Chapter two explains the history of addiction. The history of addiction is important to understand because it gives us insight. This insight will be beneficial in moving forward with regards to the field of addiction and recovery.
Substance abuse and addiction has been present and documented worldwide for thousands of years. Europeans are accountable for drinking evolving from to dark ages to colonization. The main advancement in the evolution of alcohol was the distilling of alcohol. This made alcohol stronger and ultimately caused personal and social problems. The isolation of cocaine from the coca bush also created similar problems of substance abuse.
When European settlers arrived in America they brought vast amounts of alcohol with them. They viewed alcohol as a necessity of life that was used for things ranging from medicinal purposed to social gatherings and political life. The Europeans were responsible for introducing alcohol to Native Americans, who are biologically more susceptible to alcoholism. However, in colonial America drinking was viewed as a choice and drinking large amounts was thought to be acceptable. Between 1780 and 1830 the consumption of alcohol increased drastically. In 1784, Benjamin Rush was the first person to refer to excessive drinking as a disease or an addiction. By 1826, a rise to intolerance for drinking led to the temperance movement and the start of the prohibition movement.
The period between 1830 and 1919 was not only known for alcohol consumption, but the use of other drugs as well. Medical doctors were directly responsible for this rise in drug use due to using drugs as cures. Furthermore, Opium, morphine, and cocaine were legal for use without a prescription until 1914. At this time, a...
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...used for explaining Alcoholics Anonymous was appropriate, but there was more that could have been said. Another section worth questioning is the paragraph about process addictions. Why was only one paragraph dedicated to process addictions? Are process addictions not as harmful as chemical addictions? Is the general public even aware of process addictions? The paragraph left me with more questions than answers. The author either needs to remove the paragraph completely or greatly expand on the topic. The section was not informative in a way that was consistent with the rest of Chapter two.
Overall, the reading had multiple statistics for each section. Mainly, the statistics helped more than they hindered, but occasionally they were not beneficial. In some places a little more explanation of a topic and a little less statistical information would have been useful.
Paraphrasing: Paraphrasing is very similar to a summary, but instead of shortening what an author has said, a paraphrase is reworded. When paraphrasing, credit should always be given or it could be considered plagiarized. It is both a writing and reading strategy because it requires both of these. People need to read a piece of writing, then interpret and rewrite the author’s ideas. Paraphrasing is very useful when it comes to writing about a topic because it is saying something in a way that makes
the time to read than if I was reading alone. When it came to essays, journals, even warm ups I would be the last in the class to finish even when I thought I was moving at a good pace or even faster than everyone else. Back in my 10th grade year I had Ms.Boss for Honors English II, and we had a book for every month that year. We were reading the Novel “Lord of the Flies” and she would assign everyone a chapter to read for class and homework and to write a long summary
statement of how important reading is for our personal growth and even our social and economic advancement. Reading also widens the horizon of thinking, and as I read authors like Rick Moody and Alberto Manguel, it widens my horizon on the all the possibilities of what reading means. On the third sentence of the introduction I stated that reading, “plays a key role to academic success” and this a very important aspect of reading for a student like me. Reading is one of the very fundamental tools
Reading is believed by some academia to be the most important activity that a student could do to go ahead in academic pursuit. Some research claimed that many people take reading for granted in their developmental stage. Due to this fact, few learners cannot read properly because they claim they do not enjoy reading. In my observation, not only is effective reading important but to read with comprehension (recall of read text) and for pleasure. The constant engagement with reading for pleasure
the summary of the book Night, by Elie Wiesel. The subject matter of the book takes place during World War II. In this summary you, the reader, will be given a brief overview of the memoir and it will be discussed why the piece is so effective. Secondly, there will be a brief discussion about the power of one voice versus the listing of statistics. The impact of reading about individuals struggling to survive with the barest of means, will be the third and final point covered in this summary, with
A. Picture storybook 1. Yolen, J., & Teague, M. (2007). How do dinosaurs go to school? New York, NY: Scholastic. Summary: How Do Dinosaurs Go to School? is one of a series of dinosaurs’ book written by Jane Yolen and Illustrated my Mark Teague. There is an illustration of a different dinosaurs on each page. The first half of the story begins with asking the child reading a series of questions. For example, does he drag his long tail? These questions are of behaviors that would be unacceptable in
structure, but the critical thinking and sentence formation are excellent. By evaluating the summary, rhetorical analysis, critique, and research paper, the strengths and weaknesses vary throughout all of the essays. While writing the summary, there were struggles at first to get a strong statement of direction due to the fact there was not an understanding of the concept of the summary. After receiving the graded summary and seeing the words “Please see me”, it was not going to be good. First, t...
into groups and fill in one part of a story map, about Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. Then each group will present their answer to summarize Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs as a class. Finally, you are going to give them "book" pages on which they will write and draw about Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. They will use their books to summarize the story for their family members. Remind them that their summaries should always be shorter than the real book because a summary only includes the most
first semester of English 101 we were required to surpass three course goals, in which my senior class did. The course goals enabled my senior class to be able to summarize, respond and synthesize. In college students are asked to write many papers, one of them being a research paper. Students are asked to summarize the information and respond to it, therefore adding in their thoughts. I have learned and comprehend all of the essentials of writing a paper. I know the difference between all of the course
Importance of Pre-reading Strategies In order for the students to comprehend a particular text the students’ need to have a purpose and prior knowledge in order to connect and interact with the text, so that they will be able to interpret, construct, and apply meaning from it. (Bryant, Linan-Thompson, Hamff, & Hougen, 2001, p. 252). Establishing a purpose is one way for students to start making a connection to the text they are about to read. Students need to know why they need to read a particular
Sydnei Young AP Lit. Jiles 3 Aug. 2014 Chapter 1 Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When It’s Not) Summary: The quest or adventure has many components. The quester is a person who goes on a journey in the book. The quester has an important place to go because there is some reason for the character to go there, whether another character told them or it’s just fate. On this journey there are some challenges along the way that the quester endures. “The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge” (Foster
A. Purpose of the Study “Reading is the motivated and fluent coordination of word recognition and comprehension” (Leipzig 2001). In the educational system, pupils are encourage to read books because of the belief that one becomes better at a skill based on the amount of time dedicated to that particular skill. Pupils must practice the skill learned and receive “frequent feedback (Samuel and Wu).” Practice is most effectual when it is individualized and accompanied with instruction (Renaissance
have a good flow where readers were able to see many different points of views on the issue. Owen and Sawhill use an element that was mention in the introduction of “They Say/ I Say”: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing with Reading, “to write a really good summary you must be able to suspend your own beliefs for a time and put yourself in the shoes of someone else” (Graff et al. 31). All the supporting details that were written in the essay related to the author's point of view and were using
million of children are reading. This is also a form of ethos because it's a very popular name that lots of people know about. The author's name is off to the side so it doesn't interfere with the picture that gives the whole cover a magical feel. The back cover has the title again in a less childish way to make the child more drawn to the purple summary below. The summary is purple to attract the child's attention so they can read more about the book and get hooked. The summary includes words like
Men over the original. The Onion develops the major claim by including specific quotes from Weaver about her efforts in reading these Cliff Notes and the personal effect these summaries had on her while also going deeper by looking at her choice to read these summaries instead of the actual book. The Onion's purpose is to entertain readers with Weaver's experience in "reading" Of Mice and Men in a sardonic and cynical manner in order to bring awareness to a lack of understand and competence that