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- 1051: Home School Or School House
- ... school education. In the past, parents mainly chose to educate their children at home because of religious preference. These parents viewed the public school system as a source of negative influence on children. Violence, sex, drugs, and peer pressure were influences these parents sought to avoid. However, today parents have other reasons for home school education, which primarily all point to a lackluster public school system. Other reasons include a desire ...
- 1052: Bulimia Nervosa
- ... that some complications of bulimia are stomach bleeds, kidney disorders and electrolyte imbalance, possibly producing serious, sometimes fatal, heartbeat irregularities. Anna Harkensee (1997) found that some people with bulimia struggle with addictions, including abuse of drugs and alcohol, and compulsive stealing. Many people with bulimia suffer from depression, anxiety, and OCD. These problems, combined with their impulsive tendencies, place them at increased risk for suicidal behavior. Robertson and Mang (1990, pg ...
- 1053: Banning Cigarets
- ... the body. Undeniably, the government should outlaw cigarettes because they are harmful to the body. First of all, cigarettes contain nicotine, "an addictive drug, which when inhaled in cigarette smoke reaches the brain faster than drugs that enter the body intravenously" (American Lung Association, "American"). Secondly, cigarettes contain numerous chemicals and poisons such as ammonia, arsenic, carbon monoxide, and formaldehyde. Some of these chemicals even cause cancer. Besides harmful effects on ...
- 1054: Birth Control Or Legal Murder
- ... assert that to harm oneself intentionally or in a way that could have been prevented by our own precaution is wrong. These examples include the seat-belt and helmet laws and the ingestion of harmful drugs. In keeping with our common and lawful morality that is careful to protect human life, the legality of abortion appears incongruent. An important question of this issue is of the point at which the life ...
- 1055: Politicians
- ... into a childlike game for power. Oliver North ran an commercial that talked about Senetor Chuck Robb: 'Why can't Chuck Robb tell the truth? About the cocaine parties where Robb said he never saw drugs-then four of his party friends were sent to prison for deaing cocain. Or about a beauty queen in the hotel room in New York. Robb says it was only a massage. 'Chuck Robb lived ...
- 1056: Lao-Tzu: The Moderation Of Rul
- ... In fact, some purposely meet the requirements of poverty just to receive their monthly check; and for some this money is not spent on the essentials required for living but to feed their addiction to drugs or alcohol. Providing people with subsidies leads to less self-reliance, which for many leads to a cycle of immorality. This circle of dependence testifies to Lao-Tzu's remark, "the more subsidies you have ...
- 1057: ROBBERY OF FREEDOM:The Ultimate Injustice
- ... I made the statement that he should stay in his greedy drug world and stop trying to destroy people who are trying to make a living. I told him he destroyed enough people with his drugs. That's all, just got it off of my chest. In June 1996 (16 months later) I was charged under a newly created law for "stalking John will Waters." April 24, 1996 was when the ...
- 1058: Terry Fox
- ... my lungs and I have to go home." His voice broke as he spoke. But he continued "and have some more x-rays or maybe an operation that will involving opening my chest or more drugs Ill do everything I can. Im gonna do my best. Ill fight. I promise I wont give up." His father pleated with him to give up and take the rest of his ...
- 1059: Steve Jobs
- ... company. People that he has worked with are afraid of being "Steved" if they dont work hard enough; that means fired by Steve. In conclusion, Steve Jobs who was a college dropout, experimented with drugs and Eastern religions before turning to computers, is a very strange man. He continues to lead Apple and his sub companies into the 21st century by carrying the lead in computers. Competing with Windows is ...
- 1060: Ronald Reagan
- ... described as "the great communicator." Reagan also received strong support from religious groups, who were unhappy about what they saw as decreasing respect for religion in public life and about increasing respect to sex and drugs, that had emerged in the late 1960s. These groups had little in common, and stood on Reagans side to make changes. Reagan also controlled a solid majority over middle class and working class Americans ...
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