Each author also writes about how the death affected them and their family. ... (Trips from There to Here, Page 60) Marjorie showed love for Karen and wanted to keep her safe from the drugs and help her stay away from them by playing with her. Zoë never writes about how she loved or cared for her sister. ... Both writers wrote how they had to learn how to stay away from Karen for the better of the family. ... Zoë hated Karen while Marjorie loved her but could not compete against her drug addiction. ...

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This just shows how much being in jail effects family members. ... When he was using he was very violent with his family. ... At the time of her arrest she was in a foster family. ... Kim loved music and loved to rap. ... He was unable to contact the family as well. ...

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It affects families both mentally as well as physically. ... There are certain human needs that are usually met in normal personal relationships: to love and be loved, to be needed and accepted and to have security and a sense of accomplishment. ... Although families may resent this, it is rare that the learn how to avoid it. ... They may fear the family will break up. ... In addition to feelings of love and worth, children need to grow up with routines schedules. ...

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The Jackson family has a tradition of everyone engaging in family games, dinner and communication every Sunday. ... Michelle has expressed that her family loves to vacation together but she doesn't like to vacation with them because they don't let her do what she wants. Michelle says that she loves to join her family during the holidays and she knows that they love to see her. ... Michelle loves her adopted mother and father but feels it's time for them to not worry so much about her and worry about themselves. ... She says she has a large amount of friends and loves to hang out...

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Having an addiction can scar a family and leave charred relationships in its wake. ... Alcohol destroyed my family, and I know that I am not alone. ... If they do not have jobs, then they rely on loves ones to keep them afloat. ... Not only the addicts, but the families and friends that watch them slowly disappear. To witness a loved one slowly poison their body to death is a horrible thing to have to see. ...

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According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse, approximately half of all Americans have a loved one, a friend, or an acquaintance who has a drug addiction. ... In most cases, one may not understand why or how their loved one becomes addicted. ... Objective signs of addiction are loss of interest in family and friends, disappearance of money and valuables, verbally and emotionally abusive, not telling the truth, constant excuses, poor self-image, and no concern for anyone or anything. ... A person suffering from drug addiction does not understand that they are not only hurting themselves, ...

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Cocaine's negative effects are shown in family, economy, and personal well being of the user. ... Cocaine affects the family of the user by causing the family members to feel angry, manipulated, and unloved. ... Family members may also feel fear for their loved one. Family members may also feel ashamed of their loved one. Family members may also suffer from financial loss. ...

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He hones in on his love for music and at Isabel's house with their family piano. ... The narrator, being a respectable middle class family man can be seen as a flat character. Living in the Harlem housing project, he consciously protects himself from the dangers that surround him and his family. ... He is astonished at what he sees and begins to appreciate his brother's love for music. ... Sonny and his brother have had many verbal arguments after Sonny discovered his love for music. ...

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The enabling behavior can start as an attempt to be kind and helpful to a loved one who might suffer from an addiction or illness -- by taking care of their responsibilities that they should be doing themselves. ... We lived with a wonderful foster family, but we were a unit unto ourselves within this family. ... I was making excuses for their behavior to friends and family. ... Sundays became family day once again since; I was not visiting my brothers in jail. This meant that we could go to the movies, go to the lake house, go to flea markets, and do fun weekend events as a family. ...

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Sonny moved in with his brother's family after their mother's death. ... " After the one thing he loved, music, was taken from him, he turned to an alternative. ... Issues may strain communication, but the bond between two family members will never fade. They prove that in the end, family will always be there to help you overcome your obstacles....

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When he got back he decided to bring Brenna to meet her family. ... He, himself, loved the town of Hanover and all his childhood memories of being there. ... She loved it in Hanover and accepted it as home and called her mother daily. ... She loved being out of the house. ... And I have never seen a little girl that appreciated the love and affection given to her nearly as much as Brenna. ...

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If this addict has a family they will suffer a great deal to survive. ... As you can see, drugs won't only hurt the abuser but it also affects the people they love. ... This consequence will not only affect the drug user but it will affect the people who love him. ... If you don't care about your self think of your future children and loved ones!...

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You obviously would not do that in front of your friends, family, or loved ones you would let them see your upset side. ... The reason mainly that these kids aren't given any assistance is because their parents have been categorized as lazy, for not working full-time to support their family and this isn't always the case because they have young children who they need to be with at home. ...

