...Global Politics: The feasibility of universal drug liberalization as an emerging phenomenon RWaterhouse Globalization & The War on Drugs: Assessing alternatives to criminalization The purpose of this paper is to address universal drug liberalization as a feasible alternative to the current drug control regime specifically in North America and potentially applicable elsewhere. With an in depth analysis of the historical regulation, implementation of law, and resulting consequences we will be able to see how nations are effected by complex drug politics and why there has been a global paradigm shift in looking spiritedly at the ideal of decriminalization. I argue in favor of liberalization by bringing to attention the violence associated with the commodification of illegal drugs, what the re-directed costs of control could mean for domestic investment into proactive drug awareness education, and finally recognizing Portugal’s success and weaknesses in the adoption of a compete legalization agenda. Following will be a discussion of concluding thoughts centered on the efficacy and feasibility of universal liberalization in today’s globalized world. Historical Context Libertarianism has almost always had position in political discourse but has been majorly popularized through public attention within the era of globalization. (article) Control of drug consumption has always been a contemporary ingredient in the political reform of Canada and the America’s and...
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...Melanie Garcia English 015 5 September 2013 Signs of Danger Everyday I pace back and forth on the hard pavement on the edge of the pool with my red tube. Hot sun beaming down on my already burnt skin and tried faces scanning the water. All I look forward to on these summer days is lunch break and free swim time. I know I am safe if anything happens today, I’m a lifeguard, I’m trained to respond to life-threatening situations. Blow a long whistle really loud, point at the person in distress, and press the Emergency Stop button. I’m okay. I kept pacing back and forth doing my job, watching over people’s lives. On this afternoon I encountered a situation that will forever be imprinted in my memory. I remember vividly seeing a body on the mid-surface of the water, sinking. Looking at the body I waited for it to come back up or at least show me some signs of helplessness. Nothing. And I counted “One. Two. Three.” I blew on my whistle, pointed at the body, and went to hit the Emergency Stop button. I jumped right in and my heart was pounding. “Why isn’t he moving or struggling?” “Was this going to be my first unconscious body?” “...Please let them be okay” I thought to myself. As I was getting closer to the body I saw it keep sinking. The worst thoughts came into my mind. When I was right on top of it I left my red lifeguarding tube on the surface and dove straight under, grabbed the heavy man with both my arms, going under his armpits and pushed off the bottom of the pool...
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...Improving Your Note Taking ▪ Effective note taking is one of the keys to succeeding in school. Students should devote a considerable amount of time reviewing information discussed during classroom lectures. It is very difficult remembering specific details from classroom lectures without good notes. These note taking strategies will help you to take better notes: ▪ Make clear and accurate notes Make sure to take legible and accurate notes since it is not uncommon to forget key details discussed in class after it has ended. Frequently, students comprehend the teacher's lecture, so they'll neglect to jot down specific details only to forget them later. Students who keep accurate notes can review them later to fully grasp key concepts during personal study time. Additionally, since during classroom lectures teachers frequently cover many topics, effective notes enable students to concentrate on specific topics. ▪ Come to class prepared Students properly prepared for class usually take better notes. Proper preparation includes completing assigned reading prior to class and reviewing notes from previous lectures. Students who do this can ask questions about confusing concepts and be prepared for new topics. ▪ Compare your notes To ensure your notes are as accurate and detailed as possible, compare them with the notes of other students after class is over. This is useful because your colleagues will frequently write down lecture details that you...
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...The idea of the “flipped classroom” is for a professor to basically put there lectures online for students to watch, and during regular class time they actually work on homework and assignments from the lectures that the students watched online. I think the flipped classroom is a good idea, because I know from personal experience sitting and listening to a lecture in class gets boring after awhile and people tend to not care or listen to what is actually going on. Then the professors wonder why so many students aren’t doing well in the class, and the reason probably is because they are bored and don’t feel like sitting for 50 minutes or an hour and a half listening to a teacher just talk. I actually wouldn’t mind the flipped classroom model because I am one of those students that will get bored sitting in class listening to a teacher talk, especially if it’s a class that I don’t find interesting, like history. It would be good to do interactive things in class so that we don’t have to hear a teacher talk for an hour. The only down side to this would be that some students aren’t going to watch the online lectures. I know for sure I wouldn’t sit at a computer for an hour and listen or watch a lecture. If teachers chose to do this they should at least make their lectures somewhat interactive even online or at least do it in parts so a student isn’t sitting there bored for an hour. I wouldn’t mind for some of my professors to take part in the flipped classroom model, it’s something...
