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Term Papers on Health and Medicine
Abortion - Pro-Choice
Number of words: 469 - Number of pages: 2.... words of "The Star Spangled Banner" in good conscience? Females
have been told what to do with and how to treat their bodies. If the right
to self-determination is taken away, what will be decided for us next?
What we can wear? What we can read and what we can say? Possibly even how
we can act? This is not the American way! In fact, it is unconstitutional.
We must be aware of this lack of freedom and see to it that women receive
it.
Sadly, there are many people who can not afford to support a child.
There are people who hate themselves and are in .....
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Your Brain
Number of words: 1110 - Number of pages: 5.... It's interested in the bottom line, in being efficent. The right brain
controls the left side of the body and leans more to the creative, the intuitive.
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 lef .....
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The Black Plague
Number of words: 1113 - Number of pages: 5.... swept northward through the following year. completed it's journey and died out by the end of 1351. Although the people of Medieval Europe did not know the direct cause of the Plague, they believed without doubt that God was responsible, judging human behavior and ready to punish the wicked. They concluded that this Black Plague was punishment from an angry God (Corzine 27-31).
had several different names. Bubonic Plague received its name because of the painful swellings it produced called buboes. The Black Death is another name which was given to the P .....
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Schizophrenia
Number of words: 1943 - Number of pages: 8.... mentally ill persons who were institutionalized. The
characteristics of this syndrome were submission to authority, withdrawal, lack
of initiative, and excessive dependence on the institution.
While deinstitutionalization was kindhearted in its primary logic, the
actual execution of the concept has been greatly undermined by the lack of good
community alternatives. At this time a large amount of the individuals using
community mental health treatment services are the homeless. Nearly half of the
homeless are chronically mental ill. These individuals a .....
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Huntington's Disease
Number of words: 1082 - Number of pages: 4.... on the short arm of chromosome 4. A genetic base that exists in
triplicate, CAG for short, is effected by Huntington's disease. In normal people,
the gene has eleven to thirty-four of these, but, in a victim of Huntington's
disease the gene exists from anywhere between thirty-five to one-hundred or more.
The gene for the disease is dominant, giving children of victims of Huntington's
disease a 50% chance of obtaining the disease.
Several other symptoms of the disease exist other than chorea. High levels of
lactic acid have been detected in patients of Hun .....
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Abortion
Number of words: 629 - Number of pages: 3.... a woman decides to have sex she is taking the chance of getting pregnant, even if she uses protection. If she doesn't want to get pregnant she shouldn't have sex, and she should be responsible enough to suffer the consequences. For example, Carrie is very promiscuous and finds out that she is pregnant, so she goes and has an . Next time Carrie finds out that she has HIV, well she can't pay someone to get rid of her problem so she has to deal with it. Why shouldn't she have to deal with the fact of being pregnant? There are many other options to killing .....
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Familial Hypercholesterolemia
Number of words: 560 - Number of pages: 3.... or bad because of their affect on the cardiovascular system which includes the heart and blood vessels, throughout the entire body. An excess of "bad" cholesterol- LDL, is known to precipitate out and accumulate on the lining on the membrane of arteries, and eventually sludge this tube enough to impair the flow of life giving blood to the end organ supplied by this blood vessel resulting in disease and serious impairment of that organ, eventually. It has been well proven that an excess of "good" cholesterol- HDL, helps to preserve the integrity of the blood ar .....
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Necrotizing Fasciitis/Myosits (Flesh Eating Disease)
Number of words: 565 - Number of pages: 3.... muscle,
it is called Necrotizing Fasciitis. Once the disease spreads into the
muscle tissue, it is called Necrotizing Myositis.
Background
The first record of the disease was in France in 1783. The disease
occurred throughout the 1800's and 1900's, but was usually only found in
military hospitals in times of war. Some outbreaks have occurred also in
civilian populations. There seemed to be some decrease in the 1940's, and
then another outbreak in the 1980's.
Ontario is the only province in Canada where there is statistics on
serious group a str .....
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