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Law Abiding Citizens Community Based Policing
1,089 wordsIn some cases, gun control may be favored even if the price is more death. Consider, for example, H. Laurence Ross's review of Gary Kleck's book Point Blank in the American Journal of Sociology. Kleck's book was awarded the Hindelang Prize, as the most significant contribution to criminology in the last three years; Ross praises Kleck's meticulous research and analysis, and Kleck's debunking of many of the myths surrounding the gun issue. And Ross does not deny Kleck's conclusion that, because h...
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Genetic Testing Genetic Defects
1,429 wordsUse of Genetics in Insurance and Implications In recent years scientific discoveries have opened the door to many areas of research people thought to be impossible. One of these areas that have made giant leaps is the study of genetics. As scientists find and map new genetic alterations that cause human diseases, treatments and cures become readily available. Genetic testing is often used to detect genetic defects in individuals who have no symptoms of disease and predict risks of future disease...
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Alcohol And Tobacco Smoking Marijuana
1,364 wordsShould Marijuana Be Legal By: Colby Gilbert E-mail: Should Marijuana Be Legal This is a topic that has become a bit of concern amongst people in the past few years. Marijuana has been illegal since the early 1900 s, but lately scientists have figured out that there are some uses of marijuana that could benefit people in need, people who are sick of deadly diseases such as aids, multiple sclerosis, and cancer. These are all diseases that are hard for anyone to go through, especially without aid t...
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Loathing In Las Vegas Fear And Loathing In Las
1,965 wordsLas Vegas has always been known as the city of sin, and the movie Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas corroborates this belief. From drug experimentation to gambling, this movie portrays a surprisingly thoughtful glance into the mind of addiction and of drug usage. Though various drugs were used in this movie, psychedelics seemed to be the drugs of choice for the characters. The focus of this paper is to define the hallucinogens by using its most popular member, LSD. After LSD has been adequately def...
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Manic Depressive Illness American Psychiatric Association
1,664 wordsMood disorders such as bipolar disorder or also known as manic-depression have been closely studied and researched for many years. Due to the inability to find one or any specific gene that contributes to this disorder it has been a long and difficult journey into the understanding of manic-depressive illness. With the contributions of many scientist and researchers slowly the understanding and treatment of bipolar disorder is becoming more clear. The use of lithium and other forms of treatment ...
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Prominent Women In American Psychology
3,749 wordsProminent Women in American Psychology The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by mans attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up, than can woman (Darwin). Darwin's professional assumption of the intelligence of women greatly exemplified the defining opinion of the day when psychology was in its developmental stages. However, many women went to great lengths to disprove and banish this thought. One such woman was Mary Whiton Calkins. Calkins is per...
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One Of The First Gas Chromatography
2,184 words... e to make the whole print glow when the laser beam hits it. The technique of laser-sweeping enables large areas to be searched quickly, and prints in odd places can be found. Dusting the same surfaces with powder would take much longer and prints in unlikely places could be miss altogether. Prints found by a laser can also be dusted with fluorescent powder to make them show up even more clearly so they can be photographed. Fibers play an important role in crime detection. A fiber found on a ...
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American Psychiatric Association Tourette Syndrome
1,599 words... disorder. 40 to 60 % of children with ADHD grow up to have symptoms as adults. (Shimberg, 1995, p. 62) More than 10 million Americans are thought to have ADHD. 2 out of every 3 children with Tourette syndrome also complain of tactile sensitivity. This is called sensory integrative disorder, and is not uncommon in TS, although tactile sensitivity is found in those who do not duffer from TS. Sensory integration disorder is characterized by hypersensitivity of the senses. It can be misinterpret...
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Psychiatric Disorders Extramarital Affairs
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Children And Adolescents Child And Adolescent Psychiatry
1,460 words... if you do decide to treat the child with antidepressants, which is by far the easiest mode of treatment, the child could still be at risk for self-harm due to the risk associated with antidepressant drugs and children. As a parent, this scenario is like tossing a one-sided coin, in that with or without treatment your child may be at risk of suicidal tendencies. Another concern is the dosage of antidepressants being given to children and adolescents. Currently, the lowest dosage for an antide...
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Mentioned Earlier Drug Administration
1,656 words... generation of reactive oxygen species, so called free radicals. However, the recent studies indicate that the amount of free radicals generated by the body, as the reaction to application of sunscreens, can be significantly lowered with the mean of increasing the consumption of Vitamin C. Apparently, it would be wrong to assume that we should not worry about the possible consequences of chemical sunscreens application, as we are being assured by their manufactures. Even though that claims of...
