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Ability To Manipulate Ability To Control
1,015 wordsThere have been many writers who have astonished the literary world with their configuration of short stories, but none of them have perfected the art as well as Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne wrote in a time period when Fredrick Douglas was paving the road to racial freedom, Ralph Waldo Emerson wanted to world to be seen through the transparent eyeball, and Henry David Thoreau was living the unfettered life. In comparison to the modern writings of his time, Hawthorne's style was viewed as outda...
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Ultraviolet Radiation Nucleic Acid
1,499 words... these processes has the potential to damage the genetic material, and thus the cell. This in turn could cause cells to function poorly, causing premature aging associated with Werner syndrome. If the DNA damage happened to inactivate tumor suppressor genes or active oncogenes, it might also cause cells to grow out of control and produce cancerous tumors. In fact, there is already evidence that a faulty helicase can cause cancers. Recently a team led by geneticist James German of the New York...
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Cycle Of Life Loss Of Innocence
1,152 words... Kevin's mother and Kevin's father. From the very first moment that Kevin's mother, Gwendolyn, is introduced, she is always trying to make Kevin comfortable and safe. It is explained how she stuck around and took care of Kevin after the doctor had explained about the birth defect where as Kevin's cowardly father picked up and ran when hearing about this defect of Kevin's. The courage that it took for Gwendolyn to stay with Kevin is quite a complete contrast to the cowardliness shown by Kevin'...
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The Spiritual And Physical Dimensions In Birthmark
1,196 wordsFred Allen Wolf notes in Taking the Quantum Leap that it was not until the 20 th century that scientists realized that to observe is to disturb, for observation breaks the wholeness of nature. If observing disturbs, then when a scientist tampers and tries to perfect nature the result can only be disastrous. The goal of most scientists is to observe and understand the mysteries of nature. Nathaniel Hawthorne realized that the scientists of the 19 th century were beginning to challenge the traditi...
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100 000 People Genetic Diseases
1,823 words"We [the human race]|do not have much time to prove that we are not the product of a lethal mutation" Science 263: 181, 1994 "I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race. " Thomas Love Peacock The genetic catastrophe consists of four major genetic "epidemics" - those of cancer, vascular disease, musculoskeletal disease, and behavioral disease. There are identified approximately 250 common genetic diseases, and approximately 7, 000 "rare" genetic diseases. T...
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Alexithymia And The Defense Of Primal Repression
1,197 wordsPrimal Repression may well account for the psychic structural defect and many of the clinical features associated with the alexithymia construct. [James D. A. Parker and Graeme J. Taylor in Disorders of Affect Regulation p. 89 ] Repression proper is a defensive process that evolves out of primal repression, and involves a rejection from the conscious mind of already formed instinctual wishes and other representations. Primal repression, on the other hand, is akin to [an] idea of Freud's viz. , h...
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Children With Down Syndrome One Of The Most Common
598 wordsSometimes when meiosis (the division of reproductive cells) occurs, chromosomes may be lost, left behind, or too many may be passed on, resulting in the birth of a child with a genetic or congenital defect or disease. One of the most common of these genetic disorders is Down syndrome. This disorder takes its name from Dr. Langdon Down, who was the first to describe it formally, in 1866. Down syndrome is a condition marked by abnormal physical and mental development that is caused by a genetic de...
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Make Rash Decisions Risk Your Life Good
632 wordsEveryone strives to do good with their lives. Some people, in certain aspects, try too much or too little to do good. There is no such thing as doing too much or too little good, when something is good it is only good. Although, someone may think that they are still doing good, when they are actually not doing good. We need to try to stay within the mean. Once we start to stray from the mean, we are heading towards the vices. Excess and defect are the vices. When we are doing something to excess...
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Terrorist Acts Terrorist Groups
1,714 wordsNational terrorism has been the focus of attention since September 11. But now domestic terrorism is becoming increasingly common among hate groups across the nation. Domestic terrorism can be defined as visible crime, or "street crime. " These acts would consist of violent crimes, (acts against people in which injury or death results) property crimes (acts that threaten property held by individuals or the state) and public order crimes. (acts that threaten the general well-being of society and ...
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Color Blindness Defective Gene
981 wordsColor Blindness Genetic disorders result from heritable abnormalities in the genetic makeup of a human. Disorders are often apparent at birth; however, others may develop during childhood or adult life. Some genetic disorders may result from a mutation in a single gene, which results in the absence or alteration of the protein that corresponds. Such an alteration disrupts some metabolic or developmental process, leading to a disease. Color blindness is an example of a disorder that can be inheri...
