Christie Miller 29 September 2012 Instructor: Wayne Skinner CCJ 1017 Why do you think people take drugs? Do you know anyone with an addiction-prone personality? What does the medical literature indicate about addictive personalities? People take drugs to ease pain and avoid problems from their past and presence. An individual “may be depressed or in pain find physical relief does not help‚ eventually‚ he or she will then turn to drugs to remove symptoms” (Hubbard‚ 1996-2011). Personally
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Latin. Behind each language is a culture‚ the expressive richness of a living tongue and its infinite capacity to reflect a distinct mode of thought. So‚ when a language dies‚ it truly diminishes the capacity of our world to think‚ to know‚ to be and to do differently – to be truly other than the dominant culture. As John Sutherland pointed out in The Independent on Sunday: There is no mystery about the root cause of the linguistic holocaust that we’re living through. Take a holiday anywhere in the
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huge business‚ but why? The answer to that question is that there are millions of people willing to spend time and money to watch these events in person and on television. But this raises another question: why are people so interested in other people playing sports? Well‚ it ’s a hard question to answer‚ but there seems to be a psychological need for many to watch these sports every year and to support their favorite teams. It is pondering to some why there are so many people that watch sports
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experience that happens between two people. So why do people fall in love? Professor Arthur Aron from State University of New York at Stonybrook has been exploring the dynamics of what happens when two people are falling in love: Q: What motivates people to seek out love? A: Our primary motivation as human beings is to expand the self and to increase our abilities and our effectiveness. One of the ways we accomplish this is through our relationships with other people. We have learned in our research
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"Why do people resort to violence?" "Who shot me? You punks didn’t finish; now you’re about to feel the wrath of a menace‚ I hit em’ up." A quote from late Tupac Shakur and most young men’s anthem and golden rule they live by. Each factor of a person’s life or make up can affect and be affected by another factor. Peer pressure‚ drugs and alcohol‚ lack of intelligence‚ negligence in the home‚ revenge‚ and abuse can cause psychological problems. When the accumulation of negative factors
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(Picture quotes) This just proves that kids shouldn’t all get trophies. Work hard‚ earn big. If people slack they should fail. Kids need to learn to fail. Therefore‚ everyone shouldn’t get trophies because things in life don’t come that easy and they lose meaning when everyone gets one. The first reason why all kids shouldn’t get a trophy is because things in life don’t come easy like that. First of all‚ do kids get an A in class just by showing up? Let’s just say life is like that. Kids all over the
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Why do you think people take drugs? Do you know anyone with an addiction-prone personality? What does the medical literature indicate about addictive personalities? I think people take drugs because there trying to escape or forget about something in their lives. And when they take drugs they don’t have to worry about anything that is bothering them. They also don’t have to face anything that is bothering them because there not ready or don’t wont to so they get high. Medical literature indicates
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theory as to how the moon was formed. Many people today still have many questions about the moon such as‚ “Why do we only see one side of it?” “Why does the moon
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threat to your body‚ but they are also a major cause of families being torn apart. Addicting drugs like Methamphetamines are the reason why many drug users find themselves years later with no money‚ no career‚ no friends and abandoned by their own families. Your willing to spend your last dime on Methamphetamines‚ forsaking every other financial duty‚ you’d be willing to do things way out of your character to get more Methamphetamines bringing shame and embarrassment to your family and to yourself.
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To discuss why people help others we must consider whether people are by nature selfless or selfish. The dominant view today in psychology is of universal egoism; that we are fundamentally selfish‚ and that altruism (helping motivated by the wish to benefit another person) an impossibility.<br><br>One form of universal egoism is Piliavin et al’s "arousal: cost-reward" model‚ whereby faced with a potential helping situation we weigh the probable costs and rewards of alternative courses of action‚
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