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- 211: Goundwater
- ... so the water table never really levels out, but rather, follows the topography of the landscape. The tendency for the water table to level itself results in depressions being filled with water. Thus in a depression, the water table will be above the ground. Since streams and lakes sit in depressions the ground water is constantly feeding them. Thus ground water joins the surface runoff and can evaporate again, repeating the ... is when a pressurized aquifer is punctured by a pipe and water sprays out with having to be pumped. Figure 5 Types of aquifers. Modified after Enger and Smith, 1992 Figure 6 A cone of depression in the water table under a heavily pumped well. After Cunningham and Saigo, 1992 Sometimes after an aquifer is heavily pumped, a cone of depression may form around the well. This is a lowering of the water table which results when water is removed faster than it seeps back into the area. This could cause shallow wells nearby to ...
- 212: Eating Disorders: Anorexia
- ... periods and interest in sex may also diminish. Some individuals with bulimia struggle with addictions, including abuse if drugs and alcohol, and compulsive stealing. Like individuals with anorexia, many people with bulimia suffer from clinical depression, anxiety obsessive compulsive disorder, and other psychiatric illnesses. These problems place them at high risk for suicidal behavior. People who binge eat are usually overweight,so they are prone to medical problems, such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and diabetes. Research, from the NIMH scientists, has shown that individuals with binge eating disorder have high rates of co-occuring psychiatric illnesses, especially depression. Eating disorders are most successfuly treated when diagnosed early. Unfortunalty, even when family members confront the ill person about his or her behavior, or physicians make a diagnosis, individuals with eating disorders may deny that ... the patient is in immediate medical danger and requires hospitalization. While most patients can be treated as outpatients, some need hospital care. Conditions warranting hospitilization include excessive and rapid weight loss, serious metabolic disturbances, clinical depression or risk of suicide, severe binge eating and purging, or psychosis. The complex interaction of emotional and physiological problems in eating disorders calls for a comprehensive treatment plan, involving a variety of experts and ...
- 213: Angel Island
- ... the following years afterwards, two other railroads were also finished. This put thousands of Chinese out of work and in competition with other Americans. Also, after Central Pacific Railroad was completed there was an economic depression instead of the trade expansion that was expected. With unemployment in the United States for the first time, Chinese became the targets of resentment. The Workingmen's Party was the group that became most responsible ... the local police did nothing. By teaching ones kids to hate, the prejudice and discrimination continued on throughout generations. During the early 1860s, Crocker advertised in Ireland newspapers to come to America and escape the depression their homeland was going through. These advertisements were similar to the Gold Mountain illusions that were promised to the Chinese. When the Irish first began coming to America, people said they were overrunning the country. Irish came because of rapid population growth and major agricultural depression. The European industrial depression was mainly due to the United States competition of the time. Irish were beaten and mobbed and for protection they joined together in the Land League. Irish laborers worked on ...
- 214: Mental Disorders
- ... from neurotic ones. Psychotic means, roughly, a state in which a patient has lost touch with reality, whereas neurotic refers to a relatively less impaired state. Schizophrenia, many organic mental disorders, and some forms of depression (such as manic-depressive illness) are psychotic conditions. Examples of neurotic disorders are those in which anxiety is the major symptom, hypochondria (morbid concern about health), and multiple personality(1). Childhood Disorders. Several mental disorders ... in adolescence or young adulthood. Symptoms include disturbances in thought, perception, emotion, and interpersonal relationships(2). Affective Disorders. The affective disorders are those in which the predominant symptom is a disturbance in mood. One form, depression, is marked by sadness, guilt, and feelings of helplessness and hopelessness. In mania, mood is elevated, expansive, or irritable(5). Delusional Disorders. The central feature of the paranoid disorders is a person's delusion (a ... are repetitive behaviors performed dutifully to try to ward off some future event. Examples of such behavior include repeated washing of the hands or counting and recounting belongings. Other Neurotic Disorders. In addition to neurotic depression and anxiety disorders, other conditions that have historically been considered neurotic include somatization disorder (hysteria), conversion reactions, psychogenic pain, hypochondria, and dissociative disorders. The so-called somatoform disorders are characterized by physical symptoms for ...
