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Bacillus Yersinia Pestis Spread The Disease Death
549 wordsDuring the fourteenth century a horrible plague spread across Asia, Europe, and Great Britain. This plague is referred to as the black death. Many people are not quite sure why the disease was given the name. The most popular reason why it might be called the black death is because it left purplish, blackish blotches on the bodies of the sick. But if the name of the epidemic had been derived primarily from the appearance of its victims, one would have expected it to have been used at the time. O...
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Shows The Reader Early 1900
1,168 wordsThe Jungle is perhaps the most brutal novel ever written in America. It is one long scream of pain and tragedy (Cook 117). The novel shows the reader how hard being an immigrant was in the early 1900 s. Immigrants had to take any job they could, even if that meant working in the packing plants, which Upton Sinclair shows in the novel. Jurgis Radix is the main character. Jurgis and his family move to America searching for a better life. Jurgis works in a packing plant and is continuously loosing ...
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Guinea Pigs Animal Research
761 wordscures await discovery. Although the list is pretty much endless, here are some examples, by decade, including the main species used that were crucial to the discovery: Pre- 1900: Treatment for rabies (dogs, rabbits), smallpox (cows), anthrax (sheep). 1900 s: Cardiac catheterization techniques (dogs, rabbits), treatment for rickets (dogs). 1920 s: Discovery of insulin (dogs). 1930 s: Development of modern anesthesia (dogs), prevention of tetanus (horses), development of anticoagulants (cats). 194...
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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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Central Nervous System Peripheral Nervous System
1,382 wordsThe ability to regenerate the tissues of the human central nervous system (CNS) is one of the greatest projects undertaken by biomedical engineers today. With this eventual technology, permanent paralysis and blindness due to CNS injury will be a thing of the past. Central nervous system injuries will be repairable, an idea that was, until recently, just a fanciful dream, something out of a science fiction novel. In the last few years, however, giant strides have been made to make the idea of CN...
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Experiments On Animals Koko The Gorilla Humans
845 wordsAnimals are used for a variety of different tests. Human disease cures are always tried on animals first, most make up must perform experiments with the product on animals first, and dogs and pigs are used to practice surgery on for surgeons. It is not fair and humane to conduct experiments on animals to make sure a product or procedure is safe for us to use or endure. There are no legitimate reasons that an animals life is worth less than our own. I think that animal's should have similar right...
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Bubonic Plague Lymph Nodes
692 wordsNo pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seattle redness and horror of blood. (Edgar Allen Poe The Masque of the Red Death. ) Many thought the Black Plague was a curse from God; punishment for the sins the infected had committed. Those that survived were the chosen people, the ones who added by the laws of the Church. Scientists know now that the devastating disease was not a result of sins or spiritual inadequacy, but the terrible illness was caused by a...
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General Accounting Office Food And Drug Administration
1,212 wordsAn increasing number of researchers, scientists and practitioners are questioning the use of animals in research on ethical, moral, socio-political and scientific grounds. Use of animal research data to affect change in their patients is rarely used by clinical psychologists. This is certainly a public interest issue as it involves an enormous amount of brutality. Animal research is a very lucrative business, since billions of tax dollars are invested in it annually. An enormous amount of this m...
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Percent Of The Population Opposing Viewpoints
2,652 wordsHomosexuality- The Major Cause of Homosexuality The origins of human sexuality and homosexuality in particular have puzzled philosophers, theologians and ordinary people for thousands of years. In scatter cultures, homosexuals have been regarded as a normal part of life, however, same sex attraction to most cultures have been treated as an unforgivable sin or a terrible crime. Many psychologists and psychiatrist had attempted to? treat and counsel? the homosexuals. In our social norm, male attra...
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Types Of Cancer Cancerous Cells
846 wordsOne Conquering Cancer Conquering Cancer One of the first scientists to prove that cancer is genetic was Biologist, Dr. Weinburg. In Weinburg s experiment he took cancerous cells from rats brains and mixed their DNA with that of normal cells. The result was that the cells became cancerous, proving that cancer is in genes. In recent years our knowledge about cancer and what causes it has greatly increased. We now know that vital genes mutating cause cancer. Just one mutated nucleotide out of 15, 0...
