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- 101: Carver’s Characters
- ... still living like this. They still don't know how they're going to make it through the next month or two" (Gentry 138). The strongest and most negative influence on his work was his drinking. It became a habit as his despair grew, despair about ever finding the "good life" through his writing, feeling continually cursed with bad luck because of the seems always bad financial situation his family struggled ... The alcoholism was taking up all of his time. He became what he called a full-time practicing alcoholic. Douglas Unger remembers: “We all knew he was going to die if he didn't quit drinking. And he knew it, too....What happened next was he was affected by CNS seizures. For a certain number of alcoholics, especially the heaviest drinkers, their nervous system has become so adjusted to having alcohol that when they stop drinking they go into seizures, as though with epilepsy. These seizures are very dangerous. It's how brains are damaged during convulsions” (Halpert 59). Between October of 1976 and January of 1977, he was hospitalized ...
- 102: The Progressive Era
- ... developed respiratory diseased, they also faced higher accident rates due to physical and mental fatigue. Because the children were in an adult environment, they picked up the bad habits of many adults, such as: smoking, drinking, and cursing. This caused great alarm with many progressive reformers. In 1904, the National Child Labor Committee, was organized by a group of reformers to end child labor. They documented the evidence of child labor ... use alcohol, according to the newspapers. Alcohol is a tranquilizer you can buy without a prescription. No drug is as abused as alcohol. At least 20 million Americans are alcoholics. In the business world, excessive drinking has been linked to lower productivity, loss of employment and a downward movement in society. 10 percent of the adult drinkers in the United States are considered alcoholics or they experience drinking problems in some degree. More males than females are affected. It is estimated that the annual number of deaths related to excessive drinking exceeds 97,000 in the United States. Economic costs related to ...
- 103: Dubliners
- ... it seems as if the characters move from childhood to adulthood in an instance. They are starting to get drunk. One reason being they drank to six different countries. The other that they were already drinking on top of that. The freedom that this proposes is the freedom of adulthood. In that sense being that adults have the freedom of drinking at social events without having to worry about any repercussions. At one point in the story we see the characters move from freedom to tight entrapment and at the last second when the entrapment looks ... rich. This was the final push that lets the reader become aware of their intentions towards Jimmy. The final and most important entrapment is the effect of alcohol on the characters. An example of needless drinking comes from Joyce when he writes, "They drank the health of the Queen of Hearts and of the Queen of Diamonds. Jimmy felt obscurely the lack on an audience: the wit was flashing."28 ...
- 104: Flouridation
- Flouridation In 1931 at the University of Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station M. C. Smith, E. M. Lantz, and H. V. Smith discovered that when given drinking water supplied with fluorine, rats would develop tooth defects. Further testing by H. T. Dean and E. Elove of the United States Public Health Service confirmed this report, and stated that what is known as ... is a condition in which white spots develop on the back teeth. Gradually the white spots get darker and darker until the tooth is eroded completely. This was believed to be caused by fluorine in drinking water (Behrman pg. 181). A strong uproar was heard when this was released and people wanted all fluorine out of their water. But later tests concluded that communities with high levels of fluorine in their drinking water suffered less dental cavities. Further testing concluded that at least 1.0 parts per million of fluorine could help to prevent cavities, but more than 1.5 PPM would cause mottled tooth, so ...
- 105: Recommendation For Recycling Water in Florida
- ... was to be sent to a water treatment plant to be processed along with the water already being processed, there would be plenty of water available. This water could be used as potable water, for drinking or cooking, or for laundry or irrigation. The reclaimed water could be reinjected (deep well injection) into the aquifer to offset the amount being pumped every day. Enclosed is a flow chart through a waste ... other potable water. At the present time the water leaving the waste water plant is simply used for irrigation or dumped into drying ponds. With this new technology this wasted water can be used for drinking water, saving both our resources and money that is presently being spent pumping water out of the ground. This has already been in use in for some time in New York. We have observed excellent ... and the progress already made in the state of Florida. Then I will propose the next step: instead of using the recycled water for irrigation use only, I propose the water to be used for drinking purposes as well. Basic background information on water reuse in Florida Reclaiming Waste Water in Florida As recently as the mid 1960s, secondary treatment and surface water discharges were considered the norm for Florida' ...
