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Enzyme deficiencies and their clinical health consequences

Enzyme deficiency cause ailments or discomfort in the people suffering from them. These can range from mild discomforts, birth defects, genetic disorders, and in worse cases can be lethal. Deficiencies can be from proteases, lipases, amylase, cellulase, and other protein enzyme deficiencies.

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School condom distribution programs and teenage sexual risk behavior

Many people believe that the moral degeneration of our society continues to be promoted by those individuals who believe that school officials have the right to hand out contraceptives to children.

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Constitutionality of retroactive estate tax implementation to January 2010

The highly controversial estate tax imposed on property in excess of three-and-a-half million dollars transferred after an individuals death was repealed effective January 1, 2010, due to a failure of Congress to act in regards to the automatic tables and adjustments for the tax set in the current…

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Physical and emotional risks of abortion for women

"Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion." Mother Teresa

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Victims and leaders in Plato's cave and Nietzsche's overman

One very interesting aspect of the human experience is the manner in which certain themes appear again and again over time, in literature, religion, mythology, and culture -- regardless of the geographic location, the economic status, and the time period.

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Modris Eksteins' analysis of summer 1914 and European prewar sentiment

Modris Eksteins goes beyond the surface concepts of World War II, exploring, in the "act 2" Berlin. It is the detailed recitation of the movements, sounds, and mood of the city as it experiences the prelude to war. It was not just in Berlin, Vienna, St.

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Volunteer work at Project Open Hand changes perspective on U.S. poverty

So far, I have learned that simple things like eating a healthy, well-cooked meal are things that many of us often take for granted. Before I came to Open Hand I had no idea that poverty was this apparent in the United States.

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The United States military's don't ask, don't tell policy and its effects

Don't ask don't tell' policy of the United States military was implemented in 1993 to keep the military from openly pursuing gay, lesbian, and bisexual members and applicants that were not openly expression their sexual orientation. Under the law, Pub.L. 103-160 (10 U.S.C.

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Economic policy trade-offs: unemployment, inflation, and global currency

Unemployment rose rapidly as the result of expectations of a slowdown and economic contraction, rather than as a return to equilibrium. Unemployment in the U.S. has held in a relatively stable range between 4-6% since the early 1990s (Google.com, 2010).

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Why an MBA from X University is my professional goal

The skills and contacts I will acquire over the course of my MBA education will be instrumental in taking my career to new heights. I feel that an MBA represents a high level of personal and professional achievement, but one that supports a move even higher in the future.

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