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- 681: Anabolic Steroids
- ... than the usual amount of 2.5 to 10 mg. Per day. The increase in testosterone increases anabolic activity, which results in greater muscle bulk. It also increases protein synthesis and androgenic activity (enhanced secondary sexual characteristics) in males. The users of steroids want to increase the anabolic effects and reduce the androgenic effects, but no steroid is known to have just anabolic effects. Use: Anabolic steroids can be taken in ... the use of steroids. In the person taking steroids, aggressive behavior, self confidence and a sense of well being are seen. Also manic mood swings can occur. These mood swings can range from euphoria to sexual arousal to irritability and hostility. Cognitive impairment can also set in on the user. Cognitive impairment can involve distractibility, forgetfulness, and confusion. History: The use of steroids is nothing new to the world. Since the ...
- 682: Facts On AIDS
- ... between 5 and 10 million people around the world now carry the AIDS virus and that as many as 100 million will become infected over the next 10 years. How can you become infected? 1. sexual intercourse a) vaginal b) anal c) oral Having another sexually transmitted disease such as syphilis, herpes or gonorrhea appears to make someone more susceptible to acquiring HIV infection during sex with an infected partner 2 ... vaginal sex 3. limit number of partners 4. do not share needles It is important to educate children for many reasons: 1. to reduce their fears about disease 2. to help delay the beginning of sexual activity 3. to encourage the use of condoms and safer sex practices if children are already sexually active There are many different aids you can use to help teach the children the facts on AIDS ...
- 683: The Preponderant Lysistrata
- ... them in peace to end the war. All of the Spartan and Athenian men do have one strong tie in common that is highly important to them in this time period. This commonality is their sexual relationship with their wives. Lysistrata knows how important sex is to the men of all city-states. Without the women, the men “walk around the city bent over like men lighting matches in a wind ... of [their] expeditions abroad” (716, 611). “[T]he maids grow old at home unwed … if she doesn’t grasp her chance” (716, 617-8). The only reason the men come home is to fulfill their sexual desires and then they are off to war again leaving behind sometimes widows and orphaned children. Locking out the men from the Treasury prevents the men from spending any more on the war and helps ...
- 684: History Of Feminism And Femini
- ... to be considered. That is the element of FALSE UNIVERSALISATION. According to Jagger the definition of false universalisation is as follows: “drawing a generalisation that falsely assumes and does not mark the race, class, gender, sexual orientation, of the group being discussed. Applying a set of assumptions about a group to all members of that group.”4 When a person involves false universalisation in their theory or in their activism, they ... data the experiences of white middle class women 2) it located the explanation of women’s experiences solely in terms of women’s oppression on the basis of gender. ( paying little attention to race, class, sexual orientation) 3) The possible reforms for social change were geared towards changing the social conditions of white middle class women.22 iv) Conclusion. There was a realisation on the part of middle class white feminists ...
- 685: AIDS: US Made?
- ... systems also occur, the most severe in the brain, the symptoms of which range from motor disorders to severe dementia and death. The Segals note that despite the fact that AIDS is transmitted only through sexual intercourse, blood transfusions and non- sterile hypodermic needles, the infection has spread dramatically. During the first few years after its discovery, the number of AIDS patients doubled every six months, and is still doubling every ... broke out precisely in 1979, precisely among men and among drug users, and precisely in New York City," assert the Segals. They go on to explain that whereas in cases of infection by means of sexual contact, incubation periods are two years or more, while in cases of massive infection via blood transfusions, as must have been the case with prisoners, incubation periods are shorter than a year. "Thus, if the ...
- 686: AIDS:Is There a Cure? Are There Preventions?
- ... a virus that kills your immune system. The letters in AIDS stand for Acquired, Immune, Deficiency, Syndrome. (Madaras,185-6) There are four ways the AIDS virus can be spread. The first is by having sexual intercourse with someone infected with the virus. AIDS is transmitted this way by way of the semen. This is also the way most people get AIDS. (Madaras,187) The second most common way people get ... thin piece of rubber that fits over the erect penis that traps the semen at the end. (Madaras,166) "Clearly it would be helpful and self protective if a person who has a high risk sexual life-style could at least modify it to make it less risky." (Nourse,128) The only really sure way to protect yourself from getting AIDS by needles is not to use them, but if you ...
- 687: Catcher in the Rye: How Holden Deals With Alcohol, Sex, and Violence
- ... constantly in the novel. In one of the chapters, he even has an opportunity for a prostitute to come to his hotel room. He jumps on the opportunity, but doesn't commit the act of sexual intercourse. After his encounter with the prostitute, an act of violence is committed. This will be talked about in my next paragraph. In about every chapter, he talks about how he or one of his ... they were introduced to the topics. Alcohol prevention is now being taught at an early age so that kids won't make any bad or harsh mistake which they will regret when they are older. Sexual education is something that either the young person will learn about on their own or their parnets will discuss the matter with them. Remember, ignorance is not the key in this matter, as mentioned earlier ...
- 688: Hamlet Criticism
- ... know for a fact the queen liked Hamlet very much. She even had it played for her twice. Some of the public disagreed with the Queen, but not in public. The fact that hamlet contained sexual refrences may have been one of the many sexual refrences in it: “Hamlt: That’s a fair thought to lie between maidens legs. Ophellia: What is my lord? Hamlet Nothing” (epstein 333) The term nothing is a slang for female genitallia. (Epstein 333) This ...
- 689: Psychology: Dreams and Dreaming
- ... his patient's dreams for clues to their problems (Barret p. 14-15). Freud believed that dreams were wish fulfillment-in our dreams we represent our deepest desires, which in an adult are nearly always sexual. However, because these desires would be offensive to our sleeping conscious minds, or censor or superego, disguises our true intentions. The obscurity of dreams, Freud said “is due to alterations in repressed material made by ... ideas but he must be given credit for being one of the first modern thinkers to reexamine the symbolism of dreams. However he must also be criticized for seeing nearly every dream symbol in purely sexual terms. Freuds detractors also complain that his theories , based on evidence drawn from his psychologically disturbed patients, were not universally applicable. Despite these criticisms, Freud created psychoanalysis almost single-handedly, and built a solid base ...
- 690: Grendel: Queen Wealthheow
- ... problem understanding Grendels feelings, Grendel couldn't understand them either. He was "tortured by the red of her hair and the set of her chin and the white of her shoulders". There is definitely a sexual overtone in Grendels desire for Wealththeow. Upon his attack of her he ripped her out of bed by her feet as if he was going to split her in half. He wanted to kill her but he was torn by his feeling for her, all the pain he wanted to inflict was sexual. He wanted to "cook the ugly hole between her legs, and squeeze out her feces with his fists". His motive for killing her was justified by wanting to teach the Danes reality, but he refrained ...
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