Substance abuse‚ also known as drug abuse‚ refers to a maladaptive pattern of use of a substance (drug) that is not considered dependent. Substance abuse/drug abuse is not limited to mood-altering or psycho-active drugs. Activity is also considered substance abuse when inappropriately used (as in the case of propofol and Michael Jackson’s death‚ or steroids for performance enhancement in sports). Therefore‚ mood-altering and psychoactive substances are not the only drugs of abuse. Substance abuse
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Did you know that many horror stories use cause-and-effect to create suspense? IN “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Monkey’s Paw” they both use cause-and-effect to help keep you on your seat. The cause-and-effect helps build suspense because you don’t know what will happen because of their one choice. “The Monkey’s paw” is a suspenseful story full of karma‚ when one thing would take place another one was set in order because of their decision. When their old friend came back from India he had a story
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On the night of Monday‚ October 16th‚ I had the opportunity to perform as part of the Wind Ensemble in the SHS Fall Concert. The ensemble consisted of woodwinds‚ brass‚ and percussion. Our band presented two pieces in the concert: a program and an overture. Although we were not as prepared for the concert as I’d hoped‚ I opine that the wind ensemble performed rather successfully. Opening for the wind ensemble‚ was a composition by Michael Daugherty called Alligator Alley. This intense and syncopated
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The game of basketball is not a game of skill anymore‚ it is a game of fouls. This is not enjoyable to watch‚ no one who plays the game knows any of the rules. “When little kids watch basketball on tv it inspires them to play like that in their Youth League‚ and they take it to a whole other level.” (Bythe‚pg.9). Basketball is a team sport. No one wants to play with you if a you’re a hog ball‚ if you’re selfish‚ or if you try to show off. Basketball‚ like all sports can be explained by science
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The Iron Lady is a film‚ directed by Phyllida Lloyd‚ based on the life of Margaret Thatcher‚ the longest serving and the only female Prime Minister of Great Britain in the 20th century. The film shows Margaret Thatcher as an elderly woman who has flashbacks of the major and consequential events of her life. The ghost of her husband Dennis comments and reflects on her successes and failures who really is just the figment of her imagination. Margaret grows up working at the grocery shop‚ that her
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went on a trip to India in seventh grade. After two weeks of visiting family‚ it was time for us to say our goodbyes‚ and I remember thinking‚ this may be the last time I ever see my great-grandmother. The recently widowed‚ fragile lady sat in a squeaky wooden chair alone. She recognized me‚ but she often confused me with my brother because of the growing Alzheimer’s disease in her brain. My mother told me stories of events my great-grandmother had lived through. Living nearly a century‚ she had
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I remember it like it was yesterday. The squeaky white floors‚ and how I had to stand on my “tippy toes” to see through the glass. In that room on the other side of the glass was what felt like hundreds of babies‚ new babies that had only been in this world for a so short of a time. I knew I wanted to be one of the “angels” caring for them. My sister was a preemie‚ born 9 weeks early‚ so the family spent a lot of time in the hospital with her. In the following weeks and months‚ I witnessed nurses
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glass window pane would always try to make me wake up‚ but I would just roll over and cover my head with my blue wool blanket and fall softly back to sleep. After about an hour‚ I would finally wake up rub the sleep from my eyes and head on down the squeaky basement stairs that led to the bathroom to take a shower. In the shower the warm gentle drops of water would always helped to wake me up even more. I enjoyed sleeping late it was a time when there wasn’t any rush in my life and the tick tock of the
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would be able to break in through your shattered windows. Look closely you might be able to see the scratch marks of the monsters that once ruled that home‚ maybe they’ll come back. You’ll never be comfortable when you’re going to sleep in your small squeaky bed‚ directly in front of a broken window to guarantee you feel
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Educating Rita Educating Rita by Willy Russell follows the protagonist‚ Rita’s‚ attempts to break away from her mundane and meaningless working class existence by gaining a University education. Through the help from her reluctant tutor‚ Frank‚ Rita attempts to overcome the social constraints that prevent an individual from transferring between different social classes and solidify her position in the educated middle class. As both Frank and Rita attempt to escape the worlds that they belong to
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