Essays Tagged: "alcoholic"
WHAT MOTIVATES SERIAL KILLERS?
ch horrible squalor. As a child, Albert De Salvo; the ?Boston Strangler? was sold as a slave by his alcoholic and abusive dad. Sadistic murderers portray their childhood as a horrifying sexual abuse, ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Alcoholism
lcoholism is a disease that affects many people in the United States today. It not only affects the alcoholic, but also their family, friends, co-workers, and eventually total strangers. The symptoms ... most common symptoms seen are changes in emotional state or stability, behavior, and personality. 'Alcoholics may become angry and argumentive, or quiet and withdrawn or depressed. They may also feel ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Don't touch my monkey. About sexual addiction
ours by a window for forty seconds of nudity and the compulsive gambler hunching on a long shot. An alcoholic's relationship with alcohol becomes more important than family, friends, and work. The rel ... ionship progresses to the point where alcohol is necessary to feel normal. To feel "normal" for the alcoholic is also to be lonely and isolated since the primary relationship he/she depends on is a ch ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality
The Power And The Glory by Braham Greene
ne shows this was an accurate statement when he talks about the fact that the whiskey priest was an alcoholic, also that the whiskey priest lets himself commit a mortal sin. Greene shows this was an i ... r hand, Greene displays the accuracy of the whiskey priest's statement when he shows how much of an alcoholic the whiskey priest was. There are many places throughout the novel when this is shown. Fir ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
Ethical Dilemma
was under age and it is obviously illegal for persons who have not yet turned twenty-one to consume alcoholic beverages. This would be the fifth stage of moral functioning, Legality. If you think at t ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Alcoholism
h. Alcoholism is considered a disease. It has known physical, psychological and social symptoms. An alcoholic continues to drink even despite the destructive consequences. Alcoholism is serious and pr ... serious and progressive. It can be fatal if not treated. Alcoholism is a very complex disorder. An alcoholic who stops drinking for a while is considered recovering, not cured.A person does not have ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
effects alcohoism has on children. the final outcomes and possible social and personal effects it has on the child's life.
al to me because of the personal experiences that I have been through. Not only being a child of an alcoholic, but also allowing alcoholism to play a leading role in my life as well. Alcoholism has ha ... nts are the children's ultimate influence and they create the child's out look on life. Children of alcoholics seem to have little grasp on what is 'normal'. Many children from alcoholic homes are not ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
"The two wrongs of an alcoholic case", by F. Scott Fitzgerald
'The Two Wrongs of an Alcoholic Case'In his writings, F. Scott Fitzgerald sometimes blends many similar character traits a ... ends many similar character traits among the main characters. So it goes with 'Two Wrongs,' and 'An Alcoholic Case.' Perhaps it may seem an unlikely choice for a comparison/contrast, however I believe ... however I believe these stories are very much correlated. From the way that Fitzgerald typecasts, 'alcoholic artists' as the main characters, to the similarities in the reactions and emotions of the ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
"The two wrongs of an alcoholic case", by F. Scott Fitzgerald
'The Two Wrongs of an Alcoholic Case'In his writings, F. Scott Fitzgerald sometimes blends many similar character traits a ... ends many similar character traits among the main characters. So it goes with 'Two Wrongs,' and 'An Alcoholic Case.' Perhaps it may seem an unlikely choice for a comparison/contrast, however I believe ... however I believe these stories are very much correlated. From the way that Fitzgerald typecasts, 'alcoholic artists' as the main characters, to the similarities in the reactions and emotions of the ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Alcoholism
usually progressive disease that includes both a psychological and a physicaladdiction to alcohol. Alcoholics know what will happen to them when they drink but theyare so addicted they can't stop dri ... eatment and remain life-threatening as long as it is left untreated. Thepsychological dependence an alcoholic has is when they think alcohol is necessary and lifewill not be good without it. The physi ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Treatments of Alcoholism
Alcoholism can destroy the life of an alcoholic and devastate the alcoholic's family. But it also has overwhelming consequences for societ ... arms society in numerous ways and it is in society's best interest to find effective treatments for alcoholics.The primary goal of all treatments for alcoholism is to get the alcoholic to stop drinkin ... se. Several factors - biological, social and psychological - influence why an individual becomes an alcoholic. So treatments vary, depending upon why the alcoholic drinks and what the physician orther ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Case Study of Bill Clinton, Freudian Perspective
to become president are the thoughts implanted in his superego(Sdorow, 1995) by the troubles of an alcoholic step-father and the usual troubles of daily life that children must deal with.Clinton's re ... w, 1995) such as displacement(Sdorow, 1995). When Clinton was young and his step-father, who was an alcoholic and sometimes abusive, he may have felt an urgency to help his mother but found himself to ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents
Edgar Allen Poe, the writer of terrorsome short stories
ted by a family and given the benefits of wealth and education. Poe was agambler, and an intolerant alcoholic, which eventually caused him to be removed fromseveral prestigious schools and caused a hi ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe
Alcoholism
h. Alcoholism is considered a disease. It has known physical, psychological and social symptoms. An alcoholic continues to drink even despite the destructive consequences. Alcoholism is serious and pr ... serious and progressive. It can be fatal if not treated. Alcoholism is a very complex disorder. An alcoholic who stops drinking for a while is considered recovering, not cured. A person does not have ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Alcoholism
one third of high school students in the US are though to be problem drinkers. Many already may be alcoholics.A person who is dependent on alcohol is called an alcoholic. Drunk drivers account for on ... crazy behavior. A family or individual with an alcoholism problem is in serious trouble because the alcoholic's main goal is to get something alcoholic to drink. The drinking continues until the perso ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs
a essay about a mother that get killed in the Omagh bombming; mixture of facts and my imagination P.S.: English as a foreign language
The one cruel action that changed my life forever......My mother is dead, my father is an alcoholic on anti-depressives, my brother is a terrorist and I'm a lonely, sorrowful pre school teac ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
Effects of alcohol
msubeffect.htm).When people become both mentally and physically addicted to alcohol, they become an alcoholic and suffer from a disease called alcoholism. Alcoholism is defined as a diseased condition ... Alcoholism is defined as a diseased condition of the system, brought about by the continued use of alcoholic liquors (Webster's Dictionary, 37). Alcoholics may become angry and argumentative, quiet a ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs
Alcoholism: the symptoms and effects of the disease.
An Alcoholic is defined as someone who shows three of the seven symptoms of alcoholism within a twelve ... a twelve month period. In most cases of alcoholism, the person has a family member that is also an alcoholic; this is because alcoholism is genetic. The short term effects of alcoholism are premature ... nutritional neglect, such as anemia and gastritis, central and peripheral nervous system damage. An alcoholic is someone who shows three or more symptoms of alcoholism and usually has suffered from so ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Book report on A Child Called "IT" by Dave Pelzer
all changed. For some strange reason, never made clear in the book, she just changed. She became an alcoholic and took all of her anger out on David.David wasn't really the problem child, he just got ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Criminonlogy.
ommitted a crime, the law is also enforcing treatments among these criminals, the most common being Alcoholics Anonymous or something of a sort.Most everyone has heard of Alcoholics Anonymous at one t ... articipated in a program of this type. Often times one does not really consider what a program like Alcoholics Anonymous does for an entire society. For instance, what exactly is Alcoholics Anonymous? ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol