Document | Updated11/20/2006 For centuries‚ Peruvian natives have chewed the leaves of the coca plant because of their stimulating and exhilarating effect. In 1855 the German Gaedicke isolated the active alkaloid in coca leaves. Albert Niemann (1880-1921) studied the white powder and named it "cocaine" in 1859-60‚ noting also the temporary numbing effect the compound had on his tongue. During the 1880s in Vienna‚ Austria‚ Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) studied cocaine as a treatment for morphine addiction
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Love or Dependence? Romance can cause both men and women to act frivolously‚ which makes the difference between love and lust difficult to distinguish. The desire of another human being leads to irrational thought and actions. Sometimes one will create sensations of love where no love exists. As demonstrated in both William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet‚ Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron‚ and Po Hsing-Chien’s The Story of Miss Li one may create feelings of love in order to overcome a recent
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The Dependence of People on Smartphones. The excessive use of smartphones has not only changed the way we see technology but also the way we live our lives. In the year 2000‚ the first touch screen phone was introduced and people who loved technology were amazed by this cellphone technology that did not required a physical keypad to work or access the cellphone main menu‚ although not that many special features were added to this cellphone besides the digital touch screen tech lovers fell in love
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in one variable makes or causes a change in other variable then there is a correlation between these two variables. These correlated variables can move in the same direction or they can move in opposite direction. Not always there is a cause and effect relationship between the variables when there is a change; that might be due to uncertain change. Simple Correlation is a correlation between two variables only; meaning the relationship between two variables. Event correlation and simple event
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Most of the gadgets that makes our life easier have a computer. Some people says‚ its a great relieve that their work are much easier with the aid of computers. Other people taught that being too dependent to computers has a consequential negative outcome to mankind. In this essay‚ I will discuss the arguments for and against using computers. Firstly‚ computers are widely being used in different work field. Example of it‚ in airline industry‚ one of the most important component is computer
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Writing Lab #3 “A Modest Proposal” Is a satirical speech that uses humor and irony. Swift begins by talking about the poor state of Ireland and expresses sympathy and the need for a solution. He then asks if anyone could find a fair‚ cheap‚ and easy method of making the children useful sound members of the common wealth would deserve a stature set up. (702) Stereotypes against Irish Catholics make it easier for Swift to use them as the subject of his satire. The stereotypes are present in
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EFFECTS OF DEPENDENCE ON PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS ON STUDENTS’ ATTITUDE IN SCHOOL (A CASE STUDY OF OJO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF LAGOS STATE‚ NIGERIA) BEING GRADUATE PROJECT FOR B.A (ED) DEGREE SUBMITTED TO LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY‚ OJO FACULTY OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS AND COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY BY AKINTOLA MUBARAK CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION This is the opening chapter of this research. It embodies the background to the study‚ statement of problem‚
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Few subjects expose the gulf between economists and many ordinary people better than immigration. Writing in 1979‚ JK Galbraith summed up the view of many economists on the subject of the movement of peoples across national borders: “Migration is the oldest action against poverty. It selects those who most want help. It is good for the country to which they go. It helps break the equilibrium of poverty in the country from which they come.” Net migration (immigration minus emigration) to the UK hit
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adolescents who fulfilled diagnostic criteria for caffeine dependence. These studies‚ which represent a series of case reports‚ demonstrate that a clinically meaningful caffeine dependence syndrome does exist. When individuals in the general population are surveyed about their caffeine use‚ a surprisingly large proportion endorse substance dependence criteria. In a random digit-dial telephone survey in which all seven DSM-IV criteria for substance dependence were assessed‚ 30% of caffeine users fulfilled diagnostic
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Resource dependence theory (RDT) is the study of how the external resources of organizations affect the behavior of the organization. The procurement of external resources is an important tenet of both the strategic and tactical management of any company. Nevertheless‚ a theory of the consequences of this importance was not formalized until the 1970s‚ with the publication of The External Control of Organizations: A Resource Dependence Perspective (Pfeffer and Salancik 1978). Resource dependence theory
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