Addiction Essays and Term Papers
Teenage ParenthoodMarijuana (also spelled marihuana) is a psychoactive drug made from the dried leaves and flowering parts of the hemp plant. It is one of the most strictly classified illegal drugs in the United States. Under the 1970 Controlled Substances Act, marijuana is listed as a Schedule I substance, which ...
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The Spread Of AIDSIs the message getting through? We already know enough about AIDS to prevent its spread, but ignorance, complacency, fear and bigotry continue to stop many from taking adequate precautions.
We know enough about how the infection is transmitted to protect ourselves from it without resorting to such ...
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History Of The CountercultureThe 1950's in America were considered a true awakening of youth culture. If this is true then the 1960's was a decade of discovery. It was a decade marred by social unrest, civil rights injustice, and violence abroad. These were some of the factors that lead to a revolution that attempted to ...
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The Written Word Lives OnWonderful things contribute to the life of my spirit everyday. With
limitless pages bound by a common goal these books keep me ticking. At night
while I shudder under my covers Ayne Rand and her John Gault have held me in a
stupor for hours on end. Making the cold seem like a fantasy and Gault's ...
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VirusesIt's the weekend, you have nothing to do so you decide to play around on your computer. You turn it on and then start up, you start calling people with your modem, connecting to another world, with people just like you at a button press away. This is all fine but what happens when you start ...
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Substance Abuse Increasing In Inner-City MinoritiesSubstance abuse is an ever increasing epidemic facing America's inner-
city minorities. There are several different drugs that are gaining popularity
amongst inner-city youths 1. Juice, that is marijuana soaked in embalming fluid
is starting to show up in more and more inner east coast cities 2. ...
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Drugs Debate"Junk yields a basic formula of "evil" virus: *The Algebra of Need*. The face of "evil" is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope. Beyond a certain frequency need knows absolutely no limit or control. In the words of total need: "*Wouldn't you*?" Yes you would. ...
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Euthanasia Term PaperA considerable size of society is in favor of Euthanasia mostly because
they feel that as a democratic country, we as free individuals, have the
right to decide for ourselves whether or not it is our right to determine
when to terminate someone's life. The stronger and more widely held
opinion ...
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Jimi Hendrix: A Reflection Of A Man Through His MusicJimi Hendrix, the greatest guitarist in rock history, revolutionized the sound of rock. In 1967, the Jimi Hendrix Experience rocked the nation with their first album, Are You Experienced?. Hendrix's life was cut short by the tragedy of drugs in 1970, when he was only twenty seven years old. In ...
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Man Over NatureIn Never Cry Wolf Ootek tells Farley a legend that links man, wolves, and caribou in a perfectly balanced, continuos, natural cycle. Nevertheless, the whole novel uncovers the sad truth that man has altered this unique cycle and its own denial of it threatens to destroy it. This theme, suggests ...
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PiercingsIn this essay I hope to persuade my mom to let me get my tongue pierced by proving that tongue piercing is both safe and sane.
"Tongue piercing is a relatively simple procedure if the technician has the knowledge and the correct tools" (Monahan, Roger 1). Piercing is not dangerous as long as you ...
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Jeffrey DahmerWhy does a happen? How does a man become a serial killer, necrophiliac, cannibal and psychopath? Very few convincing answers are forthcoming, despite a spate of books that propose to understand the problem.
Many of the theories would have you believe that the answers can always be found in ...
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The Reflections Of Gore VidalThere are many people in today’s society that would love to have their views published for
the whole world to view, but few can match the wit and originality of Gore Vidal. Vidal is the
author of many short stories, novels, playwrights, and movie scripts. Gore Vidal has been and
continues to ...
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Albert Camusis one of the most renowned authors in the twentieth century. With works such as Caligula, The Stranger, Nuptials, and The Plague, he has impacted the world of literature to a great extent. This great success was not just "given" to him "on a silver platter" however. He endured many hardships ...
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Sex, Prostitution, And The Penal Law
As the Bill and Monica drama has shown, sex addiction is not neccessarily what you would think it is. It is often not about the pervert, the exhibitionist, or the pornographer, although it can be. It is about your friendly neighbor down the street who turns out ot be, as everyone learns ...
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Child Protecetive ServicesChild Protective Services For 30 years, advocates, program administrators, and politicians have joined to encourage even more reports of suspected child abuse and neglect. Their efforts have been successful, with about three million cases of suspected child abuse having been reported in 1993. ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird: ScoutIn To Kill A Mockingbird Scout is a young girl and daughter of a respected lawyer named Atticus. With her older brother Jem, she enjoys participating in many activities which are mainly masculine ones. Without a mother to teach her the ways of a woman, she lives as a tomboy (much to the ...
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Adversity And Resilience Of HoTale Farewell My Concubine describes the torments and sufferings that homosexuals have to go through. These torments and sufferings are the results of stereotypes from the society. The video Anti-Gay, and the books The Facts on Homosexuality and Gay and Lesbian Stats: A Pocket Guide of Facts and ...
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Medical Miracles On The HorizonThe world and its inhabitants will face a multitude of problems in the
21st Century, including drug addiction, deadly disease, violent crime, warfare
and hostility, hunger, and homelessness to name a few. All of these critical
issues have been present to some extent in the 20th Century and, left ...
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Dorothy Dayand Her Controversial Views
was a very compassionate women. She has made many contributions to our society though she could be considered a socialist and a pacifist. Her views on Christianity were to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." According to Day, as Christians and ...
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