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- 5421: The Beginning of a Journey
- ... in 1793 by Andre Michaux. In the summer of 1802, Jefferson, now president of the United States, read Mackenzies account of his journey to the Pacific. Mackenzies recommendation that the British government assume control of the Columbia River troubled Jefferson, who feared for the national interest if the British appropriated the West coast and all avenues inland from it for themselves. Thomas Jefferson won approval from Congress in 1803 ...
- 5422: Euthanasia
- ... doctors with the O.K. of their families. But is it really 3O.K.ύ? Euthanasia, or doctor-assisted suicide, has become as common as jumping off of a fifteen story building or taking a gun to one1s own head. Certainly society frowns upon suicide, but yet putting an old lady or a man in a coma to death is being accepted every day. Society knows that suicide is bad, but ...
- 5423: Euthanasia Term Paper
- ... terminal care is a direct result of attempts made to minimize suffering. If that suffering had been extinguished by extinguishing the patients who bore it, then we may never have known the advances in the control of pain, nausea, breathlessness, and other terminal symptoms that the last twenty years have seen. Some diseases that were terminal a few decades ago are now routinely cured by newly developed treatments. Earlier acceptance of ...
- 5424: Psychoanalysis
- ... psychological structures by traumatic experiences leaves those structures weakened and with defective functioning. Such conflicts and defects can cause intense ANXIETY and severe DEPRESSION. In order to keep functioning effectively, the ego attempts to maintain control by achieving some sort of compromise between the contending forces. Often such compromises appear in the form of inhibitions or compulsions that affect behavior. Abnormal behavior and the anxiety, depressions, and PHOBIAS that go with ...
- 5425: Dreams
- ... as you lie in on the weekends when you wake up slowly and gradually change from the sub-conscious mind to the conscious mind. This is called lucid dreaming. With this you can take partial control of what happens during a dream. Since you can do this you don't have to be restricted to do all the things you do in real life but you could do whatever you like ...
- 5426: Bipolar Affective Disorder
- ... are risks involved in their use. Because of the often severe side effects, benzodiazepines are often used in their place. Benzodiazepines can achieve the same results as Neuroleptics for most patients in terms of rapid control of agitation and excitement, without the severe side effects. Anti-depressants Antidepressants such as the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) fluovamine and amitriptyline have also been used by some doctors as treatment for bipolar disorder ...
- 5427: Paranoid Personality Disorders
- ... be another form of treatment that can cure, or at least come close to curing the Paranoid Personality Disorder. The best hope of this lies in scientific research upon the brain and the chemicals which control emotions and actions. In doing so, many people who suffer from this disorder may lead a life without paranoia.
- 5428: Nature / Nurture or Both !
- ... ensure their proliferation. Before we take any stand to Darwin's statement, let us familiarize ourselves with what is meant when the term nature is used. Nature represents what we are born with and cannot control. Our biological make up is determined by the genes we receive from our parents(reside in the 23 pairs of chromosomes, 23 from each parent.) A gene is a segment of DNA or a sequence ...
- 5429: Nursing Homes and The Lutheran Home for the Aging
- ... which consists of men and women from various congregations located throughout the Milwaukee area. They constantly review and evaluate the quality of care in relationship to the purpose of the Home and are also in control of delegating a responsible and competent administrator who is the leader and manager of the Home. There is a full array of highly trained and competent staff that keep the Lutheran Home for the Aging ...
- 5430: Abnormal Psychology: Mental Disorders
- ... abnc_tot.htm#1c Eating disorders occur when a person becomes preoccupied with their body weight and food. The two major kinds of eating disorders anorexia and bulimia. Bulimics feel as though they can not control the amount of food they eat leading to binging and then either purging or self-induced vomiting. Anorexics keep their body weight low by usually either self-induced vomiting or by eating very small amounts ...
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