The Poppies

While hikers and dog walkers may have territorial and philosophical conflicts in some locations, Pulgas Ridge Open Space Preserve seems to comfortably accommodate both groups in a small park with ridge-top views, cool canyons, and streamside thickets, mixed oak woodland, chaparral, and abundant wildflowers. Dog walkers are provided with a large off-leash area where their canine companions can romp unimpeded; hikers have access to interesting trails that see few dogs or other hikers. Pulgas Ridge

measurements. The drug trade will mightily continue, no matter how risky or violent the the commercialization of it gets. In Afghanistan, illicit opium (a substance derived by collecting and drying the milky juice that comes from the seed pods of the poppy plant) production is so huge that a non-corrupt central government is nearly impossible to achieve. It is noticeable that the bigger it gets, the more difficult it is to

Heroin is an illegal, highly addictive drug. It is both the most abused and the most rapidly growing drug in the opiate family. Heroin is a drug derived from morphine, which is obtain from the opium poppy. Heroin can be smoked in a pipe, snorted through the nose, injected, and inhaled as smoke through a straw. “Between 2002 and 2013, the rate of heroin-related overdose deaths nearly quadrupled, and more than 8,200 people died in 2013” (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, [CDC], 2015). This

Samantha Moldovan Period 4 Natasha Preston, the author of The Cellar, was born January 5,1988 in England. She discovered her love for writing when she posted a short story online that everyone fell in love with. Natasha writes romance, thrillers, gritty YA, and serial killer novels. The Cellar is about a teenager named Summer in a small town called Long Thorpe. In the beginning, Summer is going to meet her friends at a club. Her boyfriend is with her as she is getting ready offering to give her

It is 350 from east to west and it is 780 south and north. The population is 38.04 million people and there are 12.01 million houses. Now you will learn about the state symbols. The state tree is the coast red wood and sequoia. The state flower is poppy. The state bird is a quail the state animal grizzly bear. The states nick name is called the Golden state. The state flag looks like a bear fallowing a star, at the bottom of the flare there is some word saying California republic, there is a strip

On October 18th, 2017 the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston opened up an exhibition of contemporary works by Takashi Murakami, called "Takashi Murakami: Lineage of Eccentrics" it is one of the most imaginative exhibitions out today. The new modern works are juxtaposed with traditional pieces from the Museum of Fine Arts established collection of Japanese art. The exhibition shows the viewer how Murakami’s contemporary works has taken reference from the bountiful and dynamic art of the historical past

The House of the Scorpion Is a great novel. It is a story about a young boy who is a clone in the world of opium. The book begins where El Patron, the lord of opium and the original Matt, is making clones, but they all sadly die except for one, Matt,. It ends off with Esperanza, the ex-wife of a powerful politician in the U. S, telling him why Matt is now considered a human because El Patron died. I Feel like In the book Celia, the cook and care keeper of Matt, was right when she decided to poison

This work of art is titled, Monterey Bay from Santa Cruz Pogonip. The artist who created this piece is Tom Killion, and its creation came to be in 2002. The piece is a wood stamp press, these presses are hand carved into wood and linoleum blocks. Each variety of color that is present in the piece, a new block has to be created to ensure that the color doesn’t blend in ways the artist would not want it too. In the framed final piece, the stamp is separated into two different frames to gives focus

the spark of the opioid crisis, it is imperative to understand what makes these drugs so potent. Writer and crime journalist Sam Quinones states that opioids are synthetic drugs. Naturally sourced drugs, known as opiates, are derived from the opium poppy plant. However, experts use both of these terms interchangeably. The use of opioids grew around the late 90s, and legally, most people used these drugs for pain relief. However, the people that were using these drugs had little information as to how

spending on the military, which was needed to go against the imperialist threats from the West. These foreign powers, led by the British, sought new markets for their possessions from their empires. One product that became immensely popular was the opium poppy grown in India, which was mass-marketed by the British. Opium spread throughout China and conflict and dissension of its