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- 7741: Performance Enhancing Drugs
- Performance Enhancing Drugs There are many powerful forces in the world, but few are as powerful in sports as this. It is so powerful that 50% of athletes would keep using this knowing it would kill them. This force is so powerful that 40% of professional ... all performance enhancing drugs should be banned from sports. There are just too many risks to athletes taking them. But that is a very unlikely scenario, mainly because testing can’t keep up with the new drugs being produced. New drugs are created everyday. This is illustrated by Mark McGwire’s historic home run binge. Before this year, nobody knew about androstenedione. McGwire admitted to taking the drug, which helps build muscle. His record ...
- 7742: Scarlet Letter Townspeople
- ... acquire anything beyond a subsistence of the plainest and most ascetic description, for herself, and a simple abundance for her child. The townspeople begin to see the scarlet letter that she wears in a whole new light. Its meaning changes from adultery to able. They grasp the idea that although she has had a complicated and possibly sinful past, she is still capable of good deeds and has a place in their society. Products of Hester s inventive mind become accepted by the Puritan community, and her handiwork became what would now be termed the fashion. As Hester grows, the townspeople gain a new sort of open-mindedness allowing them to grant her an abode in their municipality. However, this new attitude is tainted because many Puritans maintain feelings of hatred towards an evil sinner. They often stare at her scarlet letter, alienating her from the town. They accordingly stood, fixed there by the centrifugal ...
- 7743: Virginia Woolf
- ... Beton, Mary Seton, Mary Carmichael, or by any other name you please (720)," she was trying to make the story relate any woman in the audience no matter who they were. Woolf has created a world where people can be comfortable and open minded about her sensitive subject. She could not get on stage and rage about how woman have been held back by men. Woolf would have scared all her ... for women to read them, for she will inevitably look for something that she will not find(736)." Woolf is tired of reading books written by men for other men, she wants some more fresh new books by women writers. Woolf starts to give almost a pregame pep-talk, because she wants to fire the women up so they will stop accepting the rules. Woolf wants to show them that the ... a comfortable place for her listeners to open up their minds, and by breaking many conventions she shows anything can be done in writing even by a women. Once she has them in this imaginary world, she could then preach about the problem without scaring anybody off. By the end, she could go as far as calling them "disgracefully ignorant," just to pump them up. Woolf took a very sensitive ...
- 7744: Santiago Is Hemingway (old Man
- ... rugged individualism and wonder if the dreams of the lions might not be more significant than the critics will ever know. Bibliography Brenner, Gerry. The Old Man and the Sea: Story of a Common Man. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1991. Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. Lynn, Kenneth S. Hemingway. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987. Mellow, James R. Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. Meyers, Jeffrey. Hemingway: A Biography. New York: Harper & Row, 1985. Mr. Morden's English handout on Hemingway' ...
- 7745: Diabetes
- ... insulin shots and that people with nerve damage do not get worse but usually show very good improvement. On the other hand, some negative aspects of the transplant are that the body may reject the new organ and the patient will also have to take immunosuppressant drugs that lower resistance to other diseases such as cancer and viral infections. This transplant treatment is not recommended for type 1 patients unless they are also receiving a new kidney. Statistics show that 15% of all patients who get a new pancreas die within five years of the transplant. Serious complications frequently develop from diabetes. Arteriosclerosis, cataracts, foot ulcers, high blood pressure and neuropathy. All of these complications can occur if the patient does not ...
- 7746: Health Experience
- Health Experience Since early medicine doctors, researchers, and scientist have been coming up with new medications, formulas, and antibodies that help the human species get through the years. Women have fought a prolonged battle to be heard in medicine. In my opinion they have not had a chance to speak ... system of today has done for most women. Women are equal and should not be shunned from the medical society. They should be researched upon and given special care. For heavens sake women make the world go around! Politically women’s health care system is crap. Women fight and struggle with it everyday. Women are more prone for health care just for the single reason of being a woman. So do ... that at this point women and physicians are enemies due to communication barriers. I think we all need to work and strive for a better relationship with our doctors, because doctors do to make the world go around. They are our saviors and without medicine women are probably the worst off in the entire world.
- 7747: People Vs. the Tobacco Industry
- ... and outgoing ladies’ men. Models are used to illustrate that smoking will make women thinner and more glamorous. Slogans such as “You’ve come a long way, baby” interprets women’s entrance in the business world. Teens are especially being targeted because they make up 90% of all new smokers. Ads imply that smoking will make teens look mature. Companies such as Marlboro even give points that can be achieved with each carton of cigarette, which later can be traded for prizes such as ... substance as a drug if its producer intends the product to “affect the structure or any function of the body.” The medical and scientific communities agree that nicotine, a primary ingredient in cigarettes, is addictive. New evidence indicates that cigarette manufacturers have long known about the addictive nature of nicotine, that they have developed the technology to manipulate nicotine levels in cigarettes, and that they may have used this technology ...
- 7748: The Argument against Female Circumcision
- ... even if they object. Speaking of issues regarding women and sex in these countries is a taboo. One woman, Nawal El Saadawi, a medical doctor who later became Egypt’s Director of Public Health was brave enough to come forward. The fact that she did ultimately lead to dismissal from her position and actual imprisonment. Her writings are forbidden from many of the Arab countries that practice female circumcision. In a selection from The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World (1980), she explains her argument against female circumcision and retells some interviews she had with women who underwent the operation. El Saadawi goes into detail telling about the procedure that the girls underwent in her ... authors argument to be very persuasive and based on the facts she has illustrated I believe female circumcision should be done away with. Works Cited El Saadawi, Nawal; “Circumcision of Girls”, Complements; McGraw – Hill Inc. New York: 1995, 169 – 179.
- 7749: The Price of Smoking
- ... whom the ladies love. Models are used to illustrate that smoking will make women thinner and more glamorous. Slogans such as "You've come a long way, baby" interprets women's entrance into the business world. Young people in their teens are especially being targeted because they make up 90% of all new smokers. Ads imply that smoking will make teens look mature. Companies in the United States, such as Marlboro, even give points that are earned with each pack of cigarettes, which later can be traded for ... lung function, and is the cause for death in 53,000 non-smokers each year in the United States alone. The medical and scientific communities agree that nicotine, a primary ingredient in cigarettes, is addictive. New evidence indicates that cigarette manufacturers have long known about the addictive nature of nicotine, that they have developed the technology to manipulate nicotine levels in cigarettes, and that they may have used this technology ...
- 7750: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- ... treat children, adolescents, and adults who have it. A variety of medications, behavior-changing therapies, and educational options are already available to help people with ADHD focus their attention, build self-esteem, and function in new ways. There are also new avenues of research promising to further improve diagnosis and treatment. With so many American children diagnosed as having attention disorder, research on ADHD has become a national priority. ADHD does not have clear physical signs ... bored with a task after only a few minutes. They may give effortless, automatic attention to activities and things they enjoy. But focusing deliberate, conscious attention to organizing and completing a task or learning something new is difficult. People who are hyperactive always seem to be in motion. They can’t sit still. Sitting still through a lesson can be an impossible task. Hyperactivity children squirm in their seat or ...
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