Academic Text (Thesis Statement)

Effects of alcohol on the human body Essay

1. Introduction

Humanity has always yielded to the pressure of different chemical substances that
eventually caused it irreparable damage. Finding the cure from the damage obtained
was the next step. And it seems that only now, when the number of the diseases caused
by different substances has reached its peak, people have finally understood that the
best cure is the prevention of any forms of substance abuse.

Alcohol is not the last one in the list of these destructive substances. It is the
companion of any significant event occurring in the life of modern people or even an
everyday way to relax and get away from all the difficulties. People relax and forget that
they are supposed to think not only about their health but also about the health of the
people around them. This especially concerns women, as they are the ones to deliver the
next generation into the world. A womans organism is a lot more influenced by any
external chemical influences and alcohol becoming womans frequent companion
becomes a real threat for the health of the nation.

The contemporary medical world is very much concerned with the female alcohol abuse
phenomenon and the appearance of a group of inclinations that both female and male
abusers experience. Alcohol abuse is the giant problem, which needs to be fixed
desperately. It is very important to understand its nature and the possible effects that it
can make to the human body.

2. Alcohol abuse and possible outcomes

The disabilities caused by alcohol last a lifetime and therefore completely change the
life of any person and those people who will take care of him. Some people start being
exposed to alcohol during their fetal development and therefore suffer throughout their
whole lives sometimes not even having a small hope to find their places in the world and
not being even comparatively independent. They cannot concentrate, talk too much
and are not capable of making proper decisions. Such people are completely helpless and
unprotected. The outcomes of alcohol abuse for the body are severe.

Alcohol or sometimes called ethanol is a volatile liquid can easily burn oxidizes and is
composed of oxygen, hydrogen and carbon, having the formula of C2H5OH. Alcohol
influenced the whole human body, even including the central nervous system and the
brain of a man.

After the process of drinking alcohol people start feeling pleasure and more open to the
outer world. Nevertheless, even though the person feels comfortable and more self-
confident the most dangerous thing is often forgotten alcohols side effects. If a person
drinks large amounts of alcohol in a very small period of time it may result in the persons
brain being suppressed by the chemicals and lead to a fatality. If the amount of alcohol in
a human body is exceeding a person can die in his sleep, because the body will not have
enough resources to cope with the suppression. It is also extremely dangerous to
combine alcohol with other chemical substances.

3. Changes in the human organism

The changes that occur in the human organism for the reason of alcohol abuse are
terrible. The whole body is damaged and the person stops being able to either move and
think properly.

The effect of alcohol throughout the period of humans life is immense and even the
lesser amount of alcohol may cause some changes. These destructive processes, which
occur inside the organism, cause irreparable damage that it made on the genetic level.
Even social drinking causes changes in intellectual and behavior activity of children [2].
Heavy abuse, causing disorders has nowadays become unbelievably widespread. All this
changes throughout the period the development of the alcohol dependency cause mental
disabilities and severe changes in the human body.

3.a. Physical changes

Very often it is said that alcohol heavy drinkers look the same. This happens because in
the first place all of them experience problems with their skin. As the vessels of the skin
widen, the blood flow to the persons face become more intensive. This is the reason
people who drink alcohol have a flushed skin color and constantly feel that they are hot.
Alcohol also often causes serious weight problem.

As a fact, alcohol prevents people from consuming healthy food on a regular basis and it
direct influences the heart of a drinker. This is one of the primary reasons why people who
prefer to drink alcohol can experience a heart failure. Another part of the body that is
directly damaged by alcohol is the liver. This is primarily due to the fact that it is liver that
works the most to clean the organism from the chemicals in alcohol. When alcohol get
to the blood of a person rather often, the blood in its turn damages the process of
functioning of the liver cells and some of them start dying. The majority of people do not
keep in mind the fact that even a one-time alcohol abuse makes the liver cells die, but it
is the body of the person, who is not an alcohol heavy drinker, still has time to recuperate
from the damage. In case the person drinks alcohol on a regular base the liver becomes
weaker and weaker from day to day.