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Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Violent Scenes
744 wordsRunning head: MEDIA AND VIOLENCE Media and Violence April 16, 2009 Media and Violence Violent content in media has become the issue of the day. From the earliest days of the popular newspapers, magazines, journals, and TV programs there was widespread public concern about violent scenes and episodes. Although there is no direct proof to the assumption that violence in the media causes violence in real life, still, what has been a subject of controversy is whether the media have enough power to d...
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Fruits And Vegetables Fruits Vegetables
1,131 wordsSpecific Purpose: To persuade my audience to eat a healthy diet I. Introduction 1. Attention Getter: When you think of someone happy, successful, beautiful which image comes to your mind? An image of someone tired, overweight, sweaty, who is sitting in front of TV with a bowl of potato chips and a large glass of cola? Probably not. Most of us visualize a healthy person as someone who is active, spends much time outside, does sports, is slim, energetic and who eats healthy foods. People want to b...
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Coronary Heart Disease World Health Organization
2,243 words... to make the vessels stronger. But the number of calories must depend on the amount of the physical activity. These fats may be either burnt or gone to the tissues of the body. It is necessary in order to avoid the CHD to minimize the amount of animal fats in the ration, not to eat fried foods. Nerve and psychological factors are also important means of causing the CHD. And thus good emotional background and lack of stresses is an excellent preventive measure in terms of the CHD and other car...
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Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
1,516 wordsIS RITALIN OVERPRESCRIBED? Stimulant medications such as Ritalin have received some bad press over the years. Because of lack of accurate information, parents are understandably fearful of side effects. Ritalin has been studied carefully for the last 20 to 30 years. The two most commonly mentioned side effects of Ritalin are loss of appetite and sleep problems. Irritability and weight loss are the next most often reported symptoms. Approximately half of the children in one study who took Ritalin...
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Western Civilization Christian Church
2,253 wordsINFLUENCE OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH ON WESTERN MARRIAGE IN THE LAST 100 YEARS TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Christianity in America 3 A. Christianity's Influence on Marriage 3 B. Protestants Influence on Marriage 4 II. Emergence of Divorce 5 A. Church's View on Divorce 6 III. Church's View on Gay Marriage 7 IV. Conclusion 8 Works Cited 10 Marriage, as we know it in our Western civilization today, has a long history with roots in several very different ancient cultures, of which the Roman, Hebrew, and Germa...
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American Journal Of Psychiatry Bulimia Nervosa
991 wordsBulimia nervosa is defined as two or more episodes of binge eating (rapid consumption of a large amount of food, up to 5, 000 calories) every week for at least three months. The binges are sometimes followed by vomiting or purging and may alternate with compulsive exercise and fasting. The symptoms can develop at any age from early adolescence to 40, but usually become clinically serious in late adolescence. Bulimia is not as dangerous to health as anorexia, but it has many unpleasant physical e...
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Long Term Effects Short Term Effects
1,676 wordsDivorce: Effects on Children Divorce has become an unquestionable remedy for the miserably married. Currently, the United States has the highest divorce rate in the world. Every year in the US approximately one million children experience divorce which, is about one in every three children (Amato 21). The effects of divorce can be tremendously painful for both children and adults. Children of divorce are more likely to suffer from behavioral, social, academic, and psychological problems than chi...
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American Journal Of Psychiatry Anorexia Nervosa
1,031 wordsEating Disorders: The Killer Within How a person perceives their body is influenced by what it looks like to them and what it looks like to others. Our society teaches us through media and social pressure that body image is important. Feeling attractive is an important part of self worth and for many, feeling attractive means matching a certain ideal appearance. Most of us will never be able to look like this ideal, but the message we get is that we risk social failure if we do not try hard enou...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Low Birth Weight
2,039 wordsFetal Alcohol Syndrome Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is an increasing problem in our world today. At least 5, 000 infants are born each year with FAS, or about one out of every 750 live births, which is an alarming number. In the United States there has been a significant increase in the rate of infants born with FAS form 1 per 10, 000 births in 1979 to 6. 7 per 10, 000 in 1993 (Chang, Wilkins-Haug, Berman, Goetz 1). In a report, Substance Abuse and the American Woman, sent out by the Center on Addicti...
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