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Accepting syrian refugees into the U.S. is the least we could do. accepting syrians into countries have become a hard task since people are scared of the repercussions after doing so.  According to  Ignatieff ( […]

there is a new scholarship that allows SUNY/CUNY students go to school tuition-free, this scholarship is called the excelsior scholarship. you have to meet many criteria to be eligible for this scholarship such […]

although tenure fixed the problem of teachers being fired without a good reason it created another problem when it lost its ability to modernize teaching due to protecting these teachers. in fact it has caused […]

Addictive behavior is caused by genetic or environmental influences. the article “can you get over an addiction” by Maia Szalavitz supports this statement states that “deep, emotional learning completely alters th […]

deaths caused by opioid overdoses are becoming more common in the U.S. According to the New York Times editorial board (2017) “the opioid epidemic killed more than 33,000 people in 2015.”  (p.1).  PBS News Hou […]

Suffolk has 111 heroin deaths and 96 prescription opioid deaths

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People are dying more from heroin overdose than compared to prescription opioid overdoses

Using heroin is more dangerous than being […]

the opioid epidemic is a public health and safety issue. “the lockdown” and the “heartbreak over heroin addiction” argue this…

in the article “lockdown” the author michelle alexander tries to show to the readers how the criminal justice system has “few legal rules that meaningfully constrain the police in the war on drugs” and how “it has […]

the link above will direct you to an article about the failure on the  war on drugs. the author of this article is Jose Luis Pardo Veiras from the New York Times. the main idea of this article is to bring up the […]

Summary

Jamila Lyiscott the speaker of the “3 ways to speak English” explains how she speaks English with her friends, parents, and classmates should be known as articulate. For example when Lyiscott says “I’ […]

Empathy and writing go hand in hand, this is because you can’t have good writing without empathy. Empathy is the understanding of someone else’s emotions, understanding why someone else is acting the way they […]