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Critical Incident Stress Cis
902 wordsEmergency Service Worker's (ESW's) can experience excitement from saving property from destruction and the ultimate satisfaction of saving a life, but the exhilaration and thrills can come to a holt when ESW's are faced with an occupational hazard called Critical Incident Stress (CIS). (Mitchell 86). A critical incident does not have to be a major disaster, but is any situation faced by Emergency Service Worker's (ESW) that causes them to experience strange reactions which may have the potential...
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Heart Rate And Blood Pressure State Of Consciousness
1,567 words... s system (which controls the "fight or flight" response) to be activated. Once the sympathetic nervous system is activated, a user enters in a state of euphoria where the person may feel more activated and alert. One of the organs that the vasoconstrictor effects is the heart. When cocaine is taken through intranasal administration, a high heart rate and blood pressure may result. These problems can lead to cardiomyopathy, the condition in which the heart contracts abnormally. "Cardiomyopath...
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J Robert Oppenheimer Second World War
1,444 wordsThe atomic bomb was more destructive than any other weapon ever produced. Clearly its destruction power was greater than the world had ever known. The atomic weapon was invented for the sole purpose of being used in warfare. In 1943 America began something called the Manhattan Project. J. Robert Oppenheimer, an atomic scientist from Germany, headed this project. The U. S. dropped two atomic bombs on two Japanese cities in of 1945 to put an end to the Second World War. The atomic bombs ending Wor...
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Robert Fitzgerald Death Threats
1,522 wordsIn Robert Fitzgerald's translation of the Odyssey, many scenes exist that parallel, predict, and contrast each other in various ways. For example, the self-revelation scene in book IX from line 548 to line 592 where Odysseus announces his name to the Kyklops, and also in book XXII from line 36 to line 84 when he reveals his identity to the suitors in his great hall. These two scenes closely relate to one another in both similar and contrasting ways. Both scenes are based primarily on the self-re...
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Loathing In Las Vegas Fear And Loathing In Las
1,965 wordsLas Vegas has always been known as the city of sin, and the movie Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas corroborates this belief. From drug experimentation to gambling, this movie portrays a surprisingly thoughtful glance into the mind of addiction and of drug usage. Though various drugs were used in this movie, psychedelics seemed to be the drugs of choice for the characters. The focus of this paper is to define the hallucinogens by using its most popular member, LSD. After LSD has been adequately def...
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Rate Of Reaction Reaction Rate
1,069 wordsThe purpose of this experiment is to measure the rates of reaction of the enzyme Alkaline Phosphatase with the substrate p-nitro phenol phosphate under varying conditions. The concentration of both substrate and enzyme were diluted and the inhibitor vanadate was utilized to determine whether or not the reaction is substrate or enzyme dependent and to see what type of inhibition vanadate was involved. A class of proteins called enzymes catalyzes almost every chemical reaction in a cell. Enzymes i...
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Potential Health Benefits Of The Human Genome Project
1,195 words... oregon organs either, as they will soon serve no purpose. Improvements in the health field due to the HGP extend all the way down to the area of therapeutics. The project will allow pharmaceutical companies to produce more effective drugs, and doctors will be able to prescribe these drugs based on ones DNA. Medical records will include our complete genome and will allow for an accurate prediction by doctors as to our responses to certain drugs. These predictions by doctors will help to antic...
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Adverse Reactions Heart Muscle
403 wordsDrug Dependence In order for a chemical to be considered a drug it must have the capacity to affect how the body works be biologically active. No substance that has the power to do this is completely safe, and drugs are approved only after they demonstrate that they are relatively safe when used as directed, and when the benefits outweigh their risks. Thus, some very dangerous drugs are approved because they are necessary to treat serious illness. Digitalis, which causes the heart muscle to cont...
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Greenhouse Gases Nitrous Oxide
1,193 wordsQUESTION 1: Technology owes Ecology an Apology. Indeed, in my opinion, technology does owe ecology an apology. This is because ecological imbalances were as a result of the Industrial revolution, which could be said to be the beginning of the non-ending technological advancement cycle. During Industrial revolution, we began altering or climate and environment through changing agricultural and industrial practices. Before the industrial revolution, human activity released very few gases into the ...
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Red Blood Cells Carbon Dioxide
1,614 wordsEffect Of Photosyntheses And Respiration On The Effect Of Photosyntheses And Respiration On The Environment Introduction: The environment can be defined as the surroundings in which as organism lives, including the climate, the physical and chemical conditions of its habitat and its relationship with other living things. Given the above understanding, it is therefore important that the right environment factors are in existence for some chemical reactions to take place. In the absence of optimum...
