After saying goodbye to Froggie and sending her home by bus, Bone soon saw that he, too, needed his mother and left I-Man with the money that he had stolen from the drug addict so he could buy himself a plane ticket home as winter was coming and I-Man couldn't survive off of frozen vegetable plants. After saying his goodbyes to the man who had saved his life on several occasions---and who's teachings would probably save him in more then one to come-- he returned home to find that his mother had gone into rehab and his stepfather had lost his job, falling deeply into alcoholism, and r...

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I can change our culture. ... In their song,Home is Where the Heart is?, the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd says,I can see it inside, it's my heart that sees, not my eyes, and if you listen close I?ll tell you why, home is where the heart is, and my heart is at home with you.? ... Drug addiction is a disease that is running rampant in our schools, our neighborhoods, and even right in our own homes. ...

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Bill is not getting the stimuli he needs to cope or function in a healthy home. Bill's behaviors come from what he has observed at home and the family norms. ... Bill's environmental factors are that he is coming home everyday from school to a quiet home, a mom who is basically not there, he has no support, and is a young man really raising himself. ... I have told him that he has had unforeseen circumstances that have happened in his life but only he can change his future. ... We will continue to talk about his present and past situations and how they are improving and or getting wo...

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Everyone who told a story that night can make anyone feel something. ... Driving drunk late at night can make you tired which is one of the many reasons why it is so dangerous. ... But most of her life she was moved in and out of foster homes. ... She was then in and out of foster homes. ... One night when drinking at a party he decided to drive home. ...

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Many of us in society often misinterpret the cause of homelessness and put the blame on those without homes. ... In turn, this can leave him/her homeless. ... An example would be someone experiencing domestic violence because this can force individuals and families to leave home suddenly, possibly without proper support in place. ... With no money left, this can leave a person homeless. ... He was an engineer in his home country. ...

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He was referred to treatment due to recently being arrested for breaking and entering into a residential home. ... Martha comes from very humble background and prides herself in the idea that she is able to stay at home, while her husband works. ... During these arguments, Dylan slips out of the home to go hang with his friends and clear his head. Usually it is during this time frame, that he is getting high or committing a crime, in order to get money, so he can get can buy drugs to get high. ... Goal One consists of getting Dylan's parents to see how his negative home life plays a rol...

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Before we knew it, it was time to go home. ... To this day I still do not remember how we had gotten home. ... I can still stay focused and always know what I am doing. ... I can write to a song with out blanking out. ... I can build a web page just by the way I am more opened up to my senses. ...

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The delinquent behavior typically derives from the home and school life of the youth. ... Such as poverty, drug abuse, and distractions within the home. ... Preventing juvenile delinquency can be a major topic of discussion among researchers. ... There are many community forces that can play a vital role in delinquency prevention. ... Some believe the school is the only one that can help them. ...

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Eventually my home was left a fatherless one. ... It's then that we can realize that there's a problem. ... So what can we do? ... The families need to be more open with alcohol, and in promoting healthy social drinking within the home. Nine times out of ten adolescence who drink informally within their homes don't go through the rebellion of excessively "trying it" on their own. ...

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Orpheus is homeless or between homes in a city that is never particularly mentioned as far as by name. ... 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 and prostituities, and do not share his views about the existence of love. ... She lives in the same area of the city that Orpheus does; a run down slum home to homeless and drug abusers. ... In the scene I will mention, her conflict is to shut Dyonisys up, so she can secure her john, Orpheus. ... As I said, he ...

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People are now flocking out of the cities, because they can do their work from home with the help of computers. "The current technological revolution has created an opportunity for the return of work to the home." ... The issue of technology and progress is discussed through out George Eliot's "Silas Marner", this can be seen by the Industrial revolution taking place and can be linked to today as the modern world is at the beginning of the technological revolution. ... However the themes and issues in the novel "Silas Marner" can be disputed to have no relevance to modern day students at ...

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For humans a simple desire can become much more. Indulging too much in ones likes can lead to an addiction, which can be much more serious. ... Even the television can become a severe addiction. ... There was a problem with this study, the subjects were not in the comfort of their own homes, but rather in the artificial conditions of a lab room. ... To reduce this source of error, another test was done were they carried beepers and sent off to their homes to watch television. ...

