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“Peer group pressure is also a contributing reason for why students use drugs,” said Harris-Warrick. “Gannett has tried a program to reduce binge drinking by showing that the majority of people don’t get drunk, so a drunken person is the odd person, not the majority, and that approach has not been successful at reducing dangerous drinking. The same is true of drug use.”
Most students also procure their drugs from other students. “We’ve had our share of young entrepreneurs marketing illegal substances,” said Kathy Zoner, deputy chief, CUPD. “It is more common for us to find users than dealers. People don’t tend to rat drug dealers out; they don’t tend to report drug dealers until the dealing affects them.”
Ashley, 19, a sophomore, only uses cocaine. “I used to smoke pot in high school, but it’s just not subtle enough,” she said. “When you smoke a joint, it reeks. Coke doesn’t smell, it’s small, it’s discreet. When you are high, people just think you are being more social, and it keeps you awake.”

The economics of the 19^th century and the 21^st century have begun to converge somewhat in terms of principle.  In the 19^th century, the Adam Smith way of thought was still very popular, supported by descendants of his school of thought—most prominently John Stuart Mill.  Capitalism now and then are relatively similar–laissez-faire with the occasional intervention by the government to avoid monopoly or any business that infringes on personal rights.

In an absolute monarchy, the monarch has complete power and authority over all activities within his kingdom.  He is not bound by any legislative limitations, and has complete free reign over the subjects of his domain.  In a limited monarchy, the monarch’s power is often balanced by a parliament, or another governing body that has some sort of governmental duties so that the whole of authority does not fall into one person’s hands.  An absolute monarchy can thrive if the monarch is open-minded to his subjects needs and demands and acts in good will towards his subjects.  However, if this is not the case, the kingdom may be plagued by greed and the monarchy by corruption.  In a limited monarchy, the monarch is usually placed as a figurehead while the parliament makes most of the legislative and executive decisions.

The paper, overall, was very solid and informative.  The information on Asian Dust and the various international players that are affected by environmental degradation in the Far East was especially interesting because there is so little coverage on it, here.

However, I noticed some issues with several aspects of the paper, most of which can be easily improved:

The introduction serves as a foundation for the rest of the paper.  Without the fundamental and basic information provided within the introduction, the reader is unprepared for the further analysis later in the paper.  For the most part, the introduction is very informative and concisely puts focus on the issues at hand.  However, I feel that the transition from information to thesis can be improved.  In fact, you may want to look at the transitions between ideas throughout the entire introduction.  For example, the first paragraph of the introduction focuses on the Asian dust problem, its origins and range of impact.  Suddenly, in the second paragraph, you mention that East Asia “has changed” significantly.  It’s only until further down in the paper that you really go into what effect the industrialization of China and the roles of Korea and Japan have on solving the Asian Dust crisis.  As this is the crux of your paper, perhaps it would be clearer to bring up these issues earlier in the introduction.

Radical change within an organization’s environment is brought on by the determination to make major innovations in business activities.  Some examples of a company which may partake in a radical change–when a company reconsiders the fundamentals of how they do business–are stagnant sales, slipping profits, intra-company conflict, or merging with another company.  Since radical change is a large-scale, company-wide transformation, it is rare and often takes a long period of time to complete.

Incremental change, on the other hand, refers to the gradual, adjustment-based changes that occur within a company.  Often times, incremental change is used not to completely alter a company’s direction; rather, incremental change can be used to constantly stay ahead of the competition.  Within a constantly changing, constantly innovative industry  rather than redefining a company, it is more efficient and more prudent simply to adjust certain business activities.  A company operating on an already profitable and successful business model should not strive for radical change—lest they risk becoming substantially less profitable—and should strive for incremental change when need be—to either increase profitability marginally or risk profitability marginally.

The use of physical restraints has received a lot of attention in recent years, especially within nursing-home circles.  Reports of abuse have emerged regarding the use of physical restraints on the elderly who reside in nursing homes.  The media and the general public tend to either focus wholly on the “horror stories” about nursing homes whose management is allegedly responsible for the use and abuse of physical restraints on the elderly, and are responsible for the subsequent deaths or injuries that have occurred.  But the fact remains, there will always be a need to restrain the physical mobility of elderly patients who are unable to keep their balance, or are a danger to themselves.  But while the medical community agrees that physical restraints are necessary in some situations, there has also been an added effort to reduce the unethical usage of physical restraints, especially in our nation’s elderly.

In an absolute monarchy, the monarch has complete power and authority over all activities within his kingdom. He is not bound by any legislative limitations, and has complete free reign over the subjects of his domain. In a limited monarchy, the monarch’s power is often balanced by a parliament, or another governing body that has some sort of governmental duties so that the whole of authority does not fall into one person’s hands. An absolute monarchy can thrive if the monarch is open-minded to his subjects needs and demands and acts in good will towards his subjects. However, if this is not the case, the kingdom may be plagued by greed and the monarchy by corruption. In a limited monarchy, the monarch is usually placed as a figurehead while the parliament makes most of the legislative and executive decisions.

