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- 811: Abortion 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 ...
- 812: Malcolm X
- ... restaurant and on a railroad kitchen crew. In 1942 he moved to a section in New York called Harlem. Where he lived as a hustler, cheating people to make money for himself. He also sold drugs and became a drug addict himself. A rival drug dealer named "West Indian Archie" ran him out of New York. And he ended up back in Boston. Where he started a burglary ring, which consisted ... which whites would be destroyed and black people would rule the world through the power of Allah, their creator. To prepare for this Brother Bains preached, the importance of self-restraint, opposed the use of drugs and alcohol, and organized self-help groups. Malcolm Little was converted to this faith. Instead of wasting his time in prison getting into more trouble, he begins to read and broaden his thoughts. As he ...
- 813: Humans Are Curious By Nature
- ... past which led us to where we are today. In that light it would be foolish that we could hope to understand what happened on earth before our arrival, yet people do
The stories Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs by: Stephen Jay Gould and that of Kathy A. Svitil Nubian Diet Revealed at Last, each attempt to reach a scientific conclusion as to how these two chapters of ... lost chapters of our world's diary? It depends on the archeologists and scholars armed with books and theories, spoons and toothbrushes to go and "dig up" the truth. Works Cited -Gould, Stephen J. "Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs." 75 Readings Plus. Santi Buscemi & Charlotte Smith. United States: McGraw Hill, 1998. pp 448-454. - Svitil, Kathy A. "Nubian Diet Revealed at Last." 75 Readings Plus. Santi Buscemi & Charlotte ...
- 814: Not Fade Away
- ... the Big Bopper, the basis of the novel. The characters as well opened George up to new things: Donna's record player gave George the knowledge of music as well as instant happiness; Joshua's drugs and insanity allowed George to unwind and live a little more; and the ghost's passion for having a good time added for interesting events and conversations in the book. Not only did these things ... funky, jazzy beats of Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, and even the Big Bopper's "Chantilly Lace." Donna had a rather large impact on George's journey. In the era of these musicians, drugs were very common, such as the speed that George would take. One day George picked up a crazy, experimental scientist named Joshua. Joshua and George did LSD together, and Joshua craziness rubbed off on George ...
- 815: Brave New World 8
- ... 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 ...
- 816: The Physical and Psychological Effects of Marijuana
- ... 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 ...
- 817: Hooked on the Internet
- ... is becoming clear that millions cannot control the habit of spending endless hours in front of the computer screens, and that addiction to Internet can cause as much damage in people's lives as alcohol, drugs, and gambling. Why is this new epidemic so widespread? Computers are rather inexpensive: even one thousand dollars can buy a perfectly adequate one. Daniel Dern, a well-known author in many computer related fields, states ... ignoring important aspects of their lives, in favor of playing in cyberspace close to 40 hours a week. "It is tearing families apart, destroying careers, and shattering relationships in much the same way alcoholism and drugs abuse do", argues Lehrman (61). Net addiction can cause depression and withdrawal from reality. People use Internet to avoid problems in their lives or because they lack social skills, employing the Internet as an escape ...
- 818: Infectious Diseases
- ... and painstaking one to treat. At the present time, there are eleven HIV antiviral medications available for those suffering from the disease. These antiviral medications are divided into "nuke", "non-nuke" and "protease inhibitors". These drugs attack the virus at two different places in its lifecycle. The nuke and non-nuke drugs slow down the HIV by interfering with its ability to teach your cells how to make more HIV. Though the old nuke medications only suppressed HIV by 70%, the new nukes are able to suppress ...
- 819: Little League Coaches
- ... in Hennepin County, is an organization that strives to make our communities safer, healthier places for our youth to live and thrive. The CPC's mission is to prevent the use of alcohol, tobacco, other drugs and violence among young people. (Womble) The Community Prevention Coalition has a slogan that reads Role Models = Everyday People.(Womble) When you examine your average Little League Coach, the people that volunteer are your everyday ... is a three square mile community. In a small town, people all know each other, and can see each other on the streets of town. If a coach were to have problems with alcohol or drugs, his players may hear different people discussing his problems. Also, because coaches may live very close by it makes it easy for the players to show up at the front door of their coaches homes ...
- 820: Depression 5
- ... Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil, which has been hailed as a breakthrough in the treatment of depression. They cause fewer side effects than the older anti-depressants. Also, since they seem to interact less with other drugs, they can be prescribed to the elderly. Nevertheless, side effects do still occur. Insomnia, drowsiness, headache, nausea, constipation or decreased sexual desires are they. Monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitors require following a special diet because they interact with tryamine, which is found in cheeses, beer, wine, chicken livers, and other foods, and cause the elevation of blood pressure. The tricyclic antidepressants require no special diet. Drugs such as amitriptyline, desipramine, doxepin, and imipramine are in this class. Lithium carbonate, a common mineral, is used to control the manic phase of a manic depressive illness. In smaller doses it is also used ...
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