… by a variety of symptoms, including loss of contact with reality, bizarre behavior, disorganized thinking and speech, decreased emotional expressiveness, and social withdrawal. Usually only some of these symptoms occur in any one person. The term…

… as a specific mental illness in the late 19th century. However, illnesses of the mind had the attention of medical doctors for centuries before. During the Middle Ages, the public’s view of the mentally ill took a turn for the worse. Schizophrenics…

… disease that has stricken the lives of almost two million people in the United States alone (Keefe 20). Since this disease is so devastating the majority of people that suffer from it either live on the streets or in mental institutions. In…

… in which the victim is afflicted with bizarre delusions and prominent hallucinations. The delusions are profoundly invalid beliefs, and the hallucinations are equally invalid perceptions. There is also a disordering of the reasoning process, disordered…

… one in modern culture, almost to the point that it is considered a cliché. Such a label does not affect its accuracy in the case of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. His literature is world-famous, and Vonnegut has been awarded numerous awards. However, Vonnegut’s…

… in 1% of the world’s population. Doctors are still unsure of the causes of schizophrenia, and no medical cure has been discovered for this illness. Physicians have developed medical treatments, although the problem is getting the patient to stay…

… and animals use in the world, there are various types of waste present today. These different wastes often have different chemical and physical characteristics, and mixing them can be dangerous. Problems arise when more than one type of waste is processe…

… technology can raise many complex questions that only lead to complex answers. Does technology exist for the benefit of society? Is a society functional, only because of one or more technologies that are so imbedded in that society? Can either society…

… Max Weber Weber exposes some hard truths about scientific academic existence and the reflections this has on our lives. He talks about universities showing preference for lecturers who can draw the crowds, the unfortunate trend of mediocricies in the…

… consists of a series experiments to determine the effect of air pressure in a given environment at various temperatures. The experiments I chose to conduct are: 1) Heat an ordinary pop can on a hot plate and then putting the can upside down in…