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...people could become angry and/or violent towards you and your argument. 4. What is a discourse community? To what discourse communities do you belong? How does a discourse community help establish common ground for its members? A discourse community is a group of people who share a set of discourses, understood as basic values and assumptions, and ways of communicating about those goals. I belong to several discourse communities of which I don’t know how to label them. It helps to establish common ground for its members by having resources and peers interested in and sharing in your same beliefs and ideals and having peers to converse with to learn and research subject matter than you all enjoy and share interest in. 5. What is the universal audience? What are the...
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...* Liberty and Justice for All GEN/195 August 28, 2012 * I seem to use my reasoning skills (rationality) to determine what processes and systems should be put into place to assure fairness and justice for all the community (equality). Using reasoning skills and justice thoroughly explains why my personal preferred lens is the relationship lens. I seek to have relationships with others, especially the underprivileged. Great relationships are built while helping others who sometimes do not have the ability or resources to help themselves. * * My blind spot is overconfidence in a process. There is truth in this because I do overly trust in the “process”; the process of fairness. I do not like seeing or hearing of anyone being treated unfairly and it bothers me to find out that not everyone has what I consider to be valuable morals. Also, to find out that someone less fortunate or inadequate according to America’s standards (i.e.-financially, physically, or a minority) isn’t being treated fairly literally makes me angry on the inside. This ultimately causes me to fight harder for the process’s sake-fairness and equality for all; especially the underprivileged. * * It is comforting to know that my strength is justice. Seeking justice in the overall community is very important to me because it ensures that if everyone is all right in the community, they too will be more willing to reach out a helping hand as well. When the question is asked, “Am...
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...Juvenile Drug Abuse and Prevention Abstract The appetite for drugs and drug abuse is problematic in the United States. Powder cocaine is the adult recreational drug of choice. The United States is the world’s largest consumer of cocaine shipped from Colombia through Mexico and the Caribbean. Pharm parties are the Juveniles’ new trend for getting high. When it comes to our children the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, revealed that more than 2.1 million persons 12 year of age or older used prescription type pain relievers for the first time in 2006. It is the moral obligation of parents, communities, together with law enforcement agencies; educational systems and social organizations to find the programs that will work, engage them and save the children from drug abuse. We know that one way a child learns, is through role modeling. Therefore we as adults should be mindful about what our actions teach them. Juvenile Drug Abuse and Prevention Drug abuse by Juveniles is particularly problematic in the United States. Teenage years are filled with searching, confusion, rebellion, and insecurity. If these are not managed properly, it may lead to problems and inappropriate coping in several ways; one being use and abuse of drugs. Use and abuse are considered to be synonymous by most authors when juveniles are considered. Because juveniles are legally barred from the recreational use of any drug, including alcohol; any use would constitute abuse (Whitehead...
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...INDICE: CAPITULO I Teoría de conjuntos…………………………………….……………………………………………3 1. Conjuntos……………………………………………….……………………………………………3 * Cardinalidad……………………………………………………………………….……………3 * Clases de Conjuntos……………………………………………………………….……5-7 * Relaciones entre Conjuntos……………………………………………………………………..7 Subconjuntos……………………………………………………………………………….……..7 Igualdad………………………………………………………………………………………………8 Conjuntos Disjuntos………………………………………….…………………………………8 Intersecantes………………………………………………………………………………………9 2. Operaciones con Conjuntos……………………………………………………..……………9 * Unión……………………………………………………………………………………….………9 * Intersección…………………………………………………………………………..…………9 * Diferencia……………………………………………………………………………….………10 * Diferencia Simétrica……………………………………………………………….………10 * Complemento…………………………………………………………………………………11 * Producto Cartesiano…………………………………………………………………….…12 3. Álgebra de Conjuntos……………………………………………….…………………………12 * Leyes de las Operaciones entre Conjuntos………..……………………………12 CAPITULO II Ejercicios de Aplicación………………………………………………………………………13-25 CAPITULO III Bibliografía……………………………………..…………………………………………………………26 CAPITULO I TEORIA DE CONJUNTOS 1. Conjuntos La palabra conjunto generalmente la asociamos con la idea de agrupar objetos, por ejemplo un conjunto de discos, de libros, de plantas de cultivo y en otras ocasiones en palabras como hato, rebaño, piara, parcelas, campesinado, familia, etc., es decir la palabra conjunto...
