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- 411: Compare And Contrast Depression And Schizophrenia
- ... personality disorder. Social and medical factors affect personality as well, both positively and negatively. Poverty, hunger, disease, pain, and violence may stunt the personality. Certain diseases can cause brain damage, which may have a direct effect on the development of personality. There is frequent disagreement among experts on the relative importance of heredity and environmental factors in shaping personality. The thing to remember is that neither heredity nor environment alone is ... are important contributors to psychopathology. Numerous environmental factors have been studied to determine their relationship to mental illness. For instance, researchers recently have found evidence that obstetric complications and viral infections may have an adverse effect on the central nervous system of the newborn and lead to psychopathology. The role of other environmental factors, such as emotional conflict, in mental illness also continues to be the focus of such research. The ... employed since the early 1960's, and the monamine oxidase inhibitors. The tricyclics are effective on about 75% of depressed patients. Their exact mechanism of action is unknown, but it is believed to involve their effect on the disposition of norepinephrine or serotonin in the brain. These drugs are not stimulants--in fact they often cause sleepiness--and their effects may not be apparent until two or three weeks after ...
- 412: Compare And Contrast Of The Od
- ... if the truth is harmful, the general reaction is to deny it until there can be no doubt. To put it very simply, good news is better than bad news. Although already somewhat covered, the effect of Tiresias informing the two main characters and the story as a whole should also be examined in a more specific manner. The effect of Tiresias telling Odysseus the truth and guiding is The Odyssey is easy to see. Because of what Odysseus learnt from Tiresias, Odysseus was given hope and managed to return home to Ithaca. In other ... a direct plot motivator. This can be seen in the fact that Oedipus essentially discounts Tiresias prophecy, convincing himself that Tiresias is trying to mess with him. But what Tiresias told Oedipus did have an effect, although different than what would have been expected, especially since Tiresias was a trusted and respected seer. That effect was the bringing about of suspicion in Oedipus mind of whether or not he really ...
- 413: Magnetic Therapy
- ... material. The moral atmosphere surrounding the patient can have a strong influence on the course of the disease. It is not a curse or a blessing that works, but the idea. The imagination produces the effect" (Livingston, p. 25). This role imagination plays, known as the placebo effect, is a true thorn in the side of magnetic therapy as a practice. And this is where the debate lies: between true physiological efficacy and the placebo effect. The question that should be posed to manufacturers, advertisers, and customers of magnetic products is whether or not magnetic therapy is truly effective. Magnetic therapy could indeed be a useful rehabilitation technique but is ...
- 414: Leonardo Da Vinnci
- ... over her head matching her dark brown hair and clothing. She is sitting in front of a landscape that has many valleys of water and many tall mountains, which creates a misty background-the sfumato effect. One of the reasons the painting is famous is because the artist, Leonardo Da Vinci, painted his subject with a smile that radiates many feelings- such as dignity and calmness, giving her a sense of ... over her head matching her dark brown hair and clothing. She is sitting in front of a landscape that has many valleys of water and many tall mountains, which creates a misty background-the sfumato effect. One of the reasons the painting is famous is because the artist, Leonardo Da Vinci, painted his subject with a smile that radiates many feelings- such as dignity and calmness, giving her a sense of ... over her head matching her dark brown hair and clothing. She is sitting in front of a landscape that has many valleys of water and many tall mountains, which creates a misty background-the sfumato effect. One of the reasons the painting is famous is because the artist, Leonardo Da Vinci, painted his subject with a smile that radiates many feelings- such as dignity and calmness, giving her a sense ...
- 415: Hamlets Changing Character - B
- ... he wants to do, causing him to be unable to act. The final two pieces of evidence are from Act Five. These events occur in Act Five as this is the point at which Laertes' effect on Hamlet's character is most apparent. The first is from Scene One, lines 261-262 where Laertes says "...-Hold off the earth awhile, Till I have caught her once more in mines arms.", and ... huge change in his character. Laertes is the person in Hamlet's life who challenges him and causes him to change, although not necessarily for the better. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern have somewhat of the same effect on Hamlet as Laertes does. For most of the play, Hamlet is able to put up with them but as the play comes to a close he becomes fed up with them. Although Hamlet does ... sane when he wants to be. He soon realizes that they are not his friends, but that they are puppets sent by the King to investigate and keep Hamlet in line. This interaction has an effect on Hamlet's character because Hamlet is coming to realize that people are not always what they seem and that he has to watch out for people. His increasing annoyance with these two questionable ...
