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- 491: Drug Abuse
- Drug Abuse Drug Abuse is generally defined as the use of a drug with such frequency that the user has physical or mental harm or it impairs social abilities. The substances that are discussed in this report are called ... physically effects the user is alcohol. It causes damage to the brain, pancreas, and kidney. It also causes high blood pressure and may heighten the risk of heart attacks and strokes. Other consequences of alcohol abuse are possible alcoholic hepatitis, cirrhosis of the liver, stomach and duodenal ulcers, colitis, irritable colon, impotence and infertility, birth defects and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (retardation, low birth weight, small head size, limb abnormalities), and ...
- 492: The Use And Abuse The American Language
- The Use And Abuse The American Language An essay from Newsweek Magazine, “Can’t anyone here speak English?” explains how many human beings use and abuse the American language. The lack of language may be a result of slang and new words or expression, but slang is not the danger of language. The danger is television. According to the essay television ... the images shown on screen and limit the idea of reading. The lack of language also is a result of abusing it. People want to conceal reality, using public words to what actually happens. Another abuse of language is exaggerating the use of vocabulary. Some people tend to use big words to say something simple. They may want to look impressive but really they are just hiding behind the big ...
- 493: Maurice Sendak
- ... films for many of his stories, as well as stage productions of Where The Wild Things Are and Really Rosie. Currently, he illustrates the animated series Little Bear on Nickelodeon. Sendak grew up a sickly child who was not allowed to go outside often. Therefore, being the youngest child in a family of three, he was left alone with his imagination. He enjoyed drawing and reading from an early age, but was often dissatisfied with the children books that were available to him. He attempted to read what he called "real books" even when he was a young child; he felt it was an embarrassment even to enter the childrens' section of the library. Sendak writes the type of books he wished he had as a child; entertaining stories which are not limited ...
- 494: Autism 3
- ... the woods of Averyron, France. He was dirty, covered with sores, mute, and behaved like A wild animal. Jean Itard, the physician of the new institution for deaf-mutes, Was given charge of the abandoned child. From Itard’s description, Victor Showed many features of autism—he did not look at people and never Played with the toys, but showed remarkable memory in recalling the position Of objects in his room ... Itard used a glass of water as a form of encouragement, but he continued to remain silent and never spoke any words. It was not until 1943 that the label “autism” was used by a child psychiatrist, named Leo Kanner to describe the symptoms. “The term autism derives from auto, the Greek word for self,” (Hamblin 137). Kanner used this term when he studied eleven children who had a “unique form ... include a lack of communication, socialization and imagination. Scientists are continually searching for answers. During the stages of infancy, the autistic baby seems normal. Then, a period of time before the age of three, the child experiences regression. In some cases, the first signs are at the age of three. There is no exact determination of when the signs appear. When autistic parents were told to think back in time ...
- 495: Observation Report of A Child At Elementary School Recess
- Observation Report of A Child At Elementary School Recess This observation is of a 10 year old male child during his lunch recess at an elementary school located in the South Bay area. The student participates in a day treatment program for children with emotional/social difficulties. The length of this observation was approximately ... tasks when John approached the bars. John waited for a short time (about 1 to 2 minutes), and then began to yell at a younger student to move so that he could do something. The child did not respond to Johns request to move, and John crossed his arms and began to pout. After another minute or so, John went to the staff saying that the other kids were just ...
- 496: Compare Happiness and Life Between D. H. Lawrence's "You Touched Me" and Friedrich Nietzche's "The Use and Abuse of History Taken From The Twilight Of the Idols."
- Compare Happiness and Life Between D. H. Lawrence's "You Touched Me" and Friedrich Nietzche's "The Use and Abuse of History Taken From The Twilight Of the Idols." INTRODUCTION In this paper, I won't stick to only one topic. I will compare different topics, such as happiness and life between two romantic writers, D. H. Lawrence and Friedrich Nietzsche from D. H. Lawrence's You touched me and Friedrich Nietzche's The use and abuse of history taken from The twilight of the Idols. I will start talking about life and happiness by giving my own little definition of each of these two terms. LIFE Life: one word, many meanings ... but more about freedom. Friedrich Nietzshe got a more complex view of happiness. Actually, since it's pretty complex and I can't explain it well, I will site an extract from The use and abuse of history. [If happiness and the chase for new happiness keep alive in any sense the will to live, no philosophy has perhaps more truth than the cynic's: for beast's happiness, like ...
- 497: Legalization of Marijana: For
- ... 71 million Americans have smoked marijuana at some time in their lives, and 10 million are current smokers (have smoked as at least once in the last month). In fact, NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse) found that 61% of all current illicit drug users report that marijuana is the only drug they have used; this figure rises to 80% if hashish (a marijuana derivative) is included. A recent national survey ... cannabis consumer will be vigilant as to conditions -- time, place, mood, etc. --and does not hesitate to say "no" when those conditions are not conducive to a safe, pleasant and/or productive experience. IV. RESIST ABUSE Use of cannabis, to the extent that it impairs health, personal development or achievement, is abuse, to be resisted by responsible cannabis users. Abuse means harm. Some cannabis use is harmful; most is not. That which is harmful should be discouraged; that which is not need not be. Wars have ...
- 498: Representation of Women through Art
- ... with the bridal couple. Because of this arrangement, people did not expect any emotional attachment by either the husband nor the wife. In addition, people did not even expect love from the parent to the child or from the child to the parent. This type of relationship can be interpreted through the painting "Portraits in an Interior" by Antoine Le Nain. In this painting, the fatherly figure of domination and power is symbolized. As the ... shows a nursing mother and her infant. Furthermore, the article "Morisot's Wet Nurse: The Construction of Work and Leisure in Impressionist Painting" by Linda Nochlin talks about a new style used for raising a child during the nineteenth century. Many artists during this period represented a new form of nourishment for children through their paintings. During this period, it became very popular for mothers to hire a wet nurse. ...
- 499: Nature Vs. Nurture 2
- ... to contribute to intelligence as well as birth defects and possibly sexual orientation. Nurture: Environment plays an important part in physical development. Economics, culture, nutrition and medical intervention all add to the development of the child. If the parents or caregivers are not educated in the importance of health, and medical intervention, the child may become under nourished and lack proper protection from childhood diseases. Proper growth of bones and muscle and tissue is not present. Behavior Nature: Heredity plays a strong part of an infant s temperament. How the child reacts to certain experiences and how the child s sensory feelings allow him to play out the situation. Behavior Nurture: The child learns social referencing from the caregivers/parents. The environment of the culture, ...
- 500: Beware of Television
- ... would be taking in the ball game in the living room? Nor did anyone imagine the number of hours children would eventually devote to television or the common use of television by parents as a child pacifier. The adult has a vast backlog of real-life experience, the child has not. So, the influence of television on a child's consciousness is considerably greater. "Suppose there wasn't any TV—what do you think your child would do with the time now spent watching TV?" This question was asked to a large number ...
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