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AIDS Is A Killer
Number of Words: 709 / Number of Pages: 3
... are used to "talk" to, arouse, and attract cells. There are two variants of chemokines, alpha and beta chemokines. Among these there are many different chemokines from CCR5, CCR3, CXCR4, etc… Now AIDS needs the CD4 molecule and the CCR5 protein to be present on a T-cell to successfully infect the cell. It needs the CD4 molecule to latch on to the cell. Once this is accomplished it needs the CCR5 protein to be able to get inside of the cell in order to infect it.
Both of these two factors are essential in order for AIDS to infect a person. Unfortunately, less than a hundredth of a percent of the hu ...
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Anorexia Nervosa
Number of Words: 486 / Number of Pages: 2
... relationship with one of the parents. Anorectics are often highly conforming people an anxious to please, even obsession in their habits.
There are also many problems caused by . Girls with stop having their menstrual periods, which is also called amenorrhea People with anorexia have excessively dry skin, and have thinning hair on their heads. They may have a growth of fine hair all over their body, which is usually light-colored. They may feel cold all the time, and may also get sick often. There is also a problem with concentration, because the disorder makes them think usually only of food, and ...
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The Problem Of Teens And Smoking
Number of Words: 881 / Number of Pages: 4
... as high as 100 million pounds by the time of the American Revolution.
In the 17th century, cultivating tobacco became the most important industry of the Virginia and Maryland colonies. Sometime later it became the major industry in North Carolina.
“The first of the tobacco manufacturers to mass-produce cigarettes was Washington, Duke and Sons of Durham, North Carolina (Theodore, 77).”
Tobacco is a highly addictive drug. This makes it very hard for heavy smokers to quit. Heavy smokers who do attempt to quit smoking will suffer many different painful withdrawal symptoms; some are psychological, ...
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Euthanasia Is Not The Answer
Number of Words: 1146 / Number of Pages: 5
... so much. He was not active in church but returned to his catholic faith. He showed my family and I how to live in the face of death. He wasn’t afraid to die and let us share in his care. He had some pain but it was well controlled. He had hospice come and make him very comfortable. Our family was united in caring for him. This is a perfect example of why you shouldn’t choose Euthanasia.
Death is never easy, but learning to care for the dying is the answer. In the book , David Cundiff M.D. a hospice physician writes “Improved care of the terminally ill will make the question of Euthanasia and assisted ...
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Abortion
Number of Words: 969 / Number of Pages: 4
... that can be measured. The end of human life can be defined as the moment when brain waves cease but many ignore the scientific evidence of brain waves in unborn babies. As small as seven weeks old a baby can swim freely in the amniotic sack. At nine weeks, the baby is extremely active and begins swallowing. When the baby is ten to eleven weeks old he is sensitive to touch and will grab an object that is placed in his hand. At eleven weeks old all of the baby’s organ systems are functioning. He has perfectly shaped feet the size of an adult’s little fingernail. The baby also has eyelids, nails, finger ...
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Marijuana For Medicinal Purposes
Number of Words: 1443 / Number of Pages: 6
... using scare tactics and effective lobbying were able to ban
the growth, sale, and use of Marijuana.
Besides denying the public of the use of Marijuana as a textile, food
source, and alternative energy source, these large companies selfishly robbed
many sick people of a drug that can help them. Marijuana can be used to combat
glaucoma, epilepsy, Multiple Sclerosis, back pain, asthma, rheumatism, arthritis,
migraines, emphysema, cystic fibrosis, and promotes appetite in some cancer and
AIDS patients. Drugs like morphine, valium, lithium, and codeine are regularly
given to patients and are far more add ...
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Abortion: Is It Murder?
Number of Words: 249 / Number of Pages: 1
... killed legally because of abortion. Many people approve of abortion
because they consider that a fetus is not an individual human until birth.
Abortion is wrong and it shouldn't be legal. If a doctor killed a baby
one minute after it were born, they would be charged with murder. But if they
were to kill a baby one minute before it were born, and a minute before that and
so on, they would not be considered a murderer. At what minute can one consider
life worthless and the next precious?
Some people will say that abortion is not a matter of life and death,
but medical research proves that t ...
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Dreams
Number of Words: 864 / Number of Pages: 4
... that people who tend to forget their show a greater amount of rapid eye movement, which is associated with greater amounts of activity in the dream. However, when these people did remember the content of their , it was rather bland and inactive.
With all of dream research, there still is no definite answer to the question: “What is a dream?” are phenominans which occur in cycles, are controversial, and symbolic.
“ are rudiments of the
great state to come. We dream
what is about to happen.”
-Bailey.
Within sleep, there are two distinct ...
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Senility
Number of Words: 3009 / Number of Pages: 11
... 320). Individuals with benign forgetfulness also are acutely aware of
their memory deficit, while those with dementia - except for in the early
stages of the disease - have no insight into their memory deficit and often
blame others for their problems.
In addition to the memory deficit interfering with the patient's
daily activities, patients with dementia have evidence of impaired abstract
thinking, impaired judgement, or other disturbances of higher cortical
functions such as aphasia (the inability to use of comprehend language),
apraxia (the inability to execute complex, coordinated movements), ...
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The Psychological Effects Of Using Steroids
Number of Words: 1169 / Number of Pages: 5
... functions involving testosterone (Mishra 2). Given the right training stimulus and diet, these steroids enables the user to process protein into muscle fibers at astonishing rates, creating increased muscle size and strength with a drop in body fat (due to an increase in metabolic rate) . They are, in effect, the chemical essence of manliness, physical power and masculine aggression (Nichols 38).
Synthetic steroids were developed in the 1930’s to rebuild and prevent the breakdown of body tissue from disease. In the 1950’s, synthetic steroids became popular with athletes because they helped produce ...
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