Linguistic prescription

growing problem of misuse of OTC medications and the growing trend of young adults endangering their health with polysubstance abuse. This study is the first to provide extensive analysis of OTC drug misuse and how it relates to non-medical use of prescription drugs and other illicit drug use (Benotsch et al., 2013). Two studies were conducted in different areas of the United States surveying young adults…

A Netflix original documentary “Take Your Pill” directed by Alison Klayman, takes a look into the world of the usage of stimulants in today’s competitive society. This documentary explored the rise in popularity of prescription stimulants such Ritalin and Adderall. The documentary interviewed students, athletes, computer coders, and parents of people who use Adderall. This film depicts one major commonality for these Adderall users in their dependency on amphetamines with addiction to…

Many patients go from doctor to doctor hoping to get a higher prescription count, in order to satisfy their need to get high. All because of, once again, their doctors who decide that it’s okay to over prescribe them with this addicting drug. This is why pill shopping should be strongly regulated and restricted. Due to the addiction that these patients have, they feel the need to constantly fuel it more and more. Their need to fuel this addiction makes them more vulnerable and willing to do…

This is an essay especially created to illustrate the, quite few, but evident, the flaws of the English language. Though easy to learn, versatile and beautiful, the political evolution and the political power shift, have created a certain stereotype, and people tend to write, some sort of, robotic sentences, using a lot of words to express a short, simple message. Humanity didn’t do this on its own, politics and snobbery played crucial roles in this development. Instead of using simplicity, we…

in fact, many of them offer drive-thru services that take about five minutes. They are not often seen as a big inconvenience that patients try to avoid. However, it typically takes over an hour to fill a prescription on the bases. Because of this, many patients…

“The Firstborn” is a free verse poem, a name first used to describe the movement in French poetry in the late nineteenth century aiming to free poetry from the strict conventions of rhyme and rhythm. Traditional rhythm is abandoned and is replaced by natural rhythm and cadences of ordinary speech, so the flow of the verse rises and falls at random as do the poet’s thoughts and emotions thus enabling the reader to relate to the topic. There are three stanzas in the poem with a rhyming pattern of…

For a century it has been noted as "the all-American pastime", where families go to spend quality time and show their pride for their home state. Games bring people together in a supposed "happy" occasion. On the contrary, for many Red Sox fans this pride and togetherness has brought about violent retaliations over losses. Fans even crowd the streets to destroy property chanting "Reverse the Curse" in the celebration of a win! Dare a Yankee fan venture outside, they take the risk of…

The story could be considered as having began the day prior when Mr. Wright was killed or many years before that when Mrs. Wright married him and changed so much. “Trifles” has a climactic structure as is evidenced by restricted characters, locale, and scenes as well as a plot that starts very late in the story. Protagonist “Trifles” is different from many other plays in the fact that the main character of the play, is never actually seen. Mrs. Minnie Wright is the main character. The…

Social Penetration Theory was first coined by Social Psychologist's Irwin Altman and Dalmas Taylor. The theory posits that as relationships develop communication moves from non-intimate levels to deeper and more personal ones. "According to Altman and Taylor, they specify that relationships go through sequential stages as they develop" (Miller 167). In the earliest stage, orientation, individuals play it safe with small talk. "This involved the gathering of biographical data, the avoidance…

Specific Language Impairment (SLI) is a language impairment in children that is characterized by atypical language development with no presence of cognitive or neurological deficits (Parisse & Millart, 2009). Expressive language production is vital to academic performance and social communication. Language skills observed in children with SLI is substantially below that of typically developing peers. Due to the wide range of deficits in both receptive and expressive language in children with SLI…