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Sleep Apnea Sleep Disorders
1,272 words... e Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT) measures the speed of falling asleep. In this test, patients are given several opportunities to fall asleep during the course of a day when they would normally be awake. For each opportunity, time to fall asleep is measured. People without sleep problems usually take an average of 10 to 20 minutes to fall asleep. Individuals who fall asleep in less than 5 minutes are likely to require some treatment for sleep disorders. The MSLT may be useful to measure t...
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Border Passage Experience Based Ahmed
627 wordsLikely Ahmed's chronicle A Border Passage has to do widely with issues of perception. She states that " We all mechanically assume that those who write and who put their understanding down in texts have something more precious to offer than those who just live their knowledge and use it to inform their lives" (1999: 128). She says that the eminent position of textual knowledge in today's culture diminishes the purer, if more basic information to be gained through direct experience. Reading its c...
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Gang Warfare Todays Society
1,086 wordsINTRODUCTION: The The Outsiders The Outsiders INTRODUCTION: The Outsiders by S. E Hinton is an early novel based on two waring juvenile gangs, divided by economical and social background, the lower East side Greasers and the upper West side Socs. The novel is set in 1966 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It is a novel written in first person by a 14 year old Greaser, Ponyboy Curtis who allows us an insight into the lifestyles of these distinct worlds. I chose the novel The Outsiders as a text for year 10 for ...
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2 Nd Ed Sexual Intercourse
947 wordsProstitution is ambiguous to define. The Macquarie dictionary defines prostitution as 1. the act or practice of engaging in sexual intercourse 2. any base or unworthy use of talent, ability, etc. But the act of prostitution involves many other associated facets that are included under this extensive act. Theres the act itself, soliciting, advertising, pimping, house brothels, street prostitution, phone sex and even computer sex. Sweden treats prostitution as legal, however pimping is illegal. Ca...
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Disease Control And Prevention Person To Person
1,235 wordsCryptosporidium Parfum Water Born Illness By Sheri N. Man December 8, 1999 Introduction Public Health-What we as a society do collectively to assure the conditions in which people can live productive and vigorous lives. Public Health does things that benefit everyone. It also prevents illness and educates the population. Public Health is a combination of science, practical skills and beliefs that is directed to the maintenance and improvement of the health of people. The science and art of preve...
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Legend Of David Story
304 wordsThe legend of David and Goliath is a very familiar one to many people. It is an oral legend that has been told from one generation to the next. It has been mostly assumed to be a fictional story. The question is how do we know it is fiction. This is the problem historians have when using the tool of oral bards or legends. The story may have changed drastically in the years it has taken to be told and retold over many years. We do not know if the story had any truth to it in the first place. It i...
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Physician Assisted Suicide End Their Lives
1,032 wordsEuthanasia is one Euthanasia Euthanasia Euthanasia is one of the most controversial topics in our society today. It has sparked heated debates between families, doctors, and the courts about the morality of mercy killing. Euthanasia deals with taking a persons life away from one who wishes to be put to death rather than continuing to live through the pain and agony of a chronic illness. There are two types of euthanasia, active and passive. Active euthanasia is loosely defined as the deliberate ...
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Story Written One
449 wordsThere are many different methods in story telling in both Genesis and the Odyssey. This is due in part to the time periods that these works were written in. The author (s) of Genesis seem to tell a story yet not become as detailed and involved as Homer had when writing his story. These authors write with many similarities and methods yet, still use unique individual characteristics. At the time that the Odyssey was written, no formal language was officially written, it was mainly recited. Shorte...
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Oral Literature City States Athens
345 wordsGreek culture is a major force behind most of what we know today. In government the Greeks practiced pure democracy. The people were given the power to make decisions about their own city-states. Two important city-states were Athens and Sparta. The Athenian empire was created by Pericles who took pride in the beauty of their city. The main temple in Athens was the Parthenon. It was built in the Acropolis in honor of Athena the War Goddess. Sparta was Athens rival and completely opposite of it. ...
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Coronary Artery Disease 20 Th Century
952 wordsThere are many things today which cause us harm. One can spend virtually an entire day listing the hazards faced by modern society. However, none of these hazards are as deadly as a habit millions of Americans bring on themselves twenty to thirty times a day. Smoking is the cause of a multitude of medical problems that plague not only the individual smoker, but everyone else as well. Smoking is defined as the inhaling and exhaling of the fumes of burning plant material, especially tobacco, from ...
