Essays Tagged: "Epidemic"
Can Geneics Cause Crime - Are genetic factors more likely to make one person violent?
the Bush administration'ssecretary of health and human services during 1989-1993 wasappalled by the epidemic of violent crimes he saw takingplace in American cities. According to Dr. Sullivan," more t ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects
Steriods and their Affects on the Human Body
of cocaine and heroine, called the 'speedball,' and died from it. Little were the doctors aware the epidemic that would follow in the next century.Anabolic steroids, developed in the 1930's in Europe, ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
An essay about AIDS:epidermiology, causes, pathology and symptoms
arly found in AIDS patient). 2 of the patients had died. This report signalled the begninning of an epidemic of a viral disease characterized by immunosuppression associated with opportunistic infecti ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Infidelity In Literature
ll do not understand it. It's time we stopped alternatively ignoring, excusing, and condemning this epidemic. To deal with a problem you have to comprehend it first. What better way to comprehend this ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Fate Versus Free Will
pus is awaiting the return of Creon who was sent to the Delphic Oracle to find out how to stop this epidemic. When he returns, he tells Oedipus that the killer of the previous king of Thebes must be f ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Biotechnology
hat they?re doing. Others say its not because scientists might create a big mess and might cause an epidemic of a new and unknown disease. I believe that genetic engineering could be unsafe.Genetic en ... environment and on humans.?What if some newly engineered microbes escaped from the lab and cause an epidemic of a new and unknown disease, for which there was no known cure? What if the delicate ecolo ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biotechnology
Inner-city substance abuse
Substance abuse is an ever increasing epidemic facing America'sinner-city minorities. There are several different drugs that are gainingpo ... 18. Leland,74 19. Smolowe,44 Substance abuse is an ever increasing epidemic facing America'sinner-city minorities. There are several different drugs that are gainingpo ... 18. Leland,74 19. Smolowe,44 Substance abuse is an ever increasing epidemic facing America'sinner-city minorities. There are several different drugs that are gainingpo ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
AIDS
HIV and/or AIDS is a life threatening disease that is affecting society today. It is a serious epidemic that is threatening millions of lives around the world. A person can become HIV infected th ... t only from unwanted pregnancies or venereal disease but from death, and from future spread of this epidemic. Studies shown that 50% of infected people are youths between the ages of 15 to 24 years of ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Dream problems
A large epidemic affecting approximately one in two Americans, according to a Gallup survey, is sleeping dif ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Enforcement of Crime Around the World
Crime is an epidemic that is infecting today's global society. In the United States the subject of crime has ris ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues
There is a cure. Essay on Censorship
There is an epidemic in our country, and it is growing stronger daily. Someone is notbeing allowed to live her/ ... of this disease. Its traits 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 detrimen ... or cancer:however, if left alone, its long term effects can be just as detrimental. The name of the epidemic iscensorship, and last year, the number of censorship cases in the school systems across Am ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Domestic Violence In America
we can, through treatment, get rid of it. In this paper, I will discussproblems with the so called epidemic of domestic violence.This entire paper will be about domestic violence, and because of that ... e the media feels that it is their public dutyto deceive us into believing that this problem is an 'epidemic' (Domestic V.) we feel that,that is the case. Webster's dictionary defines epidemic as 'a r ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
Ida B. Wells - Writer and Revolutionary for African Americans in the late 1800's and early 1900's.
was a skilled carpenter. When Ida was 14, she lost both her parents and three of her siblings to an epidemic of Yellow Fever.She went to Rust College, a school established by the Freedmen's Bureau to ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Disease:Bubonic Plauge and Small Pox and Aids
eece and spread north to Europe, stayed there and spread more from 1347-1351. Most believe that the epidemic originated in rats in Asia. Infected rats were drawn to the food supplies of armies in Chin ... teracting with each other. Few people survived this virus but the ones who did could not regain the epidemic. Viruses like these did not only happen in the 1300's but also thrive today and have been s ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History
AZT
severely damaged immune systems. The Center for Disease Control inthe United States named this new epidemic the acquired immunodeficiency syndromeand defined it by a specific set of symptoms. In 1983 ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
Welfare
ery second of the day passes, more and more of my money and yours is being allotted to this growing epidemic called welfare. The Personal Responsibility Act, signed by the President, was a monumental ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science
Preventing and Epidemic, a comparaison and contrast essay in MLA format.
Preventing an EpidemicAfrica has warm ocean beaches, beautiful sunsets, exotic scenery, exciting new cultures, and ... ose diseases that have a devastating effect upon society today. The only way we can be prepared for epidemics is knowledge. There is much to about to learn about these diseases. By exploring the simil ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Stephen King's The Stand: Summary
ear 1991, a plague strikes America, leaving onlya few thousand people alive who are "immune" to the epidemic. Of the survivors,those who serve G-d instinctively join in Boulder, Colorado, while those ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Drug Addiction and Abuse An essay promoting better drug education in schools in order to avoid social problems like drug abuse and addiction.
Drug addiction or drug dependence is an increasing epidemic worldwide. It is most common in more developed countries but that in no way means that it i ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs
Poverty and a Lack of Education are Fueling Juvenile Crime A 6 page essay arguing that juvenile crime is directly related to poverty and poor education.
Poverty and a Lack of Education are Fueling Juvenile CrimeIn the early 1960's, the epidemic of juvenile crime began to take shape. The problem of juvenile crime is becoming an increas ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues