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- 1131: Huntington's Disease
- ... known. Since this disease occurs later in life, the only chance you would have of being diagnosed with it was if it was in your family's history. If one of the parents of a child has Huntington's Disease and the other does not, the child has a 50% chance of inheriting the disease. Once it is transmitted, it is certain to develop. The disease may progress for 10 to 20 years until the patient dies. No treatment yet exists for ... Research Group had discovered the gene behind the disease. This was a major breakthrough in the effort to understand and eventually work toward a treatment of the disorder. Our group has decided to have the child. We have a steady income of $52,000 and are insured through our employers. Our counselor said that it was souly our decision to whether or not we wanted to have a child, but ...
- 1132: Should Abortion Be Supported?
- ... by blood test before getting married even though it isn't a hundred percent accurate. At least, it is one of the means to decrease the probability of giving birth to physical and mentally unhealthy child. As today's teenagers are more and more curious about sex, parents should educate their children about sex and the negative outcome of premarital sex and abortion. The Catholic church feels that the family and ... underlying forces will be able to spread an important message about this crucial life issue. In order to represent this Right to Life cause properly, we must make people aware that the life of a child begins at conception. No matter what a person's reasons are, abortion is still another form of murder. We have the right to choose whether to be pregnant or not but we do not have ... are both an economic and an emotional burden? However, in China, the government has set some laws to legalize the abortion. For instance, people who live in the cities can't have more than one child. If you already have one child in your family, you are not allowed to conceive another one or else you will have to have an abortion. For people who live in the countryside, they ...
- 1133: Cloning
- ... Robertson). So, the personalities of the two will be different. One or the other will learn different stuff and at a different rate. And the lab will always have a copy or clone for another child. In a bad sense, the company that is making the cloned embryo could also sell the same copy to another couple. In time you had one cloned son and then a couple years later you ... is if the embryo create can be placed into a uterus and be born. Some of the families concerns are the fear if cloning violates one's uniqueness and dignity. It will also give the child a unrealistic parental figures. Some feel discomfort with the manipulation and destruction of human emboss in research. They even fear the fact that clones could be created to provide a sick or dying child will the organ or tissue transplant. Still the worst fear is the case of the production of the cloned embryo will be produced and sold to certain parents looking for the desirable child of ...
- 1134: After The Bomb
- ... go there co‘¦z of the derricks along the roads. « Via Carlotta ‘V here where Mr. John Billing lives, a retired DWP engineer (department of Water and Power‘¨. And here where Philip also found a child being threatened by Cayotes. And a dog who where protecting the child. « Hardware ‘V here where Philip get a hose for the water supply to hospital from the neighbor of Mr. John Billings. « Crest Highway ‘V here where Philip walks 1 to 2 days when headed to ... for Philip‘¦s mom. « John Billings ‘V A retired DPW engineer he help Philip on giving a water supply to the hospital. « Dorothy ‘V the wife of John Billing who took good care with the child that Philip found on his way to Mr. John Billing House. « Grear Jason ‘V A person that Philip see while he‘¦s scouting and looking for a bit cleaner pool that could be use ...
- 1135: Achilles Anophtheis (Achilles revisited)
- ... is to have an `unresolved Oedipus complex'," Oswald interrupted. "I apologize for not clarifying my psychological terms for you. An Oedipus complex, as you are probably aware, is a normal childhood phenomena. Because of the child's natural love for his mother, he views his father as being in competition with him for that love, and, as a result, develops a hatred of him. The complex is usually resolved by the child's development of a `castration complex.' Two primary reasons contribute to this: first the child is frequently scolded for touching his genital area, and, secondly he may see a naked girl and believe that she has been punished for the same crime, by having the offending organ amputated. In ...
