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    The food borne illness I have chosen is salmonella. Question 1: What is the infectious agent (pathogen) that causes this infectious disease? The infectious agent (pathogen) that causes salmonella is called salmonella enteriditis. The bacteria is larger than a virus; but‚ is visible to the eye with the microscope. It is rod-shaped‚ gram negative‚ non-motile bacteria that does not form spores. Interestingly enough it communicates to its fellow bacteria via AHL. It infects the cell‚ multiplies

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    Inmates Suffer from Mental Illness in Significant Numbers? Approximately 24% of males and 42.1% of the female population were incarnated in the mid 2000’s (Steadman et al.‚ 2009‚ 761). How many of these inmates suffer from mental illness? According to Blitz‚ Wolff‚ and Shi (2008)‚ approximately half of these inmates are known to suffer from a mental disorder (386). The assertion to be examined in this paper is that today’s prison inmates do not suffer from mental illness in significant numbers. By

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    Q1: Have you or any people in your life been diagnosed with a mental illness and how did that affect you? In 1831‚ I got sick with a cough and general fatigue quite often. Later on‚ with the stress of my illnesses‚ the extreme commitment to my teaching career added more stressed causing the idea of death to be constantly on my mind. I allowed a biographer named‚ David Gollaher‚ to go over my papers and he diagnosed me with depression and later I had a mental breakdown. My own depression ended my

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    serious mental illness can limit one’s freedom. The person may want to be free‚ but the illness will not let them. Consuming everything about the persons‚ sometimes making them unrecognizable to others. In The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman the main character goes through the process of losing herself to her illness. While her husband tries to treat her‚ he invalidates her feelings allowing her illness to progress. While at first the main character wants to be from the illness she ultimately

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    The Changes in Mental Illness Treatment Since the early 1990s‚ the progress of mental illness treatment has increased quickly. Many patients with mental illness have been able to leave hospitals and live normal lives because of advancement in treatment. The treatment of mental illness has changed in many ways. Some of these ways are medical technology‚ medication‚ and the housing treatment. These changes in mental illness healing have led to a great success. Medical technology is

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    In the early colonial period up until the 1800’s‚ many Christians believed that mental illness was a result of sinfulness or demonic possession. This led to people believing that the mentally ill just needed to become closer to God and that idea led to a stigma that still affects today. Many religious people will tell the mentally ill to pray or go to church more often or read the bible‚ and while these things might be effective for the spiritual strain on the mentally ill‚ this often discourages

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    Movies and Mental Illness Paper - Primal Fear “ I believe in the notion that people are innocent until proven guilty. I believe in that notion because I choose to believe in the basic goodness of people.” The film Primal Fear depicts a defense attorney who takes up the case of an altar boy‚ Aaron‚ accused of murdering the Archbishop. As the film progresses‚ the defendant exhibits Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) which causes serious challenges to the case for the defense. In this paper

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    mental illness‚ the way a student engages with their campus surroundings and social groups is affected as well (Salzer 5). An academic article written by Jihan Saber Raga Mahmoud‚ et al. stated that students who were able to engage with extracurricular activities or some form of religion or organization had consistently experienced less issues with mental health problems than those who had not‚ implying that seeking out services on college campuses is an effective means in dealing

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    Critical illness covers are policies that pay out a tax-free fixed lump sum if you are diagnosed with a life-threatening disorder that could take away your ability to work and earn an income for the long-term. Because illness can come about at any time‚ it is best to be prepared for the worst. Being prepared eliminates a great deal of stress when dealing with a condition or illness that takes away your ability to earn an income. The following are examples of some of the conditions that may be covered

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    ’wouldn’t it also be ironic that from war in the beginning‚ he was engulfed by death‚ which may have caused a mental illness of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder? Later on‚ he murders the king of Scotland; therefore‚ only made matters worse. Macbeth’s PTSD would explain why he was easily frightened or startled‚ hearing and seeing things‚ and triggered by certain objects. A mental illness of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder‚ caused a noble‚ magnificent‚ brave man like Macbeth to develop the symptoms which

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