Essays on Illnesses

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An Analysis of The Candie's Foundation AD Featuring Fergie and Its Effects on Teenage Pregnancy

2 pages / 744 words

A Fergilicious Rhetorical Analysis If one were to scroll through the channels on their television, they would likely come across a show or movie glamorizing teen pregnancy. These programs are so common now, that the shock factor has been lost, it’s just daytime entertainment. As...

Pregnancy Teenage Pregnancy

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The Failures of The Abstinence-only Education to Curb Teenage Pregnancy in The United States

3 pages / 1328 words

Beginning as an effort to curb teenage pregnancy rates, abstinence-only education has come to dominate the American public school system. Abstinence supporters have used the general drop in teenage pregnancy to justify these programs, despite the lack of empirical evidence supporting this correlation. In addition...

Pregnancy Sex Education Teenage Pregnancy

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Understanding The Connection of Auditory Perception as an Individual Gets Older

1 page / 603 words

Introduction: The general relationship between aging and hearing is one where aging over time will lead to the natural loss of hair cells in your ears. This will cause older individuals to not be able to hear higher pitched noises and sounds as well as...

Hearing Loss Old Age

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Behavioral Interventions to Improve Glycemic Control in African Americans with T2dm

2 pages / 895 words

Diabetes is predicament with the body that results in blood sugar level to rise higher than the average levels. Type 2 diabetes that is indicated by the situation when the body does not make use the insulin well and is the most common type of...

Diabetes Therapy

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Analysis of The Physical and Mental Attributes that Cause Infertility

6 pages / 2636 words

Infertility is both a psychological and physical problem faced by many couples all over the world. There are at least 60-80 million people that experience infertility all over the world, and that number could be higher as many people do not report their infertility or...

Infertility

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A Look at Various Ways People Deal with Barrenness

2 pages / 721 words

Introduction The desire to have a child is a basic human urge. The innate desire to propagate ones species is culture driven. Having children in most cases is associated with a number of social pressures. For example, after marriage, family and friends expect that the...

Infertility

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Young People with Degenerative Neuromuscular Diseases: The Effectiveness of Muscular Dystrophy Association Summer Camp in Improving Self-help

6 pages / 2850 words

Abstract This paper evaluates a facility that provides a service to adolescents – MDA Summer Camp – and its effect on the development of self-efficacy, autonomy, and identity of adolescents with degenerative neuromuscular diseases. Four different research papers were cited to contribute to the evidence...

Muscular Dystrophy

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A Comprehensive Report on Muscular Dystrophy

9 pages / 4164 words

Introduction Since its discovery in 1860 by Guillaume Duchenne, Muscular Dystrophy (abbreviated MD) has become recognized as one of the most dangerous muscular disorders in the world (Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, 1) Muscular Dystrophy is a serious muscular condition where the tissue weakens in the extremities...

Muscular Dystrophy

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Muscular Dystrophy: Diagnosis, Cause, Signs, and Remedy

3 pages / 1399 words

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is an X-linked recessive disorder, affecting 1 in 3500 males (Roland, 2000). DMD was first described by French neurologist, Duchenne de Boulogne, and hence, was named after him (Sex-linked Diseases: the Case of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) ½ Learn Science at...

Muscular Dystrophy

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Comparing Aquatic Therapy and Traditional Therapy and Their Effectiveness in Treating Arthritis

2 pages / 705 words

Introduction I chose the topic of aquatic therapy vs traditional therapy for the treatment of arthritis. My PICO question is: In patients with arthritis, do aquatic therapy exercise techniques, compared to traditional exercise, reduce patient’s pain more? I chose this topic because I performed a...

Arthritis

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Interpretation and Perception of The World According to Deaf People

5 pages / 2405 words

If I were asked 2 years ago to describe the world Deaf people lived in, I would have assumed it to be dull. As a hearing person who was raised in a hearing household within a hearing-dominated society, I did not understand how a Deaf...

Deaf

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Deaf Again: Construction of The World Full of Others

2 pages / 962 words

Through Deaf Again, an account of Mark Drolsbaugh’s life, readers are drawn into a world of a deaf individual and the hardship that come with learning and growing in a world full of very different people. As I hearing person, this book proved to be...

Deaf

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Anything But Silent - The Presentation and Construction of Deaf Culture in The Book

1 page / 644 words

Book analysis “Anything But Silent” by Mark Drolsbaugh provides readers with a delightful and amusing look at Deaf culture. The only Deaf person I know personally is my ASL professor. I have met Deaf and hard of hearing people in passing as well. I took...

Deaf

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Hearing Loss in Kids

1 page / 485 words

Hearing is important for children to develop speech and language skills as they grow. In the past, hearing loss in children often went undetected until the child was around two years old, when it became obvious that the child wasn’t talking yet. Children learn communication...

Children Hearing Loss

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Hypertension - The "Silent Killer"

1 page / 350 words

Hypertension (high blood pressure) is one of the most preventable causes of premature morbidity and mortality world-wide. Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts online Get my essay Hypertension is known as...

Hypertension

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Plot Summary of Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

2 pages / 688 words

Year of Wonders, A Novel of the Plague is by the prize winning author Geraldine Brooks. The novel was based off the true story of a village in England, during a plague in the seventeenth century. The residents of Eyam, also known as the Plague...

Death Novel Year of Wonders

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Physical Abuse and Injury

1 page / 527 words

Introduction Physical abuse is an act that is done to intentionally hurt or injure another person through bodily harm. This includes biting, pushing, slapping, burning, kicking and other acts that cause physical harm to somebody else. In most cases, children are the victims of physical...

Injury Physical Abuse

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What is Abdominal Pain

3 pages / 1138 words

Fast facts on abdominal pain Digestive problems are the most common cause of abdominal pain. Most cases resolve by home remedies without medical attention. Sudden or intense pain need immediate medical check-up.What is abdominal pain? Abdominal pain is pain that you feel anywhere between your...

Pain

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What Are Non-communicable Diseases

3 pages / 1276 words

NCDs, also known as chronic diseases, are not passed from person to person. They are of long duration and generally progress slowly. The four main types of NCDs are cardiovascular diseases (myocardial infarction, stroke), cancers, chronic respiratory diseases (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma) and diabetes....

Cancer Cardiovascular System Diabetes