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- 801: Brave New World
- ... Crome Yellow (1921) and Antic Hay. His later writing became more mystical in character, as in Eyeless in Gaza and Time Must Have a Stop, while Island is an optimistic Utopia. He also experimented with drugs. The two essays about his mescaline adventures are The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, nicely chronicled through letter correspondences during the time in Moksha. The title of Doors of Perception, lifted from poet ... Quennell 254). Huxley fills his work with questions like this to challenge your mind and show you were reality could head. In a society of today where there is so much devastation, sex, violence, and drugs Huxley’s utopia is not possible. To change people to what you want could never happen because in reality people will see that a choice to be in a perfect society you must not have ...
- 802: College Stress 2
- ... increase secretions of cortisol. Some different types of stress that increase cortisol release are the following: 1. Trauma of almost any type 2. Infection 3. Intense or cold 4. Injection of norepinephrine and other symptomatic drugs 5. Surgical operations 6. Injection of necrotizing substances beneath the skin The effect physiological stress on ACTH secretion in any type of ACTH and consequently of cortisol as well, often can increase cortisol secretion up ... mask our stress with realization that it isn't so bad or that we don't need help; by denying that we are under stress, by acting out violent, aggressive behavior, or by turning to drugs, alcohol or tobacco. These actions do not reduce our stress levels, but they increase it. Negative thinking, worrying about stressful situations, overgeneralizing, and jumping into conclusions are also actions that increase stress. In adjusting to ...
- 803: Rheumatoid arthritis
- ... ridden or in a wheelchair. Treatment of Rheumatoid arthritis is a combination of many things. The goals of treatment are to relieve pain, minimize joints destruction, maintain range of motion and joint strength. Most often, drugs are administered to relieve pain and reduce inflammation and stiffness. Steroids are also used if nothing else helps. Drug therapy has potentially serious side effects over long-term use. Surgery can be performed in serious ... maybe even preventing it. There are many effective treatments to help those who suffer from Rheumatoid Arthritis. WORKS CITED Gach, Michael Reed. Arthritis Relief at Your Fingertips: Your Guide to Easing Aches and Pains Without Drugs. Warner Books. 1990. Mosby’s Medical Encyclopedia. The Learning Company, Inc. 1994-5, 1996, 1997.
- 804: The War on...Dress Codes
- ... any other drug. What reason do teachers and other Lake staff actually have for this rule though? At age 13, 14, 15, and older, not very many people are going to be influenced to take drugs just by seeing a marijuana T-shirt worn by a fellow classmate. All students by at least 4th grade know that drugs and alcohol are bad for you and seeing a shirt that says “What I Really Learned In Shopclass” below the picture of a boy carving out a bowl most likely isn’t going to influence ...
- 805: Brave New World Essays
- ... and father could be put together for a child in the savage society, but in the Brave New World, everyone had their own life. There were no personal relationships, and there was no love. Also, drugs were looked down upon by the reservation, and yet, in the Brave New World, drugs, specifically soma, are the food for life. Instead of living through rough situations, society went on soma holidays for their problems. All these “wrongs” to John, were making him upset. John tried to give the ...
- 806: Depression: A Deadly Disease
- ... Tally, Questions) The exact cause of depression remains unknown. There are many theories to what triggers this disease and why it comes about. The most probable explanation, and the one which the treatment of antidepressant drugs is based on, is that there is an imbalance in certain chemical messengers, called neurotransmitters, in the brain. The neurotransmitters, of which there are about 30, transfer messages between nerve cells in the brain. Some ... a treatment program will be chosen to help set the person on a road to recovery. (Pfizer, Unmasking) There are three approaches to treatment which are the use of psychological therapies, the use of antidepressant drugs, and the combination of both. The right choice of treatment depends on a variety of factors, such as severity, symptoms, age, etc. (Baldine, 104) The most common forms of psychotherapy are cognitive behavioral therapy and ...
- 807: The Changes In The Movie Industry
- ... use. In the movie Last Summer (1969), directed by Frank Perry, there is a great deal of sexual innuendoes. The characters from the movie are adolescents that experiment with their sexual desires and experiment with drugs. This film also defies the norm or adolescents being uneducated to the worldly things such as sex and drugs. The adolescents in the movie have a deeper knowledge of themselves and are more complex than the way previous movies portrait them as. Not to mention The Graduate (1967), directed by Mike Nichols, a story ...
- 808: Abortion: Complicated Issue With Moral, Political, Ethical, Religious and Economic Factors
- ... towards the child because it would remind her of the rape or its father. And when a child is unloved or neglected it is known that that child is more likely to get addicted to drugs, turn to crime , or join gangs. Doing all these things in the long run ends up costing the public more. We would pay for it living in jail or its rehabilitation or losing people to ... and their child. So mothers who have children young 90% of the time end up on welfare and ruin their futures. While their children are brought up in substandard living would be more susceptible to drugs and crime. I personally am for the right to choose. However I think that abortion is an awful procedure and should be avoided in anyway possible and for it to be a last resort. I ...
- 809: Ecstasy The Hug Drug
- ... size. They range from 50mg to 300mg depending on where it is made. Usually ecstasy is combined with smack, cocaine, heroin, or LSD as a way of coping with some of its undesirable effects. Although drugs are very expensive to purchase, they are extremely cheap to make. "One tablet can be produced for two cents and turn around and be sold for as much as $45 on the street," remarks Raymond ... the normal thing to do at parties. This drug maybe great for awhile, but them comes the after effects which can last quite a long time. Quoted by a famous hound McGruff, " Don't to Drugs."
- 810: Abortion Debate - Pro-Life Stance
- ... 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 ...
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