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- 16041: Sickle Cell Anemia
- ... life-threatening condition called acute chest syndrome. Since sickle cell anemia is an inherited disorder that is present from birth, your doctor may perform a routine blood test to screen for the disorder whenever a new baby is born. Doctors diagnose sickle cell anemia by using a blood test called hemoglobin electrophoresis. Right now there is no way to prevent sickle cell anemia, although gene therapy may be possible in the ... born with sickle cell anemia, a bone marrow transplant may cure their illness, However, this is a high risk treatment that is primarily used in those with very severe symptoms. Scientists are working on many new treatments, which may eventually help cure sickle cell anemia or relieve its symptoms. These include drugs that increase blood levels of fetal hemoglobin, clotrimazole, and gene therapy. Drugs that increase blood levels of fetal hemoglobin ...
- 16042: Love 2
- ... Similarly Dmitri, due to his lack of love for his wife felt compelled to desert his wife and consequently seek adventure. His adventures and happiness were rooted in his affairs, which he perpetually had with new women. From these two examples we see the ramifications of remaining in a relationship lacking true love. In contrast when one is involved in a relationship with true love, the partners will long for each ... a relationship with out love are the loss of respect and appreciation for one s spouse. As well, when someone is in a loveless relationship they tend to feel the need to escape and create new adventure. However, the opposite is true to relationships containing love, such as the one between Dmitri and Anna, where they longed to be together. We must conclude, one ought not pursue nor continue a relationship ...
- 16043: Pete Rose and The Hall of Fame
- Pete Rose and The Hall of Fame Pete Rose is a huge social issue in the baseball world to this day. There are many people who believe that Rose should be forgiven and let into the Hall of Fame, but there are many who feel he should never again be a part of ... his mind. His dreams are just that--dreams. The smell of the grass, the feel of the bat, and the excitement of the game still burn in his stomach. Pete sits alone, entrapped in a world that will not forgive him. Pete Rose should be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
- 16044: Carbon Dioxide Poisoning
- ... small portion (about 7%) of U.S. homes (Marable 97). According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the reason that carbon monoxide detectors are not in more homes is that the technology is still relatively new. The first CO detectors came out in the early 90's. These detectors scared potential buyers off, because they would be easily triggered by low levels of carbon monoxide. To counter this problem UL phased in new standards in October of 1995. These standards included the units to be not so, "trigger happy." The CPSC suggests installing at least one CO detector outside the bedroom areas of your home. Having a detector ...
- 16045: Oxygen
- ... as a propellant for guided missiles and rockets2. I have chosen the element "Oxygen" because without Oxygen, human beings would not be able to live. Oxygen is probably the single most important element in the world as we know it. With out Oxygen we would not breath, have water, eat plants. Oxygen's Electron configuration is 1S2 + 2S2 + 2P4, it's electron dot symbol is: . Gaseous oxygen can be condensed to ... of elements see separate articles on each element.3 A Guy jumps of a ship in the middle of the ocean and he swims and swims towards an island. Having second thoughts about leaving the world, he started screaming at a passing ship. The added oxygen to his blood caused his face to turn dark purple. The captain of the ship saw the man, waived to him, and didn't pick ...
- 16046: David Hume
- ... his reputation, he gained more and more political power. He discarded the possibility of certain knowledge, finding in the mind nothing but a series of sensations, and held that cause-and-effect in the natural world derives solely from the conjunction of two impressions. Hume's skepticism is also evident in his writings on religion, in which he rejected any rational or natural theology. Besides his chief work, A Treatise of ... s existed only in the person's mind. Although our body is confined to one planet, our mind can roam instantly into the most distant regions of the universe. Hume believed that there was a world outside of human conscience, but he did not think this could be proved. The contents of the mind can all be reduced to materials given us by the senses and experience, and those materials Hume ...
- 16047: Nuclear Fusion
- ... Pepsi. I have been able to produce a ten-megaton reaction which as little as a saltine cracker and some grass clippings. But enough about my discoveries. Early in 1989 two electrochemists startled the scientific world by claiming to achieve a room- temperature fusion in a simple laboratory. They had little proof to back up their discovery, and were not credited with their so-called accomplishment. The two scientists were Stanley ... kind of fusion. The goal on fusion is in effect, to produce and hold a small star. It is a daunting and tedious research which is considered to be of the most advanced in the world. Creating a small dwarf star in a man-made environment has thought to be the highest scientific challenge. Even though last weekend my little brother and I did create several dwarf stars, we were forced ...
- 16048: History of Athens, Greece
- ... and many others were born. Military was a big aspect of their life. When a boy turned six or seven he was put into the military. Athens had one of the greatest generals of the world. His name was Alexander the Great. He never lost a battle. He died of a fever. Now days there are a lot of sightseeing in Athens. There is "The unknown soldier", The Greek Parliament, The ... language or would we even speak English. If the word rhinoceros was made what would your nickname be. All these things are from Athens. This shows the importance of the city of Athens to the world now and then.
- 16049: Julious Ceasar
- ... not the egotistical and power-hungry man who has just spoken from the throne. For a moment, he is only an idealist who cherishes the noble love of a friend more than anything in the world. When he sees Brutus, whom he loves best, among his betrayers, he relinquishes his hold on the world and utters, "Then fall Caesar (Act III, scene1)." As a member of the conspiracy against Caesar, Marcus Brutus declares to himself that his role in the conspiracy is to save Rome. He says to the ...
- 16050: Descartes
- ... perfectly, may I not, in like fashion, be deceived every time I add two and three or count the sides of a square We are now at the point where we are doubting everything the world around us, that we have a body, and anything else that we could possibly believe. Perhaps I even doubt that I exist myself. But in doing this, I am in the act of doubting. How ... first person to write a systematic account of it. Now, Descartes wanted to prove two more things. One, that he actually was an immaterial thing, and two, that there is in fact an external corporeal world Although Descartes is still a well respected philosopher, it seems that history has judged much of his reasoning as faulty. Kant calls him a problematic idealist for whom there is only one empirical assertion that ...
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