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School Age Children Divorce On Children
1,087 wordsThe Effects of Divorce on Children The statistics for divorce in the 1990 s suggest that nearly sixty percent of marriages end in divorce. Given this startling figure, the assumption can be made that many children will experience some effects caused by the life-changing event called divorce. What is it exactly about divorce that causes negative consequences for these children? In what ways will these children be effected? Will these effects show outwardly? I will attempt to uncover some of the c...
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Degrees Celsius Test Tubes
1,993 wordsEffects of Temperature, pH, and Gelatin on Bromelain Introduction Bromelain is an organic catalyst that speeds up the rate of chemical reactions. Bromelain is used in this experiment to catalyze the break down of proteins and is called a proteolytic enzyme. Enzymes enable reactions to occur at a lower temperature and energy levels. This allows many reactions to occur inside living organisms that would otherwise have been impossible to take place. This enzyme is found in fruits, leaves, and stems...
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Hydrogen Peroxide Test Tube
320 wordsHow does this Enzyme effect on this Biochemical Reaction? Purpose: The purpose of this lab was to discover the effects that certain enzymes have on chemical reactions. Were studying organic chemistry specifically, cells and proteins. The building blocks for proteins are enzymes and what better way to understand how they work than to watch them catalyze a reaction. Hypothesis: None really, just that we predict reactions in all of the test tubes except in test tube four where you sprinkle sand int...
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Input Output Centrifugal Force
1,059 wordsThe complexity of the mind has intrigued and inspired philosophers for as long as humanity. How does it work? This question is not answered by equations and such as most conventional problem solving machines. Our own thought processes can be used to explain input and output responses from our senses to our reactions to those senses. This particular function of the mind, input / output capabilities, is one complexity that can be compared and related to real world machines that function in such a ...
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Academic Search Elite Gays And Lesbians
2,011 wordsHomophobia in America Homophobia continues in our society, urban and rural, which is apparent in Michael Lassell's poem How to Watch Your Brother Die and in Neil Millers essay In Search of Gay America: Ogilvie, Minnesota. What are homophobic people afraid of? Do they know? Knowledge and awareness of homosexuality is the best way to prevent homophobia. According to Religious tolerance. com Homophobia has a variety of meanings, including hatred of homosexuality, hatred of homosexuals, fear of gays...
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Sir Isaac Newton Existence Of God
1,026 wordsThroughout history, the worship of gods has been a part of daily life even amidst those cultures that have been considered savage. The reactions, movement, existence, comparisons, purposes, and common beliefs of the world show that there must be a god. The existence of a god is an irrefutable fact. Sir Isaac Newton stated that every action has a reaction. Therefore every reaction is formed from an action which&# 8364; in and of itself is a reaction to a previous action. If this theory is followe...
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Plays A Major Role Political Turmoil
2,239 wordsIn July? s People, Nadine Gordimer gives a very detailed and knowledgeable explanation of the political turmoil within South Africa. By expressing the emotions of a family involved in the deteriorating situation and the misunderstandings between blacks and whites, she adds a very personal and emotional touch, which allows the reader to understand the true horror and terror these people experienced. Gordimer writes of how the Smales family reacts, survives, and adjusts to this life altering exper...
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Number Of Children Members Of The Family
3,106 wordsSam Vaknins Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites There are some grounds to assume that a cognitive dissonance is involved in feeling that children are more a satisfaction than a nuisance. Why do people bother with parenting? It is time consuming, exhausting, strains otherwise pleasurable and tranquil relationships to their limits. Still, humanity keeps at it: breeding. It is the easiest to resort to Nature. After all, all living species breed and most of them parent. W...
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Fulfilling Prophecy John W
858 wordsOur names Roman Art Names Our names function much like scripts that we act out in our day-to-day contact with other people. To put this idea another way, the way we see ourselves behaving is more or less the way we do behave in any given situation. According to this line of thinking, because names can have an effect on self-concept, names can indirectly influence how we act. However, research into the ways names affect people has uncovered a link that shows that our names, or at least other peop...
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White Blood Cells Rheumatoid Arthritis
2,160 wordsThe Immune System Period 2 May 23, 1999 The immune system is the most incredible part of our body. It has the task of keeping the body healthy by destroying pathogens and disease-producing organisms, and by neutralizing their toxins. The immune system employs the services of the skin, mucous membranes, hair, cilia, saliva, urine and other natural means of waste disposal to keep the body free of illness and pathogens, For instance, should foreign bacteria enter the body, the immune system will em...
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