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- 5511: The Revolutionary War was an Economic Revolution
- ... The Boston Tea Party was called the boldest stroke which had yet been struck in America. It marked the beginning of violence in the dispute. King George, demanded t hat the Americans be brought under control. As punishment, Parliament enacted a string of laws that colonists called the Intolerable Acts. The Boston Port Act was part of the Intolerable Acts or Coercive Acts. The Boston Port Act was designed to punish ...
- 5512: Abortion
- ... 000 abortions where the child is older than nine weeks are preformed in the United States each year. What is interesting is that 95 percent of the abortions are done as a means of birth control. Only one percent is performed due to rape and one percent is due to fetal abnormalities. The remaining 3 percent are due to the mother's health problems . People on the pro-choice side often ...
- 5513: Schizophrenia
- ... someone is following them, or planning to harm them. Schizophrenics believe that others can hear their thoughts , also known as Abroadcasting@ and even change them. A...hear their thoughts, insert thoughts into their minds, or control their feelings, actions or impulses. Patients might think they are Jesus, Napoleon, or Franklin D. Roosevelt.@ (American Psychiatric Association Annual >90 page 1) Pregnant women who experience an immune reaction that presents danger to their ...
- 5514: The Pituitary Gland and Dwarfism
- The Pituitary Gland and Dwarfism The Pituitary Gland is situated at the base of the brain and it produces hormones which control growth. Too large an amount of these hormones causes giantism, a condition where facial features, hands, etc. become abnormally large. Too little causes dwarfism, where the overall stature of a person is very small. Dwarfism ...
- 5515: How Moods Are Affected By The Sun
- ... melatonin secretions. A study of melatonin patterns in SAD sufferers was done to determine if melatonin was a factor in the disorder. Since mostly women are affected by SAD, researchers used healthy women as the control. The researchers who found that the significant difference in winter and summer pacemaking that occurred in SAD patients also saw similar patterns in the healthy women. Other studies show that a SAD sufferer's eye ...
- 5516: Leukemia
- ... and other hemorrhages, and red spots called petechiae located underneath the skin. In acute Leukemia the cancerous cells may collect around the central nervous system. The results can include headaches, vomiting, confusion, loss of muscle control, or seizures. These clumps of cancer cells can collect in other various parts of the body(MedicineNet-leukemia, 1997 and American Cancer Society- leukemia, 1995). Leukemia can be diagnosed in a number of ways. Blood ...
- 5517: Leprosy
- ... and clofazimine are used alongside a healthy diet. If killed too quickly, bacilli may cause a systematic reaction. The reaction is called erythema nodosum leprosum, or ENL may cause progressive impairment of the nerves. Corticosteroids control such reactions. Of all contagious diseases Leprosy is maybe the least infectious. New patients are rarely ever quarantined. Most patients are treated on an outpatient basis. A Leprosy vaccine is currently under development.
- 5518: Iron Absorption from the Whole Diet: Comparison of the Effect of Two Different Distributions of Daily Calcium Intake
- ... not a part of the heme molecule. Oral reference dose - An oral dose of radio-labeled iron given to the subjects in order to examine their uninhibited iron absorption. This process was used as a control rate for each subject. Experiment - The absorption of nonheme was measured from all meals during four 5-d periods (A1, A2, B1, and B2). Each day four meals were served to the subjects: breakfast, lunch ...
- 5519: The Human Genome Project
- ... society and would pose a number of consequential choices for public and professional deliberation. As Thomas Lee writes, "the effort underway is unlike anything ever before attempted, if successful, it could lead to our ultimate control of human disease, aging, and death". Whatever its justification, the human genome project has already inspired society with the hope of "better" babies, and one way to deploy pragmatism in the analysis of genetic engineering ...
- 5520: Kent State University: May 4th 1970, Monday Bloody Monday
- ... who to believe, the coroner or the guards? Her epitaph said, "Flowers are better then bullets" (Eszterhas, 189-211). This is what she said to a guard with a flower in the end of his gun the day that she died. The Soviet poet, Yevgeny Yevtushenko memorialized the line of Allison Krause with a poem: Dont give flowers to the state , where truth is punished Such a states gift ...
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