Teen Addicts in School. In many ways, the Minneapolis high school looks like any other high school across the country, with books, teachers, lockers and a lunchroom ... even time for fun and games in the halls. But its name is Sobriety High, and it is a high school set up specifically for teens who are addicted to drugs or alcohol. It is one of only 18 so-called "sober schools" or "dry highs," set up across the country. The school, featured in a recent edition of YM magazine, is filled with students who are admitted addicts.
In fact, multiple raves in the US are sponsored by good causes, such as canned food or clothes drives. The media needs to discover and strongly focus on the positive of the rave scene, not only the drug use. The media and news reporters, plus videos on raves, never even mention the significant part of the rave culture, which happens to be the PLUR. For instance, Sandra Pupatello made a video that is shown to students in grades seven through nine called "Dancing in the Dark". This video shows kids the dangers of raves, not once does the visual mention any of the positive in the rave culture, nor does it mention rave being a culture at all.
6. Four years of financial records of the Black Disciples street gang found their way into the hand of a University of Chicago graduate student because one of the gangs second highest member feared that he would soon be killed, therefore he figured that the financial records may help the next generation in some way or another. 7. J.T. maintained a regional monopoly over crack cocaine within the territorial domain of the gang by having his men at every possible crack dealing corner, and he invested a good amount into making his community satisfied with their gang, because a rebellious community is something that they cannot afford to have.
External factors of influence are the stakeholders. They are a fundamental part of the company’s social responsibility. Stakeholders provide their expertise in areas where the company lacks experience. They serve as the eyes and ears in communities where we may not have direct visibility into sensitive issues. “Time and Time again, we have seen how listening to a diversity of voices has brought us closer to our goals— for our company and for the workers who produce our product” (gap Inc).
Another difference in Cocaine kids is the teenagers ran there drug markets like a business and became very successful. For example, they had jobs in their market that did not require selling the drug product. There were positions such as, runners that are messengers which take cocaine to buyers, and lookouts whose job was to simply be on the lookout for police officers. Catcher was another job description that involved catching packages from high level cases simply because the police had intruded. The only way to qualify for a job was to achieve the trust of a dealer.
Eric Lowry ELIT1040 F Coming of Age Essay 2 July, 2012 Mark Twain in his book “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” uses a variety of situations and experiences to provide Huck a moral education. Initially he is exposed to the rules and values of society by the Widow Douglas and Miss Watson. Huck’s education progresses with his exposure to Jim and the numerous adventures they encounter. Huck, by the end of the book, has gained the wisdom and moral values to form his own opinions of society’s standards. Twain imparts a powerful message for the reader to obtain their own moral education so they too can judge the values of their society.
Businesses in small communities have to positive images by contributing to the community and following social standards. External social pressure influence companies to think before they take any actions. How might these issues be relevant to organizational and personal decisions? The issue addressed in the “Our World” movie has already influenced the decisions in the political. Seeing potential in inner city kids of having a successful future instead of kids of lower income parents or bad neighborhood will influence organizational and help each person making decision on inner school educational system.
I would help the child to see that just because their parents and grandparents are education to a certain extent, doesn’t mean that’s how it has to be for them. I would encourage them to set their own goals and to work toward creating their own identity. Another way that I would help these students overcome generational poverty is to help them set goals, both short term, and long term. I would help them set some serious goals for their life and for their education in hopes that those goals will stay in their mind and push them to work as hard as they can to be successful and overcome the life that generations before them have laid out for
Although the Black Mafia Family is not seen to have any political figures within their grasp, they have been able to gain some hindsight in the pop culture world, which in this day and age can be just as dangerous as those actually involved in politics. Although the majority of their drug running has come to a hold, they still live on the rap music that they have helped create, such as the likes of Rick Ross’s “Blowin Money Fast” Which on the album remains in its acronym form of “BMF” and mentions some of the major players with the organization “Big Beech” and “Larry Hoover.” As far as illicit actions from the Black Mafia Family, there are many allegations of various crimes that can be tied to their organization. The Black Mafia Family was seen as just a large violent group as they were drug kingpins.
Jepsen 4 As we all know underage drinking is not a big surprise to anyone. Unfortunately we see and hear about it where ever we go. It seems as if more clubs/restaurants are serving theses underage patrons on a nightly basis. There is especially a problem in Los Angeles, California. “Fewer then 30 Alcohol Beverage Control agents are assigned to police L.A. County’s 15,000 licensed establishments” (Wulff Dodd 94).