Treatments of Alcoholism Alcoholism can destroy the life of an alcoholic and devastate the alcoholic ’s family. But it also has overwhelming consequences for society. Consider these statistics from the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence: *In 1988‚ alcoholism and problems related to it cost the United States an estimated $85.8 billion in mortality and reduced productivity; *Fetal alcohol syndrome‚ caused by a woman ’s drinking during pregnancy‚ afflicts five thousand infants
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Introduction This report aims to give a non-bias detailed view of the Ted Talk by Mikko Hypponen titled How the NSA betrayed the world’s trust -- time to act. Summary Mr. Hypponen talks about how the national security agency or NSA for short and other American agencies are monitoring foreign data connections that enters or passes US soil‚ which includes personal data such as emails‚ text messages‚ phone calls and other types of data and how our encryption methods are being weaken by installing backdoor
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This poem ’The Jaguar’ was written by Ted Hughes‚ he tries to capture the mood of a post war‚ 1950’s zoo. He depicts the animals as hot‚ lazy and lethargic. This is because they have been captive for a long stretch of time. The animals are not lively but are dull and lifeless. He uses the expression ’stinks of sleepers from the breathing straw’ to show this. He then unveils the jaguar as being live and vivid. ’At a jaguar hurrying enraged.’ ’The Jaguar’ longs for freedom physically but is free mentally
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Page 1 Tattoo: “With You Forever” The poem "Tattoo" by Ted Kooser dramatizes how things of your youth are carried with you although so much else changes with your age. These are dramatized through the comparison of what the tattoo meant at one time and how after years‚ the old man is just as any other old man. The tone of the poem in the very beginning is straight forward by showing how things in the past linger on‚ when it comes to the middle it changes over to a strong youth‚ and the end
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lives where they wish someone could just pick for us‚ or times when we wish there were more to choose from. All Americans have many choices‚ and it is such a part of our daily lives that we don’t even realize it. Barry Schwartz and Sheena Iyengar‘s TED talks bring up interesting ideas about choice‚ how people deal with them and their affects. They both state that although choice is good‚ it can also have negative effects. Schwartz explains what most people believe and experience with choice‚ while
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"Pike" by Ted Hughes Envisage the Yin and Yang emblem. The idea behind it is that there is no such thing as purity. You can’t have pure evil – there is an element in all things of some good‚ however small. Similarly‚ you can’t have pure goodness – there is an element in all things good that is itself bad. We see the idea in great poems like Chinua Achebe’s “Vultures” and in our day to day actions as member of a fickle and capricious human race. This is the idea of Pike. It is attempting to
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where she explains that “Technology has the potential to enhance the way our children live‚ to help them grow and learn and teach them skills for life.” There are‚ however‚ those who think the opposite. This is most evident in an essay by Theodore ‘Ted’ Kaczynski‚ also known as the Unabomber‚ called “The Manifesto”. Kaczynski was arrested for using email bombs to terrorize the United States‚ blaming it all on technology advancements‚ which is evident in the first line of his work‚ “The Industrial
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Wind - Ted Hughes Setting: A house and the surrounding landscape exposed to a violent storm Main Figure: The wind itself which represents the forces of nature Theme: Man’s helplessness as opposed to the power of nature Tone: Potent‚ Vigorous Structure: ’Wind’ is written in six‚ four line stanzas characterised by enjambment. Enjambment is when sentences‚ in poems run over the end of one line and into the next one(s). In ’Wind’ lines spill into each other and the end of one stanza runs
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"The Tender Place" is an affectionate poem in which Ted Hughes contemplates and describes the Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) inflicted on Sylvia Plath. The human impulse behind this poem is to bring across the negative impact and effects this anti-depression therapy has on her. Through this poem‚ the horror and needless destruction that such therapy implicates is conveyed very impressively. In the first lines‚ Ted Hughes refers to Sylvia Plath’s temples‚ where the electrodes for ECT are placed
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communication giant Ted Roger’s in the year 1927‚ and is still going strong to this date. Even through many programming changes‚ countless numbers of different hosts‚ and several different formats‚ they have still managed to remain a powerhouse in the Toronto market. The history of the station is very interesting‚ and is the reason radio is the way it is to this date. In the year 1925‚ the demand for a new and more powerful way of receiving and transmitting radio was needed. Ted Rogers‚ founder of
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