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- 14151: Euthanasia: The Right to Die
- ... of a person lying there helpless, not able to feed themselves, get out of bed, or talk to you. One notable euthanasia case would be Sue Rodrigous. She had a disease known as Lou Gehrig's disease or ALS, which is a rare incurable disease of the nervous system. ALS gradually destroys the nerves that control the muscles. The results of which are weakness, paralysis, and eventually death. That is what ... Dr. Jack Kevorkian, proposed the creation of a new medical specialist, the "obitiarist," who would assist terminally ill patients to take their own lives, subject to strict guidelines. His patient also suffered from Lou Gehrig's disease. She was in bad shape, struggling to hold her head up, could not talk, and had to communicate using a computer keyboard. She was deteriorating quickly. "She was very smart," he said, a note ... and would surely die a slow death. Knowing this, Candy agreed to let the man shoot the dog in the back of the head so the dog would die without feeling a thing. " "I don't see no reason for it," said Carlson. He went to his bunk, pulled his bag from underneath it and took out a Luger pistol. "Le's get it over with,"... Candy looked a long ...
- 14152: Euthanasia
- ... be no energy in the world. Euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide should not be accepted or allowed by the government and people of the United States. Statistics show that seventy-three percent of the U.S. population approved of some form of euthanasia. This is used constantly in debates to pass laws for making euthanasia legal. But the people are deceived by this number. When the poll was taken, the people ... asked if they approved of "some form" of euthanasia. There are two forms of euthanasia, active and passive. It is the passive euthanasia that many people are accepting, the less harsh of the two. That's why people generally say they approve of it. If a separate question was asked or the people were informed of the difference, we would find that only thirty-eight percent of the population approves of ... considered to be sinful by the Bible or in any other religion, doesn1t mean it should be a crime. We live in a democracy where the people, of all religions, make the laws. They shouldn't be based on any religion or religious book. But we1re not talking about the sin of suicide, where talking about euthanasia. Euthanasia is assisted suicide, but isn1t that just a nice name for homicide. ...
- 14153: Depression
- Depression Everybody's mood varies according to events in the world around them. People are happy when they achieve something or saddened when they fail a test or lose something. When they are sad, some people say they ... brought on by everyday setbacks. Psychiatrists see a range of more severe mood disturbances and so find it easier to distinguish these from the normal variations of mood seen in the community. General practitioners (GP's) need to be sensitive enough to distinguish emotional reactions to setbacks in life from anxiety syndromes, somatisation and clinical depressions. The general idea is that anxiety disorders, depressive episodes, somatisation and adjustment reactions are all different entities, but in practice it is not always that clear-cut. Major depression, as defined by psychiatrists, is unfortunately relatively common. What is depression? The term "affect" refers to one's mood or "spirits." "Affective disorder" refers to changes in mood that occur during an episode of illness marked by extreme sadness (depression) or excitement (mania) or both. Depression is a disorder of affect. Affective ...
- 14154: AIDS and You: The Lethal Relation
- ... the infection is transmitted to protect ourselves from it without resorting to such extremes as mandatory testing, enforced quarantine or total celibacy. But too few people are heeding the AIDS message. Perhaps many simply don't like or want to believe what they hear, preferring to think that AIDS "can't happen to them." Experts repeatedly remind us that infective agents do not discriminate, but can infect any and everyone. Like other communicable diseases, AIDS can strike anyone. It is not necessarily confined to a few ... but inevitable death. I've already lost one friend from AIDS. I may soon lose others. My own sexual behavior and that of many of my friends has been profoundly altered by it. In U.S.A. one man in10 may already be carrying the AIDS virus. While the figures may currently be less in much of the rest of the country, this is changing rapidly. There currently is neither ...
- 14155: Abnormal Psychology: Mental Disorders
- ... undergoing treatment which usually consist taking medication in different amount until the proper amount is found. The constant research going on leads to putting more pieces of the puzzle together all the time. Using EEGΉs it was found that the impulses sent by the brain to other parts of the body are not normal in people with schizophrenia. It has also been found that there are definitely abnormalities in the ... them to stop what they know is a senseless activity. Therefore, many try to hide their problem from others with a rather high success rate. The only problem with this is that they often donΉt get treatment until they have been dealing with it for a long time. Depression http://www.save.org/student.html Depression is often used to describe someone who is feeling low about themselves at the ... Depression is thought to be caused by a combination of factors including genetic, psychological, and environmental ones. It can be caused by living a stressful life or just living a bad life, but it doesnΉt have to be. It also occurs in all economic classes with about the same consistency. There are often times now clues as to what triggered the onset of the depression. About fifteen million Americans ...
