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- 171: California Water Pollution
- ... for that reason they do end up in the ocean. Chemicals are thrown into lakes, streams , and other bodies of water by inconsiderate chemical plants. These chemicals that can be deadly end up in our drinking water and harm humans and animals. We all know that there is a problem , but the question is, what is being done to solve that problem ? There are many laws and regulations to keep our water clean. Such as proposition 65 "The safe drinking water and toxic enforcement act" of unsafe levels of chemicals known to cause cancer and reproductive harm into actual or potential water sources. There is also the Toxic Pits cleanup act of 1984. This act states that there is to be no discharge of hazardous wastes within an half a mile of a potential drinking water source. This is something being done, but water does travel and seep through ground so what is this act really doing. The clean water act is designed to protect ground water indirectly by ...
- 172: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- ... diagnosis occurs because clinicians may be reluctant to make the diagnosis for fear of stigmatizing both the mother and the child. On the other hand over-diagnosis may result from too much emphasis or maternal drinking history, the presence of nonspecific abnormalities, or failure to recognize a different but similar congenital disorder. There is also the changes in features with age of a person with FAS. The diagnosis is most difficult ... 8 percent reported lifetime alcohol use among women ages 18 to 25 and 26 to 34, respectively and 53.3 percent and 55.2 percent reported alcohol use in the pervious month. In recent years drinking has decreased dramatically during pregnancy. About 32 percent to 20 percent in the overall rate of alcohol use during pregnancy over a three year period from 1985 to 1988 Serdula and colleagues (1991) reported the decline. In a random population based study of 38,200 women 1,712 of whom were pregnant about 25 percent of the women fit the criteria for binge drinking. This was based on a woman having 5 or more drinks on one or more occasions during the past month, and only 0.6 percent were classified as heavy drinkers because they drank two ...
- 173: Caffeine
- ... not contribute to an increased risk of developing breast cancer. For the most part caffeine does not make the odds greater for getting Osteoporosis in your later life. But, women at age seventy that were drinking two cups of coffee a day did experience a significant amount of bone loss especially in the femur. On getting pregnant caffeine has no effect. But, when miscarriages are mentioned, that is when red flags go up. Research indicates that drinking three hundred milligrams or just three small cups of coffee a day can be harmful to the tiny fetus. It takes a long time for the fetus to break down the caffeine and could cause problems such as low birth weight, fetal abnormalities or even a miscarriage. The research also concludes that drinking less than three milligrams of coffee a day will probably not cause any problems for the unborn child.(Ingall, 26) Coffee Controversy Brews talks about the antioxidants in coffee. Takayuki Shibamoto, a professor of ...
- 174: The Effects of Teenage Alcoholism
- The Effects of Teenage Alcoholism Teenage drinking is one of the greatest problems facing American teen’s today. Since teen drinking is rising, it is becoming a dangerous disease among young adults.[Alcoholism among]Many teens are becoming alcohol dependent. Some are getting drunk every weekend, some drinking every day. There are many serious side effects to teenage alcohol abuse which often result in long term physical and mental problems, increasing crime, accidents and suicide among today’s youth. Alcohol can cause ...
- 175: Ernest Hemingway - The Man And
- ... that he is trying to avoid thinking about what has happened to him. The wine flows so freely that the porter at the hospital carries out the lieutenant’s trash by the sack load. The drinking causes him to have jaundice as well as happy thoughts…the price he pays for the liquor. Hemingway shows American drinking habits in this book which coincide with Stein’s idea. Frederick, like many men and women in the 1920’s, sought to avoid his problems by turning to alcohol to make him feel better about himself and his situation. Along with a drinking problem the bedridden man decides to take his nurse as his lover. Lieutenant Frederick convinces himself he is in love with her and thinks nothing of it when he finds the nurse is with ...
