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The Dangers Of Smoking

Smoking is the most important single preventable cause of illness and premature death in North America. In the United States alone, more than 500,000 deaths are attributed to tobacco use each year. This exceeds the total number of American lives lost in all of the wars fought since the country was ...

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Movie: Pretty Woman

Whenever i hear the words Pretty Woman i can't help thinking of the old song "Pretty Woman". This movie gives anall new meaning to these words. Now it isn't "just" the title of a song, from when our parents were born. The film has made me understand these words as being something as American as ...

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Privacy Essay

Privacy is the right to be let alone to do what you want in secret. All across our nation privacy is being exploited by companies, hardened criminals and drug users. They use or invade privacy for their own personal gain. We need to change our view of privacy when considering a recidivist ...

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Alcohol

"It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its burthen; instructs in arts. Whom has not a cheerful glass made eloquent! Whom not quite free and easy from pinching poverty!" Initially, I wanted to write this paper on ...

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Silas Marner

“…The past becomes dreamy because its symbols have all vanished, and the present too is dreamy because it is linked with no memories.” This quote was taken from the book . While I was reading the first chapter, this quote stood out in my head. I noticed it knowing that there was significance to ...

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Tobacco

THIS IS A PAPER REGARDING THE INDUSTRY (3 PAGES). The Killing Business? This paper is about the industry. Some would find that the label ‘killing business’ is very appropriate. Others would say that that name is misleading and inaccurate. Biased, I am not. So we will look at the issue in regards ...

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The Legalization Of Marijuana

Marijuana (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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Beware -- Witch Hunt In Sessio

“On March 1, 1950, The New York Times reports that…John E. Peurifoy, in charge of the State Department security program, was asked by a Senate Committee how many department employees had resigned while under investigation as security risks since the beginning of 1947. ...

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Marijuana 2

Marijuana is a drug that comes from the plant cannabis. When marijuana is in the smoking form it usually looks like small bits of plants and flowers that has been crushed. When it is in the smokeable form it is usually put into a pipe then smoked or rolled up in paper then smoked. When made in a ...

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Alcoholism: Symptoms, Causes, And Effects

Alcoholism is a disease that affects many people in the United States today. It not only affects the alcoholic, but also their family, friends, co- workers, and eventually total strangers. The symptoms are many, as are the causes and the effects. Alcoholism is defined as a pattern of drinking ...

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Transportation And Community D

Transportation affects every aspect of our lives and daily routine, including where we live, work, play, shop, go to school, etc. It has a profound impact on residential patterns, industrial growth, and physical and social mobility. Roads, highways, freeways and mass transit systems do not spring ...

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David Korten's "When Corporations Rule The World"

The book "When corporations Rule the World" by David Korten describes the way things will be in the future with multi-national corporations. These large corporations are found all over the world. There are many different problems that are appearing and many of them can be seen to be connected ...

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Alcohol

1. What is ism? 2. How do people become ics? 3. What are the effects of ism, on both the ic and their family? 4. How do you diagnose ism? 5. Is there a cure for ics? 6. What is the treatment? What is ism? ism can be defined as the dependency on ; addiction to . It is a chronic disease, this ...

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Lysergic Acid Diethlamide (LSD)

Lysergic Acid Diethlamide (LSD) LSD or lysergic acid diethlamide is a commonly used drug of teens. LSD is a hallucinogenic drug which effects the nervous system. The drug is ingested in many different ways, absorbed through the skin, taken orally or absorbed through the eye or ear. This drug was ...

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Codependency

is an emotional, psychological, and behavioral condition that develops as a result of an individual's prolonged exposure to, and practice of, a set of oppressive rules - rules which prevent the open expression of feelings as well as the direct discussion of personal and interpersonal problems. ...

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Drug Prohibition

There are no panaceas for the world's drug problems, but legalizing drugs, un-clog the court system, and free prison space for real criminals. comes as close as any single policy could. Removing legal penalties from the production, sale and use of "controlled substances" would not create a ...

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Edgar Allen Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) Written and Contributed by SUGABUGA456 Edgar Allan Poe was one of America’s famous poets, fiction short-story writers, and literary critics. He is known as the first master of short story form especially in tales of horror, and mystery. The work he produced was ...

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Franz Liszt And Kurt Cobain

Franz Liszt was one of many classical composers. In some ways, he can be compared to a modern rock and roll star. Franz Liszt was born in Raiding, Hungary, on October 22, 1811. Much like Mozart, he was a very great piano player at a very young age. Liszt composed an opera called Don Sancho at the ...

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Make Drugs Legal

Drugs are a major influential force in our country today. The problem has gotten so out of hand that many options are being considered to control it or even solve it. Ending the drug war seems to be impossible. We want to believe the war on drugs seems to be accomplishing a lot but this is not ...

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Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

was a very talented man and was very fortunate in having the writing skill he did. Eugene was a man of the theater, he was born in it, lived in it, worked in it and wrote in it. (Henry, “Eugene O'Neill”, p.157.) O'Neill is referred to as the most important twentieth century writer, not ...

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