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- 3971: Gangs
- ... s HIV positive? Although varies regions of the country may have different meanings or definition for the term "gang member" a good description for a gang can be found in the November 1991 issue of school safety update published by Pepperdine Universitys National School Safety Center, it defines a gang as "A group of three or more individuals with a unique name, identifiable marks or symbols, who clam a territory or turf, associate on a regular basis, and engage ... importance, size and power of their group, Structure is constantly changing. Allies one day can become enemies the next day, Identified by inner-group violence. Youth involvement with gangs Can begin as early as elementary school starting at 7-8 years of age. Leadership roles in street gangs are usually not formally recognized positions. They are assumed by a member who demonstrates dominant control at a given time. Gangs are ...
- 3972: Homosexuality and the Healthcare Profession
- ... has little bearing on the quality of care received by this patient group. (Baylor and McDaniel 1996) Prior to this, a study by Douglas et al. (1985) found that their, "results indicate that a disturbingly high percentage of the healthcare professionals...(they)...studied acknowledge more negative, even overtly hostile feelings towards homosexuals than they had before the emergence of the A.I.D.S epidemic." On its own this study seems ... stereotyped views of lesbians and gay men. They state what is an already common occurrence, and indeed policy, in the writer's hospital, namely, the labelling of a patient's charts, notes and specimens as `high risk' simply because he had told the nurses that he was gay. The writer believes that this practice, under the auspices of infection control, is misconceived, as nurses, and hospital policy, assume that the patient ... V positive because he is gay, and not as a result of a positive H.I.V test. In doing so they are stating a belief that `straight' men are H.I.V negative, because `high risk' labels aren't indiscriminately placed on all patient's charts - only those of gay men (Rose and Platzer 1993). They go on to suggest that these assumptions are, as previously stated, due to ...
- 3973: Schizophrenia
- ... 1983). There are three different fields of thought as to how something is affecting the dopamine and causing schizophrenia. One is that there is an excess of the neurotransmitter in the brain. In contrast, another school of thought is that there is a deficit of dopamine in the brain. The final thought is that the dopamine is somehow being turned into a poison (Torrey, 1983). A chemical imbalance of dopamine could very well be the cause of schizophrenia. If the levels are too high, there could be excess dopamine left in the synaptic gap. If the levels were to low, signals needing dopamine to be transferred would not be received. Even though the causes of schizophrenia, are not confirmed ...
- 3974: Teen Suicide
- ... overcome. The inevitable takes place and the troubled teen ends his life. The next main cause of adolescent suicide is based on drug abuse. According to Johnston OMalley, and Bachman, 1997 the percentage of high school senior drug use is currently at an incline. The earlier an adolescent starts to use drugs the more likely they are to progress into "the most severe forms of drug use". This elicit drug use ...
- 3975: Assisted Suicide
- ... is also reproachable to end one's own life without regard to the trauma it might inflict on the vulnerable. People shall never forget the horror suffered by two young children who arrived home after school to find their mother hanging from the hall chandelier, or by a teen-age boy who found his father with his head blown apart from a self-inflicted shotgun wound in the kitchen of their ... Of particular importance... is the circumstances under which a person may determine the manner and time of his or her own death." The Case of Sue Rodriguez Canada's most important (to date) dramatic and high-profile court case with respect to the issue of physician-assisted suicide took place in 1992-93. Sue Rodriguez, a young woman aged forty when she was first diagnosed with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also ...
- 3976: Confucius 4
- ... on the teaching of Confucius, who lived from 551 BC to 479 BC, dominated Chinese sociopolitical life for most of the Chinese history and largely influenced the cultures of Korea, Japan, and Indochina. The Confucian school functioned as a recruiting ground for government positions, which were filled by those scoring highest on examinations in the Confucian classics. It also blended with popular and important religions and became the vehicle for presenting Chinese values to the peasants. The school's doctrine supported political authority using the theory of the mandate of heaven. It sought to help rulers maintain domestic order, preserve tradition, and maintain a constant standard of living for the tax paying peasants ... lived official career floundered, he turned to teaching others. Confucius himself never wrote down his own philosophy, although tradition credits him with editing some of the historical classics that were used as texts in his school. He apparently made an enormous impact on the lives and attitudes of his disciples. Confucianism combines a political theory and a theory of human nature to yield "dao," a prescriptive doctrine or way. The ...
- 3977: Health Care: Elderly
- ... medical and psychosocial needs, as well as the level of their functioning. Upon reciept of the completed questionnaires the care coordinators from each hospital assess the results of the survey. Those patients assessed as being high risk received follow up phone calls. Depending on the situation, high risk patients were given information only, indirect referrals, or direct referrals. The findings for the study indicate that approximately 56% of all people surveyed were in need of intervention. The three highest relative risks for ... on which to test the data . A study cannot accurately gauge its impact when researchers have nothing to which to compare. Second, the researchers cannot be sure that it was their questionnaire that helped identify high risk elderly. It can not be shown that the questionnaire of the study was the cause or that any questionnaire at all was the cause. If these elderly patients had not been assessed before ...
- 3978: Confucius 3
- ... on the teaching of Confucius, who lived from 551 BC to 479 BC, dominated Chinese sociopolitical life for most of the Chinese history and largely influenced the cultures of Korea, Japan, and Indochina. The Confucian school functioned as a recruiting ground for government positions, which were filled by those scoring highest on examinations in the Confucian classics. It also blended with popular and important religions and became the vehicle for presenting Chinese values to the peasants. The school's doctrine supported political authority using the theory of the mandate of heaven. It sought to help rulers maintain domestic order, preserve tradition, and maintain a constant standard of living for the tax paying peasants ... lived official career floundered, he turned to teaching others. Confucius himself never wrote down his own philosophy, although tradition credits him with editing some of the historical classics that were used as texts in his school. He apparently made an enormous impact on the lives and attitudes of his disciples. Confucianism combines a political theory and a theory of human nature to yield "dao," a prescriptive doctrine or way. The ...
- 3979: Confucius 2
- ... on the teaching of Confucius, who lived from 551 BC to 479 BC, dominated Chinese sociopolitical life for most of the Chinese history and largely influenced the cultures of Korea, Japan, and Indochina. The Confucian school functioned as a recruiting ground for government positions, which were filled by those scoring highest on examinations in the Confucian classics. It also blended with popular and important religions and became the vehicle for presenting Chinese values to the peasants. The school's doctrine supported political authority using the theory of the mandate of heaven. It sought to help rulers maintain domestic order, preserve tradition, and maintain a constant standard of living for the tax paying peasants ... lived official career floundered, he turned to teaching others. Confucius himself never wrote down his own philosophy, although tradition credits him with editing some of the historical classics that were used as texts in his school. He apparently made an enormous impact on the lives and attitudes of his disciples. Confucianism combines a political theory and a theory of human nature to yield "dao," a prescriptive doctrine or way. The ...
- 3980: Cold War
- ... chaos. Inflation rose to four figures, and prices for the bare necessities of life, e.g. Bread, soared up. People could not just buy bread when they wanted, which was not just due to the high prices, but also because there were shortages in supply. There still is more or less economic chaos in Russia; inflation is still high, and because of the economic chaos, crime rates have soared up. Still, it looks like if it finally is going to change for the better; last year the stock prices of Russian Companies rose by ... The US has certainly lost some importance of its leading role in the world, and this is also due to its internal problems with which it seems unable to cope with. There is a tremendous high crime rate within the USA, and poverty is like in some Third World countries. The USA also has to cope with inflation and an either stagnating or declining economy (the last two problems previously ...
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