Opium

Are we winning the War on Drugs? Most opinions are split 50/50 on this question. One thing is for certain, Mexico is the biggest exporter of drugs into the United States. This epidemic has created wide-spread problems for both countries; the Mexican drug cartel has crippled their country with violence and political corruption and it has affected the United States in a social-economic way. First, let me give some reasons and history around the U.S./Mexican “Drug War”. The two major…

missionaries could not directly speak on social change to the Chinese mass, however, opportunity to convert Chinese to Christianity and a veiled western ideological stance increased due to French intervention during the rebellion and later the second Opium war with Britain in…

Amelia Elizabeth Dyer also known as ‘Annie’ was born in 1837 and raised in Bristol,England she was the youngest of 5 her parents were respectable they had money and educate her.She love poetry.Her childhood was pleasant until her mom developed typhus and became ill.she developed a severe mental illness and Dyer, only 10-years-old at the time, took care of her mother. Some believe this experience contributed to her crimes. Dyer’s father passed a few years after her mother's illness…

Allegro non troppo. It is Program symphony with five movements. Each movement has a story of it, such as Beethoven with his symphonies and movements. This music tells a story of an artist’s obsession with a woman he adores and whose wild imagination and opium-induced hallucinations takes us through his dreams and passions. It was relaxing during playing this symphony and it’s one of my favorite symphony; I picked this concert because of this piece. The Symphonie…

"The A-Team" is a song written by Ed Sheeran and released in 2011, the song is about a woman addicted to "level A" drugs, such as opium, meth, and other hard drugs. Someone who is addicted to a "level A" drug and is a woman, is typically called being a part of the A-Team. If a woman is part of the A-Team, it means she is most likely addicted to a "level A" drug and cannot afford the drug or much else for the matte. Which results in the woman becoming a hooker or prostitute so she can earn enough…

Writings from ancient India confirm that its psychoactive properties were recognized, and doctors used it for a variety of illnesses and ailments.Marijuana can reduce the nausea, loss of appetite, vomiting from the condition itself and the medications as well.Marijuana relieves the internal eye pressure of glaucoma, with relieving the pain and slowing or even stopping the condition.Many side effects of the medication to stop cancer can be relieved with medical cannabis, some studies suggest that…

China has roughly five thousand years of history, but this paper will begin in 1840, when the Opium War of 1840— an Anglo-Chinese war fought between the United Kingdom and the Qing in China over conflicting viewpoint of diplomatic relations and trade—took place. The Opium war led to a great weakening of the Chinese people and the start of the Self-Strengthening Movement (SSM) that lasted from 1861 to 1895. The movement yearned to…

In chapter one it is mostly explaining Moonshadow and his family, there's his grandmother, mother, and his father. The chapter is of moonshadows early life and how he has been fatherless all of his life. The chapter how moonshadows father was in the united states of america in what the tang people call the land of the golden mountain or demonland. Moonshadows father is working in San Francisco for the demons or americans. His father left in search of gold and moonshadow only knows him by letter…

Deviance, which in The House I Live In is the illegal sale and use of drugs can be explained through absent parents, low-wage jobs, as well as an individual’s race. Considering these external factors, humans easily become “prisoners of socialization,” thus leaving little to no free will when it comes to these acts of deviance. The documentary, The House I Live In, illustrates the world around the United States’s policies regarding illegal drugs from the perspectives of both deviant individuals…

the smaller organization sent “missionaries” to obtain signatures “from men and women around the world who wanted their government to prohibit the sale of alcohol and opium.” Many supported the petition as it gathered 7,500,000 signatures from 50 countries (WWCTU). Though the legislation did not pass, the awareness of alcohol and opium aftermaths was brought to the forefront of the lesser countries’ governments. Aside from prohibition in and out of the United States, the WCTU supported…