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- 16701: Schizophrenia
- ... unrelated topic to the next. They may make up their own words or use sounds or grunts to substitute words. These symptoms do not mean that people with schizophrenia are out of touch with the world completely, they know that roads are used for driving cars, and that people eat meals three a day. Schizophrenia affect both men and women equally. Along with delusions, hallucinations, and thought disorders, they also suffer ...
- 16702: Vegetarians
- ... dont eat this much meat anyway!), you would be eating for hours. Most people become vegetarians because of the Animal Rights Movement (ARM). But in fact, the movement has "elevated ignorance about the natural world" according to Richard Coniff. If you give rights to animals, you should give rights to plants. Think of how they feel, often they are consumed before they even die! If we all went vegetarian, the ...
- 16703: Prader-Willi Syndrome
- ... with one chromosome from each pair.Okay,now Prader-Willi Syndrome is caused by the absence of some genes on one of the chromosones that affect the functionimg of the hypothalamus.Many laboratories around the world are researching this. About three-fourths of people with PWS have a tiny piece missing from one member of the pair of chromosone fifteens (the one inherited by the father).The other one fourth are ...
- 16704: Plagues and Epidemics
- Plagues and Epidemics Humans are remarkably good at finding a religious scapegoat for their problems. There has always been someone to blame for the difficulties we face in life, such as war, famine, and more relevant, disease. Hitler blames the Jews for economical woes in a corrupt Germany long after the Romans held the Christians responsible for everything wrong in a crumbling, has-been empire. In the ...
- 16705: Multiple Births
- ... births and quintuplets are born once in every eight million births. The birth of six infants is so rare that accurate statistics cannot be made while compared to the total amount of births around the world. In all of these forms of multiple pregnancies, the process is very similar. If the woman's ovaries release four or five eggs then the birth of quadruplets or quintuplets will arise. If the cell ...
- 16706: Morality and the Human Genome Project
- ... sequencing large portions or entire genomes are called genome projects" (Congress,4). Genome projects are not a single organizations efforts, but instead a group of organizations working in government and private industry through out the world. Furthermore, the controversies surrounding the Human Genome Project can be better explained by the past events leading to the project, the structure of the project, and the moral discussion of the project. The major events ...
- 16707: Memory
- ... as it was originally encoded. Major forms of storage are episodic memory and semantic memory. Episodic memory involves remembering particular incidents, such as visiting the doctor a week ago. Semantic memory concerns knowledge about the world. It holds meanings of words or any general information learned. Knowledge of the capitals of all the states would be stored in semantic memory. A Canadian psychologist, Endel Tulving discovered that there was more activity ...
- 16708: Dante Alighieri 2
- ... during his exile and earlier years in political office. The exiling of Dante helped him put his life and his political beliefs into perspective and let him write more freely (Holmes 1). Dante gave the world new ideas on politics, changed the style of poetry, and unified the Italian language. His effect can be seen in the writings that are prominent in Western culture today. Given his wide span of influence ...
- 16709: Davy Crockett
- ... Crockett family, where their two sons, John Wesley and William, were born. After Polly Finlay's death in 1815 he married Elizabeth Patton, a widow. He was commander of a battalion in the Creek Indian War in 1813-1814. He was a member of the Tennessee legislature in 1821-1822 and again in 1823-1824, and of the twentieth Congress of the United States in the years 1827-1829, in the ...
- 16710: Discovering Sicke Cell Anemia
- ... I will discuss what exactly it is, how it is caused, any known treatments or cures, and many other facts that are important in this disease. Sickle Cell Anemia is a health problem throughout the world. More than 250,000 babies are born worldwide with this inherited blood cell disorder (http://www.medaccess.com/h_child/sickle/sca_01.htm). The disorder causes red blood cells to extend into a sickle ...
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