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- 1251: Alcoholism
- ... type of person who was almost perfect, always pleasing someone else and making one feel proud of themselves. My great-grandmother was the type of person to bring out the best in everyone. As a child, I needed that because my home had its ups and downs. My parents were separated and I had been living with my mother. She was a young parent and did things that most mother did not. For instance, as a child she would leave me alone and sometimes physically abuse me. Therefore, I sometimes had a hard time understanding why she treated me so differently. On the other hand, I always received my explanations from my great-grandmother whom I called “ Mema”. I am ...
- 1252: Being Young
- ... parental separation can harm or ruin many childhoods. I don't think it is healthy for the kids if they feel dragged between their mother and father, and perhaps it is even worse if the child is allowed to choose which parent to live with. In Norway, children above twelve years have the possibility to make their own choice. When youngsters today seek entertainment, he or she has a tendecy to ... There are exceptions, though. Many teenagers are members of athletic assosiations, and this is a solid counterweight against bad television influence. Another and perhaps just as frightening problem in the big cities is that drug abuse among youngsters appears more and more frequently, and that several young lifes are ruined because of this. Increasing juvenile crime may be a result. The authorities have difficulties finding the solution to these problems. The abuse of drugs or alcohol may start harmlessly with a beer or two at an early age, often because of insecurity or because of a negative gang mentalitity. Young people want to show off and ...
- 1253: Hazing A Benefit Or Burden
- ... time. Hazing is designed as a consequence based teaching method where a mistake leads to harassment of some sort. This harassment may include physical or mental discomfort, embarrassment, ridicule, paddling or other forms of physical abuse, excessive fatigue, psychological shocks, chores, involuntary road trips, and any morally degrading games or activities (Interfraternity By-laws). Hazing also develops a high degree of respect from the leader as well as a greater appreciation ... fashion or another, which has made the USA the most powerful nation in the world. Discipline, respect, trust, and unity make up the solid foundation required for a strong military. From the time of a child begins to walk and talk, parents teach them right and wrong by use of rewards or punishments. These punishments range may include scolding, isolation, spankings, or grounding. Simon Messing states “even little boys haze other ... s health and life on the line needs to be stopped. The results of Baier’s survey shows that only 2 percent of pledges are forced to drink alcohol. Paddling and other violent forms of abuse, nudity, and eating unpalatable foods occur with less than 5 percent of pledges (Baier, 303). The methods of hazing most used are line-ups, yelling, house duties, and sleep disturbances (Baier, 303). Baier’s ...
- 1254: Black And Yellow Perils In Col
- ... the idea of the seduction of white men by African women was never taken nearly as seriously as the reverse. This is largely an issue of logistics as much as sexual inequality, as a mixed child born to a black woman would be considered black (and therefore could be disregarded), but a mixed child born to a white woman caused problems. THE 'BLACK PERIL': The basis of the idea of the 'black peril' was the fear of sexual assault of white women by the native peoples of the European ... century European culture had established. As the nature of 'black peril' scares was that they increased during periods of worry concerning imperial control (due to tension as much as anything else), the concept of sexual abuse of white women by black men proved to be useful to those enforcing the Imperial regimes. Reports of sexually degrading crimes (whether truthful or otherwise) provided justification for acts of repressive extreme violence against ...
- 1255: Jim Jones and The Peoples Temple
- ... death because they will go to a better place. Everyone was family at times there would be family’s inside the larger family but that wasn’t very much approved of if you had a child all of the men and women would help raise it, life to them was great. Later in the 70's Jim Jones started to abuse drugs and became paranoid that the end was near. There was talk on the outside of human right abuse which caused congressman Leo Ryan to visit Jonestown for an inspection. When Temple members wanted to leave Jonestown with the investigators it was a had a horrible effect on Jones and the rest of ...
- 1256: The Biography of Kurt Donald Cobain
- ... s parents took him to see a specialist to diagnose his problem. The specialist said he was hyperactive and prescribed Ritalin, a type of amphetamine. This was the beginning of a life of drug use, abuse and dependence for Kurt. In 1975, Kurt's parents divorced. When they separated Kurt moved in with his mother. This was the start of a series of moves from relative to relative. This caused a ... the youths living the town. Kurt was smoking hash and tried any kick that came his way. Kurt had been experimentin drugs for some time, probably developing from the Ritalin he was prescribed as a child. He was known to have tried heroin by the summer of 1986 and he continued to do hard drugs through out his life. Kurt quotes about his heroin addiction: The biggest thing that affected me ... friend sleeping on their floors and sometimes on the street or shelters and even under a bridge, because his parents were separated and it was to hard to go back and stay. Kurt was very abuse of with his music equipment for example he quoted. I was looking for something a lot heavier yet melodic at the same time , something different from heavy a different metal attitude.2 Kurt smashed ...
- 1257: Real Meaning Of LIfe
- ... adaptationist reasons for or find meaning in a million other oddities like abortion, adoption, albinoism, alcoholism, art, asthma, autism, auto racing, bad breath, baldness, bestiality, bigotry, birth control, boredom, bowling, boxing, bungee-cord jumping, cancer, child molesters, cricket, cults, curiosity, dancing, diabetes, dictatorships, domestic abuse, Down's syndrome, dowry, drug addiction, eyebrows, finger snapping, gambling, genius, genocide, golf, headaches, honor killings, house plants, humor, hymen, hype, hypnosis, hypocrisy, laughter, literature, love, lying, manic-depressive disorder, mathematics, money, mountain climbing, Munchausens ... around sex. And yet, most of that sexual morality is based on selfish-gene adaptations "meant" to promote population growth (for civilization); and to guarantee male paternity of children in order to promote two-parent child rearing. Where's the absolute good and evil in all of that? Where's the absolute good and evil in TIT FOR TAT? Evolutionary psychology then makes a mockery of human morality and religion. ...
- 1258: The Relationship Between Sin A
- ... in life, if we stick by the rule of God we will receive what we deserve in heaven, taking things like what Hussein has done into account. The terrible things in the world, rape, murder, abuse and the suffering which follows is incredible. All of man-kind isn t all bad, but all of the good things they do are infected with sin. It has been said that God is the ... are a victim of circumstance? Rich people do not suffer greatly because they were born to rich parents and they grew up with a loving family in a nice area with nice friends. A poor child is born to poor parents and seven other children around him, this child has no future, he will suffer not because he thought to himself I will not obey God, I will go against his word , it is because he can t get out that situation. Some ...
- 1259: A Black Cloud
- ... black race. Sometimes leading to manslaughter, racial tensions are abundant. Furthermore, the burning of crosses or flags are offensive crimes that are committed to show a person's hatred for religion or the government. Spousal abuse, child abuse, homicide, and wars between races can only be acts of one thing: hatred. Newspapers are filled with page after page of stories revealing the immense amount of hatred that our society possesses. Although crimes ...
- 1260: Censorship
- ... of vast commercial enterprise. There has been an increasing trend towards children's literature that reflects a more realistic approach to the life both fiction and non-fiction, with subjects that include sex, homosexuality, divorce, child abuse, drugs, violence, etc. And they are these realistic books that have people outraged. In school libraries, the most frequent complaints come from parents about the school's selections. And in public libraries, parents were once ... racism, etc. Certain literature like "hard-core pornography" should be censored to the general public. These types of "explicit sex" truly have no meaning. They degrade the human race by increasing physical, mental and sexual abuse against women, animals, and sometimes against men. These inhuman treatments should not be shown to prevent other potential people from "experimenting" these acts of disgust. "Ordinary obscenity" should be censored closely, but with an ...
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