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- 451: Gang Violence
- ... Mafia Crips, Athens Park Boys, or the Underground crip. Signs are shown below. While gangs grow and get more powerful, what is being done? City police departments play a big role in stopping violence and drugs. The most popular program for school aged children is the D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education). D.A.R.E. teaches kids that violence and drugs are not a good way of life. This program takes place in grades' 4-8. In the Phoenix Police Department they support the G.R.E.A.T. Program. It teaches children avoidance of drugs and gangs. It shows children other ways to have power and belonging. In G.R.E.A.T. they have 3rd and 4th grade summer session and a 7th and 8th grade school program. ...
- 452: Date Rape
- ... Sometimes a man thinks that a woman owes him something if he has taken her out for dinner and a movie or if a woman acts in a friendly manner towards him. The presence of drugs and alcohol are also a contributing factor to the occurrence of date rape. An example of date rape that occurs commonly, especially within a college campus, is when both the man and women are drunk ... the man may see this as an opportunity to take advantage of her because she will most likely be less defensive towards him. Some men plan the act of rape, and may use alcohol or drugs in order to lesson a woman's judgment. In some cases, someone may slip a drug into a women's drink, causing her to forget what had happened the night before when she wakes the ... fact is that if she is not sober and in a correct state of mind, she cannot consent to have sex. There are many contributing factors to the increased date rape that occurs. Alcohol and drugs obviously play a large role. Some may say that women wearing loose or revealing attire is an open invite to men. Others say that pornography desensitizes men to women so that they do not ...
- 453: Steroids The Easy Way To Destr
- ... goal of quick gains in muscularity and body size, but in reality, users are damaging the body's natural hormone balance, which can have permanent ill effects. Many people don't realize that steroids are drugs, and that they can be addictive. After long period of use, many athletes tend to increase their dosages, thereby increasing the body's need for the drug and the psychological dependence on it. According to ... think straight. You're afraid to stop." Steroids have addictive effect like those of amphetamines, such as rage, uncontrollable aggression and almost schizophrenic behavior. Because of the dependency and psychological effects, steroids are dangerously addictive drugs. All drugs are toxic substances to the body, and steroids are no exception. Steroids have a pronounced effect on the behavior of the user, create an imbalance in the body's hormone system and create addiction. ...
- 454: Strong Shadows
- ... chose them for her book. 2. The human frailty that Deborah Sweet possessed was that she was untrustworthy, she was always trying to get Dr. Zuger to get something for her such as prescriptions for drugs that would sell on the street or get her to write her a note to be allowed to miss court. The human frailty that Michael Soto has was when he first got the HIV virus and when he was using drugs. He is a very nice and willing patient and does not want to burden others with his problems. This shortcoming was very hard to decide on because he was such a good person. Cynthia Wilson ... of ignorance and a determinant of the likelihood of contracting HIV and the way in which one deals with it once it has been contracted. Eddies Rios human frailty is that he is addicted to drugs. He tries to care for his wife but he cannot. He made good by getting his kids back and out of foster care and he loves his wife with all his heart. Anita Lewis ...
- 455: Marilyn Monroe: Suicide or Murder
- ... was dying
This was one of the strangest facts about the case. (Brown, and Barham) Marilyn Monroe did have somewhat of a drug problem, as told by everyone who knew her including her stepsister. The drugs and anti- depressants Marilyn took mainly consisted of sleeping pills and anti depressants prescribed by her psychiatrist, who is believed to have something to do with Marilyns death. After Marilyn's funeral studio publicists broke ... enough to kill three people. (Brown, and Barham) If Monroe had ingested a large number of pills, a residue should have remained in her stomach, yet nothing was found. Her kidneys were also clear of drugs, and tissue samples from her small intestine, which might have settled the question of murder, disappeared from the coroner's office. Brown and Barham believe that her death was overdose by injection in rectum or ... thirty her analyst had left Monroe. Afterward she talked to her step son Joe DiMaggio Jr., and her friend Jeanne Carmen, among others---none of whom believed she was depressed or under the influence of drugs. (Anthony Summers) Monroe died before midnight on August 4, 1962, housekeeper Eunice Murray found the body and called Ralph Greenson. She wasn't pronounced dead until four a.m. The number of people Murray ...
