When Virgil Earp‚ along with his brothers Morgan and Wyatt and their friend Doc Holliday‚ confronted five cowboys in the city of Tombstone over carrying firearms in town‚ violence erupted. This incident became known as the gunfight at the OK corral and only lasted about 30 seconds yet it’s forever immortalized in our history. We know this because of the countless
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contraband cigarettes and selling fake lottery tickets. In the early sixties Colombian farmers grew and sold coca plants to outsiders never questioning their motives or why this crop was of such high demand. During the mid-sixties is when cocaine exploded across the United States and everyone from Ronald Reagan to Sammy Davis Jr. seemed to be snorting this so called "nose-candy." Escobar soon realized the feeding frenzy that was taking place in the United States‚ so when he came of age in
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Task: Choose a poem strongly linked to a specific location. Explain how the poet creates an impression of what life is like in that place. Norman MacCaig’s poem‚ ‘Hotel Room‚ 12th Floor’‚ presents a view from a high window in a hotel in the largest city in the most powerful nation in the world. It is morning and the poet is looking out over the city. As night falls the poet begins to feel uneasy. Down below on the streets chaos and violence seem to take over. From his hotel room the poet
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PHILIPPINES: MASSIVE DRUG ABUSE Submitted by: Howard Elton Navarro John Kenneth Maimot Submitted to: Prof. Desserie Maynes March 13‚ 2012 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Grateful acknowledgements are due to the following resources for lending their books and ideas for this research paper. And also the authors for letting the researchers used the following articles and selection of their books for this subject matter. Kaban ng Hiyas Library of Mandaluyong City for the books Google as research engine
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of drug use. Opium and Cocaine During the 1800’s one of the medicinal uses of opiates was targeted toward women for the treatment of “female troubles”. Another interesting aspect of the culture was that alcohol consumption was thought to be unpopular for women but more acceptable for men. The use of opium would not be frowned upon like drinking alcohol would be. These reasons may be contributing factors to the higher incidents of women using opiates. Cocaine gained popularity in America
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strong incentives for me to move out west like I did‚ and many more are also doing so. There is also talk of going to Texas where you can start to cattle ranch‚ saying there is some good money to be made. They say that the Mexicans are teaching the cowboys to ranch a different type of cow‚ the Texas longhorn. I was hoping to see some buffalo‚ and I did‚ on our short train ride some hunter went hunting. One hunter even boasted having "killed 106 buffalo before breakfast." At the rate that these animals
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first time in 1872. He played himself in a play titled “Scouts of the Prairie”. Following this‚ he kept acting in the winter and he worked for the army in the summer. The Wild West show began in 1883 in Omaha. When this began‚ real cowboys and real Indians showing how life really was in the west. Cody’s show spent ten out of its thirty years in Europe. “Buffalo Bill was a featured attraction at Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee. Only Egypt’s fame opposed the
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D’angelo Brooks Andrew R. Jacobs Fundamentals of Reading And Writing I 2/5/2014 Introduce Me to the Streets “Ricco Story” Introduce me to the streets is the way Roger G. Brooks gain his knowledge to this place we call life. Roger G. Brooks formally known in the streets as Ricco‚ Lil Ricco‚ or Ricco Smooth is a young man who grew up as a child with no father‚ and mother as a addict who couldn’t control here ways of drug usage around him. So‚ as the introduction continues every piece of knowledge
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are sold under a variety of appealing names such as Ivory Wave‚ Vanilla Sky‚ Bliss‚ Blue Silk and etc. The composition of the synthetic drug bath salts can vary from dealer to dealer. Sometimes you may find traces of other stimulant drugs such as cocaine‚ amphetamines‚ or ecstasy‚ but the most important culprit in bath salts is 3‚4-methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV). MDPV falls under the category of phenethylamines and it is structurally related to synthetic cathinones. Synthetic cathinones are a group
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Goodman. On October 14‚ 2011‚ Airline captain William "Whip" Whitaker (Denzel Washington) awakens in his Orlando hotel room with flight attendant Katerina Marquez (Nadine Velazquez) after a night of sex‚ alcohol‚ and very little sleep. After using cocaine to wake up‚ he boards South Jet flight 227 to Atlanta. After Whip threads the plane through turbulence at takeoff‚ copilot Ken Evans (Brian Geraghty) flies the airplane while Whip discreetly mixes vodka in his orange juice and takes a nap. Whip is
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