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- 3291: Drug Abuse
- ... it causes respiratory illness and kills mucus membranes. Heroin is the most addictive dangerous illegal drug on the streets. You'll become a so- called "junkie" if you use it. It affects the hygiene and personal appearance of the user a great deal, because nothing is as important to the user anymore as where that next hit will come from. Heroin is injected and sometimes snorted. It causes great euphoria, but ... support their habits, and all users, addicts or casual users, are careless and reckless when under the influence. Drug users commit property crimes, such as robbing a house or a store. Drug users also commit personal crimes, like mugging, armed robbery and even murder. Drug use, itself, can be a crime. It makes innocent citizens scared to walk out of their own homes, in their own neighborhoods. Drug abuse is a ...
- 3292: Johann Sabastian Bach
- ... his son-in-law only days before his death. Bach was that rare composer whose genius cannot be summed up, even approximated, by any known means. He was the supreme master of counterpoint, fugue, vocal writing, melody, chamber composition, solo instrument repertoire...the list is endless. His Passions are arguably the greatest compositions ever created for choral ensemble and orchestra. His solo works (for violin, and cello) are of such beauty and perfection of form that their secrets have never been divulged fully, not even by the greatest virtuosi on those instruments. His writing for keyboard - the Goldberg Variations and The Well-Tempered Clavier, among others - reveal an unsurpassed ability to combine intricate musical structure with pure spiritual force; in fact, most leading musicians point to the mastery of ...
- 3293: Depression
- ... as a fractured leg." Whether it's our own confusion around its roots, our skepticism toward the mental health field and its dubious past, or our own disbelief that we lack control over something so personal as our brain and our behavior (can we accept that our mind is as physical as our heart?), there remains an enormous stigma around depression. A 1995 survey by the National Depressive and manic-depressive ... loved ones better?' "Nearly everyone who has worked with or experienced depression recommends talk therapy as a key to depression treatment. Talk therapy itself has a number of ways of addressing depression and the deeper personal issues it brings up. Cognitive behavior therapy, for example, sets out to change negative thinking patterns that contribute to depression, while interpersonal therapy works on developing healthy relationships. These are both shorter-term methods and ...
- 3294: John Coltrane
- ... of himself as a child of God. Though Coltrane was raised in a household dominated by Christianity, and he professed to be a Christian for the majority of his life, he became dissatisfied with his personal relationship with God and felt that it could and should be intensified. Not for the faint of heart, Coltrane's master work offers a complete synthesis of his musical ability and his religious belief. Building ... of its own power." His explosive combination of spiritual energy and intellectual prowess went beyond success and even beyond music into the metaphysical. He studied Eastern religions, Islam, the Torah. He read books about mathematics, personal improvement, van Gogh, African history and yoga. His record collection included African, early English, Greek and Indian music. Adding seven bars in E minor and 23 in E major to "My Favorite Things" and playing ...
- 3295: The Treatment Of Women In Trifles
- ... offering an excuse for Minnie’s lapse in cleaning. Later, he brushes her off when she explains that John Wright was a grim man. To the County Attorney, the women are just there to collect personal items for Minnie, they are not going to give him any valuable insight into the murder. To their credit, the women do not force their thoughts or feelings on the men when biased statements are ... share the dominant role in society. So the women, in recognizing the value of their perceptions and decisions, step beyond the box society has put them in. They do not defy the boundaries in a personal effort to advance women; they comprehend the importance of what they have learned and put that foremost in their strategy. The protection of Minnie is imperative, and they know how they must act. They know ...
- 3296: The Self Portraits Of Gertrude Stein And Pablo Picaso
- ... Stein 19). So ultimately, in portraying Picasso, Gertrude Stein managed to reveal herself to her readers. “ . . . [It] must never be forgotten that the only way Picasso has of speaking, the only way Picasso has of writing is with drawings and paintings” (Stein 38). Stein, in her book Picasso, repeatedly reminds the reader of the similarities between Spaniards and Americans. She writes, “ . . . Spaniards and Americans . . . have something in common, that is they ... skyscrapers and American literature and Spanish painting and literature” (18). This perfectly sets the stage for her double feature. In her descriptions of his cubist movement, Stein describes her forging of a new style of writing; in her explanations of his simple shapes and figures, Stein reveals her relaxed, stream-of-consciousness style. Now her audacious attempts at interpreting Picasso’s behavior are not so brazen at all, for she is ...
- 3297: John Locke
- ... God and is that gift which separates us from the realm of the beast. The ability to reason and reflect, although universal, acts as an explanation for individuality. All reason and reflection is based on personal experience and reference. Personal experience must be completely individual as no one can experience anything quite the same as another. This leads to determining why Locke theorized that all humans, speaking patriarchially with respect to the time why all ...
- 3298: 16th And 17th Century English
- ... brighter, more personalized time took place. People began to turn away from seeking their sole purpose through religion and politics, and began to focus more on intellectual stingers such as philosophy, science, art, music, and writing. During all of this, conventions, or habitual patterns in literature began to change. Again, for the most part this affected the non-prose area of literature, however there were some noticeable changes, which affected prose ... grab hold, the people were able to adjust and administer their literary outlets. Bibliography Bryson, Michael. Summary and Analysis of Milton s Prose . http://brysons.net/miltonweb/index.html. Clare, Janet. Transgressing Boundaries: Women s Writing in the Renaissance And Reformation . University of Dublin: http://www.hull.ac.uk/Hull/EL_Web/renforum/v1no1/clare.htm. Doerksen, Daniel W. Milton and the Jacobean Church of England . University of New Brunswick: http ...
- 3299: What Makes A Successful Career
- ... secondary to success in the work place. There are any number of explanations for why these people are the way they are and, while I m no psychologist, I d like to offer my own personal observation. Of the people I ve known over the years who fall into this category two basic types exist. One is the person who has to be the Best . It makes no difference what they ... mind when we think of careers in sports. This is not to say that our sports superstars have not devoted a lifetime of work toward being a successful athlete and I would never slight their personal sacrifices or the hard work they have endured. However, I do believe it safe to say that juke m and duke m moves like Barry Sanders (former running back for the Detroit Lines) and stretched ...
- 3300: Status of Women In Society
- ... In order to comprehend these ideas and theories, and their evolution, we must begin by exploring their foundations. Three aspects in particular demand to be examined. First of all, what is probably the most influential writing on the nature of women, the account of man's downfall in the Judaic Bible. Also important in shaping ideas about women are the debates of philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle. Finally, the most ... the idea that the man possesses a natural right to rule his family. However, he rejected Hobbes' conclusion that the mother has, by nature, all power over her children, while the father has none. In writing the Second Treatise of Civil Government (1690), Locke asserted his position that power within the family is vested equally in the mother and the father, not centered in one or the other. This position, he ...
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