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The Origin - Etiology and Treatment of Syphilis
The Origin, Etiology and Treatment of Syphilis "And this disease of which I speak, this syphilis too will pass away and die out, but later it will be born again and be seen again by our grandchildren just as in bygone ages we must believe it was observed by our ancestors." - Fracastoro, 1538 1 It has been written about, debated over, and has affected every culture it has come into contact with. One
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Dreams of a Child
Dreams of a Child The television show known as Robotech depicts the lives of somewhat average people rising up into new challenges, and defeating those challenges to survive. The cartoon starts off with a young man hoping to stay close to his childhood friend and mentor by becoming a pilot for a fighter squadron. In the cartoon, aired in 1985, the main character achieves his dream, however marginally and begins to improve to the
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Alcohol Abuse
Alcohol Abuse Alcohol is liquid distilled product of fermented fruits, grains and vegetables used as solvent, antiseptic and sedative moderate potential for abuse. Possible effects are intoxication, sensory alteration, and/or anxiety reduction. Symptoms of overdose staggering, odor of alcohol on breath, loss of coordination, slurred speech, dilated pupils, fetal alcohol syndrome (in babies), and/or nerve and liver damage. Withdrawal Syndrome is first sweating, tremors, then altered perception, followed by psychosis, fear, and finally auditory hallucinations.
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Raising a Child with a Disability
Raising a Child with a Disability: Journal Entry #2: Summary: This article mainly examines ways in which parents can deal properly with the news of being told that their child has a disability. There are a few stories in the article which emphasize the way the parents felt when they found out about their child's disability. In most cases, the parents felt shattered, overwhelmed and completely shocked. The article explained that parents have an expectation
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Child Development
Babies grow and develop at a very rapid rate during the first year of life. They grow physically, mentally, emotionally, and socially. In this paper I will discuss the physical growth and development patterns of an infant all the way through adulthood. Development is the baby's increased skill in using various body parts. When dealing with a development of a child there are three basic development rules. First development rule: This rule says that babies
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Past and Current Trends of Drug Abuse in the United States
Past and Current Trends of Drug Abuse in the United States Drug abuse has changed over the years due to the trends that Americans face from the encouragement of different cultures. The abuse of substances creates many health problems. The following will discuss the past and current trends of drug use and the effects these drugs have on the health of the individuals who abuse the drugs. The use of cocaine in the United States
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The Effects of Abuse
There are several different types of abuse and each type affects people differently. There is child abuse and spousal abuse, but there is also physcial and mental abuse. This paper will go over each type of abuse, how the abuse affects the person, how people can recover from abuse, and just some general information To start off I will discuss spousal abuse and its affect on people. Surveys in the US and Canada have shown
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Drug Abuse
The repetitive deaths of drug users has became, nowadays, an everyday phenomenon, that most us has got used it. The numbers of the victims more and more increase rapidly in such a degree that makes us shudder. Prospectively, there was an alarming increase in drug abuse at our college. Many students take cocaine, heroine, LSD, hash, crack, and other drugs; all these illegal substances provoke undeniably addiction. The reasons that led to that accrual are
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Are Expeaectation About Child's Development Related to Different Cultures?
Parental expectations of their children's development can be influenced bymany factors. factors like media, family beliefs, personal experience. Expectations come from several sources- from parents, teachers, family, peers and ourselves. All these factors relate to social and culture beliefs. Piaget stressed the importance of the environment in children's learningm seeing children as active builders of their own knowledge. The social constructive perspective on child development places main emphasis on the importance of the social environment
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Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2004
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was signed into law on July 30, 2002 by President Bush. The new law came after major corporate scandals involving Enron, Arthur Anderson, WorldCom. Its goals are to protect investors by improving accuracy of and reliability of corporate disclosures and to restore investor confidence. The law is considered the most important change in securities and corporate law since the New Deal. The act is named after Senator Paul Sarbanes of
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Message Boards and Their Abuse: Trolls
Lee Thomas Sep. 28 2001 Message Boards and their Abuse: Trolls Nowadays, anybody with and internet connection can go online and chat with a variety of peers. One of the most common places to chat is bulletin pages known as message boards. Messages written on these boards stay on the boards for everyone to view. Overtime, as people on the boards get to know each other, message boards usually end up being a part of
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History of Schizophenia and Its Treatment
HISTORIC OVERVIEW OF SCHIZOPHRENIA AND ITS TREATMENT ABSTRACT This paper provides an overview of the history of schizophrenia and its treatment. The paper begins by first providing some basic facts about the condition such as its nature, its probable causes, and its symptoms. This brief description is followed by a historical overview which discusses how schizophrenia came to be identified as a unique illness. The views of psychiatrists pivotal to making this identification are described.
