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- 13421: Smoking: I Can Stop Whenever I Want
- ... of cigarettes isn't there for nothing. It's there to prevent all of you teens to get hooked on cigarettes or even think about starting to smoke. Smoking is legal almost everywhere in the world, but it shouldn't be because Marijuana smoking isn't. Cigarettes are addictive and they usually lead the smoker to marijuana use or to other kind of drugs. That's why I think that young ... 1 out of 10 smokers succeed in quitting smoking in United-States. Everyone thinks that they have an iron will and they keep on delaying the time to stop, I'll just stop as my new year resolution, I'll stop in a month, a week, a year. Smoking is really hard to quit, it's an addictive habit and you really need an iron will to stop it. There are ...
- 13422: Ritalin and Its Uses
- ... estimates that about one student in every classroom is believed to experience the disorder. The rate of Ritalin use in the United States is at least five times higher than in the rest of the world according to federal studies. Are doctors just catching this disabling affliction more often? Or does society just want a convenient way to solve a complicated problem. Ritalin is a central nervous system stimulant that is ... taken in its intended form under a doctor's prescritption, it has moderate stimulant properties. There has been a great deal of concern about it's addictive qualities and adverse affects. ADHD is a relatively new disorder. It was introduced in 1980, where it was labeled ADD(attention deficit disorder). In the 1950's, children were simply labeled "hyperkinetic." The term "hyperactivity" was added in 1987, hence the name ADHD. Not ...
- 13423: How Television Affects Society
- ... viewers are the junkies. We feed of the rush of the action, and because each time we get high, we want in more intense qualities than before. This forces the pusher to come up with new ways of stimulating us. The unfortunate part is that we are never informed of the dangers of this drug. The statistical majority of Americans keep consuming this drug called T.V as their values deteriorate ... an environment of depressed self-disgusted embarrassment. While television remains to be the number one source of education for so many, we must realize that its sole inventive purpose is to entertain. In a world so entirely caught up in fantasy, we must strive to remove the blinders that television has placed on our perception. We must remember that the thirty-second commercial of the Coors Lite walking into the ...
- 13424: A Better Idea of Attention Deficit Disorder
- ... the diagnosis works, which method of help is better for them, and how they can find help in order to live normal lives. Works Cited Garber, Stephen, Marianne Garber, And Robyn Spizman. Beyond Ritalin. Villard, New York: Villard Books, 1996. Hallowell, Edward and John Ratey. Driven to Distraction. New York: Pantheon Books, 1994. Hartmann, Thom. Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception. Navato, California: Underwood-Miller, 1993. Morrison, Jaydene, M.S. Coping with ADD/ADHD. New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., 1993. Phelan, Thomas. All About Attention Deficit Disorder. Glen Ellyn, Illinois: Child Management, Inc., 1993. Weathers, Lawrence, Ph.D. ADHD: A Path to Success. Spokane, Washington: Ponderosa Press, ...
- 13425: Sports Therapy
- ... imagery. They use this technique for the mental aspect of fundamental skills. Psychologists recommend that athletes mentally practice their events on the eve of competition. When it comes to sports, the winning edge throughout the world of sports may have less to do with strength and talent, and more to do with, what sports psychologists call it, mental toughness. Sports psychologists James Loehr, calls "mental toughness," the ability to handle and ... athletes exceeding in their performance. Additionally, James Loehr believed that, the findings mentioned above are difficult to perform, but players that develop self-discipline to commit themselves to do it right, succeed in the sports world, as well as life in general. Musicians, actors, professional business executives, sprinters, and athletes are different in terms of their size, quickness, thinking ability, movement and other characteristics associated to this group. To be successful ... performance. These techniques help athletes visualize images before they occur, find effective relaxation system and set realistic goals, so that they can achieve them. My overall viewpoint of this complex and growing concern in the world of sports as it relates to pressure versus achievement can only be accomplished through the utilization of mental exercise. A high- carbohydrate diet, and systematic self-brainwashing to achieve a maximum performance. A considerable ...
- 13426: The Cystic Fibrosis Gene
- ... CF gene to be located on the long arm of chromosome number seven. Soon after identifying these markers, another marker was discovered that segregated more frequently with CF than the other markers. This meant the new marker was closer to the CF gene. At this time, two scientists named Lap-Chu Tsui and Francis Collins were able to isolate probes from the CF interval. They were now able to utilize to ... because the cDNA used was not made from the correct cell type affected with CF. The solution to this lack of hybridization was to produce a cDNA library made exclusively from CF affected cells. This new library was isolated from cells in sweat glands. By using this new cDNA library, probe number two was found to hybridize excessively. It was theorized that this success was due to the large amount of the CF gene present in the sweat glands, or the gene ...
- 13427: The Cystic Fibrosis Gene
- ... CF gene to be located on the long arm of chromosome number seven. Soon after identifying these markers, another marker was discovered that segregated more frequently with CF than the other markers. This meant the new marker was closer to the CF gene. At this time, two scientists named Lap-Chu Tsui and Francis Collins were able to isolate probes from the CF interval. They were now able to utilize to ... because the cDNA used was not made from the correct cell type affected with CF. The solution to this lack of hybridization was to produce a cDNA library made exclusively from CF affected cells. This new library was isolated from cells in sweat glands. By using this new cDNA library, probe number two was found to hybridize excessively. It was theorized that this success was due to the large amount of the CF gene present in the sweat glands, or the gene ...
- 13428: Alternative Medicine
- ... What is alternative medicine? Alternative medicine is exactly that, an alternative to the normal techniques taught in medical school and written in the medical journals. It is also called complementary medicine and more recently called new medicine. Patients are turning to alternative medicine more and more for different reasons. There are many types of alternative medicine. These types include mind-body intervention, bioelectromagnetic therapies, alternative systems of medical practice, manual healing ... have dismissed alternative medicine as a fad that was perhaps a remnant of the 60's pop culture. An article in American Family Physician, stated that a survey in 1990 which was reported in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1993 revealed that 34% of American s were using at least one type of alternative treatment. Patients spent 13.7 billion dollars on alternative medicine, 10.3 billion of it ... A Consumer's Guide to Alternative Medicine. Prevention 1 February 1998: 86-96. Don't Keep Your Doc in the Dark. Prevention December 1997: 28-30. Heimlich, Jane. What Your Doctor Won't Tell You. New York: Harper Perennial, 1990. Stehlin, Isadora B. An FDA Guide to Choosing Medical Treatments. FDA Consumer Magazine April 1996: 10-15.
- 13429: AIDS
- ... known as AIDS, is caused by the incurable HIV virus. AIDS is a deadly disease that deteriorates the immune system. There are two groups of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), HIV-1 that occurs throughout the world and HIV-2 that mainly occurs in Africa. The HIV virus enters the white blood cells and takes over the reproductive system of that cell and uses the system to reproduce itself. The white blood cell dies and the new HIV cells infect other white blood cells and repeat the process. If you have become infected with the AIDS disease you may not have any symptoms of the for the next ten years. The AIDS ...
- 13430: Hate Groups
- According to William Finnegan, author of Cold New World, there are a couple of good reasons that teenagers in the Antelope Valley area become members of white supremacist groups. Many of them are obvious just in reading the book. Peer pressure is the biggest ...
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