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- 1331: Cigarettes
- ... a toxic reaction closely resembling amphetamine poisoning. Physical symptoms may include chest pain, nausea, blurred vision, fever, muscle spasms, convulsions, and coma. Death from a cocaine overdose can occur from convulsions, heart failure, or the depression of vital brain centers controlling respiration. With repeated administration over time, users experience the drug's long-term effects. Restlessness, extreme excitability, insomnia, and paranoia - and eventually hallucinations and delusions gradually displace euphoria. These conditions ...
- 1332: Martin Luther King Jr. And Malcolm X
- ... X suffered not only from abuse by whites, but also from domestic violence. His father beat his mother and both of them abused their children. His mother was forced to raise eight children during the depression. After his mother had a mental breakdown, the children were all placed in foster homes. Malcolm X s resentment was increased as he suffered through the ravages of integrated schooling. Although an intelligent student who ...
- 1333: Studies in Religion Euthanasia - A Moral Issue
- ... The next argument against the idea of Voluntary Euthanasia is the ambiguity of a valid consent from the terminally ill patient. Many drugs prescribed to these patients usually have a nasty side effect, such as depression, or clouding the patient's vision so that he or she would not be able to make any normal judgments. In these cases, it would be near to impossible, to say if the person had ...
- 1334: Summary of The Great Gatsby
- ... which tells him money will buy him everything, only to realize that it could not buy him love. Gatsby thinks that money and culture will make him invincible, but this is proven wrong when the Depression comes and Gatsby's hopes and dreams vanish, by realizing that wealth cannot change the past. This symbolism and pure, simple entertainment proves that The Great Gatsby may not be the perfect novel, but it ...
- 1335: Euthanasia
- ... at the same time assenting to requests to take other lives. Such confidence reflects, perhaps, a high opinion of doctor's psychic robustness, but it is a confidence seriously undermined by the shocking rates of depression, suicide, alcoholism, drug addiction, and marital discord consistently recorded among this group. "Dangers of Societal Acceptance". It must never be forgotten that doctors, nurses, and hospital administrators have personal lives, homes and families, or that ...
- 1336: Assisted Suicide
- ... bags or other methods? And unfortunately the list continues. No one denies that there are many vulnerable persons who require the protection of the law. Take, for example, those in a temporary state of clinical depression, perhaps caused by a traumatic event in their lives. These persons will recover and go on to lead productive, happy lives, and it would be unconscionable to encourage or support them in a transitory wish ...
- 1337: Grapes of Wrath: Summary
- ... forced to move southwest toward California in search of the promised land (French 5). The Dust bowl was a harsh time in the 1930s, the United States was feeling the effects of the Great Depression, and farmers already had enough troubles dealing with the effects of industrial farming (French 200). The farmers described in the novel were sharecroppers whom had settled the land many generations before, the effects of the ...
- 1338: Norman Rockwell Bio
- ... Rockwell used his special skill in detail to capture and portray illustrations that accurately reflected the emotions felt in the hearts of Americans at the time. Rockwell made several illustrations exhibiting events like the Great Depression and World War I. In fact during the second World War Rockwell was motivated by President Roosevelt himself to create one of his greatest projects, The Four Freedoms Paintings, illustrating each of America s fundamental ...
- 1339: Bulimia
- ... bulimia are often obsessed with food and self gratification, and the disorder frequently accompanies Anorexia Nervosa. Such behavior stems from psychological difficulties involving a compulsive desire for perfection, poor self-image, and stressful familt relationships; depression is also common. Research in the late 1980's says that bulimia itselg, however, may be caused by impaired secretion of a hormone, chlecystokinin (CCK), that normally induces a feeling of fullness after a meal ...
- 1340: Miscarriage
- ... and uncomfortable words a pregnant women could hear from her doctor. Once a women has went through a tragedy as this, sometimes her life changes for the worse, such as going through a period of depression. Before anyone could judge the fault of the miscarriage, they first have to know what really one means. The two terms miscarriage and abortion are currently used frequently by doctors when referring to the loss ...
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