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York Basic Books Addison Wesley
1,348 words... w York: Basic Books. 1985 Gardner, H. : Multiple intelligences: The theory of practice. New York: Basic Books. 1993 Gardner, H. : Problem solving in the arts. J of Ash Educ. 1971 5: 93 - 114. Gardner, H. , and Winner, E. : Artistry and aphasia. In: acquired aphasia. Sarno, M. e. New York: Academic Press. 1981 361 - 384. Gates, A. I. , and Taylor, G. A. : The acquisition of motor control in writing by pre-school children. Teach Col Rec. (19230 24: 459 - 469. Gazzaniga, M. S. , and LeDoux, J. ...
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Central Nervous System Spinal Cord
2,118 words... its. The initial symptom of MS is often blurred or double vision, red-green color distortion, or even blindness in one eye. (Brunnscheiler) Inexplicably, visual problems tend to clear up in the later stages of MS. Inflammatory problems of the optic nerve may be diagnosed as retro bulbar or optic neuritis. Fifty-five percent of MS patients will have an attack of optic neuritis at some time or other and it will be the first symptom of MS in approximately 15 percent. This has led to general rec...
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Rate Of Reaction Hydrochloric Acid
1,993 words4 Results for temperature and concentration on Tables 5 Graph for results for rate of reaction against temperature 6 Graph of results for rate of reaction against time 8 Graph and table of typical results This investigation is about Rates of Reaction and what affects them. In this case I am going to look at hydrochloric acid and sodium thiosulphate, which is a precipitation reaction. I will be investigating whether a change in temperature affects the rate of reaction. Sodium thiosulphate and hyd...
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Romeo And Juliet Friar Laurence
1,950 wordsEnglish 102 19 April 1999 Why Romeo and Juliet was so popular in Shakespeare's time and why even today it is still so popular? William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, England to Mary Arden and John Shakespeare. He was the third of eight children. He went to a local grammar school, where his studies included Latin and Greek (Debnam). At the age of eighteen he married Anne Hathaway who was eight years older than he. Their marriage was hurried because Anne...
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Mother And Father Vitro Fertilization
1,070 words... untie Medicine on the Ethical Frontier I love kids and I always wanted to have them. They said theyd tried it in sheep and it worked. Stacie McBain was recently diagnosed with cancer at the age of 20. Doctors told her that the treatment she would undergo will ultimately leave her infertile. In light of this devastating news was an experimental procedure that had given Stacie the chance to become a mother. Her wish was no longer in the hands of God, but in the technology discovered by a docto...
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Low Self Esteem Eating Disorders
584 wordsChild abuse can lead to low self-esteem and reflect a persons image as negative. This relationship has been proven over many years. Child abuse may cause eating disorders, negative behaviors in children, and may result in a loss of personality. Therapists, teachers, and social workers have seen victims of abuse grow into stages of depression, suicide, and most commonly, have a poor self-image and a low self-esteem. Television exposure has a negative impact on attractiveness. Many young women hav...
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Flowers For Algernon Mentally Retarded
415 wordsFlowers for Algernon is a science-fiction novel written by Daniel Keyes. Keyes was born August 9, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York. The book was first published in 1966. Flowers for Algernon is about Charlie Gordon, a mentally retarded adult who has his intelligence increased by experimental surgery. Through the progress reports he is assigned to write, the scientists could monitor the surgery's outcome. His IQ is taken from a mere 68 to a brilliant 185. He understands that being smart does not make h...
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Werner Heisenberg And The Uncertainty Principle
2,213 words... t dealt with observed frequencies and intensities of emitted and absorbed light, and in doing it enabled a momentous breakthrough in physics, ensuring Heisenberg's place in modern physics. Heisenberg then laid the groundwork for the new theoretical "matrix mechanics." The next semester, Heisenberg wrote a paper on the topic but was not sure if he should publish it. He gave it to Born to read, and while he was away at Cambridge, England Born sent the paper to the "Zeitschrift fr Physik", a le...
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Central Nervous System White Blood Cells
1,504 wordsThe name itself is revealing: multiple, more than one, and sclerosis, which refers to areas of sclerotic (scarred) tissue. Multiple sclerosis is a demyelinating disease of the white matter of the central nervous system. These areas of sclerosis, also referred to as lesions or plaques, occur in the white matter of the central nervous system. Gray matter consists primarily of nerve cells. Axons (nerve fibers) are the connections between the cell body and the muscles, sensory organs, and primary or...
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Marijuana Should Be Legalized Marijuana As A Medicine
1,215 wordsIn most countries, marijuana is by law illegal because of its classification as an illicit drug, but the controversial issues have been established that this? illicit drug? has improved the course of treatment for suffering patients. Marijuana has beneficial effects when used in medicinal scenarios like for example for the treatment of pain. Thus it should be an administered drug for patients who can benefit from the use of this drug. It has undergone analysis for its use as a medicine and the r...
