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Injustice Of Abortion
Number of Words: 345 / Number of Pages: 2
... the parent can avoid conflicts when the baby is born. This seems like a very contradictory and unnecessary practice.
One major problem with the is the fact that people actually support it. With almost every other major injustice in America, including domestic violence, discrimination, sexual harassment, and others, the vast majority are strongly opposed to its existence. However, the majority of Americans support abortion by declining to ban it. When a majority of people support one of the biggest injustices in America, it is a dangerous thing. Not since the issue of slavery has such a suppor ...
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The Six Essential Nutrients
Number of Words: 561 / Number of Pages: 3
... your body has many uses for proteins. Enzymes, antibodies, many hormones, and chemicals that help the blood to clot are proteins. Proteins are part of muscles and many cell structures, including the cell membrane.
Sources of proteins in the diet include meats, dried beans, whole grains eggs, and dairy products.
Minerals and vitamins: a mineral is an inorganic substance that serves as a building materials or takes part in chemical reactions in the body. Minerals make up about four percent of your total body weight. Most of the mineral content of your body is in your skeleton. Calcium and ...
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Fibromyalgia Syndrome
Number of Words: 791 / Number of Pages: 3
... patients have an associated sleep disorder called the alpha-EEG anomaly. This condition was uncovered in a sleep lab with the aid of a machine which recorded the brain waves of patients during sleep. Researchers found that patients could fall asleep without much trouble, but their deep level (or stage 4) sleep was constantly interrupted by bursts of awake-like brain activity. Patients appeared to spend the night with one foot in sleep and the other one out of it. In most cases, a physician doesn't have to order expensive sleep lab tests to determine if you have disturbed sleep. Some FMS patients ha ...
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AIDS/HIV
Number of Words: 707 / Number of Pages: 3
... disease
makes the less serious conditions harder for your body to control or get rid of
because of the loss of many of the white blood cells in your body. The most
common causes of death for the people with AIDS are pneumonia and Kaposi's
sarcoma. Kaposi's sarcoma which shows up as purple lesions on the skin and
tumors known as B-cell lymphomas have affected 70% of the infected people.
AIDS is transmitted in three main ways. Intimate sexual contact such as
having vaginal, anal or oral sex with someone who is infected with HIV is the
most common. While direct contact with infected blood, like shar ...
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Nature / Nurture Or Both !
Number of Words: 1344 / Number of Pages: 5
... nature vs.
nurture. I will also try to present the third, new-emerging approach meant to
solve the mystery of “ What is it that makes us who we are?”
“Our genes made us. We animals exist for their preservation and are
nothing more than their throwaway survival machines.” This is what Richard
Darwin states in his book: The Selfish Gene. In his international best seller
book, he argues that we are merely a product of our genes and our main purpose
in life is to serve the genes, become distribution agents and ensure their
proliferation. Before we take any stand to Darwin's statement, let us
familiari ...
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Down Syndrome
Number of Words: 1140 / Number of Pages: 5
... eyes, small, abnormally shaped ears, single deep crease across the center of the palm, hyperflexibility, fifth finger has only one flexion furrow instead of two, extra space between the big toe and the second toe, or enlarged tongue
As many as 50 percent of the children with are also born with heart defects. Some of these defects are major, and the child will experience heart failure shortly after birth. However, not all heart defects are immediately apparent. For this reason, all infants with should have an echocardiogram within the first few months of life to check for heart problems.
People with ...
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Suicide Solution
Number of Words: 540 / Number of Pages: 2
... were not stopped, the impact
would be noticed.
Another popular argument for stoppers, people who want to prevent
suicide, is that nothing can be bad enough. Yet how do they know this? They
do not have to put up with the same stuff the suicide victim does everyday.
How could they possibly know what the potential suicide victim feels. Just
as a severely burned victim may wish to be allowed to die in peace, the
suicide victim wishes the same. To die in peace with no argument from
others.
The argument of "look at the people you will hurt" also does not
hold. Imidiate family members will ...
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Veterinary Medicine
Number of Words: 523 / Number of Pages: 2
... feedlots for beef -
cattle, large dairy cattle operations, and many of the increasingly
large poultry farms. A few veterinarians are now becoming involved in
embryo transfer work, in which fertilized eggs are removed from
superior donors and transferred into the uterus of a cow of lesser
genetic qualities.
A minimum of six years of study after high school graduation
is usually required for a student to become a veterinarian. At least
two and sometimes up to four years of college are completed before
the acceptance into veterinary college. The competition is stiff for
such acceptance, with usually ...
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Cigarette Smoking
Number of Words: 716 / Number of Pages: 3
... bars and restaurants. The work place is another problem for
smokers, now they have to go outside even in the winter to have a cigarette,
even though they used to be able to smoke inside.A strong supporter on
smokers rights is Democratic Assemblyman Dick Floyd, who wanted to vote for
a controversial smokers right bill. He feels it is not a smoking bill, it
merely protects the people who use legal substances such as tobacco and
alcohol in their homes from job discrimination.
However, smoking in public places is a danger to non-smokers health
for the reason of passive or second-hand smoke. The ...
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Abortion
Number of Words: 1458 / Number of Pages: 6
... overall but
the rate of abortion among girls younger than 15 jumped 18 percent. The rate
among minority teens climbed from 186 per 1,000 to 189 per 1,000.
The most popular procedure involved in abortions is the vacuum aspiration
which is done during the first trimester (three months or less since the women
has become pregnant). A tube is simply inserted through the cervix and the
contents of the uterus are vacuumed out. The most commonly used type of second
trimester abortion is called dilation and evacuation. Since the fetus has bones,
bulk and can move, second trimester is not as simple. When a ...
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