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- 1111: Kim Kim
- ... India. Plot: Kim grew up on the streets of Lahore. His Irish mother had died when he was born. His father, a former colorsergeant of an Irish regiment called the Mavericks, died eventually from doing drugs and having too much to drink, and left his son in care of a half-caste woman. So young Kimball O'hara became Kim, and under the hot Indian sun his skin grew so dark ...
- 1112: Fahrenheit 451 & Brave New Wor
- ... world" become less human, but those who actively question the new values of society discover truth about the society, about themselves, and about people in general. An example of this is Huxley's views of drugs as an escape. The conforming members of society used widely a drug called soma, which induces hallucinations and escapes from the conscious world for two to eight hour periods. Those very few who didn't ...
- 1113: Brave New World
- ... as a perfect world in which everyone is happy. If this was true, the people would not need to take soma, an equivalent along the lines of a cross between one of todays designer drugs and Prozac. The Director, who goes nameless for most of the story, is less important than the controller is, and he also knows less. This is shown by his shock when the Controller dares to ...
- 1114: Brave New World
- ... that Huxley presents, everyone is happy. There are no differences. Everyone is brought up to be happy, and most do not even know what sadness or anger is. All is cured artificially through surrogates or drugs. Even happiness alone is not unique to the individual. Soma, the hallucinatory drug, the 'perfect drug' that is used by all, even induces the same kind of happiness. The only variant is to what extent ...
- 1115: Report On Book Titled Black Li
- ... open-minded. Stubbornness was a virtue it seems in that even though someone was kind hearted, they did not want to look kind hearted in front of their peers. Its like when early teenagers try drugs. They feel pressured and feel as if they have to do what the others are doing or the results might be that they become shunned. In today s society racism is frowned upon. There is ...
- 1116: Juice
- ... include hypertension and severe acne. The mental effects are aggressiveness, depression, mood swings and psychosis. The liver is the body organ most effected by steroid use because it is the primary means of clearing these drugs from the body. The toxic chemicals in the steroids, mainly the alkyl group, cause liver malfunctions and, after extended use, can cause liver cancer. (Goldman, Klatz) Another negative side effect of the drug is sterility ...
- 1117: Arival Time Of School Essay
- ... is puberty demands more sleep. There are also risks involved with not getting enough sleep. Most people will be very sleepy and drowsy during the day, mood and behavioral problems, and even increased vulnerability to drugs and alcohol. These things could also develop more into serious sleeping disorders. Experts advise to not read or watch television shows when unwinding from a day at school or work. Mary Carskadon of Brown University ...
- 1118: Real Meaning Of LIfe
- ... not, then anything can happen. Is it any wonder then that people fall back on religion or belief in UFOs or New Age spiritualism or celebrity worship or television shows or gambling or alcohol or drugs or Nazism or all of the other hundred forms of escapism out there? Atheists may feel contempt for religious people; but they fall back on something too. Pope John Paul II recently adopted the revisionist ...
- 1119: SEX...as It Is(kind Of Long But Worth The Read)
- ... and property. It has nothing to do with power then. Men who have sex with drunk and incapacitated women (like that male nurse in Florida who impregnated a comatose woman); or who use "date-rape" drugs like Rohypnol fall into this category I suppose. But there's also an undeniable link between male sexual lust and sadism and violence (something undeniably predatory about sex). In locker rooms, men refer to sex ...
- 1120: The American
- ... ready to wage war for our brothers and sisters? Do you think they will be any different? What are we about to do? Why have we declared war against an unknown enemy? Do we have drugs in the streets even after decades fought against them? Was Vietnam not enough? As if trading sands for a jungle changes the game. We have lost two buildings and countless lives; need we erect a ...
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