it is today‚ and each of these moments in history are considered‚ and can be analyzed as social dramas. In this paper I am going to look at the Civil War as social drama‚ and will identify four major events during the war that signify the four major stages of a social drama. A social drama consist of four stages called‚ the breach‚ crisis‚ redressive action‚ and the reintegration or recognition of schism
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Tulia: Race‚ Cocaine‚ and Corruption in a Small Texas Town 1 Tulia: Race‚ Cocaine‚ and Corruption in a Small Texas Town Shana Eberlin Ethics in Criminal Justice October 26‚ 2008 Tulia: Race‚ Cocaine‚ and Corruption in a Small Texas Town 2 Blakeslee‚ N. (2006). Tulia: Race‚ Cocaine‚ and Corruption in a Small Texas Town. New York: PublicAffairs. Abstract: One morning in 1999‚ in the little cow town of Tulia in the Texas panhandle‚ before the sun came up‚ police burst into homes‚ where about twenty
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Andean Cocaine There were two men who made drugs Alfredo Bignon and Eduardo Balarezo. Coca is a dried leaf of the “subtropical Andean shrub Elthycoxylon.” The traffic of cocaine is over whelming controlled by home grown‚ successful and eminently “Latin” entrepreurs and middle men. Pharmacist Alfredo Bignon had a laboratory of his Droguera Botica Francesa around the corner of main plaza. On March 13‚ 1885 he was going to present his findings of this cocaine to Academia Libre de Medicina de Lima
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Joshua Forte 9/27/2011 Group 2 Assignment #4 Unjust Punishments & “The Case of Crack Cocaine” Unjust punishments can occur because of sentencing disparities and wrongful convictions. Current prison populations show a higher population of African Americans and Hispanic men leading some to believe that a sentencing disparities caused by racial prejudices and discrimination are the causes. Sentencing disparities occur when offenders with similar criminal histories who have committed the
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survive in a country set up against them. Malcolm X went through this process‚ like a lot of people. He tried many ways to fit in and each of his attempts were a step in his racial identity development. For the dominant group in society‚ there are six stages of development‚ contact‚ disintegration‚ reintegration‚ pseudo-independent‚ immersion‚ and autonomy. As a teenage white male‚ I think I’m in the pseudo-independent portion. As a child‚ I was in the contact group. I was naive to any racial prejudices
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Genre: Mystery and historical Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars Summary: Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood is the first novel in the Phryne Fisher mystery series. If that name sounds familiar‚ it’s because the novels have become a rather successful television show that can be streamed on Netflix. I will attempt to not make this a compare and contrast between the novel and the show‚ but I highly suggest giving Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries a try if you have a Netflix account. The plot of the story
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Direct competitive cocaine immunoassay was performed in a transparent high binding 96 well microtiter plate. Each well was coated with 200 µL of 1mg/L anti-mouse IgG in PBS (phosphate buffered saline‚ 10 mM sodium dihydrogen phosphate‚ 70 mM sodium hydrogen phosphate‚ 145 mM sodium chloride‚ pH 7.6). The microtiter plate was left over night for shaking at 750 rpm. Therefore‚ the plate was washed three times with automatic 96-channel plate washer by washing buffer (45 M potassium dihydrogen orthophosphate
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The cocaine crisis was a large problem through the country in the 1970- 1980’s‚ this forced the United States to restrict and regulate incoming cocoa plants. Cocaine comes from the cocoa plant‚ and is a white powder substance. This drug should not be legal because it affects your brain and is categorized as a stimulant that could ruin a family’s budget but this is how you get a “higher social class”. Cocaine at the beginning was a drug used to show you had money or you belonged in the highest social
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Most cocaine is grown and processed in South America‚ particularly in Colombia‚ Bolivia‚ Peru‚ and smuggled into the United States and Europe‚ the United States being the world’s largest consumer of cocaine‚ where it is sold at huge markups; usually in the US at $80–$120 for 1 gram‚ and $250–300 for 3.5 grams. Crack cocaine is the most popularly used version of cocaine today. Smoking cocaine rocks began in the late 1970’s. Rocking-up cocaine powder and smoking it was originally the method developed
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Cocaine Cowboys Before the seventies Miami‚ Florida was the hotspot for drug smugglers to smuggle marijuana into America because South Beach was virtually unwatched land for miles. Cocaine eventually rose to become the drug of choice for people in Miami and was more expensive then weed‚ causing it to replace marijuana imports with more profitable cocaine imports. Cocaine became so popular with the club scene and celebrities and other wealthy people that its demand raised Miami‚ Florida to be
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