...Julia Bailey Audrey Petty Psychology 1301 25 November 2014 Charlie Sheen The actor’s given name is Carlos Irwin Estevez. He is 49 years old. We all know him as the infamous, Charlie Sheen. He comes from a family with acting in his blood. His father, Martin Sheen, his brother, Emilio Estevez, and a sister Ramon Estevez. They too, are actors. Although, he has been the highest paid actor on television, he rose to stardom after a series of successful films, such as Platoon and Ferris Beuller’s Day Off. He has been nominated for the ALMA, Emmy and Golden Globe Awards. He earned 1.8 million dollars per episode of “Two and a Half Men.” He starred in the show for eight years, until being fired by CBS Network. Charlie Sheen had a highly publicized “Meltdown”, which has leads to suggestion, that he has a Bipolar Disorder. A Bipolar Disorder is a mood disorder thought to be caused by chemical imbalances in the brain that can result in extreme swing mood-from manic highs to depressive lows. Charlie has portrayed this image many times on and off of television. For instance, when he made bizarre statements in a Television Interview stating that he is a “Warlock with tiger’s blood, and “Adonis DNA, and that he is “winning”. He would appear in media outlets every day ranting and raving. There were posted videos of Charlie smoking cigarettes through his nose. Sometimes, he would use profanity against his former employers. There was never a dull moment when Charlie Sheen was...
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...Along the border that connects the United States of America and Mexico lies Ciudad Juarez. An infamous border town that is known for a great many reason, not all being pleasant. Juarez, as is called by locals, is right across the town of El Paso, Texas. Being so close to the United States has made Juarez, and the state of Chihuahua, a very popular place for companies to invest money. Unfortunately, it also makes it favorable territory for the drug cartels in the region. The two at war for the city being Sinaloa and Juarez. These two organizations, along with the original shady local government of the town, aided in the blossom of intense violence in the form of femicide, gang killings and very violent and public murders beginning in the early...
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...Pablo Escobar was the cruelest and most brutal drug kingpin Columbia had ever seen. He was also the most intelligent. By being so intelligent he was able to become the seventh wealthiest man in the world and was able to build an empire that supplied cocaine to 80% of the world’s population. Through intimidation, fear, control, manipulation and brutality one of the world’s largest drug cartels rose in power over the citizens and government of Columbia and these characteristics is what also drove the Medellin cartel to its collapse in 1993. Pablo Escobar was born on December 1, 1949 to a peasant farmer and a school teacher. After many years as a small time criminal, Escobar saw an opportunity to become what he had always wanted; wealthy and powerful. Escobar realized the money he could make with coca paste. He would “buy the coca paste in Bolivia or Peru, smuggle the paste back into Columbia, grind the paste into cocaine and then transport it for sale in the U.S and many other countries.”(1) In 1976, Pablo Escobar murdered his way to the top of the Medellin cartel by killing off the cartel’s original kingpin, Fabio Restrepo. With this new position opened, Escobar now had sole control over Columbia’s cocaine trade. With his election into Columbia’s Congress in 1982, Escobar had a political advantage over his rival, The Cali Cartel. With his new found political power, Escobar could now reach his murderous hand into every corner of Columbia and every country beyond Columbia, including...
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...The so-called “War on Drugs,” as declared by the Nixon administration in the signing of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, marked the beginning of the current era of mandatory minimum sentencing, racism, privatized prisons, and a powerful constituency that profits as a result of the prohibition of drugs. Psychoactive substances have been apart of the human experience as long as humans have walked the earth. There is little hope that drug production will ever be curtailed, so long as there is a demand; a demand that has remained steady even though it has been forty years since the beginning of said war. As Judge James P. Gray from the Superior Court of Orange County has so plainly put it: “Where did this policy come from? Unfortunately I have conducted an inquiry into this and I have determined that drug prohibition laws came for reasons of racism, empire building, and ignorance.”(Booth) The War on Drugs is politically motivated as a means of profiting. One may ask them self how government can financially benefit from such policies. In fact, they benefit in a myriad of ways. The government spends an exorbitant amount of money in an attempt to combat drug production and drug usage. The U.S. government has spent over a trillion—that’s right a trillion—dollars in its attempt to eradicate the drug problem. With so much time, effort and money there should be something to show, right? Wrong. Today drugs are more prevalent, more potent and cheaper than...
