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    The National Drug Control Strategy is revised each year by the President of the United States. The United States has been fighting a losing war against drugs for decades. In hopes for a winning war against drugs, the main strategies for the nation’s illicit drug use is to stop the use of drugs before it starts by educating the youth, reduce the health and social costs of illicit drug use, reduce drug related- crime and violence, shield America’s air, land, and sea frontiers from the drug threat,…

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    people had their homes they were still out of a job. The lack of jobs is the main reason why New Orleans and the surrounding areas have not fully recovered yet. The progress is slow. Katrina damaged more than a million housing units in the Gulf Coast region. About half of them were in Louisiana. Of the $120.5 billion in federal spending, the majority went to emergency relief, not rebuilding. Insurance claims covered less than $30 billion of the losses. The current socioeconomic…

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    Hurricane Response Paper

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    evacuate if the word is given to evacuate. On top of that being in the Coast Guard we also have to be ready to evacuate our boats and prepare the unit for foul weather. Normally we convoy our boats up to Tampa or other times we get deployed to the areas that have been affected by the storm to help with recovery. Around Southern Florida we do not take these storms lightly and always prepare well beforehand.…

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    major oil spill occurred off of the coast of the Isles of Scilly, when 38 million gallons of oil were spilled into surrounding waters. Including this incident, 36 major spills have occurred since 1967, exposing marine environments to at least one trillion gallons of oil (Oil). Now, it is being debated about whether or not to drill for natural resources off of the Southeastern Coast. In my opinion, companies should not be allowed to drill off of the Southeastern Coast because the benefits gained…

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    Internment Camp Letter

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    land which is extremely big when you’re here. This internment Camp is fenced with barbed wires which was really scary seeing when we arrived here. The U.S. Army took more than 120,000 Japanese Americans from our west coast homes. When we arrived in the Camp called Manzanar the guards had to check us to make sure we weren’t sneaking in anything dangerous in the camps like any type of weapons. The U.S. said that the reason they put us here was because they didn’t want the Japanese planning any…

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    because of their color, religion, or their beliefs. Being an American is being loyal to this country and helping out in any which way you can. One reason I am happy to be an American is because of our military.Our military includes the Navy, Army, Coast Guard, and…

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    The survey I took gave me the results of conventional, enterprising, and investigative in that order. I disagree with those being even most of the ways a mind works, and really found it a useless waste of time. However, in this paragraph I will just disregard those results and just talk about my dreams for the future and some main things about me. To start off, I’ve always been very thoughtful (ot in the sense of caring and loving, but literally thinking). I notice things that many people…

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    His first PGA Tour win ever though was in the 1955 Canadian Open, and that was when he realized that he made the right decision to become professional. Before he won the US Amatuer, though he was in the Coast Guard for 3 years, while still playing in Amatuer tournaments(he was out of the Coast Guard at US Championship). He went to college at Wake Forest University, where he also golfed, but dropped out after the death of a close friend, and the rest is…

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    West, his last rescue was a few months ago that involved eight people on a green refugee boat who had been out in the ocean for weeks. The woman on the boat needed serious medical assistance. The Coast Guard called the Naval Air Station Key West, Search and Rescue aircrew because none of the coast guards on duty were able to speak Spanish. Luckily, for the search and rescue aircrew, my husband Juan is bilingual. As the search and rescue crew started getting geared up and ready to fly, they try…

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    The four basic cultural divisions of the Arctic consisted of the Unangan, Yup’ik, and 2 types of Inuit. The Arctic is a very harsh environment, so these tribes had to learn to live with the cold, and have strong self-reliance, cooperation, modesty, self-control, and share with others. The Unangan lived in large, permanent communities located on the Aleutian Islands. This was a relatively warm environment. Their main food resource consisted of sea mammals and fish. They are different from the…

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