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- 11381: Psychological Stress
- ... a very high level of stress. The investigation has been going on ever since they first came to our door. They have decided to postpone the investigation over the winter break which has caused a great deal of anxiety and ambiguity for me. If I had committed this crime than I would have no problem facing the consequences. The fact is, that I did not commit the crime and this has ...
- 11382: Xenotransplantation
- ... The number of people in need of hearts, livers, kidneys, lungs, pancreases, and transplanted cells are in the thousands. The supply of human organs and tissues is and always will be insufficient to satisfy the great needs. Scientists looked in xenotransplantation, the transplanting of tissues and organs from animals to humans, as a possible answer to the dilemma. Organs from pigs, goats, lambs, and monkeys were all tried and rejected by ...
- 11383: Rip Van Winkle as a Folktale
- ... When Rip returns from his twenty year journey few people recognize him. The conclusion illustrates a heros strength into society and elaborate recognition scene which is another attribute of a folktale. It is a great relief when his wife and his duty to the farm is no longer around. When Rip returns in twenty years he wants the people of the town to believe him. There is a symbolic level ...
- 11384: The Different Faces of Yoga
- ... Eliade 521). By controlling breathing a yogi hopes to equalize the amount of time spent in the three stages of respiration: inhalation, retention, and exhalation (Eliade 521). To a true follower of yoga spending a great deal of time focusing strictly on the body positions is a waste. They are meant only as a means to eliminate sensory distraction. To practice them solely as a means of fitness is pointless because ...
- 11385: The Problem With Medicare
- ... problem regarding it's funding. Problems have occurred over the history of Medicare. The major problem and most recent of Medicare is that it is going bankrupt. Medicare is another legacy of Lyndon Baines Johnson Great Society. Spending is obviously out of control. On June 5th the government announced that the Medicare Trust Fund would go broke by the year 2001(national debt). In 1965 when LBJ started Health and Medicare ...
- 11386: Alzheimer's Disease
- ... caused by injury, infection, or chemicals in the environment. this is known as dementia, or loss of mental powers. AD causes dementia. At first a person's memory may become impaired and they become forgetful, depression may set in, personality may change, and simple tasks become difficult. The dementia interferes with normal functions. Memory failure was once thought to be a normal process of aging, but studies of the elderly indicate ...
- 11387: Schizophrenia
- ... Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is another example of a widely used therapy with little evidence of its usefullness. ECT is breif pulses of electricity that are passed through the brain. Unfortunately it works for severe depression but not schizophrenia. Probably the most outrageous therapy, if you want to call it that, was the frontal lobotomy. The American psychiatrist Soloman H. Snyder has called it "barbaric" and "diabolical" (Anderson 20). A frontal ...
- 11388: Chemistry
- ... to chemistry. At first Boyle was mainly interested in the facet of chemistry that dealt with the preparation of drugs, but soon he became genuinely interested in the subject and started to study it in great detail. His studies led him to Oxford where he joined such scientists as John Wilkins and John Wallis. Together in 1660, they founded the Royal Society of London for the Advancement of Science. From this ...
- 11389: A Look Into Asian Herbology
- ... the Chinese way of life. In fact, after the Chinese Womans track team shattered nine wold records, everybody was wondering how they did it-Steroids, Vitamins, or Amino acids? The simple reply from these great athletes was that their success stemmed from rigorous training and a balances supply of herbs.(Miller 4). While the exact benefits reaped from herbs really boils down to biochemistry and the book is still open ...
- 11390: The Witches In Macbeth
- ... woman born shall harm Macbeth (Shakespeare IV.i.90-93). The third apparition: Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are. Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam Wood of High Dunsinane Hill shall come against him (Shakespeare IV.i.103-107). These two apparitions do not scare Macbeth. For who is not woman-born, or how can a forest of trees ...
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