Essays Tagged: "detrimental"

Factual Proposition: Consuming marijuana is detrimental to one's health.

OPPONENT'S BRIEF Factual Proposition: Consuming marijuana is detrimental to one's health. Definition of key terms:1. Consumption= Smoking or eating mariju ... g or eating marijuana.2. Marijuana= Psychoactive mind altering substance, also known as cannabis.3. Detrimental= Serious harm. Primary Inference: Smoking or eating marijuana is likely to ... marijuana on the user, but supported the idea that marijuana for the majority of its users was not detrimental to the health of the users brain, immune or reproductive system. In looking at all the r ...

(6 pages) 246 1 4.1 Nov/1995

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Role of Government Intervention in Environmental Issues

cle from the New York Timesentitled RU.S. Seeking Options of Pollution RulesS. Although pollution isdetrimental to our environment, you have to take into account that it isalmost impossible to entirel ... greement. As you know nuclear testing not onlyencourages the international arms race, it also has a detrimental effect onthe global environment. However, because U.S. was engaged in a heavy freetrade ...

(7 pages) 421 0 4.9 Oct/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government

Andrea Dworkin, A Detrement to the Feminist Movement

as are beneficial to women. This paper will show that many of her most popular beliefs are not only detrimental to society, but also not in the best interests of women.In letters from a war zone, Andr ... ly against gay, lesbian, and feminist material." (McElroy 87)The effect of censorship is absolutely detrimental the weaker voice, as is the case with the Butler decision. Dworkin herself fell victim, ...

(6 pages) 101 0 4.4 Dec/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Artificial Turf: A Dangerous Playing Surface

d the players safety. Other developments though, especially artificial turf, have proven themselves detrimental to the game and its participants. Just as changes were made earlier, they must be made a ...

(7 pages) 81 1 4.7 Mar/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Legalization of Marijuana

legalization of marijuana , although popular by today's drug culture, would be a very dangerous and detrimental act for the United States to take part in. Not only would it destroy families, but would ...

(2 pages) 219 0 3.9 Jan/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

The Impact of Television

l by television, of that I am sure.' (Murray 7) White was correct, it would either be beneficial or detrimental to society. Ever since the first television station was licensed in 1941, our lives have ...

(4 pages) 295 0 4.3 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

Is Marijuana Dangerous to your Physical Health?

he body. Just how harmful marijuana can be isquestionable. Some health reports state that it is verydetrimental to the body while others are explaining how chemicalsextracted from the marijuana plant ... sed on the information gathered, I have concluded that theeffects of marijuana on the body are very detrimental.Marijuana's effects on memory and the immune system can be verydisastrous. For someone s ...

(5 pages) 175 0 4.8 Jan/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

The Unholy Crusade, a look into Oliver Stone's War film, Platoon.

eir attempt to spreadChristianity on less civilized people came to a fatal enddue to the explorers' detrimental actions. The moviePlatoon reenacts this theme in a modern true life event.After World Wa ...

(3 pages) 90 0 3.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Organizational Culture How do we as leaders change an environment that appears to be detrimental to allowing our soldiers to "be all they can be"?

Organizational CultureHow do we as leaders change an environment that appears to be detrimental to allowing our soldiers to "be all they can be"? Making policies, issuing directives an ...

(4 pages) 352 0 3.3 May/2002

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Copper and Molybdenum Deposits in the United States

ted in non-porphyry areas. The nation has abundant domestic copper ore reserves but because of many detrimental economic factors much of the copper used by the U.S. industry is imported. Molybdenum or ...

(11 pages) 45 0 3.8 Dec/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geography

There is a cure. Essay on Censorship

o, this epidemic is not AIDS or cancer:however, if left alone, its long term effects can be just as detrimental. The name of the epidemic iscensorship, and last year, the number of censorship cases in ...

(4 pages) 91 0 3.5 Apr/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

The life and contributions of Henry III portarayed through "The Magnificent Century" By Thomas B. Costain

ssibilities are endless.Our story starts with the death of John. The country was in the middle of a detrimental civil war. John's death just increased the feud. The French king, Louis, wanted England ...

(6 pages) 63 0 3.9 Jun/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Homeschooling versus public schools:pros and cons

s some advantages in homeschooling a student, the disadvantages outweigh the advantages and are too detrimental to the student. Homeschooling hinders a students' social development by allowing them to ... lack of peer interaction. Although these are all great benefits of homeschooling, they also can be detrimental to the students' growth as an adult.Without a structural environment that a public schoo ...

(3 pages) 366 5 4.3 Nov/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

How do Frank Capra's "Prelude to War" and John Huston's "Let There Be Light" differing purposes/points-of-view/approaches to the subject shape each film's form and production method?

ed States War Department forbade civilian circulation on grounds that the film was demoralizing and detrimental to military participants.While Huston battled US officials for permission to release "Le ...

(4 pages) 48 0 5.0 Dec/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

IMPACTS OF TOURISM: PLANNING AND POLICY DEVELOPMENT CRITICALLY ASSESS THE KEY ARGUMENTS REGARDING THE OUTCOMES OF TOURISM IN LESS DEVELOPED SOCIETIES.

mpact on the world economy.One has to realise that along with benefits tourism does also bring many detrimental affects on both the developing and developed countries.For this essay one will predomina ... ists and tourism itself seems to create many problems, many literature available have mentioned its detrimental effects of the environment and culture. Plog S.C in Theobald has argued that touristic e ...

(8 pages) 347 1 4.3 Dec/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

The Importance of Structure, People, and Politics in Projects

e that the project at hand will be successful. Using the all of the available resources will play a detrimental part in completing the project on time and successfully. Some of the aspects to achievin ...

(4 pages) 144 0 3.0 Feb/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

The Triumph of the Free Market

ket produce an environment most conducive to economic health by eliminating barriers and regulation detrimental to creative freedom. When another system supplants the free-market or a mixed economy is ...

(4 pages) 128 0 5.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Media Influence.

still debated upon even after years of study into media influence. Many of the consequences, either detrimental or beneficial, which have been attributed to the mass media, are almost undoubtedly due ...

(11 pages) 915 1 4.5 Apr/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Hog Farms and How They Affect The People of the Great Plains Region.

I have read are against the large corporate hog farms. Their reason being that the corporations are detrimental to people, especially small hog farmers. They pollute the environment that surrounds the ...

(8 pages) 60 0 3.3 May/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

"Great expectations"

e several differences between the illusion and the truth. The appearance of certain things is often detrimental to the outcomes of characters when the reality of a situation is revealed. These illusio ...

(7 pages) 117 1 4.3 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens