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- 621: Allegory Of American Pie By Do
- ... Charles Manson murders (which Manson claimed were connected with the song Helter Skelter); the marches for civil rights and against the Vietnam War (Jordan). The underlying message that McLean was trying to convey was that drugs were ruining the music. The Byrds sang a song called Eight Miles High, but they were falling fast and landed ‘foul’ on the "grass", marijuana (Jordan), which was also the sweet perfume (Kulawiec). During the ... the mid- 60s (half-time). The ‘sergeants’ are either the Beatle’s ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ or the Army playing marching music because of the draft. And what was "revealed" was that drugs, in this verse and in this corresponding era of rock and roll, was the final ruin of rock and roll. McLean has traced rock's demise in stages: it was at its pinnacle in the ...
- 622: Teen Drinking
- ... The chance that a child of a mother who drinks during pregnancy will live a normal life is very low. The sad thing is that girls who may know it is bad to do “hard drugs” during pregnancy, choose to drink instead. In a study done by the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, it was found that one out of every five pregnant women uses drugs, smokes, or drinks, putting themselves or their baby at serious risk. The baby will not only be at risk for FAS, it will also have a better chance of becoming an alcoholic. Over forty percent ...
- 623: The Battle For Your Mind: Persuasion & Brainwashing Techniques Being Used On The Public
- ... normal brain functions are fasting, radical or high sugar diets, physical discomforts, regulation of breathing, mantra chanting in meditation, the disclosure of awesome mysteries, special lighting and sound effects, programmed response to incense, or intoxicating drugs. The same results can be obtained in contemporary psychiatric treatment by electric shock treatments and even by purposely lowering a person's blood sugar level with insulin injections. Before I talk about exactly how some ... intimidated into agreement or forced to leave. The next step is to agree to complete training, thus assuring a high percentage of conversions for the organizations. They will usually have to agree not to take drugs, smoke, and sometimes not to eat . . . or they are given such short meal breaks that it creates tension. The real reason for the agreements is to alter internal chemistry, which generates anxiety and hopefully causes ...
- 624: Brave New World: Comparing Life In the World State With Life In the US Today
- ... new world had put 2000 pharmacologists and biochemists to work long before the action of the novel begins; in six years they had perfected the drug. In the United States today, we look down on drugs heavily even legal ones, for example, alcohol and tobacco. Certain drugs of this type have been tested and the side effects have been noted to shorten one's life span and make them complete actions unlike anything they would normally do when not under the influence ...
- 625: Ibuprofen
- ... because many people in society use over the counter pain killers without really understanding any of the long term effects of this medicine other than clearing their aches pains, and swelling. One of the leading drugs on the market today is Ibuprofen which you may know as Motrin or Advil. Both drugs are identical except for quantity and price, and even there it might be the same. The organism I chose to work with is a crustacean called the Daphnia. Later in this report I will attempt ...
- 626: Abortion: Who Really Cares
- ... disease and prevention of pregnancy. Let is give our children good sex education; and let us get tough on pornography, clean up the newstands, literature and "Adult Movies" and television programmes which encourage crime, abusive drugs and make mockery of morality and good behaviour and therefore, contribute to rape. By some peculiar trick of adult logic, proponents of abortion talk about fetal indications for act. Whatever abortion may do for the ... not only potential but actual". In a society one is not totally free to do what one will with one's own body (we don't have the right to get drunk or high on drugs and drive down Young Street.) The great concern has been shown for the innocent victims of highjacking but what is abortion but this? The highjacking without reprieve, of an innocent passenger out of his mother ...
- 627: Cannabis Sativa
- ... the early years of this century, Americans could buy any sort of drug at the pharmacy. This went on until people became seriously addicted and slowly the public realized the danger of the habit-forming drugs. Britain was the first country to outlaw the use of the drug in 1928. A decade later marijuana was considered illegal almost all over the world. In the 50's and 60's, marijuana use ... natures perfect food, the oil from the hemp seeds has the highest percentage of a essential fatty acids and the lowest percentage of saturated fats. Marijuana as a medicine is safer than most of the drugs sold in a pharmacy. In 1988, D.E.A.'s own a administrative law judge concluded that "marijuana is one of the safest, therapeutically active substances known to man" (Hill 3). It has never been ...
- 628: Life or Death: Who Chooses?
- ... disease and prevention of pregnancy. Let is give our children good sex education; and let us get tough on pornography, clean up the newstands, literature and "Adult Movies" and television programmes which encourage crime, abusive drugs and make mockery of morality and good behaviour and therefore, contribute to rape. By some peculiar trick of adult logic, proponents of abortion talk about fetal indications for act. Whatever abortion may do for the ... not only potential but actual". In a society one is not totally free to do what one will with one's own body (we don't have the right to get drunk or high on drugs and drive down Young Street.) The great concern has been shown for the innocent victims of highjacking but what is abortion but this? The highjacking without reprieve, of an innocent passenger out of his mother ...
- 629: The Changes in the Narrator's View of Sonny
- ... Sonny, surprising me."(49) Actually, Sonny understood life much more clearly than the narrator, but the narrator did not realize that then. He thought that perhaps Sonny was just too young or too high on drugs to understand what life was about. Finally, the third view changed was the narrator's responsibility towards Sonny. Before the brothers' mother died, the narrator promised he would take it upon himself to take care ... during the second stage his feelings about Sonny's sense of reality didn't. When he saw Sonny after Sonny's stay in the Navy, the narrator still viewed Sonny as if he were on drugs. "He carried himself, loose and dreamlike all the time, ...and his music seemed to be merely an excuse for the life he led. It sounded just that weird and disordered."(52) He thought that Sonny ...
- 630: Cryogenics: Is It Worth Waiting For
- ... state of “suspended animation.” Almost immediately after rapid thawing, the frozen cells regain normal activity. Cooling of the body causes a loss of feeling, therefore it can be used as anesthesia in surgery. Since certain drugs don’t affect healthy cells at low temperatures, the drugs can be safely used against cancerous tumors in the body. Cryogenics also helps in the preservation and storage of human tissues. Tissues such as eye corneas, skin, and blood that were rapidly frozen can be ...
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