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The Princess of the Midnight Ball, by Jessica Day George, is a retelling of the twelve dancing princess. The story begins with the end of a war between two countries Westfalin and Analousia, and a young solider, Galen Werner, heading to the capital of Westfalin. Galen is the son of soldier and an army wash woman. Both of Galen’s parents died in the war and he is headed to Bruch to find his mother’s sister Liesel Orm. On his long march he meets a strange old woman that he gives some food. In…

Under the controlled substance act (CSA), drugs are listed under schedules that are based off how likely a person is the abuse the drug and if a person will become physically or psychologically dependent on this drug. As the schedule number increases the abuse rate and dependency on this drug decreases. Some examples of schedule 1 drugs are heroin, LSD, ecstasy, methaqualone which are known as Quaaludes, peyote which is a cactus that is a hallucinogen, and marijuana. Yes, you read that correctly…

manner of death that she wants to view as easy to commit and peaceful to endure. She describes the self harm as “seeing the redness flower from [her] wrists, flush after flush through the clear water, till [she] sank to sleep under a surface gaudy as poppies” (147). The repeated imagery of flowers illustrates the beauty with which Esther associates this attempted act of suicide. She takes the image of death and masks it with the image of a garden full of life, but this act ultimately fails and…

Today, drugs are one of the most negatively profiled items in the world. One of the biggest exporters in the world is Colombia. Their influence in the drug trade reaches all the way back to the 1980's when brutal cartels were dominant. Today, Colombia's trade still exists and is as strong as ever. Drug trafficking has an influence on Colombia and the world because of the role it plays in destroying the environment, causing civil unrest, and affecting the economy. While many drugs are produced…

The following week the spring rain was harsh and unrelenting, and accompanied still by the cold tendrils of winter, refusing to blow away. April was slow approaching, March still unrelenting and cruel, though rising from the freezing thirties into the chilly but kinder forties; it was still hardly pleasant weather, and with the unpredictability of March in New York City, was just as likely to plunge down the next day. Customer’s moods were equally volatile with the weather; some days people…

. By making women the “gatekeepers” of sex society sets up the idea that women are expected to be responsible for men’s sexual behavior. This mentality can lead to both mental and physical aggression toward men and women. In this particular scenario women lose the ability to say “Yes” as society believes in the purity of women and the outward expression of sexuality in women as unnatural. Men also lose the ability to say “no” as they are believed to have a natural drive for sex all the time. In…

The Ethical Dilemma of Narcan Administration to Drug Users Lorene E. Williams RELE 524 December 2017 Loma Linda University The Ethical Dilemma of Narcan Administration to Drug Users There is a dispute among medical professionals, government entities and individuals as to whether the training and provision of Narcan is really necessary as addicts make a conscious decision to take the drugs. This paper will look at the history of opioid use, facts associated with the opioid epidemic, and the…

Long term help it brought: In World War ll there were many disadvantages but also many advantages. One of the main advantages was, medical this was a new direct response to a brand new kind of weaponry. That was created in the years of 1939 to 1945 and had grown since then. At the start of the of the 20th century there was a revolution of technology that affected aspects of military medicine. Medical journals were being copied and sent over seas, could communicate over telegraph and telephone.…

Haerens, Margaret. Ed. Sherri Libberman. American Food by the Decades: 1950s. Santa Barbara: Greenwood, 2011. Print. Précis In her section “1950’s” (2011), Margaret Haerens, author and editor, suggests that television became influential to the way Americans eat. Haerens supports her claim by showing different types of examples of how television advertising has influenced Americans’ way of eating because advertising pushed the ideas of convenience. Her purpose is to allow readers to acknowledge…

In what ways can the work of Martin Boyce be seen as an act of memorializing? INTRODUCTION This essay will serve to analyze four different aspects of Martin Boyce's work which can be interpreted as acts of memorial. It will explore methods of production, the context behind the work, materials used and the aesthetics of his installations. Insight from relevant theorists and critics, such as John Berger, Walter Benjamin and Nicolas Bourriaud, along with Boyce's own words, will be utilized and…