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- 20771: Heroin: The Most Dangerous Drug
- Heroin: The Most Dangerous Drug In today's society, heroin is considered the hardest,most dangerous drug. A street junkie can be found in miserable health and suffering from many illnesses and medical maladies due to their harsh lifestyles. Probably the least amount ... drug addicts are heroin addicts, however the overdose rate for heroin addicts is astronomical, showing heroin can be a very dangerous drug. Many deaths related to heroin are the results of conditions arising from it's illegality rather than its toxicity. For example, the many problems addicts suffer from such as hepatitis, tetanus, pneumonia, nutritional deficiencies, and AIDS, are due to dirty needles or lack of medical assistance. Even many overdoses can be attributed to it's illegality. An addict never knows the potency of the heroin they recievesince the types being sold change often. An addict may inject the same type of heroin for a bit and then get a ...
- 20772: Fine Automobiles (persuasive)
- Fine Automobiles The contemporary society of Earth's most influential country is composed of people from variable backgrounds. Despite all the potential and prevailing cultural interaction complications, one mutual objective is luxury, in a car that is. Today's luxury cars are refined technological marvels which combines fine materials with powerful machinery. Luxury automobiles are appealing, sexy status symbols of the modern man and despite the envious loathing towards them, they may be the ... we have always been attracted to the most dominating physical object within sight. The sun, for example, is one that ancient man was attracted to, and then eventually worshipped. The same principle applies to today's man only in a different paradigm: we are still attracted to objects which visually arrest our attention, yet after the millions of years of evolution and development we have cluttered our picture. Now there ...
- 20773: Drugs in Sports
- ... to watch them and they represent the culmination of years of work for athletes. Winning a gold medal is the glory to any sporting career. Urine testing is the usual testing method, and it doesn't reveal the full range of drugs taken to enhance performance. Blood testing is a more efficient way, it can detect drugs that urine testing cannot. By the beginning of the 1980s, the use of anabolic ... quick chemical reactions in your brain and a responsive muscles system that is efficient in directing such abilities as speed of movement, reaction time, agility, flexibility, and coordination. Drugs interfere with and replace the brain's normal processes during adolescent development. Some drugs such as marijuana affect the mind by reducing motivation. Too much marijuana can make you lose the get up and go feeling you need to train for sports ... of sports or by being kicked out either for poor performance or as punishment for illegal use od drugs. Sports performance requires the most complicated physical movements. To be successful in those movements, the athlete's brain must be in excellent condition for receiving and sending messages that involves strategy, control, balance and so on. Remember that drugs interfere with your natural chemical processes that affect your moods, behavior style, ...
- 20774: Ford Focus Copying Honda Civic
- ... launch the new Focus. The Focus is targeted at the first time buyers market. Ford Motors is spending at least $100 million dollars in this new approach marketing strategy. I always thought that TV commercial's were pre-recorded. This is not the case here. Ford is actually launching a miniseries of commercials to create a following like a sitcom. With a hired actor Annabelle Gurwitch from the sitcom "Dinner & A Movie." Ford Motors are targeting viewers from MTV, and the Urban audiences. Ford will advertise in the Non-Traditional marketing strategies. I think that Ford is trying to win over the Honda's campaign of such good advertising and the success to the first time car buyer market creating a pool of loyal customers. Honda was the first company to utilizes the V-TEC technology. Now Ford wants to throw a similar technology into the Focus called Z-TEC. I think that Ford must think that people who do not know the difference will buy the Focus, I don't think so! Ford will always be Ford & Honda will always dominate the Import compact class. As Far as I am concerned, Ford better spend that advertising money on better performance reliability. Honda has proven ...
- 20775: Fascination Of Motorcycles
- ... motorcycles have been used for many different purposes, and there for many differently designed bikes were needed. The motorcycle started out as a bicycle with a motor, but as technology evolved it soon became it's own entity. The designs were so useful that police agencies began using them to combat crimes. The U.S. military quickly realized the advantages of two wheels, and soon put them into service. Upon returning from war, U.S. service members soon began using their personal motorcycle as a tool for expressing themselves. This spread to many other countries and soon changes started coming about. The big brutish cycles of the fifties soon ...
