Drug War

Throughout the United States, the percentage of Americans who are involved in drug crimes are very high through the years. According to An Analysis of National Data studies have showed that more of 4 in 10 convicted murders are do to the high abuse of alcohol. This fact allows us to understand that people living in the United States have a serious problem of addictions. This addictions to drugs and alcohol affect people’s minds and also emotionally when coming this murder crimes. Other studies show that the white population living in the United States has the higher percentage of 72% committing drug abuse than the minority. In my view It’s astonishing that the white population fits in this category and they don’t do anything to change this, just Other racial groups like, Blacks with 15% and Hispanics with10% according to The Administration of substance abuse. In the other hand in the prison system Blacks and Hispanics have the highest percentage and risk of incarceration. Do to my understandings minority groups in the United States have a higher risks in being in prison for the rest of their lives. In the other hand the highest percentage of drug substances are the white population . So then why only the minorities are summon to imprisonment do to their ethnical backgrounds and neighborhoods instead? When walking to the streets of Harlem you can literally count the amount of police walking in the streets. Do to the law system in the United States the target is the poor. In order to clear crime they impression the minority for convenience and power

LaGUARDIA STUDENT

To the upcoming students of LaGuardia Community College. I will be sharing my own experiences as student, and how responsibility and stress plays a big role in your academics. As of now this is my first year in LaGuardia I have to say it has been a really hard task to be a full time student and multitask as a part time employee. Let’s face it, we all want to have some money in our pocket but we have to take in consideration that we don’t want to past the rest of our lives working at a job you would be miserable and get pay minimum wage? Of course not we have to step ahead and think of our future and what we want to become. Going to school is very stressful waking up early for a morning class makes me feel lazy, having papers due for a class sometimes gives me a headache. We have to learn how to organize between school work and work. Sacrifices that cost you not to hang out with friends, give away working shifts in order to do my assignments. Trust me that the sacrifice that you do know will later pay off. My parents are my big motivation in life. My parents migrated to the United States about 20 years ago it hurts me to say that my dad has been working ever since a young boy and hasn’t stop working ever since. He’s inspires me to keep going and to believe in myself. If you like procrastinating it will strongly affect your academic grades. Get something to inspire you and to keep you going with your goals . It is important that as a student you set the right foot for success.

In the book Racial Formation we have discuss various keyword throughout the passages of the text. The keyword that a classmate and I had to define was “Black Power” the context of the black power during the 1960 was an organization that was form by only African American to unite people of their ethnical background to fight and protest against government issues. Black activist demanded their own race they wanted to set aside from the all-white thinking’s that had flooded the United States government. They denied assimilating in a society that was being run into white hands. I would connect the “Black Power” to The Untouchables when ghandi described Bakha that being Untouchable didn’t make him any different. Instead he needed to learn who he was as a person to find his iner self. Racial formation has form a history of people according to culture and race creating racial categories for race to have meaning and identify to other people by race.

In my current assignment for anthropology our paper has to include how the concept of race are created and changed in our present day life. In my paper I will include certain articles that demonstrates the different ideologies they had towards the classification of race according to different colonization. For example ill include the article Colour As A Symbol Of Social Status. This article talks about the Cuban society and the use of the Spanish concept of purity of blood. The ideology of Spanish colonizers to Cuba was that in order to become white was through the purity of blood and not by the physical appearance. This mean that interracial marriages were provided does to the mixing of color. These similarities reflect on the books we have read also in our English class, in book the Untouchable in India empowered by the ideologies of British colonization’s and their social structures that divided people by the complexion of their skin which in this case it was the opposite in Cuba. I hope that in my essay I can support my arguments and show the differences and similarities between the articles we read in anthropology.