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Abortion: Murder Of An Innocent Human Being
Number of Words: 338 / Number of Pages: 2
... to be stopped now.
Being irresponsible and not using protection when having sex is not a good excuse to kill an innocent baby. Before having sex, the couple needs to think about the consequences and what to do if something happens, kill an innocent child or have the baby, and put it up for an adoption. Taking the life of another human being is murder, and this is an act of murder.
One of The Ten Commandments is “ thou shall not kill”. Having an abortion is against God and the Bible. Therefore, one who performs this act should be punished.
These crimes against humanity must be abolished. Abortion h ...
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Anabolic Steroids
Number of Words: 1685 / Number of Pages: 7
... hormone
disturbances.
There are two forms of anabolic steroids those taken orally and those
injected. The immediate effects of both are mood swings of many different kinds.
In one study, physicians Ian Wilson, Arthur Prang, Jr., and Patricio Lara found
that four out of five men suffering from dippresion when given a steroid
suffered from dillusions. A research team from Great Britian Found that a
patient given steroids became dizzy, dissoriented, and incoherent. Physicians
William Layman and William Annitto have had a case of a young man who was
diagnosed as schizophrenic took steriods to help with ...
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Euthanasia
Number of Words: 869 / Number of Pages: 4
... the legality of euthanasia as
well as the position of the supporters. I shall attempt to prove that, yes,
euthanasia should be legal. There is a strong opposition against the
legalization of euthanasia. The main argument against the legality of
euthanasia is sometimes known as the slippery slope argument. People argue that
if euthanasia was legally permitted, it would lead to a general decline in the
respect for human life. It is professed that we would kill people in the
beginning simply to put them out of extreme agony. This is the ideal. But the
opposition states that the killing of people w ...
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Prozac: Harmful Or Helpful?
Number of Words: 1762 / Number of Pages: 7
... with more hospitalizations, deaths, or other serious adverse reactions reported to the FDA than any other drug in America” (qtd. in Freundlich 2).
Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical Company created Prozac in 1974, but it wasn’t approved by the FDA until 1987. The first of the SSRIs, Prozac inhibits or blocks the recapture of the neurotransmitter serotonin by nerve cells (“Prozac” 2). This allows the serotonin to remain in the brain for a longer period of time creating a lasting euphoric state. Serotonin plays a complex part in the functioning of the body and brain. Researchers and doctors are just sta ...
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AIDS History And Treatment
Number of Words: 1574 / Number of Pages: 6
... AIDS is now available, but it delays the process rather than eliminating the virus entirely. The three most common forms of treatment now are azidothymidine (AZT), protease inhibitors, and multidrug therapies. These drugs have been successful in prolonging patients' lives because they interfere with the duplication of HIV within the body. The reason that they don't destroy the virus is because of the virus's unique ability to mutate into different strains and become resistant to these drugs. However, with the success of the current treatments of AZT, protease inhibitors, and multidrug therapy, as ...
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Schizophrenia
Number of Words: 1367 / Number of Pages: 5
... or planning to harm
them. Schizophrenics believe that others can hear their thoughts , also known
as Abroadcasting@ and even change them. A...hear their thoughts, insert
thoughts into their minds, or control their feelings, actions or impulses.
Patients might think they are Jesus, Napoleon, or Franklin D. Roosevelt.@
(American Psychiatric Association Annual >90 page 1)
Pregnant women who experience an immune reaction that presents danger to their
unborn children, this reaction raises sharply the rates of schizophrenia in the
unborn child. Severe malnutrition in the early months of the fetal develo ...
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Euthanasia
Number of Words: 825 / Number of Pages: 3
... strongly not in favour and with
Howard's support he introduced a bill overriding the N.T laws. But still in
the end the law was still standing. If our leaders are divided we could say that
the citizens of Australia would have been divided on this Issue. Maybe a
referendum would have been appropriate, but still euthanasia would still occur
illegal and secrecy.
Christian groups and Christian have strongly supported their view on euthanasia ,
they have seen it as a sin. For a Christian his life is not just his because his
life is part of god's. In the Bible, chapter of (Romans 14:18) it states "If we ...
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Laws Against Assisted Suicide In Canada
Number of Words: 1010 / Number of Pages: 4
... relieving practice. In
our grand country assisted suicide is illegal.
Cases of other terminally ill persons have surfaced throughout the news,
the most prominent being those related to Dr. "Death" Kevorkian. We don't often
think on what a terminally ill person might be like. They might be suffering
from Lou Gehrig's Disease. They might be suffering from multiple sclerosis. They
might be suffering from any number of other types of injuries and diseases. What
we don't think about are the cases that bring out our most empathetic feelings.
Take the case of one Christine Busalacchi, who ...
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The Effects Of Alcohol On People
Number of Words: 2158 / Number of Pages: 8
... backgrounds and
ceremonies in the past. In Greece there was a god of wine which was named
Bacchus. The Romans drank vast amounts of wine and other alcoholic
beverages. Wine and beer both have a very long background and or history.
Alcohol was used to supposedly relieve stress and the drudgery of day to
day life. (History of Alcohol , page1)
Gin houses used advertisements like " drinkers can drink for a
penny and get dead drunk for two pence " to lure in alcoholics or drinkers.
(History of Alcohol , page 1)
Prohibition was a temperance movement lobbied aggressively for
alcohol to be banned in ...
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Anger Management And Health
Number of Words: 2155 / Number of Pages: 8
... We only have to imagine a domestic abuse scene to immediately
condemn anger in all of its manifestations.
There is a reason why anger is viewed in a negative light. Nobody likes it
when someone is angry with them. We tend to avoid the wrath of those around us.
This is one reason we see anger as negative. Another reason may lie closer to
Plato's concept of imbalance. The negative perception of anger is evident in
the American Heritage Dictionary's definitions of the word anger (1): 1. A
feeling of extreme displeasure, hostility, indignation, or someone or something;
rage; wrath; i ...
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