Drug Abuse: Problems and Solutions

Drug abuse is rife in many countries. Billions of dollars are spent internationally preventing drug use, treating addicts, and fighting drug-related crime. Although drugs threaten many societies, their effects can also be combated successfully. This essay looks at some of the effects of drug use on society, and suggests some solutions to the problem.

Drug abuse causes multiple problems for countries and communities. The medical and psychological effects are very obvious. Addicts cannot function as normal members of society. They neglect or abuse their families, and eventually require expensive treatment or hospitalization. The second effect is on crime. Huge police resources are needed to fight smuggling and dealing. Criminal gangs and mafia underworlds develop with the money from drugs.

However, the menace of drugs can be fought. Education is the first battle. Children need to be told at home and in school about drugs. People need to be aware of the effects so that they can make avoid this problem. A second approach is to increase police manpower and powers to stop dealers and to enforce the law. However the main target should be the user. Families and counselors need to talk to children and people at risk. Parents need to look at their children and help them to Jobs are needed to give people a role in society.

In conclusion, although the problem of drugs may seem impossible to eliminate, there are concrete steps that can be taken to weaken the hold of drugs on society. The danger from drugs is too great to ignore.

CHALLENGES

Democracy CHALLENGE 1

Lengths: the measurement of something from end to end or along its longest side

lack: to not have or not have enough of something that is needed or wanted

Spread: to (cause to) cover, reach or have an effect on a wider or increasing area

Argue: to speak angrily to someone, telling them that you disagree with them

Threshold: the floor of entrance to a building or room

Environment: affected? CHALLENGE 2

Prowl: to move around quietly in a place trying not to be seen or heard, such as when hunting

Elk: a large deer with a lot of hair on its neck which lives in the forests of the northern US and Canada

Beavers: an animal with smooth fur, sharp teeth and a large flat tail, which lives in a dam (= a wall of sticks and earth) that it builds across a river

The history of Science CHALLENGE 3

Blemish: a mark on something that spoils its appearance

struggled: to experience difficulty and make a very great effort in order to do something

Enthuse: to express excitement about something or great interest in it

Untold: so great in amount or level that it can not be measured or expressed in words

Animals thinking CHALLENGE 4

Squeak. to make a short very high cry or sound

surreptitiously: done secretly, without anyone seeing or knowing

Shave: to remove hair from the body, especially a man's face, by cutting it close to the skin with a razor, so that the skin feels smooth

Flit:: to fly or move quickly and lightly

Green Sahara CHALLENGE 5

Soil:the material on the surface of the ground in which plants grow; earth

sip:to drink, taking only a very small amount at a time

Beneath: in or to a lower position than, under

Wobble: to (cause something to) shake or move from side to side in a way that shows a lack of balance

Middle East CHALLENGE 6

roughly uneven or not smooth, often because of being in bad condition

Settle to relax into a comfortable position

Volcanology CHALLENGE 7

ash a forest tree which has a smooth grey bark, small greenish flowers and seeds shaped like wings

isolated: a forest tree which has a smooth grey bark, small greenish flowers and seeds shaped like wings

Lungs either of the two organs in the chest with which people and some animals breathe

Obsidian a type of almost black glass-like rock

Medicine, CHALLENGE 8

placebo: something that is given to try to satisfy a person who has not been given the thing they really want

drop to fall or to allow something to fall

Relief food, money or services which provide help for people in need

VOCABULARY

1. Acquaintance: I Acquaintanced my girlfriend in Cali
2. Boss: in the future I want be a boss of a big company
   
3. Head teacher: Ardila lulle is one of the most importants Head teacher in colombia
4. Neighbor: i dont have neighbors because i live in a country house
5. 
   