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...OUTLINE RESEARCH PAPER Can Performance Enhancing Drugs (PED) actually be positive and beneficial for Major League Baseball? “As the likes of Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Roger Clemens and Alex Rodriguez saw their usage exposed, the sport fought back with tougher drug testing and after the 2005 season produced a program punitive enough to minimize the game's doping culture.” (Braun's test result gives MLB major jolt; With MVP under cloud, steroid era is revisited Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY), "Probably the biggest sentence to which he was subjected is the impact on whether he'll be a lock for the Hall of Fame and the stigma that is now attached to his name and his records."(Barry Bonds is sentenced in enduring BALCO saga; No end in sight to BALCO's reach by: Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY). Quotes like these could have been seen all over newspapers and magazines all throughout the past decade. Yes, these athletes did use Performance Enhancing Drugs (PED), but a debate has raged on about just how right are we to scrutinize them for those actions and just how inappropriate their actions were? With baseball professionals on both sides arguing how much of an impact they really had on the game. More so, I'd like to ask the question of whether what they had done was actually in a way good for baseball, and whether Performance Enhancing Drugs should even be banned from baseball? Which, I believe they shouldn’t be for numerous reasons. In order to understand just how...
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...Drug abuse was a major undoing to his reputation. It did reflect significantly on his achievements to a point where it was the basis of his dismissal by critics, as the game all time best player. His first big money move to Barcelona appeared to be massive on the then young Maradona as it’s where his drub abuse problems begun. Cocaine use became part of his flashy lifestyle and its addiction would later lead to his disgrace and downfall. Disputes with the club directors led to an unsettled era with the club before joining Napoli. It is in Italy that his drug problems escalated with his association with drug mafia families damaging his already bad reputation. In 1991, Maradona was suspended for 15 months after a failed drug test where he tested positive for cocaine. The 1994 world cup was however, the final blow to his glittering career. Having won a spot in the national team side to the world cup, Maradona was expelled from the tournament for failing yet another drug...
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... | 9/20/2013 | | It was the height of the great depression and America was home to some of the most desperate drug addicts. Society was at a loss as to how to handle the problem. Prisoners addicted to drugs in the mainstream prisons were not being treated humanely by officials or other inmates because it was felt that they did not have the moral character to fit into the general population. There were no other real places developed yet to house and treat people with addictions. In 1935 in a prison in Lexington, Kentucky the first treatment facility began looking for ways to help its inmates and others that were addicted to drugs. For the next couple of decades The Narcotic Farm, as it was called, became the most famous and infamous place available for the study and treatment of drug abuse. Addicted convicts would be treated in this prison but so would men and women who volunteered to go there for the help that no one else wanted to give them. Lexington held up to 1500 people, of which about one third were volunteer inmates who went there for 6 months of free treatment. Until this time addicts had been under the corrections umbrella. At other prisons addicts had been treated brutally, beatings had been common when inmates had been left to “kick” their addictions alone in their cells. The Narcotic Farm was run by doctors. Lexington was described as a “country club” with sports activities, music bands, honest work and activities which occupied their idle hands. It...
