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Autism
Number of Words: 422 / Number of Pages: 2
... into five major symptoms. The first symptom is a lack of responsiveness to other people, objects, and events. Disturbance of speech, language, perception, and nonverbal communication is the second major symptom. The third symptom of consists of a bizarre response to the environment such as a change in peculiar interest to animate and inanimate objects. The fourth symptom is the delay of response to sensory stimuli. The fifth and final major symptom of is the interruption of the developmental rates and/or sequence.
Autistic behavior can change, but the core biological and cognitive deficits canno ...
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Free Condoms Distribution Programs
Number of Words: 748 / Number of Pages: 3
... ego, Mary,
is in need of some condoms, but she would not feel comfortable asking her
parents for help because they are devout Catholics and would obviously not
be too pleased, nor understanding of her sexual activities.
If Mary had a free condom distribution program in place at her
school, then Mary might feel more comfortable receiving condoms from nurses
and health officials at her school rather than her parents. That is why I
believe that it would be extremely beneficial to have a program like the
one at Mary's school in effect at our school. All the girls and boys out
there that are in Mary's s ...
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Gregor Mendel's Theories Of Genetic Inheritance
Number of Words: 336 / Number of Pages: 2
... for each character, an organism
inherits two genes, one form each parent. So this means that a homolohous loci
may have matching alleles, as in the true-breeding plants of Mendel's P
generation(parental). If the alleles differ, then there will be F hybrids. The
third idea states that if the two alleles differ, the receessive allele will
have no affect on the organism's appearance. So a F hybrid plant that has
purple flowers, the dominant allele will be the purple-color allele and the
recessive allele would be the white-color allele. The idea is that the two genes
for each character segregate during g ...
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Hypnosis
Number of Words: 558 / Number of Pages: 3
... of subjects in the trance state, and the phenomena
or behavior they manifest objectively, are the product of their
motivational set; that is, behavior reflects what is being sought from the
experience.
Most people can be easily hypnotized. The depth of trance, however, will
vary from a light state close to waking, to a profound state of
somnambulism. A profound trance is characterized by a forgetting of trance
events and by an ability to respond automatically to posthypnotic
suggestions that are not too anxiety-provoking. The depth of trance
achievable is a relatively fixed characteristic, depend ...
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Eating Disorders
Number of Words: 6936 / Number of Pages: 26
... you want to become a statistic you go right ahead and do so, but your hurting yourself and the ones that love you and care about you the most. do KILL! As you will soon find out.
are not the disease that you want to play around with, they are very dangerous, and can have a harsh effect on you and on your life. Never do you want to get involved with an Eating Disorder unless you want to pay the consequences.
Introduction
Eating Disorders are a way of life that can be called “suicide.” You vomit all that you eat and do not stop until it is too late, or you just do not eat. You wish and hope that th ...
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The Life Of Identical Twins
Number of Words: 1729 / Number of Pages: 7
... twin individuality. These are: competition in the twinship, the school environment and parental attitude.
Competition, according to Mathias (1992), results from being either envious or jealous of someone else. Jealousy is something that twins probably experience before other children as they are always competing for a share of parental attention. So, identical twins will adopt different strategies to avoid jealousy, since competitive feelings create boundaries between them (Sandbank, 1988).
One of the strategies adopted in an attempt to obtain stimulation and comfort if the parents are unable to mee ...
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A Career As A Paramedic
Number of Words: 1211 / Number of Pages: 5
... 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 its weakest link (Caroline,3). During the 1960’s people and associations began wondering if there was any possible way to operate a ambulance and administer pre-hospital care efficiently with some other type of personnel besides a licenced doctor (Caroline,1). By 1970 the question had been answered. Pioneering in Miami, Philadelphia< and Seattle demonstrated that paramedics under radio command from an on-duty hospital physician coul ...
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Abortion: Life Or Death Who Chooses?
Number of Words: 4436 / Number of Pages: 17
... from the moment of conception, a new human life has been created.
Only those who allow their emotional passion to overide their knowledge,
can deny it: only those who are irrational or ignorant of science, doubt that
when a human sperm fertilizes a human ovum a new human being is created. A new
human being who carries genes in its cells that make that human being uniquely
different from any and other human being and yet, undeniably a member, as we all
are, of the great human family. All the fetus needs to grow into a babe, a child,
an old man, is time, nutrition and a suitable environment. It is de ...
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Dreams
Number of Words: 1481 / Number of Pages: 6
... dreaming world could be a very powerful thing so much so that
it causes a baby to be born because of lucid dreaming. In a true story
taken from the book called Living with Dreams a woman dreamt that she just
had a period in her dreams. This was so realistic that she actually thought
she had a real period not one dreamt up in a dream. A few days later she
had sex thinking that it was the best time to have sex without becoming
pregnant. Two or three weeks she felt something strange was happening and
so consulted a doctor who said that she had become pregnant. All this
happened just because of a dre ...
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Essay On Human Sexual History
Number of Words: 1091 / Number of Pages: 4
... the time of the seventeenth century, the society/state began to liberate itself from the church. Even still, sexual liberty was small, and a “non-ethical” (meaning non- conservative) discourse on sex was prohibited. This type of regard to sex was also true in the eighteenth century. By the nineteenth century, sexual propaganda was created and fed to the masses.
One memorable time period that transformed society’s views on sex, was the feminist movement in the 60’s and 70’s. Sexual images were allowed to be seen outside of the privacy of one’s home, even more so than before, which in my mind, is ...
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