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    School Captain Speach

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    more easy nights or getting away with un finished work. With year 8 also came the era of detentions. Teachers dishing out detentions as fast as they could photocopy the cursed slips. Fortunately I escaped this crack down unscaved. Towards the 3rd quarter of the year‚ USB keys reached epidemic proportions. Malicious programs spread like wild fire. Games could now be accessed directly from USB keys and quickly removed if under inspection. And then like the previous year and eventful 2006 came to an end

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    Jade Johnson November 30‚ 2010 SA 5005 Social Welfare Policy and Services Drug Addiction: A Hobby or a Disease What is Drug Addiction Whether talking about any drug addiction: alcohol addiction‚ cocaine addiction‚ methamphetamine addiction‚ or even heroin addiction‚ the pattern is the same‚ the person tries to escape some physical or emotional pain by taking drugs. This could be a physical or emotional pain‚ or the discomfort of boredom‚ peer pressure‚ and/or lack of social skills. The

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    Home HIV test kit Globally‚ there are 34 million people living with HIV and epidemic continues worldwide. Diagnosis and subsequent positive preventions are key factor in controlling epidemic. In spite of availability of variety of HIV tests‚ test acceptance rate varies region to region. For instance‚ American CDC estimates that almost 20% of HIV-positive individuals do not know their status. There are several factors behind this. Some of them are being afraid of knowing true sero status‚ being ashamed

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    Juvenile Drug Courts

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    treat the underlying problems of addiction among drug offenders and eliminate participants’ future drug use and crime. Drug courts came about as a result of the 1980’s "war on drugs" where all levels of government came together to crack down on an epidemic of crack-cocaine use that had society believing that drugs were the main problem of the criminal justice system. Courts on state and federal levels were burdened and overloaded with drug cases. As a result‚ prison populations began to rise at

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    heroin market in the United States. Between 1965 and 1970 the US‚ involved in the Vietnam War‚ was blamed in the increase of illegal heroin being smuggled into the US. The number of heroin addicts in the US reached approximately 750‚000 people. To crack down on the illegal drug distribution President Nixon created the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on July 1st‚ 1973. During the mid-70s Saigon fell‚ and “China White” was replaced with “Mexican Mud” until 1978. The US and Mexican governments

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    The War on Drugs‚ a collective term for the series of federal anti-drug efforts run by the United States government‚ attempted to significantly reduce the import‚ manufacture‚ sale‚ and use of illegal drugs and narcotics (Head‚ 1). Regardless of the intention‚ the four-decade long legal movement left a staggering amount of political and social unrest‚ such as the monetary costs for the efforts‚ the harsh laws associated with drug possession‚ and the inflated penalties for relatively low-end crimes

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    The War on Drugs

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    Act. Georgia Law. Retrieved March 14‚ 2013 from http://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu Gill‚ M.M Haldeman‚ H.R. (1995). The Haldeman diaries: inside the Nixon White House. Toronto‚ Ontario: Berkley Publishing Group. Hall‚ A.L. (2011). (Black) users of crack vs. (White) users of powder cocaine. Retrieved March 14‚ 2013 from http://www.theipinionsjournal.com Head‚ T Hickman‚ J. (2011). Nixon’s War on Drug Decision‚ A Journal of Southern Culture and Politics. Retrieved March 10‚ 2013 from http://likethedew

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    Crucible shows that those who are honest are not believed and suffer persecution‚ while those who lie are praised and admired. Dishonesty quickly becomes a contagion that wipes out all human decency. Mass hysteria becomes a terribly dangerous social epidemic. Reputation‚ both personal and for the church‚ was extremely important in Salem where social standing of an individual was tied to his or her ability to follow to follow religious rules and beliefs. If people were of good standing in the church

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    Plan of Investigation It is through Gangsta Rap subgenre of Hip-Hop‚ that the question: “What were the underlying cultural reasons for the Los Angeles Riots of 1992?” can be answered. This paper will examine rap lyrics from prominent Los Angeles Hip-Hop acts in order to investigate the deteriorating rapport between the city’s oft-biased police department and the city’s increasingly restless black urban youth‚ from the perspective of the latter group. These lyrics will be juxtaposed with statements

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    Arlene Garcia Dr. Kevin P. Coogan 12 August‚ 2013 HEOP 2013 The New Highline The way things can evolve with just the snap of a finger is truly amazing. Less than a decade ago‚ the highline was an abandoned wasteland but in 2009‚ it was transformed into a meaningful elevated park. The highline has a very long history being that it also used to be railroad track in the late 1930s. It has gone through many transformations throughout the decades‚ but now it has become

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