- 215: Janet Jackson
- ... album "janet" she was taking her steps in breaking away from the Jackson name she had always wanted to avoid. Janet had countless problems in her childhood that led to her adulthood bout of severe depression. Neither Janet or boyfriend of eleven years, Rene Elizondo, are reluctant to talk about her depression. "I think the record deal brought a lot of [the depression] on," says Rene. "She hit the pinnacle, but it made her look at herself and say, 'Why aren't I happy?' At a stage in her career where most artists would find new and ...
- 216: Milton Friedman
- ... about how Milton Friedman played a very important role in helping us get into a huge national debt? This paper will discuss how Milton Friedman played a negative role in our economy. When the Great Depression hit worldwide, it was up to the economists to explain it and to devise a cure for it. A person named John Maynard Keynes came up with an explanation to the economic slump that was ... expand the money supply. In these circumstances, Keynes believed that the government should do what people were not, basically, spend. In seven short years, under the Keynesian policy, the U.S. went from the greatest depression it has ever known to the greatest economic boom it has ever known. The success of Keynesian economics was so astounding that almost all capitalist governments around the world started using it. And the result was the extinction of the economic depression! Before World War II, eight U.S. recessions worsened into depressions (1807, 1837, 1873, 1882, 1893, 1920, 1933, and 1937). Since World War II, under Keynesian policies, there have been nine recessions (1945-46, ...
- 217: Post World War I
- ... panic only worsened things and on October 24, 1929, stockholders sold a record 16,410,030 shares. By mid-November, stock prices had plunged 40%. The crash of the Stock Market led to the Great Depression. The depression was the worst in the history of the United States and proved to be a terrible price to pay for the false sense of prosperity and national well-being of the roaring Twenties. Many Americans ... overshadowed the real risk of business in the United States. When the American people saw that the economy was flourishing, they felt that they were on a pedestal, protected from the river of uncertainty, economic depression and the failure of the American Dream. There were many new inventions, which were created during the Twenties, as well as new methods and techniques. Department stores began introducing installment payment plans to their ...
- 218: The Roaring Twenties
- ... panic only worsened things and on October 24, 1929, stockholders sold a record 16,410,030 shares. By mid-November, stock prices had plunged 40%. The crash of the Stock Market led to the Great Depression. The depression was the worst in the history of the United States and proved to be a terrible price to pay for the false sense of prosperity and national well -being of the roaring Twenties. Many Americans ... overshadowed the real risk of business in the United States. When the American people saw that the economy was flourishing, they felt that they were on a pedestal, protected from the river of uncertainty, economic depression and the failure of the American Dream. Many Americans found a way to improve their lifestyle. Whether it had been through hard work on the job, or even with a struck of luck on ...
- 219: Menopause
- ... them vulnerable to fracture. A great many other physical and psychological changes have been attributed to menopause. These include fat in the thighs, loss of muscle tone and high blood pressure. Mental health problems, including depression, and fatigue have been said to be caused by menopause. To evaluate the validity of these claims, Sonja McKinlay studied 800 women aged 45 to 55. Her findings showed that the stereotype of the complaining ... are some women that have most of these symptoms but because they have been suggested by friends or even doctors, their human behavior is often cause of biological system disfunction. These women may experience more depression than most women usually go through and in turn seek the help of their physician to make their depression less by taking medication that they may not need. But behavior alone does not make women vulnerable to illness behavior affects how a body functions and the biological systems affect our behavior so it ...
- 220: Personal Reflections
- ... someone had listened. But I'm sorry is really useless in helping a person in mourning. Not having any close friends during this time caused me to push my anger down. This began years or depression and suicidal thoughts. An awful lot can happen when one does not deal with pain and loss. My best friend, Ramsey and I did not even talk about the loss of my Dad. However I ... and the sexual abuse, only to hurt less now on the other side. Many of my feelings were sent underground only to resurface many years later. The problematic consequences were and are suicidal tendencies, manic depression, a withdrawn demeanor, difficult relationships, and sexual promiscuity. I only felt guilt for a short time, but these other things, especially manic depression have stayed with me all these years. Other expressions of my denied feelings identified in Dr. Stearns book on page 61 that apply to me are moodiness, abuse of alcohol and drugs and reckless ...
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