crops with powerful pharmacological features (Ziegler and Facchini‚ 2008). The opium poppy produces numerous secondary metabolites such as benzyl isoquinoline alkaloids (BIAs) including the antimicrobial agent sanguinarine‚ ‚ the cough suppressant and potential anticancer drug noscapine and vasodilator papaverine (Choe et al.‚ 2011). Beaudoin ‚ Facchini .‚ 2014). Noscapine belong to benzylisoquinoline alkaloid produced in opium poppy and other members of the Papaveraceae. Noscapine has been used as a
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Both India and China were heavily affected by British imperialism. However‚ the British exerted their control differently in each country. While India was placed under direct British rule‚ with the Queen as its ruler‚ in China‚ the European nations controlled various regions through the concept of "spheres of influence‚" allowing exclusive trading privileges with countries such as Britain‚ France‚ Germany‚ Russia‚ and Japan. Unlike the rule in India‚ it did not involve direct British control. In
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aided the Afghan president‚ Hamid Karzai’s efforts to discourage opium production. However‚ Faruq Achiqzad argues that there have been more problems caused by the presence of the US troops‚ than there has been solved. He points out that the narco-trafficking situation has not changed efficiently‚ for now its profits are the investments for telecom and construction industries. Therefor there will be more struggle to eliminate opium production then before. Achikzad also indicates that Afghanistan
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him throughout his life‚ and he constantly depended on the support of others. Throughout his adult life Coleridge suffered from Crippling bouts of anxiety and depression‚ he was treated for his poor health with Laudanum which fostered long life opium. In 1795 Coleridge befriended William Wordsworth‚ who greatly influenced Coleridge’s verse. Coleridge‚ whose early work was celebratory and conventional‚ began writing in a more natural style. His poetic fame rest entirely on ‘The Ancient Mariner’
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Comm 111G Study Guide Authors‚ Concepts‚ Key terms Raymond Williams Keywords Culture and Popular Culture- William discusses how culture is a very hard word to define and has a range of meanings. Primary meaning in the 15th century was husbandry‚ the tending of natural growth Culture- well-liked‚ well-favored‚ constantly changing Culture- a particular way of life of the people‚ period‚ group Three dimensions of culture Material Symbolic Political Popular- was originally a legal term
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This image‚ was made by a man named Phil May. This cartoon was in ‘The Bulletin Magazine’ on the 21st of August. 1886 with the title ‘The Mongolian Octopus’. On one of the tentacles it says customs robbery and shows a customs office. Another one says opium and shows someone smoking the drug. Others say things like cheap labour and bribery even immortality. All of these suggest that the Asians have brought over these terrible things. It suggests that they rob Australians and that if they get rid of the
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species of energetic concision--that abrupt‚ weighty‚ unhurried‚ and hollow-sounding enunciation--that leaden‚ self- balanced and perfectly modulated guttural utterance‚ which may be observed in the lost drunkard‚ or the irreclaimable eater of opium‚ during the periods of his most intense excitement." (598) In this quotation‚ Poe uses
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Using material from Item A and elsewhere‚ assess the functionalist view that religion benefits both society as a whole and its individual members. Functionalists believe that society is similar to a living organism and that all social institutions perform specific functions in order to help society function effectively. They believe that religion contributes to value consensus and social integration. For example Durkheim sees religion as a method for integrating individuals into a community by
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monopoly on salt‚ alcohol‚ and opium. Doumer concentrated on building railways and lighthouses while denying the people development and education. Before French rule 80 per cent of Vietnamese were literate in Chinese but by the end of 1940 only 20 per cent of boys were at school and a much smaller per cent of girls.
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offenses alone. The "war on drugs" started over 100 years ago in San Francisco‚ California when the first law against drugs was enacted to stop the "smoking of opium." In all actuality‚ this law was against the Chinese people living in the U.S.‚ because they were known for smoking of the opium as a custom. The government feared that opium induced Chinese men would try to lure white women to them. The next drug that was considered illegal was cocaine. The law enacted against cocaine was against
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