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    Oil Dependency Oil is a big part of the U.S economy without oil or world wouldn’t be running sufficiently, but how bad does oil and what we use it for damage our environment that we live in. In the past years since the importing of oil was banned and the oil prices dropped drastically, unemployment rate has raised significantly with big oil field corporations claiming bankruptcy and firing workers by the hundreds. When Obama first came to office he didn’t want us importing oil from foreign…

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    It would seem all too obvious that this is happening. But, it’s not that simple when you are dealing with a relationship between a substance abuser and a family member. I was an enabler for many years to a family member that had a chemical dependency problem. I had no clue until someone pointed it out to me that I was an enabler. Feeling both startled and ashamed I knew I had to start practicing healthier ways to…

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    notable disparity and relationship between countries of Latin America, and the developed nations of North America, As well as other third world nations around the globe. One such theory is dependency. This theory born in the late 1940 's was a counter to the development theory of modernization. At its core dependency theory examines the historical trends of said countries to explain why they fail to compete both economically and socially with others. It is basically the notion that the resources…

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    Dependency Theory is the notion that resources flow from a ‘periphery’ or poor and underdeveloped states or countries to a ‘core’ of wealthy states or countries, enriching the latter at the expense of the former. Popular up through the 1960’s, Dependency Theory became prevalent following the Great Depression as export-oriented, Latin America, fell victim to global pricing. The overall exploitation and expansion of market capitalism, utilizing cheap labor and resources in infantile economies to…

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    In the health risk assessment, my highest scores were avoiding chemical dependency, personal safety, and emotional well-being. Avoiding chemical dependency is one of my highest scored topics because I do not drink, or do drugs. I am a firm believer that taking drugs, and drinking underage, will ruin your life, so I stay far away from them. Some ways that I stay away from drugs and drinking is that I do not go to parties. A lot of students come to college for the social scene and the partying. I…

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    Luke Romine Robey Eng121 22 September 2015 Dependency on Drugs According to webMD, 22.9 million Americans have partaken in an illicit drug. Illegal drugs are a large problem in the American society because they are causing harm to the American people, and even death. Users fall in love with the high and will continue to chase that feeling. Heroine is one of the worst drugs on the market. The most common way to use heroine is to inject into the arm. Injecting with a needle discharges the…

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    Introduction: Power comes from the ability to control other’s happiness and make others dependent on them but no person is totally dependent on another. Emerson’s Power Dependency Theory explains how power and dependency are reciprocal and how the power and dependence are kept in check through balancing operations. Power and dependence are important concepts to understand because they are something that plays out in one’s everyday relationships and one does not even recognize it. One place that…

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    Co-dependency is a learned behavior that affects the person emotionally and physically; complications of maintaining a healthy relationship to their significant others due to the addiction of drug use that leads to one-sided love; abusive and/ or destructive. A person can experience the co-dependency from a dysfunctional family, because of the repeated feelings of fear, sad, pain, etc., from a family member that is emotionally, physically, or sexual abusive (MHA). Co-dependent people usually…

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    reality a high percentage of homeless people do battle with chemical dependency. An imminent concern in addressing this substance use for the homeless population is finding the time, dedication, and funds needed to engage in any treatment options. Clients who are in and out of shelters or that sleep on the streets as a regular occurrence, are socioeconomically disadvantaged which puts them at great risk for developing chemical dependency. In addition, many of those suffering homelessness, do…

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    overuse of alcohol is associated with a range of negative health and social consequences (Hanson et. al., 2011) (Happel, 2014). What 's more, for some this frivolous activity becomes an addiction and manifests as a substance-abuse disorder. Alcohol dependency characterises the addictive and excessive use of alcohol that is substantially detrimental to an individuals, physical, psychological and social wellbeing. Alcohol dependence is defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental…

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