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Toxic Shock Syndrome Low Blood Pressure
1,590 wordsTOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME (TSS) was discovered almost 20 years ago. At first no one knew what was causing it, although it was quickly linked with "superabsorbent" tampons (which are no longer on the market). Eventually researchers discovered that a poison produced by a type of bacteria known as Staphylococcus aureus is responsible for TSS. Some theorized that tampons may produce small ulcerations, which allow bacteria to enter the body. Another theory is that stagnating blood within or behind the tam...
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Birth Control Pills African American Women
1,049 wordsIntroduction Breast cancer is only one of 200 different types of cancer. It is considered a woman's disease but both men and women have the disease. Every year, more than 200, 000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer. Twelve percent of all women will get the disease and 3. 5 % of them will die. Breast cancer is the leading cause of death among women who are 40 to 55 years old. Cancer occurs when cells divide uncontrollably. Cells keep dividing even though new cells are not needed. Change from ...
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Importance Of Sex Education
634 wordster> "HIGH SCHOOLS MUST PROVIDE YOUNG PEOPLE WITH ADEQUATE SEX EDUCATION BECAUSE IGNORANCE CAN BE HARMFUL" The largest gulf of understanding still remains between the parents and the youth especially in the area of sexuality. Sex is a natural part of life, and when questions arise, they can be discussed in a matured way without condoning certain behavior. Relying to that, we realize that sex education is important to be inserted in a person's life. Therefore, sex education in high scho...
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Marriage In The Colombian Kogi Tribe
709 wordsMarriage rituals exist in all types of societies whether it is in todays society or past societies. Researching this particular topic, the Colombian Kogi Tribe, the role of women and their marriage rituals are very different in todays post-modern society. This tribe is found in Santa Marta Colombia. They reside primarily in the Sierra Nevada, a place where snow can only be found in this South American country. Residing in the rainforest the Kogi Tribe migrated towards the Sierra Nevada for lack ...
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Worlds Religions Socio Political
1,880 wordsMenstrual Meanings (1) Throughout the history of humankind, such physiological aspect of womens existential mode as menstrual cycle, used to be traditionally surrounded with many controversies. There are different theories that strive to explain this from socio-political, psychoanalytical and philosophical perspectives. However, the majority of psychologists agree that society's popular attitudes towards menstruation correspond to the fact that people subconsciously entitle blood with mystical p...
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Western Countries Social Prominence
1,882 words... validity of Soucasauxs statement. We can say that the reason why men cannot stand the sight of womens menstrual blood is not that they loathe it, in esthetic sense of this word, but that they feel that it contains a some kind of an unexplained force. It is not a secret that macho men despise domesticated hubbies more then anybody else, because in their eyes, feminized men became subjected to female existential power in other words, they committed a gender suicide. If we rid the popular stere...
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Adolescent Depression Menstrual Cycle
1,712 wordsCARRIE BY STEPHEN KING Adolescence is a time of emotional turmoil, mood liability, gloomy introspection, great drama and heightened sensitivity. It is a time of rebellion and behavioral experimentation. The physician's challenge is to identify depressive behaviors which may be superimposed on the backdrop of a more transient, but expected, developmental storm. This paper explores the theme of coping mechanisms of a teenager as she undergoes traumas in high school, with the power of telekinesis a...
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Prefrontal Cortex Stephen Kings
1,720 words... in the brain that result in changes in behavior as well. Stress increases the size of the amygdala (as evidenced by the increased display of fear in rats) and causes shrinkage of another part of the brain called the hippocampus. Brain changes can also be observed in studies of patients with major depression. Stresses early in life such as low birth weight, low socioeconomic status, a negative home environment, and physical or sexual abuse can influence an individual's physical response to st...
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Girls And Boys Body Hair
1,047 wordsTitle: Perils Puberty Lesson Plan Title: Perils of Puberty Objective: 1. Students will be able to identify the perils of puberty Girls experience. 2. Students will be able to identify the perils of puberty Boys experience. Pre-Teach: I am going to introduce the lesson by having students reflect and discuss something they went through during puberty. The purpose of this activity is to activate the students background knowledge about puberty. Peri-Teach I will introduce the perils of puberty Girls...
