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Native Americans Stop Smoking
537 wordsThere are about 1. 5 million smokers that are age seventeen or younger. Many historians believe smoking started with the Native Americans. There are many uses of the tobacco leaf. Also there are many things to consider if you thinking about using any type of tobacco. First, one must realize there is illness associated with the use of tobacco. Secondly, the cost of using tobacco keeps going up every year and often the amount being used increases. Thirdly, if one is already a smoker and wishes to ...
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Billion Per Year War On Drugs
1,231 wordsAmerica is spending millions of dollars to run ad campaigns with teenage waifs smashing up the kitchen with frying pans, brain fried egg commercials, and other inaccurate and misleading ads put fear into our nations youth and adults alike. One such ad showed a flat line brain scan purportedly hooked up to a drug user. It was later proven that it was hooked up to nothing and most of our nations kids now know it. Seeing the "Land of the Free" turn into a nation that imprisons more of its citizens ...
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Selling Drugs Gang Members
2,063 words... stepfather however had been raping her for years. In Texas the laws of domestic violence did not change until 1991, until then it was legal to raping your wife. This is the environment that gang kids come from. One gang member when asked about gang rape says: When it domes to gang, there is not such thing as raping. Ill tell you straight right now, the girls have a choice of initiations: (A). Fighting one-on-one with a guy for two minutes, (B) get shot in the leg with a Glock, (C). get jumpe...
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Grind A Rail Amazing Feat Ollie
811 wordsFor the Past few years I had been trying my ways on a skateboard. Now I know everyone knows what a skateboard is so I won't go into detail about it. And the whole time I had been practicing on one there was a move that I wanted to do so badly it killed me even to watch. To me personally if I was able to do that move then I myself could die happy. I had watched it many times and read up on it to make sure that when I did try this amazing feat that it would be perfect. My amazing feat was to grind...
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National Institute On Drug Abuse Tens Of Millions
1,692 wordsLegalization of Drugs Such an issue stirs up moral and religious beliefs; beliefs that are contrary to what America should "believe." However, such a debate has been apparent in the American marketplace of ideas before with the prohibition of alcohol in the 1920 's. With the illegality of alcohol the Mafia could produce liquor and therefore had considerable control over those who wanted their substance and service. The role that the Mafia played in the 1920 's has transformed into the corner dru...
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Opium Poppy Blood Flow
1,589 wordsMany different drugs have different effects on the body. This paper focuses on the effects caused by three widely used drugs opium, cocaine, and cannabis. They have many common effects between them. Some characteristics of the effects of those drugs are those of stimulants and others are those of depressants. We will describe the chemical effects of each drug on the body. Opium is a drug produced from the capsules of the opium poppy. When fresh from the plant it is a gooey light brown mass ("Opi...
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Heart Rate And Blood Pressure State Of Consciousness
1,567 words... s system (which controls the "fight or flight" response) to be activated. Once the sympathetic nervous system is activated, a user enters in a state of euphoria where the person may feel more activated and alert. One of the organs that the vasoconstrictor effects is the heart. When cocaine is taken through intranasal administration, a high heart rate and blood pressure may result. These problems can lead to cardiomyopathy, the condition in which the heart contracts abnormally. "Cardiomyopath...
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Pro Choice Family Child
513 wordsAbortion is one of the most controversial issues in America today. There are approximately 1. 5 million abortions every year in this country. It was legal in the 1970 s. However, pro-life activists argue that it is no different than murder. Should the government have the right to take away a women's right to make decisions regarding her own body? The main issue that pro-life people have with abortion is that they believe it causes an unborn child to suffer. However, many children who's mothers w...
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Government People Money
550 wordsI was pleased to find out that I was a centrist. Its true that I favor government intervention in some cases, but in other cases, people should be able to govern themselves. Here in the land of freedom, I think it would be impossible for the government to control everyone and every activity. For example the FCC coming up with a plan to crack down on pornography distributed through cable or the Howard Stern show which will soon be going to satellite radio. People are paying for theses services. I...
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Aluminium Grill Separating Sat Quietly Wondering Potatoes
961 wordsLemonman wondered about the injustices of the world. He liked to think of these things. It made him happy. He sat on a bed of nailed broken polystyrene. He knew the fumes would only make him sick, but still he sat and pondered. Mincing, almost. His brain was too full of potent imagery to be mincing, Mincing being, as I understand it - to be doing nothing. These injustices made him depressed but by wondering on them, he found it gave him a reason. He felt bored and lay down. The polystyrene crunc...
