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- 2031: Euthanasia Term Paper
- ... legalization. The choice is not between a present policy that is benign and an alternative that is potentially dangerous. The present policy had it's evils, too. We spend more than a billion dollars a day for health car while our teachers are underpaid, and our industrial plants are rusty. This should not continue. There is something fundamentally unsustainable about a society that moves its basic value-producing industries overseas yet ... artificial hearts at home. We have money to give smokers heart transplants but no money to retool out steel mills. We train more doctors and lawyers than we need but fewer teachers. On any given day, 30 to 40 percent of the hospital beds in America are empty, but our classrooms are overcrowded and our transportation systems are deteriorating. We are great at treating sick people, but we are not that ... and reducing them to some subhuman level of humanity. The reasons just stated in favor of euthanasia are often over looked due to the following arguments that are against euthanasia. The way you talk you'd think people have absolute right over their bodies and lives. But that is obviously just not true. No individual has absolute freedom. Even the patient's Bill of Rights, which was drawn up by ...
- 2032: An American Crisis: Gulf War Syndrome
- ... sarin, 60 to 70 gallons of tabun, 250 tons of mustard gas and stocks of throdiglycal, a precursor used in mustard gas." (Fisher 151). "And then on the morning of January 17, 1991, the first day of the Gulf War, the official government newspaper in Baghdad announced that Iraq would unleash a secret weapon threat would astonish our enemies and fascinate our friends and release an unusual force'" (Fischer 151). This ... night Roberts went to Harold Edwards, a decontamination officer, who told Roberts that he detected mustard gas and lewisite in the area. (Fischer 148). Roberts just received his first dose of chemical warfare. The next day Roberts commander told his troops the explosions were sonic booms and the claims were false. And Robert was now experiencing flu-like symptoms accompanied with a rash. "He reported to sick bay every few days ... told him, the tumor would have shut down his kidneys and thrown him into a coma--or killed him. The close call made it clear to Roberts that ‘had I relied on the VA, I'd be dead now' "(Fischer 152). Besides chemical warfare, there are two more remote possibilities that explain Gulf War Syndrome. The first is the depleted uranium coating that is on artillery tips. The coating made ...
- 2033: Barnabas
- ... owned and brought the money and put it at the apostles' feet" (Acts 4:36-37). After the stoning of Stephen in Acts 7:54-8:1, the church was persecuted and scattered, "On that day a great persecution broke out against the church at Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria. Godly men buried Stephen and mourned deeply for him. But Saul began to destroy ... hard to reconcile with the conservative tendencies of Barnabas as indicated in Galatians, and the identification of Barnabas with Jerusalem in the book of Acts. Moreover, the Epistle of Barnabas seems to be dated A.D. 130 on internal evidence, and too late for our Barnabas. An exact date for the death of Barnabas was not found, Luke ends the book of Acts around A.D. 67 so Barnabas must have died sometime after this. However, Barnabas died by martyrdom in Cyprus. Scriptures from the Holy Bible, The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1962) 356. Scriptures ...
- 2034: The Legendary King Arthur
- ... of the Arthurian legend. There are, in fact many versions of the Arthurian legend which sare some similarities while differing in many ways as well. A primary source is Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D' Arthur. Other versions include T.H. White's The Once and Future King, Mary Stewart's The Hollow Hills, and Rosemary Sutcliff's Sword at Sunset. In T.H. White's The Once and Future ... the fifteenth century. It is similar to Malory's account, but the style and some of the details are different. It begins with Arthur living with Merlin. He continues living with him up until the day of the tournament. On the day of the tournament, he is given to Sir Ector and Sir Kay. From that point on, he is referred to as Wart. The first the reader hears of the sword in the anvil is ...
- 2035: Enochian Scripture
- ... as a true religion, or just another offshoot of Satanism, cult? The Necronomicon is closest documented translation of the original Enochian scripture, the Necronomicon Manuscript. The Necronomicon was first translated in Damascus in 730 A.D. by Abdul Alhazred. The Necronomicon, is not, as popularly believed, a grimoire, or sorceror's spell-book; it was conceived as a history, and so "a book of things now dead and gone". An alternative ... Arab", and while he was certainly eccentric by modern standards, there is no evidence to support a claim of madness. He is better compared with figures such as the Greek philosopher Proclus (410-485 A.D.), who was completely at home in astronomy, mathematics, philosophy, and metaphysics, but was well educated in the magical techniques of theurgy to evoke Hekate to visible appearance; he was also a founder of Egyptian and ... creation of humankind. The Djinn were created from fire. Some traditions make them a lesser race than human beings, but folk- tales invariably endowed them with unlimited magical powers, and the Djinn survive to this day as the genies of the Arabian Nights and Disney's Aladdin. Even with this very basic introduction to the Necronomicon and the Enochian Scripture and religion, it can be easily stated that this is ...
