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Economic Stability Town Council
1,072 wordsTo: City Council of Town, State Re: Adding a Town Planner to Your Staff Planning in any town is an important part of the growth, development and sustainability of the citizens and businesses in that town. I believe that your town council could greatly benefit from adding a planner to your staff. Planning suggests a systematic attempt to shape the future. It attempts to link scientific and technical knowledge to actions in the public domain, and processes of societal guidance and of social transf...
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1,507 wordsOn June 7, 1965, the U. S. Supreme Court, in Griswold v. Connecticut, struck down state laws that had made the use of birth control by married couples illegal. The court's landmark decision - coming five years after oral contraceptives became available to American women and 49 years after Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the U. S. - legalized the use of birth control and paved the way for the nearly unanimous acceptance of contraception that now exists in this country. Th...
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Effects Of Cannabis Withdrawal Symptoms
1,790 wordsCLAIM FOUR: "Marijuana causes long-term changes in the brain similar to those seen with other drugs of abuse... " Back in the 1970 s, animal experiments led to groundless fears that marijuana blew holes in brain tissue. The experiments organisations like NIDA now fund are more sophisticated but the controversy still rages. George Koob, an addiction researcher from The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, claims the new message from the animals is simple: "The more we discover abou...
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Alcohol And Drugs Binge Drinking
1,040 words... andale of girls when they " re drunk. " - Anonymous Respondent (College Alcohol Study Harvard School of Public Health) College administrators often identify student alcohol abuse as one of the biggest challenges they face. Yet, funding for prevention programs, on the increase until 1994, has never averaged more than a few dollars per student, not counting staff salaries. Experts complain that many alcohol education programs seldom involve more than a few posters, some brochures, and an Alcoh...
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Gun Control Activists Law Abiding Citizens
1,225 wordsConstitutional Law Gun Control Paper Gun control is undoubtedly an issue that most Americans have been exposed to. In 1989, guns killed 11, 832 Americans. The National Rifle Association (NRA) members believe that it is their constitutional right to own guns, stating that guns are not the root of the crime problem in the United States. Gun control activists like the members of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV) argue that guns are responsible for the majority of violent crimes that take pl...
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Health Care System U S Embargo
1,147 words... oration about the U. S. government and the embargo against Cuba. The U. S. is not all to blame but at the same time cannot be ruled out. Everyone seems to be blaming the U. S. but Castro plays a big part as well. This release speaks of the small details that supporters of the embargo seem to leave out. As stated earlier, the Cuban Democracy Act of 1992 does permit companies and their subsidiaries to sell medicine and medical equipment to the United States and has approved 36 of 38 license re...
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Political Socialization Mass Media
1,177 words... his or her family members, become far to overwhelming to allow enough freedom for the individual to focus on issues outside ones own personal life. These issues alone can take up to a lifetime resurrecting and rebuilding, and any peer-involvement is sure to be, and best, invested in these areas. Let alone to say that a small portion (2 percent) of persons either afflicted or related to the addict ever even begin this process, let alone complete it through its successful consummation into a b...
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Centers For Disease Control Rift Valley
1,343 wordsWhat is the stake of the American People and the Government by International Agencies to control Infectious Disease in Developing Countries? More people are at risk of infectious diseases than at any other time on history. Infectious diseases are worldwide problem requiring worldwide attention. Infectious diseases can weaken the strength of a nation's resources. In developing nations this poses even a greater threat. Diseases are threatening the economic stability of many developing nations. 50,...
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Health Care Workers University Of Toronto
1,697 words... or inter- views. Very few people at risk of AIDS now come to give blood. The "self- elimination form", filled out in a private booth, allows any who feel compelled by peer pressure to donate blood, total privacy to check the box that says "Do not use my blood for transfusion. " As to banking one's own blood, or autologous donations, the Red Cross permits a few "medically suitable" people, referred by their physician, to store their blood if they are likely to need blood transfusion in upcomi...
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Laissez Faire Nineteenth Century
2,083 wordsWhen considering the changes brought about in the social policy of Great Britain, in the decades immediately either side of 1900, one must look at the nation 's industrial history. The position as the world's premier industrial nation had been cemented by the mid nineteenth century, achieved in part, as it was the first nation to industrialism. However, the headlong embrace of laissez- faire capitalism ignored the social infrastructure, and the emigration from the depressed agricultural areas to...