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...LEARNING TEAM CHARTER – TEAM “C” |Course Title |HCS/483 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1 Team Members/Contact Information |Name | |Phone | |Time zone and | |Email | | | | | |Availability During the Week | | | | | |xxx-xxx-xxxx | |(e.g., AZ “Mtn Time”, Mon-Sat 9-11pm) | | | |Elizabeth Crawley | |1 606 669 1846 | |Eastern Time zone | |proudmomof2jm@yahoo.com | | | |Text or email | |Mon-sat 1PM-8PM | | ...
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...Time Management (A) Lesson pacing in the classroom is extremely important. The reason it is so vitally important is because it lends purpose, direction, and structure to the classroom. Teachers, of course, need to develop lesson plans which meet certain educational objectives. Teachers could accomplish this with a nice long lecture with a follow-up question/answer session. However, they also need to keep the students engaged, interested, and retaining the information. Teachers don't really want a Ferris Bueller's Day Off classroom scenario..."Anyone?...Anyone?", nor do students. Okay, that's fine. A teacher could incorporate tons of interaction and many different activities into the lesson. Here's lies the rub...they need to do all of this in 45 minutes. Lesson pacing ensures that the teacher can accomplish all of these classroom needs. (B) One might think that if a class includes English Language Learning (ELL) students, then the pacing of the lesson would need to slow significantly. However, this is not necessarily the case. Of course it will need to slow some to allow for language clarification and to allow the ELL students time to translate in their heads. The pacing really just needs a little change-up. Direct instruction should be in more simplified language and with more interaction. The use of visual aids and graphic organizers should be incorporated into direct instruction. Direct instruction also need not be given in one big chunk...
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...NBCUniversal in regards to their senior management team, and because of this, the company culture changed under new leadership. In ‘Nine Reasons Organizations Need to Change’, Robert W. Swaim explains, “Mergers and acquisitions create change in a number of areas often negatively impacting employees when two organizations are merged and employees in duel functions are made redundant. Entities can attempt to change their culture, including management and leadership styles, values and beliefs. Of all the things organizations can change, this is by far the most difficult to undertake.” When Comcast unveiled its new management structure for NBC Universal, the new setup was designed to ensure continuity in the film and cable networks businesses, while bringing key changes at the NBC network. Comcast COO Steve Burke, who would serve as CEO of NBC Universal, announced details of the new setup and reporting lines in an email memo. His explained that plans for a flatter structure would give him more direct oversight of the company's cable and broadcast TV networks. Burke planned on bringing in new talent...
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...Language Acquisition As according to Skinner, He defines Language acquisition as the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language, as well as to produce and use words and sentences to communicate. The capacity to acquire and use language is a key aspect that distinguishes humans from other beings. Although it is difficult to pin down what aspects of language are uniquely human, there are a few design features that can be found in all known forms of human language, but that are missing from forms of animal communication. B. F. Skinner believed that language acquisition, an important development in childhood, occurs because of reinforcement, that is, because children’s' parents or other caregivers reward them when their initially random sounds most resemble speech. Language is a cognition that truly makes us human. Whereas other species do communicate with an innate ability to produce a limited number of meaningful vocalisations (e.g. bonobos), or even with partially learned systems (e.g. bird songs), there is no other species known to date that can express infinite ideas (sentences) with a limited set of symbols (speech sounds and words). This ability is remarkable in itself. What makes it even more remarkable is that researchers are finding evidence for mastery of this complex skill in increasingly younger children. Infants as young as 12 months are reported to have sensitivity to the grammar needed to understand causative sentences (who...
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...communication skills, filing and clerical jobs. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: TERTIARY: Asian Institute of Computer Studies 2nd and 3rd flr. Mariposa Bldg. F Tanedo St., Tarlac City Course: 2 yr Computer Science 2007-2009 SECONDARY: San Manuel National High School Brgy. San Manuel, Tarlac City 2005-2006 ELEMENTARY: San Manuel Elementary School Brgy. San Manuel, Tarlac City 2001-2002 TRAINING ATTENDED: * On the Job Training at ABS-CBN Bayan Foundation Inc. Completed (300 hours) From December 9, 2008 to March 31, 2009 (with certificate). WORK EXPERIENCE: * Company: Greenwich Position : Service Crew Address : Metrotown Mall, Tarlac City * Company: Universal Robina Corporation Position : Factory Worker Address : Brgy. Del Rosario, City of San Fernando, Pampanga * Company: International Wiring System (Phils.) Corporation Position : Line Operator Address : Luisita Industrial Park Economic Zone, San Miguel, Tarlac City CHARACTER REFERENCES: Engr. Emmanuel I. Cortez Professional Engineer/PHILCANTECH owner Brgy. San Manuel, Tarlac City Mr. Medel B. Mirasol Area Manager/ AREX Health Corporation Novaliches, Quezon City I hereby certify that the above information is true and correct to the...
