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AN OVERVIEW OF POST WAR SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN SYRIA

Addiction is a disease that alters the behaving and thinking of the brain of a person. When a person starts using drugs, it starts getting addicted to them and gradually it can’t help but act on the impulse to use them regardless of the damage caused to the body of addicted person. Drug isn’t about just illegal drugs. A person can get addicted to alcohol, painkillers, nicotine and other legal substances. Drug addiction is a deathly disease found in almost every year of age. The disease is mostly carried by people who are mentally frustrated, physically or mentally abused, facing financial problem or family problems and is desperate to get some sort of relief that comes with the high of drugs even if it proves to be grim for their health in the long run. Addiction starts with the continuous use of dosage of any drug, until the point that an individual starts feeling anxious without the availability of them. Slowly and painfully, these drugs starts making a person totally relied on them and it is basically impossible for the individual to survive without them. There can be many reasons as to why an individual decides to go on this path of addiction. Economic problems, state of utter sadness in case of the death of a loved one or a closed one, societal stress, isolation, aggression, bad or wrong company, in state of depression and anxiety are the most likely situations in which a person starts taking drugs. Along with many other factors, families often play a vital role in pushing an individual towards seeking comfort and relief from the drugs. Developing countries like Pakistan and many others are facing the problem as there are not many effective and active rehabilitation centers. In this research article, the role of families contributing in an individual’s drug addiction is elaborated. This research article is done with the help of many researches, as well as some interviews were conducted regarding certain factors and the answers were given according to the observation and views of responders. The conclusion is drawn with the help of articles and personal opinions and observations regarding how a person leans toward substance or drug usage because of certain family issues and problems.

Social Reform and Remedy Rendered in the Select Novels of Indira Goswami

Dr. Indira Goswami (Mamoni Raisom Goswami) is one of the leading writers of the India today. She has won the Jnanpith Award for the year 2000, which is the highest literary award of India today. She belongs to the family of Sattra adhikars (Head of Vaisnava monastery) of South Kamrup in Assam. Her father, Late Uma Kanta Goswami, was an economist, who worked as the Director of Public Instruction of the Government of Assam. Indira did her schooling in Guwahati and Shillong. She has written eighteen novels, and several hundreds of short stories. Her novels and short stories have been translated into many Indian and Foreign languages. She tries to write from her direct experiences of her life. She only moulds her experiences with her imagination. Her language is like a velvet dress by which she endeavors to cover the restless soul in its journey through existence. But however hard, she might try, the fabric of this dress seldom takes on the texture of velvet or fine Muslim, and it comes out rather tattered. Sometimes they feel that it is a futile effort to arrest the soul with language and capture it in cold print. It is better, perhaps to feel it only in numb science. But, then, those very experiences impel a person to unload them from the psyche by creative effort which gives a sort of relief. And, the tattered fabric has a beauty which puts to shame the finest of velvets.

Euthanasia: 10 myths

Over the two decades that have elapsed since I first became interested in the ethics of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, I have changed my mind. Not about whether or not...

The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe (review)

Reviewed by: The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe David Cahan The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe. By Robert J. Richards. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xix + 587. $35. Romantic science has traditionally been held in very low esteem by scientists and historians of science alike. By "Romantic science" scholars mean a certain style of or approach to science during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, one that was practiced above all by German natural philosophers who sought to gain scientific knowledge through philosophical reasoning (of an idealist sort) by giving a central role to interchangeable and ill-defined forces of nature, taking a nonmechanistic approach to nature, and imbuing nature with aesthetic and moral values. According to the traditional view, Romantic science deemphasized empirical research and eschewed the associated dialectical relationship between theory and empirical practice. These attributes have led scholars to discount the science practiced by Romantic natural philosophers; indeed, many consider at least some of that "science" to be no science at all. Recent scholarship has, however, begun to reassess this negative view of Romantic science. Robert J. Richards's impressive study of science and philosophy in the age of Goethe (1770-1830) is sure to force still greater reconsideration of Romantic science, at least insofar as it concerns the study of the organic world. Indeed, it will—or should—become one of the premier interpretations of the positive contributions made by a group of closely knit German Romantic [End Page 464] philosophers, scientists, and poets, who sought to comprehend the origins and development of organic life. Richards offers a deeply contextualized study, both in the sense that he recounts in considerable detail the romantic lives (i.e., the love affairs) of several of his key figures, and in the sense that he sees science in the German-speaking world of this era as interwoven with philosophy and poetry. He portrays the central figures who stand at the heart of his study—the novelist Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis), the philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder, the physician and biologist Johann Christian Reil, the natural philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, the writer Friedrich Schiller, the novelists (and brothers) Wilhelm and Friedrich Schlegel, and, above all, the central figure of the book and the age, the novelist, poet, and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe—not only in terms of their intellectual positions and systems but also in terms of the lives they led.While the book is in good measure about the thought of these and other men, Richards leavens his intellectual analysis with enticing portrayals of their various involvements with one another and, especially, with women. More particularly, he presents a fascinating account of the strong intellectual, personal, and, at points, even sexual relationships that these men developed in Jena and Weimar. These portrayals are not meant, however, as some sort of relief from the intellectually demanding portions of the study—although trying to follow the systems of Fichte and Schelling, for example, does indeed require a break every so often. Rather, Richards argues that there was a seamless web of relationships among the intellectual, social, and general cultural worlds of these individuals, and that we cannot fully appreciate the origin and meaning of their intellectual outlooks without simultaneously also grasping the psychological and personal realms of their lives. In short, Richards creates a narrative in which individual selves and the concepts of self, along with their moral and aesthetic outlooks, are inextricably interwoven with philosophical and scientific ideas and with literary achievements, and he shows how this conglomerate eventuated in a biological interpretation of nature. Richards' book has an elegant architecture. Part 1 is devoted to the early Romantic movement in literature, philosophy, and science. It sets the background for the remainder of the book by recounting the work and lives of the German Romantic natural philosophers. Among other things, Richards shows that Schelling had a greater appreciation of the role of observation and experiment in science than most scholars have previously understood. Part 2 focuses on the philosophical and scientific foundations of the romantic conception of life. Here Richards takes up various...

