mid-1980s that the emergence of a new smokable form of cocaine‚ called crack‚ had been introduced to the United States. Crack‚ was highly-addictive and swept through impoverished areas of cities such as New York‚ Los Angeles‚ Oakland‚ and Miami. In the end it caused devastating effects for black and Latino Americans. As crack cocaine was becoming a grim and rising epidemic‚ hip hop was evolving alongside it. It was in the 1980s that crack cocaine and hip hop became the two leading fundamentals of urban
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Cocaine Base (Crack Cocaine) As mentioned above‚ powder cocaine cannot be smoked unless chemically altered using the dangerous freebasing technique. Late summer of 1985‚ New York City drug dealers put an end to the need for freebasing powder cocaine. These same drug entrepreneurs would revolutionize the sale of cocaine and bring terror to the streets of America. The exact inventor of crack cocaine is unknown‚ but the lasting effects of their discovery is well documented. The benefits of
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Crack VS Powered Cocain Powder cocaine has been a part of our history for centuries. For most of these centuries selling and buying powder cocaine‚ although not legal‚ was not considered a major societal problem. Today‚ because of newspapers‚ and television the public has not only been made aware of the problems with illegal drugs but has also been made to believe that certain drugs are a Black problem and some drugs are a White problem. As a result of this orgy of media and political attention
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The Federal Government’s Impact on the Crack Epidemic in the District of Colombia Cutler Fisher AMST 3950W April 15‚ 2012 The term epidemic is typically used in relation to the spread of a disease however; in the mid 1980’s this term was attached to crack cocaine. The crack cocaine epidemic described the impact of a newly created drug on most U.S. cities in the northeast and Mid Atlantic. Washington‚ D.C. provided the perfect setting for crack cocaine to flourish. Plenty of low-income inner
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the difference between cocaine and crack? I have found seven differences between cocaine and crack. They are as follows: Popularity: Crack has become more and more popular as the years have progressed. The use of cocaine as a freebase declined in popularity in the 1980s when it was discovered that mixing cocaine with simple household chemicals‚ including baking soda and water‚ and then drying it resulted in a lump of smokable cocaine which is now none as crack. Age: Cocaine has been in existence
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advancesindifferenceequations.com/content/2013/1/57 RESEARCH Open Access Global dynamics in a class of discrete-time epidemic models with disease courses Lei Wang‚ Qianqian Cui and Zhidong Teng* * Correspondence: zhidong@xju.edu.cn College of Mathematics and System Sciences‚ Xinjiang University‚ Urumqi‚ Xinjiang 830046‚ P.R. China Abstract In this paper‚ a class of discrete SIRS epidemic models with disease courses is studied. The basic reproduction number R0 is computed. The main results on
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of food 10. sagacity 9-16 Quality of being sagacious 11. pious 9-16 Devoutly religious 12. scurrilous 9-16 making or spreading scandalous claims about someone with the intention of damaging their reputation 13. pestilence 9-16 Fatal epidemic disease 14. benevolence 9-16 Disposition to do good 15. enigma 9-16 a person or thing that is mysterious‚ puzzling‚ or difficult to understand. 16. primeval 9-16 of or resembling the earliest ages in the history of the world. 17. meddle
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settling down to build organized cities and companies meant there would be social inequalities. Women were usually the first targets to social inequality. Having people stay in one area and having them live together in villages created the uprising of epidemic diseases that created a widespread of death in communities. During this time growing their own food did not ensure that they would eat. Farmers that had failing crops would lead to starvation for their families. The change from nomads to farmers
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Miguel Primentel‚ a R&B and soul artist‚ was a breath of fresh air to the R&B game in the 2010-2013 time frame. The Ballad “Candles in the Sun” was a simple‚ yet powerful song with a very nice message. This song was released on his second studio album Kaleidoscope Dream on September 25‚ 2012. Candles in the sun didn’t chart because wasn’t a single‚ but the album was number three on the Billboard 200 (Wikipedia 2016). “I wanted to create a song and visual that addressed my everyday concerns of life”
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can be explained by two social factors‚ namely‚ the outbreaks of infectious diseases and stringent measures imposed by the government. Argument 1: ①Firstly‚ ②outbreaks of infectious diseases would raise public health awareness of people. Since epidemics threatened people’s health‚ especially considering that the death rate of SARS was relatively high‚ Hong Kong people were forced to pay attention to public health and maintain preventive measures on a daily basis. ③For example‚ as identified in Source
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