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- 321: Drugs And Teenagers
- ... peer pressure, curiosity, and availability. Drugs addiction among adolescents in turn lead to depression and suicide. One of the most important reasons of teenage drug usage is peer pressure. Peer pressure represents social influences that effect adolescents, it can have a positive or a negative effect, depending on person's social group and one can follow one path of the other. We are greatly influenced by the people around us. In today's schools drugs are very common, peer pressure usually ... don't exist. Known as "acid", this drug is extremely powerful, once teaspoon can contain up to 25'000 doses. Only 200 micrograms is needed for one trip. The danger of LSD is that the effect of LSD is extremely unpredictable since it depends on a person's physical conditions and also his/her mood. About one hour after taking LSD it'll start to take effect, the user will ...
- 322: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... are his dealings with his fellow trench soldiers. Unlike Baumer’s feelings at home where he chooses not to speak with his father and makes an empty vow to Frau Kemmerich, Baumer is able to effect true communication, of both a verbal and spiritual kind, with his fellow trench soldiers. Indeed, within this group, words can have a meaningful, soothing, even rejuvenating, effect. Not long after his return from leave, Baumer and some of his comrades go out on patrol to ascertain the enemy’s strength. During this patrol, Baumer is pinned down in a shell hole, becomes ... Quiet IX. 184-85). He is unable to regain his equanimity until he hears voices behind him. He recognizes the voices and realizes that he is close to his comrades in his own trench. The effect of his fellow soldiers’ words on Baumer is antithetical to the effect his father’s and his father’s friends’ empty words have on him. At once a new warmth flows through me. These ...
- 323: Advertiser Influence on the Media: Censorship and the Media
- ... biggest financial and in-kind contributors to the school. Blue Springs South High School officials sent their students a terrible message: Protecting business is more important than obeying the law. This paper will discuss the effect of advertiser influence on news reporting in the United States, using the Jaguar Journal as a case study. Part II will discuss the circumstances surrounding the advertiser pressure to censor the Jaguar Journal article. Part ... s an action to intimidate or silence [the student reporters] as long as it is being done based on the content of the publication. It is not directly silencing [the students], but it has that effect ." In an interview Littrell declined to comment on the pending lawsuit, but stated that there were fundamental differences in the editorial philosophy of Halas and the administration . "I think the school newspaper should be a ... and respect that a community educated on the danger of advertiser pressure will not condone the practice on their news outlets . The discussion group offers two long-term goals that are designed to lessen the effect of advertiser influence on news organizations. The first involves the establishment of community outreach organizations that can present important issues to news editors . In a sense, communities should build coalitions to determine the issues ...
- 324: Indicactor Lab
- ... odor. These observations led me to my conclusion that substance B is spoiled milk. Test-tube C: Test-tube C had ammonia in it. The substance reacted to red litmus paper, and it had no effect on blue litmus paper. Phenolphthalein turned a hot pink color very quickly, and the pH value was about 11.5. The substance was clear and had a strong odor to it. These results led me to my conclusion that substance C is ammonia. Test-tube D: Test-tube D contained lemonade. The substance reacted to blue litmus paper, and red litmus underwent no changes. It had no effect on Phenolphthalein, and its pH value was 3, a strong acid. Knowing that lemons are very acidic, and that the substance was yellow and sweet smelling, I concluded that substance D was lemonade. Test-tube E: I could not come to a conclusion on what substance E was. It reacted weakly to blue litmus paper, and it did not change red litmus. It had no effect on Phenolphthalein, but its pH value tested as 7. This cannot be correct however, because all acids have a pH value less than 7. The appearance and smell were not of any help, because ...
- 325: Global Warming Extended Definition Essay
- ... may be nothing out of the ordinary about these latest extremes in the weather, but they may all be part of a climatic conspiracy. The people who believe in this climatic conspiracy believe that the greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide, pumped into the atmosphere by humans are warming the globe and changing the Earth's climate. They believe that global warming is occurring because, "these gases [greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide] are transparent to sunlight, which warms the Earth, but absorb infrared radiation, by which the Earth radiates heat out into space" (Kay, 5). This suggests that humans along with carbon dioxide ... earth's temperature owes more to a bigger, longer-term change in the sun's output-an increase in the average number of sunspots measured over the course of a cycle-and less to the greenhouse gases " ("In flux: a strange interaction", 66). Sunspots, created by twisted magnetic fields on the face of the sun, determine the sun's brightness. The surface magnetism on the sun and its brightness runs ...
