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Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Ebola Reston
1,289 wordsThe Ebola Virus is the common name for several strains of virus, three of which are known to cause hemorrhagic fever in humans, which is characterized by massive bleeding and destruction of internal tissues. Named for the Ebola River in Zaire, Africa, where the virus was first identified, the Ebola virus belongs to the family Filoviridae. Three strains of Ebola virus that are often fatal to humans have been identified. Named for the areas in which the first recognized outbreaks took place, these...
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Call A Blonde Raggedy Ann Answer
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Extremely Sensitive Animal Kingdom
706 wordsSmall, mainly carnivorous animal, Felis cards, member of the family Felidae. It is a popular household pet and is useful for killing mice and rats. A cat's body is extremely flexible; its skeleton contains more than 230 bones and its pelvis and shoulders are loosely attached to its spine. The cat's powerful musculature helps its great leaping ability and speed. The cat's sharp, hooked, retractile claws are sheathed in a soft, leathery pocket at the end of each toe and are extended for fighting, ...
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Pain And Suffering Animal Testing
603 wordsIts not a new thing. For many centuries scientists and testers in research have used animals of all kinds. Most of the animals are small ones like rodents - rats, mice, hamsters and gerbils. Some dogs, cats and a variety of goats, monkeys and rabbits have also been used. The animal rights issue is an emotional one - second only, perhaps, to the abortion debate. For decades the value of animal research has been grossly overrated. Although researchers claim that they depend on animal test data to ...
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Legalization Of Marijuana Social Problem
1,320 wordsWhen discussing the legalization of Marijuana, take a mechanistic view of one symptom of a much larger social problem. You cannot talk about legalizing marijuana without getting into discussions of other "Social problems." I am talking about all other "drugs" -- prostitution, health care, social security, or just about any other issue that we as a country, and as a people are dealing with. For the purposes of this paper, I will confine, or rather use the legalization of marijuana issue as a mode...
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Cruel And Unusual University Of Pennsylvania
1,089 wordsMany humans use animals for testing each year. Animal testing is when the animals are put through something or injected to see how they react to what medical research they have been used for. There are three very important reasons why animals should not be used for testing harmful or dangerous materials. One of these is that testing and its use is trivial in the cosmetic industry. The second reason is that animals have rights and animals can feel pleasure and pain just as humans do. The third re...
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American Medical Association Order To Prevent
1,212 wordsThe use of animals for medical experimentation has been one of the most controversial issues in our world since the seventeenth century. Edward Augustus Freeman stated, "The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, faithful animal race form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history. " In the United States, it is estimated that twenty to seventy million animals including cats, dogs, primates, rabbits, rats, and mice suffer and die in the name of research. At least thirty-thre...
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Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
743 wordsThe story begins abruptly, as we find our mock heroes out in the desert en route to the savvy resort of Las Vegas. The author uses a tense hitchhiker as a mode, or an excuse, for a flashback that exposes the plot. An uncertain character picked up in the middle of the desert who Raoul Duke, the main character, feels the need to explain things to, to help him rest easy. They had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full ...
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Cognitive Abilities Language Skills
1,359 words... sy patients indicated a remarkable improvement in their social demeanor, work and sentence skills, and ability to take initiative. Another study of symbolic communication therapy in severely mentally retarded children reaped remarkable results: "Individuals for whom all traditional methods of speech and other language training had failed, had learned to communicate for the first time in their lives, using (a) computer-based keyboard lexi gram system" (Savage-Rumbaugh and Lewin 193). The use ...
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Ebola Virus Fatality Rate
903 wordsI chose to do my report of the Ebola Virus because it is a very deadly, and its a virus that isnt publicized much in newspapers and televisions. So I think its a good choice. The Ebola virus is one of the worlds most deadly viruses, in all of its many forms. The purpose of this essay is to explain the history, signs and symptoms of the Ebola virus. Between the years 425 BC & 430 BC Athens population was dramatically reduced when about 300, 000 of its inhabitants died from some sickness. People n...