- 456: Antibiotic Resistance In Bacteria
- ... more it will decrease the effect it has on you. That is because the bacteria has found a way to avoid the effects of that antibiotic. Another cause of resistance is the improper use of drugs. When patients feel that the symptoms of their disease have improved, they often stop taking the drug. Just because the symptoms have disappeared it does not mean the disease has gone away. Prescribed drugs should be taken until all the medicine is gone so the disease is completely finished. If it is not, then this will just give the bacteria some time to find a way to avoid the ... decreasing and antibiotic resistance is increasing, new research on how to battle bacteria is starting. Antibiotic resistance spreads fast but efforts are being made to slow it. Improving infection control, discovering new antibiotics, and taking drugs more appropriately are ways to prevent resistant bacteria from spreading. In developing nations, approaches are being made to control infections such as hand washing by health care people, and identifying drug resistant infections quickly ...
- 457: Views of Gangs
- ... own symbol , color , dress style or hand signal. Then there are branches of the gangs. It usually depends on were you live to what gang is in your area. Also many gangs are associated with drugs from smoking cigarettes to sniffing cocaine. There are many gangs who buy, sell and even make drugs. In many gangs to join you have to be jumped in meaning about 30 guys from the gang come and beat the crap out of you.Or they give you some kind of test like ... with each type of gang comes with slang from the gang members countries such as "ehh vato u messin wid me esse dont u know im loco" .Alot of gang members are rich from selling drugs and things like that so u always see a big gangster driven a real nice car. They also have female gangs and they are just as viscious as the guy gangs they do the ...
- 458: Charles Manson
- ... unemployed at the Spahn Ranch, near Los Angeles. Manson had lovely ideas and his followers or "Family" regarded him as a Christ-like figure. They indulged in free love practices, pseudo religious ceremonies, and used drugs such as marijuana and LSD. The Black Panthers were a major black movement in the 1960's. After killing a leader of this movement in self defence, Manson grew scared on the promise of revenge ... world made me." Another quote of Manson's is: "I hate the world I live in." By the age of thirty, he had fifty convictions against him. Manson believed in free love and experimentation with drugs. Followers of Manson came from all over the globe. They believed they had to go to the desert and bring along all the children they could convince to join the,. Children were not excluded from anything and this "freedom" appealed to may yound people. They could participate in free secual activities, experiment with drugs, or use guns and cars. Manson's ranch became a home for runaways, people in trouble with they law, and hippires. Manson did not like hippies, and he said they were just trying to ...
- 459: Effects of Advertisements
- ... There are a lot of good, meaningful commercials. The government tries to prevent certain groups of people, mostly teenagers, from doing wrong and that is why it sponsors a lot of commercials that are against drugs. Also they sponsor ads that encourage people to go in to the army and earn money for college. Also, advertisements advising people not to drink and drive are positive advice. Many young people learn about violence and use of drugs from TV and movies. I think to put an opposing view of violence and drugs on TV, using commercials is a very good idea. It makes a very big difference because teens do listen to what other teens have to say, and often, these ads feature teenagers. Another example ...
- 460: Bacterial Resistance
- ... even needed. According to a 1998 report by the Institute of Medicine, up to fifty percent of antibiotics are prescribed unnecessarily. This blatant overuse of antibiotics had a profound effect on the efficiency of the drugs in the future. The wonder drugs that had been so effective in treating an array of diseases had started to lose the battle against increasingly resistant bacteria, often referred to as superbugs. The problem of bacterial resistance is rooted in the overuse of many antibiotics. Doctors used antibiotics to treat countless diseases and some bacteria became resistant to the drugs after time. The problem of antibacterial resistance is of gigantic proportions and there is much that needs to be done to alleviate this problematic situation. Both normal and mutant bacteria replicate at an astounding ...
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