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Junkies Essays and Term Papers
Internet JunkiesWe have all seen the pictures, in our head and on television, of the typical Internet junkie: alone in the dark, he sits glued to the soft glow of the computer screen, hand on the mouse, eyes glaring into the screen. His eyes flutter through the endless web pages and online chats, fingers gliding ...
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The Evolution Of A Disc JockeyIn The Hip-Hop Culture
With the turn of the century, a musical evolution began. The phonograph was part of this musical change. It was a simple musical output device. The role of
this musical component was greatly regarded as that of just a music player during the modernistic period. During the ...
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Staples' “Just Walk On By”: Prejudice And IntimidationI am not a man; I am not black; I do not have a very commanding presence nor am I now afraid of much. But I can relate to the prejudice, the intimidation by others and the stereotyping Brent Staples writes about in his essay “Just Walk On By.”
First off, I am not black; therefore, I have ...
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INTERNET USERS TURN ADDICTSOn June 14, ABC news reported that an "internet-crazed"
Cincinnati woman was arrested for neglecting her three young children.
The woman reportedly spent 12 hours straight online, while her hungry
kids were locked away in one room so she could be online without
interruption. The three kids were ...
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Substance Abuse Programs In PrisonThis paper will examine substance abuse treatment programs in maximum-security prisons and the effect these programs have on inmates who are participants. To understand how inmates handle substance abuse and prison-based rehabilitation programs, it is important to understand the nature of the ...
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Watching The Box Watch Peter Hamill
The medium of television is perhaps the most prevalent leveling factor in American society today- almost every household in America owns a television set, a device centered around a cathode ray tube which is designed to bring two-dimensional illusionary sights and sounds to its viewers. As ...
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The Beat Generationwas a generation of beat, down wanderers, who traveled the continent trying to find the answer to why we are here and what here is. Some of the founders, of this movement were Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, who then was under the name of William Lee, and Allen Ginsberg. The Beats rejected ...
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Trainspotting: A Novel By Irvine WelshTrainspotting is a captivating story of the random events that occur
during a critical time in a group of Scottish junkies' lives. Irvine Welsh
illustrates the confusion, anger and turmoil many heroin addicts are subjected
to and what happens once they try to quit.
The story is centered around ...
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The Computer UndergroundDepartment of Sociology
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115
(5 March, 1990)
THE BAUDY WORLD OF THE BYTE BANDIT:
A POSTMODERNIST INTERPRETATION OF THE COMPUTER UNDERGROUND
An earlier version of this paper was presented at the ...
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A Dependent GenerationThe computer has become one of the most important and influential luxuries of this generation. Young people use computers every day for school, work, and entertainment. They are the first generation to have become computer literate as early as the onset of adolescence. For most of their lives ...
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Drugshave been around for hundreds of years. Indians were known to
have used Opium and other for medical and various other purposes. During
the 7th Century A.D. in China a drug emerged called Opium. Opium, the dry juice
from immature seed pods of the opium poppy plant, is a narcotic drug that ...
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Tlevision: Behavior, Moral Values And Social Standards“The only activities Americans spend more time doing than watching television are working and sleeping.” With this in mind, it is understood that television plays a major role in the statistical majority of most Americans. Society reflects what is shown on television in a multitude of various ...
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Needle Exchange ProgramsMore than a million people in the United States inject drugs, at a
cost to society (in health care, lost productivity, accidents, and crime)
of more than fifty billion dollars a year. (Holland n.p.). According to the
Department of Health and Human Services, there were 216,000 heroin ...
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LSD And PCP UseToday there is increasing usage of two very powerful, and dangerous
drugs in the youth of this Nation. LSD is one of these drugs, this
hallucinogen more commonly known as Acid and is one of the longest lasting highs
that are out there. LSD was first researched in 1953 when the ...
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Allen Ginsberg : HowlAllen Ginsberg and HOWL: Analysis and Response
Throughout the ages of poetry, there is a poet who stands alone, a prominent figure who represents the beliefs and morés of the time. During the 1950's and 1960's, the Beatnik era in America brought forth poets who wrote vivid, realistic poetry in ...
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Legalization Of DrugsThe drug connection is one that continues to resist analysis, both because cause
and effect are so difficult to distinguish and because the role of the drug-
prohibition laws in causing and labeling "drug-related crime" is so often
ignored. There are four possible connections between drugs and ...
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How Television Affects SocietyHow Television Effects Society.“The only activities Americans spend more time doing than watching television are working and sleeping.” With this in mind, it is understood that television plays a major role in the statistical majority of most Americans. Society reflects what is shown on television ...
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Allen Ginsburg In AmericaIrwin Allen Ginsberg was born on June 3, 1926 in Newark, New Jeresy. Louis Ginsberg, Allen’s dad, was a published poet, a high school teacher and a Jewish Socialist. His wife, Naomi, was a radical Communist and nudist who went tragically insane in early adulthood. A shy and complicated child ...
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A Brief Overview Of PsychedeliThe computer has become one of the most important and influential luxuries of this generation. Young people use computers every day for school, work, and entertainment. They are the first generation to have become computer literate as early as the onset of adolescence. For most of their lives ...
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