Syphilis

Prostitution St.Petersburg Police Department Scanning Where there are people there will be prostitution. However, that does not mean that the community and the police department will tolerate it. St. Petersburg Police saw an increase in the calls regarding prostitution. The calls for service were "mostly in the main thoroughfare of the city." Police also received complaints about prostitution from businesses and residents. Some of the officers saw the problem firsthand. Presence of the…

In the short story The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant, the envy and greed showed by the character Mathilde leads to her destruction both mentally and physically. Always dreaming of a life she could not have, Mathilde became so envious to live a life of that of the rich; believing she was born into the wrong type of family brings much disappointment. It describes it as, “She had no dowry, no expectations, no means of being known, understood, loved, wedded, by any rich man,” (Maupassant). Mathilde…

Prostitution is illegal in the United States and is part of modern society. It is a controversial topic in the United States and the number of prostitutes is steadily increasing every year. Prostitution gives prostitutes a job and money and they are also known as the word “whore” and “hooker.” The legalization of prostitution has become more of a topic the public talks about. Prostitution is advertised on the internet on multiple different sites that the law cannot regulate. The adolescents in…

Murder Murder and death are common themes throughout literature works. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Alan Poe and “A Vendetta” by Guy de Maupassant, both authors explore the theme of murder in their stories. Both authors take the reader into the character’s mindset before and after committing murder. Although both stories have similarities in the way the protagonists patiently planned the murder; however, there are differences in the motives for murder, the way the murders were committed,…

Within Victorian England, there existed a particular perspective surrounding the image of women, and ultimately, this molded the expectation of their roles within society. In Ian Wards book, Sex, Crime, and Literature in Victorian England, the author addresses four main areas of concern surrounding England. Within the text, Ward incorporates a significant amount of literature from the time period in order to better reflect the conditions of the country, and its people. Of these four areas of…

Syphilis is a common STD. It is very common in teenagers. According to the CDC website, Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection that can cause serious health problems if it is not treated. There are four different kinds of Syphilis, primary, secondary, latent, and tertiary. The CDC website also said there are different signs and symptoms with each associated with each stage. When you have primary syphilis you will most likely have sores where you were first infected. “Symptoms of secondary…

Many know of the controversy surrounding the syphilis experiment conducted in Tuskegee, Alabama by the U.S. Public Health Service at the Tuskegee Institute. During this experiment, African American males were withheld from getting treatment for syphilis. However, not many people know about the controversy surrounding Dr. J. Marion Sims, the “Father of Gynecology.” Sims is greatly known for perfecting a surgery to cure vesicovaginal fistula (VVF). Vesicovaginal fistula is a tear that extends from…

held in control by the Institutional Review Board or IRB. But what happens if it is the same entity for both fields of the debate and the one who conducts these experiments are also in charge of denying others the same “progress”? The Guatemala Syphilis Experiment was conducted by the United States government for more than two years (1946 – 1948) in a foreign country…

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease (STD). Treponema pallidum is that bacteria that causes syphilis. Treponema pallidum is a gram negative bacteria which is spiral in shape. The virulent strain of T. pallidum was first isolated in 1912 from a neurosyphilic patient by Hideyo Noguchi, a Japanese bacteriologist. Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease but transmission can also occur between mother and child in utero, this is called congenital syphilis. Syphilis was first discovered in…

You can get syphilis from a bacteria called Treponema pallidum. This disease spreads through kissing and having unprotected sex with multiple people it. It gets spread from oral sex, vaginal sex and anal sex all being unprotected. You can also get syphilis from having a open cut that bacteria can get into. The symptoms include chancre sores. The sore will be probably located where the bacteria entered the body. Some people get more scores than others. After three to six weeks the sores should…