- 106: Doc Holliday
- ... have been as notorious as the late John"Doc" Holliday. Part of the reason Doc has enjoyed such a famedhistory is because of the overall descent man he was, that is when hewasn’t gambling, drinking, and gunslinging. When Doc died he mighthave had a handkerchief, a pocket knife, a deck of poker cards, a flaskhalf full of whiskey, and a small essay entitled "My Friend DocHolliday" by Wyatt Earp. The ... diedwas a handkerchief. Doc most likely had a handkerchief because of thesevere case of tuberculosis he had, which led to his untimely demise. Doc contracted this disease while traveling the west, staying up long hours, drinking, smoking, and gambling most of the time he was awake. This handkerchief would have helped Doc wipe up any blood, and ordead lung tissue he might have coughed up on his last day of life ... may have shown people his intelligent, well educated side. This educated side is a side of Doc that few people know about today. Usually when someone hears the name Doc Holliday, they think about fighting, drinking, and gambling, all of these are true of Doc, but these people had barely scratched the surface. As a young man Doc attended Valdosta institute where he became knowledgeable of the Greek, Latin, and ...
- 107: Mikhail Gorbachev
- ... him. It made him not like alcohol, therefore making him want others to stay away from it. This could have saved his nation. Gorbachev noted, "After that experience I have never felt any pleasure in drinking vodka or spirits" (Gorbachev 37). That is important because if he had liked alcohol, there most likely never would have been any anti-alcohol campaign. "Temperance was the rule in the Gorbachev household on holidays ... Gorbachev family is an example of how alcohol should have been used in Russia. They drank in moderation, as opposed to others who drank simply to get drunk and were unable to control themselves while drinking. Gorbachev wanted others to be able to drink as they did, and he tried to set a good example in order to get his point across. However, his plans didn't work out as he ... as an offense to the Soviet ideal and a symptom of weak personal morals rather than a failing of the Soviet order" (Galeotti 58). He thought that people should be able to control themselves while drinking, and if they didn't it was their own fault. It is not unusual that he would initiate, as one of his first priorities after taking power in March 1985, an anti-alcohol campaign. ...
- 108: Fluoride
- ... for the proper protection of teeth. Fluoridation has been widely utilized in this country since 1945. It does not involve adding anything to the water that is not already there, since virtually all sources of drinking water in the United States contain some fluoride. Fluoridation is a form of nutritional supplementation that is not unlike the addition of vitamins to milk, breads and fruit drinks; iodine to table salt; and both vitamins and minerals to breakfast cereals, grains and pastas. The protection of fluoridation reaches community members in their homes, at work and at school -- simply by drinking the water. The only requirements for the implementation of fluoridation are the presence of a treatable centralized water supply and approval by appropriate decision makers. Some people believe that there are effective alternatives to community ... of fluoridation to their citizens. While safety has been an issue frequently raised by those opposed to fluoridation, scientific data from peer-reviewed clinical research provide overwhelming evidence that the adjustment of fluoride levels in drinking water to the optimal level is undoubtedly safe. Hundreds of studies on fluoride metabolism have tracked the outcomes of ingested fluoride. Ingested fluoride essentially travels three metabolic pathways. It is either excreted by the ...
- 109: The Catcher In The Rye
- ... ones human condition. Holden Caulfield is a teenager struggling to reach maturity. He is growing up in New York and goes through a lot of difficulties a teenager goes through in his teenage life like drinking, smoking, depression and family problems. The problems he has is relevant to New Zealand teenagers of today because a lot of teenagers in New Zealand are heavy drinkers, heavy smokers, they have depression problems and have family problems at home. These are the 4 problems Holden has in his teenage life and usually it always starts with the drinking. In New Zealand 33% of the heaviest alcohol drinkers are with in the age of 21 and in the book "The Catcher In The Rye" Holden is drinking at a age of 17 which is below the drinking age which is typical of a teenage in New Zealand. Today in schools they bring coke bottles and put alcohol in it, they drink ...
- 110: ON Doc Hollidays Death Bed
- ... have been as notorious as the late John“Doc” Holliday. Part of the reason Doc has enjoyed such a famedhistory is because of the overall descent man he was, that is when hewasn’t gambling, drinking, and gunslinging. When Doc died he mighthave had a handkerchief, a pocket knife, a deck of poker cards, a flaskhalf full of whiskey, and a small essay entitled “My Friend DocHolliday” by Wyatt Earp. The ... diedwas a handkerchief. Doc most likely had a handkerchief because of thesevere case of tuberculosis he had, which led to his untimely demise. Doc contracted this disease while traveling the west, staying up long hours, drinking, smoking, and gambling most of the time he was awake. This handkerchief would have helped Doc wipe up any blood, and ordead lung tissue he might have coughed up on his last day of life ... may have shown people his intelligent, well educated side. This educated side is a side of Doc that few people know about today. Usually when someone hears the name Doc Holliday, they think about fighting, drinking, and gambling, all of these are true of Doc, but these people had barely scratched the surface. As a young man Doc attended Valdosta institute where he became knowledgeable of the Greek, Latin, and ...
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