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Term Papers on Health and Medicine
Comparing Treatment Approaches
Number of words: 1189 - Number of pages: 5.... taking it would receive no "high", no positive reinforcement, and would gradually be able to become successful in a treatment program. The problem with this point of view is that cocaine has not been shown to be very physically addicting, as there are no major symptoms of withdrawal that the patient is trying to combat by self-administering more of the drug. By making the drug ineffective in the blood stream, addicts would not receive what is thought to be positive reinforcement through cocaine's effects on the dopaminergic systems in the brain, but there .....
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Human Variations In High Altitude Populations
Number of words: 4158 - Number of pages: 16.... and even more than that
thrive in this type of environment.
In this paper I will describe the high altitude stresses. Along with
adaptations made by the populations living in them. The two high altitude
populations which I will examine in this paper are the Tibetan people of the
Asian Himalayas and the Quechua of the South American Andes.
The Quechua are an Indian people who inhabit the highlands of Peru and
Bolivia. They speak Quechua, which is a branch of the Andean-Equitorial stock.
They show many remnants of Inca heritage by their houses, musi .....
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Euthanasia Is Not The Answer
Number of words: 1146 - Number of pages: 5.... six weeks after his diagnosis. He didn’t choose any treatment because of his poor prognosis. If he had chosen Euthanasia we would have missed out on so much. He was not active in church but returned to his catholic faith. He showed my family and I how to live in the face of death. He wasn’t afraid to die and let us share in his care. He had some pain but it was well controlled. He had hospice come and make him very comfortable. Our family was united in caring for him. This is a perfect example of why you shouldn’t choose Euthanasia.
Death is never easy, but lea .....
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The Relationship Between Food Concentration, And Respiratory Activity
Number of words: 373 - Number of pages: 2.... 60% sucrose solution. Then, the nine remaining test tubes
were serially diluted, so that the sucrose concentration ranged from 30% to
0.12%.
The hypothesis in this expriment was that the most respiratory activity
would take place with 60% sucrose concentration. Since yeast fermentation
requires sucrose and water, aproximately equal proportions of both would yield
to the most respiratory activity.
Once the sucrose concentration was serially cut to the desired level,
the experimenter added 5 ml of yeast suspension to each one of the ten test
tubes.
Then, .....
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The Argument Against Female Circumcision
Number of words: 1145 - Number of pages: 5.... the
girls underwent in her culture, usually around the age of seven or eight.
The local midwife called the daya, would show up to perform the operation.
In most cases two women members of the family would hold the girl by her
thighs to expose her genitals and to prevent struggling. Then the daya
would proceed to cut of the clitoris of the girl with a sharp razor. One
of the women El Saadawi interviewed explained "the daya sat between these
two women, holding a sharp razor in her hand which she used to cut off the
clitoris." (Nawal El Saadawi 170)
Although El .....
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The Dangers Of Cigarettes
Number of words: 327 - Number of pages: 2.... big mess in my room. My room would stink like smoke after only one cigarette and after a couple you couldn’t even see, which would also get my parents mad. My garbage would be filled with ashes and cigarettes. The ash tray would get filled up and get knocked over and cause a mess.
Cigarettes would also cause an inconvenience since all the time I would have a cigarette my throat would get dry. The dryness would cause me to get up for a drink or if I was out somewhere, I would have to buy something to drink. I also hated the thought of wealthy, greedy cigarett .....
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Assisted Suicide
Number of words: 2366 - Number of pages: 9.... study some of the cases that have been brought before the
American courts.
Suicide has become a big part of American society, year after year
more people are taking their own lives for many different reasons. A lot
of philosophers have broken down all the reasons of suicides into two
different categories, rational suicide and irrational suicide. A rational
suicide has been given five basic criteria that usually must be met for the
person's act to be considered rational. The five criteria which a person
must show for their suicide to be considered rat .....
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Abraham Maslow's Theory Of Human Needs
Number of words: 818 - Number of pages: 3.... the need for self-actualization. Each level of the pyramid is dependent on the previous level. For example, a person does not feel the second need until the demands of the first have been satisfied.
1. Physiological Needs. These needs are biological and consists of the needs for oxygen, food, water, and a relatively constant body temperature. These needs are the strongest because if deprived, the person would die.
2. Safety Needs. Except in times of emergency or periods of disorganization in the social structure (such as widespread rioting) adults do not experie .....
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