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Ground Water Acid Rain
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Using Irradiation To Make Food Safer For Consumers
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People With Ocd Obsessive Compulsive
1,040 wordsObsessive-compulsive disorder, also known as OCD causes people to suffer in silence and secrecy and can destroy relationships and the ability to work. It may bring on shame, ridicule, anger, and intolerance from friends and family. Although it has been reported in children, it strikes most often during adolescence or young adult years. The illness can affect people in any income bracket, of any race, gender, or ethnic group and in any occupation. If people recognize the symptoms and seek treatme...
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
1,433 wordsI know my hands are clean. I know that I have touched nothing dangerous. However, I doubt my perception. Soon, if I do not wash, a mind numbing, searing anxiety will cripple me. A feeling of stickiness will begin to spread from the point of contamination and I will be lost in a place I do not want to go. So I wash until the feeling is gone, until the anxiety subsides. Then I feel defeated. So I do less and less, my world becomes smaller and smaller and lonelier by the day (Healthy Place: OCD Com...
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Weapons Of Mass Destruction Hundreds Of Thousands
1,592 words... in Chernokozovo! The rape of the corpses, he says, is practiced in full view of the other prisoners, and the next victim is announced right there! He says he saw the murder of a 10 -year-old boy, whom his name he didn't know. Five guards with black masks raped the boy's corpse; cut it into pieces then put into a plastic sack. Do these people not qualify for human rights? Article 6 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that "no one shall be subjected to torture or cruel, inhuman...
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Paper Mill Contaminated Water China
685 wordsIn an article written by Mark Hertsgaard in November of 1997, he talked about how despite Chinas economic peril, the real problem facing the country of 1. 266 billion people is pollution. There are many reasons for this rather unfortunate occurrence, especially for a country who has already dealt with so much grief it is almost unimaginable. How can a country as big and with so much potential power in todays world be allowed to reach the point where it is so polluted that even on sunny days one ...
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Liquid Water Aquatic Life
655 wordsWhat would the world be like if solid water was denser than liquid water? Density is a property of matter. It is defined as the amount of material that fits in a given space. Denser objects are naturally heavier than objects that are less dense and of the same size. In the same manner that solid objects have density, liquids also have density. In that connection, water is denser than oil. If two objects of different densities come into contact, then the one that is less dense will float on it. T...
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infected With Hiv
1,219 wordsWhatBloodbourne Pathogens Bloodborne Pathogens What are Bloodborne Pathogens? Bloodborne Pathogens are pathogenic microorganisms that can eventually cause disease. They are found in human blood and other bodily fluids such as synovial fluid, semen, vaginal secretions, cerebrospinal fluid and any other fluid that mixes or has contact with blood. The bloodborne pathogens are pathogenic, which means they are disease causing, and they are also microorganisms, which means that they are very small so ...
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Nosocomial Infections L Interrogate Leptospirosis
731 wordsBug Report My bug was the Leptospira interrogate which causes Leptospirosis. Some of the common names of this bug are Weils Disease, Mud Fever, Fort Bragg fever, and Swamp Fever. This particular bug will manifest in the kidney and in the liver. It can in its most severe form cause kidney failure, heart failure, and shock. This bacteria, L. interrogate, multiplies inside of the organs, generally it is in the kidney, liver, CNS. L. interrogate is normally a zoonosis, and is found commonly in dogs,...
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Aids Patients Sexual Intercourse
1,584 wordsAIDS, or the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome has been one of the most threatening diseases of the 20 th century. Ever since it has been discovered in 1981, it has been constantly infecting men, women, adults, newly born children, homosexuals and heterosexuals. In definition AIDS is an extremely serious disorder that results from severe damage to the body? s defense against disease. Even though AIDS was born in an era of sophisticated medical and surgical developments, it still remains incura...
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Brooks Cole Universal Studios
717 wordsThere are many parts to every living thing. These basic parts have specialized jobs, which give shape and function of everything in the universe. The basic building block for all mass is the atom. There are many different parts to the atom. The electron is a negatively charged particle that revolves around the nucleus in electron shells. The electron is one of the smallest particles that make up the atom. The counterpart to the electron is the proton. This is a larger positive charged particle. ...
