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Abortion
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 475

.... Even the Catholic Church, which normally opposes abortion, makes an exception when the fetus is killed in the process of saving the mother.6 About 83% of Americans approve of abortion in cases of rape, or when the fetus is abnormal or likely to suffer a disability later in life.7 Pro-life “supporters” oppose abortion because they believe a fetus is a person from the moment of conception. A 22% minority of the United States population oppose legal abortion according to a 1985 Newsweek poll.8 The anti-abortion groups include the National Right to Life Committee, March f .....


Performance Enhancing Drugs
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 661

.... is many health risks, many not resulting in death though. These include stoppage of growth, loss of bodily functions, dehydration, and many more. Plus, these drugs are illegal in sports. Many are available only through a doctor’s prescription for certain diseases. The sport that sees the highest rate of competitors using is bodybuilding. Many of these athletes were skinny and not very popular during their high school years. They use the steroids to bulk up and create a shield against the criticism. Due to this fact of psychological instability and the effect of the st .....


Sickle Cell Anemia
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 752

.... red cell’s life span of 120 days, the “sickled” cells result in chronic anemia (abnormally low levels of red blood cells). is most common in people whose ancestors came from parts of Saudi Arabia, India, Africa, and the Mediterranean region. Persons of South American, Central American, or Cuban origin may be affected also. Health experts estimate that approximately 2 million Americans currently carry the trait, while another 72,000 have the disease. Right now, 1 out of every 500 African-American children, and 1 out of every 1,100-1,400 Hispanic-American children are born .....


Abortion
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1012

.... 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 protected as such. Some hold this belief because of their religious faith. Their religion teaches that a soul enters the fertilized egg at the instant of conception, and the cell becomes a human person a .....


Paranoid Personality Disorders
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 888

.... of with the disorder also tend to bear their grudges and unwilling to forgive. They nurture their grudges and anger, which over time, gives them more of a sense that it is the outside world which the problem, not themselves. At times, these individuals may also conjure up flamboyant illusions to confirm their behavior toward others. These feelings are also carried out towards family as well. One example could be as if a person with this personality disorder had a spouse or sexual partner, this individual constantly thinks that their partner or spouse is cheating on them. .....


AIDS
Number of pages: 1 | Number of words: 214

.... exposure to contaminated blood or blood products. This disease weakens the body's immune system, allowing other diseases to occur. The most common treatments available for this virus are the drugs called AZT, DDI, and DDC which interfere with HIV'S ability to reproduce itself. These are the only known ways to slow down the production of the virus. This virus is spread through the exchange of body fluids {semen, blood, and blood products} this virus can stay in the body for as long as a decade with no symptoms. People who have AIDS have to go through a lot of complic .....


The Ear And Hearing Loss
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1113

.... the cochlea. The outer and middle ears purposes are only to receive and amplify sound. Those parts ofd the ear are only present in amphibians and mammals, but the inner ear is present in all vertebrates. The ear can hear in several different ways. They are volume, pitch, and tone. Pitch is related to the frequency of the sound wave. The volume depends on the amplitude or intensity of the sound wave. The greater the frequency, the higher the pitch. Humans can hear about 30 and 20,000 waves or cycles per second. High pitch sounds produce more of a trebly sound, wh .....


Adolescence
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1641

.... cognitive, or mental development; identity, or personality formation; and parent-adolescent relations. Physiological Change: Between the ages of 9 and 15, almost all young people undergo a rapid series of physiological changes, known as the adolescent growth spurt. These hormonal changes include an acceleration in the body's growth rate; the development of pubic hair; the appearance of axillary, or armpit, hair about two years later. There are changes in the structure and functioning of the reproductive organs; the mammary glands in girls; and development of th .....



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