A mans luck

I was asked whether or not I believe in the conflict theory or the functionalist theory.  Having looked at what each one means  I would say that I believe in the functionalist theory. I believe in this because, if you work as hard job you should be regarded with more money for doing that job. If you work an easy job or a job with less responsibility you should be paid less for that job. What I do not like about the conflict theory is that it is like communism. You are born into a class and no matter how hard you work you stay I'm that class. On the other hand what I like about the functionalist theory is that if you are born poor you can work and gain money and social status. In class we also watched a video on whether or not mans luck is created or given to him. I was asked what I thought about mans luck. I don't necessarily agree with that but I don't disagree with it either. If a man or woman puts themselves in a bad situation there luck may change. If you are in with bad people doing bad things you are more likely to have something bad happen to you. On the other hand if you are in with good people doing good you are more likely to have good things happen to you.

Requiem of a dream

At the beginning of the movie it thought he was threatening he’s mom. I later found out he needed money for drugs so he was selling her television for the money. She would not give her own son money for drugs but she would buy the television back after he had just sold it.

After I learned he and his friends were trying to make it big in drug marketing, I thought they would never make it. It is hard to be in the distribution of drugs and not get caught or killed. Despite what I thought they stated to make plenty of money and were saving their money to buy better and better drugs. With the better drugs they could sell for more money and make a bigger profit to save more. When this all started to happen what I thought all changed. I thought they actually could make it big, get rich, and possibly get out.  At one time they had more money than they knew what to do with. They met with a guy that would finally help them get big, and everything was looking good. With a huge shock to me the guy was killed.

After the guy was killed drugs became harder and harder to find. With drugs harder to find they were paying more money for a lesser quality of drug. At this point things were starting to take a turn for the worst. I was still thinking they had a chance to make it, with such a high demand for drugs someone had to supply them soon.  Well I was wrong, drugs were getting so hard to find and they could hardly get any. There stash of money had run dry.

With no money and no drugs they began to get dope sick. Now my outlook had changed, I was thinking they were going to all die from the lack of drugs. Not only this, but Harrys mother was getting sick from the pills she was taking. To try and get more drugs Harry had his friend went California to get more drugs. On the way Harry’s friend saw they Harry had a really bad infection form a needle, so he took him to a hospital. Because it was drug related he and Harry went to jail. Harry did receive medical treatment but lost is arm do to the infection.

Everyone lived but not without a price they had to pay. Harry lost his arm and went to jail, and his friend went to jail. His girlfriend was alone selling her body for drugs, and his mother was in rehab from the pills she was prescribed by a doctor. At the beginning of the movie I would have never thought that they would have returned to a worse state then they started at the beginning of the movie.

Heroin

I believe that a line cannot really be drawn on this topic. To say it is going too far to help them out by giving them clean needles do use when they shoot up is wrong. Like they were saying in the show, it’s not a choice for all of them to be a junkie. So by giving them the opportunity to have a clean needle and a safe place to use the drug could be saving a life. By doing this it also helps prevent an outbreak of STD and other infections.

I'm not saying I agree with or justify the usage of drugs, but that it's unhealthy to let them reuse everything. What can be done? Well I think that what can be done is being done for the most part. The government cannot afford to put every drug user in to jail or to put them through rehab, so giving them supplies to stay healthy is a cheaper alternative.

Can anything be done, well that is up to the people? With the cost of living so high not many people can afford to house the people on the streets. Sure some nights some of them can get into a shelter, but what about the other nights where there is no room left. Many of these people are forced to sleep on the streets, and this is not healthy or safe. I honesty cannot say there is anything that can be done to help these people out, but to hope they don't start an outbreak of some plague.

Trashed

I find it strange that the white man ended up in a normally black neighborhood. Yes he appeared to be a junkie, but if most feared to go there why would he? Maybe he was trying to get his drugs and get out but something went wrong with the deal. He could have been suspicious so he got killed for it. If the suspects didn't want to get caught they dumped him there to make it seem like it was someone in this black community. This man could have avoided death by just one simple task, and just by not doing drugs. drugs lead to deaths like this more often they most people think. The dealers will do what ever it takes to not get caught and if that means killing then they are going to kill. The dealers also do not want to get caught so they have to ditch the evidence in anyway possible, and doing it in a dark ally usually seems like a good idea. These people have had a lot of experience dealing with situations like this, but the technology today makes it very hard for them to get away with anything. One of the only ways they could get away with anything is with a dirty cop. The dirty cop will do something like get the evidence to point to someone else or something like that. Another way is if their in a gang that is very powerful the cops may just leave them and not deal with the arrests. This is why you should not do drugs at all, and it could save your life.

Crime Rate

Experts say there are many reasons for the increase and decrease in crimes. It can be due to video games, lead in the gas, or because of immigrants. The experts are saying that all of these play some role in the effect of the crime rate.

Since the increase in violent video games experts say that the crime rate has dropped. This is due to more time spent inside the house and less time spent on the streets. As this may not be a healthy way to spend your time, because you are not active, it could be saving your life. It is also thought to lower crime because people will take their anger out on the game and not on someone else.

Lead in gas is also believed to have greatly affected the crime rate in the United State. High amounts of lead affects the brain leading to lower IQ levels. When we switched to unleaded gas the crime rates dropped dramatically. The less we have exposure to lead the smarter humans tend to be. Due to this we no longer use leaded gas, but only unleaded gases.

Another reason experts say crime can be raised is by the large number of immigrants in the country. This has been proven true and false at the same time. The original immigrants that come have the highest crime rate out of all of them. With each generation the crime rate drops significantly each time.

I believe all this to be true because of many of the facts. The crime rate now is not the highest it has ever been, but this doesn’t mean we will not face a time when we will need to do something about it. One day crime could be uncontrollable and we will need to find a quick easy fix.