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- 4091: Bridge To Terabithia
- ... his mother assumes it's because Jesse had something to do with it. A few main ideas are the differences between Jesse's family and Leslie's family. Jesse's family is quite poor and high strung. Jesse's mother is a housewife. She cooks; she cleans and raises the children. Jesse's father is usually angry. He works and tries to bring home some money. Until he gets laid off ... very glad to see that Jesse brought May Belle to Terabithia and made her the new queen. I hated to two older sisters, they seemed to be cold hearted. I didn't like Janice from school either until I found out what her problem was. All in all I thought it was a great book with many characters and lots of ambition. I was happy to see that even though Leslie ...
- 4092: Breast Cancer
- ... will die of it alone. Breast Cancer is a horrible disease and it devastates thousands of families each year. What makes it even more difficult to conceive is that a woman is at a very high risk just because she is a woman. The breasts which have been with her almost all her life, those which gave her children strength and growth, those which have been a symbol of beauty are ... Article Research Article I As with mainly all diseases, there is not just one contributing factor to its existence. Breast Cancer has numerous causes and by studying these factors, we can see who is at high risk. In a life-time, a person will either be diagnosed with cancer or die from it. Women between the ages of 25-29 who have used oral contraceptives, or are taking the pill, are ... It can detect tumors less than two centimeters in size. Therefore, a mammography should be done routinely. Article II Every disease has a limiting factor and this factor is research money. Research costs are extremely high and they must be taken care of by some sort of organization. As of March 1998, the American Cancer Society was granted 7 million dollars towards environmental cancerogenesis and cancer. 743,000 dollars of ...
- 4093: What is Angina? And What is the Cure?
- ... factor, reflecting some metabolic derangement in either cholesterol handling or some other factor. Being male, for reasons probably related to the protective effects of some female hormones, is also a relative risk. Cigarette smoking and high blood pressure are definite risks, both reversible in most cases. Risk also increases with age. Elevated blood cholesterol levels (both total and low density types) are risks, whereas the high density cholesterol level is a risk only if it is reduced. Possible, but less well-defined factors include certain intense and hostile or time-pressured personality types (so-called type A), inactive lifestyle, and high cholesterol diets. Medications are increasingly effective for symptom control, as well as prevention of complications. The oldest and most common agents are the nitrates, derivatives of nitroglycerine. They include nitroglycerine, isosorbide, and similar agents. ...
- 4094: Great Gatsby 7
- The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel about several people's lives in high society, told from the point of view of a rather normal man. The theme of the withering of the American dream shows itself in the book through many of its characters. Most of these people ... he is rich and can buy anything he wants, Gatsby remains restless and indecisive about his own needs. For months, he has parties almost every week, which are attended by much of New York's high society. However, he never seems to enjoy these parties, because he rarely attends them himself, and when he sees that Daisy does not like them, he calls them off. This shows that although he is ... story is Nick Carraway, the narrator. He is not artificial or truly immoral. When he moves to West Egg, he is pursuing the American dream, but he finds that he does not fit in with 'high society', who has supposedly achieved the American dream. Since Nick, the only 'good' and 'stable' character in the book, does not fit in with those who seem to be living the American dream, this ...
- 4095: AIDS: A U.S.- Made Monster?
- ... 1980 and zero in 1978. "This means," say the Segals, "that at this time visna viruses changed into HIV, receiving at the same time the ability to become parasites in human T4- cells and the high genetic instability that is not known in other retroviruses. This is also consistent with the fact that the first cases of AIDS appeared about one year later, in the spring of 1979." "In his comparison ... have been the transfer of the HTLV-1 genome section which gave visna the capability to do so. In other words, the addition of HTLV-1 to visna made the HIV virus. In addition, the high mutation rate of the HIV genome has been explained by another scientific team, Chandra et al, by the fact that it is "a combination of two genome parts which are alien to each other BY ... through gene manipulation." THE CONSTRUCTION OF HIV "The construction of a recombinant virus by means of gene manipulation is extraordinarily expensive, and it requires a large number of highly qualified personnel, complicated equipment and expensive high security laboratories. Moreover, the product would have no commercial value. Who, then," ask the Segals, "would have provided the resources for a type of research that was aimed solely at the production of a ...
