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- 901: Ritalin
- ... to increased use of Ritalin Recently, there has been a dramatic upsurge of interest in using stimulants (mainly Ritalin) for children and adults for the increasingly popular diagnosis of ADHD. According to Persky (1996), the high frequency of the diagnosis of ADHD is a uniquely American phenomenon. Children and adults are now under greater pressure to perform and to do well academically or in the workplace. The chilling message in school and at work is "Perform or Else." Because of this high intensity atmosphere, the use of Ritalin has become attractive. This has resulted in an acute "epidemic" of ADHD and the treatment of choice is Ritalin (Persky 1996). For example, after education reforms spearheaded by ...
- 902: Knowledge 2
- ... view knowledge as the wisdom and insight that one may acquire over time, by personal experiences and influences in life. Most of the basic knowledge acquired by people starting at a young age is in school. As young children, we learn elementary facts such as our numbers and the alphabet. The older we become, the more facts we are taught, and the more complex these facts become. The knowledge one may learn in school is what I think of as worldly knowledge that will get people into the colleges and jobs that they may desire. The people that are abundant in educational knowledge are the people who dominate our ... ones we turn to for advice and consolment. They are the ones that are with us in difficult situations. For example, if there is a group of friends and a few start smoking, it is high likely for all of them to begin smoking. Boy/Girlfriends, however, are a different, more intimate type of influence. Personally, every guy that I have ever dated has changed me in some way, whether ...
- 903: A Case Against The Minimum Wag
- ... Neumark of Michigan State and William Wascher of the Federal Reserve Board found that President Clintons's proposed minimum wage hike will put 120,000 16 to 19 year old teens out of work and school. (Aley 48) The higher minimum wage cajoles teenagers into the labor force who would otherwise have stayed in school. Higher minimum wages tempt high school students to sacrifice education and future higher income by dropping out and taking jobs. The new workers entering the market due to the hike, push aside less educated working teens who end up ...
- 904: Catcher In The Rye
- ... The essence of the story The Catcher in the Rye follows the forty-eight hour escapade of sixteen-year-old Holden Caulfield, told through first person narration. After his expulsion from Pency, a fashionable prep school, the lat-est in a long line of expulsions, Holden has a few confrontations with his fellow students and leaves shortly after to return to his hometown, New York City. In the heart of New ... apparent adolescence is through the statement that his "boyhood was very much the same as that of the in the book [Holden]." Salinger attended public schools on Manhattan’s upper West Side and during his high school years he transferred to the pri-vate McBurney School, where he flunked out after one year. In 1934, his father enrolled him at Valley Forge Military Academy, a private prep school in Pennsylvania. After ...
- 905: Binge Drinking
- ... taken by students attending Yale University in 1997 showed the average binge drinker profile to be white, lacking religious participation, athletic, and members of fraternities or sororities (ICAP 4). Contrary to popular belief, year in school (i.e. freshman, sophomore, etc.) was not a significant factor in binge drinking, despite the fact that students under 21 would still participate in the drinking activities (NCADI 3). Studies show that binge drinking can start in high school and continue through college (ICAP 4). Twenty-eight percent of high school seniors have already associated with binge drinking (ICAP, 4). The question of why students continue to submit themselves to alcohol is unknown. ...
- 906: Hepatitis
- ... effective way to prevent chronic infection is to vaccinate against it during the neonate stage up to the age of 5, the period of where the risk is the highest. Therefore, instead of targeting elementary school children, the ministry of health should have been inoculating neonates for their first priority. Hepatitis B (HBV) is a liver disease that causes inflammation of the liver. This inflammation can cause liver cell damage, which ... the infection on to others in the U.S. at the present time. An estimated number of 300,000 new cases show up each year.9 Babies born to HBV-infected mothers are at a high risk of becoming chronically infected with HBV compared to a much lower risk for adults. Usually a person with chronic HBV infection has no signs or symptoms of infection and can unknowingly pass HBV to ... in universal vaccination should be neonates.14 This could be mainly due to the fact that British Columbia has set a misguided example by targeting children in grade six, because of the province's relatively high rates of acute hepatitis B in teenagers and young adults, especially around the greater Vancouver region. Supposedly, with the school child vaccination, one could observe tangible reduction in acute HBV infection within only a ...
- 907: A Street Car Named Desire: The Many Traits of Blanch
- ... this scene Blanch seduces a young man that was collecting money for the Kowalski's newspaper subscription. In "Scene Seven" Stanley is talking to Stella telling her about blanch and how she ended up leaving school. It was because she had been seducing another young man. Stanley: She's not going back to teach school! I fact I am willing to bet you that she never had no idea of returning to Laurel! She didn't resign temporary from high school because of her nerves! No siree, Bob! She didn't. They kicked her out of that high school before the spring term ended-and I hate to tell you the reason that step ...
- 908: The History and Facts About Nicotine and Tobacco
- ... person. By 1620, planters started to grow their own supply of tobacco. They started growing up to 100,000 pounds of tobacco a year! At this rate, the figure of tobacco got to be as high as 100 million pounds by the time of the American Revolution. In the 17th century, cultivating tobacco became the most important industry of the Virginia and Maryland colonies. Sometime later it became the major industry ... much. The percentage of female smokers from 1990 to 1994 increased by 32%. The males, on the other hand, only increased by 11%. The American Lung Association recently conducted a survey showing a ten-year high of teen smokers. Fourteen and fifteen year olds showed a huge increase of 44%! In 1990, the ages of teens from twelve to seventeen that smoke went from 9.1% to 10.9% in 1994 (that’s a 20% increase!). 31.2% of high-school teens confessed to smoking in 30 days, half of high school seniors in a survey that was conducted said they think that think that smoking makes teens look “insecure” and “un-cool.” Adult’ ...
- 909: The Production Histry And Cons
- ... the whirl pool tank. The wort is now passed through a heat exchanger that rapidly cools the liquid. Cooling is necessary in order to add the yeast. Yeast is unable to ferment or grow at high temperatures, so cooling the wort to about 70°F is needed. Here is where hydrometer readings are taken to record the amount of sugar in the wort by measuring the density of the liquid. This ... One of these laws established a daily beer ration. This ration was dependent on the social standing of the individual. For example, a normal worker received 2 liters, civil servants 3 liters, and administrators and high priests 5 liters per day. In these ancient times beer was not sold, but exchanged for barley. Beer at this time was cloudy and unfiltered. As beer brewing was a household art, it was also ... into well managed commercial businesses. Monasteries were so good at brewing that theirs was of the highest quality and very popular. There were two may types of beer brewed, low strength every day beer and, high strength special occasion beers. Brewing became the duty of commercial brewers after the reformation and weakening of the church. These brewers brewed under royal license and supplied the merchant class with beer. People of ...
- 910: Dwight D Eisenhower
- ... to Abilene, Kansas, where Eisenhower was brought up. He was the third of seven sons. He and his older brothers were all called “Ike” by their family, Eisenhower was known as “Little Ike”. In his high school years, he was known to excel in sports due to his active nature. After he graduated, Eisenhower wanted to attend college, but his family could not afford the tuition. Dwight and his brother planned to ... for obtaining such involved passing a difficult exam. While Eisenhower had no original plans to be a soldier, he still prepared well for the competitive West Point entrance exam and won an appointment to the school in 1911. The Coming of a Commander in Chief Unknown to him at the time, Eisenhower would later lead many military forces though the course of both world wars, winning decisive victories and helping ...
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