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    Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a sometimes disabling problem that catches people in endless cycles of redundant thoughts and behaviors. People with OCD have haunting thoughts or fears that continue repeating over and over in their mind that they can't control. The anxiety created by these thoughts lead to an urgent need to perform certain things or routines. People usually repeat these rituals in an attempt to stop the obsessive thoughts and make them go away. The thoughts or fears may go

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    of the amusement park itself because of legal rules referred to as vicarious liability or agency laws. Since the park becomes responsible for the negligence of its employees, people who are injured as a result of improper ride operation or other related causes may

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    personal and dramatic look at the war. Another Falsehood is the issue of slavery. From the video this week, we looked at how slavery was seen from the perspective of the colonists. Southerners were aware of the idea of political slavery and how it is related to the revolution. The claim that Washington would free slaves who served for a year is not true in the way the film portrays. Martin oversaw a state militia. The order was set under the continental army, so the character of Occum’s freedom would

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    our government has no intentions of backing off of their drug stance any time soon. Overall, the national drug control budget costs the government more than the state, commerce, and interior departments combined. In addition, large number of drug-related trials clog our nation’s criminal justice courts, and often times the result of these cases is imprisonment for the accused. Since the start of the war on drugs, the country’s incarcerated population has increased sevenfold, and over one percent of

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    by adopting healthy life-style changes, with the goal of maintaining current health status, and potentially living a healthier, longer life (Department Health and Human Services, Healthy People 2020 (DOHHS & HP 2020), 2016). The HP 2020 mission lists 5 goals it should accomplish: “1) Identify nationwide health improvement priorities, 2) Increase public awareness and understanding of the determinants of health, disease and disability and the opportunities for progress. 3) Provide measurable objectives

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    limit or stop the stress more so than qualitative data due to the fact qualitative data would be opinions and therefore could not be applied to a larger group of people. “College students, regardless of year in school, often deal with pressures related to finding a job or a potential life partner” (Ross, Niebling, & Heckert, 1999. pg. 313). Design and Procedure The researchers in this study chose to utilize survey research. Survey research asks that each participant complete and return a questionnaire

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    drivers. All these mistakes and decisions can cause a life. Considering the fact that seven people are killed each day in motor vehicle accidents, being unsafe on the road is truly an unwise decision. The article “The Need for Speed” lists numerous teenage deaths caused by speeding. The article states that speeding is the primary killer of youth in the province of British Columbia and it contributes to at least 60 percent of fatal teen car crashes. One of the victims of speeding was Jimmy Lee Reynolds

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    incredibly ambiguous, and like much of the ephemeral political music of the time, doesn’t offer a concrete solution to the problem. “Masters of War” offers a scathing indictment of the arms build-up of the Cold War. Much of the song calls for the death of the war profiteers, and offers a grim image in

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    In the article “Alcohol, Tobacco Worse Than Illegal Drugs” a new British study found that alcohol and tobacco are more dangerous than some illegal narcotics such as marijuana or Ecstasy. Professor David Nutt of Britain’s Bristol University and some colleagues proposed the study and found a new structure for the “classification of harmful substances based on the actual risk posed to society” (Conroy, 2007). The researchers used three factors to determine how harmful any drug is : “the physical harm

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    poverty, low educational attainment and geographic isolation, the Appalachian region is a vulnerable priority population at a heightened risk for prescription drug abuse (CDC, 2010). As previously alluded to, the burden of opioid abuse and overdose deaths is substantially higher in Appalachia than other areas of the U.S. Since 1996, an increasing number of programs have provided the opioid antagonist naloxone hydrochloride, the method of choice to reverse the potentially fatal respiratory depression

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