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Death
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... a near experience myself, my thoughts about also took a different turn. I never thought would even come near me. Last year in May, my sister, dad, and I were driving down to California. And it was about seven o'clock in the morning and my sister was driving. Then she fell asleep and starting driving off the road. She swerved back on the road really hard, which made the car flip over four times. Then we were rushed to the hospital and stayed there for about an hour. My sister and I were all right but my dad was in critical condition. My dad ended up only loosing his pinky finger. Just being in that situation made my outlook on life and different. ...



Schizophrenia
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... and becomes better in cycles, also known as relapses and remission. People who are suffering from schizophrenia look relatively normal. Schizophrenics suffer from such symptoms as: delusions, hallucinations, and thought disorders. Delusions are false beliefs that aren=t based on reality. Schizophrenics may believe that someone is following them, or planning to harm them. Schizophrenics believe that others can hear their thoughts , also known as Abroadcasting@ and even change them. A...hear their thoughts, insert thoughts into their minds, or control their feelings, actions or impulses. Patients might think they are Jesus, Napoleon, or Franklin D. Roosevelt.@ (A ...



Teenage Abortion
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... mail, however the law does not require that the parent give consent. If minor fears for her safety if her parents find out about her sexual activity, or are she can demonstrate that she is mature enough to make the decision on her own she can bypass the law by requesting a hearing before a Superior Court Judge. In implementing this act New Jersey has become the 40’Th State in the county to enforce laws requiring minors to either notify their parents or receive consent from them before having an abortion. The United States Supreme Court first declared these types of laws constitutional in 1979. Legally, The Parental Notification Act, is constitution and is reasona ...



Hemophilia
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... is carried by females however those affected are almost always males. In one-third of all cases hemophilia thought to be caused by spontaneous gene mutation with no family history. This is how females are able to be affected by hemophilia. Inheritance is controlled by a recessive sex-linked factor carried by the mother on the X chromosome. There is a fifty percent chance that the sons of a female carrier will have hemophilia. There also is a fifty percent chance that the daughters of a female carrier will be carriers of hemophilia. In addition, all daughters of men with hemophilia are carriers, but his sons are unaffected. Men cannot transmit hemophilia, and ...



Family Practice: Summary
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... feelings and not hold them in. After that comes, "Don't play telephone", this is where a third person is used to communicate between two parties. Another step is, "Make your blueprints Flexible," you should not pre-plan your child's life for them. Then he goes into the next step, which is about Contracts called, "Learn to use contracts." With this step the family makes contracts with one another and then monitors and up dates them so often. This helps with everybody holding to their end of the deal when it comes to the family issues. One of the worst steps of all is, "Stop the "Good Guy-"Bad Guy, " routine. I feel that having someone to blame for every problem th ...



Attitudes Toward Abortion
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... to examining the structural effects of demographic control variables on , the notion of ritual interaction, stemming from the writings of Collins (1981), Durkheim (1912/1954), and Goffman (1967), will be used to examine the effects of religiosity, feminism, and conservativism on . I will show that there is not only a direct relationship, as many prior studies assert, but also that there is an interaction effect of the amount of interpersonal contact with others. That is, interaction with others intensifies the effect of other attitudes on . A THEORETICAL MODEL Attitudinal Effects In the literature on abortion attitudes (e.g., Granberg, 1978; Barnartt and Harr ...



Reproductive Technologies
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... born under these drugs may be multiples, which could include the babies being born premature or, having a high risk of developing numerous health problems. Other ways of becoming pregnant include IVF (In-Vertro Fertilization), which takes healthy sperm and a healthy egg and conception in a test tube occurs and then it is transplanted back into the mothers’ womb. This also can create multiple births because of the high number eggs that must be used in order to up the potential of “making a baby”. Many of these couples have options of selected abortion to limit the risk to mother and child. These issues have many feminists and doctors having heated arguments ov ...



Schizophrenia
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... care would be in the best interests of all concerned: the mentally ill and the general, tax-paying public (Barry 13).” It was believed that a social breakdown syndrome would develop in chronically mentally ill persons who were institutionalized. The characteristics of this syndrome were submission to authority, withdrawal, lack of initiative, and excessive dependence on the institution. While deinstitutionalization was kindhearted in its primary logic, the actual execution of the concept has been greatly undermined by the lack of good community alternatives. At this time a large amount of the individuals using community mental health treatment services ...



Teenage Suicide
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... to be discussed with their teenage children. This survey showed that American parents are somehow concerned about suicide among teenagers. This concern is pervasive among American teenagers. In 1993, a national survey of adolescents about their knowledge of, and attitudes toward, youth suicide was made. The survey reulted that 60% of the teenagers reported knowing another teen who had attempted suicide while 6% reported having make an attempt themselves. The above two examples indicates that it is very important for parents, counselors, or different institutions to become aware of the reasons and symptons of teenage suicide and to find out possible prevent ...



Schizophrenia
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... developed a list of symptoms, which occur very rarely in diseases other than . These symptoms include auditory hallucinations in which voices speak the schizophrenic's thoughts aloud. There are also two other forms of auditory hallucinations, in one the victim will hear two voices arguing, in the other a voice will be heard commenting the actions of the person. Schizophrenics may also suffer from the feeling that their actions are being controlled by an external force, or the delusion that certain commonplace remarks have a secret meaning for themselves (Torrey, 1983). From these symptoms, is divided into four sub-types determined by which symptoms are mos ...




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