viernes, 8 de abril de 2011

Marijuana Legal

Marijuana Legal
The first and most basic reason that marijuana should be
legal is that there is no good reason for it not to be legal. Some people ask why
marijuana should be legalized. But we should ask why marijuana should be
illegal. From a logical point of view, individuals deserve the right to make
choices for themselves. The government only has a right to limit those choices
if the individual's actions compromise someone else. This does not apply to
marijuana, since the individual who chooses to use marijuana does so according
to his or her own free motivation. The government also may have a right to
limit individual actions if the actions pose a significant threat to the
individual. But this argument does not logically apply to marijuana because
marijuana is far less dangerous than some drugs which are legal, such as
alcohol and tobacco. So if they legalize marijuana there would many ways that
people will be more safe and they wouldn’t deal with so much delinquency in the
country and there won’t be so much killing because most of the dealers owe
money to the ones that they buy to. So they should legalize marijuana.

lunes, 7 de marzo de 2011

Meth-Amphetamine

Methampheta-mine also called METHEDRINE is a STIMULANT. Methamphetamine's effects on the central nervous system are more than those of amphetamine,cardio and gastro are less marked. Like amphetamine, it causes increased activity, increased talkativeness, more energy and less fatigue, decreased food take, and a general sense of being good. Injecting the drug by intravenous results in rush, described by some as the best part of the drug effect. Methamphetamine is more soluble for intravenous.

Japan was the first nation to experience a major epidemic of methamphetamine use. Immediately following World War II, large quantities of meth-amphetamine, which had been produced to keep combat troops alert, were released for sale to the Japanese public. Within a short time there was widespread use and abuse of the drug, much of it intravenously. At the epidemic, more than a million users were involved. The experience of the Japanese, the belief persisted in the United States that amphetamines did not lead to serious compulsive use, and these drugs were not subject to any special regulatory controls like the ones governing the availability of the opioid drugs until 1964.

martes, 8 de febrero de 2011

Body Language

Body Language of Lies:

• Physical expression will be limited and stiff, with few arm and hand movements. Hand, arm and leg movement are toward their own body the liar takes up less space.
• A person who is lying to you will avoid making eye contact.
• Hands touching their face, throat & mouth. Touching or scratching the nose or behind their ear, not likely to touch his chest/heart with an open hand.

 

Emotional Gestures & Contradiction





• Timing and duration of emotional gestures and emotions are off a normal pace. The display of emotion is delayed, stays longer it would naturally, and then stops suddenly.
• Timing is off between emotions gestures/expressions and words. Example: Someone says "I love it!" when receiving a gift, and then smile after making that statement, rather than at the same time the statement is made.
• Expressions are limited to mouth movements when someone is faking emotions like happy, surprised, sad, awe, instead of the whole face. For example; when someone smiles naturally their whole face is involved: jaw/cheek movement, eyes and forehead push down.
Also see our article on micro expressions & lying.

 

Interactions and Reactions

• A guilty person gets defensive. An innocent person will often go on the offensive.
• A liar is uncomfortable facing his questioner/accuser and may turn his head or body away.
• A liar might unconsciously place objects (book, coffee cup, etc.) between themselves and you.

 

Verbal Context and Content

• A liar will use your words to make answer a question. When asked, “Did you eat the last cookie?” The liar answers, “No, I did not eat the last cookie.”  
Liars sometimes avoid "lying" by not making direct statements. They imply answers instead of denying something directly.
• The guilty person may speak more than natural, adding unnecessary details to convince you... they are not comfortable with silence or pauses in the conversation.

• A liar may leave out pronouns and speak in a monotonous tone. When a truthful statement is made the pronoun is emphasized as much or more than the rest of the words in a statement.

• Words may be garbled and spoken softly, and syntax and grammar may be off. In other
words, his sentences will likely be muddled rather than emphasized.

• The use of distancing language. Other signs of a lie:
• If you believe someone is lying, then change subject of a conversation quickly, a liar follows along willingly and becomes more relaxed. The guilty wants the subject changed; an innocent person may be confused by the sudden change in topics and will want to back to the previous subject.
• Using humor or sarcasm to avoid a subject.

Final Notes:

Obviously, just because someone exhibits one or more of these signs does not make them a liar. The above behaviors should be compared to a person’s base (normal) behavior whenever possible.
Most lie detecting experts agree that a combination of body language and other cues must be used to make an educated guess on whether someone is telling the truth or a lie.
http://www.blifaloo.com/info/lies.php
http://www.blifaloo.com/info/lying-resources.php
http://www.learnbodylanguage.org/lying_pictures.html
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Lying_Body_Language.html
http://ezinearticles.com/?Body-Language-and-Lying---Six-Top,-Must-Know-Body-Language-Signs-That-Will-Tell-You-Theyre-Lying&id=3770079

