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- 751: Drugs In Football Making An Ap
- ... world for being strong, good looking, and vigorous. There are very few pros's compared to all the con's of using steroids. Just a few con's are: increase in acne, mood swings and violence, kidney cancer, liver and prostate cancer, altered cholesterol, baldness in males, deepening voice, depression, headaches, heart disease, impotence, blood clotting ability reduced, menstruating irregularities, shrinking testicles, facial hair in women, and madness (psychosis). Those are ... speaker is the outstanding, All-American football player, Curt Marsh. Marsh was forced to retire with a severe ankle injury many years ago. Since then, he has spoken to more than 500,000 students on violence, substance abuse prevention, leadership, and positive thinking. Carl Eller, a former All-Pro defensive linemen for the Minnesota Vikings, had a $4,000-a-week cocaine problem. When he started to see opposing players sneer ...
- 752: Solidarity-A New Hope Of Breaking Communist Ruling
- ... Soviet troops as Hungary and Czechoslovakia were. There were many attempts to take complete domination over Poland, but every time it happened Polish people were rejecting it, even if it meant creating the use of violence by the government (Brown 158). In June of 1976, the prime minister of Poland whose name was Gierek, was trying to raise the prices on basic foodstuffs. The increase of prices was necessary because the ... quick collapse of political regimes including the Soviet empire. Because of having people like Gorbachev in Russia and organization like Solidarity in Poland the reforms didn't need to have any use of force or violence. Instead they were performed by using compromise, nonviolent behavior and corporation of both countries (Iankova 2). The sudden outburst of Solidarity, and the new non-Communist government was just one of the way to start ...
- 753: Forensic Psychology
- ... the family court cases are: child custody evaluations, visitation risk assessment, evaluations to access termination of parental rights, adoption readiness evaluations ("Forensic Psychological Evaluations"). Forensic counseling for anger management usually occurs in child abuse, domestic violence or assault cases. When a parent has been found to lose control with a child, the parent will be required to receive anger control counseling as a condition of contact with the child ("Psychology Information Online" 1998). After a domestic violence incident, the perpetrator will usually be required to enter counseling to acknowledge responsibility for the aggressive acts, and to learn how to maintain control when angry (DeGue, Sarah). Assault often results from uncontrolled impulses, and ...
- 754: Lord of the Flies: Opportunity
- ... for his daunting leadership which intimidates them. Jack is very forceful and his ways most likely remind the boys of authoritative figures in their past who may have strapped, beaten or used other forms of violence when disciplining the children. Therefore, the children when left without adult authority figures turn to others who can replace that adult authority figure. In this case, Jack has taken that role, and has control of ... like authority figures, children lose their purity of heart and stray towards savagery when not around adult influence. When the boys have been on the island for a short time, they start to show more violence, but when they realize what they have done they become contrite, and embarrassed by their actions. After Maurice destroys Percival's sandcastle and some sand gets in Percival's eye, the narrator writes: Percival began ...
- 755: Black Panthers
- ... The past few years had seen the civil rights struggle rise, and had left many blacks with the feeling that not enough was being accomplished. Many Blacks shared the view of the Panthers in that violence was needed to defend themselves until true equality could be achieved. Aside from being militant, the Panthers did things that helped the community. They set up breakfast, and helped people to clean up their neighborhoods. The Black Panthers gave many urban black communities a sense of unity and identity that they hadn’t had before. The Panther’s rhetoric of violence alarmed the government. In March of 1968, the Panther newspaper printed this warning to police, “Halt in the name of humanity! You shall make no more war on unarmed people. You will not kill another ...
- 756: Greasy Lake
- ... some sense, Boyle has mellowed over the two stories by leaving out many of the twists and turns of "Greasy Lake" in "Big Game," but in the same sense has become more exciting with more violence and action. The plots in the two stories are similar in structure and pattern of action. They both include violence and regretful lessons learned the hard way, and seam to involve similar events and characters. A definite change in Boyle’s plot over the course of the two stories however, is the loss in significance ...
- 757: Michael Collins
- ... The following year Collins was ambushed and murdered by extremist republicans. Collins's life and death are apt metaphors for the long, ongoing tragedy of Irish nationalism: a tale of incandescent love of country, savage violence, gleeful melancholy, and treachery Early on, Collins erupts into its most spectacular moment -- British artillery blasting the handful of Republican volunteers defending the General Post Office in the Easter Rising. It's the Irish equivalent ... movie and outsider, not from Ireland, I can only observe Collins as a flawed hero who could unflinchingly order his men to carry out cold-blooded murders while he desperately harbored the illusion that the violence would eventually lead to freedom and lasting peace. During those six years Michael had been greatly influenced by his father, who encouraged his children to learn patriotic ballads and poetry. West Cork was the heartland ...
- 758: Women and the Canadian Welfare State: The Decline of Social Welfare and Its Effects on Women
- ... its likelihood that it will not be able to maintain national standards for any social programs because of reduced spending (Brodie, 1995: pg. 204). For women, who are poorer than men, more vulnerable to domestic violence, and more likely to be caregivers for children and elderly relatives, the decline of social programs and services has a significant immediate and long-term consequences (Albeda and Tilly, 1997: pg. 134). The Budget Implementation ... their funding. In light of this restructuring of the Canadian welfare state brought on directly by the Canada Health and Social Transfer, services that affect women most adversely, such as shelters for women fleeing domestic violence, child care subsidies, and services for the elderly and those with disabilities, have been made even more susceptible. From the mid 1960's to the early 1970's, the welfare state provided many services and ...
- 759: Themes of Oliver Twist
- ... life “despised by all, and pitied by none” (Dickens 22). As a young boy Twist is sent to a juvenile home, and then to a workhouse. Dickens portrayal of Oliver's childhood homes is of violence, mistreatment, deliberate starvation, and helplessness. Dickens was obviously not a fan of the law, or what went on behind the closed doors of these work houses. One day as Oliver attempts to get more food ... large part of symbolism; the gloom, or a single gesture of a character. The setting symbolizes more than just gloom, and the bad parts of Oliver's life. The rain, and cold weather symbolize the violence, and cruelty, while the fog and events during the dark nights relate to the evil acts, and criminal events throughout the story. The “eight or ten fat gentlemen” (Dickens 42) on the parish board, are ...
- 760: Explain the importance of Contingency Planning
- ... client or supplier, loss of data & records, major price undercutting by opposition, malicious rumour mongering by opposition, millennium bugs, non-insurance payouts, non-paying customers, O,H & S injuries to staff or clients, organised crime, violence pollution - money laundering, power loss/ failure/cut-off, ram-raids, sabotage, sexual assault on staff or clients, sharemarket upheaval, shoplifting, sieges, sit-ins, smuggling, staff death from disease, staff pilfering / staff theft, substandard quality control, violence against staff or clients, viral contamination of food or other products, virus contamination of computer system and strikes. While contingency plans should exist for each possible and credible threat/emergency, standard procedures should be in ...
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