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- 3541: Alzheimer's Disease
- ... years due to improvements in care and medical treatments. The cause of Alzheimer's has not been discovered yet and it cannot be possible to confirm a person has Alzheimer's until their autopsy following death. How does Alzheimer's develop What causes Alzheimer's? Well no one know exactly the development of this debilitating disease. But recent advances has produced several clues as to how it is born. Initially when ... language if they have one. Eventually languages disappear entirely. In stage seven or the terminal stage, the victim becomes bedridden and totally dependent for all functions. He cannot speak coherently and can't eat unassisted. Death usually occurs at this stage form aspiration pneumonia8, pneumonia caused by breathing in food or other objects because the victim doesn't remember how to swallow food safely, or from urinary infections. Recent Research on ... has been made in understanding the nature of the Alzheimer's disease. Scientists has recently found medicine that can slow down the progress of AD. The average survival period from the time of diagnosis to death in 1985 is 10 years. Today the rate has increase a third to 15 years9. A recent media release stated the discovery of a mutant gene called "triplet repeat" disease genes10. These genes produce ...
- 3542: Alcohol: Most Used and Abused Drug
- ... this impairs the heart muscles ability to contract and eventually fail. Alcohol's action on the brain is what causes people to feel intoxicated. A sudden intake of large amounts of alcohol may result in death, this is because nerve impulses to the brain are dangerously blocked. There are over two hundred deaths a year from this kind of accidental alcohol poisoning. Alcohol also has an increasing effect on our brain ... They can provide the moral support the alcoholic needs to get well. Alcoholics may need to check into a detox center if really bad, because the withdrawals can be very painful and could possibly cause death. Withdrawal reactions can include any or all of these: high fever, loss of appetite, nausea, uncontrollable shaking, hallucinations, and possible coma or death. Alcoholism is a disease that cannot be totally cured but people can recover and return to a normal way of life. Recovering depends on total abstinence from alcohol. Recovering alcohol's can never touch ...
- 3543: Vegan
- ... ensure the safety of all people. The truth is, every year "more than 14 million dogs, cats, rabbits, rats, monkeys, and other animals suffer in products tests that lead to blindness, severe burns, and eventual death." (Newkirk p. 10) Out of all of the companies which subject their products to animal testing, Procter & Gamble Inc. is the largest and kills the most animals: In Procter & Gamble (P&G), cosmetic and household ... large decrease in the population of a particular species. Since the intent is to kill a large number of specimens as fast as possible, they are all shoved together into small containers and gassed to death. Some of the animals do not die immediately, but the animals die when they are injected with the preservative formaldehyde, this causes an intense burning sensation. Dissection is not necessary to learn anatomy, there are ... rights activists are trying to improve the living conditions of circus elephants and to "stop the practice of making them do humiliating tricks. Inhumane treatment has led many circus elephants to become aggressive often causing death or injury to people." (Derly p. 10) Even though America's entertainment industry is the greatest in the world, we have always been willing to do anything in order to achieve this. Animal torture ...
- 3544: Humans Soon to be Extinct... Say it ain't so!!
- ... snow and ice. (British Medical Journal, 1994) Although the sea level rise may seem small, the effects may be very drastic. (fig a15) Large areas of agricultural land may become flooded, many islands will disappear, death rates from heart disease and stroke will rise. (British Medical Journal, 1994) Malaria, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (Fig a19) and other temperature dependent diseases that travel by insect will be able to become virulent at ... facing a possible modern greenhouse. Via the greenhouse-physiological killing mechanism, the direct effects of the greenhouse warming upon the female mammals and embryos can go in one direction only. That is toward increased embryo death, reduction of mammalian populations, and collapse of mammalian populations in the vulnerable middle latitudes." (McLean,1988,p.4) Earth's surficial systems are never truly stable, and must continually adjust to the fluctuations in the ... must do our own part to save it. The time for action has come. It's now or never. If something is not done, there will be no future and no more life. Only the death of the human race and the other beings on the earth. Bibliography Bates, A. (June 1990) Climate In Crisis. The Book Publishing Company, Summertown Tennessee. ***The Berlin Climate Summit Climate Change, (Earthaction 1996) pages ...
- 3545: Glass Menagerie 2
- ... would often see when he went to the movies every night. His coffin trick is a symbol of Tom's suffocating life. Both Malvoli and Tom face life-threatening situations. In the trick, Malvoli faces death by suffocation if he does not successfully escape the coffin. Tom faces death by emotional and spiritual suffocation if he does not find away out of the house. Also, the coffin itself symbolizes the lifestlye Tom is trying to escape. Tom views his life as a very cramped ... only making sixty-five dollars a month, and never being able to achieve his dreams. Although he loves his family, the thought of being cooped up in a lifestlye he desires not to live is death itself. Finally, during the coffin trick, Malvoli not only escapes, but does it without disturbing any of the nails. Tom claims "You know it don't take much intelligence to get yourself into a ...