- 2036: Aspirin
- ... how aspirin works, but most authorities agree that it achieves some of its effects by hindering the flow of prostaglandins. Prostaglandins are hormone-like substances that influence the elasticity of blood vessels. John Vane, Ph. D., noted that many forms of tissue injury were followed by the release of prostaglandins. It was proved that prostaglndins caused redness and fever, common signs of inflammation. Vane's research showed that by blocking the ... agents. The usual adult dosage for adults and children over the age of 12 is one or two tablets with water. This may be repeated every 4 hours as necessary up to 12 tablets a day or as directed by your doctor. You should not give aspirin to children under the age of 12. An overdose of 200 to 500 mg/kg is in the fatal range. Early symptoms of overdose ... the top diagram on the next page, the Kolbe Synthesis is shown. It shows how salicylic acid is produced. The middle diagram shows the process that turns salicylic acid into acetylsalicylic acid. In the 3-D model of aspirin, the gray atoms are carbon, the white atoms are hydrogen, and the red atoms are oxygen.
- 2037: The Differences and Similarities of Pneumonia and Tuberculosis
- ... Dresser, 1995). The tuberculosis bacteria is spread through the air however transmission will only occur after prolonged exposure. For example you only have a 50% chance to become infected if you spend eight hours a day for six months with someone who has active TB (Cook & Dresser, 1995). The tuberculosis bacteria enters the air when a TB patient coughs, sneezes or talks and is then inhaled. The infection can lie dormant ... Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, 1989). The patient may also suffer from psychological and social problems throughout the course of the disease. In extreme cases patients may be unable to participate in physical, recreational, or normal day activities which may cause social deprivation or depression. However most patients can expect to keep their jobs, stay with their families throughout the treatment and lead normal lives. In Joan's case she was hospitalized ... Pneumonia [Online]. Available URL: http://www.lungusa.org/noframes/learn/lung/lunpneumonia.html American Lung Association. (1996) Tuberculosis [Online]. Available URL: http://www.lungusa.org/noframes/learn/lung/luntb.html Cook, Allan R., & Dresser, Peter D. (Ed.). (1995). Respiratory diseases and disorders sourcebook (6). Detroit: Omnigraphics Inc. Galantino, Mary Lou., & Bishop, Kathy Lee. (1994, February). The new TB. PT Magazine. P. 53-61 MedicineNet. (1997). Diseases & treatments: pneumonia [Online]. Available ...
- 2038: Schizophrenia
- ... opportunities for socialization in safe settings, the expression of tensions, and sharing problems. The most useful types of groups for schizophrenics are groups that help the client develop abilities to deal with such issues as day-to-day problems, sharing consistent experiences, learning to listen, asking questions, and keeping topics in focus. Groups available on an outpatient basis over a long period of time allow for individual growth in these areas. It would ... out to hurt them. This could be the future of our world if we don't take time to treat these schizophrenics who desperately need it no matter what the cost. Works Cited Barry, Patricia D. Mental Health and Mental Illness. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1994. Coon, Dennis. Introduction to Psychology. New York: West Publishing Company, 1995 McCuen, Gary E. Treating the Mentally Disabled. Hudson, Wisconsin: Gary E. McCuen, 1988. ...
- 2039: Jews
- ... spot Jews discovered outside the Warsaw Ghetto. The Romans crucified the Jews they found, placing crosses atop the hill to terrorize those watching from inside the city: as many as 500 were crucified in 1 day. The Germans tried to starve the Polish Jews into submission reducing their rations at first to 800 calories a day and later cutting off all food to the ghetto. The Romans used the tactic of siege to bring starvation in Jerusalem. In both episodes the actual fighting was in some ways similar. "Since the ghetto ... other people in the modern era has suffered a devastation comparable to that of the Jews during the Holocaust the attack on Jerusalem was unparalleled in the ancient world. "No destruction ever wrought by G-D or man approached the wholesale carnage of this war" said Josephus.
- 2040: Our World In Medicine
- ... years of college and medical school to get even a license to work with medicine.2 While some doctors are more important than others, almost all of them are on call twenty - four hour a day, seven days a week. Because they have to apply themselves to their job at all times, they are payed at very good wages. Human beings have been suffering from disease since they first appeared on ... of experimental medicine. But because his knowledge of anatomy was based on animal experiments, Galen developed many false notions about how the human body works.8 During the Middle Ages, which lasted from the A.D. 400's to the 1500's, the Muslim Empire of Southwest and Central Asia contributed greatly to medicine. Rhazes, a Persian - born physician of the late 800's and early 900's, wrote the first ... tissue transplants.16 Throughout many, many centuries, medicine has been used in hundreds of different forms. But the main goal of every different form was the same, to help the diseased and unhealthy. Every passing day, another scientist or doctor discovers another breakthrough in science and medicine. In years to come, we will have cures to incurable diseases, and people will be living ten to twenty years longer then they ...
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