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- 15001: Aspirin A Brief History
- ... inflammation and save lives. On August 10, 1897, this chemist, Felix Hoffmann, discovered a stable form of acetylsalicylic acid, the active ingredient in aspirin. Hoffmann had been seeking a pain-relieving medication for his father's debilitating rheumatism. Not only did the drug ease his father's pain and inflammation, but when it was marketed as aspirin by a company called Bayer two years later, it quickly became the world's most popular pain reliever. One century after Hoffmann's discovery, aspirin continues to be the subject of extensive medical research and has gained recognition for life-saving properties as a cardiac care regime for ...
- 15002: Acid Rain: Scourge From The Skies
- ... the Skies” by Robert Collins was very effective in showing the true severity of acid rain. By using excellent developmental devices, Robert Collins was able to write an effective essay that is appealing to today’s society, as well as informative especially for today’s constantly changing world. Firstly, the developmental devices used in the essay are vital to it’s effectiveness. Without them, the author would not have been able to supply sufficient proof to his findings and convince the reader of the true severity of acid rain. Collins used noteworthy facts throughout the ...
- 15003: Atmosphere Crisis
- ... greenhouse. Global warming will have wide spread impacts on health, economics, politics, and the environment. A warmer climate will actually increase crop yields and open more land to farming in upper latitude countries like U.S., Canada, and Russia, but for the poor countries of equatorial Africa, Asia, and South America, crop yields will most likely decline. That is because many crops currently grown there will not be able to tolerate ... many people depend on for drinking and sanitation may become scarce or of poorer quality. Rising sea water levels would send salty water farther up rivers. Every spring, scientists announce the dimensions of the year’s ozone hole over Antarctica. Currently, about 80% of the ozone layer disappeared from an area centered on Antarctica that was nearly the size of North America. This time of the year, however, it’s the Northern Hemisphere that commands most attention. Ozone loss peaks during fall, when the Earth’s angle of orbit to the sun puts the Northern Hemisphere almost directly in the path of the sun’ ...
- 15004: Acupuncture
- ... It was first developed during the Chou dynasty (1030 BC to 221 BC) of Chinese history. Acupuncture in particular, is the concept of energy. This energy, which seems to correspond to fluctuations in the body's Electro-magnetic field, is described as flowing along path ways near the surface of the skin. Evaluation of the exact nature and degree of energy imbalance, resulting in disease is the aim of traditional Chinese ... and palpation of the pulses. There are three main methods of diagnosis that are employed in the clinic: looking, asking and palpating, all of which contribute to a full and accurate diagnosis of the patient’s condition. By looking at the patient’s face, body and movements, the practitioner is already beginning to create a diagnosis. Another major diagnostic tool is the tongue. It is said that the state of the internal organs is reflected in the ...
- 15005: Gender Differences
- ... faced with is stressful and painful. I told them that I am not too critical when checking out girls and when it comes to seeing other males bigger or stronger than myself, that I don't feel too much pressure of trying to look better than them. I am rather more concerned of my own health and ways to improve it. I was really surprised when they told me that other girls are the ones who usually criticize or pressure them. When I was aware of this, I did notice, at times, while walking around casually with my girl friends, when they weren't looking appropriate, would get stares, hisses or comments from other females. I was even surprised when I heard my girlfriends talking about other girls right in front of me, even though most of these times I didn't notice anything wrong or different about the other girls they were talking about. From this observation, I think the pressure of always looking good would be greater if I was to be a female. ...
- 15006: Vengeful Equity
- ... world of race relations and eliminate harsher sentencing for equal crimes based on color. In the female world, consideration of possible mitigating circumstances surrounding an individuals' crime has been taken away from the presiding judge's discretion. Important factors are not allowed to enter in the decision process such as why the crime was committed and by who. While the number of women behind bars has risen as of late, the ... prisons for violent offences declined from 48.9 percent in 1979 to 32.2 percent in 1991 (Chensey-Lind 1997). That would leave the remainder of the near tripling of incarcerated women since the 1980's as nonviolent offenders. Some of these women are imprisoned for property crimes, such as stealing for their drug habit, or often these women have been busted for drug trafficking, often referred to as drug mules ... initiating lawsuits of unfair treatment because women were not required or even allowed for that matter to participate in these excursions. The state this lawsuit was brought against was Alabama. They then created a women's chain gang to eliminate the lawsuits. Chesney-Lind seemed to think this ridiculous. I believe it was the right choice by the state. Women do not need to match the work of the male ...
- 15007: Abortion
- Many of you who support abortion say ‘the baby cannot feel any pain', or ‘it's not even alive yet'. On the contrary, the fetus is very much alive. The definition of ‘alive' is: to survive, feed, and to exist in one's environment. You tell me if that describes the fetus or not. At six weeks of development in the womb, the fetus has grown a brain, and if functions normally. And it is officially alive, as it feeds through the umbilical cord, and it does exist in it's environment. It too is just like us, from its 10 finger, 10 toes, 2 arms and 2 legs. At eight weeks, the heart begins to beat on it's own, and the fetus is ...
- 15008: Human Rights In China
- ... One of the first things that come to mind about human rights in China would most likely be the Tiananmen Square massacre, where in 1989 hundreds of student protestors lost their lives to the People's Republic of China. The bloody body of a dead student removed from the street right after the Tiananmen Square crackdown on June 4, 1989. Web page http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/china/china.html The name People's Republic of China seems a contradiction of its meaning. If indeed its name is the People's Republic of China than why did it massacre peaceful protestors with tanks and machine guns? But the Chinese government argues that the force was necessary for maintaining a national order (Muzhi Zhu). The People' ...
- 15009: Gambling Casinos
- ... Las Vegas or Atlantic City to find the action they so badly crave. It is available today in their own hometowns. Legalized gambling is one of the fastest growing industries in the United States. Gambling’s tremendous popularity is evident in the recent increase in the number of off-track betting parlors (OTB’s) and riverboat casinos that dot the midwest and the Mississippi Delta. Billboards on major highways depict the action and excitement available at such facilities. For most of the industry’s patrons, gambling is fun and a form of harmless entertainment. For the four to six percent of gamblers who become problem or pathological (compulsive) gamblers, however, it can be a devastating illness that negatively ...
- 15010: Euthenasia
- ... for answers. I believe it is necessary to consider arguments, both, for and against, in order to come to any conclusion. In this paper I will address Brian Clowes' article in the "Pro-Life Activist's Encyclopedia", located on the World Wide Web, that attempts to provoke a response from the reader and clearly establishes six reasons on which he concludes euthanasia is wrong. I will deal with each reason in ... a point of view that not only shows little understanding of the topic but indicates an obvious malice towards health professionals and the difficult job they face. For Clowes to imply that a health professional's primary concern is the conservation of medical resources and cost containment, as opposed to the betterment of human life, is a gross inaccuracy and insulting to those dedicated to the ethos "the betterment of human ... difficult to refute an argument that is based on a complex theory where the average person, outside of those who study the physical sciences, would have little understanding. Whether or not this was the author's intention, it does appear he is attempting to present an argument as right by simply associating it with another truth. He attempts to make a moral association between a physical and social phenomenon through ...
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