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- 16541: Schizophrenia
- ... become overloaded with stress, information, and stimulation. When this happens they lose their ability to cope with the anxiety which accompanies these stressors. Instead of dealing with their problems they seek peace in their own world. For example, it is common for individuals to return to "happy times" in their life such as infancy and they begin to act like a child. Scientists have asked if there is a particular nationality ...
- 16542: Teenage Stress
- ... could be problems at school, pressure from your teachers, pressure from your friends, or pressure from your parents to do well. Teenagers may also suffer from the high competition for jobs out in the real world. There is a sense of the feeling there are no jobs out there that are right for the individual teenager. Financial pressures will start to build up around this time. Part time work is scarce ...
- 16543: The Price of Smoking
- ... 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 United States, such as Marlboro ...
- 16544: The Argument against Female Circumcision
- ... to dismissal from her position and actual imprisonment. Her writings are forbidden from many of the Arab countries that practice female circumcision. In a selection from The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World (1980), she explains her argument against female circumcision and retells some interviews she had with women who underwent the operation. El Saadawi goes into detail telling about the procedure that the girls underwent in her ...
- 16545: What Effect Does Aging Have On Memory?
- ... different components of memory affected by ageing. Episodic memory is that of specific events, experienced by the individual (autobiographical). In contrast to that is semantic memory - a store of facts and general knowledge of the world. A further distinction is between implicit and explicit memory. The underlying difference being the process of retrieval - an unconscious or conscious recollection of an event, respectively. Age differences have been found to be much greater ...
- 16546: Syphilis
- ... almost 100% curable. Christopher columbus, the men of the Tuskegee experiment, Al Capone, all have suffered the ills of syphilis. Modern technology has rendered the sexually transmitted disease almost helpless. Conclusion Syphilis has plague the world for years and continues to find its way into society by the way of careless individuals. Luckily today modern medicine has it under control. Hopefully people protect themselves, becaue it always can be worse.
- 16547: Alcoholism
- Alcoholism Alcohol is the most used and abused drug in the world, for this reason there is no wonder why we have alcohol problems. The most common problem is alcoholism. Alcoholism is a chronic usually progressive disease that includes both a psychological and a physical addiction to ...
- 16548: The Spread of AIDS
- ... as the 1917/18 influenza pandemic which killed over 21 million people, including 50,000 Canadians. Having been lulled into false security by modern antibiotics and vaccines about our ability to conquer infections, the Western world was ill prepared to cope with the advent of AIDS in 1981. (Retro- spective studies now put the first reported U.S. case of AIDS as far back as 1968.) The arrival of a new ...
- 16549: Teen Pregnancy
- ... facing America today. Each year, one million American teenagers become pregnant. 175,00 give birth to their first child. As a result, the United States now has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the Western World. The costs of teen pregnancy are staggering. Teen mothers are less likely to complete high school, less likely to get married, and more likely to go on welfare than their peers. The odds are stacked ...
- 16550: People Vs. the Tobacco Industry
- ... and outgoing ladies men. Models are used to illustrate that smoking will make women thinner and more glamorous. Slogans such as Youve come a long way, baby interprets womens entrance in the business world. Teens are especially being targeted because they make up 90% of all new smokers. Ads imply that smoking will make teens look mature. Companies such as Marlboro even give points that can be achieved with ...
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