her grandfather but then soon realizes the disease is everywhere. Mattie must then learn how to…
“The House of the Scorpion” by Nancy Farmer is a confusing but good book that teaches a valuable lesson. “The House of the Scorpion” takes place in a futuristic setting. A region in between Mexico and the U.S. Then the setting changes to what was once Mexico but now is called Aztlan. Matt is the clone of a drug lord El Patron who is hated by everyone except for a handful of people.…
During that time, Matt learns about the estate more, and wants to learn as much as he can. Also, he has made friends with Maria, one of the kids who got him to a doctor. After these chapters, the book says Matt has reached his old years, 11 to 14. During this time, Matt learns of the darker side of the estate and El Patron. He realizes that the people working in the drug trade factories are not really people, but people with electronic chips in their brains that control them.…
The life of a ‘80s rock star consisted of a multitude of things such as loud music, alcohol, girls, and drugs. My book The Heroin Diaries A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star by Nikki Sixx and Ian Gittins takes you through the experiences of rock star Nikki Sixx and his drug addictions. The title of this book has 3 most important parts of it that describe the book; Heroin Diaries, A year in the life, and shattered rock star.…
Feel-good chemicals naturally-manufactured in the brain when the body experiences pain or stress (Natural opiates of the body)…
Matt Sterling thanks, brad, and his family for saving his life. Then, the story changed from the car scene to Brad's situation. Brad talks about how the death of his grandfather had led to the cause of his situations "He was more like a father to me, everything I knew about being a man and a good person, I'd learned from him" (Westcott). This quote is important because to Brad, his grandfather was the father figure he looked up to during his childhood. He was the one who thought Brad how to be a responsible father and it's difficult for brad to forget about him. Brad and his wife had recently been released from serving years of prison for growing marijuana. His son had been sentenced for sixteen hours of community service for punching his classmate at school. His family was disarray and seeking employment for jobs was difficult. Brad was disturbed and decided to change his reputation by showing others that he was a good man "I prayed: just give me a chance to show people I've changed…that I'm a good person". This is important to brad because he realizes that his mistakes had created a bad reputation in the society and decided to change that reputation by showing…
He treats all of them very well by spoiling them with treats, but in the end, they all end up dying for the same purpose, to keep El Patron alive. This is until Matt. This is why there are multiple clones in the mirror. Matt states many things throughout the book that shows he feels like a reflection of El Patron and cares about El Patron even though he knows that El Patron is harvesting him for organs to live longer. Much like his prison of a home, mirrors do not comfort people and often show defects. Matt spent much of him time alone with his music knowing that his life could end at any time. "Underneath Matt felt a hollowness. He understood he was only a photograph of a human, and that meant he wasn't really important. Photographs could lie forgotten in drawers for years. They could be thrown away." (Farmer Eighty…
In this paper I will discuss the details the classification of narcotic drugs in criminal law, forensic evidence needed to obtain a conviction in a drug case.…
Since times immemorial drugs has been employed for treatment of patients and for ritualistic ceremonies. The Greek writer Homer had written about opium in his great epic ‘The Illiad ‘in 8th century B.C .Hippocrates spoke about the medicinal of opium more than 25 centuries ago. The use of cannabis sativa, the “Indian Hemp”,is mentioned in Atharva Veda and its derivatives-bhang, ganja and charas are traditionally used by some followers of Lord Shiva and have become part of Indian heritage and culture. Opium which was brought to India by Arab traders in 17th century, established its roots in Indian Society very firmly and it was considered panacea for all the diseases. Opium was given to wounded soldiers…
How and to what extent did Confucian values make it difficult for China to adapt to the challenge of the west leading up to and after the Opium War (1839-1842)?…
Then there is the shooting. With everything that's been going on in Matt’s head, he finally realized he did not want to shoot Richard. But obviously he did ended up doing it, but why did he do it. Matt stopped before pulling the trigger, hesitating; This is what everything has been leading up to.…
Over many years the abuse of Heroin has been known, but now the epidemic is out of control and many are dying daily. Heroin is a substance that is synthesized from morphine, and extracted from the poppy seed plant. The opium poppy has been refined for more than five thousand years for a variety of medicinal uses. When heroin was first created it was used as a cough syrup and pain killer. At first people believe it would help with morphine and opium addiction but then doctors realized people were becoming addicted to heroin. Heroin was first synthesized in 1874, and then marketed by the Beyer Company in Germany in 1898 until 1910. Beyer exported Heroin to more that 23 countries in 1899. In 1914 the Harrison Act was passed, and it was the aggressively enforced that all Physicians, who were prescribing drugs to addicts would be punished. Between 1915 and 1938 over five thousand physicians were found guilt for violating the Harrison Act. The modern drug war started in the 1960s and continues today with no success in combating the epidemic on drugs.…
Cited: Galperin, A. (1992). Marijuana;its effects on mind and body. New York: Chelsea House Publishers.…
Diana Ahmad in The Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusion Laws in the Nineteenth-Century American West (University of Nevada Press, 2007) argues that in addition to the traditional explanations for the Chinese Exclusion Act, (economic, political and more recently, prostitution) smoking opium was part of the reason many Anglo-Americans pushed for Chinese exclusion. Ahmad also distinguishes smoking-opium and medicinal-opium as two separate entities, claiming that it was the smoking variety that offended the moral character of Anglo-Americans.…
The history of marijuana is quite interesting. Marijuana has gone from being an important crop of the early settlers, to being outlawed in many countries, including the United States. To better understand marijuana, I will trace it back to its origins, and explain how marijuana was used in the beginning. I will then take a closer look at the history of marijuana in the United States and how this plant has evolved over the years. An interesting fact that one should ponder is that ?in 1762 Virginia imposed penalties on those who did not produce it [marijuana]? (Sloman 21). This is quite a contrast to how marijuana is treated today. If one is caught growing, selling, or even using marijuana, there is consequences which vary for each above mentioned act. This plant is controversial in the since that people believe it to help with medical problems such as AIDS. So the question is whether or not to legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes. One should remember that if marijuana is legal in a State for medicinal purposes, it is still illegal on the Federal level.…