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- 271: Great Expectations
- ... in the marsh country of Kent, in the west of England. Two important childhood events change his life forever, and remain irrevocably intertwined with his subsequent history: he meets a convict in a cemetery, and aids him by stealing food and a file from home; and he is taken to play at the home of Miss Havisham, a rich old eccentric, where he meets a beautiful young girl named Estella. Pip ... that she has no heart. Though she does not know it herself--and though Pip does not learn it until almost the end of the novel--Estella is the daughter of Magwitch, the convict Pip aids as a child. Through the intercession of the lawyer Jaggers, she is adopted by Miss Havisham, who raises Estella into a life of wealth and social status for her own ulterior motives. Miss Havisham - Miss ...
- 272: Comparative Harms Of Legal And
- ... 1.2 billion (Winslow 4). One reason that people tend to take herbal remedies instead of conventional medicines is a sense of control over what they are taking. In other situations such as cancer and AIDS patients they take herbal remedies because there is no cure that has been found and they are giving themselves a natural medicine. As far as if the remedies are safe, there has been no real ... injected into the body. That means needles are being used and possibly shared between users. Which in turn puts all of the users at a potentially greater risk to contract HIV, the disease that causes AIDS and then eventually death. Heroin users have a significantly higher risk of contracting HIV than do other drug users that inject drugs such as methanphetomine users (Zule 1). Users of heroin often overdose and when ...
- 273: Marijuana
- Marijuana What is marijuana? According to Harvard Medical Professor Lester Grinspoon, it is a "miracle drug", one that prevents blindness, acts as an appetite stimulant for AIDS patients, and prevents muscle spasms in epileptics. When speaking of the same plant, head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics for over thirty years, Harry J. Anslinger said that this "evil weed" led to killings ... Grinspoon in his book, Marihuana, the Forbidden Medicine, claims that the drug has countless benefits, among which are: relief of nausea associated with chemotherapy, preventing blindness induced by glaucoma, serving as an appetite stimulant for AIDS patients, warding off asthma attacks and migraine headaches, relieving chronic pain and deduction of the muscle spasticity that accompanies multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, and paraplegia, the list continues. Through the 1900's, specifically the 1970 ...
- 274: Mixed Messages In Greek Theatr
- ... to theatre further complicate matters with the added condition that the vase must be depicting a scene that is theatrical in nature. Green asserts that the ancient artists "were not at work to provide visual aids for textbooks and lectures. We can, with care, use them in that way as aids to a modern imagination" (Green 1995, p.13). Green's statement brings to light the importance of cautious research into this area of history, especially keeping in mind the context in which the vases were ...
- 275: Princess Diana
- ... on his public appearances and be well dressed. The fact was, the crowds turned out to see Diana, not Charles. As the tension in the marriage grew, Diana focused her energy outside the home doing AIDS counseling, work with leprosy and drug addiction (Morton 113). She felt she had a natural aptitude towards this type of work. She became President or Patron for over 100 charities. The Prince and Princess began ... felt her time was being wasted on too many dinners and not enough of the actual charity work. The charities that she chose were the Leprosy Mission, Centrepoint (a charity for the homeless), the National Aids Trust, the Royal Marsden NHS Trust (a cancer hospital) and the Ormond Street Children’s Hospital (Morton 253). She also continued to devote some time to the English National Ballet. Diana also sold some her ...
- 276: Marijuana: The Legalization
- ... where that medical use is deemed appropriate and has been recommended by a physician who has determined that the person's health would benefit from the use of marijuana in the treatment of cancer, anorexia, AIDS, chronic pain, spasticity, glaucoma, arthritis, migraine, or any other illness for which marijuana provides relief. (B) To ensure that patients and their primary care givers obtain and use marijuana for medical purposes upon the recommendation ... reported that a puff or two of a marijuana cigarette relieves the pain. (Theorized after study by psychiatrist Lester Grinspoon of Harvard Medical School) It has also been reported to relieve the pain suffered by AIDS patients. Despite all this great relief, one question remains unanswered, what about the side effects? Exactly how harmful and addicting is this stuff? MY SIDE: (the important stuff) My personal opinion: Marijuana should remain illegal ...
- 277: Legalization of Marijuana
- Legalization of Marijuana What is marijuana? According to Harvard Medical Professor Lester Grinspoon, it is a "miracle drug", one that prevents blindness, acts as an appetite stimulant for AIDS patients, and prevents muscle spasms in epileptics. When speaking of the same plant, head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics for over thirty years, Harry J. Anslinger said that this "evil weed" led to killings ... Grinspoon in his book, Marihuana, the Forbidden Medicine, claims that the drug has countless benefits, among which are: relief of nausea associated with chemotherapy, preventing blindness induced by glaucoma, serving as an appetite stimulant for AIDS patients, warding off asthma attacks and migraine headaches, relieving chronic pain and deduction of the muscle spasticity that accompanies multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, and paraplegia, the list continues. Through the 1900's, specifically the 1970 ...
- 278: Growing Up GAY
- ... strategies. All one has to do is turn the television to Jerry Springer and see the stereotypical super-effeminate homosexual parading on the stage; watch a movie about with homosexual, but dealing with homosexuals with AIDS; or, hear heated debates on the moral perversion of homosexuals from TV Christian evangelist. Gay adolescents have no positive gay role models. They are reluctant to consider themselves homosexual because that might mean being “super-effeminate-stricken-with-AIDS-doomed-to-hell faggot.” Gay adolescents are not the only ones to notice that they might be homosexual; their parents are just as perceptive. Many gay youths suggest that their mothers seem to be aware ...
- 279: Alternative Medicine
- ... new Office of Alternative Medicine. The office was created last year under pressure from a Congress alarmed by the soaring cost of high-tech healing and the frustrating fact that so many ailments such as: AIDS, cancer, arthritis, back pain, which have yet to yield to standard medicine”(Toufexis,1993). The cost of standard medical care has risen dramatically. For example, a simple arthroscopic cartilage repair on an outpatient basis costs ... aches and pains at some point in their lifetime. The annual cost to U.S. society of treating the ubiquitous ailment was recently tallied at a crippling 24 billion dollars, compared with $6 billion for AIDS and $4 billion for lung cancer. If spinal manipulation could ease even a fraction of that financial burden, remaining skeptics might be forced to stifle their misgivings or get cracking themselves”(Purvis,1991). In almost ...
- 280: The Advantages of Being Legal
- ... has been used as medicine for thousands of years to treat a wide variety of ailments. It is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known. Marijuana is often useful in the treatment of cancer, AIDS, glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy and chronic pain. For cancer patients, marijuana alleviates the nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite caused by chemotherapy treatment. It does the same for people with AIDS. By reducing intraocular pressure, marijuana helps slow or halt the gradual increasing eye pressure suffered by glaucoma patients. Marijuana reduces the muscle pain and spastically caused by multiple sclerosis. It also helps some patients control ...
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