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Cocaine's Physiological Effects

very oftentimes sadly mistaken. This study proved that the brain, after experiencing only one exposure to cocaine, is then "prime...

Franco Zeffirelli's Cinematic Interpretation of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

the still city, which is bathed in ethereal morning light, the city is shrouded in fog. This is also symbolic, in that its white s...

A Leukemia Consideration

broad term. There are four broad categories of Leukemia, but there are subcategories as well. Acute lymphocytic or lymphoblastic ...

Is College Hazing a Rite of Passage or a Major Problem?

In five pages this paper examines the hazing issue from both sides with one supporting the notion it represents a rite of passage ...

International Politics and Terrorism

Biological weapons have become increasingly popular within terrorist organizations since the 1990s because they can reproduce micr...

Contrasting and Comparing German Dictator Adolf Hitler and Greek God Hades

made quite the same impact as Hitlers oratory, personality and leadership. There can be no doubt that at the height of his popula...

God's Perfect Judgment

did. He punished Adam and Eve for disobeying Him. As one pastor reminds us: "The Bible says that God will hold us accountable for ...

Anthrax Cause and Response

The disease known as Anthrax is caused by the highly infectious microorganism Bacillus anthracis. The bacteria...

Effects of Body Image on Young Girls and Women

and anorexia nervosa addressed in the paper. Legrand, Doroth?e. "Subjective and Physical Dimensions of Bodily Self-Consciousness,...

The Use of Deadly Force in Effecting Arrest

reversed the lower Courts ruling and found the Tennessee statute unconstitutional because it authorized the use of deadly force ev...

Justice and Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment

This essay presents the writer's reflections on justice and the subjects of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, which is detailed in...

Beneficence and A Deadly Deception

This essay pertains to "A Deadly Deception," which is a PBS film that documents the events of the Tuskegee syphilis study, which l...

Literature Review, Vitamin D

This research paper constitutes the literature review portion of a project addressing the global vitamin D deficiency epidemic. Ar...

The World is Getting Fatter

Obesity is a global issue that is nearly an epidemic. The CDC reported that over the last 30 years, obesity has more than doubled ...

African American Obesity, PRECEDE-PROCEED Model

This paper pertains to the Precede-Proceed model and its applicability to intervention development that addresses the overweight/o...

An Important Public Health Issue, Obesity

This paper pertains to obesity and the writer specially discusses how the terms "epidemic" and "pandemic" are defined in regards t...

Childhood Obesity and Parental Factors

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at childhood obesity. The epidemic is analyzed in terms of parental factors. Paper uses...

Pertussis Rises Again

By the 1970s, the country believed that scientists had finally controlled the spread of major diseases like whooping cough, also k...

Preparing for Influenza in Western Kentucky

but society as a whole. Businesses, organizations, and even the government itself could flounder in the face of such a severe pro...

Obesity in America and Around the World

arguably around the world. 2. Approximately 22 million children worldwide who are under the age of five are thought to be obese...

Childhood for the “Fat Kids”

of people who are constantly trying to lose weight, if they were heavy as adolescents they are at increased risk of dying younger ...

The Paradox in the World Food Crisis

different part of the globe, "hundreds of millions eat too much, or consume the wrong sorts of food, and it is making them ill," a...

Preventative and Curative Health Care: An Economic Approach

also provides a valuable example of the economics of health care in general as obesity has been associated in recent literature wi...

Vitamin D Deficiency

This research describes a planned project and the issues associated with a global epidemic in regards to vitamin D deficiency. Thr...

The Ghost Map

Johnson described the people who lived within the city as a group of somewhat organized scavengers. "The scavengers...lived in a ...

Ethical Issues with Regard to Marketing Prepackaged Foods to Schools

of revenue for under-funded schools, it is difficult to get them removed (Van Staveren and Dale, 2004). They contain, in addition ...

Impact of HIV/AIDS on Nursing

noted that cases of a rare lung infection, pneumocystis carinni pneumonia, had occurred in Los Angeles and also that three young m...

Epidemiology of Obesity

activity patterns, and resting and active metabolisms" (Speakman, 2004, p. 2090S). Nevertheless, considerable advances have come a...

Advocacy - World Vision's Hope Initiative

in 2004 and 640,000 more children became infected (World Vision International, 2004). Too many victims are unable to access treatm...

Obesity Worldwide

country, the often ate "traditional diets ... high in grains, fruit and vegetables and low in fat" (Hoffman). Once they arrived in...