- 326: Hitler's Ambitions
- ... it succeed. His will alone make the party succeed. The first important speech Hitler made in his life was in a beer cellar at a party meeting. Hitler’s spoke second but this did not effect his speech. Hitler spoke with excitement, emotion, and shocked everyone in the room (Flood p71-72, 75-76). This speech gave Hitler’s political career a jumpstart. Hitler’s speeches in meetings increased the amount ... them to accept Hitler as their leader (History place). This was not a well thought out plan. Hitler did not think of any backup plans just incase something went wrong. Hitler’s plan went into effect on November 8, 1923. Hitler and his troops stormed into the beer hall in Munich, where the political leaders were having a party. He successfully kidnapped and forced the leaders to accept him as their ... were quit for Hitler and the Nazi party (History place). On Tuesday, October 29, 1929 the stock market collapsed. This was a devastating blow on the economy worldwide. The stock market crash had a good effect for someone though. That someone was Adolf Hitler. This was the perfect chance Hitler was looking for. The German economy dropped heavily because of their great investment on foreign countries, especially America. This could ...
- 327: Abnormal Psychology: Mental Disorders
- Abnormal Psychology: Mental Disorders Schizophrenia http://www.mentalhealth.com/book/p40-sc02.html#Head_1 Schizophrenia is a disorder that can effect anyone. It is the greatest the greatest disorder that effects teenagers. When someone is effected by the disorder it is not just that one person that has to learn to deal with it, the families ... which the effects who a person feels about the world around and even themselves. It makes them feel depressed and if left untreated suicide is often the result. Around 1.5% of the population is effect by some type of the disorder. Unlike many other disorders, bipolar effects a higher percent of those with a higher social status. Bipolar disorder usually comes on while the person is in their early twenties ... of skin. Similar to the Glen in the movie who would go through more than a bar of soap a day. Obsessive compulsive disorder was once thought to be rare but now is thought to effect around two percent of the population. Many cases go unreported making to hard to get an exact number of those who suffer. It effects people of all ethnic backgrounds and social classes the same. ...
- 328: Drug Prohibition
- ... less dangerous than alcohol. Also, many drugs have minor side-effects when compared to acceptable drugs. One example, heroin, is highly addictive, but when used in a clean environment with clean needles, its worst side effect is constipation (Evans and Berent, eds. 24). Overall, while 35 million people use drugs each year in the United States, only 6,000 to 30,000 ever die of drug use; therefore, there is little ... example, marijuana is laced with unsafe fertilizers. Also, when cocaine and heroin users receive an unexpected potent dose, they may kill themselves when the same amount of a regulated dose would have given the desired effect (Evans and Berent, eds. 22). Another outcome of prohibition on the individual could also be considered a concern of society since the spread of AIDS affects both groups. The transfer of AIDS through needles needed ... crime." He continued: No addict who receives an adequate supply of opium and has money enough to live is converted into a liar or thief by the direct result of the drug itself. The direct effect is to remove the irritability and unrest so characteristic of psychopathic individuals. The soothing effect of opiates in such cases is so striking and universally characteristic that one is to believe that violent crime ...
- 329: The Solitary Reaper
- ... women's voice and the tone of the poem is happy and it almost is a poem of praise. The theme of the poem seems to be the beauty of voice and song, and the effect it leaves upon a person. Wordsworth says in the last two lines, "the music in my heart I bore, long after it was heard no more". This shows the impact that the woman's singing ... mind long after he had encountered the woman. Many language techniques were used in "The Solitary Reaper". These helped create an impact on the reader and make the poem more enjoyable. Alliteration was used to effect in the fourth line of the second stanza - "Among Arabian sands". The repetition of the soft letter "A" rolls off the tongue and leaves a memorable effect on the reader. The use of eye rhyme is shown in the first stanza, where in the second and fourth lines the last word is "lass" and "pass" respectively. These two words at first ...
- 330: The Protestant Ethic And The S
- ... look at the way Weber saw occidental capitalism differing from other types of capitalism. After this I will touch upon what Weber described as the spirit of capitalism . I will then proceed to explain what effect predestination and worldly- asceticism had an on a Protestant and his calling, and how this therefore encouraged the development of Western capitalism; in Webers view. After this I will look at the evidence Weber used ... the development of Western capitalism. These were the beliefs of predestination(which Weber saw as being the Calvinists most characteristic dogma ibid) and worldly asceticism, which are described to encompass the Protestant ethic , and there effect on the Calvinists calling(ibid). In looking at predestination, Weber believed that a concept such as this must have psychologically produced anxiety and panic in the Calvinist. This was since the Calvinist believed that as ... God. For the believer such an ascetic lifestyle was to provide comfort that he was not committing sin, and hence not going to hell. Weber found such ideas on worldly asceticism and predestination, and there effect on the Calvinists calling, played a vital role in developing western capitalism.(ibid) I am now going to look at the evidence which Weber used to back up his argument. In looking at predestination, ...
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