America faced a severe drug epidemic. The rise of drug use led to an increase in crime. Incarceration rates nearly tripled due to drug related crimes. The need to address this growing problem led to the drug court movement and the creation of drug courts. Drug courts are special courts that treat offenders with a history of substance abuse addictions by providing supervised treatments and sanctions when needed. This paper will discuss the establishment and goals of drug courts. It will also discuss
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Unit 2 Chapter Focus Questions Chapter 6: The Duel for North America 1. “Why was the French empire ultimately so much less successful than either the Spanish or the British empires?” France was a late player in the settling game of the New World. During the 1500s it was ravaged by wars and internal conflict‚ most of these were caused from the Roman Catholics at odds with the Protestant Huguenots. Also‚ once the colonies were created settlers did not stay‚ many either came home or never
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System 30 (2002) 419–432 www.elsevier.com/locate/system Doing focus-on-form Rod Ellis*‚ Helen Basturkmen‚ Shawn Loewen Department of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics‚ University of Auckland‚ Private Bag 92019‚ Auckland‚ New Zealand Received 17 April 2002; received in revised form 14 June 2002; accepted 17 June 2002 Abstract ‘Focus-on-form’ refers to a particular type of form-focused instruction - the treatment of linguistic form in the context of performing a communicative task
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the focus group interview? Why is group interaction an important issue when analysing focus group data? By student - 3200230 Focus group is one of the research methods that can be used by undergraduate students in their dissertation. The aim of this essay is to explain the purpose of conducting such group as well as highlight its advantages and weaknesses. Before that is achieved‚ more general picture of what that methodology is will be given‚ explaining how focus groups
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Human Impacts on Orphan School Creek According to observation‚ first-hand investigations and research; the current state of Orphan School is adequate‚ although there are signs of possible future damage that are permanently/long term affecting the ecosystems of Orphan School Creek. Through research‚ a few hundred years ago the land was used for farming. The methods that were used to regulate crops were –irrigation which caused the water table to rise‚ leading to the alleviation of the salt to the
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Dr. Virginia Noy Hellen Keller’s CASE Theories of Personality Andrea Sambuccetti 1) Her process of learning was operant conditioning. To learn‚ Helen Keller was exposed to an stimuli‚ an object in one hand‚ and at the same time‚ to a finger-spelling in the other hand that later she was guided to imitate. At first‚ she did not found an association between the object in one hand and the meaning that was spelled in her other hand. But one day‚ the experience was repeated and she started to found
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HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT UNIT VIII – CASE STUDY 16-1 The Case For And Against Drug Testing Columbia Southern University Professor: Ph.D. Chizoba Madueke (Dr. Zee) Student: Chi H. Nguyen Student # 217505 Drug Problems As per Nationwide Medical Review (n.d.)‚ drug users in United States are not specific case of unemployed people but‚ at the matter of facts‚ drug users can be anyone from a politician‚ a business owner‚ a doctor‚ a professor‚ and a student‚ to the kind-hearted neighbors. It
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Case 6.4: Drug Dilemmas The cost of new medical drugs seems to be accepted by many people who use them. These pharmaceutical companies increase their profits more and more each year because many people assume that it does cost a lot of money for research and development. Where in reality‚ they are only spending about 15% of their profit margins on research and development alone. A huge percentage of these drugs are actually tested in other countries where people are more willing to do trials
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Another case that addresses drug testing is Aubrey v. School Board of Lafayette Parish (1998). In this case we are looking at the Fourth Amendment rights of employees. Aubrey was a custodian at an elementary school. In December 1992 the board adopted an Employee Drug Testing Policy stating all "safety sensitive" employees are subject to random selection and drug testing each year. In August of 1993‚ Aubrey attended and in-service where the y policy was dispersed and reviewed. On September 28
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STA-201: PRINCIPLES OF STATISTICS CASE STUDY: TEXAS HOLD’EM A. The probability that you are dealt pocket aces is 1/221‚ or 0.00452 to three significant digits. If you studied either Section 4.5 and 4.6 or Section 4.8‚ verify that probability. 1st Card- 4 cards that are aces out of the 52 cards in the deck. 2nd Card- You already got the 1st ace so now there’s only 3 aces out of 51 cards. 0.00452 is the probability of getting dealt "pocket aces". Therefore the probability is
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