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Medicine and Nutrition Term Papers and Reports |
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Abortion Should Not Be Legalized
790 Words - 3 Pages.... the reproductive organs. As well, there is strong evidence that
abortion increases the risk of breast cancer. Women that abort increase their
chances of getting breast cancer by 50%, and teenagers with no previous
pregnancies that abort after the 8th week increase their probability by 800%.
Unicef states that 250,000 women die every year because of legal and illegal
abortions: 75,000 of them die of self-inflicted abortions; 75,000 die of
convulsions; and the other 100,000 die of blood poisoning caused by an infection
of the uterus. Therefore, if abortion is legalized there will be not only more
fetal murders but also more mothers will die.
None of the methods women use to a ....
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Abortion
927 Words - 4 Pages.... A powerful vacuum tears the placenta from the uterus and dismembers the body of the developing child, sucking the pieces into an attached container. There is a risk that the uterus can be punctured during the procedure. Also, the ist must take care that all the body pats are removed from the womb, as infection and hemorrhage can occur if fetal or placental tissue is left in the uterus. This method can be used up to the eighth week of pregnancy.
The second most common method is called saline injection or salt poisoning and is used after sixteen weeks or pregnancy. The doctor inserts a long needle through the mother’s abdomen and injects a saline solution into the sac of ....
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East Of Eden
277 Words - 2 Pages.... is a way rejection leads to anger. Resentment can start at an
early age and never go away. Cathy was rejected as a child and then she
grew up with resentment in her creating evil. The resentment never went
away so the evil just built up. This is a step in the direction of crime
and guilt.
Revenge is pursued when a person is rejected by others. With
revenge comes more evil and crime. "I am sure my self that there would be
fewer jails"(Steinbeck p.355) Revenge causes people to do bad things
which gets them into trouble. When revenge takes over the person becomes
obsessed and they tend to go physco." I think that if rejection could be
amputated, the human would not ....
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A Study Of Depression And Relationships
1156 Words - 5 Pages.... derive from
the type of care received in childhood and affect relationship functioning, and
both exert a reciprocal influence on each other in adulthood. The researchers
of this study wanted to examine all the correlation's between type of care,
attachment style, depression, and relationship functioning. They proposed a
three part hypothesis: 1. A less positive childhood would result in an insecure
attachment style and depression, 2. Depressives would exhibit a preoccupied or
fearful style of attachment, and 3. attachment style would affect relationship
functioning more than depression.
The research was conducted in two independent studies. The first study
sampled 2 ....
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Two Sides Of The Brain
1107 Words - 5 Pages.... Wilson and Shirley Maclean. The left brain controls
the right side of the body (this is reversed in about half of the 15
percent of the population that is left-handed) and, in essence, is logical
analytical, judgemental and verbal. 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 ....
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Critical Summary Of Cultural Effects On Eating Attitudes In Israeli Subpopulations And Hospitalized Anorectics
773 Words - 3 Pages.... as
well as the results they attained from conducting the survey.
Apter explains to us that anorexia nervosa is a severe eating
disorder that affects mostly upper & middle class teenage girls in the
western world. This disease is both physically and psychologically
damaging to these girls. For these girls, thinness and self-appearance is
what they revolve their lives around. Studies conclude that people in
professions where physical appearance is of extreme importance are more
likely to develop an eating disorder. In the Western world, over the past
two decades eating disorders have increased substantially. People believe
that this increase in eating disorders ....
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The Criminalization Of Knowingly Transmitting AIDS
1394 Words - 6 Pages.... In the United States, it
was initially identified in 1981. In 1986, a second virus, now called HIV-
2, was also discovered in Africa. HIV-2 also causes AIDS.
AIDS is transmitted in three ways: From sexual contact without
protection, from the mixing of ones blood with infected blood, and from an
infected pregnant woman to her fetus. Infection can occur from blood
transfusions of infected blood, or sharing 'dirty' needles. (Needles
already used, in this case, by a HIV positive person.)
The criminalization of intentionally spreading AIDS has been a big
issue recently, and still remains so. As of September, 1991, legislation
criminalizing AIDS transmission has ....
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The Search For Inner Peace
975 Words - 4 Pages.... across the expanse with as much as sixty miles between them.” (Ehrlich 158). This passage gives a in depth look as to how spread out and secluded Wyoming is. Ehrlich believed it was this openness that would help her loss herself but in actuality it was this openness that allowed her to find herself. She even goes to say that she hadn’t planned to stay once she arrived, “I came here four years ago. I had not planned to stay, but I couldn’t make myself leave.” (Ehrlich 156). Ehrlich was drawn to the vastness of nothing. Later in the essay she says, “Its absolute indifference steadied me.” (Ehrlich 157)
Without the presence of fellow people, one must l ....
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