6. Aunt: my aunt patricia gave me a computer
   
7. Classmate: english is one of the hardest subjets in the university
   
8. Ex-girlfriend: my ex-girlfriend is living en new york
   
9. Niece: in this moment I dont have any niece
   
10. Husband: I am the perfect husband
    
11. Stepmother: the chavo is waiting a new Stepmother
12. Best friend: My best friend is my brother
    
13. Flatmate: My flatmate likes the horses
    
14. Colleage: My colleage is the biggest of the city
    
15. Mother-in-law: i hate my mother in law
    
16. Parent: My parents studied in the same university
    
17. Stranger: i have a friend who talks like stranger

PSYCHOMETRIC TEST

1. Do you find it esay to concentrate on one subject?
a. Not at all, I like to think about a variety of things.


2. Do you leisure interests ever distract you from your work?
b. Sometimes. (1)


3. You are planning a weekend with your family and friends. On Friday afternoon something urgent comes up. What is your reaction?
c. You decide it will have to wait as you already have plans for the weekend.

4. You get a new job and discover that the local college is running a training course that will be very useful in your work. How you react?
b. You dicide to do the course even if you have to pay for it yourself. (2)

5. Where do you see yourself in five years' time?
b. You hope you'll be in a better position.

6. Do you talk about your job/studies outside work/college?
a. Sometimes. (1)

7. Do you think intelligence leads to success?
b. Yes, you have to be intelligent to be successful in life.

8. One of your colleagues gets promoted. How do you feel?
a. You're bit jealous. (1)

9. Do you believe in the saying "practice makes perfect"?
b. Yes, the harder you work at things, the better you become. (2)

10. Is it useful to look back at the past?
b.Yes,it's very important to look back and analyse our mistakes so that we don't repeat them.(2)

11. What do you think about hard work?
b. It's okay if you are paid well for it.

12. Where does your motivation come from?
a. From your family.

CORRECT GRAMMAR QUIZ

ANTHROPOLOGY

One of the most challenging aspects of the science of Anthropology (1) from its fieldwork. Certainly, in its infancy as a profession, anthropology was distinguished by its concentration on so called “primitive societies” in which social institutions (2) to be fairly limited. Such societies (3) anthropologists with a valuable insight into the workings of society represented by these smaller societies were appearing; and for this reason, it (5) a matter of urgency that societies (6) a record of them. The commitment of anthropologists led them to some of the most inaccessible places on earth. Most often they (7) alone. Such a lack of contact with other people (8) feeling of intense loneliness in some anthropologists. Nevertheless, this process of immersion in a totally alien country continues to attract men an women to anthropology. Now, people (9) more effectively how the world (10).

1. Comes
2. Appeared
3. Provided
4. Contrasted
5. Was
6. Preserved
7. Worked
8. Created
9. Understand
10. Works

a problem with a donkey

When I was a boy my father bought me a cross cycle, in that time we were in Cota in my grandmother's house because we were celebrating the christmas with all my family. When my father gave me the cycle I went to ride near to the house in a big mountain then When I was goining on the middle of the way I crash my self with a donkey. after the crash i wasn't able to walk for three days

