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- 3441: The Need To Legalize Pot
- ... president, most of them inhale. In Glasgow, one-half of all students between the ages of 14 and 25 admit to smoking pot "every day." Marijuana has become the US' 'biggest cash crop' despite the death penalty for growing the plant. The estimated thirty-two billion dollar market has spurred many gardeners to make a career out of cultivating the plant. In a Pensacola Florida News Journal, statements from an article titled ...
- 3442: Frankenstein, Every One Needs
- ... Elizabeth was very precious to him and he cared for her tremendously. No word, no expression could body forth the kind of relation in which she stood to me my more than sister, since till death she was to be mine only (35). This phrase right here shows his feelings for her from early on in the novel. As the novel proceeds, his feelings remain unchanged. This kind of relationship was ... Victor s mind, he decides to create the female monster just to be rid of the male monster. This selfish act by him, is really what causes Elizabeth, now his wife, to die. With the death of Elizabeth Victor loses him self to the act of revenge. He searches and attempts all possible ways to kill the Monster, but of course the Monster which he created is too powerful for him. Scoffing devil! Again do I vow vengeance; again do I devote thee, miserable fiend, to torture and death. Never will I give up my search, until he or I perish; and then with what ecstasy shall I join my Elizabeth and my departed friends, who even now prepare for me the reward ...
- 3443: Just Say No! A Profile Of Cocaine and It's Effects On Two Lives
- ... often and how deep to breath, the use of cocaine can cause those signals to get mixed up leading to a shortness of breath or the complete failure of the lungs to work causing instant death. The use of cocaine is seriously addicting. Monkeys will keep giving themselves doses of cocaine until they die; most people will follow the same trend.3 The world of sports has many sad examples of ... first time. That would be his last time--cocaine stopped his heart and he died instantly. Dr. Louis Caplan, New England Medical Center Hospitals, says that using cocaine is like taking a chance on sudden death: "Cocaine's a loaded gun."5 Len Bias choose to be on the wrong end of the gun. Entertainers seem to live in a world exposed to many drugs. Sometimes they, too, make poor choices ... music influenced millions of people, and led the world of rock into a completely different direction. While he didn't die of drugs, Kobain's use of cocaine and other drugs helped lead to his death. When he killed himself, the news spread fast, and soon millions of fans, all around the world, were completely shocked. "As if the loss of Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin hadn't ...
- 3444: Suicide
- Suicide Suicide is one of the top ten leading causes of death in the United States. There are about 11.2 suicides per 100,000 people. It accounts for approximately the same number of deaths, as AIDS does each year. There are approximately 775,000 attempts in ... friends and family. They may lose interest in work or in their hobbies. They may give away things, which are their prized possessions. A person thinking about killing him or herself may be preoccupied with death, or speak of worthlessness and hopelessness. They may be signs of increased drug use, or a lack of interest in their appearance. Prevention of suicide involves, not only removing guns and pills, or other methods ... service, but women usually call them, not the men who have a greater risk of suicide. Suicide has a big emotional impact on the surviving members of the family and friends. The intentional, sudden, violent death makes the survivors feel abandoned and rejected. Close family members often have terrific feelings of guilt and shame. Because of the stigma surrounding suicide, the survivors may not talk to other people about it, ...
- 3445: Atomic Bombing 2
- ... on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These two bombs quickly yielded the surrender o f Japan and the end of American involvement in World War II . By 1946 the two bombs caused the death of perhaps as many as 240,000 Japanese citizens. The popular, or traditional, view that dominated the 1950s and 60s--put forth by President Harry Truman and Secretary of War Henry Stimson-- was that the ... domestic and diplomatic pressures and concerns. Truman's monumental decision to drop these bombs was born out of the complex background of the Japanese army. This background was that the Japanese always fought to the death and that they had citizens prepared to fight. Pressure to drop the bomb stemmed from three major categories: military, domestic and diplomatic. The military pressures stemmed from discussions and meetings Truman had with Secretary of ... faced with the enormous task of destroying an armed force of five million and five thousand suicide aircraft, belong to a race that had already amply demonstrated it s ability to fight literally to the death."(Stimson p45), Truman and others believed the invasion of the Japanese mainland would be extremely costly, and therefore embraced the bomb as a military weapon whose use was fully condoned and never questioned. Truman' ...