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Patients Who Received Tagged As Having Involved Hypnosis
1,320 wordsBased on studies using the Stanford scales, researchers with very different theoretical perspectives now agree on several fundamental principles of hypnosis. The first is that a person's ability to respond to hypnosis is remarkably stable during adulthood. In perhaps the most compelling illustration of this tenet, a study showed that when retested, Hilgard's original subjects had roughly the same scores on the Stanford scales as they did 10, 15 or 25 years earlier. Studies have shown that an ind...
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Psychological Study Of Fifth Grade Children
828 wordsThe article I will be summarizing is entitled, Making conservationists and classifiers of pre operational fifth-grade children, and was written by Linda Bakken, Johnnie Thompson, and Frances L. Clark. Piaget's theory of cognitive development assumes that mental development is a process that is directed by maturation and experiences like the environment. Piaget also suggests that, as children get older, genetic factors play a decreasing role, however the environments impact on cognitive developme...
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Obsessive Compulsive Defense Mechanisms
1,619 words... capable ambitions and actions. One may convert a compelling interest in getting a parent's attention into a drive to do well in school. Sexual drives can be pored into sports. Anger and resentment of the advantages of others can be funneled into an obsession to excel in a lucrative career. Fantasy: daydreams and their substitutes -- novels and TV Soaps -- are escapes, a way to avoid our real worries or boredom. We may imagine being highly successful when we feel unsuccessful; at least we fee...
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Students Enrolled Control Group
487 wordsPsyc 100 (0110 - 0129) Fall, 1996 Dr. Sternheim Report # 1 (10 points) Design of a Psychological Experiment Problem: Suppose you are a psychologist who is interested in the effects of caffeine on the eye-hand coordination of students enrolled at UMCP. Design an experiment to test the hypothesis that caffeine enhances a students ability to hit a baseball. Describe your experiment by answering the following questions What are the independent and dependent variables? The independent variable would ...
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Short Term Effects U S Department
2,322 wordsEssay Question: Outline the use of marijuana and identify the acute and chronic harmful biological and psychological effects of marijuana on individuals. The use of marijuana is widespread by all classes, races, and cultures. Marijuana has been used for a multitude of purposes over thousands of years, and is still, today, is being used for many of the same purposes. (Hawks 1982) It is some of the possible outcomes of the usage of marijuana, and a brief history of marijuana that will be discussed...
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Electromagnetic Fields Experimental Group
211 wordsExperimental Design Question Is cancer caused by long-term exposure to power frequency electromagnetic fields (EMF)? Hypothesis High intensity electromagnetic fields effect cells causing a genetic mutation that leads to cancer. Variables Dependant Electromagnetic Field Independent Location / proximity , duration of exposure Controlled Diet, species, age, sex, area of confinement Procedure Levels of Treatment 1. 100 Rats were divided into 2 groups. 50 matched pairs by age &# 038; sex. 2. The pair...
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Kinds Of People Social Sciences
1,383 wordsIt is impossible for me to say whether or not I agree completely with Ian Hacking's work, not having read Kuhn's work, Foucaults work or even Hacking's work in its entirety, however by examining Hacking's claims individually, it may be possible to draw conclusions through the analy zation of his arguments. Ian Hacking's most prevalent claim seems to be that we make up people in a stronger sense than we make up the world. By proving this, hacking is attempting to show why Kuhn was unsuccessful in...
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Facial Expressions Merriam Webster
1,990 wordsThe Intimate Winking Intimate Winking The face is an organ of emotion and we constantly read facial expressions to understand what others are feeling. The face also contains other powerful clues. Our identity is captured in our features and our eyes reveal important truths about us, even those we would prefer to conceal. We use facial expressions as a process of sending and receiving wordless messages such as smiling, frowning, laughing, and winking to name a few. Body language symbols may be le...
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Today Society Year Old Girl
2,092 wordsIs Human Cloning Acceptable in Today? s Society? Imagine a twelve-year-old girl that has been diagnosed with an illness that will be fatal in the next ten years. This disease targets the heart and slowly deteriorates the myocardium of the heart. The twelve-year-old girl is placed behind fifty people on a list for a heart transplant. For that little girl, there seems to be no faith to which she can depend on for her heart transplant. What options does this girl have besides waiting for a heart tr...
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Independent Variable Dependent Variable Control
312 wordsAn experiment allows the researcher to control the situation being studied. Instead of being a passive recorder of what is going on, the researcher actively does something that he or she thinks will affect the subject? s behavior and then observes what happens. These procedures allow the experimenter to draw conclusions about cause and effect. The aspect of an experiment situation manipulated or varied by the researcher is known as the independent variable. The reaction of the behavior that the ...
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