Connotative Diction Examples

Chapter 1 starts with the initial beginning of the students jump from drug user to distributor. This chapter initially begins talking about the definition of being cool in high school, how drugs made you cool when you were either using or sharing them (7), how the dealers could initially get high for free if they would just buy in bulk and sell off just enough to gain profit or make a profit in general (10-13), along with gaining mass popularity amongst peers.

For her, everyday acts seem much more enjoyable when on drugs. She goes out of their way to experience something new and exciting. She is a creative writer and uses drugs as a way to get back to her child-like imaginative state. Suddenly, with the drugs back in her life, she seems to have much more insight and a wilder imagination. "And the afternoon was absinthe yellow and almond, burnt orange and chrysanthemum. And in the abstract sky, a litany of kites"(93). She longs to feel this way all of the time, but she knows the consequences. She sees doing drugs like going to a carnival. It is an escape from the boring life she is leading now. Even though she has a daughter, she still feels like there is something she is missing out on. The idea of motherhood takes backseat to her lust for drugs.

Salvador Dali is credited with having said, “I don't do drugs. I am drugs.” Dali was not only a world famous artist known for painting, sculpting, and photography, for he was also a drug addict. Dali has bluntly described how he and other addicts feel while in the clutches of their addiction. It is said they feel as if their drug of choice has completely taken over their life, and they lose their identity. Sometimes however, the drug addict does not think that losing themselves is bad thing, they see it as them being in a better world mentally, than where they are physically in this world. So they do not fight the identity loss, but they embrace it, for that is why they do the drugs, to escape. Dali used drugs because he thought that they enhanced

As a nation coming out of a devastating war, America faced many changes in the 1920s. It was a decade of growth and improvements. As immigrants fled from Europe, the economy improved, and new machines offered convenience and luxury from the kitchen to the streets. However, with all change comes opposition. The 1920s revealed a conflict between traditional America and the new attitude and lifestyle through the changing role of women, continued dominance of Christian values, and racism.

The first thing to note, Johann Hari uses pathos to emotionally connect to the viewer, so he can make drugs to not be viewed as

The idea of characters on drugs ups the intensity of the text. When you write a story that includes the main characters on drugs or interacting with another character under the influence it can change the story completely and bring different ideas to light. The drama that Johnson brings into his stories occurs when a characters are under the influence. Johnson brings in two characters who are high again in “Steady Hands at Seattle Grace.” The two characters are admitted into the hospital. The reader can assume that they are in detox. This is can be deduced from the description of the hospital visit. He says, “They ran a few syringesful into me, and I felt like I’d turned from a light, Styrofoam thing into a person.” (Johnson 107) He starts shaving his roommates face and notices holes in his face. The unnamed male states that two of his wives shot him. They talk about the shootings and the exchange goes on by them saying, “‘Hey. You’re doing fine.’ ‘ Talk into here’ ‘Talk into your bullet hole?’ ‘Talk into my bullet hole. Tell me I’m fine.’” (Johnson 111) This conversation created some drama to this story. The unnamed man is actually saying that he is not fine and to look at his bullet holes. The bullet holes shows that he is empty and that his life has holes in it. The bullet holes is a metaphor for his life. He is empty in life and

"If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution - then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise."

He assumes that drug addiction originated by younger years adversity in major cases; like many women who are addicted are victims of sexual assault in childhood years. Similar, he tells that males suffered “series of abandonment or severe physical and psychological abuse” (Maté 274) in childhood memory would easily be involved in addiction. According to Mate, drug addicts are usually in a state of unawareness; they can self-harm without feeling pain (274). Maté’s patient, Carl, thirty-six year-old native, angrily hurt himself with a knife as punishment for using cocaine (274). However, people misunderstand that addiction will not happen in families that raise children with a “secure nurturing home” (Maté 275). He argues that it still exists in those secure homes, even though they do not recognize it. In brief, Maté describes the mental factors such as stress, anxiety, and depression which are saddled “from family problem, or from outside circumstance” (274); this pressures can emotionally affect to the process of “endorphin-liberating interaction with their children” (Maté 275). He thinks children would rely on opiates to comfort their deepest emotions; it would be a best solution to escape their lonely world. For that reason, Maté confirms addicts usually blame themselves for “stupid decision” (Maté 275) after being suffered of drug starvation. In the last paragraph, Maté concludes his essay by stating “that is the great wound of all” (275),

During the years surrounding the 1920’s was a time of intolerance due to the unwillingness to accept views or, behavior that differs from one's own. Most of these reasons were through the act of bigotry amongst individuals that wasn’t fair. In particular, many events actually led to the disagreements of certain disputes throughout the Roaring Twenties. In fact most of which were actually for the betterment of people in society. As an illustration, the 1920s was the age of dramatic social and, political reformation.

Since the beginning of time people have been using all kinds of substances to make them feel liberated. Alcohol and marijuana are consumed every day in America by teenagers to elderly people; there is no set range on who consumes these drugs. Despite efforts from imposed laws: people feel the need to consume these substances and encage in behaviors out of the ordinary. Drugs and alcohol are used in the story “Cathedral” but also they are used in Raymond Carver’s personal life.

The 1920’s was a great and important decade for the United States. After World War I, the United States went through events and changes that, overall, made the United States a much better place to live. New advances in technology and industry improved American life in more ways than just one. Americans had better wages during this time, more leisure time, and overall, had a better life than ever before. In addition, the 1920’s advocated social and cultural change as well. During this time period, the United States did not return to Normalcy, and instead developed attitudes that changed the life of the people of the United States forever thanks to social changes, cultural changes and changes in technology.

how they can't live without the drug and that they need it to help get through everything. There is a verse

It was interesting how the addicts described their feelings of cravings to their respective substances. They described the

In Brave New World, everyone was very dependent on drugs and alcohol. A drug called

The author is a young man who obliviously is not self-effacing about his own usage and enjoyment of drugs. He used LSD, which in the fall of 2001 he realized that he had not seen the drug in ages and it was nowhere to be found; not for others or even for himself and statistics showed the decrease of the acid and its usage also. Dissatisfied with the situation He went to see his friend, Professor Peter Reuter who is a