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Teenage Suicide
1289 Words - 5 Pages.... questioned said 29 of the 30
items were important to be discussed with their teenage children. This survey
showed that American parents are somehow concerned about suicide among teenagers.
This concern is pervasive among American teenagers. In 1993, a national survey
of adolescents about their knowledge of, and attitudes toward, youth suicide was
made. The survey reulted that 60% of the teenagers reported knowing another
teen who had attempted suicide while 6% reported having make an attempt
themselves.
The above two examples indicates that it is very important for parents,
counselors, or different institutions to become aware of the reasons and
symptons of teenage ....
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Autism
2229 Words - 9 Pages.... and labeling this "early infantile ". Research has shown from historic data that individuals displayed autistic behavior long before Dr. Kanner did his studies. There was Victor the "Wild Boy of Aveyron" who was found in the early 1800s living wild in some woods. He was mute and self absorbed in his self. (1) John Haslam also noted about a boy, who after getting measles, his behavior changed and he became aggressive, showing signs of being impulsive and other problems. In the early 1900s Lightner Witmer wrote about a boys problem, describing his behavior, which would more than likely be labeled as today. Several old theories about the cause of have been proven false. ....
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Being A Virologist
551 Words - 3 Pages.... Why would I want to be a virologist? Well the reason for me is, I
find viruses fascinating. Trying to find cures for diseases like HIV and
the common cold. Yes, the common cold is caused by a virus. And there is
no cure for the common cold, just vaccines.
I don't know, and could not find that much information on exactly
how virologists find cures and vaccines. But I know that they need
antibodies to make these cures. And there are two primary ways of making
these antibodies. One, they can take them from patient zero. Patient
zero would be where the virus originated from.
Two, they could inject into an animal like a horse. If the animal,
horse creat ....
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Sleeping Disorders
1331 Words - 5 Pages.... These are bad on
the job and at school while doing tests or other important work.
The amount of sleep that each person needs to feel alert during the day
varies. If you have a night of sleep which is much less than the amount of
sleep you need, then you will more than likely feel quite sleepy the next day.
Thirty-three percent of adults in America have a case of insomnia at least once
in their life. Most cases only last one or two nights, but insomnia can
continue for weeks or possibly even months.
There have only been three standard types of insomnia that have been
identified by doctors. They are as follows:
- Transient insomnia is considered a few slee ....
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
1141 Words - 5 Pages.... system. Damage ranges from mid-facial abnormalities, stunted growth and low weight, poor eyesight, learning disabilities, hyperactivity, and some even have severe heart and brain problems. Alcohol attacks virtually any of the body's cell (Dorfman, 60). Mid-facial abnormalities are a part of the child for life. Some of these common abnormalities are a broad nasal bridge, poorly developed filtrum, thin upper limit, flattening of the axillary area, and a short upturned or beak-like nose.
Some of the more serious effects that can be more dangerous are a poor dental alignment, optic nerve defects, and arterial septal defect (Welkselman, 297). Welkselman thinks that affected ....
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Abortion
1012 Words - 4 Pages.... born some nine months later. The remainder are aborted or result in a miscarriage.
There exists a consensus that an infant is the most precious form of life on earth, and needs to be protected under law. The philosophical and religious question behind the pro-choice/pro-life argument is: when does life become human life?. After that occurs, terminating life is a form of murder which many people believe can only be justified to prevent the death or extremely serious injury to the mother. Unfortunately, there is no consensus of when that event occurs.
Many people believe that happens at conception. That is, a just-fertilized egg is a full human being and should be prote ....
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Dreams
1481 Words - 6 Pages.... the conscious mind. This is called lucid dreaming. With this you can
take partial control of what happens during a dream. Since you can do this you
don't have to be restricted to do all the things you do in real life but you
could do whatever you like because it's your mind that's controlling you not
your body and gravity. For example, you could fly or walk through walls.
The powers of dreams
The dreaming world could be a very powerful thing so much so that it
causes a baby to be born because of lucid dreaming. In a true story taken from
the book called Living with Dreams a woman dreamt that she just had a period in
her dreams. This was so realistic that she actually tho ....
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AIDS
343 Words - 2 Pages.... years, there will be more than 2 million AIDS
orphans in the following seven countries combined: Dominican Republic, Kenya,
Rwanda, Thailand, Uganda, the United States, and Zambia.
Illness and death among young adults due to HIV have reached such proportions
in some countries that overall national economics and productivity are affected.
In Uganda, for example, 44 percent of all premature deaths are attributable to
AIDS. In terms of years of labor productivity, AIDS is responsible for more than
66 percent of Uganda's economically significant losses.
The virus is also spreading into new areas. For example:
-During the last three years, HIV-infection rates among Vie ....
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