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- 641: The Need For Gun Control
- ... in 1994. [1] This report shows a substantial increase in the number of killings by people who are under the age of eighteen. Most of these people are often participants in gangs and involved with drugs. Many of these people find that guns are a much easier method to defeat his or her opponent in a quarrel. This problem is made worse by the increasing availability of guns. Residents of gang ... for a traffic violation, that person could decide to shoot that police officer in an attempt to get away. This would cause major problems in society. Another thing is that people under the influence of drugs or alcohol might use their guns on somebody with out reason because of impaired reasoning and judgment associated with inebriation. Now I'm not saying every person would be and is like that, but there ...
- 642: Tv Viewing
- ... what goes on around them. The best way to do that is through life experience not through TV. For example if a student saw drug use on TV he/she would have no idea about drugs until they experiment with the drug, or see the effects of drugs on someone in real life. Teenagers are at a point where they can distinguish reality from fiction. Schools should focus on giving teenagers more projects about life. For example marriage projects that are not real ...
- 643: Censorship
- ... educational system, films, radio, television, and against the graphic and theatre arts. However or whenever these attacks occur, they usually fall at least one of the following categories: Religion War & Peace (Violence) Sociology & Race Language Drugs Sex Inappropriate Adolescent Behaviour What is Obscenity? Clearly something hard to talk about constructively. "Obscenity" is difficult to discuss honestly. After all, what makes a thing obscene? It is Something too vague perhaps to be ... commercial enterprise. There has been an increasing trend towards children's literature that reflects a more realistic approach to the life both fiction and non-fiction, with subjects that include sex, homosexuality, divorce, child abuse, drugs, violence, etc. And they are these realistic books that have people outraged. In school libraries, the most frequent complaints come from parents about the school's selections. And in public libraries, parents were once again ...
- 644: Current Status of Malaria Vaccinology
- ... enter its digestive system where they mature in to sporozoites, thus the life cycle of the plasmodium is begun again waiting to infect its next host. At present people infected with Malaria are treated with drugs such as Chloroquine, Amodiaquine or Mefloquine. These drugs are effectiv e ateradicating the exoethrocytic stages but resistance to them is becoming increasing common. Therefore a vaccine looks like the only viable option. The wiping out of the vector i.e. Anophels mosquito would ...
- 645: Teen Pregnancy
- ... than older women. The most hazardous complication is low birth weight. "One out of seven babies born to teenage mothers have a low birth weight" (Hildebrand 88). Poor eating habits, smoking, or using alcohol or drugs, cause low birth weight. Premature babies and babies with low birth weights often have organs that haven't fully developed, such as lungs, heart and brain. These babies get sick easier than normal weight babies ... reproductive systems have diffentiated. By 12 weeks all of the organs have developed. During these first weeks, the mother should be very careful because the fetus is most vulnerable to potential teratogenic, birth-defect inducing drugs, radiation, and viruses. All of those factors are very dangerous to the fetus. During the second trimester the mother has increasing abdominal girth and pressure from the growing uterus. Braxton-Hicks contractions may occur. The ...
- 646: Crimes
- Crimes Crime refers to many types of misconduct forbidden by law. Crimes include such things as murder, stealing a car, resisting arrest, possessing or selling illegal drugs, appearing nude on a public street, drunken driving, and bank robbery. The list of acts considered crimes is constantly changing. For example, at one time, people were charged with witchcraft, but this is no longer ... by groups of gangsters or racketeers. Such groups are often called the "crime syndicate or the underworld." Organized crime specializes in providing illegal goods and services. Its activities include gambling, prostitution, the illegal sale of drugs, and loaning money at extremely high rates of interest. Many of these activities are often called "victimless crimes" because both the buyer and the seller take part in them willingly. Most activities of the crime ...
- 647: Effect On Pot
- ... absence of marijuana. Even if there is an association between this syndrome and the use of marijuana, that does not prove that marijuana causes the syndrome. Many troubled individuals seek an 'escape' into use of drugs; thus, frequent use of marijuana may become one more in a series of counterproductive behaviors for these unhappy people." Other studies have found another interesting correlation: Shedler reported these results in a longitudinal survey of adolescents: "Adolescents who engaged in some drug experimentation (primarily with marijuana) were the best adjusted in the sample. Adolescents who used drugs frequently were maladjusted, showing distinct personality syndrome marked by interpersonal alienation, poor impulse control, and manifest emotional distress. Adolescents who, by age 18, had never experimented with any drug were relatively anxious, emotionally constricted, and ...
- 648: Government Should Establish Program To Reduce Juvenile Crime
- ... in his state of the union address when he said, ...We have seen a stunning and simultaneous breakdown of community, family, and work. This has created a vast vacuum which has been filed by violence, drugs and gangs. So I ask you to remember that even as we say no to crime, we must give people, especially our young people something to say yes' to Advantage II. The federal government has ... of juveniles and parents, the family structures in America may be improved. There are many success stories such as John Walker, age 11, who had the habit of getting into trouble with the law, including drugs and gang violence. After some professional counseling, he made straight A's every quarter and was student of the month twice. The generation of the future may have a future after all if these prevention ...
- 649: Caffeine
- ... caffeine to start your day off, to keep you going all day long, you are probably psychologically addicted to the drug. Caffeine is capable of causing physical dependence in the same way as other addictive drugs such as alcohol, heroin, nicotine, and the barbiturates. Unlike the symptoms associated with these drugs, caffeine withdrawal are not life-threatening. One characteristic symptom of caffeine withdrawal is anxiety. A coffee drinker may drink a lot of coffee only in the morning and never in the afternoon or evening, Such ...
- 650: Definition Essay
- ... when the spicoli trait first came about. The spicoli trait is the perfect example of stereotyping a surfer, the trait is classically defined as one who is ignorant and is involved with the usage of drugs, or most often referred to as the beach bum. When people look at surfers all that comes to mind is ignorance, drugs, parties, so forth and so on, but little do they know that surfers are always amongst them doctors, lawyers, teachers, and even their own kids. Surfers are one of the most peace minded and charismatic ...
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