Even Worse

Becca and her mother ran away after her fathers trial. They moved from their home in Atlanta to a small town in Ohio. They were bankrupt after her father was sent to prison. He was sent to jail because he stole money from people that were invested into his company. In Ohio, Becca goes to Deskins High school as a freshman. She promises herself that she will stay out of attention and not be popular. Four years later, Becca is a senior at Deskins. She is struggling to decide if she should apply for…

Although not acknowledged as much as it should be mental health plays a large role around correctional facilities. For many reasons people suffering from all varieties of mental illnesses are put at a disadvantage before they ever even are in trouble with the law or put into jails and prisons, especially once a mentally ill person is imprisoned. In many aspects reform of mental health care in and outside of prisons could drastically decrease the unfairness of punishments and treatments they face…

everyday in the United States (“11 Facts About American Eating Habits”). Public schools already serve unhealthy food as it is, but what if it just got unhealthier? If these chains take over, then the original workers would be fired, the food would be even worse, and students may get bored of the repetitive food. Restaurants like McDonald’s and Popeye’s should not be allowed to serve their “food” in public schools replacing the usual cafeteria food and workers. The workers should not be fired…

like a better option to take when choosing what drug they want to use. When talking about tobacco, however, “Smoking can cause cancer; and not just lung cancer, although that is the type that immediately comes to mind. Oral cancer, throat cancer, and even pancreatic cancer can spring from a history of smoking. Tobacco use in the form of chewing tobacco can also cause cancer in the gums, lips, and tongue. Other cancers that are often linked to smoking include liver, bladder, uterine, and…

will do one thing in office but when they get there all they do sit on their butts with their pockets aligned with our tax dollars or worse yet they actually do the opposite. We need to hold them accountable because it is their job to lead us in times of need and how can they do that if they are nothing more than a bunch of greedy liars that we do not trust and worse yet is that we let it happen very few us ever actually fact check everything the political representatives say and this will…

day for the hard labor that they did in the field, or they would make only a small percentage of what their white counterparts doing the same job made. In the north, the jobs that these oftentimes unskilled laborers worked could have similar or even worse conditions, such as Ida’s husband George’s time working at the Campbell 's Soup factory. Despite these poor conditions, the wages that black immigrants could make were substantially better, often being paid dollars per day where they previously…

notice that the weather was getting progressively worse and they could not change it. “Behind the thickening clouds they could not see the sun going down. The water, coming up, was growing blacker” (Hall 14). This quotation shows that Hall wanted to portray worry and acceptance, due to the fact that he is proving the fisherman and the boys are victims of the things they can’t change. Finally, the fisherman began to wish for the weather to not get worse, even though he knew it was out of his…

now. Healthcare is in crisis and you've likely seen more stories about it than you care to read. You've probably seen more information on health and the crisis that we are in than you even know what to do with. I'm not surprised, because it is everywhere. We are talking about it in elections, news stories and even at work. Healthcare…

During my sophomore year of high school, I was going through a really tough patch. Even though the classes that I took were challenging, but it wasn’t something that I couldn’t handle. My first semester started out fine since I was on the track to a 4.0 GPA. However, I suddenly developed this “I don’t care” attitude about school and my academic skills began to drop. As a result, my Precalculus Honors grade for Semester #1 turned out to be a C. It was devastating since I thought of math to be my…

relatable to my own life. When I was in elementary school my step dad passed away and had two little children. The look of confusion of their face when they saw their dad in the casket or not understanding what was going on just made the whole loss even worse. The look in other people’s faces as they looked at the heartbreak on all the children that were left with the grievances is a sad image to imagine…