ELLO AUDIO

-Todd: Hey, so, Greg, growing up in the states, did you have any part-time jobs like in high school and stuff?
-Greg: Oh, I've had part-time jobs ever since I was a child.
-Todd: Right, me too.
-Greg: My first actually, I used to work for the American Seed Company. Do you know that?
-Todd: I can imagine. No. I mean it's just a seed company, right.
-Greg: Yeah. Yeah. Well, I actually wasn't paid in money. They would send me flower seeds, and vegetable seeds and then I would go door-to-door, I would knock on people's doors, "Excuse me, I'm with the American Seed Company, would you like to buy some seeds?", and people would see this, I was probably ten or nine at the time, this young kid trying to sell seeds, and you know they would buy a couple packs, and if I sold, say twenty packs of seeds, then I could choose from a list of toys or things (Whoa) soccer ball, or a dart board, and so I sold a lot of seeds. I liked it. -Todd: How old were you?
-Greg: I was maybe nine or ten then. (Really) and another thing I would do, around Christmas time, you know America is the tradition of putting mistletoe up on the roof for Christmas, well I would climb trees, cut the mistletoe and then again I would walk door-to-door and say,"Would you like to buy some mistletoe?"
-Todd: You were quite the entrepreneur. The young businessman. (Yes) Did you make a lot of money with that job?
-Greg: For me it felt like a lot of money at that time.
-Todd: Right, well, I got to ask, did you ever work at a fast-food company, like McDonalds or Wendy's?
-Greg: I've never worked at a fast-food company.
-Todd: Oh, I did. It's the worst job ever. It's terrible.
-Greg: Did you get to eat free food though?
-Todd: Ah, I did, actually, that was the big allure of the job, like I won't say the name of the company, but I worked for a major, major fast food chain around the world, and I thought, oh, I can eat all the hamburgers I want.
- Greg: You probably got sick of eating hamburgers.
-Todd: No, are you kidding, I was 15, I didn't care like the more hamburgers the better, and uh, then actually I lost the job because I lied about my age and they fired me, but yeah, I wanted a job, I was like 13 or 14 or something like that. So how about, did you ever do the paperboy job? -Greg: Yes. Yes. For a couple of years I delivered newspapers in the morning.
-Todd: Right. How early did you have to get up to deliver the papers?
-Greg: I don't remember, maybe around 6 o'clock. (Right) It's amazing I did that cause I hate waking up early now.
-Todd: Right, yeah, yeah. That job's the worst just cause of the weather, like you have to do it in the rain. I was the paperboy too, and in the rain, it's just awful. You have the big plastic bags and, and you're out there throwing the papers, and yeah, it's not a fun job.
-Greg: Yeah, and sometimes dogs chase you

EXERCISE PAGE 50 AND 52

Excercise page 50

NORA:
1. I have just got a degree in drama and education so I probably...
2. I supose
3. I hoping to go

OLIVER:
4. I have just finished he degree in history, I am about to join...
5. I will starting my...

DINO:
6. I am having
7. I am leaving8. I am planningto do...

CAROLINE:
9. Star..
10. So I am having a couple ....
11. I am going to find...

ZACK:
12. applying

ALICE:
13. But I definitly not going to be....
14. I will do some kind of....

Excercise page 52
1.
a) She leaves her job as a teacher because she was very stressed because the kids didn´t behave well.
b) The good things about her new job is that she lives happy and peacefull with her new job and with her lives been a plomist.
c) The disadvantage is that some people make fun of her.

2.
a) Becuse the company closed.
b) He really enjoyes been at home taking care of the kids and he can see how the kids grow up.
c) His wife has to be long hours far away rom home.

3.
a) Because they were working so hardand they wanted to get married.
b) They found a beatifull place where it was a hotel, so they decided to run it. The place was very peacefull and it war far from london.
c) The disadvantages are that to many people from that place are not very nice to them, and they don´t earn much mone.

THE GODFATHER

The Godfather is without a doubt the best gangster movie ever made. It starts with the aging Don, Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) on the day of his daughters wedding, Connie Corleone (Talia Shire). Her brother, Michael Corleone (Al Pacino), has just come back from World War II to come to the wedding. The Corleone family is in the Mafia business, but Michael just wants to lead a normal life. Sollozo is a drugs dealer who tries to get protection from the Corleone family in exchange for money, but Don Corleone turns the offer down, not wanting to have any business with narcotics and drugs. After the denial of this offer the not so pleased Solozzo guns Don Corleone down, nearly killing him, and son Michael has to take over and fight against Solozzo.

This film has an uniqueness to it, and so does the Corleone family. When all Mafia families are all plotting against each other in their own families, the Corleone family has an important difference: loyalty. That’s why we love these characters so much and ultimately care about them. This film is a must see. For long it has been on IMDb’s number one in the top 250, but has now been surpassed by The Shawshank Redemption. Marlon Brando, who received an Oscar for his role, is terrific and brings a wonderful performance. Along with the films great cinematography, cast, editing and fantastic music by Nino Rota this is a classic.

Along with the recognizable image (and voice!) of Marlon Brando and some very memorable lines (I’ll make him an offer he cannot refuse) this Best Picture Oscar winner is worth it.