Before the contributions of well-known physicists such as Albert Einstein and Werner Heisenberg—contributions that propelled widespread research into what is now known as quantum mechanics—Newtonian (classical) physics long stated that atoms were the fundamental building blocks of all matter.  However, research has since confirmed that the atom itself is divisible and is too made up of smaller parts.  Further research also shows that these subatomic particles are not exactly “matter”—as one would consider a rock or a textbook to be; rather, the subatomic particles were unpredictable and probabilistic in nature.  The particles that make up the atom, electrons, photons, nucleus, etc., are actually believed to disappear and reappear randomly.  Though matter was once thought to be tangible, concrete and unquestionable, the strange nature of subatomic particles led one scientist to refer to them not as “matter” but simply as “observable phenomena.” In other words, research in quantum physics shows that atoms, which make up all matter in the world, are themselves made up of particles random and probabilistic in nature.

This kind of radical reconstruction of the way science perceives our world is exactly what Buddhists have been practicing for centuries.  Though classical physics had long been a realistic, empirical way to go about studying reality, quantum physics has challenged it.  Much in the same way, Buddhist texts also chronicle some early debates on the fundamental particles of matter, and the nature of tangible objects and the world that we see. The Buddhist texts, written centuries before Albert Einstein was born, explain ancient theories about atoms.  The Dalai Lama read, as a youth, these texts that stated there were eight types of atoms, all with different characteristics, but with one common denominator: that they were indivisible and independent.  But even centuries ago, many Buddhists disagreed with the claim that atoms were indivisible and independent.  Vasubandhu, one of the most influential figures in Buddhist history, stated in the fourth century, “if indivisible, independent atoms exist, then it is impossible to account for the formation of the objects of the everyday world.  There must be a way explaining the way simple atoms come together to form complex systems.”

The Sputnik program was a Soviet Union space-satellite program that revolutionized science in creating an entire new frontier—space—to be discovered.  At the time of Sputnik’s launch, there were little means or empirical studies done in space; but Sputnik proved that the exploration of space by satellite was indeed viable.  In the meantime, the United States had been attempting to launch a similar satellite into space, and had largely been unsuccessful.  The success of Sputnik caused concern among American officials and scientists, who feared that the USSR would surpass them in terms of scientific advancement.  The United States then began to expand funding for science and technology education in schools and other establishments across the country.

The ruling in the Epperson vs. Arkansas case of 1968 was that the laws enacted as a result of the Scopes trial, the prohibition of the teaching of evolution in United States classrooms, were unconstitutional.  In response, fundamentalists began to lobby for the teaching of evolution as a theory, not as a scientific fact.  They were subsequently denied this request.  But The Genesis Flood, written by John C. Whitcomb and Henry M. Morris, rekindled the fundamentalists’ efforts.  They took creationism to the utmost extreme, demanding a complete literal reading of all words in the Bible.  The followers of The Genesis Flood would eventually be known as scientific creationists, because they believed that the catastrophic events detailed by the Bible were backed up by scientific proof.

The Great Chain of Being is the Classical Greek concept, cited by later philosophers and scientists, including John Locke, which states that all living beings that are capable of existing do indeed exist.  The original Greek concept, developed primarily by Aristotle, expressed that living beings were scaled to perfection, from the simple to the intricate.  By way of this concept, classifications could be made between types of living beings; for example, one could separate a waterbug from a monkey, on the basis that the waterbug’s properties are simpler and the monkey’s much more complex.  The idea has been incorporated and integrated with the ideologies of Western Christianity—that God, whose perfect design for His Earth and Creation, had created a world that was fully interactive and cooperative, that nature could not have existed any other way than it had, and that life on Earth was “gapless.”  The idea of the Great Chain of Being is somewhat dependent on the belief of a perfect creator, but it was a significant point of progress in discerning between life forms.

It’s easy to forget the power of an individual.  All the time, we’re drawn to the extraordinary ones: the ones with power, the ones with fame, the ones with money.  We’ve forgotten how much power a single man or woman can yield with the right intentions; rather, we’ve long thought that a single vote doesn’t matter.  However, the world is in distress.  More and more research surfaces about the condition of our green planet.  Some researchers estimate that the planet, at the rate we’re going, will be gone in less than twenty years.

I didn’t know much about carbon footprints at the beginning of the year.  As a young adult, I find it increasingly easy to throw away newspapers into the garbage bag, or throw cans into the dumpster.  I hadn’t realized all these things add up.  In fact, I couldn’t realize until I tried, for two weeks, to compile all the recyclables in my household of six people.  Normally, that was a job for my mother, but for these two weeks, I took the responsibility of being aware of my family’s carbon footprint.  It’s amazing how, without attention and care, so many recyclables can fit through the cracks and end up in the regular garbage.