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Ebola Zaire Ebola Virus
765 wordsThe Ebola virus belongs to the family Filoviridae. The Ebola virus is characterized by massive bleeding and destruction of internal tissues. The virus is named after the Ebola river in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa where the virus was first found. Three types of the Ebola virus have been found. They are named after the places in which they were discovered. Ebola Zaire, Ebola-Sudan, Ebola-Tai forest. The strain Ebola Zaire is the most deadly of the three. The Ebola viruses are mainly f...
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The Scopes Trial Case For Teaching Part 2
1,585 words... religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. This trial cultivated more journalistic excitement than a civil celebration or riot. An author observed, The press has made this story. Its spotlight has been turned upon Dayton [Tennessee] as if by a common agreement among all editors everywhere that it was naturally the thing to...
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Bioethics Advisory Commission National Bioethics Advisory
1,344 wordsOn February 24, 1997, the scientists at the Roslin Institute in Edinburg, Scotland announced their success in cloning an adult mammal for the first time. The cloned sheep was named Dolly. She was the first animal cloned from a cell taken from an adult. It was an accomplishment than science had declared impossible. In June, 1997, the National Bioethics Advisory Commission issued its recommendation that a ban be placed on all efforts to create a child through cloning or somatic cell nuclear transf...
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Na Ve Bad Person
596 words(Journal) Character: Candide Candide seemed Candide Candide (Journal) Character: Candide Candide seemed to be a very na? ve person, but he wasn? t what you would call a bad person. What I don? t understand is how he was casted out from a fine castle, and he was basically forgotten about. Even though Candide and Cunegonde were caught being intimate whith each other, was this worth his emancipation? And what was so unique about the differences of Candide? s seventy-one quarterings to Cunegonde? s ...
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Test On Animals Number Of Animals Tests
678 wordsA lonely rat, huddles in the corner of it s cage, constantly in fear, awaiting the ship of fate to sail down and pick it up. Test tubes, beakers, pipettes and flasks seem like a whole complete world towering around the cage amongst the gloves, pens, paper and safety glasses. The scent of disinfectant lingers in the chemical filled air. As it sleeps, it tries to block out the squeals of pain echoing from all directions in the room and it hopes that it wont be the next one to be pulled out. While ...
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Learned Behavior Cultural Transmission
618 wordsWriting Assignment One Do primates posses culture? I think that if culture is defined as learned behavior, than it is reasonable to say that primates posses a form of culture. Primates have been observed making tools to aid in collecting food and developing communication system, both of which are learned behaviors. It is common in monkeys, apes and humans that behavior and social organization aren? t necessarily programmed into the genes. There have been several cases where an entire troop has l...
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Ebola Viruses Hot Zone
342 wordsNature s Wrath Nature is our host and we are the parasite. In the book, The Hot Zone, Mr. Preston has explained one of the most feared things known to mankind, the virus. Even though as small as a needle head, it can kill humans faster than any weapon ever made. The actual virus itself, the host, and the organizations that spent years trying to figure out a cure are all examples shown in both The Hot Zone and the film, Outbreak. The actual virus itself went through multiple changes in the book, ...
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Dodd Mead Sperm Count
1,291 wordsDrug use is becoming more common today than in recent years. Almost anywhere we look, we can find some relation to drugs or drug paraphernalia. In fact, 63 % of you stated in my survey that you had smoked marijuana in the past. That number is scary, since 81 % of you are under 25 years of age and have your whole lives ahead of you. Some of you may be thinking So What Bill Clinton has admitted smoking marijuana, and he is President. Well, that surely is not a good attitude to have considering the...
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Years Of Age Sperm Count
983 wordsMarijuana: Problem or Cure? Drug use and abuse is becoming more common today than in recent years. In fact, 63 % people taken in a survey said they had smoked marijuana in the past. That number is scary, since 81 % of them were under 25 years of age and have their whole lives ahead of them. Some may be thinking So What Bill Clinton has admitted smoking marijuana, and he is President. Well, that surely is not a good attitude to have considering the damage that marijuana may cause to the body. Man...
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Endangered Species Living Things
729 wordsEndangered species are living things whose population is so reduced that they are threatened with extinction. Thousands of species are included in this category. The International Union for the Conservation of nature and Natural Resources publishes a list of threatened mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and (many people don? t consider them) plants CAUSES OF EXTINCTION Millions of years before humans, extinction of living things was linked to geological and climate, the effects of which were ...
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