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Psychology: Dreams And Dreaming
Number of Words: 3028 / Number of Pages: 12
... approach. (Lemley p. 17).
Clinical dream work is done within the context of psychotherapy and
clinical and sleep research have different approaches and goals than peer dream
work. (Koch-Sheras p.16).
A dream is a period of spontaneous brain activity usually lasting from
about 5-40 minutes that occurs during sleep several times a night usually about
90 minute intervals (Barret p.8).
There are also certain types of dreams. There are fantasy, daydream and
waking dreams. There are also lucid dreams, nightmares and night terrors.
There are also certain stages in the dream cycle. In the first st ...
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AIDS: Myths And Facts
Number of Words: 650 / Number of Pages: 3
... Drug addicts have been infected through
the intravenous injection of drugs with “second hand” or dirty needles used
by someone who carried the HIV virus. Prostitutes contract and spread AIDS
through sexual activity with several different partners without knowing
their partners' sexual history. This in turn, leads to the spread of the
disease throughout the heterosexual community. Innocent infants are
victims of the disease, born by mothers who are infected with AIDS. It is,
of course, true that homosexuals do spread the disease. However, to label
AIDS a “gay disease” is nothing less than ludic ...
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Morality And The Human Genome Project
Number of Words: 1349 / Number of Pages: 5
... that controls heredity" (Lee,4).
Subsequently, "reasearch and technology efforts aimed at mapping and sequencing
large portions or entire genomes are called genome projects" (Congress,4).
Genome projects are not a single organizations efforts, but instead a group of
organizations working in government and private industry through out the world.
Furthermore, the controversies surrounding the Human Genome Project can be
better explained by the past events leading to the project, the structure of the
project, and the moral discussion of the project.
The major events of genetic history are important to t ...
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Small Pox
Number of Words: 1780 / Number of Pages: 7
... through materials the infected person has come in contact with.
The virus is reproduced in the lymphoid tissue and released into the body.
Virus reproduction begins when the virion comes into contact with a suitable
host cell. The virus must interact with a receptor on the cell surface. The
infectious cycle usually consists of two stages. The first stage makes the
proteins necessary for the protein to form. The second stage forms the adult
virion to start the attack on the body. Smallpox attack with no warning.
There are several painful symptoms that are brought upon by this disease.
In mo ...
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The Effects Of Anabolic Steroids
Number of Words: 1038 / Number of Pages: 4
... picture
someone who is massive, and whose muscle mass is very well defined. A picture
comes to mind of the giant body builder, who is so big he can't touch his back
because his biceps are in the way, but he can manage to bench press his car.
The possible growth and development is amazing. With much less work necessary,
the results can be astounding. Athletes can get bigger, stronger and faster,
with less effort than previous. The limits of an athletes potential with
steroids seem to be unbounded. These are the positive aspects to the use of
steroids. One study showed that as much as ten pound ...
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Ethical Problem: Drinking Alcohol
Number of Words: 674 / Number of Pages: 3
... The law, however, did not prevent many of my friends from drinking nor did
it do much in the way of stopping them after they had started. The law was too
easy to avoid so getting caught by the cops was rarely a matter of great concern.
Besides, even when one of my friends would get caught, they were usually
released to their parents with nothing more than a stern warning from the
officer who gave them the ride home.
Now, being at home brings up another reason not to drink. We all want to
try to obey our parents, right! Well actually, I did, want to try that is.
This stage of moral functi ...
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Speech On Euthanasia
Number of Words: 530 / Number of Pages: 2
... disease, you lie on the bed 24 hours a day with tubes all over your body, there is no way you can have a normal life again, EVER! Would you want to live like this? Sure the doctor could keep anyone alive today, they can keep the heart pumping. BUT is this life? I don’t think so.
In another case, where a person who was involved in a bad accident, and left as a quadriplegic – this mean they are completely paralysised.
People who are quadriplegic will have poor quality of life, and the carers, and their extended family will also have a poor quality of life, because of the demand of caring for such ...
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Compare And Contrast Depression And Schizophrenia
Number of Words: 3198 / Number of Pages: 12
... as children grow and develop, sex differences become stronger. Certain glands called endocrine have different physical effects on boys than on girls. These effects, in turn, produce different psychological experiences in the sexes.
But male-female differences in personality are not due solely to biology. The environment is equally important. Society tends to treat boys and girls differently from an early age. Mothers and fathers, for example, give boys trains to play with, and give girls dolls to play with.
Many personality theorists emphasize the importance of early childhood experiences in the ...
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The Heart And Its Functions
Number of Words: 3410 / Number of Pages: 13
... below the left nipple. Its atrial border corresponds to a line drawn across the sternum on a level with the upper border of the third costal cartilage. Its lower border (apex) corresponds to a line drawn across the lower end of the same bone, near the xiphoid process. Its upper surface is rounded and convex, directed upwards and forwards, and formed mainly by the right ventricle and part of the left ventricle. The posterior surface of the heart is flattened and rests upon the diaphragm muscle. Of its two borders, the right is the longest and thinnest, the left is shorter but thicker and round.
In a ...
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Euthanasia
Number of Words: 812 / Number of Pages: 3
... of will continue to be debated. "In 1995 two lawsuits were filed in New York and Washington State by a handful of terminally ill people and doctors claiming that the state laws that made assisting in suicide a criminal offense were unconstitutional.” What most people find troubling is how to define whom is terminally ill and how this process can be open to abuse. The definition of a terminal illness includes anyone who is reliant on treatment to continue living. Regardless, of how routine the treatment maybe, the person is expected to die within a year a month or even a week. All that is really re ...
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