughout pregnancy, a woman can develop the strength she needs to carry the extra weight and maintain habts that will help her lose it after birth.
From conception to birth, all parts of the infant, bones, muscles, organs, blood cells, skin, and other tissue are mad .....
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Abortion: What Do We Do?
<view this essay>.... has gotten to be extremely common all over the world. A woman who wishes to abort her pregnancy, can simply make an appointment at an abortion clinic, show up for the procedure on time, and go home the same day of the operation. Abortion clinics are located across the globe, and the abortion itself is fairly inexpensive. An abortion with no complications can cost as little as $500. On the flipside, if something goes wrong during or after the procedure, such as excessive bleeding by the female, externally or internally, or other complications, an abortion can be very costly, easily up into the thousands. On the most part, women who do have abortions .....
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Brain Function
<view this essay>.... physical maladies such as migraines. Brain is the main part in human body, brain controls each and every part of the human body. is very complicated, especially a human brain. This two brain controls different parts and different functions in the human body.
Right and left brain’s have distinctly different ways of looking the world. The left brain controls the right side of the body, even the eye what you see from the right eye goes to left brain. But this function is reversed for left-handed people. Left brain mostly focus on the logical analytical, judgment and verbal. The right side of the brain control the left side of the body, this brain focus more .....
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