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...Throughout history there has always been social gaps. These are seen by rural and urban populations, and the upper and lower classes. In France in the nineteenth century, this was prevalent throughout the country’s provinces. The people spoke different dialects of French and they did not really identify together as a whole. The people were separated by both class and location through oppression and progress. Hautefaye was a small village in France that was filled with agrarian peasants. It also had some aristocrats who mingled amongst the population without worry. This was controversial because the urban bourgeoisie did not socialize with the urban poor. The nobility that lived in Hautefaye had owned their property for generations. The rural village, like most villages in France, liked to host fairs where the peasants gathered in economic and social activity. The fairs were supervised by government supplied gendarmes. Fairs were known for their violence. Men took part in fairs and they drank alcohol, which was the main festive beverage. For this reason, the alcohol sometimes got the best of the men and fights were common throughout the fairgrounds. Young boys got to follow their fathers around and learn the ways of a man. The economic activity that went on at fairs was stimulating to the community and helpful to those who took part. Propaganda became a key source in swaying the masses. The bourgeoisie used it to portray the nobility as bad and arrogant. Our textbook says...
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...ประวัติความเป็นมาของประเทศสิงคโปร์ ประเทศสิงคโปร์เป็นที่รู้จักครั้งแรกในศตวรรษที่ 3 ของชาวจีนในชื่อ ‘พู เลา ชุง’ซึ่งแปลว่า ‘เกาะปลายคาบสมุทร’ โดยในช่วงนั้นยังไม่มีใครทราบประวัติของเกาะแห่งนี้มากนัก ในศตวรรษที่ 14 สิงคโปร์ได้ถูกผนวกเป็นส่วนหนึ่งของอาณาจักรศรีวิชัยและรู้จักกันในชื่อ‘เทมาเซ็ค’ ซึ่งแปลว่า ‘เมืองแห่งทะเล’ สิงคโปร์ตั้งอยู่ตรงปลายแหลมมลายูซึ่งเป็นจุดนัดพบทางธรรมชาติของเส้นทางเดินเรือ สิงคโปร์จึงกลายเป็นจุดพักของเรือเดินสมุทรหลายประเภท ในศตวรรษที่ 14 สิงคโปร์ก็ได้ชื่อใหม่คือ ‘สิงหปุระ’ ซึ่งแปลว่า ‘เมืองสิงโต’ ตามตำนานเล่าว่า เจ้าชายแห่งศรีวิชัยมองเห็นสัตว์ตัวหนึ่งแต่เข้าใจผิดว่าเป็นสิงโต ชื่อปัจจุบันของสิงคโปร์จึงถือกำเนิดขึ้น ระหว่างศตวรรษที่ 18 นั้น ‘อังกฤษ’ เล็งเห็นถึงความสำคัญของสิงคโปร์ทางยุทธศาสตร์สำหรับซ่อม,เติมเสบียงและคุ้มกันกองทัพเรือของอาณาจักรที่เติบใหญ่ของตนรวมถึงการขัดขวางการรุกคืบของชาวฮอลแลนด์ในภูมิภาคนี้ ตรงกันข้ามกับเบื้องหลังทางการเมืองที่กล่าวมา ‘เซอร์สแตมฟอร์ด แรฟเฟิล’ กลับตั้งสิงคโปร์ให้เป็นสถานีการค้า นโยบายการค้าเสรีดึงดูดพ่อค้าจากทั่วทุกส่วนของเอเชียและจากที่ห่างไกลออกไป เช่น สหรัฐอเมริกาและตะวันออกกลาง ในปี ค.ศ.1824 เพียงแค่ห้าปีหลังจากตั้งประเทศสิงคโปร์ในปัจจุบัน ประชากรก็เพิ่มขึ้นจากเดิมเพียง 150 คนจนกลายเป็น 10,000 คน ในปี 1832สิงคโปร์กลายเป็นศูนย์กลางรัฐบาลของถิ่นฐานช่องแคบปีนัง มะละกา และสิงคโปร์ การเปิดคลองซุเอซในปี 1869 และการเข้ามาของเครื่องโทรเลขและเรือกลไฟทำให้ความสำคัญของสิงคโปร์เพิ่มขึ้นจนกลายเป็นศูนย์กลางการค้าที่กำลังขยายตัวระหว่างโลกตะวันตกและตะวันออก สิงคโปร์เคยเป็นที่ทำสงครามในศตวรรษที่ 14 เมื่อเข้าเกี่ยว...
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