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peyote. According to the list provided by the DEA, they believed, schedule II drugs such as cocaine and methamphetamines are less dangerous than marijuana. Alcohol and tobacco however are not listed, even though they are far more addictive, dangerous and easy to come into possession of. The health issues associated with pot are far less significant than those of other substances-there are about 88,000 alcohol related deaths recorded per year, and 480,000 deaths are related to smoking cigarettes. Yet

unintentional deaths and injuries, violent criminal activity, and violent acts while intensely distressed, intoxicated,

Gun Control Firearms are the cause of death for more than 31,000 people per year, making it the 2nd leading cause of death for people ages 15-24 (National Center for Injury Control and Prevention). As the debate over gun control continues to spread throughout the nation like the plague, everyone is trying to choose a side. Some argue that their Second Amendment Rights are being infringed on, however, when looked at in detail that is not the case. Many others argue the regulation of guns is not

the top two leading causes of injury death for everyone from the age of one to over age sixty-five and the number one cause of work-related deaths. On average approximately 38,000 people are killed in automobile accidents every year. This does not account for serious injuries that permanently disable. A major cause of crashes and fatalities is driver distraction. Driver distraction is now a leading cause of accidents ranking as high as alcohol and speed related accidents. Twenty-one percent of driver-distracted

an instantly popular between teenagers and young adults. It focuses on the high school students who are planning to throw a “rager” at one of their houses to celebrate a birthday. They advertise the party at their school and on the website Craig’s List, to guarantee that party is a “rager”. To their surprise, the party is filled with friends and strangers brining copious amounts of alcohol and illegal drugs. With the copious amounts of alcohol affecting the decision making of the party goers, the

“Within the developing world, rates of childhood malnutrition are inversely related to income.”(Miller 167) Due to the fact that nutrition and amount of income are inversely related it means that low income family do not acquire the high nutritional foods to supply the people’s body with the sufficient fats and nutrients. Poverty can be defined as have “the lack of access to tangible or entangle resources that contribute to life and the well-being of a person”( Miller 80). The Alto do Cruzeiro women

that “women who abort are approximately four times more likely to die in the following year than women who carry their pregnancies to term”. Also, a single abortion increases the risk of maternal death by 45 percent compared to women that have not done an abortion(“Abortions Increase Risk of Maternal Death: New Study”). “A 2010 study, which was published in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry and examined a nationally representative sample of more than 3,000 women in the United States, found that women

disgruntled student walked into a Montreal engineering school with a semiautomatic rifle and killed fourteen students and injured over a dozen others. The incident is widely credited with driving subsequent gun legislation” (Masters). Masters also lists Australia as an example of a country whose tightened gun policies were born of tragedy: The National Agreement on Firearms all but prohibited automatic and semiautomatic assault rifles, stiffened licensing and ownership rules, and instituted a temporary

2. In what hemisphere and in what continent is your country located? What is the latitude and longitude of your capital city? Ans. India is located in Asia in the northern hemisphere. New Delhi is the capital of India and is located in 28.6100° N, 77.2300° E. 3a. What percentage (%) of your country’s population has access to safe drinking water? Ans. An estimated of 70-89% of people in India have access to safe drinking water. 3b. How does your country compare to Australia? Ans. Australia have 30-

After looking at the websites, I was completely unaware that high school athletes have so many rights. The Student Athlete’s Bill of Rights lists 13 items that secondary school athletes have rights to. One of the rights that my high school neglected is a clean playing surface. As a member of the dance team, we practiced in the cafeteria, on a very dirty floor. Sometimes, we even had to sweep it because we couldn’t dance. I believe that the NATA Safe Sports Award is a good idea and I wish that my