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- 1271: Codeine
- ... sure of an accurate dose. Do not take more of this drug than prescribed by your doctor. Serious side effects can occur, especially in children who take too much. Adults giving this medication to a child should be careful to give the correct dose and not to give it more often than prescribed by the doctor. For a cough, patients older than 12 years should not take more than 120 mg of codeine a day. Children six to 12 years old should not take more than 60 mg a day. A doctor should decide how much codeine can be taken by a child two to five years old. This drug should not be given to children younger than two years. Abuse and Dependence: Codeine can produce drug dependence of the morphine type and, therefore, has the potential for being abused. Psychological dependence, physical dependence, and tolerance may develop upon repeated administration and it should be ...
- 1272: Twiggy
- ... fudge, she doesn’t drink or smoke but “eats like a horse” (Time). Twiggy is one of those girls who has an extremely high metabolism and is healthy but just cannot gain weight. As a child, her mother was very worried about Leslie’s thinness and took her to see many doctors. The doctors concluded that the thinness was just a result of her body type and couldn’t be helped ... and aspired to look like that, but when they discovered it was not easily achieved it drove women to physical hate. This physical hate drove and still drives women to anorexia, bulimia, alcohol and drug abuse which leads us to one of the major differences between Twiggy and Moss. Twiggy obtained her figure while remaining healthy, but Moss obtains her figure by resorting to drugs and alcohol abuse. The average 90’s woman is approximately 5’5 and weighs 150 lbs. Today fashion models on average are close to six feet tall and weigh barely 120 pounds. That is too skinny to ...
- 1273: Causes Of Civil War
- ... states opened new hospitals for the insane and others improved their supervision of penitentiaries, asylums, and poorhouses. Prohibiton deals with the banning of alcohol . Religious groups consider drinking alcohol is a sin and women being abuse rosed. Poverity and crime rose, so the Anti-Saloon League was formed. It was organize in Ohio by women, who marched to saloons to make them give up their businesses. Abolitionist Movement stated with the ... did nothing to separate the Norh from the South. Men in the North and the South belived it was too extreme for women to have equal rights because they thought women as nothing more than child barriers and housekeepers. Prohibition was an idea that alcohol should be illegal because it ruin many home lives of Americans. Women were abuse by their drunk husbands and as result battered women spoke out. Prohibiton did no separate the North and South because the majority of the men from both sides loved alcohol too much to listen. ...
- 1274: David Lynchs Blue Velvet
- ... deliverance. There are other Freudian elements in the film as well; most of which are connected to Frank. Lost in his perverted sexual fantasies he relates to Dorothy both as her father and as her child. In her sexual connection to Frank Dorothy may be seen to represent the Female being assaulted by all the Male figures getting raped by the Husband who is also the Father and the Son. Jeffrey witnesses this abuse hiding in Dorothy s closet. According to Tim Dirks in a symbolic sense, Jeffrey as a child illicitly spies on the scene of seduction that his parents are having sexual intercourse Dorothy ( Mommy ) and Frank ( Daddy or Baby ) ( Blue Velvet (1986) , http://www.filmsite.org/blue.html). If we accept Dirks ...
- 1275: Jackie Robinson
- ... in a cabin. Soon after that, in 1920, Mallie sold a few of her family’s things and the family boarded a train to California. They bought a house on Pepper Street in Pasadena. As child, Jackie enjoyed sports as much as the next kid did. Just before he started school, he became ill with Diphtheria and almost died! He was an average student at his school, in the playground he ... games and tie 1. After fully recovering, he went onto basketball. He lead his team in scoring rite away, and found that he was the attention of the opposing team’s defense. Despite his talent, abuse was a problem. In one game an opposing player, Sam Babich from Long Beach kept on taunting, and fouling him. But by the end of the game, Babich was out cold after picking a fight ... made many public appearances, including his last one on October 15 1972. Jackie Robinson died 12 days later on October 27 1972. He won many awards and still had to put up with lots of abuse. But he was the best he could be. In conclusion I would like to quote Jackie by saying: "I was a black man in a white mans world. I never had it made."
