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Reversing The Aging Process, Should We?
Number of Words: 1620 / Number of Pages: 6
... final manifestation. By attempting to slow down the
aging process man is using himself as the ultimate canvas, to play the role of
the omnipotent.
Research into the process of aging began in 1961(Rose, Technology Review:64).
Since then a great deal of time, money and effort have been appropriated into
discovering the causes of aging, it can therefore be inferred that humanity has
an almost "personal" interest in aging. Of course the culmination of discovering
how we age, is discovering how to stop it. An intrinsic characteristic of Man is
His obsession with superficiality. Superficiality is equated ...
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Personal Commentary On The Drug Problem
Number of Words: 785 / Number of Pages: 3
... when
drug use was at its peak level. The use of drugs has declined in the
percentage of eighth, tenth, and twelfth graders who believed there was a “
great risk” in trying drugs. But in 1994, the use of drugs increased and
the Department of Health and Human Services stepped up to try to help our
parents protect their children from the resurgence of drugs. The
government is doing everything to let parents know about drug abuse, but it
is ultimately up to the users. The Gov. cannot change children’s behavior
or anybody else’s.
In schools there is even a bigger problem. The states have created
an ed ...
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My Viewpoint Regarding Abortions
Number of Words: 469 / Number of Pages: 2
... opinion, that the
fetus is a human and that it has a right to life and that is why I believe
in early abortions.
I feel that your viewpoint would cause many problems. One problem
is that your viewpoint allows no abortions, that allows no consideration
for the mother of the family that would be effected by that child. Also,
pro-lifers do not agree with sex-education in schools this would lead to
more teen pregnancies which would lead to children giving birth to
children. A huge problem that would occur if there was no abortion would
be illegal abortions. Illegal abortions would cause women to beco ...
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Klinefelter Syndrome
Number of Words: 1021 / Number of Pages: 4
... be diagnosed through a karyotype-a chromosome analysis usually done on a blood sample showing 47, XXY before birth, through amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling (4). Neither procedure is routinely used to check for XXY though. In later years, a semen exam showing low sperm count, decreased serum testosterone level, increased serum luteinizing hormone or increases serum follice stimulating hormone, can be suspects for a male having (1).
(2) Phenotype Characteristics
Frequency is about 1 in 500 to 1 in 1000 male births, which makes Klinefelter Syndrome a common disease. It does not seem to ...
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Reye Syndrome
Number of Words: 1085 / Number of Pages: 4
... Syndrome
cases occur in children under the age of sixteen, with the majority of these
cases being in children under six. Although less than five percent of Reye's
Syndrome cases occur in people over the age of sixty, the elderly are often the
most severely affected, due to old age and weakening immune systems. Infants,
while hindered by their young age, can often fight the infections of Reye
Syndrome better, for reasons doctors do not yet fully understand. The severity
of Reye's Syndrome is classified on a scale of 1-5, with one and two being the
onset of symptoms and four and five being the most ...
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The Effects Of Altitude On Human Physiology
Number of Words: 3674 / Number of Pages: 14
... ALTITUDE
In discussing altitude change and its effect on the body mountaineers
generally define altitude according to the scale of high (8,000 - 12,000 feet),
very high (12,000 - 18,000 feet), and extremely high (18,000+ feet), (Hubble,
1995). A common misperception of the change in external environment with
increased altitude is that there is decreased oxygen. This is not correct as the
concentration of oxygen at sea level is about 21% and stays relatively unchanged
until over 50,000 feet (Johnson, 1988).
What is really happening is that the atmospheric pressure is decreasi ...
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Spontaneous And Induced Abortions
Number of Words: 912 / Number of Pages: 4
... of the female or in cases of rape or incest are therapeutic, or justifiable, abortions.
Numerous medical techniques exist for performing abortions. During the first trimester (up to about 12 weeks after conception), endometrial aspiration, suction, or curettage may be used to remove the contents of the uterus. In endometrial aspiration, a thin, flexible tube is inserted up the cervical canal (the neck of the womb) and then sucks out the lining of the uterus (the endometrium) by means of an electric pump.
In the related but slightly more onerous procedure known as dilatation and evacuation (also called ...
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Dyslexia
Number of Words: 2036 / Number of Pages: 8
... combination of
both biological and environmental influences. The left part of the brain
controls the production and comprehension of language and it also deals
with orderly and precise thought. The right part of the brain controls
visual perception, emotion, instincts, and non-verbal responses. Both the
right and left part of the brain must work together to create speech,
writing, and mathematics. Some scientists say that the cause of dyslexia
don’t have anything to do with different brain chemistry, or the genetic
make-up of the person, but rather a result of disturbances in the
environment. Dys ...
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Drug Abuse
Number of Words: 1524 / Number of Pages: 6
... When the drug is released into the brain, it blocks the dopamine from
returning to the first brain cell. Repeated use changes the brain cells so that
normal messages can't be sent between brain cells. The drug must always be
present in order for neurotransmissions to take place. The user is only able to
feel pleasure from the cocaine rather than the things he/she used to find
pleasurable. This is called drug addiction or dependence.
Drug Classification
Drugs are generally categorized into two groups, stimulants and
depressants. Stimulants are drugs that speed up signals through the nervous
sy ...
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Mercy Killing Or Just Plain Killing: The Euthanasia Debate
Number of Words: 1397 / Number of Pages: 6
... Kevorkian’s suicide machine (active euthanasia). To complicate things further, there is also voluntary euthanasia, “Cases in which patient requests to be killed, and dies as a result of action taken by another person,” involuntary euthanasia; “cases in which no action is requested because the patient is unconscious, senile, or otherwise incapable of making a request, but the person is allowed to die or is killed,” and nonvoluntary euthanasia; “cases in which a conscious, terminally ill patient states that they do not want to die, but is allowed to die or is killed anyway” (http://valdosta.peachnet.edu) ...
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