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- 4501: The Negative Portrayal Of LSD
- ... Portrayal Of LSD Despite the negative portrayal in mainstream 1960s media, justifications expressed by counterculture activists for further investigation, education and experimentation under government control of LSD were rational and valid arguments. Sex, drugs, protests, war, political upheaval, cultural chaos, and social rebellion; the many comforts TV dinner eating, republican voting, church going, suburbia conformists tried to escape through conservative ideals, town meetings, and The Andy Williams Family Hour. National consciousness ... Mainstream media, both fact and fiction, influenced the nations minds resulting in the effect of political change and further media influence over the government. The new decade, along with the effects of the Vietnam War and the strong influence of television, began to leak from the cracks of the nation a new counterculture of rebellious teenagers, unfamiliar narcotics, and a wave of promiscuity. Among the many issues and events molding ...
- 4502: Euthanasia
- ... invasion increases and the prognosis dims. In this case, because it was agreed that the patient was incurable, the treatment, a respirator, was seen as being extraordinary treatment, so the Supreme Court indicated that no civil or criminal liability would be levied if the treatment were withheld. With the Matter of Quinlan decision, the Supreme Court extended a persons constitutionally derived right to privacy to include the right to refuse ... another, it does not replace the actual intentions of the individual. The Cruzan decision also avoids at least two moral dilemmas that Quinlan decision tends to create. First, while the Quinlan case indicates that no civil or criminal liability is assigned to the act of removing treatment, there is no direction as to how to resolve any moral liability for the person who will physically remove treatment. Second, the Quinlan case ...
- 4503: Unconventional Medicines
- ... records these experiences, often unconsciously, and when the odour is re-encountered, one recalls the specific point in time. (Monte,1993:212) Essential oils have the ability to help heal and prevent infections. During World War One, chemist Maurice Gattefosse experimented with the use of essential oils for the treatment of soldiers war wounds. In July of 1910, he burned his hands in a laboratory explosion. He rolled in grass to put out the flames, but gas gangrenous sores began to appear. He applied essential oils of terpene ...
- 4504: Tobacco: Opposing Viewpoints
- ... some less strict. In Wisconsin and Nebraska, possession of tobacco was illegal. All states banned the sale of tobacco to children. Despite the prohibitions placed on tobacco in the eighteen nineties, by the first World War, negativity towards tobacco began to fade. The lack of scientific evidence that smoking was harmful at the beginning of the century, and the war effort increased the demand for cigarettes. People only suspected the addictiveness of Nicotine, but could not prove it. It was not until the mid nineteen fifties that smoking was linked to lung cancer and other ...
- 4505: Abraham Of Chaldea
- ... numerous as the dust of the earth. So Abram moved his clan and camped near Hebron where he built another altar to Jehovah. In the mean time, Lot got himself in the middle of a war between rivaling Babylonian kings in the area. As a result, the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fell and their cities were spoiled. Lot and his goods were also carried off. When Abram heard of this ... presented Melchizedek a tenth of all he had. This is the first mention of tithing, and is still used as a guideline today. The king of Sodom attempted to give Abram the spoils of the war, but he refused. Abram told the king, "I have sworn to the Lord God Most High, maker of heaven and earth, that I would not take a thread or a sandal-thong or your, lest ...
- 4506: Dioxins
- ... be linked to Agent Orange. Agent Orange was a herbicide used by the United States Army used for its abilities to kill large plants and trees very efficiently. It was sprayed liberally during the Vietnam War where came in to contact with American soldiers. Some time after the war, many veterans of Vietnam reported rashes, mental conditions, and were found to have cancer. After much research it was found that Agent Orange which contained dioxins, specifically 2,3,7,8, TCDD, was responsible for ...
- 4507: Factors that Influence Drug Addiction
- ... addiction. Nevertheless, drugs and alcohol do exist, so it isnt their existence that effects the addiction, but how readily available to the addict each substance is. The Vietnam Veterans, who used heroin during the war, are an excellent example of how availability strengthens the addiction process. Opiates were very easy to obtain in Vietnam, and as a result ten percent of our soldiers tested positive for heroine use during the war. Upon their return home, Robins et all studied 860 men for their drug use. Their study stated that twenty percent of the men tested (at discharge) were addicted to heroin. Three years later they tested ...
- 4508: AIDS: Is it a Modern Plague?
- ... HIV-2 have been documented in the United States, and transmission in these cases was linked directly to western Africa. Currently, this invisible tyrant is so dominant that our basic values of "Make Love not War" have been twisted into an anxious cry of "Make Love and Die". This disease is causing a great deal of pain and sorrow. We need to reason and evaluate the truth of the matter and to adapt to a way of life in order to minimize further casualties. If we declare war on HIV, educate in preventing the spread of this disease, and avoid stigmatizing and discriminating based on misinformation, we are well on our way to at least neutralizing HIV. Moral awareness should also be increased ...
- 4509: A Young Hero
- ... in his left hand. The documents were the research-results and the drawings of the new weapon Hitler's technicians were working on. As a result of the Axis Powers were about to lose the war, Hitler was furious and had given orders to Wernher von Braun, an outstanding German Scientist, to commence the design of two new terrifying weapons. The weapons were designed and produced in the purpose of revenging ... man on the island. Including Gregory. What the Allies did not know was the fact that Hitler had built another research station that also was developing the Vengeance Weapons. During the last years of the war, Germany sent over 1000 of these rockets towards London with a devastating effect against civilians and their homes.
- 4510: Analysis Of Similes In The Ill
- ... spin". These views that Homer might be trying to get across might be trying to favor Troy. It could easily be imagined that throughout time, only great things were heard about the Greeks mettle in war, and that Homer is attempting to balance the scales a bit by romanticizing the Trojan peoples, especially Hector, and bringing to light the lesser-heard tales of Greek stupidity. Shortly into Book Two, Agamemnon gives ... in knots", giving the "bees" an ominous tone. The Greek ranks are painted as a throng of weak-kneed wimps with their constitution sapped, obviously not the case as they go on to win the war, but it suffices to cast the Lycians in a negative light. A short, but emotionally appealing, simile is found after the Greek warriors have changed their mind about leaving and return to the Scamander: "They ...
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