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The Partial Birth Abortion Debate
Number of Words: 898 / Number of Pages: 4
... kept the baby's head just inside the uterus. The baby's little fingers were clasping and unclasping, his feet were kicking. Then the doctor suck the scissors through the back of his head, and the baby's arms jerked out in a flinch, a startled reaction, like a baby does when he thinks that he might fall. The doctor opened up the scissors, stuck a high-powered suction tube into the opening and sucked the baby's brains out. Now the baby was completely limp."
It was clear that the abortion camp needed to do some damage control. Since the media is the filter through which all information is disseminated ...
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Ovarian Cancer
Number of Words: 4156 / Number of Pages: 16
... genes. This can
include oncogene overexpression, amplification or mutation, aberrant tumor
suppressor expression or mutation. Also, subversion of host antitumor immune
responses may play a role in the pathogenesis of cancer (Sharp, 77).
Ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma was first described by Peham in 1899
as "hypernephroma of the ovary" because of its resemblance to renal cell
carcinoma. By 1939, Schiller noted a histologic similarity to mesonephric
tubules and classified these tumors as "mesonephromas." In 1944, Saphir and
Lackner described two cases of "hypernephroid carcinoma of ...
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Abortion Should Be Made Illegal
Number of Words: 844 / Number of Pages: 4
... arms. Another woman is walking down that same street carrying a
child, only this woman is carrying the child in her. Both children are
dependent on their mothers, both just dependent in different ways. (Schwarz 35)
Take another example "Suppose a woman suffers a miscarriage, A sympathetic
doctor will not tell her, "You have lost your fetus"; he will say; "You have
lost your child"." (Schwarz 35) If an abortion is picked the term "fetus" is
used as a cold scientific "neutral" word which switches the persons mind from
reality, and also will flip the seriousness, and preciousness of a unborn baby. ...
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Ban Smoking In Restaurants And The Workplace
Number of Words: 1142 / Number of Pages: 5
... hand smoke? What a bunch of bs!” But it’s not. Second-hand smoking is serious. The Environmental Protection Agency found classified second hand smoke to be a Class A Carcinogen, meaning that is proven to cause cancer in humans. Second hand smoke kills more than 3,800 people each year in the United States alone. It KILLS thousands of people each year! Second hand smoke is serious a serious matter. It contributes to millions of cases disease and disability, as well as thousands of deaths of American children. Lung cancer, heart attacks, low birth weight infants, sudden infant death syndrome( ...
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The Trip: Journey To The Center Of Terence McKenna's Inner Self.
Number of Words: 340 / Number of Pages: 2
... his mental Merzbau on the New Age
lecture circuit, where he has earned the benediction of the psychedelic High
Priest himself, who dubbed him “the Timothy Leary of the 90's”.
McKenna has written several books as well as having rave bands set his
ruminations to billowing techno-trance music.
The main focus of this article is on McKenna's theory, which is concocted from
psychedelic Darwinism, fringe linguistics, and New Age eschatology. This theory
is based on the notion that “Hallucinogenic plants may have been the catalysts
for everything about us that distinguishes us from other primates, except
p ...
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Diphtheria (Corynebacterium Diphtheriae)
Number of Words: 2464 / Number of Pages: 9
... of diphtheria
have been developed.
The study of Corynebacterium diphtheriae traces closely the development of
medical microbiology, immunology and molecular biology. Many contributions to
these fields, as well as to our understanding of host-bacterial interactions,
have been made studying diphtheria and the diphtheria toxin.
Hippocrates provided the first clinical description of diphtheria in the 4th
century B.C. There are also references to the disease in ancient Syria and Egypt.
In the 17th century, murderous epidemics of diphtheria swept Europe; in Spain
"El garatillo" (the strangler"), in Ital ...
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Alzheimer's Disease
Number of Words: 1285 / Number of Pages: 5
... of these two section, we would find three
irregularities which are not found in normal brain matter. These three are
called neurofibrillary tangles, neuritic plagues and granulovacuolar
degeneration3.
A nerve cell has numerous axons and dendrites coming out of it. A
neurofibrillary tangle is when the neuron changes. A number of dendrites are
missing and the nucleus is filled with protein filaments resembling steel wool.
Although all elderly people has a few of these helix shaped bundles in
their brain for they are normal indicators of aging, Alzheimer's patients has
more than usual. Their p ...
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Respiratory Diseases
Number of Words: 351 / Number of Pages: 2
... dry coughing as the only symptom. Attacks usually
last only a couple hours. An attack may happen again in hours to even years
after the first attack.
Asthma attacks can be treated and prevented by the use of drugs. Albuterol
or terbutaline, which can bring relief within minutes, is the usual treatment.
The common cold is another disease of the respiratory system. The cold
affects the mucous membranes of the nose and throat. It causes nasal
congestion, sore throat, and coughing. A cold usually lasts up to an average
of seven days. There is no known cure for the common cold yet. ...
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One Thousand Years Of Chinese Footbinding: Its Origins, Popularity And Demise
Number of Words: 3441 / Number of Pages: 13
... most extreme form, footbinding was the act of wrapping a
three- to five-year old girl's feet with binding so as to bend the toes
under, break the bones and force the back of the foot together. Its purpose
was to produce a tiny foot, the "golden lotus", which was three inches long
and thought to be both lovely and alluring.[4] It is believed that the
origin of the term "golden lotus" emerged in the Southern Tang dynasty
around 920 A.D., where the emperor Li Yu ordered his favorite concubine,
Fragrant Girl, to bind her feet with silk bands and dance on a golden lotus
platform encrusted with pearls and ...
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Stress
Number of Words: 666 / Number of Pages: 3
... usual. Things you
normally look forward to may seem like a burden.
A lot of people are not aware of being under stress. Some are frequently under
so much stress that they assume the feeling is normal.
Pros
By hearing the word "stress" most people think of something unpleasant and bad.
But that is only conditionally true. Stress has also several positive aspects:
- A lot of people (students!) take stress as a replacement for self-discipline.
They just can't start working without time-pressure. They need to know a
certain date when they must finish their work.. (like students before a test)
- I ...
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