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Pesticides And Their Harmful Affects
Number of pages: 11 | Number of words: 2800.... and what they are eating or giving to the future of our world, the children. In some foreign countries pesticides are used more frequently with legislative control than in the United States. In Mexico and South America, for example, many of the pesticides that the United States and Europe have banned, wind up being used on a majority of their produce crops. The largest problem with this is that Europe and the United States import from South America for produce all of the time.
What good does it do to ban harmful agricultural chemicals to be used on domestically grown c .....
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The Argument Against Female Circumcision
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1145.... 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 Saadawi claims there are no advantages to t .....
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Huntington's Disease
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 733.... she might pass along the gene without
even knowing it.
The gene for Huntington's disease is located on the short arm of
chromosome four in cytogenetic band 4p16.3. It was first identified in 1993.
While everyone posseses this gene, in someone suffering from Huntington's
disease, the number of repeats of a certain trinucleotide, cytozine-adenine-
guanine (CAG), is much larger than what it is in a normal person. In an average
person, the number of repeats is between 9 and 37. But is a sufferer of HD, the
repeat count is from 37 to 86. While nobody has found a direct correl .....
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DNA: An Invasion Of Privacy?
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 464.... has committed the crime, (2) a clear indication that relevant material evidence will be found and (3) the method used to secure it is safe and reliable. (347)” These laws were put into place also to protect U.S. citizens. At the same time they exist so the court systems time is not wasted on a case that has no evidence to go on.
There are all types of reasons DNA tests should be done. Whether they are ethical or not is hard to say. Should someone who is suspected of a rape have to give a sample? Should a person who is suspected of a murder have to give a sample? Thes .....
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Abortion - Right To Choose
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 759.... "person-hood": 1) consciousness (of objects and events external and or internal to the being), and in particular the capacity to feel pain. 2) reasoning (the developed capacity to solve new and relatively complex problems) 3) self-motivated activity (activity which is relatively independent of either genetic or direct external control) 4) the capacity to communicate, by whatever means, messages of an indefinite variety of possible contents, but on indefinltely many possible topics. 5) the presence of self-concepts, and self-awareness, either individual or social, or both. (Ta .....
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Mercy Killing Or Just Plain Killing: The Euthanasia Debate
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1397.... die naturally without life support or “pulling the plug” (passive euthanasia), all the way to Jack Kevorkian’s suicide machine (active euthanasia). To complicate things further, there is also voluntary euthanasia, “Cases in which patient requests to be killed, and dies as a result of action taken by another person,” involuntary euthanasia; “cases in which no action is requested because the patient is unconscious, senile, or otherwise incapable of making a request, but the person is allowed to die or is killed,” and nonvoluntary euthanasia; “cases in which a conscious, terminal .....
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The Heart And Its Functions
Number of pages: 13 | Number of words: 3410.... forwards to the left and corresponds to the interspace between the fifth and sixth ribs, two inches below the left nipple. Its atrial border corresponds to a line drawn across the sternum on a level with the upper border of the third costal cartilage. Its lower border (apex) corresponds to a line drawn across the lower end of the same bone, near the xiphoid process. Its upper surface is rounded and convex, directed upwards and forwards, and formed mainly by the right ventricle and part of the left ventricle. The posterior surface of the heart is flattened and rests upon the .....
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Abortion: A Women's Right And Choice
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1413.... than married and the
abortion rate has doubled for 18 and 19 year olds. Recently the U.S. rate
dropped 6 percent overall but the rate of abortion among girls younger than
15 jumped 18 percent. The rate among minority teens climbed from 186 per
1,000 to 189 per 1,000.
The most popular procedure involved in abortions is the vacuum
aspiration which is done during the first trimester (three months or less
since the women has become pregnant). A tube is simply inserted through the
cervix and the contents of the uterus are vacuumed out. The most commonly
used type of second trimes .....
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