- 3446: George Bizek
- ... many years and at the hands of many composers and musicians. For example, the original version included spoken dialogue taken from the original Merimee story. When it was performed just four months after Bizet's death Ernest Guiraud substituted recitatives for the original spoken dialogue. Because these took longer, many cuts in the original libretto had to be made. Carmen was not a great success until years later when it was performed in England. There have been rumors surrounding Bizet's tragically young death. Some say that the unenthusiastic reception of Carmen prompted his early death. The actual cause was throat angina which he had suffered since he was seventeen. These bouts were always followed by emotional crisis leaving Bizet in the state of nervous breakdown. Bizet described his illness ...
- 3447: The Lottery: Symbolism
- ... on the other. An example of this is when the children are enjoying a break from school, playing and being children, and suddenly they are being joined by "rational" adults in stoning a mother to death. It appears that tradition has blinded these people in an irrational way, making them unable to think of a reason why this possibly should not be happening. When forced with the possibility of death, human nature in all its complexity, comes down to one instinctive urge, that of survival. When Tessie was in no danger she was gossiping with the other ladies and even encouraged her husband to go ... of vast civilizations that were doomed to eventual failure for believing in and acting on tradition and not living according to the word of God. We see that even as Tessie is being stoned to death does she not question the reasoning behind the lottery, but why it should be her that has to die.
- 3448: Female Protagonists
- ... their lives they are unable to make their own life decisions. In "The Story of an Hour," Louise Mallard is a repressed married woman that has a heart condition. The reaction to her husbands presumed death is a sign that she is unhappy. After hearing the tragic news she goes up stairs to her room and looks out an open window and notices "new spring life", "the delicious breath of rain ... of reflection, but rather indicated a suspension of intelligent thought." Louise is not grieving over her dead husband or having negative thoughts about her future. She realizes that she will have freedom through her husbands death and whispers over and over, "free, free free!" Her unhappiness is not with her husband, it is with her ranking in society because she is a married woman. Becoming a widow is the only chance ... that thinks "None of the men were quite good enough" for her. He isolates her from society, never allowing her to meet a potential husband. Emily has no real freedom at all. At her fathers death, Emily is well past the marrying age but "even with insanity in the family she wouldn't have turned down all of her chances if they had really materialized." Then she meets Homer Barron, " ...
- 3449: Great Expectations And Oliver
- ... Therefore, he can be referred to as "ideal and incorruptible innocence."12 "It is Oliver's self-generated and self-sustained love, conferred it would seem from Heaven alone, that preserves him from disaster and death."13 Unfortunately, many critics have found it hard to believe that a boy such as Oliver Twist could remain so innocent, pure, and well spoken given the long period of time in which he was ... Pip and Oliver are seeking various forms of escape from conditions which make them unhappy: Pip from his poverty, and Oliver from his loneliness and starvation. Since dealing with escapism, it is not surprising that death also plays a major role in both stories. In the two novels, death and coffins symbolize a happy and peaceful manner of escape.19 In Oliver Twist, it is suggested that only loneliness and brutality exist on earth. Supposedly, there is no sanctity on the planet, which ...
- 3450: Historical Analysis On 1920s
- ... the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, the anti radical hysteria of the Palmer raids, restrictive immigration laws, and prohibition. Influenza and the first world war brought an alarming amount of Americans to an early death. Racial motivated riots spread throughout the country and protests endorsing and condemning racism were the norm. Life in the south was at most times unbearable for the blacks, and many felt that the southern atmosphere ... by the Ku Klux Klan. In 1925, 40,000 Ku Klux Klan members parade in Washington to show the nation just how powerful they are. These hooded cowards were the cause of agony, torment, and death to many blacks and other targeted immigrants. The 1920's had a massive waves of immigration. These "new" immigrants were largely from Italy, Russia, China, and Ireland. There was mixed reaction to these incoming foreigners ... cultural conflict; definitely evident in the "Wedding Band". It is an era in our history that was filled with turmoil, however, these events helped future generations better deal with situations dealing with race, war, disease, death, and most importantly life.
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