- 416: Legalizing Marijuana
- ... They all contain a chemical called tetrahydrocannabinol, commonly called THC, which is the main chemical in marijuana. There are over four hundred chemicals in the marijuana plant, however not all of them cause the same effect. The chemical structure of marijuana is very complex and unique. This is why a number of people smoke this plant to get high. There are a large number of people in the United States who ... who smokes five joints (a cigarette containing marijuana instead of tobacco) per week inhales just as many cancer-causing chemicals as a person who smokes a full pack of cigarettes everyday. The second long-term effect is that a person's lung and airways become blocked. Breathing problems, such as coughing, wheezing, phlegm production, and chest colds seem to develop frequently. A third reason is that a person's immune system ... results he or she would have gotten from smaller amounts. In fact, because people build up this tolerance, marijuana is known as the "gateway drug". This means that marijuana users get bored with the same effect and want to try a new drug with a different, stronger, and/or longer effect. Studies of high school students and their drug patterns show that only few students have tried other illegal drugs ...
- 417: Werewolf Legends
- ... becomes his godfather) and a scholarship for all of his studies until his 21st birthday. Supposedly, this ended the phenomenon of people condemning their children for fear of the werewolf. The law is still in effect, and it is popularly known, and the presidents have always attended at least some of the baptisms, especially during election season. There is also a legend about were wolf in Brazil. In Brazil, A humam ... was used by humans to transform into wolves was a strong hallucinogenic. When rubbed over he body, it is absorbed into the bloodstream and causes effects similar to LSD. A person under the salve's effect could imagine that he was anything, or anyone. One reason that people during the Medieval Times imagined themselves as werewolves, as opposed to other things, is because of the mass hysteria over werewolves during this ... Eating or coming in contact with this fungi can result in extreme sickness, arms turning black and falling off or death. The chemicals found in this fungi can have a very mild hallucinogenic and sedating effect, but one would have to consume a large amount of the ergot to get enough of these chemicals in to their system for the effect. Therefor, being poisonous, would not be possible without dying ...
- 418: Alcohol An Issue Within Colleg
- ... by being away from home for the first time with a new found freedom to live as they please. College life is a new experience and the pressures that come along with it have an effect on a students path to success. Unfortunately, alcohol is one of these pressures. Alcohol abuse is a major problem that many young men and women encounter throughout their college experience. Drinking on college campuses ... the thoughts and ideas of college administrators. It has been proven that this is a major problem, and it is worsening among the young men and women who attend our colleges. College drinking has an effect on not only the drinkers, but on their friends and classmates as well. How are non-drinking students affected by the presence of alcohol? Many are pressured to drink in order to fit in with ... It has been proven that drinking on campus has consequences for those who choose not drink as well. According to the Brown University Digest of Addiction Theory and Application, students who drink cause problems that effect other students who do not drink. Non-drinking students, at schools where drinking was common, reported having sleeping and study difficulties (68%) as well as having to console drunken students regularly (54%). Also, the ...
- 419: Education And Egalitarianism In America
- ... reading, writing and arithmetic. Obviously, the founders saw it necessary to apply these techniques, most likely "feeling" that it was necessary that the students learn these particular values. Wisdom of the heart had a profound effect of the curriculum of the early schools. As the spirit of science, commercialism, secularism, and individualism quickened in the Western world, education in the colonies was called upon to satisfy the practical needs of seamen, merchants, artisans, and frontiersmen. The effect of these new developments on the curriculum in American schools was more immediate and widespread than its effect in European schools. Practical content was soon in competition with religious concerns. The academy that Benjamin Franklin helped found in 1751 was the first of a growing number of secondary schools that sprang up ...
- 420: Exxon Valdez
- ... oil dissipates, nature heals quickly, all will be well in a year or two." This has not been the case with the Exxon Valdez. This massive 987-foot tanker has left a lingering, long-term effect on the natural habitat that surrounds these pristine waters, along with an enormous socio-economic effect that has left many people wondering when and where the next oil spill will be. Many associated with the recovery process, and its more than one hundred projects per year, say it will take longer ... Sound, there was less food for the seals that normally eat them. As those seals died, there was less food for the killer whales that eat seals (Knickerbocker 1999). This has led to a domino effect within the food chain, victimizing many of the animals surrounding the area. Intertidal mussel beds are still contaminated to this day. Twenty-three species of wildlife were effected by this oil spill, and only ...
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