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- 16771: Breast Cancer 2
- ... Provera could inhibit certain enzymes, (3HSDII) which influence hormone production, that low doses of Provera could disrupt GnRH production and high doses were needed for a therapeutic effect. By knowing all this, it brings about new ideas for drug therapy when dealing with certain diseases. Not only that, but 3HSDII enzyme may be great to treat breast cancer. In this study Lee and Auchus used yeast cells instead of human cells ... was the fact that Provera not only works for children with puberty problems, but at high doses it can also work for those women who are dealing with breast cancer. I think this puts a new light on breast cancer and offers great hope for those who are sufferers of breast cancer. Hopefully now this disease can be looked at as hopeful instead of life threatening.
- 16772: Immoral Acts Of The Tobacco In
- ... 21 age group so they created the Joe Camel campaign. Even though they blame its success on peer pressure the companies internal documents show otherwise. (2.a) Most of the evidence was industry studies on new smokers and how to attract them. One expert testimony showed that 90 % of six-year-olds recognized the popular characters on cigarette packs like Joe camel to be as familiar as Mickey Mouse and other ... The law is not perfect since these corporations have escaped guilt for so long and still make money, but throughout the past two decades, the realization of folly has called for a step in a new direction. For our society to finally rid ourselves of this parasite the change would have to be very slow; it would have to start with putting the entire industry in the hands of the government ...
- 16773: Death Of A Salesman - Minor Characters
- ... friend and he displays the failure of Willy Loman's ideals. He is a very realistic character who attempts to convince Willy that his goals are all wrong. "The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell"(97). Willy believes that in order to be a success, one must be well liked; therefore, Charley explains to Willy that good business will make someone prosperous. The failure of ... before Willy when he is fired by Howard. "No, but it's a business, kid, and everybody's gotta pull his own weight"(80). Howard explains to Willy that, contrary to his beliefs, the business world is a harsh environment void of compassion and preference. Howard increases the mood of the play when he reveals the desperation of Willy's situation. "Sure, they're only a hundred and a half. You ...
- 16774: Deerslayer
- ... that their mother died when they were young, Judith being the older one, naturally took the leadership and mothering responsibilities over the two. They had been raised by their father Tom Hetter on Lake Glimmerglass, New York. Each sister, in her own aspect was a leader and a follower. Though Hetty in her own aspect took on the missionary duties of converting the Mingos. Physically and personality wise the two were ... preferred to life a simple and moral life, while sharing her Christian faith with the Mingos, in hopes to convert them. Judith on the other hand wanted to go to bigger and better places, to new settlements being formed, vying away from simpleness and heading into booming towns. She wanted to leave the simple life and good morality that she had been raised on. Judith had a lust for life while ...
- 16775: Meeting a Girl
- ... her friends. This is your opportunity; you are nervous and afraid of her respond. Act casually, and keep total control of yourself. This is the big step, the going process of a tactical move. Be brave and remember the Estonian proverb: The brave beginning is half of the victory. Get yourself together, and get your words together as well. Be very tactful about what you want to say, and how to address your words. Females do not like ...
- 16776: Responces To Hunger
- ... learn to associate the ringing of the bell with food, and, once conditioned, the dogs could not hear the bell without salivating. The Japanese were masters at using classical conditioning with their solders. Early in World War II, Chinese prisoners were placed in a ditch on their knees with their hands bound behind them. And one by one, a select few Japanese soldiers would go into the ditch and bayonet their ... front of us are images of death. We are in a generation where we have learned to associate the media with pleasure. So it is no surprise that when we view starving people in the world we are not startled, or very upset by the images displayed. Operant conditioning is the process by which a response becomes more or less likely to occur, depending on its consequence. Children, of course cry ...
- 16777: Reproductive Technologies: Does Choice Mean Freedom?
- ... areas of this main area deal with the prevention of fertilization of the ovum or egg, also in some cases such as the condom it can stop the spread of disease. Genetic engineering is a new and extremely scary technology which hopes to enable the precise engineering of an unborn child. The previous examples are just some of the areas of reproductive technologies but they are sufficient to cover the basic ... become an issue and as discussed, it is an altogether unpleasant one. Also the area of science would now have power over the women because it first of all offers these options and continually finds new ones. Through social and political means they make money off of women. Contraception is not a true freedom for women because it's use is influenced by so many different sources that a truly "free ...
- 16778: Androcentricty In Things Fall
- The world in Chinua Achedes novel, Things Fall Apart, was a society in which males had control of everything, and the women had control of nothing. As wives, women were seen as property, rather than as partners ... the mans life was to help him achieve a higher stature by working for him. The Ibo tribes definition of family was much different than it was in many other parts of the world in the eighteen-hundreds. Okonkwos "whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and weakness" (13). The way Achebe described Okonkwos family and his tribe showed that in Ibo society, anything ...
- 16779: Pre-Eclampsia and Eclampsia Disorders In Pregnant Women
- ... is relatively uncommon in developed counties where it complicated about one in every 2000 deliveries. Eclampsia can be 20 times more common in developing countries, and it probably accounts for more than 50000 maternal deaths world wide each year. Here in the United Stated prenatal care is to prevent pre-eclampsia. That has been going on since 1961. To close my paper I must point out that the damages left behind ... numbers of women dying every year from eclipse. Most of the women don't get to live with the side effects of eclampsia because they die. Hypertension alone is a problem in 80% of the world population. Eclampsia is a disorder better prevented that cured. Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia are disorders in pregnant women. Pre- eclampsia is hypertension and eclampsia is the worsening of pre-eclampsia where the woman experiences convulsions ...
- 16780: Colt: A Man and His Guns
- ... basic ideas. The other areas of the patent cover the application of certain parts of the gun, the principle of locking and turning the cylinder , and all of the basic revolver parts. In 1848, the new pocket model revolver was introduced. Colt devised an alternative means of loading the gun - removing the barrel and cylinder, and either switching an empty cylinder for a loaded one or using the axis pin as ... main feature of this firearm was a ratchet of the cylinder to revolve the cylinder. The revolving was initiated by the hammer; the motion it made was called "cocking" the hammer. The way that the new revolver was described as working Appleton's Dictionary of Mechanics was: "Colt improvements in firearms , patent 1849, consist in certain improvements upon that construction of guns and pistols which has cylindrical revolving breech piece, provided ...
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