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Hundred Thousand People Acres Of Land
569 wordsChernobyl 10 years later On April 26 th, 1986 the Worlds worst nuclear power accident occurred at Chernobyl in the former USSR (now Ukraine). The Chernobyl nuclear power plant located 80 miles north of Kiev had 4 reactors and while testing reactor number 4 numerous safety procedures were disregarded. At 1: 23 am the chain reaction in the reactor became out of control creating explosions and a fireball that blew off the reactors heavy steel and concrete lid. Radioactive debris spewed to a height ...
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Average Life Span 20 Th Century
1,341 wordsDiseases are any harmful change that interferes with the normal appearance, structure, or function of the body or any of its parts. Since time immemorial, disease has played a role in the history of societies. It has affected and has been affected by economic conditions, wars, and natural disasters. An epidemic of influenza that swept the globe in 1918 killed between 20 million and 40 million people. Within a few months, more than 500, 000 Americans died^more than were killed during World War I ...
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Genetically Engineered Foods Genetically Modified Organisms
1,333 wordsDon t Mess With My Food! Technology has been in full swing for years, but only recently have some of these developments been placed in front of us at the dinner table. The genetic engineering of food is a hot topic; that with each meal, there is the possibility that we are putting genetically modified organisms (GMO) in our mouths. These toys of technology may make the apples look bigger and juicier, but who is to say that these science experiments will not have long-term hazardous effects? Ther...
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Enemy Of The People Mob Psychology Town
452 wordsEnemy of the People The book I read was written by Ibsen and called Enemy of the People. There were nine characters in this book but only five main characters. Dr. Stockmann, Hosted, Aslaksen, Peter, and Billing. The protagonist was Doctor Stockmann. He has just discovered that a bathing complex that is crucial to the towns economy is seriously contaminated. He alerts several members of the community and receives generous support and thanks for making this discovery in time to save the town. The...
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Toxic Chemicals Oil Spills
515 wordsExplain The Importance Of Preserving The Health Explain The Importance Of Preserving The Health And Diversity Of The Worlds Oceans. ESSAY # 1 Explain the importance of preserving the health and diversity of the worlds oceans. Our oceans are the most productive and more than likely the most helpful environment on the planet today. Oceans not only supply our ozone with life supporting oxygen, control the earths weather patterns, it also is home to over a million different species ranging from mamm...
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Water Supply Human Population
1,173 wordsThe article being discussed was entitled Tapped Out and was written by Peter Gleick. It focuses on the depleting supply of our Earths freshwater resources. How it effects the human population, and how the problem will develop in years to come. The question being asked is will we be able to sustain enough freshwater to satisfy all the worlds needs? And what will we do about the present lack of clean freshwater in many underdeveloped countries all around the world. The reason why is quite obvious....
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Dream Of Owning Environmentally Friendly
1,408 wordsNot until the spread of the Industrial Revolution in the late nineteenth century, has man possessed the ability to adversely alter, on a global scale, the geologic and climatic cycles that have existed for millennia. Planet earth, which man calls home, is approximately 5 billion years old. The science of paleontology tells us that man is a relative new comer to the planet. Modern man did not arrive on the scene until approximately 10, 000 to 15, 000 years ago. Developments in hunting, agricultur...
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Shakespeare Othello Othello Begins
1,299 wordsShakespeare s Othello begins with a marriage between Othello and Desdemona. This marriage was the result of the strong bond of love which they felt together. During their marriage, Othello started to feel a sense of jealousy with Desdemona s behavior. This jealousy was being created by Desdemona s beauty and sexual power. With the presence of Desdemona, Othello felt belittled with her sexuality. Female sexuality is a threat to the patriarchal society, and Othello must control it. Desdemona s sex...
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Diagnostic And Statistical Manual
971 wordsPsych. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Psychology 101 Psych. Disorder Paper 10 / 21 / 99 Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual defines obsessions and compulsions as follows; Obsessions are persistent ideas, thoughts, impulses, or images that are experienced as intrusive and inappropriate and that cause marked anxiety or distress. Compulsions are repetitive behaviors (e. g. , hand washing, ordering, checking) or mental acts (e. g. , praying, counting, repeating words s...
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