The first drug court was established in Miami-Dade Florida in 1989. Drug courts were established because of the “revolving door of drug use” and recidivism. Recidivism is defined as criminals being prone to revert back to criminal behavior after being released from jail. Recidivism is very significant ito the Criminal Justice System because it shows the number of offenders that return to prison within a certain amount of time. Data shows that drug court participants are less likely to be arrested
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Article Review A tapestry of browns and greens Tu K Ly Devry University The article “A Tapestry Of Browns And Greens” was written by Nalini Nadkarni‚ a pioneering canopy ecologist and professor at The Evergreen State College. This article describes a rich tapestry of personal stories‚ information‚ and illustrations‚ from science to symbol‚ culture‚ and religion. Nalini used the metaphor of a tapestry that composed of different colored threads to reflect on her
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English 926 March 12‚2013 Rat Park In Lauren Slater’s article Rat Park‚ Slater talks about Bruce Alexander’s study and experiments on addiction. Alexander’s experiment consists of lab rats in two environments. The first is a caged environment and the second was a “perfect environment” called Rat Park. Rats in each environment were given two choices of water. One study group had regular water and the second was a form of heroin in water. The caged rats chose to drink the drugged
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Review Set 1 – Review and Critique of the Following Articles: “How to Thrive in Turbulent Markets” by Donald Sull (2009) “Are Managers Obsolete?” by Thomas M. Hout (1999) “What is Strategy?” by Michael E. Porter (2000) “Knowledge-Worker Productivity: The Biggest Challenge” by Peter F. Drucker (1999) Strategic Management Professor Smith Eugene Bogart 01/26/2012 Article review and critique: “How to Thrive in Turbulent Markets” by Donald Sull (2009) Synopsis: In
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Opiate Abuse/Addiction Specific Purpose: After hearing my speech the audience will know about opiate abuse and its addiction. Central Idea (Thesis): Opiate‚ and its abuse and addiction. Introduction 1. Attention Getter: Addiction is prevalent in America‚ and one of the biggest culprits of addiction is opiates. Opiates often come in the form of prescription pain medications‚ and normally contain Hydrocodone or Oxycodone such as Vicodin or Percocet. The International Center for Advancement
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Understanding Addiction Limestone College Abstract As early as 1939 with the publication of the first edition of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous the medical community was aware that addiction was more than a moral shortcoming. In the first addition of the book in the chapter The Doctor’s Opinion‚ Dr. William Silkworth (1939) wrote the following‚ “We believe‚ and so suggested a few years ago‚ that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy; that the
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Technology Addiction “Let’s get HIGH on TECH” In one country‚ thousands of people salivating at the mouth await anxiously in line. Some have not eaten in days‚ have forsaken their families and are tired and listless as they wish to meet their daily need. Disappointment awaits their arrival at home‚ if they were to return home empty handed. Is this some African country where people await in line for rations to feed themselves or their family? Sadly‚ they await the arrival of a new version of technology
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Phobias and Addiction Rachael Thomas PSY/300 January 26‚ 2014 Professor Chung Phobias and Addiction Webster Dictionary defines phobia as “a persistent‚ irrational fear of a specific object‚ activity‚ or situation that leads to compelling desire to avoid it” ("PHOBIA‚" n.d) Whereas Addiction is defined as “the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or something that is psychologically or physical habit-forming‚ as narcotics‚ to such extent its cessation causes severe trauma” ("addiciton‚"
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Article Review: The Changing nature of Childhood. The aim of this study is to review an article by Chambers (2012) which focuses in issues to do with rise of divorce rates and how children are affected. The article also covers about other issue such as media in the family homes and the effect this is having on the relationships of parents and their children nowadays. It also looks at other issues such as consumption and class and the impact it has on the children in modern society. The review will
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Software Quality Assurance Assignment# 1 Summary of Paper “A Framework for Automated Testing of Automation Systems” Submitted by: Jawad Ahmad Registration # CIIT/FA13-RSE-023 Submitted to: Dr. Iftikhar Azeem Niazi A Framework for Automated Testing of Automation Systems Summary 1. PROBLEM DEFINITION: According to authors of the paper there is limited experience on systematically developing and testing software components in automation systems domain. A detailed testing framework
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