- 14156: Public Relations
- ... an everyday basis. Every employee represents their company individually, and the impression that they give the customer is the perception that the customer will have of the company. This is something that many employees dont think about, or dont care about. Many fast food restaurants are good examples of this. These companies are operated in such a manner that their employees dont have any pride, or satisfaction in what they are doing. If you have been to a fast food restaurant lately, you can see how that reflects in the service that you get. Another method ...
- 14157: Early to Bed
- Early to Bed Early to bed early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise, is one of the most widely quoted proverbs from Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac. This proverb is seldom disputed however I fail to see the logic behind it. I think that he who goes to bed early misses out on a lot of things and must be antisocial ... getting up early. It would be pointless for a company to open before the average consumer is even awake and it would be foolish to miss out on business due to closing early so one's employees could get to bed early. I suppose that if one were a cat burglar one might become more wealthy by conducting business while most of the world is still in asleep, but I ...
- 14158: Kids, Like Adults, Are Facing
- ... effect on and the mother stays at home, parents spend an Computers have had onlya moderate impact childhood schedules, causing a shasp decline in the average of 22 hours a week engaged with their children's time. The typical &year~ld Spend Amencan children toda} spend less time hours children can spend playing tag outside, for children, compared with 19 hours a week in half-hour each week on the computer ... study found. The timediaries arepartofa much I sizybdy more time on schoolwork according the study found, has decreased from 40 percent of After collecting minute-by-minute time diaries that looks at hbw wefl today's chddren are tiri a national study released today. a child's dav in 1981 to 25 percent last year. from the families of 3,600 children, researchers Researchers found, for e,ample, that cv Among the most striking changes is the 'Children are affected by ...
- 14159: Elie Wiesel
- ... was Eliezer Wiesel. His family spoke Yiddish at home; they read newspapers and conducted their grocery business in German. Elie had begun religious studies in classical Hebrew almost as soon as he could speak. Elie s life centered entirely on his religious studies. He loved the mystical tradition and folk tales of the Hassidic sect of Judaism, to which him and his family belonged. His father encouraged Elie to study the ... II left Sighet untouched. Although the village changed hands from different countries, the Wiesel family believed they were safe from the persecutions suffered by the Jews in Germany and Poland. The secure world of Wiesel s childhood ended abruptly with the arrival of the Nazis in Sighet in 1944. The Jewish people in the village were deported to concentration camps in Poland. The 15-year-old boy was separated from his ... almost to death, starved, beaten, and shuttled from camp to camp on foot, or in open cattle cars, in driving snow, without food, proper shoes, or clothing. In the last months of the war, Wiesel's father succumbed to dysentery, starvation, exhaustion and exposure. After the war, the teenaged Wiesel found asylum in France, where he learned for the first time that his two older sisters had survived the war. ...
- 14160: Poverty
- ... and prejudice. Poverty is a problem, yet a problem of even greater importance is pinpointing where poverty commences. Are the traits listed above causes or effects? There are answers to be found in Shiva Naipaul's A Hot Country and North of South. In both works, which are very different in plot, but similar in theme, novelist Naipaul depicts the fateful and never-ending cycle of poverty and the disastrous effects ... at the Aurora, his bookstore. He claims to only sell works which "provoke thought and kindness", but in reality there is no one to buy his books. No one has time for betterment. Dina, Aubrey's assistant, the first to understand this: There were long periods when she did not have to deal with the rare browsers, nor drunks, nor beggars...when all she did was sit on her stool and ... a flight attendant on the subject of her president: A button adorned with a photograph of the Cuyamese President was pinned on the breast of the sarong-clad stewardess who brought him the drink. 'Who's that?' Alex asked. She glanced down at her breast. 'That is our President. A very great man.' 'What makes him a great man?' 'He is a liberator.' 'What has he liberated you from?' 'From ...
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