- 4096: Great Gatsby 10
- ... was twelve, the family returned to St. Paul and lived comfortably on Mollie Fitzgerald's inheritance. Fitzgerald attended the St. Paul Academy; his first writing to appear in print was a detective story in the school newspaper when he was thirteen. From St. Paul Academy Fitzgerald went on to a higher education at Princeton University. At Princeton, Fitzgerald neglected his studies for his literary apprenticeship. He wrote the scripts and lyrics ... throws extravagant parties, hoping by chance she might show up at one of them. Gatsby, himself, does not attend his parties but watches them from a distance. He puts on a mask of wealth and high-class in order to attract Daisy. When Daisy does not show up at his parties, he asks around casually if anyone knows her. Later, after meeting Nick, Gatsby pursues his dream of meeting Daisy again ...
- 4097: Marijuana for Medicinal Purposes
- ... twice as many fibers per acre than cotton. (Hempnet 1) Hearst was well aware of this and moved to ban Marijuana. Marijuana costs little to grow and can be made into cloth, canvas, and other high quality textiles. The use of Marijuana for textile production would have seriously hurt Dupont who had invested heavily in both paper production and the use of cotton. In 1936 Dupont joined Hearst and using scare ... is virtually impossible to keep the capsule down. "Because it's a pill, and therefore slower acting, people have trouble adjusting the dosage; they often find themselves taking too much. It also seems to cause high levels of anxiety and depression" (Brookhiser 27) Unfortunately no method other then smoking has seemed to help so many with the least complications. What is needed now is a more thorough effort to test the ... self-monitoring greenhouse setup intentionally to help cultivate marijuana. It waters itself, adjust the temperature, and optimize the conditions causing THC levels to drastically increase, and even cause crystallization of the plant because of its high potency. Testing has shown the drug to be far more dangerous to young people than was known in the 1960's and 1970's. It can be particularly harmful to the growth and development ...
- 4098: Is Marijuana Dangerous to your Physical Health?
- ... Dallas Times Herald by the Associated Press shows just how popular marijuana remains despite health warnings. A 40-something woman referred to as Ruth has a little something to say. "It's a very nice high," she said. "Often in these drug stories, people forget to mention that part" (The Associated Press, A-6). Ruth is among the 17 million Americans who use marijuana regularly. Part of the reason for marijuana ... on the information gathered, I have concluded that the effects of marijuana on the body are very detrimental. Marijuana's effects on memory and the immune system can be very disastrous. For someone still in school, a good memory is needed, along with much motivation. Marijuana attacks both of these elements in the body and can really hurt a hard working student. It seems however, most of the complications that were ...
- 4099: Great Expectations 3
- ... boy like Huck Finn. Nevertheless, they attempt to make Huck into what they believe will be a better boy. Specifically, they attempt, as Huck says, to "sivilize" him. This process includes making Huck go to school, teaching him various religious facts, and making him act in a way that the women find socially acceptable. Huck, who has never had to follow many rules in his life, finds the demands the women ... beautiful women--but none of this comes to pass. Huck finds out too late that Tom's adventures are imaginary: that raiding a caravan of "A-rabs" really means terrorizing young children on a Sunday school picnic, that stolen "joolry" is nothing more than turnips or rocks. Huck is disappointed that the adventures Tom promises are not real and so, along with the other members, he resigns from the gang. Another ... in front of his face; his skin, Huck says, is white like a fish's belly or like a tree toad's. Pap's savage appearance reflects his feelings as he demands that Huck quit school, stop reading, and avoid church. Huck is able to stay away from Pap for a while, but Pap kidnaps Huck three or four months after Huck starts to live with the Widow and takes ...
- 4100: A Better Idea of Attention Deficit Disorder
- ... Disorder is hard to diagnose because no one is certain of what actually causes the disorder. Lawrence Weathers thinks that the behavior of an ADD or ADHD child might occur because of stress due to school, parents, or friends before the child is emotionally equipped to handle the situation. He calls ADD a neurological disorder that affects the motivational system (42, 20). Another theory of what causes ADD is the low ... system. Some herbs are skullcap, valerain, hops, blue, cohosh, and chamomile. The ADD or ADHD person should be careful with the herbs because they can contain active ingredients that can be toxic when taken in high doses (Hartmann 83). For children with ADD and ADHD life can be very difficult. In order for them to be able to live a successful and normal life, they need the help of their parents ...
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