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- 2551: Phencyclidine: The Dawn of a New Age
- ... not anything else, this amazing substance has given us a fascinating look into the elegantly complex world of neurochemistry. Bibliography - dont forget this! Carroll, Marilyn. (1992). Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Drugs. New York, N.Y: Chelsea House Publishers. Halberstadt, A.L. (1995). The phencyclidine-glutamate model of schizophrenia. Clinical Neuropharmacology. (Vol. 18) 237-249. Nintey Fifth Congress. (1978). Abuse of dangerous and illicit drugs - psychotropics, phencyclidine (PCP), and talwin; Hearings before the select committee on narcotics abuse and control house of representatives. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office. Okuyama, Shigeru. (1994). NE-100, a novel sigma receptor ligand: Effect on phencyclidine-induced behaviors in rats, dogs, and monkeys. Life Sciences. (Vol. 55) PL133-138 Peterson ...
- 2552: Children And Play In The First
- ... not fully understand the difference between each objects properties. If given a spoon the child will bang it on the table, replace it with a crayon and they will bang it as well, offer a doll and the doll is immediately banged on the table as well. All objects are assimilated into the childs activity, regardless of their physical properties. At nine months a child is able to pick up objects using only ...
- 2553: Eating Disorders
- ... more likely to bear fat children, or one that is slightly over weight. Although twins on the other hand, end up with the similar body weight regardless of whether they grow up on the same house or not (Hales, 1995). Some obese people have a higher number of fat cells, than others and other severely obese have even large fat cells. Whereas the size of fat cells can increase at any ... England: Penguin Books Wright Lane Wiatt, C. L. (1995) Eating By Design. New York, New York: Pocket Books, a division of Simion and Schuster Inc. Wolhart, D. (1988) Anorexia and Bulimia. Mankato, Minnesota: USA: Crestwood House
- 2554: Beloved 3
- ... mean-eyed Sweet Home girl he knew as Halle s girl was obedient(like Halle), shy(like Halle) and work-crazy(like Halle). He was wrong. This here Sethe was new. The ghost in her house did not bother her for the very same reason a room-and board witch with new shoes was welcome. This here Sethe talked about love like any other woman; talked about the baby clothes like ... there is something else terrible enough to make her do it again. I need to know what that thing might be, but I don t want to. Whatever it is, it comes from outside this house, outside the yard, and it can come right on in the yard if it wants to (205). It must be an awful feeling to live and be in fear of one s own mother. Because ...
- 2555: Beloved 3
- ... world. There was also, the loneliness of each main character throughout the book. There were also other areas of the book where the idea of detachment from something was obvious. People s opinions about the house made them stay away and there was also the inner detachment of Sethe from herself. The theme that Toni Morrison had in mind when the book was written was isolation. One of the main characters ... her separation from society because of the children at school. There is also the detachment of Sethe s family from the rest of the world because of her past and what people think of the house and the family. Isolation can be a very powerful theme in literature.
- 2556: Chinese New Year
- ... it. In the Chinese tradition, the New Year is the most important day in a year. Everyone wants to have a new and good beginning in the coming year. Therefore, people begin to clean their house. Everywhere in the house has to be cleaned, because people all want to give their home a new look. According to some old people, they believe that evil spirits wont recognize you in the new look. Then, people ...
- 2557: Beloved - Toni Morrison
- ... wrench herself from a living death; who has lost a husband and buried a child; who has borne the unthinkable of killing her baby and not gone mad. Sethe, who now lives in a small house on the edge of town with her daughter, Denver, her mother-in-law, Baby Suggs, and a disturbing, mesmerizing apparition who calls herself Beloved. Sethe works at 'beating back the past,' but it makes itself heard in her memory; in Denver's fear of the world outside the house; in the sadness that consumes Baby Suggs; whose childhood belonged to slavery. Sethe's struggle to keep Beloved from gaining possession of her present and to throw off the long-dark legacy of her past ...
- 2558: Child Labor
- ... was to reveal to the world the horrors of child labor and move people into action. There is a big difference between children who worked at odd jobs after school or did chores around the house or the family farm. No one could object to youngsters working as trainees and apprentices, merely learning skills they would use for the rest of their life. The campaign against child labor was not directed ... to leave the children, even the youngest and the newborn were taken to the cannery sheds every day. On winter mornings, infants wrapped in blankets slept in baby carriages and boxes next to warm packing-house stoves. Toddlers wandered about the sheds sometimes cutting their little fingers on sharp oyster shells. The Children stood by their parents, picking up clusters of oyster shells, prying them open, and dropping the meat into ...
- 2559: Pesticides and Their Harmful Affects
- ... look that if they are harmful to the consumer. This leads to the question, why does the United States allow the produce into its supermarkets? Who is getting paid? Over half of the U.S. House of Representatives has agreed to sign a new bill that will weaken the federal laws regarding high-risk pesticides in foods and water. Maybe this is because these same representatives have been traced to thirteen ... pesticide toxins. The American Association of Poison Control centers estimates that there are one million human pesticide poisonings, and about twenty thousand of them result in death every year. That is a statistic that the House of Representatives would not like their constituents to know. Our heavy use of chemicals and pesticides in the environment is not just harmful towards humans, our wildlife pays a heavy as well. Animal and insect ...
- 2560: Romeo And Juliet 2
- ... of the Capulet and Montegue conflict was Mercutio. When Tybalt and Mercutio were fighting, Mercutio was badly wounded by a sword. He then cries, A plague a both your houses, blaming his death on the house of the Montegue and the Capulets. The feud was probably all started by the parents who then passed it down to their children who were taught to hate one another. This shows another example that ... adults actions. Tybalt was another sacrifice to the Capulet and Montegue households. He was killed by Romeo while avenging Mercutio s death. If it wasn t for the conflict started between the Montegue and Capulet house, neither Mercutio or Tybalt would have been killed. As a result, Romeo was exiled which led to both the death of him and of Juliet. Later, this led to peace again between the two families ...
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