- 1136: Women and the Canadian Welfare State: The Decline of Social Welfare and Its Effects on Women
- ... they lose a job. When there are children, grandchildren or other family members that need to be taken care of, women tend to be the ones that take responsibility. Women also need welfare considering that child support is rarely paid in full or on time. The jobs that women can get are more likely to be part-time or temporary, which do not provide full health benefits, another reason why welfare ... than not, unionized (Evans, 1997: pg. 18). As women entered the paid labour force, some found relatively secure employment in jobs produced by the socialization of services that were formerly provided in households, such as child care and nursing facilities for the elderly; the provision of these services , to a limited extent, relieved household labour of the pressure to provide these at home. However, with the downsizing of the public sector ... funding. In light of this restructuring of the Canadian welfare state brought on directly by the Canada Health and Social Transfer, services that affect women most adversely, such as shelters for women fleeing domestic violence, child care subsidies, and services for the elderly and those with disabilities, have been made even more susceptible. From the mid 1960's to the early 1970's, the welfare state provided many services and ...
- 1137: Freud And Caligula
- ... mind containing the traditional values & taboos of society. Psychosexual development had five stages: the oral stage is the time during which the infant is orally fixated; the anal stage is the time during which the child finds gratification through excrement; the phallic stage is the stage during which children begin to choose sexual preference with their parents. This is the stage of the Oedipus and Electra complexes for boys and girls ... include minimizing, blaming, mastery, compensation, disassociation, and symbolism. Case in point: Gaius, emperor of Rome; otherwise known as Caligula. Gaius was born on August 31, 12 A.D., the third of six children . As a child, he grew up amongst his father's soldiers, often wearing a miniature soldier's uniform. The troops named him "Caligula" after the child-size military boots he wore in camp. Before he became of age, he was caught in bed with his sister Drusilla. Instability within the hierarchy led to a series of personal tragedies during his ...
- 1138: Oedipus 2
- ... the pull of the Freudian Death Instinct. The Oedipus Complex is defined as the family triangle of love, jealousy, and fear that is at the root of internalized morality and out of which grows the child s identification with the same-sex parent. (Gleitman, 722) According to Freud, a comparable situation is reenacted in the childhood of every man and woman, rooted in the common male longing to sleep with his mother. While the male is still a small child, he will already begin to develop a special affection for his mother, whom he regards as belonging to him. When the mother suckles the baby with her breast, it brings him pleasure. As he begins to grow older, the breast-feeding gradually becomes abandoned, and his only source of pleasure is taken away. The child then begins to see his father as a rival who disputes his sole possession. (Gleitman, 723) Oedipus is the namesake for this complex because in this ancient tale of tragic fate, Oedipus effectuates the ...
- 1139: Catcher In The Rye 2
- ... much more superior than adults. When an adult does something that is somewhat abnormal, Holden finds this a disgusting show of what people become as they get older Holden would like to keep Phoebe a child because he is troubled by the differences he sees between children and adults, both in their physical appearances and in their personalities. Holden finds children physically acceptable under any condition, but not adults. Holden then ... that he is more able to assist those he must catch. He seems to believe that he does not have any innocence during his journey, but the thing is he is still much like a child he is in some small ways. This really interests him because that is what he wanted to be like. Holden does not realize that he still has some of his innocence until he has already ... Mrs. Spencer , "How's Mr. Spencer. He over his Grippe yet?" and she answers, "Over it! Holden he's acting like a perfect I don't know what." Mr. Spencer is behaving like a perfect child, one may add .that's why Holden is able to stop crossing streets when he's "way up in the Sixties," is that a man of old Spencer's age has reached his second ...
- 1140: Into The Wild By Jon Krakauer
- ... that knew Chris the best. These people were not only his family but the people he met on the roads of his travels- they are the ones who became his road family. McCandless, an intelligent child to say the least, was frustrated with orders by anyone. He wanted to do things his way or no way and he does this throughout his life. Whether it was getting an F in physics ... in Into the Wild. It is no secret that McCandless does not survive but the reader still wants to continue reading to get into the mind of McCandless. What would cause a bright and compassionate child to leave a safe environment and venture into the wild to have brushes with death on an everyday basis? The yearning that some people have to live on the dangerous side and get away from ... as the kid who dies in Alaska in the beginning of the novel but he uses flashback to create a picture of Chris to the reader as the novel progresses. He shows Chris as the child who grew more and more outraged with society every year of his life and eventually sought nature and solitude to get away from it all. Chris was not someone who you would expect to ...
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