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This threat motivates her to do whatever she can to save her family. Helena's decision to continue her husband's work means she is willing to put her family in more jeopardy. ... The effect of their drug use resulted in her being arrested, which caused more problems with her family. ... Different from Helena, who is driven to save her family, Caroline is driven to escape from her family. ... Caroline is a young and beautiful teenage girl top of her class, a volunteer reading to the blind, on the math team at her school, and she has two parents who love her very much. ...

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The play centers on the dysfunctional Tyrone family. ... The mother, Mary is the central addictive figure with in the family. ... The fog, just like the family members hide the truth. ... She just like the rest of the family, all look down upon one another, but this does not mean that they do not love each other. ... Destruction is what the Tyrone family is all about. ...

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But Rosa Lee hated the idea of cleaning up the houses of white families. ... In order to look for love, Rosa Lee turned to boys in the neighborhood and got pregnant with her first child at the age of thierteen. ... It seems like the whole family just lived from one paycheck to another. ... Rosa Lee also started steeling expensive clothes for her mother, because she craved attention and love from her. ... There were times when two or more family members were detained in the same prison. ...

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(Bloom1 66) In Gather Together, Angelou discusses the drug addiction of her loved ones. ... (Bloom2 199) In titling the book, there's a biblical reference to Matthew 18:20, asking her family to gather around her and bear witness to her past. ... The first section is about a wide variety of love including its joys and pains. ... "These poems in their sensitive treatment of both love and black identity are the poet's own defense against the incredible odds in the game of life- (Bloom1 210) Maya's collection of poetry And Still I Rise, vividly reflects the self-confidence a...

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A friend of mine told me how her dad used to be a drug addict and that he cleaned himself up, as I listened to her story I grew angry and wondered "Why can't my dad do that for me, why doesn't he love me?... I came to the conclusion that it was because he did not care how deep the cuts he made in my heart ran, he did not love me enough to make a choice that would not leave me wounded. ... I will walk down the aisle and smile at my family and friends. ...

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The sociological messages presented in the movie are: that people need to accept their faults in life, that sometimes you are a better person than you give yourself credit for, and that people will do whatever it takes to help a family member. 5. Other sociological insights/patterns/connections are: insight: people can change their whole perspective on life and it only takes one little push, pattern: people will do anything for love and happiness whether it was with Tony and fiance or Sheriff and Beth, connection: all counters frown of drug use and have great lengths of punishment f...

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Watching television, the toy we always wanted and could not get enough of, and the infatuation of our first love are just a few examples. ... Hence, the social bonds between the user and his family and friends are not affected. ... In this stage, the relationships between the addict and their loved ones begin to change. ... Violence, paranoia, seizures, homelessness, family loss, and death are only some of the negative effects that haunt the abuser. ...

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The most important questions, in my opinion are "Am I still going to love this person once I get sober/clean? and "Is this person still going to love me and accept me being clean and sober? ... I came from an alcoholic family were everything was a secret, you did not confide in anyone, you never talked about the drinking and the abuse that went on in the house. ... As the book states, as a rule, whenever alcoholism and do-dependency are active in a relationship or a family, most people find it difficult, if not impossible, to be honest. ...

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The household can be seen as a brooding place for stress, especially with overbearing parents, who like to use the tough love technique. Stanton Peele, Ph.D. is inclined to disagree with the, "tough love" approach, and describes it as, "risky business" (Peele Jan. 2001). ... Along with family environment, antisocial peer groups, and anxiety, depression is listed as a substance abuse risk factor (Peele, Jan. 2001). ... Also adolescents with family members who have depression and a substance problem are likely to follow in their sibling or parents footsteps. ... Legal problems, poor school wo...

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When discussing the legalization of Marijuana, take a mechanistic view of one symptom of a much larger social problem. You cannot talk about legalizing marijuana without getting into discussions of other "Social problems". I am talking about all other "drugs"-- prostitution, health care, social secu...

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One of my family member was an alcoholic and I know that they face a lot of problems like arguments with the family or friends, loss of employment due to absences or decreased productivity, committing or being the victim of violence and also alcohol can cause a range of birth defects, the most serious being fetal alcohol syndrome F.A.S. ... Sexual interest and sexual acts of any kind are mistaken for acts of love. Sex gives the illusion of being loved and appreciated. In the absence of love, people seek intimacy through porn and sex. ...

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But in a perfect life, people wouldn't hate, only love and consider other peoples feelings before their own. ... The accusation of teenagers in Colorado schools would stop, leaving behind reason to make fun of kids with a lower family income. ...

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