Fear (outline)

War on drugs (topic essay)

For NHD this year our topic is “the war on drugs”. We choose this topic because we found it interesting and also found it original. Also, we have both seen the effects that it has on the people involved and the people who have suffered the repercussions of being involved in this war. For example, the boys who sell drugs (who are better known as hustlas), the people who buy it, the fiends who need it and also the dumb people who get caught with it and end up spending months to years of their life in jail. Months and years that they will never get back. Other people who are involved are the people who are against drugs, and want them off the streets. These people include the cops, probation officers, judges, the government, rehab facilities, narcs, and of course concerned parents.
This war as many people already know is going on around the world and is not just affecting the people that I just named; it is also affecting people just like you and me. Examples of this are loosing friends and family members either to death, the streets or addiction, and the penal system. As a result to this war we are experiencing many effects. Such as racism, racial profiling form cops and also neighbor hood people, more people taking up spaces in jail because it is illegal, people not being able to get a decent job, because they were sent to prison which then results in poverty among the community.
The conflict of this topic is racism due to drugs, poverty, the crime and murder rate, and also the temptation/peer pressure of illegal drugs. The compromise of this topic is actually hard to explain since there isn’t really a specific compromise because this war is still going on today. And in our opinion locking up 3 generations of people including our neighbors and friends isn’t a compromise at all. Especially when we still have rapists, murderers, petifiles, and robbers on the streets.

links for "The war on drugs"

http://www.drugsense.org/wodclock.htm
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/
http://www.nationalreview.com/12feb96/drug.html
http://stopthedrugwar.org/
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/basicfax.htm

religion in schools

People have been debating the question of whether or not religion should or should not be taught in schools for years. There have even been court cases to right for the right to incorporate religion into public school education. Well in my opinion I believe that religion should not be taught in public schools. I believe that if parents want there children to learn about religion they should send there kids to catholic schools. Also, if public schools teach one religion, then they should be obligated to teach all of them. Parents might also take offense to their children learning about other religion than theirs. So therefore I believe that to avoid all the extra unnecessary drama religion should not be taught in schools.

Below are links that wiill tell you more about this topic:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/ps_pray.htm
http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/cs/blcs_sch_index.htm
http://www.au.org/site/PageServer?pagename=issues_publicschools

War on drugs (NHD)

For my NHD project I am doing the war on drugs. this is a war that has been going on for many years na dis pretty much all the reasons as to why drugs are illegal and why people think they should be legalized. I thought this would be interesting since nobody will probably do this topic and I wanted to do something original. I am working on this project with a partner and me and her are most likely do a display board, which will most likely be alot different from last year being that I did a paper on the Italian Mafia.