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Use Of Marijuana As Medicine
Number of Words: 1163 / Number of Pages: 5
... everyday treatment because it has the unpleasant side effect
of being a powerful sedative. A member of Milwaukee's AIDS community, said that
a friend of his was taking Marinol to increase his appetite: “He spends the
whole day laughing and watching movies...He can't even drive a car because he's
so out of it.” (3/25/97) In addition to that, Marinol only comes in pill form,
which makes it useless for patients taking it for nausea. Marijuana has neither
of those drawbacks. Because it is usually smoked, even the most nauseous patient
can use it as well as easily regulate their intake (“Medical Marijuan ...
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Memory Systems
Number of Words: 302 / Number of Pages: 2
... to old information), and lack of an adequate retrieval cue.
A study plan that I would use to improve my ability to remember class and textbook materials would be to become organized, physical, clear, and smart. Being organized would be to learn from general to specific, getting on overview as a framework on which to hang specific details. Being physical is to learn it once actively and to visualize by paying attention, reciting, using all senses, making cartoons, and to draw diagrams. Being clear would be to reduce inferences such as turning off music, use daylight hours, and take breaks. Being smar ...
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AIDS And YOU
Number of Words: 3430 / Number of Pages: 13
... proportions in parts of Africa. In Zaire, it is estimated that
over twenty percent of the adults currently carry the virus. That figure
is increasing. And what occurred there will, if no cure is found, most
likely occur here among heterosexual folks.
AIDS was first seen as a disease of gay males in this country.
This was a result of the fact that gay males in this culture in the days
before AIDS had an average of 200 to 400 new sexual contacts per year.
This figure was much higher than common practice among heterosexual
(straight) men or women. In addition, it turned out that rectal sex was ...
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Euthanasia: The Right To Die
Number of Words: 2101 / Number of Pages: 8
... has assisted in
nineteen suicides. Because of the increasing number of suicides in Michigan,
Gov. Engler signed an anti-suicide law in late February that made doctor-
assisted suicides a felony. During the 21-month trial period of the new law
anyone assisting in a suicide can be sentenced to up to four years in prison and
fined more than $2,000 (Reuters, 1993).
With the passing of this law I thought that most people would be against
the right-to-die, not so. In a poll cited in a 1991 issue of USA Today eighty
percent of Americans think sometimes there are circumstances when a patient
should be a ...
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The Digestive System
Number of Words: 420 / Number of Pages: 2
... the stomach. If we didn't have an esophagus we probley wouldn't be alive. Your stomach is your main organ because it is the thing that makes your food into smaller units and you would die if you didn't have a stomach. Enzyme is a kind of protein that speeds up chemical reactions in the body. If we didn't have enzyme everybody would be walking 1 mile an hour and you wouldn't have any energy. The Liver is an organ that stores food substances and produces bile. Digestion is the process that breaks down food so it can be used in the body. Saliva is a fluid that helps food down the throat. It's like hav ...
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The Roy Adaptation Model
Number of Words: 2270 / Number of Pages: 9
... its ways of thinking. It's my belief
that this act of advocating a single unified model was an act of multi-oppressed
thinking influenced by men, the Roman Catholic Church and the medical world.
During a 1987 conference of nursing theorists, Sister Roy made a number
of deferring remarks to a speech made earlier by a male Bishop.
Fawcett also says the Roy Adaptation Model has an extensive vocabulary
and that some familiar words (ie adaption) have been given new meanings in Roy's
attempt to translate mechanistic ideas into organismic ones.
Oppressed Group Behaviour:
-assimilating the values and char ...
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Alzheimer's Disease
Number of Words: 736 / Number of Pages: 3
... cortex, 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 ...
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Anxiety
Number of Words: 1003 / Number of Pages: 4
... serious effects can have on you. It becomes serious when you have to start changing your lifestyle to avoid your anxieties. can take the form of many situations. For example. another woman overheard at her work that someone had a bad odor. The woman assumed it was her, and became paranoid about her odor. She was afraid to go out in public, an didn’t let her husband go either. She became anti-social and then depressed. This pattern persisted for 10 years, until her husband eventually took them to a therapist.
can cause severe depression. What happens is the person becomes anti-social, and b ...
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Diet And Disease
Number of Words: 2489 / Number of Pages: 10
... especially animal fats is reduced. Fatty deposits in the arteries and gallstones are to a large extent made up of cholesterol (19). When foods high in fat content are eaten, excessive amounts of cholesterol are made in the body. Individuals who have fat concentrated in the waist and abdomen instead of thighs and buttocks are prone to diseases that accompany obesity (Pruitt 121). Some of these diseases are: (in females) cancer of gallbladder, breast, uterus, and ovaries, (in males) cancer of colon, prostate, rectum. 'Saturated' fat is mainly found in animal foods. Other fats in the diet - 'pol ...
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Assisted Suicide And Canadian Law
Number of Words: 226 / Number of Pages: 1
... her life with the assistance of her doctor. She suffered from a terminal
illness called ALS (a.k.a. amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig's
disease). The disease progressively worsens until it robs the individual of all
their abilities (like walking, control of body movement, swallowing and
breathing) until they are totally dependent on mechanical devices to survive.
Before she ended her life, she brought the debate over assisted suicide
and the right to die to the Supreme Court of British Columbia (which was denied)
and then to the British Columbia Court of Appeal which was lost. Sh ...
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