- 3546: King Tut
- ... Tutankhamon, or Tutankhamun. There is an enigma, though, surrounding his name. Researchers have no idea where it came from because his parents are unknown. He became king during the period of readjustment that followed the death of his father-in-law, the pharaoh Akhenaton. The boy king married Akhenaton s third daughter to strengthen his claim to the throne and took the name Tutankhaton meaning gracious of life is Aton. After ... stories, but the wealthy pursued those pastimes with an elegant flourish. Royalty such as Tut, was portrayed on the walls of his tomb playing the game senet, which reenacted the quest for eternal fulfillment after death. This game is played on a checkerboard table with thirty squares arranged in three parallel rows. Each of two players has an equal number of counters (ranging from five to seven) in two series of ... the Kings in a tomb that originally had been prepared for his advisor Ay. Tut left no heir to succeed him and an important and powerful official, Ay, became pharaoh. About ten years after his death, thieves broke into his tomb and ransacked the antechamber. But the tomb, resealed and eventually covered over with rubble, was not touched again until modern times-although by 1000BC every other sepulcher in the ...
- 3547: The Metamorphosis: The Last Four Pages
- ... but the truth. The final four pages, although seeming to be of no importance, serve to show the reader how the Samsa family changes as a result of the main character's, Gregor Samsa's, death. The family's changes are best exemplified in two different scenes: the scene at the kitchen table, and the scene on the trolley. During the scene at the kitchen table, there is a common change among the family members: their new willingness to do things independently. Their bold act of writing "letters of excuse" is a clear example of their new independence. Prior to Gregor's death, the family relied completely on Gregor's financial support and had little in terms of responsibilities. Kafka explains this lack of work when he writes, "they [Gregor's parents] had formed the conviction that Gregor ... important roles in revealing the changes in the Samsa family. The change from being completely dependent on Gregor, and the mental and physical changes made by Grete. All of which were provoked by Gregor's death. By the end of the novel, each member of the family is a different person.
- 3548: The Sniper
- ... war weapons. As evidenced above, location plays a big part in how dangerous a war is. Bullets, of course, are another big danger in war. The author shows with bullets how close you are to death in a war. In the event where the sniper lights his cigarette, he is twice almost killed with the “enemy” sniper’s bullets! The sniper’s own bullets are quite dangerous, too, as seen when ... enemy” sniper sees him, and “His forearm [is] dead.” This is considered lucky as far as war goes, though, for instead of just having a broken arm he could be dead! The sniper brushes with death again when he throws his revolver down without thinking and it goes off. Bullets make a war very deadly, as they are much more precise than earlier and much simpler weapons (such as swords and ... off the tank commander (which she probably did for her own safety). War has psychologically changed the sniper to refer to all others not on his “side” as the enemy. The sniper develops insensitivity to death during the war. When he kills the old woman, she’s trying to run away and isn’t really a threat. He even “utters a cry of joy” when he finally shoots the enemy ...
- 3549: 1984 2
- ... but his displeasure with the society leads him on to rebel numerous times. First of all, Winston has committed a thought crime , a crime which is used to prevent the individual from thinking and the penalty for committing a thought crime was death (so he thought). Winston knew he was guilty for the crime but at the same time he assumes that he is not going to be detected or caught, at least in he beginning. One thing ...
- 3550: A Critical Analysis of Herman Melville's Moby Dick
- ... all of this stress took a toll on his family The masculine figure in the family was the uncle, Peter Gansevoort. Not long after Allan Mellville's financial collapse he died. Herman's father's death and his father's dependence on Peter Gansevoort probably had an effect on Herman's early psychological development. Its effects would show up in his later writings. Herman's relatives helped the struggling family in ... out and condemned to wander beyond the pale.” (McSwenny 25) This sense of rejection can be connected Melville's life by his mother's favoritism toward her other son and Herman's father's untimely death. Herman's journeys at sea can also be interpreted as alienation and rejection. Melville's writings show that he was preoccupied throughout his life with figure of Ishmael. In Mardi he writes, “sailors are mostly ... comfort him.” (125) “Melville had what might be called an ‘Ishmael complex.'” It had two sources; personal life experience and identification with an archetypal image.” (Edinger 16) The personal cause would be the insanity and death of his father and the following hardships. Melville was twelve and a half at the time when his father died, close to the Biblical Ishmael who was thirteen. In addition, he was rejected by ...
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