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Elderly Woman Human Race
1,849 wordsEddie Vedder Is A Vampire Although at first he may seem to be just your average angst ridden lead man for a popular rock and roll band, Eddie Vedder, the vocalist and lyricist for Pearl Jam, may very well be a vampire. Although it is impossible to tell, everything points to his being an immortal. An in depth analysis of his lyrics shows that Pearl Jams second album, ? Versus? , has been used by Vedder as sounding boards for the complex emotions and change of perspective that come with ones trans...
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Parts Of The Body Nitric Oxide
1,250 wordsExpansion On The Recent Discoveries Concerning Nitric Expansion On The Recent Discoveries Concerning Nitric Oxide Expansion on the Recent Discoveries Concerning Nitric Oxide as presented by Dr. Jack R. Lancaster Nitric Oxide, or NO, its chemical representation, was until recently not considered to be of any benefit to the life processes of animals, much less human beings. However, studies have proven that this simple compound had an abundance of uses in the body, ranging from the nervous system ...
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First And Second Teacher
1,045 wordsExperimenter Expectancy Effect On Children in a Classroom Setting Rosenthal and Jacobson (1966) sought to test the experimenter expectancy effect by examining how much of an outcome teachers? expectancies could have on a group of children. Earlier investigations in this area were also conducted by Rosenthal (1963). He worked with children in a research lab, giving each one a rat and telling them it was either bred for intelligence or for dullness. The children were put in charge of teaching the ...
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White Blood Cells Parts Per Million
1,742 wordsFlouridation In 1931 at the University of Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station M. C. Smith, E. M. Lantz, and H. V. Smith discovered that when given drinking water supplied with fluorine, rats would develop tooth defects. Further testing by H. T. Dean and E. Else of the United States Public Health Service confirmed this report, and stated that what is known as mottled tooth. Mottled tooth is a condition in which white spots develop on the back teeth. Gradually the white spots get darker and da...
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Environmental Protection Agency Greenhouse Gases
2,129 wordsGlobal Warming: What Does Our Future Hold? During the course of the twentieth century, many environmental scientists have become increasingly confident that the average global temperature has elevated. Although global warming is still a highly controversial theory, the facts have compelled scientists, politicians and the environmentally conscious to take a closer look at the statistics. Periodic global warming conferences take place around the world to discuss various environmental topics. Globa...
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Smoking During Pregnancy Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
1,213 wordsTobacco is one of the leading preventable causes of death in the United States. Nicotine, which is an alkaloid derived from the tobacco plant, is a potent chemical that has powerful effects on the human body, especially when administered rapidly or at high doses. Prenatal exposure to nicotine is associated with adverse reproductive outcomes, including altered neural structure and functioning, cognitive deficits, and behavior problems in the offspring (9). At least 20 % 30 % of pregnant women are...
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Ragged Dick Horatio Alger
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Sentenced To Death Loved Tom
2,311 wordsStephen King is a very well known writer who wrote many best-selling books. He wrote both horror and drama books, but even the drama books seemed to have a disturbing edge to them. Stephen Kings mind is probably very twisted yet very interesting judging by the stories he wrote. His creativity probably came from his childhood. As a child he grew up on a farm, giving him lots of time to use his imagination. His creativity started as a child. He would often play cruel pranks on his brother that wou...
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Gnawed His Clothes Fragrance Of Adjacent Woods Island
3,308 wordsSelkirk's Island by Diana SouhamiMonsters of the Deep ALL COURAGE left him when the ship was gone. The sea stretched out. The line of its horizon was, he knew, only the limit of his sight. The sea that had beckoned freedom and fortune now locked him in. Thomas Jones, James Ryder, William Series, John Cobham He thought they would come back for him. He stayed by the shore, scanning the ocean. Whatever their fate he now wanted to be with them. If their ship sank he would choose to go down with it. ...
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Pied Piper Childrens Books
1,199 wordsThe rat in the hat The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett 269 pp Doubleday &# 163; 12. 99 A talking rat is fighting for his life against a terrier, inside a circle of excited men who whoop and roar and snarl. Another rat bungee-jumps down from the rafters to rescue him. In the instant of astonishment before both rats are whisked skyward, the human onlookers just have time to notice that the rescuer is wearing a tiny boater on his head. He lifts it. Good evening! he squea...
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