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Down Syndrome: An Informative Essay
468 Words - 2 Pages.... should discuss and prepare for.
People with Down Syndrome are identified by many physical
characteristics. Some of these are: larger or almond shaped eyes (sometimes
Brushfield spots on the irises), smaller than normal features, such as smaller
ears or a smaller nose, short stubby fingers, a single palmar crease on their
hands, and having exceptional social intelligence.
Because Down Syndrome is cause by a cell abnormality during meiosis, it
can not really be proven that Down Syndrome is hereditary. A perfectly healthy
mother could have a Down Syndrome baby even though there was never any sign of
the disorder in her pedigree. There are however, three different kinds o ....
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Alcohol Abuse
720 Words - 3 Pages.... are used to explain alcohol
abuse. These are the biologic-genetic model, learning/social model, the
psychodynamic model, and the multidimensional model (McFarland 457). Each
different model, for alcoholism have varied explanations as to how and why
people use and abuse alcohol.
The biologic-genetic model states that there is a specific genetic
vulnerability for alcoholism. There has been extensive studies on factors in
the genes that could determine or influence the use of alcohol from generation
to generation. However, these studies have shown no hard evidence for an
association between alcoholism and inherited factors.
The learning and social model proposes that ....
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Suicide Solution
540 Words - 2 Pages.... the planet, very few of them shall emerge to be true
world leaders. The rest will just lead a mediocre life of work and little
play.
The taking of ones life can be argued from a populistic view as
well. It makes little sense to preserve life in an over populated world.
True, one less person here on there will not make a large dent. Yet if
everyone who attempts or had attempted suicide were not stopped, the
impact would be noticed.
Another popular argument for stoppers, people who want to prevent
suicide, is that nothing can be bad enough. Yet how do they know this?
They do not have to put up with the same stuff the suicide victim does
everyday. How coul ....
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Is Psychology A Science?
1658 Words - 7 Pages.... this claim we have to look at whether or not psychology
can fill this definition above.
Scientific study is a valid way of coming to an understanding of life, and
can be very useful in every area of life. Science develops theories based
on what is observed. It examines each theory with rigorous and scrupulous
tests to see if it describes reality. The scientific method works well in
observing and recording physical data and in reaching conclusions which
either confirm or nullify a theory.
During the mid-19th century, scholars (although at that time probably
termed philosophers) wanted to study human nature with the aim of applying
the scientific method to observe, record ....
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Euthanasia - Immoral Or Human Right?
504 Words - 2 Pages.... ultimatum, that it is the
patients own choice. But can we allow some one to take their own lives?
Doesn't this mean that everyone else around the patient have failed, that
more could have been done? From the patients point of view, a lot of
arguments talk in favor of euthanasia. For one, no body wants to be a
burden. If a person has had a car accident which paralyses him from neck
and down, and is doomed to sit in a wheelchair for the rest of his life, he
knows that he will be 100% dependant on the ones that care for him, his
lived ones, forever. It can also be mentioned that the life quality of a
terminally ill patient, gets reduced a lot. Never being able to walk again,
nev ....
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Hypnosis In Psychology
987 Words - 4 Pages.... still used,
standardized approach, is rather limited due to the fact that it considers a
person either hypnotizable or not. In contrast to the authoritarian and
standardized approaches, the utilization approach, stresses the interaction
nature of the hypnotic relationship. These approaches have many dissimilarities
and thus are utilized for different practices.
The authoritarian approach emphasizes the power of the hypnotist.
This approach, spawned by Mesmer and others, is still widely exploited by stage
hypnotists and is consequently often the conceptualization held by the uniformed
lay person. Even many trained physicians implicitly adhere to this view ....
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Exotic Diseases And The Treat To Humanity
2834 Words - 11 Pages.... sanitation, and change in human activities. Diseases come into existence, change, and vanish, but some have always been with us. An epidemic attacks a population, it and runs its course, and then dies out, claiming hundreds to thousands of lives. There are ways of preventing some epidemics from starting, but not everyone agrees with the terms. Thus, these prevention plans for some diseases fail. Humanity is faced with many dangers of a doomsday in the next millennium, but the one that seems the most likely to happen is a world epidemic.
Human activities and behavior often help increases the risk of a world epidemic. In such activities like increased travel, shipmen ....
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Morality And The Human Genome Project
1349 Words - 5 Pages.... To better understand these topics a
careful dissection of the terminology must be made. Websters Dictionary defines
morality as ethics, upright conduct, conduct or attitude judged from the moral
standpoint. It also defines a moral as concerned with right and wrong and the
distinctions between them. A Genome is "the total of an individuals genetic
material," including, "that part of the cell that controls heredity" (Lee,4).
Subsequently, "reasearch and technology efforts aimed at mapping and sequencing
large portions or entire genomes are called genome projects" (Congress,4).
Genome projects are not a single organizations efforts, but instead a group of
organizations wo ....
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