Introduction Most people don't know very much about heart disease, and used to be one of those people. I wanted to be informed on these things that I didn't know about. I didn't want to go on not knowing about it, especially when many members of my family have been diagnosed with some type of hea...

Heart Attacks A heart attack is also known as Myocardial Infarction (M.I.). A heart attack occurs when the blood supply to a portion of the heart muscle is severely reduced or stopped. This happens when one of the arteries that supply blood to the heart muscle is blocked by an obstruction. This b...

Table of Contents I. Introduction A. Attention Grabber!!! B. Purpose of the paper 1. To explain how chemistry is part of my life. II. Body A. An in depth look at heart disease. B. Causes and symptoms C. Explanation on how chemistry is used to treat and in some cases cure h...

Conrad: Racist or Non-Racist Since its publication in 1899, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness has undergone a great deal of controversy. Some have found the novel a great masterpiece of Western literature, while others take offense to its contents. One of the most controversial themes of the nov...

A Piece of My Heart The "other" Vietnam Vets Everybody knows about the men who served in Vietnam. They have at least heard of the mentally trying conditions during the war and the resulting "post traumatic stress syndrome" (PTSD) so many veterans suffered from, or heard of the issues concerning neg...

The Heart and the Circulatory System Introduction Imagine that you are living in the year 1535, and that you don't feel well. You have had some problems with fatigue, feeling a little more tired than usual when you walked to the market and back. You tell this to your physician, and he sends y...

Cardiovascular diseases rank as America's number 1 killer. They claim the lives of 42.7 percent of the more than 2 million Americans who die each year. Cancer follows, killing 23.8 percent. All other causes of death account for 33.5 percent. Medical research continually seeks to reduce di...

In Conrad's Heart of Darkness, restraint as an underlying theme shows "civilized" man's mentality. Restraint is what holds oneself together. The capability to suppress one's own actions is the aptitude to control one's mind. The white men deep in the "Heart...

Kurtz, a man who strived to achieve his goals, lost touch when he went into the Congo not only with the outside world, but also with himself. When Kurtz left his fiancée his he had a goal to make enough money to make their wedding acceptable among the higher class. His troubles began when h...

Hypertension, or high blood pressure as it is typically known, is sometimes called the silent killer because a person could have it for years without even knowing it. It can be a very dangerous illness if not treated right away and properly. About fifty million Americans have high blood pressure, b...

Alcohol What are the street names/slang terms for it?Booze What is it?Alcohol is the most commonly used and widely abused psychoactive drug in the country. What does it look like?Alcohol is used in liquid form. How is it used?Alcohol is drunk. Types include beer, wine, and liquor. What are ...

As June Biermann ingrains her daily dose of insulin into her thigh, she remembers the day she was diagnosed with diabetes. Back then, in 1967, June never believed that she could live for more than ten years with her disease. But that was thirty-four years ago; now she lives a productive and healthy ...

What is high blood pressure? High blood pressure means that your heart is working harder than normal to force blood into the arteries and through the circulatory system. For an adult a blood pressure reading greater that 140 over 90 is considered as high. Normally, the pumping of the heart creates ...

War Against Marijuana A total of 3,470,545 Americans have been arrested for marijuana offenses. In 1997 state and local law enforcement arrested 695,200 people for marijuana violations. That number is the highest ever recorded by the FBI. Of the 682,885 arrests made in 1998, approxi...

A Review of Oxidative Stress and Antioxidants Introduction Oxidants such as super oxide, a free radical form of oxygen gas, hydrogen peroxide, and free radical hydroxide are molecules that can commence chain reactions in a cell and cause damage along the way. A free radical is any molecule with...

Humans are the only species that have, "this urge", to inhale harmful smoke into their body. There are all types of smokers. Some smokers are casual smokers, who only smoke in a social scene, other types of smoker are depressed/stressed smokes, who smoke, because they feel that it relie...

Sickle Cell Anemia Sickle Cell Anemia is the most common blood inherited disease in the United States, affecting about 72,000 Americans each year, and it has no cure. It commonly affects Hispanics and African Americans rather than Caucasians. It is classified as a disease in which the red ...

Alcoholism and Its Effects Alcoholism Alcoholism is when there is a progressive, excessive inappropriate drinking of alcohol. Alcoholism is thought to come from a combination of a huge range of psychological, social, and genetic factors. Alcoholism comes from emotional and sometimes phy...

Imagine a cold dark room with cages lined against the walls. The cries of living creatures' echoes throughout the building as if the entrapped animals are able to sense their fate. Lying on a table are several rabbits strapped down with tiny cups attached to their bellies. These rabbits are...

Marijuana, also called mary-jane, pot, grass, weed, doobey and reefer, is the most commonly used illegal street drug in North America. It causes numerous amounts of health risks, it's a gayway drug, and it can mess up your life by getting you in trouble with the law. Mariju...

Normally, sugars and starches (carbohydrates) in the foods we eat are processed by digestive juices into glucose. Glucose circulates in the blood as a major energy source for body functions. Its use is regulated primarily by insulin, a hormone produced by the pancreas gland (located behind the stoma...

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome By Stacney Martin What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome? Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is a series of mental and physical birth defects The manifestations of these defects are associated with a mother's ingestion of alcohol during pregnancy. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome...

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome results from the mother's excessive use of alcohol during pregnancy. The National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (2001) defines Fetal Alcohol Syndrome as "a disorder characterized by growth retardation, facial abnormalities, and central nerv...

Help Fight the Fight Against Acid Rain A couple of years back my family and I decided to make a trip to Pakistan after a gap of 2 years. Now we were all looking forward to this trip. Firstly were going after so long and were looking forward to spending some time at our grand home in Pakistan which...

Lupus is a chronic, autoimmune disease which causes inflammation of various parts of the body, especially the skin, joints, blood and kidneys. The body's immune system normally makes proteins called antibodies to protect the body against viruses, bacteria and other foreign materials. Th...