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- 9521: Be Healthy and Drug Free
- ... a rumor or something against this person. When this happens you should just remember that you know the truth. Many laws have been passed prohibiting the use of unhealthy drugs. In addition to this, the D.A.R.E. program was started. This class is offered in many schools. It is a program talking about drug abuse resistance. According to a recent survey, one in every three people between the ages ...
- 9522: Oroonoko: Heroism
- ... community. She also portrays Oroonoko’s ending in the most noble of lights, in that all that he did was for love. “Perhaps (said he) she {Imoinda} may be first ravished by every Brute; expos’d first to their nasty Lusts and then a shameful Death” (pg. 71). She even portrays his selfish acts of attempting to seek revenge as noble, while others might interpret them as foolish. “…(however horrid it ...
- 9523: Alcoholism: Symptoms, Causes, and Effects
- ... of a person's life are the best ways that we can help control the number of alcoholics in the United States. Works Cited Caplan, Roberta. "Alcoholism." Academic American Encyclopedia. 1992. Gitlow, Stanley E., M.D. "Alcoholism." New Book Of Knowledge. 1991. Johnson, Vernon. Everything You Need To Know About Chemical Dependency: Vernon Johnson's Guide For Families. Minneapolis: Johnson Institute, 1990.
- 9524: Alcohol and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- ... 44% of chronic alcoholics have affected children: 50% of these children will be mentally retarded and 30% will have physical malformations. (Harris, p.98) If a pregnant woman drinks 1-2 ounces of alcohol a day for the first three months of pregnancy, FAE will be present in 11% of the births. Treatments There are many needs that call for attention with FAS/FAE. Firstly, FAS/FAE patients typically have complex ...
- 9525: Harry S. Truman
- ... the Senate war investigating committee, checking into waste and corruption and saving perhaps as much as 15 billion dollars. As President, Truman made some of the most crucial decisions in history. Soon after V-E Day, the war against Japan had reached its final stage. An urgent plea to Japan to surrender was rejected. Truman, after consultations with his advisers, ordered atomic bombs dropped on cities devoted to war work. Two ...
- 9526: Harry S. Truman
- ... regular school until he was eight, and by then he was wearing thick glasses to correct extreme nearsightedness. His poor eyesight did not interfere with his two interests, music and reading. He got up each day at 5 AM to practice the piano, and until he was 15, he went to the local music teacher twice a week. He read four or five histories or biographies a week and acquired an ...
- 9527: Henrik Ibsen
- ... in 1868, then to Munich in 1875. In 1869, he wrote the comedy The League of Youth. The realistic style used to stage the drama Pillars of Society (1877) focused on various problems of the day. However, A Doll’s House, published in 1879, marked the first major breakthrough for realistic drama. Ibsen’s next two realistic contemporary dramas, Ghosts (1881) and An Enemy of the People (1882) were both successes ...
- 9528: AIDS: A Life or Death Issue
- ... is totally false. The HIV virus knows no skin color, sex, age, or gender. It can infect you, me, or anybody else, gay or straight. It can also affect rich and famous to the every day person. Since 1981, out of 500,000 reported cases, 900,000 more may have HIV. Currently growing most rapidly in minorities. You can't get it by causual contact like shaking hands or hugging. Although ...
- 9529: The Apprehensive Aparition
- The Apprehensive Aparition Waking from a frightening dream, hearing noises; how far does it go when your scared and alone. With all the hidden terrors in all world hallucination is far most the worst. One day realizing that your conscience has gotten louder has got to be the most frightening sounds you could ever experience. Hallucination is defined as sensory perception in absence of external stimuli. There are three characteristics: thoughts ...
- 9530: Preventing Health Problems Through Running
- ... Mitchell Whaley found that "individuals with low aerobic capacity have a higher risk of developing premature coronary artery decease that those who were more fit."(47) The article also talks about Martha L. Slattery, Ph.D., from the University of Utah Medical School. Maria Slattery also found that running is a good preventive measure for heart disease. She says, "The greatest increase in protection was between those men who were sedentary ...
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