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    The purpose of this paper is to assess the issues that arise from heroin and other opiate abuse, how the US government is combating it, and what effects these policies have in Afghanistan, the world’s supplier of opium. Heroin was invented in the 1895. (“Opium Throughout History”) It was a new concoction based on morphine, similar to the then popular laudanum, and was initially meant to be used as a cheaper medical substitute at the time. Heroin was never successfully brought into the medical

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    Plants are important life forms belonging to the taxonomic kingdom Plantae and are classified further by the hierarchical system to group similar plants together. Taxonomy is described as “the method by which scientists, conservationists, and naturalists classify and organize the vast diversity of living things on this planet in an effort to understand the evolutionary relationships between them” (Fenneman, 2017). How a plant is classified can be a clue to the uses for that plant in regards to

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    The Social and Cultural Profile of the Family Most of Myanmar/Burma is Buddhist. The Saw family is Christian of the Presbyterian denomination. My church, Paulin Memorial Presbyterian, sponsored much of the Saw family to come over to Canada. Tha Hser said that the country’s persecution of the Christian religion was not the reason he left Myanmar. He said the reason he left was “politics”. He went on to say that “It is messed up over there . . . it is much better over here”. 89 per cent of

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    1.1 Introduction of Rhizoctonia solani and its Anastomosis Groups The soilborne Basidiomycete fungus Rhizoctonia solani Kühn [telomorph= Thanatephorus cucumeris] is reported to cause economically important diseases on vegetables, fruits, staple crops and ornamental plants throughout the world (Jones and Belmar, 1989; Naito et al., 1995; Yang et al., 1990). The systematic of R. solani has been studied using morphological (Warcup et al., 1966; Sneh et al., 1991) and molecular characters (Vilgalys and

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    from school was how I was going to stand up in front of the class for five minutes saying my speech. I have what is called glosssophobia or the fear of public speaking, I had developed my fear at a young age. In grade one the class had to recite “In Poppies Field”, half way through my presentation John crumpled up a piece of paper and threw it at me. The whole class started laughing and even the teacher shared a giggle. It was the most embarrassing moment of my life, the worst part was that some people

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    opportunity to experience the story as a protagonist as well as a spectator. While researching, I took the opportunity to learn more about the personal life of one of my favorite painters. Eventually, I choose the painting named "Les Coquelicots" (The Poppies), where the subject expresses the deep connection of the artist with Mother Nature. I spent a couple of hours in contemplating the work wondering which character would be better suited to that context until I had a stroke of absolute genius

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    Cai Guo-Qiang compares his works as the poppy flower. He uses gun powder to make the explosion projects. Gun powder can be dangerous. Gun powder is uncontrollable. But he has been working with the materials for a very long time and he knows well how to manage it. The way he makes his arts are reliable, cool and can harmful. While he is making his arts, most of the times he doesn’t feel like to end until he sees everything is perfect. He also compares drawing as lovemaking meaning that he has to take

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    Did you know that heroin is the second leading cause of drug overdoses in the United States? Heroin is an opioid drug made from morphine, a natural substance taken from the seed pod of the Asian opium poppy plant. The drug can range from a powder varying in color from brown or white, or it may be a black sticky substance almost like tar (NIDA). Heroin goes by many other names as well, such as dope, boy, junk, or ron on the streets. Heroin is one of the most deadly drugs one could ever simply touch

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    Day 1: I choose to observe a poppy flower, since I’m busy during most of this summer vacation and it’s easier to maintain as well as consistently take notes of. A few minutes ago, at around noon, I had just put the “medium sized pellet” of soil in a small cup of water for it to expand, which isn’t what I would expect to do when growing flowers. It increased about 4x in size and I placed it in the small pot that came with it. Afterwards, I placed three seeds a tiny bit under the soil and left it on

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    Aunt Joy woke me up by spraying everyone with apple juice. She can be nice when she wants to but she is also really mean. I share a room with 3 girls; Elizabeth, Jane and Poppy. My friend is Poppy but Elizabeth and Jane always bully me. Out of both of them who do I hate? Both of them. They always bully me because my mum had me at a really young age. “Wakey wakey, rise and shine,” sang Aunt Joy throwing pillows everywhere. “Your social workers are coming so wear something smart and clean this room

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