Gangs in the United States

these babies were sent straight back to the United States to find a new family waiting for them. Aimee Phan presents us with a group of short stories in “We Should Never Meet,” that features the babies’ lives now as they are all grown up on Operation Babylift. The characters in the stories share their encounters in the Vietnam War and how they are all linked. There is a mother who had to give her child up for adoption, a doctor from the United States that helped take care at the orphanage.…

What do people from a circus documentary, characters in a realistic fiction story, and children migrating to safer places all have in common? They all have dreams. Whether it’s moving into a new house or trying to find one’s place, they all have dreams. Some people don’t think dreams are possible to achieve but, they are. Although dreams are different, all someone needs to do is four things. To begin, people need perseverance to achieve their dreams. In the documentary “Circus Without Borders”,…

During the nineteenth century, English oppression in Ireland forced the Irish to leave their homeland. Some of the Irish sought the United States as a place of refuge due to rumors of a better life and prospects of jobs. However, conditions for them in the United States did not improve. Despite having white skin, the Irish did not experience the benefits of being white at the time, White Americans saw the Irish a another low race. They also saw the Irish as being inferior and ignorant. As a…

coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.” From segregation to the war on drugs, throughout United States history our government has continued to infringe on our civil rights. One of the most talked about substances cited in the war on drugs is the controversial drug Cannabis, also known as Marijuana. Falling to third with 37% of the vote behind alcohol, and tobacco is marijuana. The United Nations Office on Drugs, World Drug Report (2012), reported that globally, it is estimated…

drug use (specifically marijuana and heroin) has increased. Ironically, the United States gets the majority of their drugs from Mexican cartels (Felbab-Brown), despite there being a prevalent anti-Latinx rhetoric. Cartels supply drugs to the United States because there is a demand in the United States. Opinions on immigration from Latinx communities has continued to become more and more separated. As the United States ventures deeper and deeper into the Trump’s presidency, there seems to be a…

In order to secure the United States’ place as one of the world’s most elite nations it is vital to ensure that the next generation has as much if not more knowledge than their predecessor, and at this moment it is very sad to say that some politicians do not believe in providing…

Marijuana? Marijuana legalization has been a big issue in the United State that everybody has talked about for a long time .Marijuana is a plant which is used for medical uses and personal pleasure; it 's also been an old medicine in some cultures in old centuries. It can help people who have cancers or super hyper person or mentality issues, and chronic pain. In early 2012, two states in the USA have legalized marijuana, these two states view of point that marijuana isn 't more harmful than…

massacres you may ask? Well the My Lai massacres was the mass murder of many unarmed citizens, including beautiful Vietnamese women, elderly women and children. This massacres happen on March 16, 1968. Not only that these victims were murder but were also gang-raped, beaten and tortured. In every Massacres, there always many question such as “why did the soldier kill the villager?” “Who was responsible for this massacres?” and also “Is the anything we can do prevent something like this My Lai…

Frequently, much debate has taken place on the legalization of marijuana, with an unusual amount of contradictory research. There are different perspectives to take into account, being these from the perspective of medicine, politics or economics. Ordinarily, several countries have testified to the successful use of medical marijuana, which has led people to use it. In fact, this substance has been shown to stop or suppress the development and spread of HIV, AIDS, multiple sclerosis, glaucoma,…

The Merida Initiative is a partnership between the United States of America and Mexico, created to fight organized crime and violence. Based on both countries cooperation and trust we are slowly eliminating drugs and violence between the US and Mexico. The Merida Initiative is a very effective and a helpful bond that our country shares with Mexico that offers many benefits. Both the United States and Mexico are doing as much as they can to help eliminate these issues that have been going on for…