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Alien and Sedition Act
Labbe 1 Ryan Labbe Communications 261 Prof. Olmstead November 18, 2004 Espionage Act of 1917 and Sedition Act (Amendment) of 1918 On April 2nd 1917, President Woodrow Wilson of the United States of America, "Ð'...went before Congress and called for a declaration of war. Both the House and the Senate voted overwhelmingly in favor of going to war with Germany."# This was an act that led to much resistance among the American people. Not four
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Lovey, a Very Special Child
Lovey, A Very Special Child, is a book written by Mary MacCracken about her experiences working in a private school with children that have learning disabilities. Although at the time, Mary was not a certified teacher, she was still one of the best in the school. Therefore Mary was given the more difficult cases. One of those tough cases is a girl named Hannah. The book tells the story of how Mary makes a huge
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Substance Abuse
Evaluating Honesty Having read the article "Survey Confidentiality vs. Anonymity: Young Men's Self Reported Substance Use", I feel as if I know a little bit more about the way in which people display honesty in general. This experimental study was seeking to find out if the way in which people answered surveys as anonymous or by name mattered in their honesty of their answers. Therefore, the study's hypothesis was saying that identifying oneself will change
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Chinas only Child Policy
When women dream of settling down and making a family of their own, they think about how many children they would like to have. Some like small families containing only one or two children, while others enjoy really big families with four or five children. Here in America, women have the right to give birth to as many children as we want or can physically have. Other country's such as China is not that fortunate
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A Childs Promis
Expository Writing August 27, 2002 A Childs Promise This Friday night seemed just like any other with Mom and I lounging on the sofa watching the Grand Ole Opry. I could feel the joy that the Opry brought to my mom just by the look in her eyes as she watched, listened, and sometimes sang. Well she hummed more than she sang but that was my mom's way of singing. As we watched her eyes
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Hare's Theory of Indirect Act Utilitarianism
In this paper, I shall demonstrate how Hare's theory of indirect act utilitarianism is able to avoid the most critical difficulty of the direct theory (which I will identify and explain in the following paragraph) and then proceed to argue that although Hare is successful in overcoming the greatest obstacle of the direct theory, his solution inevitably entangles him in some other serious problems. The direct act utilitarian theory requires us to take into consideration
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Convention on the Rights of the Child
Introduction The implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the Caribbean was met with the issue of parental resistance. The concept of children's rights was characterised as foreign to parents. The critical traits valued in the Caribbean are obedience and mannerliness. As a result, the concept of Children's Rights is seen as undermining the right of the parent to control and discipline the child and develop the valued traits. The Convention
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Equal Pay Act
Chapter 1: The Scenario The story begins at a local Wal-Mart super center, its Friday, payday. As employees open their paychecks they are awaiting their annual raise. As one employee, Sue opens up her paycheck she finds she has not yet received a raise; she has waited all year for this raise. She is very sad to find she did not receive one, she begins to think maybe she did something wrong. She starts to
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Hamlet - Act 5 Scene 1
ColorSet-1ColorPos-1StyleSet-1StylePos-1 Krista Wallover 4/03/05 Humanities ACT 5 Scene 1 Hamlet: Woe is me. I miss my dear Ophelia. Where is my beautiful maiden? I cannot believe I will never see her again. Well, at least not until I am dead and buried. Ophelia: Hamlet what are you babbling about? I'm right here. I've been waiting for you for like an entire hour. I was really beginning to think you stood me up. Did you totally
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Paris: Magnificent Hero or Spoiled Child?
Paris: Magnificent Hero or Spoiled Child? Homer uses tone, imagery, epithets, and similes to describe Paris' character. Outwardly, Paris is a brave person, but inwardly, he is full of doubts and fears. He is like a stallion that has been pampered too much, a child who is allowed to get everything he wants. Because of his attitude, he starts the Trojan War and brings on the fall of Troy. Paris is portrayed in this passage
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Forrest Gump: The Vietnam War Through The Eyes of a Child
Forrest Gump The Vietnam War Through the Eyes of a Child In Winston Groom's Forrest Gump, the main character, Forrest Gump is involved in the Vietnam War. In the novel, he is mentally challenged and he sees everything somewhat differently then another individual might. His point of view of the events of the Vietnam War are child-like and different then what most people would see. The Vietnam War was a very tragic war. The events
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Can the Mentally Ill Refuse Treatment?
Can the Mentally Ill Refuse Treatment? In an article for the USA Today, writer Laura Parker quoted E. Fuller Torrey, the head psychiatrist at the Treatment Advocacy Center in Arlington, VA, "'You can create the most beautiful treatment situation in the downtown Hilton Hotel and give out free coffee and free cigarettes but people will not accept medication if they don't think they're sick,' [...]'That's why people with severe mental illness must be treated involuntarily'"
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Usa Patriot Act
USA PATRIOT Act On 9/11, the world was shocked and awed by the scenes of destruction and mayhem that unfolded in the United States of America. The carnage that unfolded that fateful day made it quite clear that the United States had entered a new era of constitutional interpretation. Never before has an unconventional enemy ever been able to inflict such damage with an unprecedented attack on American soil. Shortly after this attack, American lawmakers
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