One other important physical sphere that is seriously damaged is the reproductive system
of a human body. The reason of this type of dysfunction is that alcohol deprives the
impulses that the nerves pass, and especially those that cause ability to erect, as for
men. Women alcohol abuse it on of the first to be prevented as the fetus changes
negatively and a lot of disabled children are born into to the world. Females metabolize
alcohol very quickly and this is the primary cause of their necessity to abstain from
alcohol. The fetus is already in high danger of obtaining FAS if the pregnant female
consumes around 3 ounces of pure alcohol per day1[1]. Alcohol does not need to make
much efforts to cross the placenta and therefore to enter the fetuss organism. Alcohol
may cause spasm of placenta vessels and the umbilical cord. This leads to the oxygen
starvation of the fetus. As the amount of zinc in the cells is rapidly reduced their growth
and development is damaged. Through these effects alcohol causes changes called
mutations in the DNA of the fetus cells. In its turn, the mutation of DNA in the fetus
cells leads to pathologies of the development of different organs and tissues [6].

Alcohol also influences the persons ability to perceive sounds and the direction they are
coming out from. The taste and smell are lost and the speech becomes unclear. As
alcohol constantly burns the throat of the drinker in may result in severe pain, vomiting
and even cancer. The body itself starts being very weak, the muscles suffer from atrophy,
pain and spasms.

3.b. Mental changes

If a person constantly abuses alcohol it will eventually lead to a set of permanent

transformations in the brain morphology. One of the most significant transformations
concerns the reduction of the total amount of brain tissue and the growing size of the
ventricles. The basic reason the body stops being able to produce brain tissue to cope
with the chemical is because it lacks natural vitamins that a healthy body produces.
Another reason because the body is deprived of vitamins is that alcohol abusers often
experience a problem of systematic eating and do not consume food at the required time,
making the body weak and unable to resist the alcohol effects. As the brain of a person
under alcohol dependency does not have enough vitamins it turns out to be the first step
to the beginning of mental retardation.

What happens to a person is that he completely losses the ability to control his behavior,
his judgments become illogical and his ability to concentrate decreases tremendously. It
is common fact that alcohol very often is a companion of crimes for the listed reason, as
the inability to control the behavior results in extreme mood swings and emotional
outbursts.

Alcohol does not let the brain properly control the manifestations of the body, as the
central nervous system becomes damaged through the depression of the nerve cells in
the brain. The cells cannot respond to the impulses and a group of body function failures
appear: anesthesia, respiratory failure, coma and death.

As alcohol destroys the central nervous system the drinker experiences impaired visual
abilities, loss of pain perception, slow reactions, impaired motor skills, altered perception
of time and space and many others.

4. Conclusion

The consumption of alcohol beverages has strongly entered the tradition of celebration
any significant events in the life of people. Anybody can hardly imagine celebrating
Christmas or a birthday without a gulp of champagne. Seemingly, there is nothing bad in
that and nothing bad can happen after a gulp of champagne or a gulp during a routine
social drinking. But the reality is cruel Therefore even small doses of alcohol can do
harm to a the human body. Most people do not understand the consequences alcohol
abuse can have of their health nevertheless the abuse occurs primarily because people
do not know the destructive power of alcohol. The consequences of the alcohol abuse do
not decrease with time, though specific manifestations change when doses of drinking
become smaller. These factors prevent people from proper social adaptation and
therefore make their life incomplete. Social impracticability of people suffering from the
alcohol abuse is one of major problems of the contemporary medical society. And the only
way to solve this problem is to prevent people from drinking alcohol in any amounts.
There is no cure a better than alcohol abstention!
Narrative Essay

Pacific Northwest Forest Industry Essay

The Final Forest eloquently captures the essence of the

cultural clash that is so deeply rooted in timber issues"

David Thorud

1. Introduction
William Dietrichs book The Final Forest: The Battle for the Last Great Trees of the Pacific
Northwest has highly influenced the mind of people who have read it. It is enough to say
that it is used even as a high school and undergraduate textbook, which teaches the
young population of the country to be aware of the enviroment. It particularly concerns
the territory of the Pacific Northwest and its environmental, forestry, sociology and
political science issues. The book was recognized by the Pacific Northwest Booksellers
Association and received its award along with the Washington Governor Writers award.
The book reveals the situation that the Pacific Northwest has found it self in, when all the
natural resources that are so actively exploited by people and bring them good are in
actual danger. The Seattle Times journalist William Dietrich made an outstanding job in
analyzing this controversial problem and peoples opinion regarding it. The future of the
forests is in danger, which means that in the long run humanity is in danger, too. The old-
growth forests are mercilessly cut and go as an excellent quality timber. William Dietrich
synthesizes the opinions of different people such as loggers, scientists, and
environmentalists who are related to issues like forest cutting and disappearance of
salmon and make the reader decide what his own opinion will be. Both of the sides:
people and nature are examined and sympathized but implies that if people do not find a
compromise the Pacific Northwest enviroment will be gradually completely exhausted.

