Essays Tagged: "harmful consequences"

Alcoholism

are many, as are the causes and the effects.Alcoholism is defined as a pattern of drinking in which harmful consequences result for the drinker, yet, they continue to drink. There are two types of dri ...

(4 pages) 393 1 4.2 Apr/1997

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

The Costs and Consequences of American Empire.

United States to reexamine and alter its outdated policies will lead to blowback, or unintended and harmful consequences, for the American people, businesses, and ultimately, global position.One day a ...

(5 pages) 106 0 3.4 May/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Childhood Sexual Abuse

the age of 18 years (Dominguez, Nelke, and Perry, 2002). Children who are sexually abused have many harmful consequences that remain throughout their lives. Many of these children will have various sh ...

(5 pages) 122 0 0.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters > Child Abuse

Sex Addiction Description and Treatments

an or woman who engages in persistent and escalating patterns of sexual behaviors acted out despite harmful consequences or potential consequences to self or others" (Weiss, 2005).Just as with any add ... ill commonly focus on two main issues. The first is the potential need to separate sex addicts from harmful sexual behavior in the same way drug addicts need to be separated from drugs. Several weeks ...

(4 pages) 82 0 4.5 Dec/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

How Fossil Fuels Affect The Environment

of Fossil fuels may affect the environment and discuss measures, which could be taken to reduce the harmful consequences Fossil fuels include gasoline, oil, coal, or natural gas. Whenever we burn them ... rbon dioxide emissions, 24% of methane emissions and 18% of nitrous oxide emissions. Because of the harmful effects of these pollutant gases, produced when fossil fuels are burnt, they pose a major th ...

(5 pages) 93 0 5.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Childhood sexual abuse

the age of 18 years (Dominguez, Nelke, and Perry, 2002). Children who are sexually abused have many harmful consequences that remain throughout their lives. Many of these children will have various sh ...

(5 pages) 129 3 5.0 Sep/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Organizational Politics

on of the environmental context in terms of the extent to which personally beneficial or personally harmful consequences are potential outcomes. Therefore, we propose an integration of these two diver ...

(5 pages) 43 0 3.0 May/2009

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

America in Black and White: One Nation Indivisible

tics. It is particularly valuable for isolating various misconceptions about race and tracing their harmful consequences for black progress and racial relations. One misconception is that poverty defi ...

(9 pages) 41 0 0.0 Aug/2009

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

A research essay for a basic freshman writing class. The thesis of the paper is that Alcohol is the worst drug in the United States.

Alcohol is the Most Dangerous Drug in the United StatesAlcohol is more harmful than any other drug. Despite this fact, alcohol is still legal in the United States. There a ... ill legal in the United States. There are many types of illegal drugs that are well known for their harmful consequences to humans but it is, in fact, alcohol that causes more harm than all of the ill ... l substances. A 2010 study by the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs ranked alcohol as "most harmful" drug on a list of 20 drugs. Alcohol ranked higher than crack and heroin when the potential ...

(2 pages) 4 0 0.0 Nov/2012

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