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- 4881: Euthanasia - Immoral or Human Right?
- ... whereas passive Euthanasia only involves stopping pill consumption, or stopping treatment. In England, only passive Euthanasia is allowed. Euthanasia touches some of the deepest feelings in human beings. It is the power over life and death, and responsibilities no one wishes to take, have to be taken. This, of cause, leads to the ultimatum, that it is the patients own choice. But can we allow some one to take their own ... hope", so even a person, who has 20 tubes stuck in them, feeding them, breathing for them, there is still life, and who knows? Maybe the future will bring the cure? Euthanasia does mean "Good death", but there can still be no conclusion to a question, whether Euthanasia should be accepted or not. Psychologists, philosophers, doctors and everybody else, will consider this question for all time. My opinion is, that anyone ...
- 4882: Psychoanalysis
- ... painful misunderstandings or outright failures in the child's relationship to his or her parents. Sometimes parents lack the appropriate and attuned empathic understanding that children need. Sometimes severe physical or mental illness or the death of a parent or sibling causes serious psychic wounds. Consequently, even in adults, there remain ever-present though usually unconscious fears that the early hurtful experiences will now be repeated again with others. Transference is ... person a sense of self and of well-being. Any experience with objects, including persons, that evoke and strengthen the self are "self-object" experiences and are needed by every human being from birth to death in order to sustain a cohesive self. Absence of or faulty self- object experiences cause a loss of cohesion with attendant fragmentation of the self. RESEARCH In addition to their clinical application, psychoanalytic theories have ...
- 4883: Bach; Brandenberg Concertos
- ... court orchestra at Cothen for seven years, Bach was offered the highly prestigious post of cantor (music director) of St. Thomas’ Church in Leipzig (1723-1750). Bach remained at his post in Leipzig until his death in 1750. He was creatively active until the very end, even after cataract problems virtually blinded him. His last musical composition, a chorale prelude entitled “Before Thy Throne, My God, I Stand”, was dictated to his son-in-law only days before his death. Bach was that rare composer whose genius cannot be summed up, even approximated, by any known means. He was the supreme master of counterpoint, fugue, vocal writing, melody, chamber composition, solo instrument repertoire…the list ...
- 4884: McDonaldization: Health in A Fastfood Society
- ... They determine which patient is more critical than the others are. By making this decision they are choosing who will get treated first. In the end this decision could mean the difference between life and death. Yet another area of control is organ transplants. Doctors must evaluate each case carefully. Once a possible donor is found a doctor may then try to influence the patient's family that harvesting the organs ... how our medical identity is comprised of a series of different numbers. Efficiency is supposed to occur with phone-in prescriptions and appointments. Control is assured by a doctor's capacity to make life or death decisions. As for predictability it is common knowledge as to what routine one follows to receive treatment. The irrationality is how impersonal and inefficient the whole system can become through overworked doctors and other professionals ...
- 4885: Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD)
- ... indefinite length of time. Others evolve into the final stage of symptoms. Tertiary or late-stage syphilis usually occurs between five and twenty years following initial infection. This condition leads to permanent disabilities and even death. Neurosiphilis, in which the brain and the spinal cord are affected, produce paralysis, insanity and blindness. Cardiovadcular syphilis includes major damage to the heart and the aorta, possibly resulting in death. Late begin syphilis is characterized by the appearance of large destructive lesions virtually at any internal or external site. The period of contagiousness for syphilis is variable. It is clearly infectious in its primary and ...
- 4886: AIDS
- ... of cumulative cases due to transfusion to about 1 percent. The number of new cases of AIDS in women of reproductive age is increasing at an alarming rate. AIDS has become the leading cause of death for women between the ages of 20 and 40 in the major cities of North and South America, Western Europe, and sub-Saharan Africa. In the United States, AIDS has hit hardest among black and ... renders the body highly susceptible to opportunistic infections and tumorous growths. The most predominant and threatening is Pneumocystic carinii PNEUMONIA, which is frequently the first infection to occur and is the most common cause of death. Other infections include the parasites Toxoplasma gondii (see TOXOPLASMOSIS) and Cryptosporidiosis; fungi such as Candida (see CANDIDIASIS) and Cryptococcus (see FUNGUS DISEASES); mycobacteria such as Mycobacterium avium, intracellulare, and tuberculosis (see TUBERCULOSIS); and viruses such ...
- 4887: Battle Royal
- ... succeeding in life by adhering to his grandfather's dying words : "Live with your head in the lion's mouth . I want you to overcome 'em with yeses , undermine 'em with grins , agree 'em to death and destruction , let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open " (449 ) . Grandfather was telling him to conform to white people because in that time that was the only way to excel . But ... he has no real freedom or equality. The phrase "Keep This Nigger- Boy Running" echoes the grandfather's deathbed warning and advice. The grandfather heeds him to "overcome 'em with yesses" and "agree 'em to death", which is exactly what the affluent white men have done to the main character. They give him what he believes to be victories-the opportunity for a speech, the chance to prove his worth in ...
- 4888: The Catcher In The Rye
- ... old Maurice opened the doors he'd start screaming at me. But I'd plug him anyway(Salinger 103-4). This explains the psychotically disturbing actions Holden makes in this novel. Holden becomes obsessed with death and dying, and several times in the book he wishes he was dead. "Again, Holden can't stay away from the subject of the death of family members and the decay of the corpse. Even when he later goes to the Museum of Art, he winds up in the mummy room explaining about preserving the dead to two boys and ...
- 4889: An American Crisis: Gulf War Syndrome
- ... of ailing vets and Saddam's stockpile of chemical and biological weapons. The use of chemical warfare in the Gulf is a reality. First there was the Iraqi Arsenal, they possessed several weapons of the death. They were building nuclear weapons and already had chemical and biological weapons. Iraq owned 1500 gallons of anthrax which were in 50 bombs and 10 missiles, and 100 bombs and 15 missiles were loaded with the toxin agent Botulinum that destroys the nerves and eventually chokes the inflicted to a horrible death. Also Iraq possessed a nerve agent called Ricin that could kill with only a single drop (Hedges and Cary 41). Classified reports from the Pentagon also support the veterans claim that they were exposed to ...
- 4890: Nature
- ... making the trading of goods a necessity. Snow is a thing of beauty but when Mother Nature unleashes her full power it can be deadly. Without the proper clothing frostbite would set in fast, and death would be just around the corner. Another part of mature is animals. Animals generally are fierce and kill each other for food. It’s the survival of the fittest. As said the Lion is king ... is. But many of these writers are talking about there own personal experiences. As shown in the stories many of natures occurrences such as, hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, and blizzards can be harmful and cause death. Unfortunately these have caused many casualties.
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