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Genital Herpes Herpes Virus
1,063 wordsHerpes has been Herpes Herpes Herpes has been around for a very long time. So long that it very likely predates the human species. Herpes derives its name from the Greek word herein, which means to creep or crawl. The physicians of Greece, treating herpes over 2, 000 years ago, described herpes of the mouth and herpetic sores in the groin, which traveled around the flank and genital regions. Throughout history many a physician attempted to understand the herpes virus. Due to similarities amongst...
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Birth Control Pills Form Of Birth Control
978 wordsThe history of birth control Well were not all little kids here, we know about sex, and we know that we as humans like to have sex, unfortunately (or fortunately depends on how you look at it) the product of the horizontal polka is a sweet little baby, and that might not always be wanted. So therefore we have these neat things called contraceptives. The whole idea of contraceptives is not a new one. People have been using birth control for thousands of years, all the way back to Ancient Greece w...
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Form Of Music Middle Ages
1,243 wordsMost of the early music that we have today still in print is primarily sacred music. This music, for the most part, is in the form of sections of the Mass, such as the Gloria, Kyrie and Agnus Dei. Most people of the Middle Ages were poor peasants who worked all day for meager wages and had no idle time lounging the way the upper classes did. Therefore, there are few extant secular compositions of music from this era. The rise of a new middle class, however, gave financial freedom for some people...
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Form Of Music Middle Ages
1,237 wordsMost of the early music that we have today still in print is primarily sacred music. This music, for the most part, is in the form of sections of the Mass, such as the Gloria, Kyrie and Agnus Dei. Most people of the Middle Ages were poor peasants who worked all day for meager wages and had no idle time lounging the way the upper classes did. Therefore, there are few extant secular compositions of music from this era. The rise of a new middle class, however, gave financial freedom for some people...
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Hiv Virus Los Alamos
641 wordsCURRENT EVENTS: HIV? S ROOTS TRACED TO 1930 Summary Scientists have concluded, based on mathematical research, that the virus that lead to the epidemic of AIDS can be traced all the way back to 1930, somewhere around Central Africa. Bette Korber, of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, presented this conclusion at the Conference of Retroviruses. The notion that HIV was introduced in contaminated oral polio vaccines in Africa between the years of 1957 and 1961 has been often debated ...
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Birth Control Pills Fallopian Tubes
794 wordsWhen the FDA approved the Pill for marketing in 1960, it changed America forever. The pill was released without adequate testing. Within two years, 1. 2 Americans were using it and by 1973 that number had risen to 10 million. In 1969 the book The Doctors Case against the Pill by Barbara Seaman showed people the dangers. By the end of the 70 s, the FDA required physicians and pharmacists to hand out sheets on possible negative effect and complications (Kalb 20 - 36). The pills contain two hormone...
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Meaning Of The Poem Poems
1,161 wordsJohn Updike? s poems are written in a very peculiar style. Unlike most poets, Updike? s poems seem to tell a story, rather than depict a singular emotion. This is due to the fact that many of Updike? s poems deal with simple, yet focused topics. Updike masters the use of vivid language to produce powerful images in the minds of his readers. The use of such strong language in his poems allow his readers to see and experience the messages which he is portraying. Although the topics of Updike? s po...
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases Infected Person
924 wordsA 05 - 16 - 97 Sexually Transmitted Diseases A major question facing many teenagers is whether or not to have sex. A result of having sex is contracting sexually transmitted diseases. Sexually transmitted diseases, or venereal diseases affect 10 to 12 million Americans each year. (Daugirdas 75) In the United States, sexually transmitted diseases strike an average of one person every 1. 5 seconds. (76) About half of STD patients are under the age of twenty-five. (Landers 45) Nearly 2. 5 million t...
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Blacks And Whites Music And Poetry
1,502 wordsLangston Hughes was one of the first black men to express the spirit of blues and jazz into words. An African American Hughes became a well known poet, novelist, journalist, and playwright. Because his father emigrated to Mexico and his mother was often away, Hughes was brought up in Lawrence, Kansas, by his grandmother Mary Langston. Her second husband (Hughes grandfather) was a fierce abolitionist. She helped Hughes to see the cause of social justice. As a lonely child Hughes turned to reading...
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Roald Dahl Reading Comprehension
521 wordsMary is an eleven year old, sixth grader at Ft. King Middle School. She is an average student with no apparent reading problems. She is in the general education Language Arts program and receives no special instruction for reading. Mary has perfect attendance and is " a fluid reader, " as stated by her Language Arts teacher. Mary lives at home with her mother, father, one brother (age 20) and her brothers dog. Mary also has two other brothers (ages 23 and 30) who do not live at home, b...
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