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- 18581: Bipolar Affective Disorder
- ... experiments show that there are abnormalities of biogenic metabolites in bipolar patients (Sadock, 1991.) The following supports the theory that many mood disorders, not just bipolar disorder, are genetic and not caused by the patient’s environment. There are many other characteristics that support the genetic theory. The most obvious reason, though, for the theory that bipolar disorder is genetic, is the stunning likelihood that mood disorders are in their family ... with parents that have severe bipolar disorder (Badal, 1988.) Research shows that a child who is adopted is likely to have a mood disorder if their biological parents have one, regardless of their adoptive parent’s mental state. This shows that bipolar disorder is at least partly innate. The other theory is that social factors play the major role in the development of bipolar disorder. It should be clear that it ... sees nothing better than a depressing world. There are many ways to treat a bipolar patient, but some are more widely used and recognized by the psychology community. The first question is whether a patient’s disorder is severe enough to warrant hospitalization. Some major qualifiers for hospitalization of a bipolar patient are risk of suicide or homicide, and the inability to care for food, shelter, or clothing (Sadock, 1991.) ...
- 18582: The Price of Smoking
- The Price of Smoking Cocaine, heroin, and many other drugs are recognized by society as being dangerous to one's health, as addictive, and not to mention illegal. Along with these drugs, there is another substance that is as equally addictive and disruptive to society, but this substance is advertised in commercials, billboards, and magazines ... smoking is for tough men whom the ladies love. Models are used to illustrate that smoking will make women thinner and more glamorous. Slogans such as "You've come a long way, baby" interprets women's entrance into the business world. Young people in their teens are especially being targeted because they make up 90% of all new smokers. Ads imply that smoking will make teens look mature. Companies in the ... and trachea were only some of the medical complication which affected smokers. Not only was smoking known to cause medical complications, but it was the leading cause of death from lung cancer. In the U.S. alone about 415,000 people die prematurely each year as a result of smoking. This is the equivalent of nearly 20 Boeing 747's crashing every week with no survivors. Smokers are not the ...
- 18583: To Build A Fire
- To Build a Fire In Jack London s, To Build a Fire , it is obvious to see that as the story progresses, the man becomes more bestial. However at the same time the dog seems to gain the human quality of good sense ... like an animal. It reads, After some manipulation he managed to get the bunch between the heels of his mittened hands. In this fashion he carried it to his mouth... At this point, the man s hands are so cold that he can no longer grasp objects, such as matches. In order to get the matches he has to use the heels of his hands just like paws. This also shows ... bestial characteristics. As the story, proceeds it is also obvious that the dog is picking up more characteristics that are human. These characteristics such as sense allow the dog to steer clear of the man s fate. But the dog knew; all its ancestry knew, and it had inherited the knowledge. And it knew that it was not good to walk abroad in such fearful cold... The dog knew that ...
- 18584: The Watergate Scandal
- ... resulting from violations of certain constitutional laws. The Watergate Scandal manifested on June 17, 1972, when seven employees of the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP) were arrested breaking into the Democratic National Committee's headquarters in the Watergate Hotel. (Watergate Scandal 1) Immediately following their arrest many observers thought that these employees of CREEP were breaking into the Democratic National Committee's headquarters for the first time. In fact CREEP employees had broken into the Democratic National Committee's headquarters six times between August 21, 1971 and June 17, 1972. During their sixth break-in on June 17, they were caught. (Secret Agenda) At approximately 2:30 in the morning on this date, ...
- 18585: Following The Article In The S
- Following the article in the Standard Newspaper dated 8/07/1998 on “Customer Care Improvement by Robert L Fousler (MD) Consultant s for Effective Training, I am in total agreement with him concerning the points that he has put forth concerning Customer Care within business organizations. Customer Care is an important point in management and should be ...