lunes, 24 de enero de 2011

Fear

                                                                                      Fear                                                      Francisco Cadillo
There are many ways in which fear affects the MS 13 and the ones in it. Fear makes them want to create terror over other persons and territories. They have fear that any other gang or any person could deceive them or diminish, in this situation they could stay in a position in which they will be harmed or be divided and loose all the power they have. In the members that are in that gang, fear can be the worst because if the gang is not strong enough everyone will get out because of the fear they have to getting killed, because they are not strong enough as a gang. If they are not getting stronger many of the other gangs will get to them and start killing them and taking everything out of them. If a gang is not respected it is not a gang because there would not be a reason to have it if everyone will be deceiving them and taking what they have. The way the gang uses fear to help them is that if they are seeing that people are not feared of them, they will feel that people do not respect them and will not have the gang respected or getting stronger. The way they use fear is to get territory and all they want. If the gang won’t inflict fear in their members everyone would get out and just disassemble the gang. Fear acts a lot in action because at the moment of killing someone is because they don’t know what to do other than kill the person because they hadn’t the experience with a gun. Even if the person gets to run they get more exasperated and the only thing to do is shooting to kill.  mexicans.jpg

martes, 7 de diciembre de 2010

Nature of Violence

Domestic violence may start when one partner feels the need to control and dominate the other. Abusers may feel this need to control their partner because of low self-esteem, extreme jealousy, difficulties in regulating anger and other strong emotions, or when they feel inferior to the other partner in education and socioeconomic background. Some men with very traditional beliefs may think they have the right to control women, and that women aren’t equal to men.
Indeed, paleontological data reveal a rather continuous stream of human violence dating back thousands of years. It is clear that violence is not restricted to early historical periods or particular cultural groups. Despite recent concerns in the United States and elsewhere over spiraling violence rates, available data suggest that there is actually less violence now than in ancient times.
1 co-opting the resources of others; 2 defending against attack; 3 inflicting costs on same-sex rivals; 4 negotiating status and power hierarchies; 5 deterring rivals from future aggression; 6 deterring males from sexual infidelity; and 7 reducing resources expended on genetically unrelated children.
The political right believes that the root cause of violent crime is bad genes or bad morals. Not so, says the left. The root cause of violent crime is bad housing or dead-end jobs. And, I tell you that while doing something about the causes of violence surely requires a political ideology, the only way we can determine what those causes are in the first place is to check our ideologies at the door and to try to keep our minds open as wide, and for as long, as we can bear.


http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/the-causes-of-violence/blog-263921/
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/teenviolence.html
http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/index.html

martes, 2 de noviembre de 2010

Depression

1. The biological causes of depression are physical changes in the brain, which can be caused by problems with the neurotransmitters and neurons. Also changes in the body's balance of hormones, which can be a result of problems in the thyroid, menopause, or other condition. Inherited traits are also involved in causes of depression.

2. The environmental causes of depression are life events such as the death or loss of familiars of loved ones, financial problems, and high stress. Early childhood traumas can be also a cause of depression, traumatic events during childhood such as abuse or loss of a loved one which can cause permanent changes in the brain.

3. Cognitive causes of depression are learned through relationships, unfavorable life situations often in childhood and the formative years. People view the world in a negative way, this negative view is usually a distortion of reality.

4. The Cognitive Triad is based in 3 beliefs that can cause depression and affect each other. These things are negative views of the self, the world, and to the future. As an example if a soccer player fails a penalty will believe he is a failure, then will believe everyone is against him, and finally he will believe he will fail in a future and would never be good at something.

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=564306
http://www.md-phc.com/puntil/ccausesof.htm
http://www.personalityresearch.org/papers/allen.html
http://www.allaboutdepression.com/cau_04.html

lunes, 1 de noviembre de 2010

Article #1
The study was conducted by Dr. Mahmood I. Siddique, clinical associate professor of medicine at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, N.J. It was presented June 9, 2010, in San Antonio, Texas, at SLEEP 2010, the 24th annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies LLC. The study involved 262 high school seniors with an average age of 17.7 years who were attending a public high school in Mercer County, N.J. Participant show socio-demographic characteristics using a cross-sectional survey. Too much daytime sleepiness was indicated by a score of 10 or higher on the Epworth Sleepiness Scale, and mood was evaluated with a validated depression scale. The results indicated that high school seniors were three times more likely to have strong depression symptoms if they had excessive daytime sleepiness.

Article#2
The study was conducted by Lawrence T. Lam, Ph.D., of the School of Medicine, Sydney, and the University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, Australia, and Zi-Wen Peng, M.Sc., of the Ministry of Education and SunYat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, in August 2010. It will appear in the October print issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.  1,041 teens in China were assessed for depression and anxiety using previously validated scales. They also completed a survey to identify pathological Internet use, including questions that reflect typical behaviors of addiction. At the beginning of the study, 62 participants  were classified as having moderately pathological use of the Internet, and 2% were severely at risk. Nine months later, the adolescents were re-assessed for anxiety and depression; 2%  had significant anxiety symptoms and 84% had developed depression. The risk of depression for those who used the Internet pathologically was about two and a half times that of those who did not. No relationship was observed between pathological Internet use and anxiety.

Article#3
The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Bergen, Norway, and the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) at King's College led by Dr Robert Stewar. The study consisted of a survey of over 60,000, complemented with already existent records. Researchers found that over the following 4 yearsusing the survey, the mortality risk was increased to a similar extent in people who were depressed as in people who were smokers.