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Fentanyl is an opioid that is illicitly produced and combined with heroin to increase the potency of the drug. “Drug dealers are mixing the illicit fentanyl in order to increase the potency of weakened heroin” (Staff). This lethal mixture has caused thousands of deaths; therefore, heroin addicts, the public, and the government need to be aware of the crisis. Along with medical personnel, law enforcement officers now carry Narcan, a drug that reverses the effects of opioid overdoses. The…

Hispanics are a significant part of the United States. Through their traditions and culture, they have been easily differentiated. Hispanics include the Mexicans, Cubans, South or Central American as well as Puerto Rican. More clearly understood, Hispanics are people with links to the Spanish culture and heritage. These people are often linked with the colonization in United States under the Spanish empire (Carrasquillo, 1991). The issue focused here is the Hispanic culture, their tradition…

A Descendant of Robert E. Lee and the youngest child of Amasa Coleman Lee, an attorney and a newspaper editor, and Frances Finch Lee, a pianist, Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926. Harper Lee grew up in a very tiny southwestern Alabama town of Monroeville where her best friend, whom she enjoyed her presence, was the pre-pubescent Truman Capote who provided the basics of the character of Dill in her novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”. As a child, Lee was a tomboy, having developed certain…

However, he did not play clarinet for long as he became more interested in jazz music resulting in a change of instrument to an alto saxophone. By this time, John was seventeen years old and was already a very skilled musician that had great potential to lead a successful career. In June of 1943, he moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Coltrane was drafted into the Navy when he was nineteen years old and was released returning to civilian life approximately one year later. After the Navy, he…

Introduction: There is no neglect that there is a linkage between public education and American democratic citizenship, in fact, the founding fathers of the United States constitution alluded that this connection ought to be essential to create a nation that would be able to function by itself without possible outside intervention. Furthermore, scholars such as Noa Webster wanted educated citizens not to just be able to “judge … what [would] secure or endanger [their] freedom” (Mondel, 2001,…

The Clutter Family Murderers November 15, 1959 appeared to be a typical crisp fall day in Holcomb, Kansas. The sun began to rise and the small farm town awoke, unaware that mere hours earlier, one of the most infamous quadruple murders in our nation’s history had taken place within the city’s limits. This paper will discuss the killing of the Clutter family from Holcomb, Kansas, the identity and lives of the killers, and various communication principles and theories that tie into the two…

Argentine revolutionist Che Guevara once said “The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall” (“Ernesto Che Guevara”). To completely see how a revolution operates, one must know the meaning of it. “In eastern Europe, the concept of ‘revolution’ has been seen as constituting and being constitutive of the ‘downfall’ of totalitarian regimes and (re)birth of democracy” (Tileaga 360). Various nations have built up their own particular definition since no…

ALS and CTE TAKE OVER the WORLD ALS and CTE’s are two of the worst diseases out there, but it affects more of a certain group athletes. ALS is a disease that affects the body, but not the mind. This disease slowly kills the motor neurons and stops all body functions except for eye movement and the function of the brain. CTE however, is a disease that affects the brain by swelling and shrinking, it causes damage by releasing toxic proteins. Concussions are a part of the problem when it comes to…

John Keynes once wrote that practical men that believe they are quiet exempt from intellectual influences tend to be slaves of some defunct economists (Betts). In the perspective, pundits and politicians tend to view the world through assumptions and instincts deep rooted in some philosopher’s big idea. However, some of those ideologies are old and most often than not take granted throughout society. This essay is going to explain the purpose of theory and how it can clarify, confuse and omit…

In the year of 1861, in the midst of America’s Civil War, Congress authorized one of the most ambitious projects that the country had ever envisioned: the construction of a transcontinental railroad. At one end of this immensely long railroad system which was planned to be over 1,700 miles long __ was the Central Pacific Railroad which stretched across the lands of California, the harsh granite walls of the Sierra Nevada and onwards to connect with the Union Pacific in Utah. Through my research…