reported that about 17 percent of students -- roughly 2.8 million -- are abusing drugs during the school day‚ according to the survey. "The findings are alarming but not surprising‚" said Bruce Goldman‚ director of substance abuse services at Zucker Hillside Hospital‚ in Glen Oaks‚ N.Y. "We know that teens abuse alcohol‚ cannabis‚ prescription medications. It makes sense that they do it at school where they congregate with their peers. Goldman was not involved with the survey‚ which was released Wednesday
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The first story I Picked was The Screech Owl Who Liked Television. This story was about A girl name Twig and a small gray screech owl named Yammer. When Twig had to stop watching TV‚ Yammer was still watching it. They were watching a cowboy show and the guy riding on the horse looked like a mouse to Yammer. Yammer went to catch it but got hurt. Twig helped him and wonder if she would let him free. The second story was A Crow Kidnapping. This story was about a crow named Crowbar that lived with a
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It was a bright Saturday morning. The sun was rising above the horizon in the east‚ flashing a brilliant spark of yellow and red light in the blue sky. There was no sign of a bad weather‚ a perfect day for a thrilling expedition. Rina had planned this hiking trip since last month. At eleven o’clock sharp‚ Rina and her friends began their adventure to see the scenery at the waterfall with their own eyes. It is said to be extraordinarily marvelous. They had gone for many mountain climbing before.
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Dr. Rooney’s Animal project By: Cameron Macaulay Purple Emperor Kingdom Animalia Phylum Arthropoda Class Insecta Order Lepidoptera Family Nymphalidae Genus Apatura Species Apatura iris The purple emperor butterfly is mostly found in the woodlands across Europe‚ and the warmer parts of the United Kingdom. The purple butterfly eats off of the honeydew‚ and on animal feces‚ also they drink urine. Some distinctive features are the bright purple‚ and the long curled tongue
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QUESTION 1 Read the following passage (Text A) and answer the questions that follow. HAITI EARTHQUAKE: THOUSANDS FEARED KILLED 1. A major earthquake rocked Haiti‚ killing possibly thousands of people as it toppled the presidential palace and hillside shanties alike and left the Caribbean nation appealing for international help. A five-storey UN building was also brought down by Tuesday’s 7‚0 magnitude quake‚ the most powerful to hit Haiti in more than 200 years according to the US Geological
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Ron Wildman History of Africa 161 April 24th‚ 2013 Professor Jack Mioff History of Africa Final Essay In 1993 Paul Johnson wrote an article titled “Colonialism’s Back-and Not a Moment too Soon.” In this article‚ he argued that colonialism was a good thing for Africa. He believed Africa was in need of foreign powers to intervene and govern the land. He said that the governments of different African nations were crumbling and the people were uncivilized. However‚ Johnson failed to recognize
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Just as flood-swollen currents carve new paths for a river‚ so technology has changed the course of our culture. If our culture includes moral and ethical issues and technology has changed our culture‚ then technology has changed our moral and ethical issues. As these raging waters changed the landscape of our lives‚ it has changed the ways we process the concepts of good and bad. Have all of those changes been for the good of society? Or have some of them created even more difficult moral and
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determined by the terrain on which people settle. Morris (1‚1994) describes the different types of terrain such as hilltop‚ seaside‚ river side and prairie areas. It is extremely difficult to build a settlement on land with a gradient (such as a hillside) and so land should be flat wherever possible‚ this is because of mud slides and steep slopes. This should not be confused‚ as it often is‚ with low-lying land: indeed the top of a high hill or plateau may also be flat. However‚ it is possible to
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SOCIAL ISSUE: Informal Settlements in Davao City TOPIC DISCUSSION: Urban housing is a worldwide need‚ especially urgent in rapidly growing cities of the developing world‚ evident in unplanned and informal communities. These are examples of the informal sector housing – often described as squatter settlements or “slums” – that represent latent assets and the basis of urban solutions (Bhatt‚ 2004). In Davao City‚ the increasing number of informal settlers can be attributed to the rapid
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Retrieved 10 March 2015‚ from http://www.gao.gov/assets/320/318175.pdf 2. Topography contributes to pollution in a city or region by trapping in the pollutants. In the literature‚ it states how cold air can carry pollutants downhill from surrounding hillsides; this causes valleys to become prone to pollution. Valleys that are encased by mountains or hills are the most at risk‚ such as Los Angeles and Mexico City‚ since the polluted air in essentially trapped by the surrounding terrain. Ahrens‚ C. (2015)
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