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Extra Chromosome Trisomy 21
494 wordsDown Syndrome: An Informative Essay Down Syndrome is the name for babies born with a disorder related to their chromosomes. It is caused when meiosis occurs and an error occurs in the cells development. The reason for this defect is often because the parent is over 40 or for some other reason their meiosis is not Up to par. The actual defect is an extra chromosome is developed during cell development. The abnormal development results in 47 chromosomes rather than the usual 46 (23 from each paren...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Alcohol During Pregnancy
1,857 wordsFetal Alcohol Syndrome: A Preventable Birth Defect? If women didn? t drink anymore during pregnancy, there would never be another baby born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome or Fetal Alcohol Effect? (Mccuen 33). This is a very powerful statement. It is also a very simple cure for an alarmingly high birth defect that all women have the power to stop. ? Every year more than 40, 000 American children are born with defects because their mother drank alcohol while pregnant? (Mccuen 34). That is 1 to 3 per ...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Urinary Tract
1,742 wordsMany pregnant women are not aware of the complications that are involved with pregnancy. The greater majority of young women see pregnancy as a way of bringing a life into the world but do not use precaution in their dietary habits to prevent the destruction or inhibition of such a life. Most pregnant women continue on their drinking and drug abuse binge right throughout their pregnancy. They do not think ahead to the inexplicable damage that it could do to their fetus. What they do not know is ...
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Genetic Disorders Birth Defect
363 wordsGenetic disorders, affecting many different races and genders, have been around for a very long time. Genetic disorders, usually caused by recessive genes, range from minor traits to conditions that prove fatal. Moreover, disorders often result in multiple abnormalities. Furthermore, skeletal and muscular disorders are often transmitted by a single gene, like achondroplasia, a type of dwarfism characterized by abnormal proportions of the arms, legs and body, results from impaired cartilage growt...
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Murdered His Father Tragic Flaw
948 wordsHamlet Hamlets Hamartia Hamlets Hamartia Hamlet is the most written about tragedy in the history of man. But, why is it a tragedy? Is it because Hamlet has a tragic flaw that creates his downfall? Or is it that all the cards are stacked against him since the beginning of the play and there is no way he can prevail? I believe that it is a tragedy because of Hamlets tragic flaw. Hamlets tragic flaw is that he cannot act on impulse for things that require quick, decisive behavior, and that he acts ...
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Reason Of Insanity Time And Money
1,925 wordsInsanity is defined as a mental disorder of such severity as to render its victim incapable of managing his affairs or conforming to social standards. (Insanity, pg. 1) It is used in court to state that the defendant was not aware of what he / she was doing at the time of the crime, due to mental illnesses. But insanity is a legal, not a medical, definition. There is a difference between mental illness and going insane. Many problems are raised by the existence of the insanity defense. For examp...
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Court Of Law General Motors
1,515 wordsLegal Commentary Assignment The article: General Motors has recalled 224, 000 1998 / 1999 Cadillac Deville Sedans. As a result of a defective side impact sensor module, the vehicles airbag may either unintentionally deploy or not deploy at all. To date, there have been 306 reports of the sensor malfunction. Of these, 61 of the incidents have resulted in minor injuries such as cuts and bruises. Deemed as the responsive thing to do, General Motors started notifying owners of the vehicle by mail co...
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Kilometers In Diameter Mitral Valve
1,169 wordsReading Response Researchers have now concluded that a heart defect, called mitral valve prolapse is not as dangerous as it was previously pronounced. The defect is far less common and dangerous, only effecting about 5 percent of Americans. The syndrome, which is caused by the mitral valve flaps becoming elongated and floppy, letting blood flow backwards into the heart chamber. The defect may require surgery to prevent sudden death, stroke, heart failure, and abnormal heart rhythms that cause fa...
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Life Or Death Rape Or Incest
4,152 wordsAbortion Debate Pro-Life Stance- In Roman times, abortion and the destruction of unwanted children was permissible, but as out civilization has aged, it seems that such acts were no longer acceptable by rational human beings, so that in 1948, Canada along with most other nations in the world signed a declaration of the United Nations promising every human being the right to life. The World Medical Association meeting in Geneve at the same time, stated that the utmost respect for human life was t...
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Ethical Theory Moral Responsibility
1,215 wordsThe Fifty-Nine Story Crisis Case Facts A story of professional ethics and moral responsibility was publicized in an article appearing in the May 29 th, 1995 issue of The New Yorker magazine. The article entitled The Fifty-Nine Story Crisis focuses on the ethical and moral obligations of individuals and companies involved in the construction of a skyscraper in downtown New York during 1977. In the early 1970 s, Citibank Corporation had begun to undertake the planning for a new corporate headquart...
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