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Barbituates
752 Words - 3 Pages.... but the side effects were too great.
Barbiturates are drugs that cause depression of the central nervous system and are generally used to induce europhia. D.C. Heath’s Perspectives on HEALTH defines europhia as a feeling of intense happiness and well being. Most users take the pills orally, often with alcohol. The most common way to get the barbiturates is in tablet form. Other ways to get barbiturates include ampoules, syrup, or capsules. For injection, which is rarely used because of its risk factor, capsules are opened and the powder is added to water. However, this can cause damage to the veins. Barbiturates come in different types such as Soneryl, Nembutal, Amyt ....
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MPD
751 Words - 3 Pages.... usually has names for each of the personalities.
There have been many movies made about Multiple Personality Disorder. The movie “Primal Fear” caught my interest. This movie really made me chance the way I feel about this particular disorder. “Primal Fear” was about a younger boy that had been physically abused and killed the person who had done this to him. He had to go to court and get tried for the murder. Through the whole movie he had two personalities, one was a sweet, innocent, quite boy and the other was the man that had killed this other man. This personality was a very cruel and loud man. The court had decided to let him go because he had this d ....
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Argumentative Environment
2164 Words - 8 Pages.... pro-environmentalists, like Sioux medicine man John (Fire) Lame Deer, claim that the damage industrialized society has done to nature is both immense and nearly criminal , the result of greed. Lame Deer complains that the white men "have not only despoiled the earth, the rocks, the minerals, all of which they call ‘dead' but which are very much alive; they have even changed the animals, which are a part of us, part of the Great Spirit, changed them in a horrible way, so no one can recognize them" (Erodes 209). On the other hand, conservatives frequently label environmentalists as extremists who despise almost all of capitalism's practices regarding ecology. That is, so ....
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Astrology
1056 Words - 4 Pages.... of can be dated to about six thousand or so years before the birth of Christ! (Woolfolk, p.297) The oldest chart dates back to 4,200 BC (Weblinkers.com Enterprises, p.1)
At this time, and religion went hand in hand with each other. (Woolfolk, p.297) Most astrologers were priests. (Woolfolk, p.297) Many people looked up to these astrologers as “taught men”. (www..net/about.html)
has had its ups and downs through history, but it always maintained that station of being. (www.astrologers.com/history.html# Relevant, p.1) After some aspects of religion became prevalent, became known as the “work of the devil”. (Weblinker.com Enterprises, p.1) During the Renaissa ....
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Fusion Energy
865 Words - 4 Pages.... problems and causes no pollutions whatsoever.
The problems with fusion are the molecules of hydrogen that are
supposed to be fused, electro-statically repel each other at a great force.
The only way to create the conditions where the it is possible to force
these atoms together and override their repulsion is through enormous heat,
this method is called thermonuclear.
Even though fusion reasearch still needs a lot of time, there has been
some progress in discovering how we can use this. The two fusion reactions
that are the most promising both involve the heavier isotopes of hydrogen:
1) deuterium (composed of one proton and one neutron) Deuterium occurs
n ....
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Killer Whale, The Mighty Dolphin
399 Words - 2 Pages.... also very easily identifiable as male or female. The male's dorsal fin can reach seven feet tall and stands straight up off the middle of his back. The female's dorsal fin is much shorter, usually about three feet, and instead of standing straight, forms a crecent arc on her back towards the tail.
Although Killer Whales are not used for oil-based products they have over and over again been found with harpoons sticking out of their backs. Research soon found that fishermen were shooting them to keep them from eating all of a days catch. This was not the first time something like this was found. In the 1950's The U.S. Navy used machine guns to slaughter hundreds of Killer Whale ....
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The Beginning Of The Universe
1285 Words - 5 Pages.... matter and radiation of that early stage
rapidly expanded and cooled. Several million years later, it condensed
into galaxies. The universe has continued to expand, and the galaxies have
continued moving away from each other ever since. Today the universe is
still expanding, as astronomers have observed.
The Steady State model says that the universe does not evolve or
change in time. There was no beginning in the past, nor will there be
change in the future. This model assumes the perfect cosmological
principle. This principle says that the universe is the same everywhere on
the large scale, at all times.2 It maintains the same average density of
matter forever. ....
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Nicolaus Copernicus
653 Words - 3 Pages.... he roomed with
Domenico Maria de Novara, the mathematics professor. In 1500, Copernicus
lectured in Rome and in the next year, obtained permission to study medicine at
Padua. Before returning to Poland, he received a doctorate in canon law from the
University of Ferrara.
Copernicus lived with his uncle in his bishopric palace. While he stayed
there he published his first book which was a translation of letters written by
the 7th century writer, Theophylactus of Simocatta. After that he wrote an
astronomical discourse that laid the foundation of his heliocentric theory; the
theory that the sun is the center of our solar system. However, it was 400 years
before it was publish ....
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