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  1. Feb 2016
    1. In the last two weeks, the Hamilton Fire Department has responded to 18 drug overdose calls and five heroin overdoses on Tuesday alone.

      How do you know that this wasn't just an odd week where there were 18 drug overdose calls. On could argue that this isn't substantial proof that drug overdoses occur often. If there can be 18 drug overdose calls one week whose to say there can't be zero calls the next week?

    2. "Eventually there's going to come a time when we're going to be tied up and we're not going to be able to make it to that person who thinks, ‘They're there every time so I'll be OK'," EMS worker Tony Houston told FOX19.

      Perhaps with the legalization of illegal drugs, even more hard core drugs like heroin, more education around the topic can be generated. For example when, where, and how to appropriately use a specific drug and the possible consequences of using these drugs. Most of the problems that come from using drugs is not using them correctly or not understanding what could go wrong. Also, this problem could be prevented by having an age limit for those who wish to purchase drugs and regulations on how much a person can purchase during a set amount of time. However, the real point should be that drugs isn't the biggest threat to the human population. Out of the top 19 health concerns in the world having childhood where they're underweight is the highest and alcohol (some may argue a legal drug) is ranked 3rd. While illicit drugs are ranked 18th. (https://ncadd.org/blogs/in-the-news/2-5-million-alcohol-related-deaths-worldwide-annually)

    1. In the journal it was said that the experiments were done on mice, and that marijuana lessened the bruising of the brain, and helped with healing mechanisms after a traumatic injury.

      According to the title of this benefit marijuana protects the brain from concussion, and trauma but states here that it only lessened the bruising of the brain. This experiment has also only been done on mice. How can that guarantee that it will have the same effect on humans?

  2. Jan 2016
    1. If I have said anything in this letter that overstates the truth and indicates an unreasonable impatience, I beg you to forgive me. If I have said anything that understates the truth and indicates my having a patience that allows me to settle for anything less than brotherhood, I beg God to forgive me.

      some what opposed to what he has been saying through out this letter

    2. if you had seen its dogs sinking their teeth into unarmed, nonviolent Negroes. I doubt that you would so quickly commend the policemen if you were to observe their ugly and inhumane treatment of Negroes here in the city jail; if you were to watch them push and curse old Negro women and young Negro girls; if you were to see them slap and kick old Negro men and young boys; if you were to observe them, as they did on two occasions, refuse to give us food because we wanted to sing our grace together. I cannot join you in your praise of the Birmingham police department.

      descriptive periodic sentence

    3. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.

      allusion along with proclamation

    4. They have carved a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment.

      descriptive methaphor

    5. lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century.

      warning of what could come

    6. They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated."

      good description