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- 4001: The Harm of Illegal Drugs
- ... eastern states are not close behind, there running at 22%. As of October, 1974, 29 million people have tried marijuana. Out of the 29 million, 12 million of them use it regurlary.(Carr 56). At high school level one-half of all students have tried marijuana. The next drug, heroine, is a narcotic drug derived in 1898 in Germany as a pain reliever. It was discovered during the search for a non ...
- 4002: Performance Enhancing Drugs
- ... through a doctors prescription for certain diseases. The sport that sees the highest rate of competitors using performance enhancing drugs is bodybuilding. Many of these athletes were skinny and not very popular during their high school years. They use the steroids to bulk up and create a shield against the criticism. Due to this fact of psychological instability and the effect of the steroids, a violent person is created from a ...
- 4003: Anorexia Nervosa
- ... and these are thought to make them vulnerable. The personalities of the girls tend to be conformist, compliant, and hard working. These traits are usually accentuated by the disorder. The families of anorexics are mainly high achieving with high expectations of their children. They often seem to discourage individual growth and encourage conformity. There is frequently a failure to express emotional issues. There are often a lot of pressures such as exams when the ... Association. Some regions have good N.H.S. facilities but many do not or have long waiting lists. Some private clinics also have well developed eating disorder units, but quality varies and costs are often high making medical insurance necessary for many. Sometimes the N.H.S. will pay for private treatment where there are no suitable N.H.S. facilities and these options can be explored by the clinic ...
- 4004: Breakup Of The Soviet Union An
- ... that will insert a new dose of motivation into the national awareness, but a hopeful effort to restore trust between the people and their government. Perestroika is an effort to inspire Russia towards values and high standards (Rodrigue). However, Gorbachev s solutions are flawed because of the lack of an ethical framework to guide his programs (The Collapse of Stalinism). He did not have a clear plan of what kind of ... in a secret deal with Adolph Hitler (Russia). Yet, the people of these nations remembered and were angry. Whether it was ignorance or neglect, Gorbachev indeed believed the communist history books he had read at school, which brushed over and explained some of the greatest crimes of the century. So, he never thought of the Ukraine as having been forcibly conquered by the Red Army in 1919-1920, or as the ...
- 4005: Break Stalin
- ... with the west and declared that a nuclear war would mean he end of both capitalism and socialism. In relations with the west, Khrushchev s tenure was marked by sudden shifts and a series of high stakes crises such as the U2 affair, the building of the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Through it all he consistently maintained the need for peaceful coexistence in the nuclear age.5 He ... research. Living standards improved markedly during Khrushchev s period. More and more people were able to receive tertiary education, although this was generally available either after working for a number of years, or at night school. More freedom of movement between jobs was allowed.13 Pensions were increased, with a qualifying age of 65 for men, 60 for women, but available for men with 25 years seniority in their job, 20 ...
- 4006: Brazil Context
- ... Economic Growth Brazil is the tenth largest economy in the world. Its economy grew considerably from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s. However, during the 1980s, economic performance faltered; macro-economic instability, high inflation, and increased indebtedness characterized the decade.(See Table 4) Under the recent economic reform, growth has been restored and inflation has been reduced.(See Table 5) The major challenges facing Brazil now is to ... is also closely linked to clientelism in which superiors grant certain favors to inferiors, thereby creating indebtedness and moral obligations while securing a steady supply of labor or scarce skills. While in urban contexts with high rates of unemployment, job opportunities are provided in exchange for loyalty and backing in elections. Such concept of 'extended family' is the foundation of human relationship in Brazil. National Strategy Institutional Framework The Executive holds ... services through subsidiary and associated companies. A point to note is that Brazil is not an international financial center and offshore banking, trust, and financial services are not allowed. Imports have been generally subject to high tariffs but are starting to fall. The maximum import duty rate would be reduced to 40% by the end of 1994, and the modal rate was projected at 20%. Import procedures were also deregulated. ...
- 4007: Boys In The Hood The Begining
- ... and has been in and out of prison. Ricky does a little better, being a talented football player who hopes to go to USC on a scholarship, but who is already a father while in High school at the age of seventeen. Singleton also portrays issues dealing with premarital sex, family, crime, single parent homes, drugs, and violence. From this powerful drama several other films have mirrored its plot and themes. Since ...
- 4008: Mark Twain
- ... mostly because of his poor health. He stayed mostly in the house until he was about nine, when he seemed to recover and join the rest on the towns children outside. Twain attended private school. He attended private school for the first time at the age of nine.Twain didnt have very luxurious life growing up because his family was extremely poor. Because of his upbringing, Twain started believing that slavery was part ... were things all calculated to impress a sensitive child. This was commonplace enough for that time and locality.When Twain was 12 years old his father died. Then at age thirteen Twain dropped out of school. Because he grew up in a port city he had more job opportunities. His jobs consisted of numerous printing jobs and a river pilots apprentice, and then later on he became a licensed river ...
- 4009: Comparing Treatment Approaches
- ... deal with the physical dependence aspect of cocaine addiction, helping to "wean" patients off the drug. By destroying all effects, both main effects and side effects, of the drug, patients taking it would receive no "high", no positive reinforcement, and would gradually be able to become successful in a treatment program. The problem with this point of view is that cocaine has not been shown to be very physically addicting, as ... of cocaine consumption as well as that of other drugs is much more difficult to monitor outside of a laboratory environment using animals. Landry describes the mechanism of cocaine's actions as simply an addictive high. Reinforcing properties are important, but not the exact mechanisms that produce them. Landry's emphasis is on keeping the cocaine from reaching the brain at all. This would negate any potentially fatal biological effects from ... time, and if the situation of the patient was such that it led them to cocaine in the first place, there is no evidence that they would not just switch to a different source of high. Both studies offer new approaches to dealing with the ever-growing epidemic of cocaine addiction. While Mello and her colleagues seek to isolate the source of the reinforcing properties of cocaine abuse, Landry simply ...
- 4010: The Molecular Biology Of Cystic Fibrosis
- ... disorder. PHYSIOLOGY AND CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS Clinical symptoms for CF are caused by the obstruction of organ ducts by the abnormal secretions. They consist of such symptoms as chronic obstructive airways disease, pancreatic insufficiency and malabsorption, high electrolyte concentrations in sweat, sterility due to vas deferens obliteration, and subclinical cirrhosis of the liver . However, as the severity of these symptoms varies in different patients, and because of the presence of normal lungs ... deliver the correct therapeutic dose of any drug to enough of the affected cells (Kolata 76). The methods of DNA transfer that presently exist involve: the physical introduction of DNA directly into cells with a high efficiency, but it is very labour intensive; using the chemical interactions of DNA, ligand conjugates and the cell membrane, a process that is very efficient, non-toxic and selective, but which needs to a lot ... CF a certainty (Tomich 10). CONCLUSION Most of the causes and effects of CF are now understood, but until the treatment deals directly with the abnormal CFTR, CF will still be a disease with a high mortality rate. Gene therapy, either using liposomes or viruses, demonstrates the best chance of a successful treatment in the future. However, they both still have a long way to go, and the moral issues ...
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