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The Bell Jar Cancer Versus Depression
1,962 wordsIntegrated into the story of The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath is a "case history" of a depression patient, from it's subtle beginnings to it's terrifying consequences to it's shaky resolution. On the subject of this depression, there is an article written by William Styron which, in the course of describing his own dealings with the disease, he compares it to cancer. It is my own firm opinion that this assertion is perfectly valid, and it can be shown through careful analysis of the causes and effec...
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Salem Witch Trials Elizabeth Proctor
1,036 wordsThe Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, is based on the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts. The Crucible deals with a community, which everybody lived in a normal society and everybody attended church. However, one night, a group of girls were caught dancing in the woods. Some people accuse them for doing witchcraft. Therefore, they lied to protect not just themselves but the reputation of their families. They claimed that the devil took them over and influenced them to dance. One of the main g...
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Multiple Personality Disorder Henry Jekyll
587 wordsDr. Henry Jekyll, a scientist with no real achievements in life, and starting to age was merely looking for a thrill when he committed the crimes he is charged for today. True that he is a sick man, but a man who knew after the first time he transformed himself into Mr. Hyde that this character could only get him into trouble. Dr. Jekyll is even quoted after the first transformation saying, Hyde was pure evil. Dr. Jekyll was not afflicted with some disease when he was Hyde; he was only tainted w...
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Brain Afflicted With Schizophrenia Afflicted With Schizophrenia Disease
837 wordsIn the search to find out what schizophrenia is and its causes, researchers have now determined that schizophrenia is a neurological or physical brain disorder as opposed to earlier diagnosis as mental disorder. These questions have plagued everyone who has had contact with someone with schizophrenia, from the public to the medical profession alike. It is now clear that schizophrenia is caused by a brain defect. People with schizophrenia show a number of biological abnormalities, all of which po...
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Anti Social Behavior Long Term Care
1,302 words... be decidedly concluded from this study is that ethnicity is a decided factor in evaluating those who are prepared to undertake group treatment. As indicated, there is no paucity of research in the area regarding anti-social behavior and group conflicts. One study identified 196 homeless and 194 housed, poor families in Los Angeles, CA in order to gain an understanding of events that precipitate anti-social behavior. This anti-social behavior was connected to homelessness in this particular s...
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Attention Deficit Disorder Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
1,286 wordsAttention Deficit Disorder (ADD) is a problem that affects 5 % to 10 % of all children. ADD affect more children than any other childhood problems except asthma. It is estimated to be the largest single cause for first referrals to child guidance clinics throughout the country, making up as many as 40 % of those cases. Many ADD cases are not diagnosed because the problem most often does not show in the doctors office. Current estimates suggest that approximately 50 to 65 % of the children with A...
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Salem Witchcraft Trials People Of Salem
1,147 wordster> Witchcraft, Insanity, and the Ten Signs of Decay Since there never was a spurned lover stirring things up in Salem Village, and there is no evidence from the time that Tituba practiced Caribbean black magic, yet these trials and executions actually still took place, how can you explain why they occurred? The Salem Witchcraft Trials began not as an act of revenge against an ex-lover, as they did in The Crucible, but as series of seemingly unlinked, complex events, which a paranoid ...
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Witch Hunts Carol Ann
1,313 wordsIs the accuser always holy now? Were they born this morning as clean as God's fingers? I'll tell you what's walking Salem-vengeance is walking Salem. We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law! (p 73, The Crucible) Arthur Miller's classic play, The Crucible, is about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth century Salem, Massachusetts. What starts with several girls practicing European white m...
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Point Of View Categorical Imperative
1,390 wordsEuthanasia is often called mercy killing. It is intentionally making someone die, rather than allowing that person to die naturally. It is sometimes the act of ending someones life, who is terminally ill, or is suffering in severe pain. Euthanasia is mostly illegal in the world today. Euthanasia can be considered a form of suicide, if the person afflicted with the problem actively does it. The person volunteering to commit the act to that person can also consider it a form of murder. The positiv...