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Open My Eyes Bus Stop
1,342 wordsI grabbed the dagger hanging from the trolls thigh as I bent before the cliff awaiting death. I pulled it from its holster and in one swift move twirled it in my hand then rammed it through the trolls primitive boot, stopping when I hit dirt. I seized my friend Trevor's forearm and pulled him away from the other troll. The troll clumsily thrust his sword at me and struck the other troll in the shoulder, slicing through his crude armor. The uninjured troll ran to catch us as we bolted for the gat...
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Illegal Drugs Illegal Substance
1,170 wordsDrug smuggling is on a current up raise and there seems to be no way of stunting it growth. But here a some ways some states are trying to slow the rate of drug smuggling. In Illinois there is a program called "Operation Cash Crop" or the OCC. This is a combine of the ISP and the DEA. It's goal is to locate places where marijuana is grown then destroy all of it's gardens. During the span of 1983 - 88 these "OCC" led to 442 arrest and destroyed over 2 million marijuana plants. And in 1984 there w...
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National Drug Control Alcohol And Drug
1,506 wordsCocaine Cocaine is highly addictive stimulant of natural origin, which directly affects brains of a human. This drug can be produced from a special extract of the leaves of coca plants, which are growing in the highlands of South America. Cocaine is one of the most harmful, but, at the same time, one the most usable drugs in the world because of its strong psychological and psychical effects, and also because of the thrill of danger, associated with its producing, distribution and usage. In the ...
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African American Men Racial And Ethnic
1,378 wordsA Sociological Critique of Spike Lees Jungle Fever Liana R. Prieto (April 1998) Spike Lee? s Jungle Fever is not a unique cultural production, but a reflection of splintered aspects of real life. It depicts relationships between African-Americans and Italian-Americans centering on one interracial relationship. The film is as much a critique of urban life in New York City as an examination of interracial relationships. It presents a bleak picture of city life full of stereotypes where no racial g...
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Didn T Doesn T
1,162 wordsDragon Wing by: Margaret Weis &# 038; Tracy Hickman As I read this book for the second time, I had the chance to really look into details. This book, which the first of the seven Death Gate Cycle series, has a long and complicated plot, an interesting writing style and a surprising end. I would like to continue analyzing characters as book reports, because that? s the way I can really feel the character going through the adventures, and I can feel that I know the character personally. The hero o...
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Legalization Of Drugs Violent Crimes
1,260 wordsDRUG LEGALIZATION Every time I read a report on a newspaper or hear news on television about drug problems in our society, I always question about the law processors have to confront with drugs. Drugs are the fathers of all descending law violations such as raising market prices, black market, and crime. People still discuss the legalization of drugs. Some can argue that we should legalize drugs in order to govern the consumption rather than spend millions of dollars and face problems in control...
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Making Drugs Legal Legalization Of Drugs
2,538 wordsDrugs Should Not be Legalized The question of whether to legalize drugs or not is A Very controversial and important issue. Drugs affect so many areas of society. Several groups have formed and spoken out regarding their position. After learning about the issues regarding both sides of the argument, I would choose to support those who oppose legalization of any drugs. Drugs simply create problems which affects society in several ways. The governments have made several efforts to control drugs an...
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Term Side Effects State Of Mind
1,549 wordsSometimes when Ecstasy Ecstasy Sometimes when I m watching the news or flipping through newspapers I stop and realize how many sick and deranged people there are in this world. If you open a newspaper or turn on the news any day of the week there is always some situation going on that just makes you sick or makes you wonder how could a person do this sort of thing to another person. There are many crazy people in this world who do things for no other reason other than because they feel like it o...
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Die In Order Cease To Breathe Future
1,676 wordsPrologue: Is There a Future? April 1993 In 1989, not long after my partner Wally and I took the HIV test, the pain in my back which had been a chronic, low-level problem became acute. I went to a chiropractor Id seen before, a rough-and-tumble kind of guy with a strange, cluttered little office on a shady part of Main Street in the Vermont town where we lived then. Dr. Crack, as I thought of him, was his own secretary, and furnished his office with all manner of cast-offs and inspirational poste...
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United States Army Joint Chiefs Of Staff
1,978 wordsBook Report on Colin Powell? s My American Journey Introduction Retired General Colin Powell is the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He spent a career in the United States Army lasting 35 years. He retired at the rank of four star general. He started his military education and career at the City College of New York in 1954. He was the son of Luther and Arie Powell of New York, born on the 5 th of April 1937. His parents were meager people and he lived in a rented apartment until the...
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