Essays Tagged: "Opium"
From Hell... l'histoire de Jack l'Eventreur
loïds, Abberline se laisse guider par ses "visions futuristes" que lui procurent les vapeurs d'opium et découvre bientôt un secret qui mettra sa vie en péril... Toutes les "in ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
A heoin Term paper, describing what heroin is and how it effects the body
cess. Heroin comes from the poppy flower which appears in places such as Asia, Europe, and Mexico. "Opium is found in the seedpot of this flower" (Hoobler 39). The opium is boiled along with other che ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge asks the ultimate question - how great is the power of imagination, and answers it, with simple but poignant words, Beware! Beware!
sterpiece. Coleridge's self-admitted inspiration for this poem was a drug induced slumber caused by opium, from which a man from Porlock rudely woke him up . This drug-induced hallucination, with such ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Uses drug war politics to outline the sociological theory of how "private troubles" become "social issues"
its, caffeine (through the consumption of coffee, coca (the leaf that cocaine is derived from), and opium (from the poppy flower) have all been part of society for hundreds of years, however this does ... ation and false claims (Henslin, pg. 99). This campaign as well, as the movement to prohibit use of opium which was once available for purchase at most general stores, is rooted in American Racism. On ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
The nurses role in the positioning of the patient perioperatively under general anaesthetic.
origins from the early 19th century but these days it is a far cry from when they used alcohol and opium to intoxicate the patient during surgical procedures where analgesia and muscle relaxation wer ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
"Rime of the Ancient Mariner," and personal reflections.
wever, medical understanding at that time was very primitive, which helped lead to his addiction to opium.In 1784, an Italian surgeon by the name of Beccana discovered that a static electrical charge ... esus College was far from enjoyable. He suffered from rheumatic pain for which the doctors gave him opium. However, as the pain continued, so did his opium usage which ultimately lead to his addiction ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
'How events in the life of poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning influenced her changing literary style' -
Poetry became such alarge part of her life due to a spinal injury in 1821 which left her relying on opium for a long period oftime. As well as the ill-manners of her health, Barrett experienced the tr ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies
"Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
romantic poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It has been known that Coleridge was addicted to opium and that he actually saw a vision while he was "high" on opium. And out of this opium-induced ... s. All the elements of this poem contribute to its implicit argument, that Coleridge's addiction to opium brought him pleasure and suffering.One of the devices that Coleridge uses to show the pleasure ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Poetry became such alarge part of her life due to a spinal injury in 1821 which left her relying on opium for a long period oftime. As well as the ill-manners of her health, Barrett experienced the tr ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies
Clipper Ships.
ly were indicated.The more common types were the California clipper, China clipper, coffee clipper, opium clipper, and tea clipper. The California clipper, China clipper, and tea clipper were ship-rig ... nd tea clipper were ship-rigged vessels with sharp bows and were designed for speed. The coffee and opium clippers varied in size and might be schooner, brigantine, brig, bark, or ship rigged, but wer ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
An analyzation of the symbolism and imagery in "Flanders Fields" by John McCrae.(World War One poem)
poppies grow / In Flanders Fields" point to this fact. Some kinds of poppies can be used to derive opium, from which morphine can be made. Morphine is one of the strongest painkillers and was often u ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War I
Illegal Drugs
me of the illegal drugs that I am referring to are: marijuana, cocaine, crack, meth, crank, heroin, opium, ecstasy, L.S.D., PCP, HCM, and mescaline, but the list could go on. The negative effects that ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs
The Legalization of Marijuana in Canada
and cocaine (The Marijuana Debate, 2003).Marijuana was declared illegal in Canada in 1923 under the Opium and Drug Act, and since 1997, marijuana has been under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Indochina study notes
tors) Boa Dai could never escape this label.The French heavily exploited the land of alcohol, salt, opium and rice and used Vietnamese to harvest it all (they were known as 'coolies')Ho Chi Minh, born ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Internal problems leading to teh collapse of the Manchu dynasty in China
. However Chinese internal problems started in the 1800's when China's society became devastated by Opium which literally created a nation of drug addicts. Although after 1836 opium trafficing was con ... y, imperial officials in Canton were easily bribed. When Lin Tse Hsu took over in 1839 he shut down opium trafficing and stamped out corruption. With rebellion in Nien, and several muslim rebellions t ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History
Drugs In Australian Society Discuss the policies Australia has on drugs and how to prevent drug abuse.
out society in some form.The control of drugs has been a world-wide concern since the International Opium Commission, also known as the Shanghai Conference held in 1909. An Opium Conference at the Hag ... d in 1909. An Opium Conference at the Hague in 1911 created the first treaty which tried to control opium and cocaine through a world wide agreement. This was known as the 1912 Hague Opium Convention. ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
JERONIMUS CORNELISZ
'I, Jeronimus, am a man of phials, a measurer of powders on bronze scales, a potion brewer, an opium and arsenic merchant. The primped and perfumed Amsterdam burgers came to me in droves requirin ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
Comparison of "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and "Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" by William Wordsworth
erpreted poem, is actually a dream Coleridge had one day. He suffered from depression and was in an opium-induced sleep when he received the vision. Eventually, a visitor awakened Coleridge and interr ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
What do you think to be the significance of the Albatross in "The Ancient Mariner"?
his personal guilt. The mariner's sufferings are an expression of Coleridge's strong addiction with opium, and the moral collapse that followed. In the poem this is illustrated by the momentary passiv ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
The Order of the Skull and Bones.
ir choice to join. In the past this organization and some of its past members have been tied to the opium smuggling business and performing acts of espionage; however, over the past few decades they h ... of these powerful men conspiring together to assassinate JFK and Martin Luther King Jr. and smuggle opium and cocaine into the US could be completely true or completely false we will never know. What ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Paranormality & Spirituality