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    Why Do People Take Drugs?

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    Why do you think people take drugs? Do you know anyone with an addiction-prone personality? What does the medical literature indicate about addictive personalities? I think people take drugs because there trying to escape or forget about something in their lives. And when they take drugs they don’t have to worry about anything that is bothering them. They also don’t have to face anything that is bothering them because there not ready or don’t wont to so they get high. Medical literature indicates

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    Why Do Black Lives Matter

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    I have decided to choose the topic of black lives matter. The reason I that I chose this topic is because when I was a policeman‚ at the time the Michael Brown incident happened. I saw and heard a lot of things. Being an African American male and a policeman I could not be outspoken about the incident. At the time the department frowns on that type of news form their employees. I saw a lot of people rioting for what I felt was no reason. I felt that if Martin Luther King was alive today he

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    What do you think of when the word Lemur is said? What is a lemur exactly? In particular‚ I found the picture of lemurs to be most interesting. Not only do lemurs have long tails‚ but their tails are black and white with a horizontal pattern‚ however there is one species of lemurs that do not have long tails. It is true that I have never seen a lemur before‚ but that is because I do not live in Madagascar according to the book. With that being said‚ lemurs could be classified as “Strepsirrhini”‚

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    Why Do Athletes Use Drugs

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    Athlete Drug Use The organization should test athletes for drug use‚ so we can get rid of the guys who use drugs‚ we don’t need athletes who use drugs. Their then would be fans and kids who see all those drug use athletes doing the wrong thing and thinking its right for them to also do it. Why should they get money for using drugs to win? How do we know that they aren’t really actually good at that sport? That is called cheating. To use drugs just to make a win or himself as a champ and not using

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    Freakonomics Book Review

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    not a typical economist‚ he even states it in the book’s introduction‚ “I’m not good at math‚ I don’t know a lot of econometrics‚ and I also don’t know how to do theory.” This marks right away Lennits to a different approach of ways to get his audience attention‚ he steps outside of the boundaries most people in society live by. Freakonomics‚ is a book that really triggered my imagination as a kept on reading‚ I really loved it. I myself started asking myself a great amount of questions that I had

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    Why do people still go to the cinema? In this modern age we have computers‚ which contain the Internet. The Internet theoretically has endless capabilities and in this modern day people can get hold of any type of media they want whether that be music‚ TV shows‚ movies and games; even movies that have not been released. So with all of this in everyone’s grasp people can watch or listen to what ever they want to do thanks to streaming websites or websites that contain torrent downloads where you can

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    Drugs Control Lives

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    Drugs Control Lives The long lasting effects on drugs can be destructive. Once you’ve become hooked on drugs they can make you do things you never thought would happen. It always starts out just wanting to try it to see what it does to you‚ but usually once you’ve started it becomes a habit. A habit that you start having no control over‚ and before you know it you’ve lost everything that was important to you. People I know have become victims to drugs and it is sad to see the outcome from choosing

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    3 Lives

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    In Three Lives Gertrude Stein created a bigger picture about life through her writing style and use of language. Throughout Three Lives‚ Stein uses adjectives and other descriptive words to describe her characters personalities and tendencies. These descriptive words made the reader question the actual meaning of the words because theses descriptive words were not necessarily consistent with the specific character they were associated with. With this inconsistency‚ Stein presents the idea that not

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    The Movie Freakonomics

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    Freakonomics is a nonfiction book that takes place throughout the 20th and 21st centuries commenting on situations throughout the history of mankind that is affected by economics. It goes to show how very reminiscent and distant topics like the structure of cocaine crack gangs can be related to economic topics such as mirroring large-scale business like McDonalds. Twelve Angry Men is a fictional movie that presumably taking place in the late 1950s‚ based off the release date of the movie‚ depicting

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    The argument states that people are more worried about drug abuse and therefore the police have increased its efforts on preventing drugs from entering the country. Due to this increase‚ drug trafickers prefer to illegaly transport cocaine which does not have the disadvantages of other drugs. Therefore increased law enforcement lead to an increase in cocaine abuse. At first glance‚ the argument may seem somewhat convincing‚ though further examination reveals examples of lack of evidence‚ ill-founded

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