The War On Drugs

War On Drugs

The war on drugs has not ever really been about drugs. Every time any situation comes up involving drugs the court system just wants to put that person away. By doing so the person gets torn away from their children, and all of their other family members. It makes life a lot harder for the child who has to go without their parent. The war on drugs seems to target African Americans the most. When people get locked up for selling drugs or having drugs on them, do you think when they get out that they are actually able to find a good job to support their family and/or kids? NO! When you get out for something like that your more liable to go back to doing it because of the fact that their options have already been taken from me, so what else is it for them to do. Having things like this on your record, or felonies is defiantly a set back not only for that person convicted, but also for their families that they have to provide for.I honesty think if your a first time offender of drugs, instead of the system locking you up for months or years they should at least give you the option to get help, and join a program. In that sense you could possibly fixing the problem, but by just locking them up the system is making the problem worse, and the person is more than likely going to continue what they're doing. Overall I defiantly think that there are many other ways to deal with this situations, but they system chooses the easiest way which is throw em' away and lock away the key!

Who vs Whom

Most people as I did, don't really grasp the whole concept of the usage of the words who and whom. The way I used whom was only if it sounded right, and I would use who for everything else. Just Recently I had to do a "Grammar Schmammar" presentation on who vs whom. If I would have never chose the who vs who concept, today I probably still wouldn't know the right usage of who and who. Once you learn it, it is very easy, well to me it is.I pulled up a video for the class to watch on the subject, and I think it helped out a lot. The video is what helped me to learn it. There is a trick used in the video to determine when you use who and who. If you can replace the sentence with he or she, then more than likely you should use who. If you can replace the sentence with the word him or her, than more than likely you can replace the sentence with whom.Here is an example of both of them: Who/Whom did you go to the store with? You would answer this question by saying "I went to the store with him" therefore you would use the word Whom. Another example is: Who/Whom is a lawyer? You would answer this question by saying "He is a lawyer" therefore you would use the word who. As you can see with the he,she/him,her concept this can be quite easy.

On yesterday our class reading was "The Butter Battle Book". The book was basically about two types of people. The first type are the ones that eat their toast butter side up and the other type of people eat their toast butter side down. They began to draw so much hate from each other all because of that silly little disagreement. They made machines to hurt each other, and went back and forth to keep making better machines. In the end they never came to a compromise. The way the story came in to play in my English class discussion today was that it somehow incorporated in with war, racism, politics, and all the other opponents that we argue and disagree over daily. At the end of the day we either are going to disagree, or compromise. The main way America goes about things is to disagree and fight. That is definitely not the right way to go about things, but that is what the world has come to.









- By : Chelsea