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Coronary Artery Disease Part Of My Life
1,494 words1. To explain how chemistry is part of my life. A. An in depth look at heart disease. C. Explanation on how chemistry is used to treat and in some cases cure heart A. Recap on how chemistry is part of my life and everyone's life. B. Elude to the horrors of a world without chemistry. A merciless killer stalks the people of this country. No one can run and no one can hide, but there is a hope. The application of chemistry in the treatment of heart disease is the key to ceasing this villain from cl...
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Mental Events Person Perspective
868 wordsThe relation of consciousness to the material world is puzzle, which has its origin in dualism, a philosophy of mind which posits their fundamental separation. Dualism, in turn, has its roots in folk wisdom. The belief that humans are more than bodies and that there is something in human nature that survives bodily death has its origins in prehistory; it becomes explicit in the mythology of Ancient Egypt and Assyria and was formulated into a philosophical position in the Platonic thought of Anci...
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Alexithymia And The Defense Of Primal Repression
1,197 wordsPrimal Repression may well account for the psychic structural defect and many of the clinical features associated with the alexithymia construct. [James D. A. Parker and Graeme J. Taylor in Disorders of Affect Regulation p. 89 ] Repression proper is a defensive process that evolves out of primal repression, and involves a rejection from the conscious mind of already formed instinctual wishes and other representations. Primal repression, on the other hand, is akin to [an] idea of Freud's viz. , h...
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Living In Poverty Mass Communication
2,298 wordsIn Africa today, Theatre-for-Development (Tf D) is widely viewed as both an effective and appropriate medium for communicating development-orientated information at the grassroots level. Capable of functioning on multiple levels, theatre encompasses many types of learning ranging from the transmission of practical skills through to the advancing of political and social consciousness. As such, various styles of theatre are being used by both government and non-government agencies as a tool for ta...
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Cystic Fibrosis Autosomal Recessive
1,073 wordsCystic fibrosis is a debilitating disease facing many people today. At the present time there is no cure available. According to the cystic fibrosis foundation of America, cystic fibrosis can be traced back as early as 1595. The first documented case was not reported until 1936. One group of people that seem to be affected the most by cystic fibrosis is Caucasians. Recent statistics indicate that 1 in 3, 200 live caucasian births are afflicted with cystic fibrosis. For reasons that are currently...
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1,557 wordsPsychological Treatment for Depressed Students Amy A. Zieman Monmouth University Psychological Treatment for Depressed Students Depression in school-age children may be one of the most overlooked and under treated psychological disorders of childhood, presenting a serious mental health problem. Depression in children has become an important issue in research due to its many emotional forms, and its relationship to self-destructive behaviors. Depressive disorders are of particular importance to s...
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Made Me Feel Chinese New Year
983 words"Culture Clash" I am a born Vietnamese, and Chinese American. For more than a decade I have made many friends coming from diverse cultures. I recall one friend back in high school that demonstrated the importance of one's own private culture, and language. From this experience with my friend, Hong, I realized that families who had a strong cultural, and language practice at home had a very stable and functional family. Individuals who embrace their culture, and language broadly tend to pass on t...
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Techniques In Order Optimal Functioning Performance
402 wordsAnxiety is a psychological state that, if uncontrolled, can hinder a performance greatly. Individuals must be able to cope with this anxiety in a positive manner so that it doesn't consume them and cause catastrophic results. Anxiety as a form of arousal is beneficial if kept in check because it make the athlete aware of what is about to transpire. When dealing with arousal it is important to understand the theories behind it. The Drive Theory states that "as an individuals arousal or state anxi...
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Studies Have Shown Negative Symptoms
1,132 wordsFor decades, psychologists have devised many treatment regimes for schizophrenia patients, with varying degrees of success and effectiveness. There have been great obstacles in their efforts, mainly due to the fact that patients of schizophrenia lack insight into their impaired conditions. Often patients refuse treatment of any kind because they do not perceive any mental illness associated with their behaviour. In particular, individuals suffering from paranoid schizophrenia regard therapy as i...
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Correlation Between Child Abuse And Schizophrenia
609 wordsThe purpose of this research is to see whether there is a correlation between schizophrenia and child abuse. There were numerous studies and researches on that very subject, therefore it is not that hard to consolidate all the findings and come up with the justified conclusion. Based on all the research material available, it is evident that there is a direct correlation between child abuse and schizophrenia. Between 1992 and 1996, 27 adolescents with a abusive parent, 29 adolescents with no men...
