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- 3291: John Wade A Character Study--I
- ... represent both his attempt to control his world as well as a sanctuary from the reality of his helplessness. The source of John's Wade's complexity can be traced to his childhood. As a child John tries desperately to win his father's affection; Unfortunately, as is evident, John's alcoholic father seems to prefer a different sort of child, more simple and typically American. Subsequently John -through his uniqueness- fails to satisfy his father. John's father teases and ridicules him throughout his childhood. John's mother sees this as the beginning of his ...
- 3292: Marijuana: The Legalization
- ... a medicine is it's remarkable safety. It has little effect on major physiological functions. There is no known case of a lethal overdose....Marijuana is also far less addictive and far less subject to abuse than many drugs now used as muscle relaxants, hypnotics, and analgesics." Although he seems to have nothing but good things to say about drugs, NIDA Director Alan Leshner has this to say, "What we're ... just remember, marijuana is a drug, drugs are dangerous and thus should remain illegal. In the survey I conducted one person replied to this question: Do you have any suggestions on how to reduce marijuana abuse? "Let them smoke it a lot and it will kill those who use it thus reducing the abusers." Seeming how this paper of mine will not have much of an effect if any on the ...
- 3293: Business 2
- ... usually form from childhood experence with maybe yelling in a house hold or Mother doing everthing and Dad doing nothing. It affects you as you get older. People in your life around you as a child will shape your attitude for when you get older. Rewards and punishment play a huge role in what your attitude maybe. Example if you as a child was told to clean your room and you did and you got rewared. But now all the time you clean your room you expect to be rewarded. Different caltures have different attiutes. Example Asain students ...
- 3294: Decriminalize Marijuana for the Good of America
- ... use rose for the next ten years. Marijuana was becoming more accepted across the nation. As the users of Marijuana changed, the attitudes about the danger of Marijuana broke down. In 1970, the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act reduced the classification of simple possession and non-profit distribution from felonies to misdemeanors (Himmelstein 104). This was a good start. However, President Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs in ... States. In 1993 a study by the Rand corporation compared drug use in states that have decriminalized marijuana and those that have not. It found that in states where marijuana was more available, hard drug abuse as measured by emergency room episodes decreased. What science and real experience tells us is that marijuana tends to substitute for much harder drugs like alcohol, cocaine, and heroin (Hagar 1). Another misconception is that ...
- 3295: Coming of Age in Mississippi: Anne Moody
- ... struggle to deal with the race the racist society she is born into and her fight for freedom for herself and fellow African Americans. The book portrays her fight from when she was a small child on a plantation farm until she became a great civil rights leader in Mississippi. Moody tells of her hardships of growing up poor and black at the time and one can see how she changes ... mother Anne and her family was much worse off. Her mother moved around a little and had very little money. Anne's childhood consisted of meals of beans and bread and poor clothes. As a child she is not immediately too aware of the difference in skin color between the whites and the blacks. She and her sister were friends with two white children across the street and this led to ...
- 3296: The Color Purple
- ... of strong women, namely Nettie, Sofia, and Shug. In her young life, the only person who took the time to care for and encourage Celie was her sister Nettie. Despite the physical, sexual, and verbal abuse Celie suffered in the hands of her stepfather and husband she was able to overcome it with the help of Nettie. Nettie who later in the book serves as a silent confidante to Celie, taught ... Celie sexually, Shug also shows that Celie is a human being with value. She is loved and appreciated, and by this she learns to love herself and develop a high self-esteem. After years of abuse with Shug's help Celie becomes more optimistic. She has finally found love in Shug's company. "She say I love you, Miss Celie. And then she haul off and kiss me [Celie] on the ...
- 3297: Marijuana: The Legalization
- ... a medicine is it's remarkable safety. It has little effect on major physiological functions. There is no known case of a lethal overdose....Marijuana is also far less addictive and far less subject to abuse than many drugs now used as muscle relaxants, hypnotics, and analgesics." Although he seems to have nothing but good things to say about drugs, NIDA Director Alan Leshner has this to say, "What we're ... just remember, marijuana is a drug, drugs are dangerous and thus should remain illegal. In the survey I conducted one person replied to this question: Do you have any suggestions on how to reduce marijuana abuse? "Let them smoke it a lot and it will kill those who use it thus reducing the abusers." Seeming how this paper of mine will not have much of an effect if any on the ...
- 3298: Internet Censorship Laws
- ... speech on the Internet. The reason for the most of the laws of that kind is the pornography on the net. I agree with the people who try to pass those laws in that the child pornography is not appropriate, or that kids should not have an access to the XXX sites. But those laws are not the solution. First of all they make many people angry and since basically there ... even though it is the easiest to access one. Also the problem, or maybe the good of the Internet is that it is very hard to see the difference between the adult person and the child. Most of the porn sites make it so that the users coming to their site must agree to some of the rules. For example they must state that they are older then 18 before entering ...
- 3299: Case For Legalizing Marijuana
- ... the use of all kinds of drugs. One of the detriments of tolerating drug use, according to this theory, is that is encourages the use of more and different drugs. The National Institute on Drug Abuse;s 1984 report to Congress cited no evidence to support the idea that drug use is hurting economic productivity. It said: "The fact is, very little is known about the complex relationship which undoubtedly exists between drug abuse, worker performance, and productivity, or the lack thereof.... Simply put, the number of unanswered questions currently far outnumbers the available answers." Nor is there any strong evidence that legalizing marijuana would increase use of the ...
- 3300: Black And White Women Of The Old South
- ... most of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, a black woman usually got subjected to displacement of sexual and mental frustration of white women. Gwin discusses how these black women, because of the sexual and mental abuse, felt looked down on more by whites and therefore reduced to even a lower level than that of white womens status of being a woman. . A southern white female slave owner only saw black ... would get beatings from the white women and their mistresses, they took chattel slavery to its boundaries in how the women treated the black women when they felt threatened. White women didnt just physically abuse the black woman they also mentally abused her. The slave women were "associated with sex and loss of control, sexually suggestive, and wild Negroes."(pg 119) These derogatory names were what most white women came ...
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