Step One

The final step urges individuals to carry the message to others. Giving back to the community is everybody’s responsibility because it us up to every individual to make the world a better place. This is evident from the simple steps that recovering addicts take such as attending meetings to give encouragement to people who have just began or are struggling with their recovery…

I attended a 12 step meeting held by the fellowship of Narcotics Anonymous. The meeting was open to addicts, non-addicts, and beginners. The focus was placed on the needs of the new members of Narcotics Anonymous, discussion of the Just for Today text, and the twelve steps of Narcotics Anonymous. The name of the fellowship is We Qualify. The meeting was held in the basement of a church and lasted for 90 minutes. The meeting commenced at 7:00pm and ended at 8:30pm. The room was large, clean,…

chose Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous or my 12-step reaction paper and attended the Thursday evening meeting at the Unitarian Church at 7701 SW 76 Avenue in Miami. This meetings is held between 7:30 – 8:30pm and is restricted to women only. I did not know much about this affliction and therefore, even with the understanding that this was a 12-step meeting, I did not know what to expect when I walked in. Much like someone who doesn’t understand 12-step meetings at all, I found myself thinking…

portrayals of how society or cultures have viewed female roles to be weak. But unlike most stories the Thousand and One Nights has portrayed female roles to be brave and powerful. Characters such as Shahrazad, the demon’s wife, King Shahryar’s first wife, and king Shahzaman’s first wife play a fearless role. The two reading works that have stood out was the Homer’s Odyssey and The Thousand and One Nights. These two works show the different ways of how female and/or male roles have been portrayed…

were Caucasian inclusive of approximately four women and twenty-four men, and a total of four African Americans one female and three males. A chairman opened the meeting, introduced the speakers and closed the meeting and the secretary gave out raffle tickets, collected money and announced the winner of the raffle at the end of the meeting. Everyone stood and repeated the pledge and 12 steps at the start of the meeting. Some participants appeared withdrawn, did not show much emotion on their…

in many forms and can be ingested in different ways. While different drugs may have different effects on the mind and brain one common factor is the continued use even after problems arise in the abusers personal life. Substance abuse does not only affect the person abusing the drug, but also those around the person, especially family and friends. These people are the ones that tend to either perpetuate the problem or help to prevent the problem from continuing. Substance abuse is a huge deal…

What is and Isn’t Working Substance abuse is common in America, and there are treatment options available. Treatments for substance abuse scale from professional counseling to 12-step programs. Most of these programs do not have outstanding success rates, considering not everyone can afford professional help. 12-step programs seem to be more common, with that in consideration there are downfalls to this way of treatment. Lack of funding, religion, socioeconomic status and more are a few…

with small use of literary devices author Louise Erdrich has made the story very intriguing. To clarify, some of the literary devices used in The Leap are simile, flashback, and analogy. In the story, the literacy device simile is used to compare one element to another. An example of simile used in The Leap is when the story reads “they loved to drop gracefully from nowhere, like two sparkling birds” (2). Without doubt the author has used simile in a delightful way to compare Anna & Harry Avalon…

In the beginning, the brothers were inseparable from each other and the car, they went places together in that car throughout that one whole summer. But after at least three years, Henry comes back from the army, everything about their relationship, their brotherly bond changes dramatically. Lyman tries to recover their brotherly bond by beating up their car and “[making] it look just…

Unfair Balance of Power One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of stories from India, Persia, and Arabia and have been translated by various authors over hundreds of years. Even though it is a collection of different stories, they are all centered on the frame story of King Shahryar and his wife, Scheherazade, who narrates different stories for a thousand and one night in hopes that the King would stop killing innocent young women as punishment for his first wife’s adulterous act. The…