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Drugs And High School Life
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... narcotics(such as any drug derived from opium and Synthetic narcotics), Sedatives(alcohol and Barbiturates). The Stimulants field would include Amphetamines, Cocaine, Caffeine, and Nicotine. It doesn’t have to be illegal to be a psychotropic drug for cases like caffeine and nicotine. The Inhalants field would include Hair-Spray, Gasoline, Dustoff, Glue, Nail-polish remover, and Paint thinner’s. The Hallucinogens field would include LSD(lysergic acid diethylamide), Mescaline, PCP(also referred to as “angel dust”), and Psilocybin(psychedelic mushrooms). The last field, Marijuana Field, consists of just Marijuana and Hashish. Psychotropic drugs is an inter ...



Morality; The Pre-existing And Universal Code
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... in which man exists, to seperate good from bad, and right from wrong, and every society should strive to discover and achieve these principals. Morality should not change over time even though cultures and social stratifications do, what was morally right three thousand years ago is morally right today and should be morally right three thousand years from now. Only with universal principles can we as collective society discover what is right, what is wrong, and what is best, therefore there exists not modern morality but simply morality. An empirical philosopher, W.T. Stace, argues that if we believe all morals are culturally relative, it is impossible for us to ...



Effects Of Gambling
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... minimum wage just so that they can go to the casino because they are addicted. Also if someone tries stealing things and selling them away for the money they might get caught stealing and have to go to jail. A person might become addicted to gambling from going to the casino too often. I consider going to the casino more than three times a week being addicted. Also a person might become addicted to gambling if when one of the first couple times that they go they win money. So that might lead in to them thinking that they are going to win money every time they go but the casinos are not in the business to lose money. The odds are set so that more often the ...



Child Exploitation
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... are dying are our future. Organizations have been formed to make sure that we know this, and make sure that we protect our future. Yet, child camel jockeys are cheered on by these same organizations when they visit these regions. They concentrate on sweatshops while around the world people are literally getting away with murder. Our trust rests, supposedly safely, in these people’s hands in hopes that they will pick up the slack for the rest of society. Then we are shown these films and pictures and we wonder, “Where are these saviors of the children? Where are these protectors of the future?” Where indeed. We cannot leave the problems facing our world in ...



The Role Of Entertainers As Educators
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... Buddhist monks tried to win converts outside India through the use of theater and song (Burdick 97). They taught the precepts of Siddhartha and Buddha in such theatrical epics as Ramayana and Mahabharata, setting exacting rules for theater performance in the process (Burdick 99). Similarly, Irish monks established singing schools, which taught uniform use of music throughout the church (Young 31). Through chants which were all the same, they spread identical teachings. Christian psalms and hymns in Apostolic times were sung to spread the knowledge and faith of Christianity. In fact, Christianity was promoted from the start by music. Churches were for long the o ...



Violence Due To The Media
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... merely words. Children should not be exposed to it, so children should not be allowed to watch television shows with ratings that suggest that profanity is contained in the program. When a television ratings system was created, the necessity for censorship ended. The purpose of the ratings is to warn parents of the content, so all material should be allowed on TV since the viewer is warned beforehand of the shows level of maturity. Television violence and vulgarity are not the only examples of unjust censorship. Who can speak their mind on controversial subjects such as the murder that occurs every day, which is abortion and the faults in our government? The messag ...



“Parents’ Socialization Of Children In Global Perspective”
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... known and evaluated. These factors tend to vary between individuals because it is an individual evaluation. The psychological well being is measured by self-esteem, locus of control, anxiety, loneliness, and sociability. The many different countries of adolescence are all similar in one way. In Hong Kong, Iran, Puerto Rico, the United States and the Ojibway Native Americans when parents are involved in their children's’ life, greater outcomes are shown. This study, that Heath described, shows that not only one country is suffering from the repercussion of parent involvement. But all these countries have this problem. Almost every child is alike when it comes to ...



Prison Overcrowding
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... wrist. The problem began when they realized that although less criminals were on the streets there were also more in prison which took up space for new prisoners, who in some cases should be there before the ones that were already inhabiting the jail. There have been many new experimental programs in which the government is trying to keep the prison population down. Some of these have proved to be very successful while others have failed. Although not everybody agrees on what the solution they do agree that something has to be changed. Although many agree that mandatory minimum sentences are out dated and should not be imposed any longer, there are those w ...



Creating The Safest Classroom And Lab Atmosphere
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... and lab atmospheres. Information is presented on labs from the most innocuous, to the most potentially threatening. SECTION I THE CLASSROOM As simple as a classroom may seem, much thought should go into its design and construction. Seeing as how it will be the incubator of great minds, the classroom incorporated into room 643 should meet all safety regulations, while being a pleasant place to learn. Light, ventilation, exits, access, and fire safety must all be considered when building a classroom. The Uniform Building Code states that a classroom is a Group E occupancy, and follows that statement with a series of legislation. The legal aspects of ...



Why Are Individuals Aggressive?
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... overcrowding, although contribute to the causes of aggression will not be discussed during the course of this essay. No universally adopted definition of aggression exists, for the purpose of this discussion, the definition of Gross will be used. Gross defines aggression as :-"The intentional infliction of some form of harm on others" (Gross page 444) Freud proposed that aggression is an instinctive biological urge. According to Freud this instinct, is made up of the libido (pleasure) and "Thanatos" (the death wish) (pain). This basic instinct is present in the Id from birth, at first the aggression is relatively uncontrolled, but with the development of the ...




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