Informative Speech SPCH1315 Dr.Donnie Kirk Gang Injunction TITLE: Gang Injunction INTRODUCTION/ATTENTION: In the words of Rodney King “Can’t we all just get along” today. PREVIEW: Modern day crime has detoured and deprived our youth from a promising education. Gangs stunt our children’s future by preying on their vulnerabilities. Nationwide, law enforcement has cracked down and come up with new ideas to suppress gangs. The most controversial idea law enforcement agents have come up with is that of gang injunctions.
Drug Trafficking in the United States Kimula Williams English 122, English Comp. 2 Instructor Nicole Yurchak July 23, 2012 Drug Trafficking in the United States Drug trafficking is a huge problem for the border patrol and other law enforcement agencies. I hope to provide and learn all I can to help further my knowledge on this topic. I plan to use many different sources to help provide the information I need to complete my research. Drug trafficking in the United States Drug trafficking in the United States is one of the most profitable in the world.
The extent of gangs/drugs A proliferation in gangs will also mean a growth in drug and violence in our community’s and threatening society in general. There are more than 731,000 active gang members in the United States, most of which are active with drug distribution. Gangs will and have shown themselves notorious and without regard to society and family. Street gangs employ violence to control drug activities and even targeting local businesses with extortion. Violence ensures that members adhere to the gang’s code of conduct.
“Youth and Gun Violence” Medical Terminology Youth and Gun Violence Violence, when will it stop? This question is asked by many parents and even youth across America. Violence with youth has spread across the states as if it were a contagious deadly virus only on a mission to take out children. It has caused fear and anger in many families and has risen in statistics rather than declined over the years. Children that are living in the poverty neighborhoods tend to see more violence than those that are living in the upper, middle class neighborhoods.
Research Proposal on Drug Trafficking in the US Ashford University English Composition II 12 November 2012 Topic: Complete Eradication of Drug Trafficking in the US The wide scope of this paper and the core nature of the problem for this research proposal is the Drug trafficking in the United States and most specifically the eradication of the vice in the United States. This topic was chosen so as to correspond this study with the National Drug control strategy that is annually developed by the president. This paper will narrow the specific claim to the fact that the United States has been able to deal with this issue a great deal to some extent but this has led to the new problem of poverty and addicts who are unable to access the drugs (Whitehouse.gov, 2011). The claim if further investigated leads to the findings that if the United Sates was to set a resolve that is focused on legalizing some of the drugs, crimes related to drugs including the trafficking would go down considerably. The famous phrase that the forbidden fruit is sweetest is very common and very actual thus if some of the drugs were to be legalized this would greatly help in alleviating the widespread use of drugs and the crimes related to drugs altogether (National Drug Control Strategy, 2011).
Body A. One of the most common things people will pressure you into trying is alcohol. 1. In Special to the Inquirer, Robert Esty, executive director of the Council On Addictive Diseases (COAD), told readers and listeners that "Kids hear drinking is wrong but see parents drink, this leaves many of them
TEENAGE HEROIN ABUSE Teenage Heroin Abuse Looking at Underlying Causes Introduction When developing a research question, it is important to make sure the topic being studied is feasible, socially important, and scientifically important. Without these three components, a research question cannot be pursued. The topic that is going to be looked at in this paper is heroin abuse among teenagers. In the last ten years, heroin abuse has become increasingly popular among the teenage population. But, why?
The songs that were written by these bands helped to transform the public view of psychedelic drugs for generations to come. Soon after the LSD craze passed, mainly due to governments war on drugs, cocaine became the choice drug amongst American upper and middle classes. In the 1960’s what many believed was a powerful tool for art, music, and creativity in general began to sweep the country. As many youths became increasingly frustrated with the views and laws put into effect by an older generation, they felt a strong need to express themselves as individuals and not just as lower parts of corporate America. Race relations were still very poor throughout America and a younger generation felt as though they had seen enough hate and intolerance to last them a lifetime.
American Youth, Substance Abuse, and Proposed Solutions American youth are abusing alcohol and drugs at an alarming rate. Every generation has this problem to a certain degree, but the current one is of utmost concern. American’s have turned to harder and harder drugs with greater potential for serious harm and death. Psychologist Sean O’Hara, who specializes in adolescent substance abuse, claims that today’s young people not only use “more lethal forms” of drugs such as pain medication and tranquilizer combinations but in the coming years ahead we will likely see a “sharp increase of overdose death.” Why and where these problems come from are two important questions that need to be asked by professionals, children, and parents alike.
In July 1971, President Richard Nixon declared the ‘War on Drugs’ (Drug Policy). What had once been symbol of the youth rebellion suddenly become the scapegoat for America’s failures. According to a top Nixon aide John Ehrlichman, “The Nixon campaign of 1968 and Nixon Whitehouse after that had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people… by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroins, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities...Did we know we were lying about drugs? Of course we did.” The ‘War on Drugs’ has continued to wage on since then, with incarcerated individuals increasing by a factor of 4 up to almost 2,000,000 people. The true winners of the ‘War on Drugs’ were not the American citizens, rather it was private prison operators and politicians.