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Health Care Workers University Of Toronto
1,696 words... taking, questionnaires and donor inter- views. Very few people at risk of AIDS now come to give blood. The "self- elimination form", filled out in a private booth, allows any who feel compelled by peer pressure to donate blood, total privacy to check the box that says "Do not use my blood for transfusion. " As to banking one's own blood, or autologous donations, the Red Cross permits a few "medically suitable" people, referred by their physician, to store their blood if they are likely to ne...
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Bodily Fluids Hiv Aids
1,812 words... to gt test compare to at-risk individuals in the tennis. Because so fw senior hav bn test, it's hard to know how many ar infected -- and how many ar unwittingly passing th virus on to othr's. "Nobody knows what's going on with th or adult, " says Joseph Catania of th University of California at San Francisco, on of th country's lading AIDS rsarchrs and co-author of th 1994 study. vn when senior develop AIDS-read symptoms lik wasting, dementia and pneumonia, doctors frequently don't think to ...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Alcohol During Pregnancy
1,857 wordsFetal Alcohol Syndrome: A Preventable Birth Defect? If women didn? t drink anymore during pregnancy, there would never be another baby born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome or Fetal Alcohol Effect? (Mccuen 33). This is a very powerful statement. It is also a very simple cure for an alarmingly high birth defect that all women have the power to stop. ? Every year more than 40, 000 American children are born with defects because their mother drank alcohol while pregnant? (Mccuen 34). That is 1 to 3 per ...
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Act Was Passed Cities And Towns
2,367 wordsDuring the Victorian Era there were massive waves of contagious disease. The first was from 1831 to 1833, which included two influenza epidemics and the initial appearance of cholera. The second was from 1836 to 1842, which encompassed major epidemics of influenza, typhus, typhoid and cholera. The first outbreak of Asiatic cholera in Britain was at Sunderland on the Durham coast during the autumn of 1831. From there the disease made its way northward into Scotland and southward toward London. Fr...
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Fidel Castro Castro
2,726 wordsWhen you speak of Fidel Castro, what do you speak of? The Cuban Leader is not your everyday leader. To fully understand Fidel Castro you must have a firm foundation with which to work from. I will explore the political ideology of Fidel Castro by explaining what is in an ideology, Fidel Castro? s background, and his political position both before the Cuban revolution and presently. An ideology is a number of action-oriented, materialistic, popular, and simplistic political theories that were ori...
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National Institute On Drug Abuse War On Drugs
2,524 wordsLegalization of Mariana: For Its time we put to rest the myth that smoking marijuana is a fringe or deviant activity, engaged in only by those on the margins of American society. In reality, marijuana smoking is extremely common, and marijuana is the recreational drug of choice for millions of mainstream, middle class Americans. According to the most recent NIDA data 1, between 65 and 71 million Americans have smoked marijuana at some time in their lives, and 10 million are current smokers (have...
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Air Force Base Divided Into Three
1,632 wordsCigarette smoking is Untitled Abstract Cigarette smoking is of interest to the National Institute on Drug Abuse both because of the public health problems associated with this form of substance abuse and because this behavior represents a prototypic dependence process. In the past few years the government has made every effort to reach the masses, in an attempt to curb the exploitation of tobacco use, and its acceptance among Americas Youngsters. However, cigarette smoking among adolescents is o...
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First Amendment Rights England Journal Of Medicine
1,681 wordsNora Parker January 19, 2000 English 10, per 2 Marijuana Prohibition is a Violation of First Amendment Rights Let me ask you something? if you had a choice, what would it be: Marijuana or Martinis? This question appeared in the New York Times on Tuesday, May 12 th, 1998. Due to the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 the only legal choice that you and the 18 million other adults who used marijuana last year can make is the martini (Against Drug Prohibition ix). The legal acceptance of alcohol, however, do...
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Unequal Distribution Of Wealth Land Reform
1,057 wordsWe cant expect the poor to limit their family sizes when they need children to help support their family. The real problem in their world is not overpopulation but poverty and the unequal distribution of wealth. These must be tackled first. Examine this statement and discuss appropriate solutions. While overpopulation is a problem that plagues many developing nations, it would be wrong to assume that it is their main problem, or that the countering of overpopulation should receive priority above...
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United States Entered Political And Economic
2,453 wordsPower Politics: What Is A Strong State What is Power and how does it apply to geography? According to P. J. Taylor (334) Power is the ability to be successful in a conflict; this maybe overt through force or the threat of force; or covert through non decision-making or structural advantage. The term power will be used to discuss how the United States can be described as the most dominate hegemony of the past century. Power can also be defined or generalized into many characteristics that describ...
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