A Note on the Horror in James's Revision of Daisy Miller

A Note on the Horror in James's Revision of Daisy Miller by Frederick Newberry, University of Oregon When Henry James revised Daisy Miller for the New York Edition (1909), he used the Macmillan text that was based on the original Cornhill Magazine version of the nouvelle.^ A great many of his significant revisions have been accounted for;z but there remains at least one as yet unnoticed and particularly crucial—and it involves just a single word: horror. The word appeared only once in the original version, as Winterbourne suddenly recognized Daisy and Giovanelli among the moonlit shadows of the Colosseum. "Winterbourne stopped, with a sort of horror; and, it must be added, with a sort of relief. It was as if a sudden illumination had been flashed upon the ambiguity of Daisy's behaviour and the riddle had become easy to read. She was a young lady whom a gentleman need no longer be at pains to respect" (C, XXXVIII, 64). By 1909, James must have seen bristling possibilities for this rather innocuous "sort of horror"--possibilities that, if successful, would together unify one side of Winterbourne's perception of Daisy and offer a linguistic hint at his sexually distorted interpretation of her. James revised the important clause to read: "Winterbourne felt himself pulled up with the final horror now" (NY, 86). Having a "final horror" implies antecedents, and for the New York Edition James worked backwards, I believe, to supply two. The first appears when Winterbourne, already baffled by Daisy's "type" ("a pretty American flirt," he uneasily concludes), visits his aunt, Mrs. Costello (NY, 16, 17). Her contempt for Daisy and her mother is virtually as severe in the Cornhill text as it is in the New York Edition. Yet upon Winterbourne's telling her that he may take Daisy to the Castle of Chillón, James has Mrs. Costello utter, in the New York Edition, an epithet far more influential upon Winterbourne's perception of Daisy than the one she uses in Cornhill: Cornhill New York Edition "How long had you known her, may "How long had you known her, may I ask, when this interesting project I ask, when this interesting project was formed? You haven't been was formed? You haven't been twentytwenty -four hours in the house." four hours in the house." "I had known her half an hour!" I had known her half an hour!" 1. Daisy Miller appeared in the June and July issues (Vols. XXXVII and XXXVIII) of Cornhill Magazine in 1878. The first London edition was published by Macmillan in 1879. Since for my purposes there are no substantive variants between these two, I have chosen the Cornhill text to compare with the New York Edition, The Novels and Tales of Henry James, XVIII (New York: Scribner's, 1909). Citations will be noted in the text respectively by C and NY. 2. The most extensive discussions are Viola R. Dunbar's "The Revision of Daisy Miller," Modern Language Notes, 65 (1950), 311-17 and Carol Ohmann's "Daisy Miller: A Study of Changing Intentions," American Literature, 36 (1964), 1-11. THE HENRY JAMES REVIEW 229 SPRING, 1982 said Winterbourne, smiling. Winterbourne smiled. "Dear me!" cried Mrs. Costello. "Then she's just what I supposed." "What a dreadful girl!" "And what did you suppose?" (C, XXXVII, 688) "Why, that she's a horror." (NY, 25) The second appearance of this "horror" occurs after the setting has shifted from Vevey to Rome and after Daisy has already appalled the American enclave by regularly running around unchaperoned with the presumed fortune hunter, Giovanelli. What appears as a fairly inconsequential scene at Saint Peter's in the Cornhill version is revised by James to become a far more significant one in the New York Edition. The Cornhill version introduces the scene this way: "One Sunday afternoon, having gone to Saint Peter's with his aunt, Winterbourne perceived Daisy strolling about the great church in company with the inevitable Giovanelli" (C, XXXVIII, 59). The New York Edition reads: "One Sunday afternoon , having gone to Saint Peter's with his aunt, Winterbourne became aware that the young woman held in horror by that...

Is Economic Rehabilitation of Germany Along Socialistic Lines Possible?

GERMANY'S national debt totals between 260 and 280 billion marks. The national budget for the fiscal year 1920 estimates government revenues at about 42 billion and expenditures at about 109 billion marks and consequently shows a deficit of about 67 billion marks. According to the report submitted by the Minister of Finance several months ago, the national railroads are operating at a total annual loss of sixteen billion marks. Prices everywhere have risen unbearably. The supply of raw materials and especially of foodstuffs is exceedingly low. In consequence of the increase in the price of foodstuffs and of manufactured articles, the purchasing power of the large masses of the people has been exhausted. Consumption has decreased and unemployment has spread enormously. According to the latest reports of the National Department of Labor, the total number of wholly or partially unemployed at present is about three million. The large masses of population expect to obtain relief by socializing economic life, without understanding clearly what is meant by socialization and how it is to be brought about. Everyone simply feels that something decisive must happen, that affairs can not go on as at present and if some sort of relief is not soon forthcoming, Germany will have to face a horrible future.