Argument 1: Prohibition has enormous social costs. The police is devoting thousands of hours arresting and imprison marijuana users. Which the majority of these people are law-abiding. Some even stay in prison for over a decade‚ for nothing more than possession of cannabis for personal use. Each year the government spends 3.6 billion dollars‚ enforcing laws on possession. According to the American civil Liberties Union. The times says that regular police officer can spend many hours arresting
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I. New York City began this year with the largest number of homeless people crammed into shelters since the city began keeping count 20 years ago. A. The coalition for the homeless has broken
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time so unsanitary that it’s unbearable. Many times when we are on the train we find ourselves switching the cart we are in‚ and with all hope‚ searching for a better one. As it turns out‚ we are always stuck with the same old dirt. This is a New York City phenomenon. Why should we travel to work surrounded by piles of filth daily? I initially encountered this problem when I first started going to high school. This was the first time I had started taking the train and buses everyday
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Vladimir Tostoff’s latest work which attracted so much attention at Carnegie Hall last May. If you read the papers you know there was a big sensation.” (Fitzgerald 54). For over a century‚ Carnegie Hall has been the place where distinctive artists of all stripes have come to make their names in New York City. (The Carnegie Hall Story) Andrew Carnegie was the founder of Carnegie Hall. Andrew and his wife Louise Whitfield were on their honeymoon when he came up with the idea for the hall. (The Carnegie Hall
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a) Calculate the indicated ratios for Campsey Current Ratio = = = 1.98 x Industry average = 2.0 x The current ratio indicates the extent to which current assets cover current liabilities. The current ratio is near to industry average. So‚ we can say the current obligations can be met. Days sales outstanding = = = 75 Days Industry average = 35 Days Campsey’s days sales-outstanding is more than twice as long as the industry average‚ indicating that the firm should
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Disadvantages of studying abroad Posted on 21. Apr‚ 2010 by Marie M. in Study Abroad Yes‚ studying abroad has not only advantages! It would have been too simple: you go to a foreign country and everything is wonderful‚ people are nice‚ your home is beautiful and so on. Lies!!! Studying abroad is not (always) so nice. You might have to face one or even more problems while living abroad and see some of the disadvantages of studying abroad. #1 Disadvantage of studying abroad: You are not a genius
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Why has the number of “millionaire cities” increased more rapidly in LEDC’s than MEDC’s in recent years? A millionaire city is a city with a population of over one million people. The number of millionaire cities is higher than ever before and is continuing to increase extremely fast. Recently the percentage of people living in urban areas has surpassed the number of people living in rural areas. This is due to a large proportion of people migrating to urban areas from rural areas. This is due to
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Title: New York City’s Immigrant Experience in The Late 19th Century During the year 1492‚ the history of American Jewish commenced which marked the eviction of Jews from Spain and thereby‚ landing in America. This marked the starting of Jewish communal society in North America. The colonial Jews never crossed the mark of being 1/10th of a percent of American population‚ but they managed to establish the patterns of Jewish community life which persisted for many generations. This marked the beginning
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Ontario are constantly bombarded by American culture‚ when they should‚ instead‚ be concentrating on Canadian literature. This is starting to become a trend in Canada‚ as they have always been the “branch plant” of another country. This means that our own culture has never had the chance to develop as we have always been under the thumb of a more powerful foreign culture. This began with the influence of England and France; for many years students in Ontario would study Shakespeare‚ along with other British
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In nowadays Tesco has a presence in 13 markets and around 4000 stores worldwide. Tesco‚ the biggest retailer in the UK with amazing group sales of £51.8 billion and gross profits exceeding £2 billion. In 1937 Tesco opened Britain’s first self-service store. This new system allowed for the faster servicing of people and lowered the costs of labor. Throughout the 60’s Tesco used so called "pile it high‚ sell it cheap" strategy that was set in motion by Cohen. This new strategy proved to be unsuccessful
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