Culture

      In the article "Teenage Wasteland" the author talks about these four kids that died from carbon monoxide poisoning.  In the article the author went into more grippng details about the tragic sence that day, four teenagers were found dead in a 1977 Chevrolet Camano, parked in an unused garage, 16 year old Lisa and 17 year old Cheryl Burres, sisters and their friends, 19 year old Thomas Rizzo and Thomas Olton. Most people would think that there suicide was due to their self-esteem since these kids were considered outcast in the very world they live in, but what caught my eyes was what was found in their car. Next to their bodies was a cassette tape from AC DC's "If You Want Blood, You Got It". Our culture is based on the music we listen to and the artist that sings the songs. They have such an important role in our society. In some cases,adults have tried to identify the instigating factor as a lyric or a song, in their cases they have artist like Judas Priest or Ozzy Osbourne. I feel music played an big part in their suicide. Music has formed an escape and a different culture in society that is taken on by individuals that relate fairly enough to the struggle that surround that type of genre. Looking more into the article, the author states that the four kids was know for wearing all black clothing and listened to trash metal "ROCK & ROLL". In today's modern era of society there a split in our world that separates us by music, which is typically stereo-typically but it goes more deep then just that. In the pop culture, you have more out going types tend to find their path to this music while rap tend to draw in more of the struggle, but in this case the metal drew in a outcast bunch that fell more on the black sheep side of life. Music has a great value on young adults that is more controlling then the typical TV shoes parents fuss about.

Alcohol and Other Drugs Do Not Cause Violence

     The article i choose to read was "Association Is Not Causation" by Richard J. Gelles and Mary M. Cavanaugh which they state that there no studies still till this day indicating that alcohol or other drugs cause domestic violence in family home. Which I find is kinda crazy being I always felt that drugs and alcohol had a big affect on people and their violent ways but honestly I feel not much have change when its come to people abusing alcohol and drugs cause still till this day we have' people that just don't know how to handle/control themselves when their under the influences.

     I believe there is a strong relationship with drugs alcohol and violence. When someone is under the influence their not thinking correctly as if they was sober so that causes you to react to certain situation different. Scientific evident prove that alcohol doesn't have any chemical substance that may cause people to get violent. I'm a strong believer when a person abuses a substance there a bigger problem in that person life he or she haven't dealt with yet so they're trying to escape reality. I also believe that history repeats itself if a child grows up in house with a parent that's abuse drugs and alcohol the child will most likely want to experience which can lead to a lot of problems in life.

   From personal experience I notice that if a parent is under the influence of drugs or alcohol there is a high possibility that their children will get abuse or neglected because when your doing drugs your main priority is the high so everything else that matters comes second.There plenty of story i heard parent selling their kids just to get high yes its sick but its happening.

  Honestly from here out I don't see this situation getting better. I see more and more people just falling victims to the drugs and alcohol in this world I see the violence continue to grow. Its all commerce from somewhere and I believe depression from the lack of money causes a big reason to why people want to escape into their own little world and just do drugs and alcohol and ABUSE.

Who Am I

     Well Who Am I? That's a question I'm still trying figure out myself. To start this My name is Douglas I'm 22 years of age. This is my 1st semester and I am majoring Liberal Art for now. The person I am today I have to thanks my mom, she was a single parent raising two kids. At the age 13 she sent me to Virginia to live with my sister's mother because she thought I'll be better off  out there. From the age 13-18 I can honestly say I raise myself, not saying my step mother didn't love me but she sure had a funny way of showing it. While I was out in VA I had to learn how to be a man being that my father really wasn't in my life, but that's a whole other story. Growing up in school I always felt the need to be accepted being I always felt rejected by my family. After I graduated from high school I ended up moving back to NYC with my mother. Our relationship was so different being I grew up resented her for sending me away so I was very rebellious toward her which ended up with her kicking me out and that where I move from place to place with different family members but it never worked out. At 21 I decided to enrolled myself into Job Corps which was truly a life changing experience. I started to see how ungrateful I was, there are people in this world with way biggest problems and yet I always found a reason to complain about my life. My biggest influences in my life is my father. I say he's my biggest influences because he is somebody I never want to be like, he's extremely selfish his happiness always came first no matter how bad it affected his kids so because of him i feel like this is why I'm pushing myself to become something in life. My goals in life is to become an child or adolescent therapist or counselor . I want to give advice build self-esteem and help broken children see their worth in society. I want to be that help I never got growing up, I feel in the end that what we all want is for somebody to listen and guide us in this crazy world.