2. Tradition and enviroment

The importance of the Pacific Northwest ecosystem according to William Dietrich has
been reduced which literally lead to the crisis of the ecosystem. The threat of
disappearance of separate elements of the ecosystem is shown as the result the
deforestation. Nowadays, tradition logging is suffering as the result not only of
deforestation but of automation, globalization and new scientific information about
ecosystem importance. Traditionally, people used to do their jobs, cut forests, fish for
salmon without even and sincerely thought that the reserve of these natural gifts is
inexhaustible. Thousand of people worked their whole lives providing salmon and timber
for the state in particular and the country in general. The author of the Final Forest
leads the reader to a logging community on Washingtons Olympic Peninsula. The self-
proclaimed Logging Capital of the World, Forks is just a plain little timber community
with about 3,000 people and a chewed up forest where conifers grow back like
weeds[26]. People living there deeply suffer the fight that has been unfolded around the
ancient Northwest trees. These trees mean a lot to the people living in Forks. It is their
bread, their job that they have been doing for a very long time. If they drop cutting the
trees they will have nothing else to do and this will kill their little town and these people.
The author shows both the meaning of the forest to people as a source of their bread
and views the Pacific Northwest forest as the last nations great forest, which should be
preserved.

3. Forest and salmon

Life in Forks for loggers starts at 6 a.m., when they are already gathered and ready to
work. These people are surrounded by slogans that only outline the importance of what
they are doing: "This community supports timber, timber supports this community"[26].
People seem exhausted and tired of the fights around the forests, which
environmentalists are carrying out. For these people forest is a gift of nature which they
use and get paid, owing to which their children are raised and educated. For these people
the fight around the forests is senseless and groundless. It is as if there isn't already a
huge damn Olympic National Park a few ridges away, locking up whole valleys of trees
forever. It is as if out here, in this worked-over country, there is really that much to fight
over-they think [28]. The irony of these people is not just because they think it is
senseless it is just they think it is too late to start this fight now, after so many years of
forest-cutting and profit gaining from it. Environmentalists believe that it is still not too
late to save what is still there: the owls disappearing, the amount of valuable trees
reducing, water being polluted, etc. Here we have two points of view and both of them
are worth of respect. On one side William Dietrich puts the population of Forks who spend
their whole lived working and logging and now, when it is too late form their opinion, are
accused of the destruction of flora of the state. On the other side the author shows us the
possibility to save the scanty leftovers of what used to be one of the most beautiful
natural gifts to Americans. Both of the point may be understood, but still the author
worries about the sea bird, the marbled murrelet, which took scientists years to actually
find a nest in the big old trees, about the pileated woodpecker the bird who eats the
insects that do harm to the ancient trees and many other species.
The Pacific Northwest forest is the home of species that will die in case of its forest
becoming depleted. Environmentalists say that logging even worsens the fish habitat. For
people living in Forks, all these facts seem to be out of time and undermining their
stability. Some people try to sell their saw shops and to get something decent for it.
Under the main counter are posters that read, Endangered Species, picturing a trio of
loggers, one of them a child this only proves how insecure these people feel. In this
way Final Forest brings the reader to the
dead end of the problem and by sympathizing with both sides shows that it is very hard
to convict any of the sides in particular as both of the opinions are motivated enough.
The Olympic Peninsula population experiences very mixed up feelings to the fight around
their work. First the experts wanted logs hauled out of streams to clean them up. Now
they want them left in, even put in, if you can believe that, to improve fish habitat says
Bleck, who helps administer timber sales in the Forks area [30]. Salmon is left without
rivers and what always has been the symbol of the Pacific Northwest is also in danger
now.
4. Conclusion
Different people responded differently to the environmental crisis in the Pacific Northwest.
Both of the camps love forests around them and no one can accuse the other side of
being indifferent. Both, environmentalists and loggers need to understand the reasons of
their conduct. People need to be more open-minded in order to understand different point
of views of the matter. This book is not just about showing how bad it to cut trees and
therefore to destroy the natural resources of the Pacific Northwest, but it is also about the
life of people logging the trees and simply doing their jobs, earning money for their
families and not understand what is the reason to stop now after so many years of tree
logging.
It is completely understandable why the responses to the issue are so radically different.
But the main thing the William Dietrich point out is that these opinions are not good, or
bad, they are just different from each other. And each of them has the right to exist and
to be heard: either with logger-families or the environmentalists.
What about my family, what about our home?
Wildlife and timber, it's the only life I've known.
I'm just one man, living off the land.
It's more than what I do.
It's who I am
It is not indifference it is just another life-style and another love for the forests of the
Pacific Northwest.

