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    PIAPI HIGH SCHOOL Dumaguete City In Partial Fulfillment To The Subject ENGLISH FOURTH YEAR S.Y 2012-2013 Submitted to: MR. Claudio Albina Sun J.R English Teacher Submitted by: Janicarl rubin Researcher‚ IV Sun February 22‚ 2013 Title: the dangerous effects towards health of taking drugs Thesis Statement: the dangerous effects of drugs into the body of a person Introduction: II. History of Drugs: III. Types of drugs: 3.1Narcotics 3.4 Steroids

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    foreign influence and ultimately‚ after losing the Opium War‚ and was taken over by Western powers while Japan allowed foreign influence and used it to their own advantage. China clung to its xenophobia and ultimately lost its independence. China sold tea to Britain but refused to buy British products. Consequently‚ Britain smuggled opium into China in order to balance trade between the two countries. The Chinese government became angered that opium addiction became rampant. China and Britain dealt

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    As early as 2700 BC‚ the Chinese used marijuana under Emperor Shen Neng as prescription for gout‚ constipation‚ and absentmindedness. The Egyptians used opium in 1500 BC‚ as prescription for inducing sleep and curing mental disorder. Its widespread use‚ however‚ took place between 1805 and 1832‚ when morphine and codein (methylmorphine) both opium alkaloids were discovered. With the invention of the hypodermic needle in 1843‚ narcotic addiction spread throughout Europe and America. Among the prominent

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    A Short History of English Literature Chapter I. The Anglo-Saxon Period (the earliest time---1066) 1. Social background: the making of England; the invasion of Roman Empire in 4th AD ; the attacks of Danish Vikings‚ etc 2. Literature: Beowulf ‚ the earliest literature‚ the national epic of the Anglo-Saxon‚ one of the striking features - the use of alliteration *epic------a long narrative poem in elevated style presenting characters of high position in a series of adventures which form an organic

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    window into Roman gynecology‚ and later‚ Roman women’s medicine. Therefore‚ we are adorned with impeccable illustrations of how ancient midwives were‚ their surgical techniques such as C-sections and many other methods. It is well-supported that opium poppies were vastly grown and harvested in the Roman Empire. Two core topics of disputation‚ to my understanding‚ are the degree of expansion and growth in the poppies’ adoption

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    first Opium War in 1839 until the 1940’s and the rise of the Communist Party‚ forced Western ideas into China and caused doubts of and the eventual fall of the Middle Kingdom. Many factors of the Century of Humiliation‚ ranging between the Taiping Rebellion‚ the ‘rice bowl’ mentality of the Chinese in the face of reform‚ and World War 1 influenced the cultural shifts and the humiliation of China‚ but the most significant of the contributing events of the Century of Humiliation was the Opium Wars

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    also produced beautiful silks‚ high quality cottons‚ and fine porcelain. The Tea-Opium Connection • Because of their self sufficiency‚ the Chinese had little interest in trading with the west. • European Merchants were determined to find a product the Chinese would buy in large quantities. Eventually they found one… Opium. • Opium is a habit forming narcotic made from the poppy pant. Used to relive pain. The Tea-Opium Connection (Cont.) • In the late 18th Century British merchants smuggled it into

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    people make and then put back in the economy. Drug Trafficking is the making and moving of narcotics. Afghanistan is the number one person producer of drugs in the the world. There major drug that they produce and move is opium. Many citizens are even involved in the growing of the opium and other drugs. Citizens cultivate narcotics as their main source of income. Citizens get payed to cultivate these drugs for the drug lords. They not only produce the drugs to other countries‚

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    the British and the French. 2. During the Second Opium War in 1860‚ the allegiance of European imperialist occupied the Chinese capital of Peking (Beijing). The Old Summer Palace‚ the Qing Chinese equivalent of a national museum‚ was looted and subsequently burnt down. 3. British started selling Opium to the Chinese to make a profit and eventually try to gain power over them by getting the Chinese addicted. This eventually leads to the Opium War. B- India 1. During the 1700s‚ a joint-stock

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    History Of Morphine

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    is classified as an opiate. The drug was founded in 1806 when it was first isolated from opium by Frederich Sertürner. When he isolated morphine it was then discovered that it is 10 times stronger than opium and from then he named the drug “morphium after Morpheus‚ the god of dreams” (Hart‚ 2014). The major success that followed the discovery of morphine then lead the scientists to further research into opium to find what else could be extracted from it. In addition to morphine‚ an upwards of 30 different

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