Groundhog Day: Breakthrough to the True Self An example of an exceptional work of moral fiction is the apparently minor comedy, Groundhog Day, which shows us a character who has to be exiled from normal life so he can discover that he is in exile from himself. In the movie, actor Bill Murray plays Phil, an arrogant, Scroogelike weather forecaster who spends the night in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, where he is to do a broadcast the next day about the annual ritual of the coming out of the groundhog. He wakes up the next morning, does his story and is annoyed to discover that he is trapped in Punxsutawney for a second night because of a snowstorm that comes in after the groundhog ceremony. When he wakes up in his guest house room the next morning, lo and behold, it is the morning of the day before all over again. Everything that happened to him
In Marc Lewis’s novel Memoirs of an Addicted Brain (2012), his experience with marijuana was notably a rollercoaster ride. His first ordeal with the drug occurred when he was a teenager and decided to purchase marijuana from a friend. He began to use it at a period of stress induced by his friends, school and his parents. The first time he decided to take the drug, he dealt with coughing fits until he finally started to feel its effects. His description of his “high”, included the the drug placing him in a more imaginative, creative and happier state.
The novel Buzzed is a book written by three authors that talk about the most popular drugs in today’s world and what they do to our bodies. These authors include Scott Swartzwelder who is a professor of Psychiatry at Duke University School of Medicine, Cynthia Kuhn, who is a professor of Pharmacology at Duke University School of Medicine, and Wilkie Wilson, who is a professor of Prevention Science at Duke University. Buzzed, based on the current psychological and pharmacological research provides a reliable look at not only the use but also the abuse of the popular legal and illegal drugs. The first part of this book includes chapters on each of a total of 12 kinds of drugs which include alcohol, caffeine, enactogens, hallucinogens, herb drugs,
Tossed out, nursing an addiction for a drug I no longer had easy
The effects from doing meth are everlasting, not only to the user’s bodies but also to their spirit and their
“Hill Billy Heroin,” “Poor Man’s Heroin,” or “Oxy” all refer to the pharmaceutical drug oxycodone. First introduced in 1917 in Germany, oxycodone was created to treat chronic or severe short-term pain. It is available in a pill form with several different potencies. In the pill form, it is designed to be swallowed whole; the formula is designed to release slowly into the bodies system to prevent over-dosing. What begins as a simple prescription for a patient, has the potential to become habit forming.
It all starts, as a simple experiment until once the feeling of self-content start to take over and fuel his addiction. He mentions, that “All my dreams, my hopes, ambitions, relationships- they all fell away as I took more and more crystal up my nose. I dropped out of college twice, my parents kicked me out, and basically, my life unraveled. I broke into their house- I would steal checks from my father and write them out to myself to pay for my habit. When I had a job at a coffee shop, I stole hundreds of dollars from the register.”
Journal Day Entry Two While having a long great discussion with my girlfriend about a topic that I would have never come across my mind, it was about further education. It is true, there are many different ways to receive education for example, trade school, online, university, community college, junior college, or even military. Out of all that was mentioned earlier, the most popular forms of education is online, going to a university or a community college, or even joining the military. It is unusual to me to hear about junior and trade school.
The user’s behavior during withdrawal is influenced by “physiological effects of cocaine withdrawal including aggression, violence, and paranoia”(“Cocaine Withdrawal”). As the user is coming off of their high, their behavior has to try to return to its normal and can be a shock to the body. The boys in A Long Way Gone “began to fight each other day and night” and would “fight for hours between meals, for no reason at all” when they were going through the first stages of withdrawal(Beah 168). Their aggressive and violent behavior is due to the ‘culture shock’ the body has to endure while it learns how to wean off its dependence on cocaine. After the initial rash behavior from withdrawal subsides, the brain suffers from the detox that ensues vivid nightmares as “a side effect of the brain’s detoxing itself from cocaine’s interference with neurotransmitter activity”(“10 Common”).
My Day of the Dead project is inspired by someone that I knew and sadly died a tragic death. Her name was Pamela Graddick. She was twenty-six years old and was like older sister to me. She was murdered about four years ago and there has been no justice for her. Pamela has knew me her whole life.
You don't want to know me. You'll sit there expecting me to open up about how shitty my life has been, or is. The first agenda on your list is probably my childhood, right? You want to me to tell you how lousy it was, that my parents never loved me as much as my sister, that I resented my father for that until he dropped dead. No, you don't want to hear all that Good Will Hunting kind of crap.
“WOAH”!! Imma get it Imma get it!! What it do. I’m phil and I’m the flyest ground hog out here. I have my own town called punxsutawney.
A twenty one year old male from New York was interviewed after over half a decade of Methamphetamine abuse. Here is his story, “My first time was a start of a new addiction. Like you hear all the time I said, “I’m only going to try this once.” I loved it until I started stealing to get meth. I ended up giving up everything for it.
It is estimated that seven million Americans abuse prescription drugs (Rees at el. 2014). These prescription drugs range from anti-depressants to pain killers and give each person a different reaction. The concern about prescription drug use is not new knowledge. Many users become addicted to these drugs and could overdose because of it. In the United States, more people die because of opioid painkillers than the number of deaths from heroin and cocaine combined (Ress at el. 2014).
Women who were introduced to cocaine by a friend were more likely to request another opportunity to try the drug as opposed to women who were introduced by a male (a romantic partner or future partner). Half of the women in this study were introduced to cocaine in the context of a social gathering, to them cocaine represented having a “good time”. The other half of participants were introduced in a more private setting either by a romantic partner or by a friend under the facade of assisting with physical or mental pain. The introduction of cocaine as a “solution” made these participants view the drug as a way to forget their troubles. The context in which cocaine was first introduced to these women shaped the way they view the utility of the drug in their own lives.