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One Hundred Percent Percent Effective
1,107 wordsRobert Stone Eng. Writing 1015 CONTRACEPTION Almost 3, 500 years ago, men in Egypt wore condom-like sheaths as attractive and eye-catching penis covers. By the 18 th century, condoms were being made from sheep intestines. In Victorian England, sexual stimulation was believed to shorten ones life, so sex once a month was considered more than enough. In the ancient Middle East, Arabs placed pebbles in the uterus es of female camels when they set off on long journeys. They thought that a foreign ob...
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Doe Season Story Progresses
1,217 words" Doe Season, " David Kaplan uses symbolism to carry Andy through her rite of passage into womanhood. I. Andy is unknowing as she ventures out on a hunting trip with her father. A. She leaves at night and arrives at her destination early in the morning. B. She comments on the space between where she was and the moon. II. Andy is maturing slowly as the story progresses. A. Andy carries her own pack. B. She drinks coffee imitating her father (holding the cup like he does. ). C. Andy volu...
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Rite Of Passage Doe Season
1,213 wordsThesis: Doe Season Outline Thesis: Throughout Doe Season, David Kaplan uses symbolism to carry Andy through her rite of passage into womanhood. I. Andy is unknowing as she ventures out on a hunting trip with her father. A. She leaves at night and arrives at her destination early in the morning. B. She comments on the space between where she was and the moon. II. Andy is maturing slowly as the story progresses. A. Andy carries her own pack. B. She drinks coffee imitating her father (holding the c...
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Eating Disorders Eating Disorders Anorexia Bulimia
1,218 wordsEating Eating Disorders Eating Disorders Eating disorders are devastating and harmful behavioral patterns that occur with in people for numerous reasons. The three types of eating disorders I will be discussing include the three most common of the disorders: anorexia, bulimia, and compulsive over eating (known as binge eating). Though the disorders take physical damage on the body, they are not in fact physical illnesses. You cannot catch and eating disorder. Rather, they are mental issues that ...
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Menstrual Cycle Women Feel
588 wordsPuberty The arrival of the monthly friend. The principle sign that a girl has become sexually mature and is capable of reproduction is the onset of menstruation, a period of cyclic bleeding from the vagina. (Smith 1997, pg 217) This is one of the key physiological functions of the female body. An ovarian, or estrus, cycle is characteristic of all female mammals, but menstruation, periodic uterine bleeding that accompanies the ovarian cycle, occurs only in women, female apes, and some monkeys. Th...
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Southeast Asia Women
2,163 wordsEnglish 109 Gates of Ivory In a world surrounded by war, death, and atrocity, it sometimes seems as if there is nowhere positive for the characters in the Gates of Ivory by Margaret Drabble to turn. In the mist of these bad images Drabble juxtaposes a unique view into the world of women? s reproduction and menstruation that has rarely been revealed in other novels. She shows that menstruation exposes feelings ranging from liberation and empowerment in Alix Bowen, to shame, disgust and sorrow in ...
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Birth Control 2 C
478 wordsHistory of Birth Control Although birth control has been practiced since ancient times, the first organized efforts developed during the 19 th century as population increased dramatically because of improved medical care, nutrition, and sanitation. However, birth control met with resistance. In 1873 the United States Congress enacted the Comstock Law, which prohibited the distribution of birth-control devices and information. During the early 1900 s, American nurse Margaret Sanger led the birth-...
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Son In Law Boys And Girls
2,141 wordsThe! Kung who are called Bushman or San live in and around the Kalahari desert. The Kalahari is one of the largest, continuous sand surfaces in the world, and unlike other deserts, the Kalahari is considered semidesert because the rainfall amounts vary from six to eighteen inches per year (Marshall, 1976, p. 62). This semidesert environment shapes the lifestyle and habits of the! Kung. These people endure enormous hardship because of the bleak conditions in the desert, but the desert does provid...
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Men And Women Women And Men
1,342 wordsSocial stratification is a system which exists in most societies, and distinguishes between individuals and / or groups according to their socially-defined attributes, and gives them different statuses according to these attributes. This system is so widespread because humans invariably show variation, with some being better skilled at certain things than others, and these differences lead to people becoming more or less " useful" to society. What this essay will look at is the ways in...
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