- 20776: How Tourism Affects Mountain E
- ... the Everest region. There were many articles, not all of them were related to Everest, therefore, not all of the articles were reviewed. Although there are many mountain environments that are falling prey to man's commercialization, Everest seems to stick out the most. It was in 1922 that the first attempt was made to climb the highest mountain in the world. It wasn't until 1953, however, that a summit was actually successful, thus creating a beginning for mountaineering in Nepal. The start of the tourist industry became a very important asset to the Nepalese economy. The foreign exchange ... have tourists created plenty of damage but locals have as well. The reasons all being economic of course. The money inflation has turned many locals to greed and driven away their environmental awareness. Therefore, it's unfair to conclude that all of the problems are because of tourists. It is all about local people wanting to increase their income and because of the rapidly changing demands of tourists, locals are ...
- 20777: If Marijuana Were To Be Legal
- ... drug war seems to be a bit impossible. The war on drugs seems to be accomplishing a lot but this is not true. Different options need to be considered. Legalization is an option that hasn't gotten a chance but should be given one. Although many people feel that legalizing marijuana would increase the amount of use, marijuana should be legalized because it will reduce the great amounts of money spent on enforcement and it will increase our country's revenue. There are also many benefits that can be uncovered to help people if legalization of marijuana is given a chance. Legalizing marijuana would increase our economy's revenue. During Prohibition alcohol use was still sold and used, but people were doing it illegally. The 21st amendment repealed prohibition and alcohol taxes were increased. The same thing should happen with drugs. Marijuana ...
- 20778: Hackers
- ... Computer hacking is a dangerous crime that could total chaos for the entire world. Some hackers act on revenge or just impersonal mischievousness. But whatever their motives, their deeds can be destructive to a person's computer. An attack by a hacker not only affects the victim, but others as well. One case involving a notorious hacker named Kevin Mitnick did just that. Mitnick is a very intelligent man. He is ... or pass it around on the Internet. To compensate, they will raise the price of disc programs. CD Rom programs cost more to make but are about the same price as disc games. Companies don't loose money on them because it is difficult to copy a CD Rom and impossible to transmit over the Internet (Facts on File #28599 1). Hackers have hit one company in particular, American On-line ... offered by AOL (Alan 37). His advice became popular and he spawned a program called AOHell. This program, in turn, created many copycats. They all portray their creators as gangsters, and one of the creator's names is "Da Chronic." Many also feature short clips of rap music (Cook 36). These programs make it easy for people with a little hacker knowledge to disrupt AOL. These activities include gaining access ...
- 20779: Problems with Gun Control
- ... by what the Framers of the Constitution had in mind when they drafted it. The Constitution can also be viewed as a living document, in which the interpretation should be surveyed in light of today's social and politics environments. Bill Clede ideas in his article seem to be guild by the idea of the Constitution being a living document. At the time the Second Amendment was written, it had a ... under this Amendment. Clede states, "that does not mean that the government can constitutionally prohibit all weapons, but it probably means that the government can reasonably regulate and limit their use." I agree with Clede's point. The language of the Constitution is very vague. The second amendment states, " A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear ... any type of gun. Clede has clearly taken the stand of some type of tighter control on the sale of guns, without touching the Second Amendment. A large problem that has been addressed in Clede's article is that no matter what changes we make in the law concerning guns, the crime element in this country will always be able to obtain guns. Perhaps we should take a closer look ...
- 20780: Crime
- ... witchcraft, but this is no longer illegal. Today, it is becoming a serious crime to pollute the air and water. In colonial days, pollution received little attention because it caused few problems. During the 1700's in England it was not a crime for people to steal money entrusted to their care by an employer. Today, this type of theft, embezzlement, is a crime. Crimes may be classified in various ways ... control regulations, pure food and drug laws, and traffic laws. Crimes in the first group usually involve severe punishments while crimes in the second group are generally punished by fines, notices to follow the court's orders, or other relatively light penalties. Crimes are frequently classified according to their seriousness as felonies or misdemeanors. Generally, felonies are more serious than misdemeanors. Under the federal criminal law system, felonies are crimes for ... taxes, which can be done in connection to your business. It may apply to petty thefts by employees, as well as to million dollar stock market swindles. It could also include a service stations owner's charging for an automobile repair that was not made, or a physician's billing a patient for services that were not performed. Many consumer protection laws are aimed at whitecollar crime. these laws regulate ...
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