My Goals and Concerns My goals for this class is that I want to understand more about how people feel about ethics and if they want to change them. If they want to change them‚ then why do they want to change them‚ and what would they change them to. My only fears are that maybe the instructor does not put enough information out about the assignments on what should be done. That even after I contact the instructor and ask questions that I believe will help clarify the assignment‚ I still will not
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Everybody knows cocaine is bad for you. So why do so many people take it? It gets you high. You feel good for a little while. Then you’re sad again. Teenagers have this problem a lot. Scientists have found a way to maybe prevent highs’ when using cocaine. Actually‚ they found a way in animals‚ and they are hoping to use it on humans. The team showed that the epilepsy drug gamma vinyl-GABA‚ or GVG‚ blocked cocaine’s effect in the brains of primates‚ including the process that causes a "high" feeling
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including the comparison between the expectation‚ and the consequences is mandatory every time when a decision is to be made [25‚ 29]. The functioning of this decision making process can be disrupted by numerous reasons‚ and chronic cocaine use is one of them. Cocaine not only causes impairment in the brain regions that are responsible
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harsh let alone her drug of choice‚ crack-cocaine.. With that combination and such a harsh drug as crack being as asy to find as it is‚ leaves no surprise why she would seek that escape. Crack-Cocaine is one of the most easy to acquire drugs on the streets‚ and possibly the hardest of these. It is a cheap and dirty form of freebased cocaine. Freebasing is a process in which all the impurities are processed out of the cocaine leaving in essence‚ a cocaine concentrate. This is normally smoked to produce
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strategies. At the time‚ I did not know what went into the decision making process for different strategies‚ but after taking Operations Research‚ I know that I am better equipped to understand and formulate optimal implementation solutions. This case uses mixed integer programming‚ and to solve the optimization problems‚ I used LINGO 11.1. Case Background We have been given the implementation schedule‚ as follows: Month Department Month 1 None Month 2 Sales Month 3 Manufacturing
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Outline a key issue for obedience‚ discuss by using theories/studies from obedience for what happened in Abu Ghraib The Abu Ghraib prison is a notorious prison in Iraq‚ located in Abu Ghraib‚ near Baghdad. US soldiers were told to abuse and humiliate the prisoners by their leaders; this included chaining them up‚ treating them like dogs‚ and sometimes sexually harassing them. In April 2004 the abuses at Abu Ghraib were exposed with photos and videos showing US soldiers abusing naked Iraqis. On the
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In the excerpt from the afterward (p.132) to "The Cocaine Kids" by Terry Williams he seems to be expressing the Subcultural Theories. Simply because the excerpt is mainly concerned with the way they were raised‚ opportunities and lifestyle. In my opinion I agree strongly that these Subcultural Theories play a major roll in why the cocaine kids be come drug dealers. The "crew" all lived in a poor part of Manhattan called Washington Heights; it’s an area full of crack fiends and drug dealers. It’s
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INTERNATIONAL FINANCE Deregulation: A major cause for the financial crisis of 2008? Professor E. Slavai Geoffrey Delbaere August 2013 “When you can create something out of nothing‚ it is very difficult to resist” Lee Hsien Loong (Prime Minister of Singapore) Introduction On September 15th 2008 the investment bank Lehman Brothers was declared bankrupt. That same month AIG‚ the world’s largest insurance company‚ also collapsed. These two events led to a global financial crisis which
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Cocaine Base (Crack Cocaine) As mentioned above‚ powder cocaine cannot be smoked unless chemically altered using the dangerous freebasing technique. Late summer of 1985‚ New York City drug dealers put an end to the need for freebasing powder cocaine. These same drug entrepreneurs would revolutionize the sale of cocaine and bring terror to the streets of America. The exact inventor of crack cocaine is unknown‚ but the lasting effects of their discovery is well documented. The benefits of
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Cocaine is a drug that has been on this planet for thousands of years. When it comes to drugs‚ It is also very dangerous. This drug comes mostly from South Africa and is from coco plants. This plant was used for a stimulant for the people‚ to help you breath more because of the mountain ranges back then. They used to use it to help them breath but they never extracted the actual drug from it yet. But he In fact‚ stimulants can contain caffeine. Back in the 1880’s Coca Cola put a tiny bit of Cocaine
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