with themselves and the effeminate other‚ Vietnam. In The Quiet American‚ the French‚ British and Americans viewed Vietnam as a feminized entity. It is non-threatening and an outlet for the carnal pleasures and delights of all things exotic: women‚ opium and trade. As such with the context of this paper‚ Pyle and Fowler’s battle over Phuong is a clash of male dominance. Phuong is the most interesting character in Greene’s novel. She is depicted as a voiceless beauty without any power or opinions of
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everything. The European merchants were determined to find a product that the Chinese would purchase in large quantities. Eventually‚ the Europeans found opium‚ which is a drug that millions of Chinese people became addicted to. The Qing emperor was upset and sent a letter to Britain to stop trading opium with them‚ but they refused. It led to the Opium War of 1839‚ which was the clash between the British and
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plants. The opium‚ which is the milky‚ sap-like substance is refned to make morphine‚ then further refined not different forms of herion. It is mostly injected and it creates additional risks for the user becuase of the danger of AIDS or other infections on top of the pain of addiction. Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer harmaceutical comany of Germany and was marketed as a treatment for TB and remedy for morphine addiction. For this‚ it became a bigger problem than opium addiction
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Kubla Khan Interpretative Approaches "The poem itself is below criticism"‚ declared the anonymous reviewer in the Monthly Review (Jan 1817); and Thomas Moore‚ writing in the Edinburgh Review (Sep 1816)‚ tartly asserted that "the thing now before us‚ is utterly destitute of value" and he defied "any man to point out a passage of poetical merit" in it.2 While derisive asperity of this sort is the common fare of most of the early reviews‚ there are‚ nevertheless‚ contemporary readers whose response
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------------------------------------------------- Treaties and conventions China is a party to the 1988 U.N. Drug Convention‚ the 1961 U.N. Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs as amended by the 1972 Protocol‚ and the 1971 U.N. Convention on Psychotropic Substances. China is a member of the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL)‚ and has been a member of the INCB since 1984. China also participates in a drug control program with Iran‚ Pakistan‚ Tajikistan‚ Turkmenistan‚ Uzbekistan
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Psychosis The best opium of the masses might be opium itself. Aldous Huxley’s surreal dystopian novel Brave New World explores the idea that a narcotic can control and pacify massive amounts of people with little repercussions. The substance‚ known as soma‚ produces a calming sensation that the inhabitants of the Brave New World call “Euphoric‚ narcotic‚ pleasantly hallicinant.” (54) The controllers of this world dispense the drug to anyone that uses the narcotic‚ which is practically the entire
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Q.1. There was a frantic effort to enclose lands in Britain because : (a) From the mid-eighteenth century the English population multiplied four times from 7 million in 1750 to 30 millon in 1900. (b) Britain was industrialising‚ more people began to live in urban areas‚ men from rural areas migrated to towns in search of jobs (c) As population grew‚ more foodgrains were needed‚ so land was enclosed (d) All the above Ans. (d) Q.2. The continuous movement of the pastoral communities helps in
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worsening in Afghanistan which threatens the security and hinders the development. Afghanistan as the largest opium-producing country in the world produces 94% of the world’s opiates and thus has 920‚000 illicit drug users. Ministry of Counter Narcotics (MCN) and many other major organizations such as International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL)‚ UNODC and Colombo Plan aim to eliminate opium and illicit drugs’ cultivation‚ production‚ trafficking and addiction in Afghanistan through different
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the Chinese Regime by what were supposed to be “negotiated” treaties. Beneficial to the British Crown in particular‚ but also its European allies‚ these treaties had no other purpose but to weaken the Qing’s power over China. After the two Opium Wars‚ respectively from 1839 to 1842‚ and 1856 till 1860‚ new laws were imposed on the Chinese nation. It became largely under control of the British‚ who enabled more of their citizens to settle down in China without being under the Qing’s rule. A
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From the time of the Spain era‚ drug control laws prohibited the use of opium by the native Filipinos and other people except the Chinese because Chinese residents in the Philippines particularly in manila started smoking opium in 1780. In 1844‚ the Spanish colonial government laid down an opium monopoly‚ which entitled the importation but the Spanish government and its sale to Chinese users. At this period‚ opium smoking became widespread among Chinese as its use was forbidden to Indians‚ mestizos
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