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- 1421: Young Adults And Alcohol
- ... and fight for their country. We however believe that until the age of twenty-one our young adults can not handle alcohol. There is an ever-growing problem on campuses all across the nation: the abuse of alcohol. College freshman, usually nineteen, enter college with a bias involving the drinking law. In almost every aspect other than the drinking age, these freshmen are considered adults. However, they are told by the ... by young people makes it a badge of adulthood -- a tantalizing forbidden fruit" (84). This badge of adulthood is quickly attained by college freshman, who lash out at the drinking age, with binge drinking. The abuse of alcohol by young people can likely be prevented, certainly not in all cases but in many. In most European countries moderate drinking is common by teenagers. These teens have been taught about the dangers ... parents who let their children experience alcohol moderately. Whelan observes, "Though the per capita consumption of alcohol in France, Spain and Portugal is higher than in the United States, the rate of alcoholism and alcohol abuse is lower "(84). United States parents should take the hint from Europe and educate their children about alcohol. Parents should not just say alcohol is bad and evil. Parents should teach about the effects ...
- 1422: Telepathy
- ... by William B. Robertson, he stated that telepathy is not something passed onto a person like a science or schoolbook study. It is something that every person has the ability to do just as a child has the ability to talk. The child must learn how to talk with the air, the throat, and the sounds, while to be telepathic a person must learn how to visualize what they want to put into words rather then speak them ... In others they may be asked to get exited as possible often telling the display how it should be acting. Another experiment anyone can do is to take two people, closely related, ideally parent and child and have one of the people go to sleep. When the person falls asleep the other person should describe an image or things that the person is doing, like walking on the beach or ...
- 1423: Employee Assistance Programs
- ... the employee's job performance. Three ways they help the employer and the employee: First, EAP's should help in identifying a troubled worker. The two largest problems in the workplace today are drug/alcohol abuse and the stressful effects of downsizing. Many researchers today believe that drug/alcohol abuse is responsible for most modern-day EAP's. According to The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependance, 25 percent of all hospitalized patients have alcohol related problems. Alcohol is involved in 47 percent of ... and half of all auto fatalities. The cost totals 86 billion dollars per year due to decreased productivity, treatment programs, accidents, crime and law enforcement. Although it is most costly at the top alcoholism/drug abuse affects employees at every level of an organization. One company found that in the pervious five years each worker with an alcohol/drug related problem missed 113 days of work and filed $23,000 ...
- 1424: A Critique Of Inside The Brain
- ... every citizen of the country. Barring that, it should be made standard issue to all parents taking their newborns home from the hospital. A few hours spent reading this book, could help parents raise a child who could exceed all expectations. The information contained in this book implies that a child's future outlook is not predicated by his parents' genetic makeup. A child could surpass the successes of his parents if his parents give him the right start in life. After all, is it not the dream of all parents to make their child's life better ...
- 1425: Tenets Of Wordsworth In Resolution And Independence
- ... a certain period by its characteristics, therefore to be considered a Romantic work, the work must contain aspects which are termed "Romantic." A few typical "Romantic" aspects are: love of the past; sympathy to the child's mind; faith in the inner goodness of man; aspects of nature having religious, mystic, and symbolic significance; and reconciliation of contrasting ideas to make a point. Wordsworth flourished in these ideas in a poem ... life is like a "traveler" on the moors (15). He feels that in the past he has always been like a small "boy," who never "heard" or "saw" the beauties of nature (18). As a child, Wordsworth never understood life, because he never looked to nature for inspiration or guidance. Presently, Wordsworth feels he that he is "a happy Child of earth," because he walks "far from the world. . . far from all care" (31, 33). He begins a search to find a way to live in harmony with himself, God, and nature. During his ...
- 1426: A Good Man Is Hard To Find 2
- ... head under a truck while a gray monkey about a foot high, chained to a small chinaberry tree, chattered nearby," (140). O'Connor's satirical irony is apparent in the scene with the little "Negro child." While the grandmother tries to beautify this poor pant-less black child living in a shack, O'Connor does not allow the reader to see the beautiful picture that the grandmother wants to paint. "...'Oh look at the cute little pickaninny!' she said pointing to a Negro child standing in the door of a shack. 'Wouldn't that make a picture, now?' she asked and they all turned and looked at the little Negro out of the back window. He waved. 'He ...
- 1427: Use of Colors
- ... figure of a little blonde Mary Jane, on the candy they eat, and the blond baby dolls they recieve as gifts, are all ways of reinforcing the stereotype of beauty and goodness that a black child could ever hope to achieve. This dilemma is offset, in Claudia's life, by the attention she recieves from her loving parents, that have showed her to love herself. This is a love of support ... she so desperately wants to enter. She is also unaware that she is not a part of this world. In her mind the little white girl, whose family she works for, is her own perfect child. To make up for the dissatisfaction and disillusionment in her own life she "...gives their [her employer's] child a love she with holds from her own...6". This is felt deeply by both of her children but played out to a greater degree in the life of Pecola. Unlike Claudia, Pecola does ...
- 1428: Abortion In America and Elsewhere
- ... it is a common practice for one woman to abort several unwanted children in her lifetime. The reasons for the common practice of abortion stem from various social circumstances, the most prominent being the one child policy. Due to the overpopulation of China, it is accepted, if not enforced, to have only one child. Some are allowed two or more children but are forced to pay a heavy sum for this luxury. Many circumstances result because of this policy, one solution to this problem is abortion. It is estimated ... in 1989, approximately 632 abortions occurred for every 1,000 live births, this number is extremely high and economics and social reasons appears to be the main explanation. Since parents are to only have one child it is extremely common to abort because the child is female. Due to the overwhelming desire to have a male heir, many women will abort simply because of gender. To add to this, another ...
- 1429: Dr. Spock
- By: danielle ierardi Benjamin Spock “Dr.Benjamin Spock, hailed as the grandfather of pediatrics, is known as the leading authority on child rearing.” (Gale 1997) Dr. Benjamin Spock was born on May 2 1903 in New Haven Connecticut, The oldest of six children of a lawyer. Spock attended Yale university, where he became a member of the ... that point on he decided to become a doctor so that he could devote his life to helping children. From there on , Dr. Spock has been know as the authority on how to raise a child. Spock has written over 12 books on the subjects pertaining to child development and care. His first book Baby and Child Care published in 1945, has since sold more than 40 million copies., making it second only to the bible sales worldwide. The book has also ...
- 1430: Beloved
- ... time instead of being a slave to a white master she is a, slave to her own pain. The sources of her pain are numerous, including the stealing of her milk, the murdering of her child, Beloved, attempting to kill the rest of her children, and two of her children leaving her because of it. When Sethe's murdered child, Beloved, returns, the pain she feels from these sources intensifies and begins to adversely effect her life. Beloved's intentions put simply seem to be to control, Sethe to make her a slave, but Sethe, in the end, is able to break free of the slavery and pain by letting the pain go. Beloved is the embodiment of Sethe's pain. Beloved is the symbol, if not the child, whom she murdered, an event, which is closely tied to her worst pain. The action of killing Beloved occurred while she was trying to kill all her, children and it is the reason that ...
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