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Foreign Languages Magnetic Field
1,760 wordsFrom Technology To Professional Development: How Can The Use Of An Interactive Whiteboard Enhance The Nature Of Teaching And Learning In Modern Foreign Languages Or/And Secondary Mathematics? Introduction First of all, in order to examine how the use of an interactive whiteboard can enhance the nature of teaching and learning in modern foreign languages and secondary mathematics, it is important to understand the potential capability of interactive whiteboards as well as the principles of their ...
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Frontal Lobe Prefrontal Cortex
1,936 wordsRunning head: SEXUAL PREDATORS BRAIN DAMAGE AND CHILD ABUSE Sexual Predators - Brain Damage and Child Abuse August 04, 2008 Sexual Predators Brain Damage and Child Abuse Introduction Despite numerous theories of sex offending, there is no generally accepted scientific substantiation of why sexual predators behave so. It is very likely that there are a number of independent and different causes, including those caused by brain impairment and brain damage. In case it is true, it suggests that a va...
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730 wordsHealth is described as physical and mental well-being and freedom from disease, pain or defect. However, such descriptions only superficially define the concept of health. There may be many occasions when individuals are not necessarily ill or in pain but may be overweight, stressed or unfit. Health is a quality of life involving dynamic interaction and interdependence among the individuals physical state, their mental and emotional reactions, and the social context in which the individual exist...
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Cognitive Skills Congenital Heart
1,665 wordsDown syndrome what lies beneath the stereotype? John Down was the first to formulate and describe the disease that is known now as Down Syndrome (which will be called DS within the scope of this report). The people he described had mental deficits and were called idiots (Down, 1866). Brousseau (1928) gives a more thorough description of the physical as well as the mental characteristics of people with DS. Her list of physical features includes: small, rounded head; short, flat nose; small, slant...
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Divorced Children Vs Married Parents Part 1
1,903 wordsDivorced parents' children vs. Married parents children Each year, more than 1 million children experience the divorce of their parents. In 1995, less than 60 % of US children were living with both biologic parents, almost 25 % were living with their mother only, approximately 4 % were living with their father only, and the rest were living with step - families, adoptive families, or foster families (including other relatives). It is estimated that there are 500 000 new divorced fathers each yea...
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Personality And Social Psychology Years Of Life
1,596 wordsGordon Allport Introduction A major part of modern psychologists consider Gordon Allport the greatest psychologist (the second after Freud) who made valuable contribution into development of the world psychology. Allport rooted in the scientific traditions of American psychology, grounded in the insights of Freud's psychoanalysis, and expressed an organismic vision of each individual's unique adjustment to his or her environment (Moss 27). While most of them agree that he introduced a lot of int...
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Enlightenment Thinkers Social Change
631 wordsTHE THINKING OF THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT THINKERS? The theme of the unintended and unanticipated consequences of social action implies that social change occurs through social action without foreseeing the outcome. Scottish Enlightenment thinkers Adam Smith and Adam Ferguson, each provide their own theory of unanticipated effects of human action. Smiths theory is implicitly historicist; Ferguson's by contrast, is empirical and anti-historicist (Smith, 1998: 30). In Adam Smiths, Wealth of Natio...
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Three Parts D M
1,375 wordsFreudian Psychology As Related To Dm ThomassFreudian Psychology As Related To Dm Thomas The White Hotel Psychoanalysis is a system of psychology originated by the Viennese physician Sigmund Freud in the 1890 s and then further developed by himself, his students, and other followers. It consists of activities such as using methods for research into the human mind, a systematic knowledge about the mind, and a method for the treatment of psychological or emotional disorders. Psychoanalysis began wi...
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1,372 wordsFruedian Psychoanalysis With Examples From D. M. ThomassFruedian Psychoanalysis With Examples From D. M. Thomas The White Hotel Psychoanalysis is a system of psychology originated by the Viennese physician Sigmund Freud in the 1890 s and then further developed by himself, his students, and other followers. It consists of activities such as using methods for research into the human mind, a systematic knowledge about the mind, and a method for the treatment of psychological or emotional disorders....
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Anxiety Disorder Antisocial Personality
523 wordsasd Abnormal Behavior- Patterns of emotion, thought, and action considered pathological for one or more of these reasons: statistical infrequency, disability or dysfunction, personal distress, or violation of norms. Medical Model- Perspective that assumes abnormal behaviors reflect mental or physical illness. Psychiatry- The specialized branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) - A ...
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