- 1276: The Catcher in the Rye: Now and Then
- ... consist of a single parent with children. Today in the U.S., there are over 8 million single-parent homes (Holzman). Forty years ago, single-parent homes were few and almost unheard of. If a child grew up with a single parent, divorce was hardly the reason. Death was the cause, not divorce. Today, divorce is a common factor of life. Holden Caulfield’ s perspective is that of a nuclear family ... but Holden refused to pay him. Maurice ended up just taking the money but Holden knew that he could have been seriously injured. (Salinger, 104) One of the greatest problems facing teenagers today is the abuse of drugs and alcohol. Today, almost every teenager has been faced with the choice of whether or not to use drugs. Today, an increasing number of teenagers are making the choice to use these drugs ... every household has a television, telephone, and a computer. Television is one of the greatest influences on children. Most families have more than one television. Today televisions have many different channels to chose from. A child can see anything from a cartoon, to sports, to violent movies, to sexual movies on a basic cable television. This type of entertainment was not available to kids in the forties and fifties. Besides ...
- 1277: D.h. Lawrence
- D.H.LAWRENCE David Herbert Richards Lawrence drew his first breath on September 11 1885, in a small house in Victoria Street, Eastwood, near Nottingham. The fourth child of a coal miner, Arthur Lawrence and Lydia (nee Beardsall), it is not recorded if that first breath was taken easily, but within two weeks the child had bronchitis. It was to be a warning: 'Bert' Lawrence's lungs would plague him all his life. David started school at only four years of age, he was withdrawn and didn't return to ... the couple. Frieda had high hopes of having her children with her, but when her husband discovered her infidelity he flatly refused her access and sent the couple letter after letter containing pleas, threats and abuse. This trauma caused fierce arguments between the couple (their fights were to become legendary amongst their friends). Frieda was distraught at the loss of her children; Lawrence was angry that he was powerless to ...
- 1278: CHILDREN COPING WITH STRESS
- ... ages. Stress shows itself in children by complaints about stomachaches, being nervous, trouble sleeping, anger flares, and infections. There are a variety of reasons for children to feel stress. Death, divorce, remarriage, moving, long illness, abuse, family or community violence, natural disaster, fear of failure, and cultural conflict may each heighten stress. Under stress, the heart rate and breathing are at a higher speed and muscles are tense. Multiple stressors worsen the stress level and the length of the stress. Our bodies need relief from stress to reestablish balance. Reactions to stress vary with the child’s stage of development, ability to cope, the length of time the stressor continues, intensity of the stressor, and the degree of support from family, friends, and community. The two most frequent indicators that children ... different, so are their coping strategies. Children can cope through tears or tantrums or by retreating from unpleasant situations. They could be masterful at considering options, finding compromising solutions, or finding substitute comfort. Usually a child’s thinking is not developed fully enough to think of options or think about the results of possible actions. Children who live in supportive environments and develop a range of coping strategies become more ...
- 1279: Teenage Love
- ... lack of control, and interference in one’s life and responsibilities. In severe cases, medications can help. As many as one in forty Americans have some sort of obsessive compulsive disorder. Along with harassment, physical abuse is yet another extremely wrong way to handle rejection. Physical abuse occurs in more than one quarter of all teen relationships. It includes such things as slapping, kicking, hair pulling, shaking, and arm twisting. You may be at risk if your partner: • is jealous and possessive ... suicidal point as teens too often are. Because children look to their parents to keep them safe, the lack of a family member could heighten their sense of vulnerability. The parent who remains with the child or children has to assume the role of the other parent in the financial, physical, and emotional aspects. From a personal viewpoint, adults have a lot more to worry about than teenagers do so ...
- 1280: COMPUTER CRIME Hackers And Security Measures
- ... of computers are needed to operate these automated payment systems (networks). On the other hand, criminals for different reasons can use similar networks also: to hide unlawful software or to distribute illegal material such as child pornography. In these two cases we can see two opposite sides of the use of information technology. From the hacker s, and generally persons who are related with the digital crime , point of view computers ... in the UK. The scope of the IWF is to oversee and hinder the use of Internet to transmit unethical and unlawful material, in the UK. The initial priority of IWF is to stop the child pornography. In this situation, the advantage is that if IWF in the UK finds illegal material, which comes from a site in France, then it would be possible for the organisation to give a relevant ... of the Internet. Kogan page, London. Barrett N (1997) Digital crime: policing the cybernation. Kogan Page, London. Bequai A (1987) Technocrimes. Lexington Books, Lexington, Mass. Doswell R T and Simons G L (1986) Fraud and abuse of IT systems. Ncc, Manchester. Forester T and Morrison P (1994) Computer ethics: cautionary tales and ethical dilemmas in computing.(2nd) MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. Guisnel J (1997) Cyberwars: espionage on the Internet. Plenum ...
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