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Due To The Fact Germ Cells
1,431 wordsModern technology and science has created a complex issue with eugenics and gene therapy. Eugenics is defined as physically removing or replacing cells in an embryo or germ cells. Rapid advancements in genetics and embryology, has lead society scrambling to find the morality and the consequences of eugenics. The two types of genetic intervention are modifying germ cells or somatic cells. Germ cells are sex cells that affect traits and heredity of certain characteristics. Somatic cell alteration ...
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People With Schizophrenia Bipolar Disorder
1,334 wordsSchizophrenia, a disease of the brain, is one of the most disabling and emotionally devastating illnesses known to man. But because it has been misunderstood for so long, it has received relatively little attention and its victims have been un deservingly stigmatized. Schizophrenia is not a split personality, a rare and very different disorder. Like cancer and diabetes, schizophrenia has a biological basis; it is not caused by bad parenting or personal weakness. Schizophrenia is, in fact, a rela...
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Doctor Assisted Suicide Pursuit Of Happiness
806 wordsEuthanasia is spurring a political and moral debate of unprecedented intensity in American society. Physician-assisted suicide has been an issue of court disputes for a long time; it has suddenly been the issue of debate in Congress, White House, and both political parties. The fact that such a private issue has come to be a public affair is despicable. Euthanasia is a beacon of light for some people in their private time of need. Euthanasia should be kept a private affair for people to practice...
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Social Anxiety Disorder Research Short
767 wordsSocial anxiety disorder is also known as social phobia. It is defined as the fear of social situations that involve interaction with other people. It is the fear and anxiety of being judged and evaluated negatively by other people or behaving in a way that might cause embarrassment or ridicule. This leads to feelings of inadequacy, self-consciousness, and depression. The person with social anxiety disorder may believe that all eyes are on him at all times. Social anxiety disorder is the third la...
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Marijuana A Horticultural Revolution Medical And Legal Battle
598 wordsFor years there has been a wonder drug, which has befriended countless sick patients in a number of countries. A relatively inexpensive drug that is not covered by health care plans, which has aided the ill both mentally and physically -- marijuana. Significant scientific and medical studies have demonstrated that marijuana is safe for use under medical supervision and that the cannabis plant, in its natural form, has important therapeutic benefits that are often of critical medical importance t...
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945 wordsThere is a hint of winter in the air. Dead leaves cover the ground. The wind whistles through bare tree branches. The moon shines with an unnatural brightness amid dark clouds. Soon it will be Halloween -- the annual holiday when sidewalks and streets fill with small (and not so small) goblins, ghosts, and witches. Witches are often figures of fantasy and imagination today. But there was a time in this country's history when witches and their craft were seen as real threats to society. That time...
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Salem Witchcraft Trials Accused Of Witchcraft
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Put A Stop Witchcraft
424 wordsWhen I first arrived I found this province miserably harassed with a most Horrible witchcraft, which had, broke in upon several Towns. A fair amount of poor people were given preternatural torture; some Burned with brimstone, some had pins stuck in their flesh, others hurried into the fire and water, and some were dragged out of their houses, and carried over the tops of trees and hills for many Miles together. The loud cried and a commotion of the friends of the afflicted people with the advice...
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Salem Witch Trials Save His Life
1,337 wordsMiller captured the paranoia and hatred of the 1692 Salem Witch Trials and made a controversial reference to his own society s Witch Hunts during McCarthyism in the 1950 s. In only 146 pages, Miller told us the stories of the lives of John Proctor, Elizabeth Proctor, Abigail Williams and others during the 1692 Witch Trials in Salem Massachusetts. The quiet Salem community was living happily in their own sleepy world, until several local girls fell ill as their sickness was blamed on witchcraft. ...
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Multiple Sclerosis Hundred Thousand
1,002 wordsJason Garoutte November 18, 1996 English / Mr. Blunt Multiple Sclerosis Multiple sclerosis is one of the most misunderstood diseases of this century. Since it s discovery, there is still no known causes, no proven treatments, and no known cure, yet it affects possibly five hundred thousand people in the United States alone. People need to learn more about this disease so it can be brought to the attention of the nation. Multiple Sclerosis is a disease of the central nervous system. It destroys t...
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