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- 321: Liberalism And Anticlericalism
- ... came, the church responded. Firstly in the mental sphere where the priests' tactics seemed to be to bully the public into obedience rather than foster spiritual devotion. Scathing attacks from the pulpit were launched upon drinking, dancing, failure to observe the Sabbath and of course contraception. People began to feel uncomfortable with church attitudes: many needed to work on Sunday to keep food on the table; others wanted to use contraception to keep family sizes small and affordable, and of course to forbid the youth drinking and dancing just meant incurring natural adolescent rebellion and making the event more enjoyable. The Catholic Church has always preached hard line doctrine and this was nothing new or unacceptable except in its aggressive fervour ...
- 322: What Is Taste
- ... also influences the mind; chemicals and hormones can affect the way we think. In affecting the way we think, our functional needs are changed. I believe this can be shown in cases of addiction. When drinking alcohol, the individual subconscious knows that the drink will make them drunk because of this the conscious will become drunk after consuming the booze. If the mind knows that the booze will not make them ... of an addict, repeated use of the drug means that the mind is experiencing the same influences again and again. In doing this, the individual subconscious has the tendency to approve the action. But in drinking alcohol, the mind experiences many points of view on the subject; other people put opinions in, both negative and positive. Addictions stop when the mind has come to the solid conclusion that this would be ...
- 323: Ozzy Osbourne
- ... If thats not enough for you to realize that Ozzy doesnt care about what people think then listen to this. One day Ozzy was in a very expensive motel and once again was drinking heavily, and decided to take a trip down to the bottom floor on the elevator. Well on the way down he must have had to go to the bathroom because he ended up taking a ... his drug abuse should come to an end. In the late eighties Ozzy went completely sober. He had previously been addicted to coke Cain and had a serious alcohol abuse problem. Ozzy had been heavily-drinking since he was thirteen. November 1984 Ozzy admitted himself into the Betty Ford clinic for rehab of drug and alcohol addiction. After getting out of rehab Ozzy becomes a father for the second time but ...
- 324: Ireland, History And Nature
- ... you see how the brook continues even further down. You decide that you wish to see where it ends. While you are walking around the lake you notice the deer has come back. It is drinking from the brook, just as you did just a few minutes ago. And as you are staring at this beauty you notice two deer coming from the edge of the forest towards the deer already ... deer approach the first, you notice they are smaller than the first, and you understand that they are the children of the first deer. You do not wish to interrupt the family while they are drinking, so you continue to walk until you are at the end of the lake. Then you see a few small bunnies happily hunting each other underneath some rocks a few metres to the left. They ...
- 325: Harappa
- ... present day India. Harappans houses were made out of baked brick, they were mostly one or two stories high, flat roofs and all of them were almost identical. Each house had its own well, drinking water and sometimes their own bathroom. People had clay pipes, which led from their bathroom to a sewage pipe that eventually ran out into a lake or river. These people were very good farmers of ... no sign that emperors governed these people. In addition scientists have also found out that these people were great builders. Somehow the Harappans dug reservoirs, which filled up with freshwater, and they used it for drinking water! Even though we didnt think these people had a language people are beginning to understand word for word and think that the Harappans had a common language. Also, all over India people are ...
- 326: Thomas Paine
- ... it. Aitkin taught Paine everything he would need to know about the job. Atkin gave Paine food, a shaving, clean clothes and cleaned up his act. Paine, who had been a heavy drinker had stopped drinking for a while, too. The Battle at Lexington and Concorde soon came about and nobody was too happy about it. The next day after they heard this news, a huge mob assembled outside of the ... bolster, chest, coat-rack, table, two fairly good suits of clothes, ink and paper. That was all that he needed plus a few pennies for candles, something for food, and something to drink. Paine started drinking rum or anything that would help his pen move on the paper. Without realizing it, he neglected his appearence, sometimes spending twenty-four hours in his room, shaving less often, holding his small stash of ...
- 327: Disease In Africa
- ... into these water reserves, which often did not have a current and therefore allowed for waste to sit and decay. Disease was soon spread from human waste, because these same water reserves were used for drinking and cleansing purposes. "Large numbers of people living in close contact, thus provided a critical mass of potential host and enhanced the opportunity for infection with organisms transmitted by the respiratory and the fecal-oral ... present there before they came. The troops who were stationed in Africa lived off the land, because military stations had not previously been setup. This meant that troops were eating wild vegetation, hunting animals and drinking water from bacterial infested water. This was a common practice that often led to tragedy. Many people in the military had died from being in the new climate and land which they were not used ...
- 328: Ozzy Osbourne
- ... If thats not enough for you to realize that Ozzy doesnt care about what people think then listen to this. One day Ozzy was in a very expensive motel and once again was drinking heavily, and decided to take a trip down to the bottom floor on the elevator. Well on the way down he must have had to go to the bathroom because he ended up taking a ... his drug abuse should come to an end. In the late eighties Ozzy went completely sober. He had previously been addicted to coke Cain and had a serious alcohol abuse problem. Ozzy had been heavily-drinking since he was thirteen. November 1984 Ozzy admitted himself into the Betty Ford clinic for rehab of drug and alcohol addiction. After getting out of rehab Ozzy becomes a father for the second time but ...
- 329: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... Poe entered the English and Classical School of Joseph H. Clarke, a graduate of Trinity College in Dublin. On February 14, 1826, Poe entered the University of Virginia. Though he spent more time gambling and drinking than studying, he won top honors in French and Latin. On May 26, 1827, Poe enlisted in the US Army under the name Edgar A. Perry. He joined Battery H of the 1st Artillery, then ... severe mental depression and declining physical health. In 1838, he published his only novel, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym". In December, 1839, he lost his job because of the intense rumors of his excessive drinking habits. "By late 1846, financial woes and Poe's own continuing decline ended the magazine" (Levin, 18). In January 1847, his wife died in their cottage at Fordham. This made his poverty and instability worst ...
- 330: Henry V 2
- ... fathers advise. Shakespeare sets the mood that Henry is still questioning himself as king and his choice to abandon Falsaff, and he cannot help but feel responsible for Falstaff taking ill recently. His other old drinking pals obviously feel the same way. Hostess: " The King hath killed his heart" (49, act 1, scene 2, ll 86). The hostess, along with his former friends, Pistol, Corporal Nym, Lieutenant Bardolph all feel that ... Henry can take the burdens of being a king and proceeding with the war. Later in the play, before the battle at Agincourt, Henry is faced with yet another problem and embarrassment from a former drinking pal. After the English army was victorious at Harfluer, Henry tells his troops to treat the town with mercy, and marches away. Bardolph, is caught looting a silver plate from a church and is ordered ...
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