He has several things that he is trying to escape: by joining the military, but fails, he tries to escape through drugs and fails. The drugs become another thing to try and escape but they only compound his problem. Later, he discovers that the only escape he can go from his problems is those moments when he can immerse himself in his music. He realizes that the problems are real and that he cannot truly escape them. Music becomes his escape. ...

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Polaroid Stories is a play dealing with drug addiction, alcoholism, prostitution, and homelessness, but the real overriding theme is escaping. The characters find different ways to escape their reality and in many ways their very problems are the result of these escapist thought processes. ... His basic desire is to escape, as is the case with all the characters, but he attempts to do this through love or being in love. There seems to be a drive to get lost in love because in doing so he can escape realiy The obstacles to this is his very reality, a reality that the women available are junkies...

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Most high school students use drugs to escape from the monotony of their dull lives, and possibly to evade the pain of each individual's family situation. ... Drugs not only allowed Mary to escape from the uniformity of her everyday life, but they were also a medium through which Mary met and interacted with others, who were also using. ...

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As an escape, Chappie started using drugs and stole his mother's collection of valuable coins in order to pay for them. ... Chappie eventually left and helped a young girl named Froggy escape from a drug addict and porno movie maker named Buster Brown. ... He had been born into a family of troubles and could not escape it no matter how hard he tried. ...

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Clean and Sober Drug and Alcohol abuse can have a very damaging affect of people" lives. When a person is dependent on drugs, they seem to lose touch with reality and often have problems socially and physically. Two perfect examples of how drugs and alcohol have negative affects on people's live...

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They escape their realities by escaping to their fog like world of being high. ... The theme of fate, and one that is escapable guide their life. If one cannot escape, the least thing you could do is to push yourself away into a dillusional world. ... This escape into the fog symbolizes her escape into morphine, and the families escape from Mary's addiction. ...

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The attraction of "mind- altering- substances are frequently tempting as an escape from the painful and discordant processes of adolescence. ... Intensified degrees of loneliness and isolation, along with pronounced feelings of hopelessness and helplessness, perpetuate the need for further drug-induced refuge and escape. ... Models have also begun to include a balance of risk and protective or coping factors that tend to account for individual differences among adolescents with similar risk factors who in fact escape adverse outcomes. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Both provide and escape from the happenings of the real world for the user. ... Who says that with legalized drugs like marijuana or LSD someone would not want an escape from reality. It would be the perfect escape. ...

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At the time of the story, Mary believed that using drugs would help Meredith escape the problems she was facing at home. ... Meredith needed Mary to help alleviate her pain by talking to her about what was going on rather than through giving her drugs and alcohol to escape and temporarily forget. ...

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According to Planet Theory, an organization focused on problems in society, have done case studies; one in which stated: " Statistics show a strong link between poverty and substance misuse Substances offer an escape from this economic, spiritual, and psychological impoverishment- ( Planet Therapy). ... La Guma depicts the harsh reality of drug and alcohol abuse that people in South Africa went through to "escape-. ... What started out as a step toward seeking pleasure or escaping pain for Michael left him with one of the biggest problem he faced during the novella. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The word drug is defined as "any substance other than food that can affect the way your mind and body work." There are hundreds of different drugs, each with its particular effect on the body's nervous system. For instance, narcotics are a series of drugs that affect the mind, causing mental changes...

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The film "Days of Wine and Roses" is about a young man, Joe Clay, and a young woman, Kirsten Arnesen. Joe and Kirsten fall in love, and Joe introduces Kirsten to alcoholic beverages. Joe has a previous history of alcohol problems. Joe and Kirsten have a baby girl, Debbie, soon after their marriage. ...

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In the short story It's Just too Late, written by Calvin Trillin, we are presented with the story of FaNee Cooper, a troubled teenager searching to find her place in the world. Her parents once believed her to be the perfect child but now they find themselves with a rebellious introverted daughter...

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Just Say No! Tobacco use and alcohol abuse are extremely widespread in today's society. Unfortunately our society faces a greater problem. This problem goes deeper than alcohol abuse, tobacco use by minors, or even the increase in cocaine use over the last decade. It is natural for members of...

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Are these experiences hallucinatory, a subconscious escape from dissatisfaction with his own marital life? ... If he has indeed travelled back in time then these experiences match his subconscious and it is a true escape from the life he lives. ...

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The memory haunted her so much throughout her childhood that she found herself constantly escaping her home to hang out with the wrong crowd. ... They struggled for what felt like hours and the doors of the car eventually gave way, allowing the three to escape the vehicle without serious injury. ...

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In Traffic, Steven Soderbergh illustrates the inefficiency of the war on drugs. Two female characters, Helena Ayala and Caroline Wakefield, are challenged and affected by the complexity of drug trafficking. At six months pregnant, Helena Ayala, chooses to involve herself in the illicit drug tradi...

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Once the drug has you, it will just eat at you until it has completely destroyed your life, unless somehow you can escape the trechery and torchers of the drug. ... This line is about how the user of the drug tries to escape, but he is held captive by its high. ...

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Rosa Lee`s parents were black rural share croppers from the South who moved to Washington D.C. in order to escape racial oppression, economic exploitation and segregation and to find a better life and work there. ...

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Elements of Recidivism Recidivism is a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior, especially a relapse into criminal Behavior. I often wonder why there are a large number of inmates who are repeat offenders. In a study according to the Justice Department, the rat...

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In "Sonny's Blues," by James Baldwin, Sonny and his brother, the narrator, are separated by their lifestyles. The oldest went to college while the youngest became a drug addict. It takes two simultaneous tragedies to reunite the brothers, which leads to their reconciliation. Although they had not ta...

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Drug abuse has become a major social problem in many parts of the world. Discuss consequences of drug abuse and ways to deal with it. Drug abuse is a big problem, especially among young people. We can notice that more and more teenagers become addicted and their parents even don`t know about it...

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Alcoholism Alcohol is a major problem in our society today. It has become a leading cause in a lot of problems that go on in households, the streets, work, and while driving. Alcohol causes people to get drunk, if they consume enough of it .When people get drunk they become very violent, loud, rowd...

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Thirty-three million Americans - five and a half million children - are mired in poverty, living in a hell from which there is no escape, and it is all the fault of the wealthy citizens. Or is it? Any look at the poverty in America will show a reasonable reader that the facts say otherwise. While a ...

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I only know that smoking marijuana to them meant to escape the realities that life has handed them, to relax themselves, which the book also states, and just to have fun. ... It allows them to withdraw and escape from things; it relieves tension??...

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