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The Middle Of Life
Number of Words: 603 / Number of Pages: 3
... that come with this part of the crisis include depression, self-doubt, heartache and low spirits. They must also handle any kind of regret or feeling of failure about their time and place as a parent.
As a mid-life parent, some people (mostly women) can feel caught in the "sandwich generation". This means they are taking care of not only their children, but often grandparents all the way down to grandchildren. This would be a major stressor and crisis on the mid-life parent because they would feel as though they were not doing enough for each generation. Being sandwiched like this would also ...
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Depression And Its Effects
Number of Words: 1416 / Number of Pages: 6
... mania occur" (Cited in Rosenhan & Seligman, 1995, p 352). Furthermore, Rosenhan & Seligman (1995) go on to say that, normal depression differs in the degree of symptoms to unipolar depression. Both have similar symptoms but, unipolar differs in the severity, frequency and duration.
Depression and Sociodemographic Groups
Blackman (1995) points out that depression is a disease that afflicts the human psyche in such a way that the afflicted tends to act and react abnormally toward others and themselves. Therefore it comes to no surprise to discover that adolescent depression is strongly linked to ...
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Abilities Of People With Disabilities
Number of Words: 702 / Number of Pages: 3
... employers? You might not lose any weight ,but at least you
can get the job you deserve. This is possible because of the courts and the
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission wants to extend protections under
the 1973 Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act to
obese people. In December of 1993 a Federal Appeals Court ruled unanimously
to uphold an order that required the state of Rhode Island to pay $100,000
in damages to a 320-lb. woman for not hiring her and then ordered that she
be hired as an attendant at a mental retardation facility. The EEOC said,
"It is not necessary that a ...
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Abortion
Number of Words: 1143 / Number of Pages: 5
... 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 . For instance, when a woma ...
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Hyperkinetic Children
Number of Words: 2143 / Number of Pages: 8
... child when it is and infant or toddler. Abnormal sleep patterns are
frequently mentioned, the child objects to taking naps, he also seems to need
less sleep, and becomes very stubborn at bedtime. Then, when the child is
seemingly exhausted, hyperactive behavior may increase. Family history studies
show that hyperactivity, which is more common in boys than in girls, may be a
hereditary trait, as are some other traits (reading disabilities or enuresis-bed
wetting). Certain predisposing factors affect the mother, and therefore the
child, at the time of conception or gestation or during delivery. ...
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Homosexuality
Number of Words: 834 / Number of Pages: 4
... (Levin 355).
Since Mr. Smith isn't using his teeth for chewing, his digestive system will
suffer from disuse. The result will be Mr. Smiths deteriorating health. Levin
incorporates the evolution process into this example. He states that Mr. Smith
descended from creatures who enjoy the use of such parts. Creatures who do not
enjoy using such parts of their bodies will tend to be selected out. In
particular, human males who enjoyed inserting their penises into each other's
anuses have left no descendants. Homosexuality is likely to cause unhappiness
because it leaves unfulfilled an innate and ...
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Alzheimer's Disease
Number of Words: 819 / Number of Pages: 3
... and
take on the structure of a paired helix. Other diseases that have "paired
helixes" include Parkinson's disease, Down's Syndrome, and Dementia Pugilistica.
Scientists are not sure how the paired helixes are related in these very
different diseases.
Neuritic Plaques are patches of clumped material lying outside the bodies of
nerve cells in the brain. They are mainly found in the cerebral cortex, but have
also been seen in other areas of the brain. At the core of each of these plaques
is a substance called amyloid, an abnormal protein not usually found in the
brain. This amyloid core is surrounded by ...
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Angina Pectoris
Number of Words: 4452 / Number of Pages: 17
... on drug and alcohol abuse, homicides,
AIDS and so on. What a lot of people are not realizing is that coronary heart
disease actually accounts for about 80% of all sudden deaths. In fact, the
number of deaths from heart disease approximately equals to the number of deaths
from cancer, accidents, chronic lung disease, pneumonia and influenza, and
others, COMBINED.
One of the symptoms of coronary heart disease is angina pectoris.
Unfortunately, a lot of people do not take it seriously, and thus not realizing
that it may lead to other complications, and even death.
THE HUMAN HEART
In or ...
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Euthanasia Term Paper
Number of Words: 3093 / Number of Pages: 12
... and let them die.
Many critics of the medical profession contend that too often doctors play
god on operating tables and in recovery rooms. They argue that no doctor
should be allowed to decide who lives and who dies.
The issue of euthanasia is having a tremendous impact on medicine in
the United States today. It was only in the nineteenth century that the
word came to be used in the sense of speeding up the process of dying and
the destruction of so-called useless lives. Today it is defined as the
deliberate ending of life of a person suffering from an incurable disease.
A distinction i ...
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Mad Cow's Disease And Mad Man
Number of Words: 1204 / Number of Pages: 5
... many parts of the world and is one kind of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE) that affects a sheep's nervous system. Scrapie's main target organ is the brain but may infect other tissues such as the spinal cord, the lymphatic system, the intestines and eyes. What does sheep have to do with not being able to eat a steak you ask? In 1986, British scientist discovered Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), better known as Mad Cow's Disease which is a mutated version of Scrapie. Since its' discovery in 1986 more than 160,000 British cattle have been diagnosed and millions more have been sla ...
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