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- 1131: Heroin A Long Dark Path
- ... substance such as sugar, starch, powdered milk, or quinine. Street heroin can also be cut with strychnine or other poisons. The reason heroin is one of the most deadly drugs is because there are varying rates at which the drug is diluted. Therefore a user never knows exactly how pure the drug is, hence, they do not know how much of the drug they should take, often leading to an overdose ... and making it easier. The other side of the argument says that in cities where the needle sharing programs were put into effect; the rate of HIV went down considerably. HIV, and AID's contraction rates, has proven to be directly related to the amount of heroin users in an area. How heroin is perceived by the American public- Often heroin is perceived very differently, depending on what person you are ...
- 1132: The Outsiders
- ... is of their own age group and reflects many issues that they themselves may face. The language of the text is easily understood as are the themes in the story. It contains themes that would interest a young mind, showing many students the seedier side of life. What it would be like to live under such circumstances in constant fear of their lives. It deals with gang warfare, alcohol, drugs, child ... of 4-6 weeks is apart of the Junior Secondary English Program. It is designed as a series of lessons that involves student's language skills through written and oral tasks around a focus of interest. The aims of this unit are to look at what the teacher directs the student's learning towards. 1) Developing student's ability in understanding language and language issues through the areas of - everyday communication ...
- 1133: Globe Theatre
- ... men and those of similar qualities produced dramas that were far more sophisticated and entertaining than ever before. Audiences expressed their pleasure by demanding more and more plays. The public shared a great deal of interest in the theaters and playwrights of this time. People from all over the city of London would travel to experience the dramatic feel of the Elizabethan Theater. The theater was a very important aspect of ... William Shakespeare and his theater. The role of the theaters of the Elizabethan Era proved to be a very important one. It gave even the lowest class of citizens of London a subject to take interest in, and kept them entertained in the progression of the playwrights. The theaters opened up acting as an entirely new form of work, and opened up many jobs to the nearby citizens. Becoming a top ...
- 1134: Personal Computers
- ... is taken from the editors and distributors in huge over-cautious corporations and handed to no-longer-passive, radical everyone. Individuals on the Net initiate and control content to suit themselves and those they can interest. (This makes governments nervous.) The Net is an antidote to broadcast news. The news tells you about a shocking earthquake and you're depressed. The Net gives you the people who are helping the earthquake ... described most activity on the Net as merely "vanity publishing" or "advertising." Those are left-over broadcast terms whose meaning is changed in the Net environment. Grass-roots "advertising" is what assembles new communities of interest and whole new ecologies of knowledge. If we had any idea how wildly interesting "vanity publishing" could be when it is cheap and plentiful, we would never have condemned it. Some call the Net "democratic ...
- 1135: Leprosy 2
- ... Dapsone and clofazimine in combination kill 99.99% of the bacilli within three months of infection and rifampicin is also highly bactericidal (Jacobson & Krahenbuhl, 1999). This type of treatment produces low side effects and relapse rates are extremely low. However, it is important remember, MDT can only be effective in treating the early stages of the disease. Early detection of the disease is crucial in its treatment. MDT has been quite ... major health concern in only one of these developing countries? According to Bhattacharya & Sehgal (1999), one of the reasons why is it so difficult to control leprosy India is that within the country, the prevalence rates are widely varied in different regions. The disease does not seem to follow any clear-cut geographic boundary. This can make trying to target the highly affected areas very difficult. Also, although India is a ...
- 1136: Animal Farm: The Corruption in Humans and The Character Napoleon
- ... only looking after his own. The most effective tactic that Napoleon used to further his personal maxim was in making manipulation seem like an art form. At every opportunity for advancement in his own self interest he manipulated the other animals. By training the dogs to instill fear and silent acceptance, Napoleon was able to control the animals. He was always seen as having a reputation for getting his own way. Napoleon was deceptive in ways that were difficult to foresee. Take for example the fact that Napoleon had no interest in Snowball's Animal committees. Napoleon claimed that the importance of educating the young was far more crucial than anything that could be done for those with their already conceived ideas and ideologies. In reality ...
- 1137: Gun Control
- ... One hundred and fifty million guns. It doesn’t matter what they’re used for. I they’re loaded someone’s bound to get hurt.”(Dolan 7-8). America has one of the highest death rates due to guns, however, gun deaths are on the rise in other countries, such as, Great Britain, France, Germany, and Australia (Hawkes 4). In the United States handguns are used in more than 184,000 ... opinions for control. Some just want the ability for a person to acquire a gun much more difficult, some believe ownership of handguns should be banned only in areas known to have exceptionally high crime rates, and some who hope for banning of handguns everywhere in our nation (Dolan 37-38). Anti-gun controlists hold two basic beliefs. First, they defend themselves with the Second Amendment, saying that laws banning firearms ...
- 1138: Sudden Infant Death Syndrom
- ... the first months of life (Stramba 1521). This idea supports the notion of heart rate problems in such infants. According to recent data, the risk for SIDS increases by almost 30% for babies with heart rates that deviate from the mean ( Stramba 1541). All of these ideas open up a new area in the understanding of SIDS. Maybe there is a way to predict or to test for SIDS by checking such measures as heart and breathing rates. But there is still the problem that physicians can not be totally confident in the use of such tests as they have not proved to be reliable in accurately predicting SIDS. This is why further ...
- 1139: Environmental And Genetic Affects And Schizophrenia
- ... cut or compressed; delayed foetal lung development; and untreated aspiration of meconium, or foetal matter, at birth" (Cannon, cited in DeAngelis, 1997). Such complications are referred to in general as obstetric complications. Cannon examined hypoxia rates and later development of schizophrenia in about 1,100 adults extrapolated from another study. The original sample from which Cannon's subjects were from included 194 schizophrenics, 135 of their non-schizophrenic siblings, 895 controls ... she would be an unaffected sibling of a schizophrenic (cited in DeAngelis, 1997). In contrast to this finding, Cannon also found that adults who had developed psychiatric disorders other than schizophrenia did not show greater rates of prenatal hypoxia. This evidence certainly points to at least an environmental factor influencing the incidence of schizophrenia. Whether it is a causal factor is yet to be fully established. Another suggestion of how maldevelopment ...
- 1140: Charlie Chaplin
- ... Charlie eats the boot like it were a fine meal at a fine restaurant, twirling the laces around a fork like spaghetti. Later on they bid farewell, and Charlie finds a town with a love interest of his, Georgia. He invites her to a New Years Eve dinner, which she doesn’t come to. At the dinner, we see Charlie dozed off at the table, and he dreams that the Georgia ... him if he they find Black Larson’s cabin, they will find gold and be rich. They do, and later on, telling their story to reporters on a ship, Charlie is reunited with his love interest.This film was Charlie’s first with United Artists and is nine reels long, roughly ninety minutes. Modern Times. The opening shot of this film is of sheep being herded along, followed by men running ...
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