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- 8181: Drug Abuse
- ... the most discouraged behaviors in our country. Use of illegal drugs is harmful to the userand all those with whom the user comes in contact. There are over 40 million illegal drug users in the world today and America is the biggest market for drugs1 . There are more drug dealers in this country, than there are dentists. Illegal drug abuse must be stopped; it hurts our society, hurts us, and, most ... is hurting our country by causing increased crime and soaring insurance rates, stealing tax dollars, hurting families, and hurting children. If fighting drug abuse were made a top priority, we could probably wage an effective war, through education and enforcement of laws, to stop drug abuse.
- 8182: Gray's "The Epitaph": An Analysis
- ... way. Someone's personal epitaph is just a place where their head rests and Even "Fair Science frowned" on the aspects of the person's life and now the incapacity that they have toward this world. Their one and only sole purpose in this world is to waste space in the earth and rot away for eternity. Gray's style is very intriguing. He speaks of god and how there are certain things around that are only now known as ... be life. Gray speaks out against the way this person was treated in society which is symbolic of how people are being treated as a whole and the hollowness and shallowness of people in the world. Now the person is dead, there is no other help that you could give him. "Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere" was how the man lived, and although his soul was a ...
- 8183: Nostradamus
- ... publishing them annually. After several years, Nostradamus developed the idea of writing a complete almanac, entitled Centuries. This book came to consist of prophecies ranging in time from his present to the end of the world. In Centuries there were one thousand quatrains, or verses of four lines each. One which was particularly amazing was this: A Captain of great Germany, Shall come to yield himself by stimulating help, To the ... In the year 1999 and seven months, From the skies shall come an alarmingly powerful king, To raise again the great King of the Jacquerie, Before and after, Mars shall reign at will. A tremendous world revolution is foretold to take place in the year of 1999, with world-wide wars. Although this prophesy hasnt been fulfilled, only time will tell if Nostradamus was once again successful at his prophecies.
- 8184: Macbeth Responsible For His Ow
- ... Macbeth's great treason. His friends and subjects desert him, and soon fall in league with Macduff and Malcolm. "Thither Macduff is gone to pray the holy king, upon his aid to wake Northumberland and war-like Siward." (3.6.29-31) As a result of his crimes and his guilty confession to everyone, a resistance army builds up and marches towards Macbeth. Left with only a handful of soldiers, Macbeth ... his reign brought to an end. As a result of his thoughtless murders intended to keep his crown, Macbeth became isolated and his once good friends became his mortal enemies. Soon deep within his own world, Macbeth is blind to his surroundings, and fails to respond to the warnings given to him or recognize the great forces mounting against him. After the witches inform him to 'beware Macduff', Macbeth learns that ...
- 8185: The Terminal Man By Crichton
- ... chest and he died. 3. One personality trait in Harry is that he is smart and knows a lot about computers. This effects the story line because he felt that computers were taking over the world so he went and smashed up the main computer at the hospital. 4. "I'm a fallen man," Benson said. "I've succumbed." "To what?" "To the process of being turned into a machine. Or a time bomb." Harry is telling Dr. Ellis about how he thinks machines are taking over the world. 5. I feel I am most like Harry. I am like him in that we are both somewhat intrigued by computers. I don't, however, share in his idea that computers are concious and are trying to take over the world. 6. The biggest surprise and dissappointment of this book is when Harry died. I thought that he would live and the doctors could fix the computer and Harry would be fine but Dr. Ross ...
- 8186: Anthrax: Chemical Warfare
- Anthrax: Chemical Warfare Having the threat of Anthrax falling in to the hands of terrorist or paramilitary groups strikes fear in our way of chemical warfare. During the Gulf War, Iraq had large stores of anthrax, which were later destroyed during the war. U.S. military experts say that, Saddam has the capabilities of launching Scud missiles toward Israel with anthrax warheads, but he never did. This is why the U.S. military needs to supply and have ... Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. (Seattletimes.com: Anthrax: a poor mans nucl
) Anthrax can be prevented in humans by taking vaccines. As a result of Saddams threat to use anthrax in the Persian Gulf War, the U.S. Army inoculating all of its military personnel. Vaccines can also be taken after you have been infected with anthrax. Another person cannot infect another person with anthrax, according to David Huxsoll ...