- 176: Ernest Hemingway
- ... for the United States. He suggested that he use his boat, the "Pillar", to surprise German submarines and attack them with hidden machine guns. It was at this time that Ernest, always a drinker, started drinking most of his days away. He would host wild, fancy parties and did not write at all during the next three years. At war's end, Ernest went to England and met an American foreign ... as Tenete, experiences many of the same situations which Hemingway, himself, lived. Some of these similarities are exact while some are less similar, and some events have a completely different outcome. Hemingway, like Henry, enjoyed drinking large amounts of alcohol. Both of them were involved in World War I, in a medical capacity, but neither of them were regular army personnel. Like Hemingway, Henry was shot in his right knee, during ... life. It is obvious that Hemingway felt, as a young child and throughout his life, powerless, and so he created lives by writing stories. Hemingway acted out his feelings of inadequacy and powerlessness by hunting, drinking, spending lots of money and having many girlfriends. I think that Hemingway was obsessed with death and not too sane. His obsession shows itself in the morbid death of Miss Barkley and her child. ...
- 177: Boston Tea Party
- ... most people drank tea smuggled in from the Netherlands, so they didn't care very much whether the parliament raises or lowers the taxes. When the East India Tea company realized, that the colonists were drinking cheap, smuggled tea, the Parliament gave them ( the company ) the monopoly to export tea without paying duties. That way the tea could be much cheaper than the holland tea, even with the taxes. This act ... job in front of a big crowd, but this part didn't work. Over the following weeks speeches in form of propaganda were made, to get all colonists informed about the events. People even quitted drinking tea ( what they did for their whole life ) and started drinking coffee. The actual event On November 18th, 1773, the ships arrived. Pamphlets were posted to arrange a meeting between the citizens and the governor ( Hutchison ), called the "Committee of Correspondence". They wanted him to ...
- 178: Rabbit, Run Happy Endings
- ... her husband stray because she became a drunk who showed no interest in her family and keeping them together. She killed her newborn baby by drowning her in a bathtub on accident, due to her drinking problem. "Women's magazines pictured housewives as happy with their tasks and depicted career women as neurotic, unhappy, and dissatisfied." (Mintz, 181). For Janice, she was an unhappy housewife who only found happiness in her drinking. This caused a problem in forming that complete family. What Updike is trying to illustrate in his novel is that not every family can be like what we watched on TV, perfect. The perfect family ... a way out, maybe even a cry out. Her parents treated her as if she was still their little girl who would never experience real life. They didn't try to help her with her drinking problem, but only pushed her to drink more. She didn't get a long with her mother that well, because she wasn't what her mother wanted her to be. Rabbit isolated her by ...
- 179: What We Talk About When We Tal
- The short story What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, by Raymond Carver, is about two married couples drinking gin and having a talk about the nature of love. The conversation is a little sloppy, and the characters make some comments which could either be meaningless because of excessive alcohol in the bloodstream, or ... people involved may have misconceptions about their love, but this love will eventually die off or develop into something much more meaningful. The author sets the scene with the two couples sitting around a table drinking gin and making small talk. The real story begins when the topic of love comes up. Terri, Mel s wife, was once married to an abusive man, who ...went on dragging me (Terri) around the ... or so, and are still gaga (p 113) according to Terri, say (with slight indifference) that they would like something more to eat; Nick says, Sounds fine to me...Eat or not eat. Or keep drinking. I could head right on out into the sunset. (p 119) This shows that Nick and Laura are still in their early stages of love and are not sure if it will either wither ...
- 180: Personal Writing: Our Big Trip to State College
- ... to rendezvous with his ex-girlfriend Nicole. When we arrived in State College we met up with Nicole and a couple of her friends. We proceeded to go to her friends dorm and began playing drinking games prior to t he evening of partying. Needless to say after a couple hours of drinking games we were all a little tipsy, so we then sauntered on over to a Fraternity party, where we continued working on our inebriation. After a long night of partying and fraternizing with hundreds of ... idea. It was a good idea because the following morning we found out that the dorm room we were in had got busted and each person in the room received a 300 dollar citation for drinking, and their driver licenses were suspended. Although with the good you have to be prepared for the bad, which was waiting for us with open arms back in Altoona. In the next scene "bad" ...
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