The book “A Long Way Gone” by Ishmael Beah is a book that has many themes and lessons. It is a true story about a boy soldier. One of the themes in this book is survival. When war hit Ishmael Beah, it was all about survival until the end. From the moment Ishmael fled the violence at Mattru Jong, the focus of his life became surviving. For months, Beah had to survive by overcoming hunger and violence. Survival was the most important theme in the book. Ishmael had to survive the war and in the forest
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early as ancient Egypt and ancient Greece, and in the 19th century ( “History and Debate”). It has been used as a pain reliever, and now it's used as a vice drug, but it’s time for it to go back to its initial use, a beneficial use. Marijuana has been genetically modified for medicinal use, it can help people with disease no pharmaceutical drug can. It can change millions of lives in our country, by letting people actually live their life instead of constantly taking pills that aren’t nearly as effective
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There have been a lot of debates about legalized marijuana and whether it should be state or federal decision. Should it be a federal or state decision? That seems to be the question that everyone as of late is asking. In my opinion, it is a federal issue, and the federal government should make a decision for all of the states. To begin, when states’ make marijuana legal or make it legal to possess marijuana, it can make its way to the national market and be sold in states where it is illegal
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Through these 70 plus years of banning marijuana we have been misinformed with false scare tactics, myths, and just strange hyperboles over exaggerating, weed we have been told the strange myths that smoking marijuana can cause men to grow breasts. But on a serious note there are some points that seem logical when said. For example, “ Drunk driving is just as bad as driving while high.” now marijuana does in fact impair the driving skills of one, but not in a similar way as alcohol. Marijuana gives
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experienced from smoking a joint, in combination with a widely held perception that marijuana is not dangerous to the user. These views and ideas lead to experimentation of smoking marijuana, typically in the teen years. Many believe that cannabis use is not addictive and only serves as a temporary hobby that many adolescents take part in. However, recent studies have shown that cannabis withdrawal symptoms should be included in the next revision of the DSM-IV-TR due to their severity in certain
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Marijuana, an immense and controversial topic currently being discussed and debated in the United States. The question is, should it be legalized on the Federal level or not? Both the Washington Post and Time Magazine have recently released articles, discussing the political and monetary effects of legalizing the drug. On the monetary side of the debate, within three years of its legalization in Washington State, the price has dropped at a dramatic rate. The price currently has dropped at an impressive
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The main moral principle is the fact that we should not choose for others. Pharmaceutic falsify facts and information to convince the population that illicit drugs are bad and that prescribes drugs are good. People should choose for themselves what is good for them and for others. As said before, Marijuana is less damageable than alcohol, yet alcohol is legal, and Marijuana is not. In addition, alcohol can be damageable for people that have an alcoholic tendency, but people still consume it since
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hearing this sentence since kindergarten. Not all illegal drugs are bad though. Some of drugs have a better effect on people and their health than one might think. Marijuana, for example, is not all that bad. If legalized marijuana would have many uses like being helpful with medical issues, being less harmful than other addictive substances, and being able to lower crime rates. Presently, people who get in accidents or are born with debilitating diseases. Since medicine today is limited, people
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attributes the increase of cannabis consumption to alcohol prohibition (Maisto et al., 2011). At this time, there was little public concern over the use of cannabis. However, in 1926 a series of articles were printed in two New Orleans newspapers, describing cannabis as a “menacing” presence and attributing many crimes and heinous acts to its use. Although these reports were fabricated and aimed particularly at minority groups, a law in Louisiana mandated a $500 fine or 6 months of imprisonment
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A Long Way Gone is a memoir of Ishmael Beah. At the age of twelve years old his life was changed completely when he was first touched by war when the rebels first attacked his home town, Mogbwemo in Sierra Leone. This book shows the hardships, loneliness, violence and cruelty Ishmael went through. With Ishmael's courage he manages to get through the hard times he faces during his childhood while having lost his innocence. This book is moving and uplifting even with the unimaginable brutality against
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