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  Dangers of Drug Abuse Dr. Hardin B Jones Questions and Answers: 1. Why do people believe in drugs? People believe in drugs because they think that any aliment, physical or mental can be cured by taking a pill. Moreover, medical journals advertise them and doctors prescribe them. 2. What is the danger of over-dependence on drugs? When one become over-dependent on drugs to solve one’s problems, one loses one’s capacity to deal with life’s situations through perseverance, self-discipline and mental effort. Some people think it is foolish to waste time and money and energy on solving a problem when there is an easy way out. 3. What is Hippocrates chief contribution? Hippocrates of Kos, the Greek physician and father of medicine, was the first to recognize that a remedy must take into account not only the symptoms of the disease, but also the health and habits of the patient. The medicine must specifically suit the disease and the patient. 4. What is the distinction

This is Going to Hurt Just a Little Bit Frederic Ogden Nash Questions and Answers 1.      What does the poet hate more than most other things? The poet hates sitting in a dentist’s chair, with his mouth wide open. It is a humiliating and uncomfortable position. 2.      What is the hope that the poet hopes against? The poet hopes that, he would not have to come back, ever again to the dentist. It is a hope against hope, and he will have to come back to keep his teeth in good condition. 3.      What does ‘hope hopen’ mean? Hope Hopen is in fact similar to ‘hope hoped.’ (Like dream dreamt, plan planned, sketch sketched, etc.). The poet coins the word hopen to rhyme with word open. It is a part of the poetic license. 4.      What is your opinion about dental pain? Dental pain is unbearable. It is one of the most unfortunate things to visit a dentist, especially for a tooth filling or drilling. The patient is bereaved of all his dignity and self-respect. 5.      How is

  This is Going to Hurt Just a Little Bit Frederic Ogden Nash One of the most widely appreciated and imitated writers of light verse, Frederic Ogden Nash, was born in Rye, New York, on 19 th August, 1902. His poems, also had an intensely anti-establishment quality that resounded with many Americans, particularly during the Great Depression. Nash was a keen observer of American social life, and frequently mocked religious moralizing and conservative politicians. He died on May 19, 1971. Summary “This is Going to Hurt Just A Little Bit”, is a humorous  poem by Ogden Nash. Through exaggerations and overstatements, he makes fun of the dentist and his methods of treatment. The poet begins by saying that he does not like to sit in a dentist’s chair with his wide-open mouth. It is ridiculous and painful. Every time he leaves the dentist’s clinic, he hopes never to come back again, but he has to visit the dentist again and again, against all his hopes, to keep his teeth in g