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- 2991: Alcohol and Driving While Intoxicated
- ... directly into the bloodstream and is carried to all parts of your body. It reaches your brain in small amounts. When alcohol is ingested in larger amounts, it dulls the area of your brain that control inhibition, judgment, and self-control. Hopefully you can see how this could be detrimental to your health when driving. Drinking. But how does alcohol effect my driving? To expand upon this, drinking increases your self-confidence, and inhibitions but lowers ...
- 2992: Milton Friedman
- ... a depression. The success of Keynesian economics was such that even Richard Nixon once said, "We are all Keynesians now(Keynes, 289)." Well, that was the theory the governments were using at the time to control the economy. Obviously there were some people who objected against use of this theory. One of them was Milton Friedman. He believed that the only function the government should be allowed is to control the circulation of cash. Although he accepted Keynes' definition of recessions, he rejected the cure. He believed that the government should butt out of the business of expanding or contracting the money supply. It should ...
- 2993: Methamphetamine: Built for Speed?
- ... out right now.' However, that is what makes me a more responsible user. I not only realize my desire for speed and other amphetamines and I curb the habit." He feels that his ability to control his habit is more powerful than his lust for it. "Many of my friends are long time users of speed. However, by no means have they ruined their lives." DJ Velour believes that the rave ... music, or other creative thoughts. This occurs with other psychedelic drugs that I've done." Still, he describes the typical problem with drugs like speed. "Speed is funny. You think you've got it under control when you first do it because it's usually so nasty on the sinuses and your body that you don't ever think you could get used to the feeling... [However], you do." Other users ...
- 2994: The Bride Comes To Yellow Sky
- ... gilded imprints, of the kind beloved by little sledding boys on the hillsides of New England" (407). Despite his comical appearance, Scratchy is still the terror of the town. He is "a wonder with a gun," "the last one of the old gang that used to hang out along the river," and "out for trouble" (Crane 405). Solomon describes him as "a living cliché of the Old West, a quick draw ... new bourgeois and his wife" (Solomon 252). Potter has ignored his role as Marshal and is unarmed. Scratchy's pretend world is shattered: "There ain't a man in Texas ever seen you without no gun. Don't take me for no kid" (Crane 409). Stunned by the news of the marriage, Scratchy is quick to grant that "I s'pose it's all off now" (Crane 409). The news of ...
- 2995: Explain and Evaluate Critically Malthus's Population Theory.
- ... the article on population for that year's Encyclopedia Britannica. Malthus has been criticized for his lack of scientific foresight—he did not foresee modern advances leading to increased life expectancy, food production and birth control. He has been criticized for his politics—he thought welfare immorally increased population and hunger. He has been criticized for pessimism— the adjective Malthusian is associated with a gloomy outlook for humanity. But he showed ... urbanization, education, and affluence persuade many people to have fewer children. Thus the death rate continues falling but so does the birthrate, which flattens the population curve. Finally, in a mature society, with successful birth control and often with both spouses gainfully employed, couples seem to desire between one and three children, and the population stabilizes. Another "fact" accepted without question in many quarters is that high human density is bad ...
- 2996: Spelling And Differently - Ana
- ... oven.... Georgia got a vengeful pleasure out of breaking with Maya. She was pleased with the controlled manner in which she did it. The deaf ear. She was surprised to find herself capable of such control, such thoroughgoing punishment"(Ford 210 212). Georgia feels great pleasure over acting like this to Maya, because she finally feels in control of the relationship. She never talks to Maya again and doesn't find out about her death until months after the funeral. Munro brings realization to her short stories and she clearly shows that each ...
- 2997: Why Drugs Should Be Legalized!!!!
- ... the decriminalization of drugs. "Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded." The rise ... of such drugs as crack, heroin, and cocaine. Instead, looking at it objectively, one can come to understand that without legalization, the drug use will still exist. Decriminalizing drugs is just a form of damage control that will hopefully lessen the negative externalities on society. The aforementioned arguments, however, cannot even be applied to the case for the decriminalization of marijuana and hemp products. Marijuana does nor cause crime or aggressive ...
- 2998: Lewis And Clark
- ... and on several occasions shots were almost fired. Indian councils were held with each encountered group, some groups more pleased than others. The typical council involved an exchanging of gifts, speeches given, Lewis firing a gun to impress the Indians, and a medal with Jefferson s likeness etched being given to the tribes. Each tribe was amazed or disappointed with the gifts. The Arikara and Hidatsa tribes met along the Missouri ... reached they were named the Jefferson, Madison, and Gallatin Rivers. Shoshone were finally found and with the sight of Sacagawea, were very accepting. The Shoshone bartered horses in exchange for promise of fur trade and gun trade in the future. When communicating with the Shoshone there was an interesting chain of translation. A captain gave an English message to Francais Labiche, a Corps member who spoke French, who translated the message ...
- 2999: Bram Stoker's Dracula: Anti-Christianity
- ... coffin and especially because the dirt in his coffin is consecrated and Dracula, being evil, uses this ground to rest in. Dracula has several of the powers that Christians believe no one but God could control. For instance, Dracula can control the weather, wild or unclean animals and, he can change form and disappear into the air. Christians believe that consuming God’s body and blood will give them everlasting life with God in heaven. Dracula ...
- 3000: A Day In The Life
- ... she will start the all new, mother’s conversation for Sunday again. Once the Grand Prix is over, my brothers, their wives and my nephews descent on the house and the battle for the remote control commences. One of my brothers I definitely a secret professional channel surfer because as soon as he turns to a channel, he knows that the programme is, who’s in it, and how long it ... my nephews and they are strapped, firmly, into their car seats. My brothers are safely strapped into their seats too, and my dad is put to sleep on the settee. I will rescue the remote control from under his belly and turn the TV off and, at last, Sunday finally turns into a day of rest.
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