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The current debate in Australia about the heroin crisis is centred on the drug, and the high cost to individuals and society of its addiction. It is an emotional debate based on fear and fuelled by myths. The picture of a junkie who is shooting up in a dirty alleyway is a potent theme in…

“Targeted Recruitment” is a system or kind of recruitment wherein the requirements necessitated for a job will be the only ones being looked for in an applicant . This paper intends to answer the question, “Do you think targeted recruitment systems are fair? Why or why not?” This is actually dependent upon whose point of…

Three years ago a sheep named Dolly became the biggest news since the first successful open-heart surgery. Dolly, unlike every other mammal on earth is an identical copy of its mother. Dolly has no father. The “miracle” of cloning was preformed by Dr. Ian Willmut and his team at Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland. The…

One reason often heard from people using drugs is that they do them to feel good. For real, it does feel good because most drugs act directly on the “pleasure center”–the limbic system–in the brain . At this point, it can be considered recreational use. Some might light up a cigarette at a party. They…

Odd Girl Out is a TV movie that follows the struggles of a young girl named Vanessa Snyder, who must deal with the brutality and peer pressure from the children in her class. This film is based on the advice book Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls by Rachel Simmons. It…

Wealth/Poverty/Social Class The question of the United States national budget and any resolutions to this dire struggle are deeply rooted in the controversial ideas presented by Thomas Malthus in an excerpt, “An Essay on the Principle of Population” that states, “… in every society in which the population increases it will eventually produce more people…

Self-esteem is often seen as a personality trait, which means that it tends to e sTABLE and enduring. Bullying can give a big impact on the student’s self- esteem. Some people feel good while teasing anybody and the people who have to face this problem gets afraid of going to the place where they encounter…

Indentured servitudeIndentured servitude became increasingly popular during colonial times, especially in the Americas. Unprivileged peoples in places such as China, Japan and India sought after a better life in the Americas and Africa. However, since they did not have a sufficient amount of money for commodities like food, clothing and housing, a contractor in their…

Attention-Getter: Do you know what this is? This is worsening your asthma at the age of 10 and you developing lung cancer by the age of 30. According to the Centers for Disease Control there are 1 in 11 children with asthma (Centers, 2012a) and approximately 208,000 people diagnosed with lung cancer (Centers, 2012b). Fortunately,…

This paper aims to analyze the article “Workplace Bullying: Costly and Preventable” from 2011, which explores the impact of workplace bullying on individuals and organizations. It will also share my personal encounters with workplace bullying and conclude by proposing two techniques from Weedier’s article that can be employed to tackle this problem. As stated by…