- 18586: The Lottery
- Shirley Jackson s, The Lottery, has raised questions in the back of every reader s mind towards the destructive yet blind rituals of mankind. A reflection of ourselves is what we see when looking through the pond of Jackson s mind. The Lottery clearly expressed Jackson s feelings concerning traditional rituals through her story, opened the eyes of its readers to properly classify and question some of today s traditions as cruel, and allowed ...
- 18587: Different Life Crises Have Different Impacts
- ... crises. With regards to the elderly population, namely the events “death of a spouse”, “personal illness or injury”, and “retirement” rate 100, 53, and 45 LCUs respectively. One of the most powerful stressors in one’s life, particularly in the elderly population, is the loss of a loved one or a close relationship through the death of a spouse or companion. In the two years following bereavement, widowed people are more ... drugs and cigarettes. Bereavement, and the emotional loneliness it creates, produces cardiovascular changes, a lowered number of white blood cells, and other abnormal responses of the immune system (Broome and Llewelyn 545). After spending one’s lifetime intimately with another individual, namely one’s spouse or companion, losing him or her is an unfortunate and life changing experience. A widow who was dependent on her husband’s financial assistance may encounter distress beyond the physical and emotional grief. ...
- 18588: The Mayor Of Casterbridge And
- ... him in the amphitheater. During this small period, Hardy gives much detail as to how Susan and Elizabeth-Jane travel to Casterbridge, where they find the mayor and observe him. He also tells of Henchard's wooing of Farfrae and of his meeting first with Elizabeth-Jane and then with Susan. Hardy could easily have said all of this in one or two chapters, but he chose to drag it out ... episodic sequence. Hardy puts enough suspense at the end of each episode to make the reader want to read the next episode. In The Mayor of Casterbridge, each episode develops an important part of Henchard's downfall. Each episode in The Return of the Native forms a significant step towards the tragedy that takes place in the end. Henchard's journey through the novel can basically be seen with a few separate tragedies that make up his steady undoing until his death. The first episode in The Mayor of Casterbridge ends in Henchard loosing ...
- 18589: Capital Punishment
- ... a cherry tree) (Horwitz 13). The majority of these were crimes dealing with property. However, transportation became an alternative to execution in the 17th century. A lot of these criminals were shipped to the U.S. (28). In the early days of our Constitution, the only segments that showed that the death penalty existed were two amendments in the Bill of Rights (Landau 11). These amendments deal with protection and rights ... the dignity of human life as ordered by scripture" (Szumski 79). There are two famous cases in American history, dealing with capital punishment, that has evoked much controversy. They are Sacco and Vanzetti v. U.S. and the case of the Rosenbergs. During the 1920s, fears of communism led to the dislike of immigrants. The Italian immigrants Sacco and Vanzetti were victims of this "Red Scare" (Davidson 336). They were accused ... a fair trial and if the death sentence was justified. None of the four witnesses could for sure tell if Sacco and Vanzetti were the men they had seen. Another case, that degrades the U.S., is the case of the Rosenbergs. Since they were members of the Communist Party, which was considered "un- American", especially in the 1950s, with the fear of the Soviet Union, which had just developed ...
- 18590: Hobbes And Sovereignty
- ... with the assumption that the sovereign will use it for the benefit of everyone. According to Hobbes, having an absolute sovereignty is the only way for war to end. He also believes that the sovereign's actions should not be subject to the legal control of anyone, therefore giving him complete unrestricted power that has no limits or constraints. Another point that Hobbes makes for having a sovereign is that all ... nature. This means that there will be a group of people, possessing tremendous power, living in the constant fear, associated with a state of nature. This fear will come not so much from the sovereign's subjects, but from other sovereigns and the people that they control. In other words, nothing has really changed a lot from the state of nature, other than the relative peace within individual kingdoms. War, fear, and the desperate desire for self-preservation still exists, except now it is between organized armies and not between every man. As the sovereign's fears grow, he will command continually more people to go and fight until everyone is killed but himself and the other sovereign, and then they will try to kill each other as well. This ...
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