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    Harm reduction Essay questions What are the four phases of an addiction? Please list the phases and the behaviors associated with each phase. Define and describe harm reduction. Describe current trends in treatment Chapter 2 When did the Temperance Movement take place? What was significant about the early 1900s? What is the “War on Drugs?” When did gambling become legal? Chapter 3 What are narcotics? What are stimulants? What are stimulants used to treat? What are hallucinogens? What

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    happiness is dependent on our genetics and environment while the 40% is up to us. He also discovered that the most joyful and upbeat people are those who had found and explored their special combination of “signature strengths”. For example; humanity‚ temperance and persistence. Seligman concludes that happiness has three dimensions that can be refined: the Pleasant Life‚ the Good Life‚ and the Meaningful life. According to psychologist Peter Kramer‚ happy people cultivate resilience. He believes that resilience

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    of democratic ideals. The women’s movement slowly faded  as the overpowering abolition movement came into focus.             Economically‚ social reforms during the antebellum era aimed to create economic stability and equality. For example‚ the temperance movement was a female led reform to end alcoholic drinking.              Socially‚ reforms supported democratic ideals by seeking a

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    Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born on November 30‚ 1835‚ in Florida‚ Missouri. He is better known by his pen name “Mark Twain”‚ which is a nautical term which means two fathoms deep. As a child he learned to smoke and led a gang‚ leaving school at age 12 to become an apprentice at a printing shop. He became a free lance journalist and traveled around country until age 24‚ when he became a river boat pilot on the Mississippi‚ his childhood dream. During the Civil War‚ Twain joined the Confederate

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    Second Great Awakening

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    many shattered and reorganized church‚ and numerous new sects. It also encouraged an effervescent evangelicalism that bubbled up into innumerable areas of American life…” (308). Some of those key features that were reformed were prison reform‚ the temperance cause‚ the women’s movement and feminization of religion‚ and the crusade to abolish slavery. Some of the key people of the Awakening were Charles Grandison Finney who led a series of revivals in Rochester and New York‚ Dorothea Dix‚ who stirred

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    raised in poverty‚ after his father deserted his three children. “He was later apprenticed to a shoemaker‚ a cabinetmaker‚ and finally to the printer and editor of the Newburyport Herald. He worked as a printer in Boston and in 1827 helped edit a temperance paper‚ the National Philanthropist. Some people believed slavery should be abolished gradually‚ some immediately; some believed slaves should be only partly free until educated and capable of being absorbed into society. There were those who saw

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    Benjamin Franklin and the American Dream Allan Kulikoff‚ University of Georgia Americans refer to their Founding Fathers (Benjamin Franklin‚ George Washington‚ Thomas Jefferson‚ James Madison‚ Alexander Hamilton‚ John Adams) with extraordinary frequency: a July 2006 Google search turned up 61.4 million references to Washington‚ 24.8 million to Franklin‚ 20.4 million to Jefferson‚ 19.2 million to Madison‚ 10.8 million to John Adams‚ and 4.6 million to Hamilton. They call upon them in to settle

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    Impact of the Second World War Home-front experiences generally differed between people of different ethnicities‚ especially during the time after World War II. During the time after World War II‚ relocation was a major issue between certain groups in America. Relocation took place regularly after the Second World War‚ particularly with the African Americans who had a choice‚ and the Japanese Americans who were forced. The African Americans living in America after WWII were able to live a pretty

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    The Soul And Ethics The philosophies of Plato and Aristotle differ on many issues. The most important thing is the examination of their differing views on ethical theory‚ and how the soul is connected. We could find many conflictions between the ethical theories of Plato and Aristotle. But‚ the most important points are their differing views on the human souls function and its role in ethics. Each philosophy contradicts eachother and provides a variety of arguments to which we will explore. The

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    right. Previously during the 1820s many states had extended the right to vote to all white men‚ regardless of how much money or property they had (The Fight). Meanwhile‚ reform groups headed by women were spreading across the United States such as temperance clubs‚ religious movements‚ and

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