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- 141: Legalization Of Drugs
- ... town arose where anybody in the possession of or within fifty feet of alcohol under the age of twenty one, would be arrested. So in other words, if I was at a party and not drinking and it was busted then I to would by the price as if I was drinking. Anyway, the point is, it led to an outrage of underage drinkers and nondrinkers and most ignored the law. Three months later a census showed that the amount of underage drinking drastically increased in my town, due purely to teenage rebellion against this law. Later, the law was repealed and underage drinking reduced to levels lower than before the law was issued. Being an educated ...
- 142: Donnellan on Attribution and Reference Idiolects
- ... the referential and attributive uses adjacent with another example illustrating Donnellans theory. Imagine that you are at a party, and someone sees a person with a martini glass and asks, who is the person drinking a martini? If it should turn out that there is only water in the glass, you could still assume that you asked a particular question that is possible to answer because it refers to a person with a martini glass. Now, in using the attributive source, if a chairman has been informed that a man was drinking a martini at his party, and he doesnt see him with the martini glass and asks, Who is the man drinking a martini?, there is no person to be singled out as the person to whom the question was directed. The differences stating that in the first case, the man is seeing another man with ...
- 143: Todays Hip Hop
- ... see it everywhere you go (Ro 1996, p. 74). This is seemingly a weak defense, but Swift has a point. At any time of the day, anyone can turn on the television and see someone drinking a martini or mixing a daiquiri. If a problem arises, someone will fix a drink. All over every city we see bars and restaurants promoting happy hours. When questioned, most people cannot remember the last ... a joyride" (Losee 1995). However, it is evident that most artists do not drink twenty forties per night. Lσc says, "Yeah, I like to get drunk. Who doesn't? But when I'm talkin' about drinking a whole keg, that's obviously bullshit. No one does that. I may have a forty or two, but that's it" (Waxenberg 1995). Many artists state that it is simply a state of mind. Swift says that he used to have a drinking problem. He claims that he probably still drinks as much; but that it is a different frame of mind. When author Ronin Ro asked Swift if he was just an alcoholic in denial, Swift ...
- 144: Alcohol Benefits
- ... can help lower the risk of heart disease. But when consumption surpasses two drinks a day, risks increase for some kinds of cancer. Doctors at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas say before you start drinking for your health, talk to your doctor. For some people, the risks of alcohol outweigh the benefits. And remember that while one drink a day can be helpful, more can be harmful. Could a drink ... It could be because alcohol improves circulation slightly, dilates blood vessels or raises the level of good cholesterol in the blood. Researchers will continue studying this to determine how alcohol helps. But before you start drinking more, the researchers say the biggest risk factor for blocked or hardened arteries is smoking. Smokers in the study didn't get the beneficial effects from alcohol. Heavy drinking isn't good for you, either, and can cause additional health problems. The best results were seen with only a drink or two each day. Drinking more isn't going to have additional health ...
- 145: Teens: Obstacles in the 90's
- Teens: Obstacles in the 90's Teens are facing more and more obstacles in the 90s besides just academic challenges. They are being faced with teen drinking . Todays teens are also faced with teen drug abuse. They are also faced with the peer pressures faced by theses drugs plus the pressure to be like everyone else. Teen alcoholism is effecting teens ... alcohol effects there attendance habits and study habits. Alcohol also effects the way they remember facts such as remembering things for a test or for report. Trouble with money can also be a effect with drinking as a teen. Drinking can cause a kid to use his allowance for alcohol instead of lunch or other miscellaneous stuff. It can also lead a kid into stealing money to buy alcohol or stealing alcohol. Another of ...
- 146: Ground Water In Ontario
- ... a local firm had to recall 100, 000 cans of apple juice which had been made with the tainted water. This is just one of a number of companies which have been responsible for contaminating drinking water. The problem of contaminating groundwater supplies is not just localized to Ontario. Ontario may have higher instances of contamination than other parts of Canada, but that can be directly contributed to the population density ... business that closed in 1986 after the death of the owner. He had been dumping the left-over waste chemical into leaky concrete holding tanks. This finding was particularly shocking because the town had been drinking the contaminated water for at least five years prior without even knowing. It is not so surprising to groundwater experts, who claim that "tainted drinking water can go unnoticed for years because many of contaminants cannot be seen, smelled or tasted, and do not cause immediate sickness", (Gorrie 74). Those in Ontario who live on the outskirts of towns, ...
- 147: A Tale of Two Cities: Sydney Carton
- ... gives Sydney Carton an immature appearance in the novel. At the beginning of the story and a large part of the novel, Sydney Carton is shown to be a very arrogant, frustrated man with a drinking problem. Several times in the novel he indulged in his drinking to the point of becoming drunk or close to it. Many times that he is seen, he is drinking wine or has a flask of liquor in his hand. This may keep him calm or help him to remain composed in the court, but it becomes more to the point of being a ...
- 148: They Shall Inherit the Earth: Loss of Innocence
- ... would die. Michael Aikenhead had lost his innocence time and time again because of his impulsiveness and lack of thought towards other people and important situations. Dave Choate had lost his innocence because of his drinking problem and because of his selfishness. Dave's drinking problem had caused him to do many foolish things. Dave was not a bad man "for when he was sober he was friendly and quiet, and the drinking escapades the silly parties and the cheap and willing girls" . Therefore, every time Dave gets drunk, he looses his innocence. Dave was also very selfish and because he was a selfish man he has ...
- 149: The Catcher in the Rye: Holden Deals With Alcohol, Sex, and Violence
- ... for minors to get. Over the past couple of years, teenage consumption of alcohol has risen dramatically. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism states that more than 1.3 million teenagers have a drinking problem. The National Institute also reports that the reason for underage teenage drinking is they believe in a mixture of rebellion towards their parents and a sign of maturity. Another reason for teenage drinking is it represents a daring gesture. According to Dr. Joseph Franklin, "The way drinking starts is, one kid dares another kid to take a drink of alcohol, and the kid doesn't want his ...
- 150: The Autobiographical Elements in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe
- ... be loved by me." Edgar Allan Poe had a genetic tendency toward alcohol. His cousin viewed alcohol as the "curse of the Poes'." Disregarding much warning, he began to drink as a young man. His drinking became worse when he attended the University of Virginia. His reason for drinking was to escape the drudgery and disappointment of his life. According to Thomas Poulter, Poe stated: I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been ... have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness, and a dread of some strange impending doom. (2) Poe's drinking had three major effects on his life: he lost his health, he lost his jobs, and he lost his dream of a magazine of his own. "Poe was the first in a long series ...
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