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...The past 15 years of popular entertainment have progressively brought a shocking force for children to grow up faster. For me, this disturbing trend has been obvious to observe because I have a younger sister who is 12. In grade school, my friends and I did not have favorite television programs other than a few silly cartoons such as “Ed Edd and Eddy,” “Fairly Odd Parents,” and of course the infamous “Spongebob Squarepants.” It is quite unfortunate that I am not able to say the same for my younger sister as poisonous shows such as “Hannah Montana,” “Victorious,” and “iCarly” engulfed her and her peers in elementary school. I characterize them as poisonous for a few reasons, primarily it is because they glorify “hooking up” with boys at an early age. They glorify going out earlier. They glorify makeup and prissiness earlier. They glorify the desire of attention from boys and provoke drama earlier. In summary, they celebrate young girls acting older earlier than they should, when in reality, these adolescents lack true maturity and life experience. As James Bond’s spy missions and his lady comrades began to intrigue me as I entered middle school, my sister had already cycled through numerous obsessions for multiple boy bands from “The Jonas Brothers” to “One Direction,” to “Justin Bieber.” The constant flow of this earlier maturing has progressed nonstop over the years; however, the last few have engulfed my sister and her friends like never before. The “Spy Kids” movie series...
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...Great men need not be good men. Greatness outweighs good qualities in an individual. It is defined as a state of superiority, a quality possessed by several individuals who stand out from the normal social construct. This quality places an individual under the admiration of the masses. It gives the individual a superior advantage over his fellow counterparts in a specific area of interest in which he has attained greatness. One is only regarded as a great when he has reached the pinnacle of success in his area of interest. On the other hand good is a quality possessed by a fairly larger amount of society in comparison to those who possess greatness. Good is a quality that requires an individual to uphold ethically sound qualities in relation to society’s norm. An individual who demonstrates characteristics such as integrity, honesty, humility and etc is classified as a good individual. There is a clear distinction between both the qualities. It is irrelevant that a man needs to be good in order to be considered a great. A great man may be a good person in his own terms, living a life within boundaries created by himself, like superman in Nietzsche’s words. On the contrary, another man may be deemed good by society living under the oppressive boundaries that society has set for him. Not living his life to its fullest but living a life to meet the terms of society’s goodness. In the words of Nietzsche, “Great men, like great epochs, are like explosive material in whom tremendous...
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...This country’s structure is made up of morals and politics, so anytime an issue receives mixed responses coming from two different points of view it always become controversial. Legalizing marijuana is a controversial topic; however, there many positive arguments to support the idea of legalizing marijuana. First of all, it’s very expensive to keep marijuana illegal. According to Jeffrey Miron, a senior lecturer at Harvard University who studied about the impact of drug legalization, it cost the government almost about 20 billion dollars every year for keeping marijuana illegal. There is no good reason for marijuana not to be legal. From a philosophical point of view, people deserve the right to make choices for themselves. The government only has a right to limit those choices if people’s actions endanger someone else, but marijuana does not The current laws are doing more harm than good, legalizing marijuana would benefit the country in many ways. The government should not tell individuals what to do as long as they not harming others. From a philosophical point of view, individuals deserve the right to make choices for themselves. According to the philosopher Herbert Spencer, what equal freedom means is that: firstly people will have the responsibility for their own lives, rather than surrendering this responsibility to others (or pretending that they have given up responsibility, which is every bit as destructive), secondly since that will be true, fewer mistakes will be...
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...the edges belong to a twenty-one-year-old exotic dancer. Kim and Myra went to the club for the sole reason of nabbing prints from a female employed in the sex industry. They enjoyed drinks last evening with the long-legged redhead featured pole dancer at The Devil’s Angels gentleman’s club. The young woman from Virginia Beach had no idea at the time that her prints were being used as a decoy in a murder. As it were, the lipstick smudges and smeared fingerprints will stand out like a two-headed cow at the State Fair. The average medical examiner will surmise a simple case of an accidental overdose -- toxic intoxication as it were. Written off as just another case of death by partying too hard. The craving for more alcohol, sex, and cocaine is not an unusual method of demise in these hills of Hollywood. The scene resembled a pack of hungry female wolves killing a buffalo. Kim and Myra, now wearing a medical grade surgical mask, gloves gown, coveralls, with their hair pinned up under baseball caps, move fast to exit. Step-by-step they eradicate every shred of evidence, in the middle of now using industrial-strength disinfectant to cover their tracks. Quick work, vacuuming, washing the furniture, tarnishing fingerprints and microscopic fibers. Hardly a minute passes when Myra steps into the bedroom and checks Livingston's pulse. Surprisingly, Livingston’s still breathing -- she speedily calls out to Kim, growls like a starving Sahara lioness on a hunt. “Livingston's still...
