California Community Colleges System

overcrowded. The War on Drugs makes it nearly impossible for people like Susan Burton and the many women she has helped to break the cycle. A profoundly flawed criminal justice system, systemic racism, redlining, education policy, and poverty are surely all to blame (8). It is a system that survives on a culture of power, a system that runs on the “idea that punishment was always the answer and was always deserved, that getting tough would solve everything” (123). Rather than investing in social…

as more and more numbers and evidence supporting them appear, their development is continually skyrocketing. The National Association of Drug Court Professionals declared 946 working drug courts with 441 in the process of being made. States like California have served as a model for the effectiveness of the programs; “Arrest rates for participants who completed the program declined by 85 percent, conviction rates by 77 percent and incarceration rates by 83 percent” (Bailey, Alternative to…

earn college degrees at less than half the rate of the entire U.S. population. Compared to the population as a whole, Native Americans are dying at rates: 600% higher for tuberculosis, 510% higher for alcoholism, 189% higher for diabetes, 229% higher for vehicle crashes, 152% higher for injuries, and 62% higher for suicide (“Demographics”). Their poverty rates may only be decreasing because many of the most impoverished are dying due to inadequate access to medical help, unsafe road systems, or…

Page 1 Do you know what an ENTJ can do? They can do many things like Richard Nixon or FDR. There are many great options for ENTJs’ but my favorite three that I would enjoy would be law/politics, engineering, & counseling. All are very well paid and have great respect toward they’re position. They also have many doors that can open to new careers because the skills you use in other careers are used in each of these. The three are just a base of what it gets you to do; many have different…

schooling system through first hand experiences as well as reporting the struggles and challenges a senior student named Maria faced. Rizga’s article refutes Gatto’s statement that “It is in the interest of the complex management, economic or political,to dumb people down, to demoralize them to divide them from one another, and to discard them if they don’t conform.”(Gatto 97) Rizga refutes Gatto’s statement because she shows how Mission High School was inappropriately misjudged by a flawed…

that ice cream bar. Yet, what are you willing to do for a college education? Are you willing to work four jobs, drink an obscene amount of coffee, survive the sleep deprivation and literally scrape pennies together to be able to afford your four-year degree? That’s the epitome of my life story. I sleep too little, drink too much caffeine, and work an excessive and extreme amount of hours at any job that will pay me. It pays for my college education. It’s quite a sacrifice, isn’t it? I hold my…

The Never-Ending Story One Topic that left me confused, is the conversation about the many issues within the prison system. Particularly whether the prison system works and if we as a country are doing more harm than good. Subsequently, we have an incarceration system, of epidemic proportions, that circumscribes its prisoners. In the same respect, this system also conceives new prisoners as a result of this cycle. These effects are aided by laws like Mandatory Minimum Sentencing, which mandates…

According to the ACLU (May 2013) the School to Prison Pipeline refers to the policies and practices that funnel our nation’s students out of classrooms and into the juvenile and justice system. The pipeline is a reflection of the the priority of incarceration over education, and starts with inadequate resources in public schools. High stakes testing, over policing, and poor zero tolerance and suspension practices all perpetuate the pipeline. Al Jazeera America (2014) writes of the…

The war on drugs affects Americans in many different aspects, which include U.S. domestic policy, socio-economic effects, and public support or opposition to the war. As the drug war’s economic and social affects force us to question our political system, the ongoing disagreement of whether the war on drugs should continue or not remains. When it comes to U.S domestic policy, the U.S. has a long history of implementing laws or consequences among those who are arrested for drug use. The first…

McHarg was a Scottish landscape architect, planner and professor, whose devotion for interconnecting communities and ecology inspired many of his successors. McHarg was widely known as the father of GIS due to his early use of photographic map overlay analysis in the 1960s. He almost single-handedly created a method of evaluating all features of a plot of…