Brock Turner is a Stanford athlete, a victim of college drinking culture, but also a sex offender. In any case of duplicity, the perpetrator can be defined in one way, but also the opposite depending on what lens is adopted. In the case of Turner, what is true from every perspective is on a Saturday night, January 17th, 2015, Brock Turner was found on top of a half-naked girl behind a dumpster by two graduate students (Stack). He did not rape her, but he was convicted of sexual assault on…
For it or against it, the choice to legalize marijuana has become a very controversial topic in our country. Why is that? Talking about the subject can sometimes be difficult to understand. There are so many things to know when it comes to marijuana, and just when you think you know it all, you really have only scratched the surface. Another thing that can be hard to understand is all the different information that is thrown at us and what we can believe. The most important thing we need to…
Crematorium Embalmer: The lady at the crematorium showed us the crematory machine and went through what happened to the bodies inside them. She also went in depth into the world of embalming and how that was done. She showed us the two chemicals added to the bodies in preparation for their funerals, that were preservatives called arterials and formalin. The funeral director also informed us all that when someone loses their teeth to drug addiction, she has a plastic insert that is placed between…
Case# 20160101 Regina vs. Colins Charlie Hobbs – 692724 Angus Barraclough - 664775 Abdullah Aldosari – 833749 Ryan Littlefield – 650887 Othman Alghamdi – 803563 Name: Abdullah Ibrahim ALDosari Qualifications: ● Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Salman bin Abdulaziz University . ● Masters of Science in Computer and Information Security from the University of Portsmouth 2017. ● 8 years’ experience with Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. Case Number:…
Throughout history the US media has unfairly portrayed psychedelic drugs, the counterculture, and philosophies behind them. Psychedelic drugs have been not only misportrayed and lied about, but the work of many successful scientists has been ignored because of the bad stigma behind psychedelic drugs. We will explore how psychedelic drugs can benefit society and help many people. Only until the psychedelic renaissance, present day, has some of the media started seeing psychedelic culture for what…
“Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.” (Lincoln) In 1840, President Abraham Lincoln announced this quote in a speech, illustrating the complete hypocrisy prohibition brings forward. Throughout history, prohibition has occurred and drastically failed each time. Today is no…
Every year there is a new “it” drug such as Xanex, marijuana, promethazine, and so on. There are actually more drugs that the youth could be exposed to. An examination of late overviews and exploration puts the extent of the illicit U.S. drug market at $200 billion to $750 billion every year, with most gauges coming in the middle of $400 billion and $500 billion. The investigation additionally found that the present decade has logged into the heaviest medication use per individual every year in…
Introduction “Substance abuse affects all age groups, but it is developed throughout youth causing direct impact to our society” (Sober College, 2014). There is no debate that substance abuse negatively affects a large amount of the population. This applies to every society as substance abuse is not limited to those with a high socioeconomic status and vice versa (Renneboog, 2014). Accordingly, this study deals with substance abuse, specifically the factors of substance abuse in youth. This is…
be incredibly dangerous and deadly to whoever is using it. Contributing to the fentanyl crisis is the availability and the common mixing with other drugs. Illicit fentanyl, often shipped to Canada from China, is increasingly being added to cocaine, MDMA and other street drugs, and users have no idea they are ingesting a powerful, deadly opioid ("Opioid Crisis," 2018, p. [Page 1]). The widespread availability of fentanyl and the uncertain credibility of buying off of others has also contributed…
I have always wondered what makes people happy and why. Perhaps it is finally buying that car you have been saving up for since you were young or waking up early to watch the sunrise. Whatever it may be, it seems to be a mystery to me. A mystery that some appear to have figured out and an understanding of. Seeing that some try say happiness is one thing or another makes me feel that happiness is something that is reoccurring in our daily lives and wonder: What is true happiness and can we define…