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Human Memory Organization.
Number of Words: 660 / Number of Pages: 3
... processed. It analyses it, and then decides what to do with it (use
it, or store it). Here also is where stored information is called to for
processing when needed. This kind of memory has some kind of limited storage
space, which is used when processing information, however the trade-off is that
is slower than Short term memory.
Long Term : Long term memory is the dumping ground for all of the used
information. Here is where the Medium term memory puts, and takes it's
information to and from. It has a large amount of space, but is relatively slow
in comparison with the other kinds of memory, and the ...
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Pre-Eclampsia And Eclampsia Disorders In Pregnant Women
Number of Words: 1703 / Number of Pages: 7
... to the point of convulsions and
possible coma. Resulting in retardation for the child with lack of oxygenation
and other proteins to fetus.
A term that must be known is chronic hypertension due to increased
pressure in the arteries and often associated with atherosclerosis (collections
of fatty substances on the inside wall of the arteries). It is not caused by
pregnancy, but may cause problems if a woman with chronic hypertension becomes
pregnant. It has an unknown cause. 15% of the time chronic hypertension is
secondary to a primary problem-that is a renal disorder, heart disease,
endocrine di ...
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Abortion And Politics
Number of Words: 1150 / Number of Pages: 5
... life. Of course, frequently, the man who is responsible for the pregnancy refuses to marry her, and responsibility to provide support. The woman may be forced to become a welfare recipient, become part of this cycle of poverty, and expose herself to the personal humiliation, loss of personal liberty, and inadequate income this entails.
The impact of pregnancy is not only restricted to economical and educational areas. Certainly, there is a physical impact as well as the emotional reaction to an unwanted pregnancy.
When there is a compelling reason, women should be permitted to choose early abortion. F ...
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Autism
Number of Words: 536 / Number of Pages: 2
... retarded is their display of strange postures, manners, habits, and compulsions. They might display rocking, hand flapping, strange food preferences, no eye contact, head banging, an insensitivity to pain, and other dangerous behavior. They are also often infatuated with inanimate objects.
About 50 % of all autistic individuals are mute, or only speak once or twice in their entire life span. Non mute autistic people can produce words and sentences, but have trouble using language as an effective means of communication. If they do develop useful speech, it starts to make sense and have purpos ...
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The Meaning Of Abortion
Number of Words: 1722 / Number of Pages: 7
... baby conceived in America is killed by abortion, over one and a half
million babies a year (Willke vii). Many countries have followed our
decision on the abortion issue and some of these include Canada, England,
and France. Other countries still believe abortion should be illegal, they
include Germany, Ireland, and New Zealand. Although many believe that
abortion is a women's choice, abortion should be banned because its immoral
and life begins at conception.
Abortion is the choice of a women whether or not she want's to
receive one. Under the 14th Amendment's "personal liberty" women are ...
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Lyme Disease
Number of Words: 1400 / Number of Pages: 6
... under arm. This spot expands, often with central clearing, to a
diameter as large as 50 cm (c. 12 in.). Approximately 25% of patients with
Lyme disease report having been bitten at that site by a tiny tick 3 to 32
days before onset of ECM. The lesion may be warm to touch. Soon after
onset nearly half the patients develop multiple smaller lesions without
hardened centers. ECM generally lasts for a few weeks. Other types of
lesions may subsequently appear during resolution. Former skin lesions may
reappear faintly, sometimes before recurrent attacks of arthritis. Lesions
of the mucous membr ...
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Heart Attacks And Its Causes
Number of Words: 950 / Number of Pages: 4
... known risk factors at all (Cowley, 1997).
The hypothesis that high levels of cholesterol cause heart attacks may be attributed to this: LDL, or "bad" cholesterol, induces cells to produce proteins in the arterial walls of the heart and the veins leading to the heart. Macrophages eat the fatty substances in the heart and then die, causing a build up in the veins. Conventionally speaking, the blockage of LDL would be the onset of a very fatty diet. However, it has never been proved that the cholesterol is the cause of the injury to the arterial wall. Dr. Kilmer McCully has his own theory: high h ...
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Psychoanalysis
Number of Words: 1348 / Number of Pages: 5
... above form of hysteria, but rather a manifestation of reality. Her own reality has become too imprisoned, and she escapes it by creating another Lisa that is nothing like her person.
The traditional psychoanalytical theory states that all human beings are born with instinctual drives that are constantly active even though a person is not usually conscious of them. Two drives, one for sexual pleasure and the other called aggression, motivate and propel most behaviors in people. Lisa creates a very intense sexual drive for her fictive person. Readers may speculate that this creation may have been brought ...
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The Argument Against Female Circumcision
Number of Words: 1145 / Number of Pages: 5
... the operation. In most cases two women members of the family would hold the girl by her thighs to expose her genitals and to prevent struggling. Then the daya would proceed to cut of the clitoris of the girl with a sharp razor. One of the women El Saadawi interviewed explained “the daya sat between these two women, holding a sharp razor in her hand which she used to cut off the clitoris.” (Nawal El Saadawi 170)
Although El Saadawi claims there are no advantages to this operation, many people tend to disagree. One claim made by people in favor of female circumcision is that by minimizin ...
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Abortion
Number of Words: 1322 / Number of Pages: 5
... are raised in the church or are religious. They believe that is murder, and that God does not approve of this. There is a book called “The Hand of God“, written by Dr. Bernard Nathanson, one of the doctors that was instrumental in getting legislation for passed in the 1960’s. Dr. Nathanson is now an ex- doctor, who actually performed an on his own child and felt no remorse. He himself states that he performed thousands of s in his career and supervised thousands more. He states in the book that a lot of the statistics that were used initially to assist with the passing of were exaggerat ...
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