In 1964, Italian director, Sergio Leone (a relative unknown in America) released the film, A Fistful of Dollars (1964), which broke Italian box office records (Jameson 2009). After the success of the film in Italy, the American film company, United Artists purchased the rights to the film and releas...
"Loud and bustling," is an accurate way to begin my story about my 2001 trip to Singapore. I remember wading through crowds of people, seemingly from all over the world, as I was tried to keep up with my parents as we walked through the city. When I got lost, a friendly nudge from a shopkeeper helpe...
This novel is divided into two broad sections: "The Ebb:Bhata" and "The Tide:Jowar." The Hungry Tide is set in the Sundarbans, an archipelago of hundreds of scattered islands, some densely populated while others completely uninhabited, at the mohona of several rivers in the Bay of Bengal. Here the...
Definition The use of illicit or illegal drugs or the abuse of prescription or over-the-counter drugs for purposes other than those for which they are indicated or in a manner or in quantities other than directed. History of Drug Abuse Humans have used drugs of one sort or another for thousands of years. Wine was used at least from the time of the early Egyptians; narcotics from 4000 B.C.; and medicinal use of marijuana has been dated to 2737 B.C. in China. But not until the 19th cent. A.D. were the active substances in drugs extracted. ...
