Essays Tagged: "Cancer"

Assisted suicide

estof my life?' to 'When should I kill myself'? With painful and crippling diseases such asAIDS and cancer, and Alzheimers along with doctors such as Dr. Kavorkian, somepeople are choosing death over ...

(3 pages) 275 0 4.2 Jan/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Euthenasia

Children with Cancer

but she cannot play with them, she is like a mouse locked in a cage, you see this four-year-old has cancer. A child with cancer does not live a normal life as other children; in turn she must fight to ... death. Mandy is my mothers' niece, and these are the memories of a day in the life of a child with cancer.Mom often called me to ask if I would do the weekly drive to Morgantown, being the loyal daug ...

(6 pages) 88 0 4.2 Mar/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Cloning

etic engineering are considerable, so maybe the potential dangers. For example, the introduction of cancer-causinggenes into a common infectious organism, such as the influenza virus, couldbe hazardou ...

(2 pages) 57 0 3.3 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

Smoking

d willl even leadto using drugs such as: marijuana, cocaine, and heroin.Smoking causes all sorts of cancer. It affects your brain and itdo not prolong your life, not only in America, but all over the ...

(1 pages) 69 0 3.8 Oct/1995

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Cloning

etic engineering are considerable, so maybe the potential dangers. For example, the introduction of cancer-causinggenes into a common infectious organism, such as the influenza virus, couldbe hazardou ...

(2 pages) 72 0 3.0 Dec/1995

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

Health, Disease and Disability

e can expect a bonus of several years of extra living thanks to continuing medical progress against cancer, heart disease and stroke.Specialists in the field of aging, developmental health psychologis ... enty-six percent over the past 15 years, and the drop is accelerating, promising a decrease in lung cancer. ' Life-style changes and improved treatment of hypertension have already produced a dramatic ...

(5 pages) 384 0 4.7 Dec/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Health & Fitness

Designer Babies

s you carry. Every day they are finding more and more genes that can be linked with things, such as cancer and heart disease, to things, like alcoholism and homosexuality. It has also been suggested t ... ould be beneficial is because it could find out who is at a higher risk for many conditions such as cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. When people know this information about their genes, they can a ...

(5 pages) 91 0 3.5 May/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

Human Cloning is Good

aid the result in several medical breakthroughs. It is thought that there may one day be a cure for cancer. This is because the cloning process helps us understand the process of cell differentiation. ... process helps us understand the process of cell differentiation. Theories exist that if a cure for cancer can be found, then further testing may lead to a cure for heart attacks and cloning organs fo ...

(2 pages) 262 4 3.5 May/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

There is a cure. Essay on Censorship

its can befound in every city, town, and state across the country. No, this epidemic is not AIDS or cancer:however, if left alone, its long term effects can be just as detrimental. The name of the epi ...

(4 pages) 91 0 3.5 Apr/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

social revolution

well. You realize that we are the youth, the future, and only we can change the deep rooted racism cancer that has infected our nation..I for one am sick and tired of the reason that right wing white ... , the red flame of justice will sweep the land.Tomorrow we will catch trains, buses and cars to the cancerous South. When we reach Birminghams I will lead the march through the city. Those of you who ...

(3 pages) 48 1 4.0 Sep/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

Acid Rain

pact has on the wildlife and how ouratmosphere is being destroyed by acid rain.CAUSESAcid rain is a cancer eating into the face of Eastern Canada andthe North Eastern United States. In Canada, the mai ... nated biphenyls(PCBs) to toxaphene and otherpesticides, a number of which may be capable of causing cancer,birth defects, or genetic imbalances.COST OF ACID RAINInteractions of pollutants can cause pr ...

(5 pages) 50 0 3.0 Sep/1994

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Ebola

at to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus'Dr. Joshua LederbergNobel LaureateForget cancer and AIDS. This virus does in two days what either of those takes years to accomplish. This is ...

(5 pages) 87 1 4.6 Dec/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Smoking - Human Awareness Essay

ways been a topic on everyone's lips, is it the new age killer or is it just coincidental that most cancer and heart disease victims are smokers? The articles that this essay is based on refer to issu ... s into it. A year or so ago a lady in Australia sued her company due to the fact that she developed cancer of the throat due to smoke inhalations, but the catch was she was not a smoker herself and th ...

(4 pages) 100 0 4.0 Oct/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

Acid Rain

pact has on the wildlife and how ouratmosphere is being destroyed by acid rain.CAUSESAcid rain is a cancer eating into the face of Eastern Canada andthe North Eastern United States. In Canada, the mai ... nated biphenyls(PCBs) to toxaphene and otherpesticides, a number of which may be capable of causing cancer,birth defects, or genetic imbalances.COST OF ACID RAINInteractions of pollutants can cause pr ...

(5 pages) 34 0 3.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

"Aquina's Treatment of God"

roblem of evil in the world.Aquinas' Treatment of GodAs women are raped, children are murdered, and cancer is everywhere, people often raise the question of God's role in such atrocities. Saint Thomas ...

(6 pages) 120 0 4.6 Nov/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Cancer and how it begins.

OutlineI.Introductiona.What is Cancer?b.Conditions on which cancer begins.c.Two Gene Classesi.Proto-oncogenesii.Tumor Suppressor Ge ... llsi.TGF-Bii.DPC4iii.p15iv.NF-1IV.The Clock is Strucka.The Cell Cyclei.Mitosisb.CDKsV.ConclusionHow cancer develops is no longer a mystery. During the past two decades, researchers have made amazing p ... rs and for the form the foundation for revolutionary approaches to treatment. In reality, the term "cancer" refers to more than a hundred different forms of disease. Almost every tissue in the body ca ...

(11 pages) 163 1 3.3 Jan/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Terry Fox Run.

ox and he is one of the greatest athlete to run on the face of this planet. Terry discovered he had cancer and then decided to run across Canada. He was a brave man who would take what the world throu ... ughts that died to run this marathon. He was one of the lucky one in three people to survive in the cancer clinics. Terry wrote asking for sponsorship " I could not leave knowing that these faces and ...

(5 pages) 47 0 3.5 Mar/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

This is a journal essay i did in psychology on adolescent depression and risk factors.

uicide. It is now responsible for more deaths in youth aged 15 to 19 than cardiovascular disease or cancer. Despite this increased suicide rate, depression in this age group is greatly under diagnosed ...

(3 pages) 141 0 5.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Depression, Stress & Suicide

Pros and Cons of Cloning.

er benefit to cloning is that it can help fight disease. Learning about genes can lead to cures for cancer. Cloning could also help organ transplants and would save many lives. The organs used in the ...

(1 pages) 138 4 3.6 May/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biotechnology

Constellations.

s are about a month out from the astronomical constellations. When an astrologer says the Sun is in Cancer, an astronomer will look for it in Gemini.If Mars is in Virgo, astronomically it means that, ... ough the Summer Solstice. 2000 years ago the Sun would have been in front of the stars that we call Cancer at this solstice. Hence the Tropic of Cancer. In fact at this solstice now the sun would be i ...

(2 pages) 69 0 4.4 Jul/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy