presentation

 

Question/Thesis:

-Drug Addiction Counselor Major

-Why do so many college age students  start using Cocaine? (Started as general; drug addiction-why, then cocaine for all ages, narrowed down to college age, 18-22)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwweEf_OkxE&feature=related

“Cocaine gives a person a feeling of euphoria, energy, and at times, an unbelievable, almost superhuman sense of control and mastery. For instance, some people who have taken cocaine have been known to leap out of windows or off rooftops, thinking that they could fly or that they could jump dozens of feet without getting injured. There is, however, a physiological reason why people continue to use cocaine after their first encounter. Cocaine exhausts the “feel-good” neurotransmitter dopamine, thus causing a need for even more use. In short, and from a physiological perspective, cocaine use perpetuates more cocaine use”(“Cocaine Use”).

“Approximately nine percent of students ages eighteen to twenty two have reported regular use of the highly addictive stimulant(Gill13).”

http://ezinearticles.com/?Cocaine-Use-by-College-Students-and-Celebrities&id=441373

http://www.mediainternational.com/FlashPreviews/Inside%20Dope/Cocaine.html (stop at 3:15)

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last blog post! :)

After reviewing my essays and trying to decide which one that I want to use to discuss, I had a very easy decision.

My research essay is about cocaine addiction and I find the topic extremely interesting, I don’t know how many other people do, but it is something that is appealing to me and i feel that if i am passionate about it then that is good enough for me.

In order to make this essay more complete and polished i need to cite my sources. I totally forgot to include citations in my drafts and that is pretty bad haha. I need to make my paragraph transitions a lot smoother as well. I feel that i just jump from paragraph to paragraph without any connectors to link them together.

I think it demonstrates a lot of progress in my writing because I sound a lot more technical in my writing than i did in the beginning of the year. That was actually one of my goals for this semester and I think I might have achieved it.