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Another cause of adolescent substance and abuse can be attributed to life at home. ... The continual abuse of a substance can also lead to very violent behavior and very antisocial acts by a teenager. Possible Prevention There are ways that adolescent substance abuse can be prevented or reduced in number. ... The better we can educate children about the consequences of substance abuse, the less likely they are to use them. ... The family and the community can also take part in helping these children also....

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With drug use and violence rising, a direct correlation can be seen. ... Violent tendencies can get their starts early in one's life. ... Children 12 and over were not allowed into the shelter because of the behavioral patterns they had learned at home. This shows how violence can also be a learned action. ... I think children should also be educated on it at an early age so that they too can pick out warning signs, and can talk to someone that they trust should they feel threatened. ...

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Many underage people consume alcohol at their friend's house, in bars, or at home. ... They can be bought in stores as goods for public use. Any product containing Freon can be used as a mean of inhalant. The most popular inhalants are spray containers, whipped cream cans, or glue bottles. ... A lot of them are drug or alcohol addicts and have no permanent home site. ...

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If a child is brought up in a home where there is a bowl of chocolate on the coffee table every day, as he grows the availability of the chocolate will cause him to loose interest. However, as soon as he has a friend over to play who happened to grow up in a home where candy was never available is going to want to devour the entire bowl. ... Call me crazy, but I don't see many sick patients being medically directed to go home and smoke a pack of cigarettes or drink a case of beer. ... Why not figure out a happy medium that we can all live with? ... The man I know destroyed his home...

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Some teens may feel they need marijuana to help them escape from problems at home, school, or with friends but most teens fail to realize the effects that it causes them at home, school, with friends, and even on themselves. ... Since marijuana affects your judgment and decision making, its use can lead to risky sexual behavior, resulting in exposure to sexually transmitted diseases like HIV, so I guess you can call that a long-term effect since there is no cure for HIV or AIDS. ...

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The reason is because I will one day be married, and I would like to know what causes divorce, that way I can try my best to prevent it from happening. ... The couples who agreed to participate were given forms of consent and questionnaires to complete at home. ... The major take home message of this study is that although there are many positive correlations in marriage there are still a lot of factors that affect marital stability. ... I feel this study is important because there are a lot of young people getting divorces at a young age, and I think if they utilize this information they ca...

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Can you imagine this happening to you? ... It can also be found in a liquid form, which is rare, but can make it even harder to detect. ... • The attacker volunteers to escort the "sick" or "drunk" person home. Once out of the public eye, the attacker may take the victim to a hotel, to the victim's home, or to other places. ... It can take several days to piece. ...

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She feels that she can not do anything about it. ... The mother can just watch her son's life being destroyed by drug abuse. She wants him to come back home and live a normal life. ... So actually you can prevent better this problem if those young people lived in a better familiar environment, for instance having constant talks with their parents about this issue. ...

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These instances can have an enormous effect on the child and the path they eventually take in life. ... The memory haunted her so much throughout her childhood that she found herself constantly escaping her home to hang out with the wrong crowd. ... When my mom was sixteen years old, her and her parents were on their way home from a baseball game. ... It can affect every decision you make from the moment it happens to the day you die. ... Negative situations can make you smarter and an even more sturdy person if approached correctly. ...

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Having an addiction can scar a family and leave charred relationships in its wake. ... We don't stop to think how hard it can be on them and their emotions. ... He would drink by himself when I wasn't home, get angry when his friends would do cocaine without him (and blame me for missing it), and spend all our extra change and money on beer. ... It has only been a week, and already I can see a change. ... People lose their homes and jobs because of addictions, and can end up in financial ruin. ...

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Kirsten is having difficulty recovering, and is not returning home. ... The addict has to have a desire to escape from the addiction, and with the guidance, the addict can pull through any situation. ...

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Censorship can be defined as the suppression of ideas and information that individuals, groups, or government officials find objectionable. ... Menace II Society is mainly about young African-American men and their everyday life in project homes. ... As a young child, Caine witnessed his father murder a man in their home. ...

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Mary's addiction is slightly different, since she was given an overdose of morphine by a cheap doctor during childbirth and has become dependent on it, but nevertheless retreats to her room on many occasions when things go wrong, so she can get her fix. ... Jamie, the eldest son, is living at home with his family, earning his keep working around the home with James and as an actor with parts set up by his father. He had been attending college, but decided to come home, which truly upset his father. ...

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