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Teenage Suicide
Number of Words: 935 / Number of Pages: 4
... On the average, a teenager takes his or her own
life every one and a half hours, making about one hundred and thirty
deaths a week, making suicide the second leading cause of death among
teenagers.
Three major aspects of teenage suicide are (1) what causes teens to
make this choice to take their own lives. (2) How you may be able to detect
if someone you know might be going to commit suicide and (3) and how you
could help someone who may be suicidal.
First what really are the reasons that make teens choose to pick
suicide as an answer to their problems to take thier own lives? One of
the many rea ...
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Cocaine
Number of Words: 1215 / Number of Pages: 5
... so the knowledge is derived totally from archaeological sources. Chewing coca leaves has been associated historically with the religious ceremonies of the Incas and reserved specifically for nobility. The coca plant was considered to be a gift from the gods and it was only used during religious rituals, burials, and other special purposes. By the time the Spaniards arrived in the 16th century, the Incan empire was in decline and the use of the leaves was widespread throughout the empire. The Spaniards tried to prevent the Indians from using the leaves because they believed it was a barrier to ...
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Observational Abilities Test
Number of Words: 1059 / Number of Pages: 4
... test
was being conducted. The locations of the test were Wilford Hall Medical
Center : Primary Care Meeting, University of the Incarnate
Word : World Literature Class, and University of Texas at San Antonio :
Business Statistics Class. The sample sizes and constructs were as follows:
Wilford Hall Medical Center : 30 people - 19 (F) 11 (M)
University of the Incarnate Word : 19 people - 9 (F) 10 (M)
University of Texas at San Antonio: 32 people - 11 (F) 21 (M)
The test subjects were all presented with the same scenario, given the normal
degree of variation. The procedure of the test was as foll ...
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Your Brain
Number of Words: 1110 / Number of Pages: 5
... It is concerned more with the visual and emotional side of life.
Most people, if they thought about it, would identify more with their
left brain. In fact, many of us think we are our left brains. All of that non-
stop verbalization that goes on in our heads is the dominant left brain talking
to itself. Our culture- particularly our school system with its emphasis on the
three Rs (decidedly left-brain territory) - effectively represses the intuitive
and artistic right brain. If you don't believe it, see how far you get at the
office with the right brain activity of daydreaming. ...
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Multiple Births
Number of Words: 1090 / Number of Pages: 4
... the chances of giving birth to multiple children. These drugs cause
the ovaries to release an egg once a month but in some cases they release more
than one egg, sometimes releasing several at a time, increasing the chances of a
multiple birth. The drug clomiphene citrate is one of the most widely taken
fertility drug and has resulted in the birth of twins about once in every twelve
births, much greater than the chances of the birth of natural twins.
Twins are the most common form of a multiple pregnancy. About one in
eighty-seven births result in the birth of twins. Twins can be fratern ...
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AIDS
Number of Words: 343 / Number of Pages: 2
... are attributable to
AIDS. In terms of years of labor productivity, AIDS is responsible for more than
66 percent of Uganda's economically significant losses.
The virus is also spreading into new areas. For example:
-During the last three years, HIV-infection rates among Vietnamese
prostitutes jumped from 9 percent to 38 percent.
-Infection rates among blood donors in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh
have soared from 0.1 percent to more than 10 percent.
-In the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Nikolayev, HIV-infection rates among
narcotics users exploded in 1995, jumping from a 1.7 percent ...
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Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy
Number of Words: 1341 / Number of Pages: 5
... tales of his adventures. In 1977 an English pediatrician by the name of Meadow first described “,” when he discovered that the mothers of his epileptic patients were inducing their children’s seizures. Due to the extremity of the abuse, nine percent of Munchausen victims die at the hands of their perpetrator, which is the child’s own mother ninety-eight percent of the time (Feldman 147). MSBP is a perplexing and unfathomable disorder. In an attempt to understand it we must look at the characteristics of the offenders and victims, at the motives behind the abuse, and at how to detect and prevent ...
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Marijuana As Medicine?
Number of Words: 1661 / Number of Pages: 7
... it.
The oldest known medical use of marijuana dates back to the Emperor Shen-Nung in China in the 28th century BC. He prescribed it for such things as constipation, malaria, and absentmindedness. (Medical Marijuana, www.normal.com) Marijuana was also commonly used medically in, but not restricted to ancient Egypt to treat sore eyes, ancient India as an anesthetic, and ancient Greece to treat earaches and inflammation. In the 20th century the use declined due to new and better drugs, such as aspirin. In 1937 the United States Government passed the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, which outlawed non-m ...
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Decisions About Abortion
Number of Words: 485 / Number of Pages: 2
... now, for I was
dying a painful death.” Maybe this isn’t what the baby feels, maybe it
doesn’t feel anything at all, but its one very good perspective of it.
I also believe that the pregnant woman should decided for herself whether
or not she wants to abort her child. If the circumstances were on me, and
it was not my fault that I got pregnant because I was raped, and I felt
that I wasn’t ready for a baby, then I would most likely abort it. Only if
it was still an egg and it wasn’t developed. But if it was beginning to
develop, I wouldn’t abort it, because it would have a pulse, and if I did,
it would ...
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Illness
Number of Words: 423 / Number of Pages: 2
... say that I could have written a good three page
essay in the time that it took me to scribble this down, but I believe this is
untrue. As this paper took no concentration and just my thoughts coming down on
paper. If a real essay would to come to me now that is what would be on the
paper. But as you see it is not a true essay.
Honesty is always the best answer right? Why that is what I think.
Actually Miss Howard this Paper was just something to get done with and get a
grade so that I may re-write when I am feeling more myself and can think more
efficiently.
Here we come to the end of my glori ...
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