COMPARISON

Academic Text Narrative Essay

How to write Academic Text?
The leading tone in an academic text is the
position of proving that the presented point
of view is the correct one and possesses
more truthful arguments than any other
opinions. The author through proper
reasoning, inducting and making
conclusions, must prove the assertions or
the theories of the academic text. If the
author fails to apply the reasons and
conclusions to the topic of the essay such
essay is considered to be an
unsubstantiated opinion.
academic text writing requires the ability of
the author to show that he makes
conclusions according to definite facts and
How to write a narrative essay?
Writing a narrative essay is basically writing
a story connected with personal
experiences. The key element of a
narrative essay is a defined point of view
presented in the paper and delivered
through sharing emotions and sensory
details with the reader. As a narrative essay
is always a reflection of a personal
experience of the author and that is the
reason it often has the form of a story and
also often becomes a personal narrative
essay.
not on his personal assumptions only.

The narrative essay format is build on

Academic Text Format
Any academic text needs to be written
according to the following form:
1. It must begin with a clear statement
and reveal the significance of the
presented opinion in terms of the
analyzed phenomenon.
2. In order to make the academic text
professional a wide range of
information concerning the
phenomenon should be reviewed.
two main principles:
1. It has no restrictions considering in
what person is should be written,
nevertheless, often it is written
from the first person and therefore
the I sentences are allowed.
2. This type of essay is to make a deep
emotional impression on the
reader through the technique of
using concrete and sensory details
as the dominant of the paper.

3. As the reader is to agree with the

data listed in the essay must be as
reliable as possible.

Structure of the academic text Structure of the narrative essay

A good academic text has several
paragraphs that should be concentrated on If the author decides to write a narrative
different aspects of the essay essay in a form of a story it is crucial to
keep in mind the model of storytelling:
1. Introduction (The reader is
introduced to the analyzed 1. Plot
phenomenon and the opinion is
revealed through a strong thesis 2. Character
statement).
3. Setting
2. Previous attempts to solve the
argument ( Are provided from 4. Climax
literature).
5. Ending
3. The consequences of the problem
(its negative or positive impact).

4. Repercussion of the argument in

case it is not finally
solved(supported with sources).

5. Connecting the argument with the

provided facts.

6. Summary (a conclusion including

main ideas and the thesis
 restatement).
Acadmic Text topics and ideas.
academic text can be written on many
different topics. Delicate approach to
choice of a topic or keen understanding of
the given topic is the key element of good
essay writing. Here you can see some
examples of argumentative essay topics:
1. essay on gender issues
2. essay on local produce and organic
produce
3. essay on feminism
4. modern technology argumentative
essay
5. hybrid cars argumentative essays
6. essay on obesity
7. essay on child obesity
8. from animal cruelty to serial murder
argumentative essay
9. essay on drinking and driving
A narrative essay idea can be taken
from many sources like books, articles and
personal experiences. This is primarily
because every single book, article or
personal thought has a point of view it tries
to deliver to the reader.
It is possible to choose a narrative essay
topic from a great variety, for example:
1. Getting my first dollar
2. My favorite day in the year
3. My best friend
4. The biggest mistake I have ever
made
5. The most embarrassing moment in
my life
6. My happiest vocation