- 8187: Theory of Human Development
- ... Geography also plays a major role in the development and growth of personality. Depending on where you are born, there are different customs and different ways of doing things. Social standards are different throughout the world, so depending on where you were born, your personality could be drastically different. For example, in one country it could be quite normal to show public displays of affection or some other sort of sexual ... core personality. An infant learns differently from a teenager, and a teenager learns differently from an adult. At an early age, children learn mainly through mimicry and reinforcement, primarily from social groups, and view the world depending on how their basic needs are met. If the child's basic needs are met, that child will learn to trust the world as a dependable provider of support, and to trust their own urges and instincts as reliable guides to behavior. If basic needs are not met, a sense of mistrust is born, giving the person ...
- 8188: Psychoanalysis
- ... drive, is in part unconscious, and can give rise to feelings of guilt not justified by any conscious transgression. The ego, having to mediate among the demands of the id, the superego, and the outside world, may not be strong enough to reconcile these conflicting forces. The more the ego is impeded in its development because of being hurt in its earlier conflicts, called fixations or complexes, or the more it ... to others, in contrast to what he or she actually is. The persona is the role the individual chooses to play in life, the total impression he or she wishes to make on the outside world. Alfred Adler, another of Freud's pupils, differed from both Freud and Jung in stressing that the motivating force in human life is the sense of inferiority, which begins as soon as an infant is ... child strives to overcome it. Because inferiority is intolerable, the compensatory mechanisms set up by the mind may get out of hand, resulting in self-centered neurotic attitudes, overcompensation, and a retreat from the real world and its problems. So, although traditional psychoanalysis has been criticized for its rigidity, coastlines, and failure to consider biological causes, psychoanalytic theory has greatly influenced child rearing, social-work practice, education, the social ...
- 8189: Margaret Atwoods Surfacing - A
- ... swamp. The other things, the ones still alive, I let out." The characters come across a dead heron tied with a blue nylon rope and hanging from a tree branch. This heron symbolizes the natural world. The narrator does not understand why they killed the heron since you can not eat them. It bothers her to see the bird strung up like a lynch victim. She thinks the Americans did it to prove "they had the power to kill." Killing the heron was their way of possessing it. The heroic ego establishes control over the natural world by killing. The narrator goes diving one night by a rock face to look for Indian paintings. While diving, she has a vision of a fetus : "It was blurred but it had eyes, they were ... to go because they are things that contain and define life according to a social order. During her journey, the narrator has visions of her parents, and later, as she is preparing to reenter the world, she talks about not being able to feel their presence : "No gods to help me now, they're questionable once more, theoretical as Jesus." At this point, she acknowledges for the first time that ...
- 8190: Siddhartha's Journey
- ... own when he had his spiritual awakening. He discovered that the reason he didn't know anything about himself was due to one thing--he was afraid of himself. From then on he saw the world differently. He would no longer destroy himself to find a secret behind it. He would learn for himself the secret of Siddhartha. He started anew and learned about things that had always been there but ... sound that he had remembered from his childhood-- "Om". It was him remembering of the indestructibleness of life that marked another new beginning for Siddhartha. He now knew that time was irrelevant and that "the world of appearances is transitory."(93) Now he was making a new pilgrimige, this time in rich man's clothes. He came back to the river that he had crossed long ago and met the same ... a teacher of the unity of all things. He had gained spiritual enlightenment. The reasons for the trials and tribulations experienced during Siddhartha's glorious journey were to show that time was irrelevant and the world of appearances was transitory. In other words, he went through many changes in appearance and time didn't matter as long as he had achieved his goal. Siddhartha had spent his whole life trying ...
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