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...Running head: PLATO’S INFINATE Plato’s Infinite Wisdom Student Paper February 23rd, 2008 The University of Montana-Western Plato’s Infinite Wisdom Plato was, and remains a very influential and relevant Greek philosopher that lived between (427 and 347 B.C.E) (Stevenson and Haberman, 2004). Plato was extremely diverse and accomplished in his lifetime achievements. His rise to fame began as a student of the great philosopher Socrates, but progressed into many other dignified positions. He is accredited with teaching another great philosopher and scientist named Aristotle, who later taught Alexander the Great. Plato also founded the worlds’ first formal university in Athens called The Academy (Brickhouse, 2006). Plato’s philosophical research was far deeper than anything previously explored and transcends 2500 years without losing modern applicability. His vast writings began with the study of human nature, ethics, morals, knowledge, and progressed into complex theories on reality, dualism, government and the human soul. The most famous of these dialogues, The Republic, but later works like The Laws and The Statesman are equally impressive. Plato believed education, knowledge, and truth were essential for society to become moral and just. The outcome of successful societies was stability and peace. Personally, Plato believed in a spiritual gain given to those who succeed, but his theories were not based on personal beliefs like the widely disputed and...
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...Celebrity endorsement: the various uses made of celebrity involvement in marketing strategies. My focus: Star Power: Why so many of us buy cosmetics to 'get the London look' ‘I touched you at the sound check: you’re just the same as I am, but what makes these people feel happy, leads us headlong into harm’ this is a famous quote from the infamous singer song-writer Morrissey, described by NME is ‘one of the most influential artists ever’. This one man has inspired thousands of musicians and has set the standard for indie music, worldwide. In this case, Morrissey’s celebrity status has made a positive impact on his fan-base, even though his private life might not be so admirable, he has been awarded elitism from the masses because of his musical skills. This is refreshing, especially in todays world where a celebrity, according to Wikipedia is ‘someone who is easily recognised in a society or culture’, they may be famous for 15 minutes or a lifetime, for an achievement or through pure infamy and be positive or negative, to name just a few. The stark contrasts between each of these groups connotes that a celebrity is hard to explain. And do they even need explaining? Not in the post-modern era were living in today; they’re quite simply just another part of society, at least in my opinion. Richard Dyer documented that ‘stars articulate what it is to be human in contemporary society’ and this seems so in the case of fan-culture and star worship my peer group are subconsciously...
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...The Drug War: Will It Ever Stop? INTRODUCTION The United States and Mexico share a border that stretches 2,000 miles. The border is a product of the clash of the British and Spanish Empires. It is a place of lawlessness and violence. Drug cartels have used the border to smuggle illegal drugs into the United States for years. The United States market for drugs is a multibillion dollar a year industry. 90% of the illegal drugs that are smuggled into America come through our southern borders. As a nation we consume over 50% of the worlds illegal drugs, which exemplify the problem that America has with drug consumption. The demand for illegal drugs in the US allows drug cartels in Mexico to make billions of dollars by smuggling Marijuana, and Methamphetamines through the US/Mexican Border. Efforts to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the US have been unsuccessful. Drug Cartels use various methods in the transportation of their merchandise. Such methods include using underground tunnels, semi trucks, automobiles, and humans to transport these illegal drugs. Only 3 to 8 percent of the drugs that are smuggled from Latin America into the United States is confiscated, which is a very discouraging number. Our border patrol and DEA need to do a better job securing our borders and preventing the flow of such harmful drugs into America. There are a reported 7 cartels that operate in Mexico; the biggest players in the drug trade between Mexico and the US are the Tijuana, Juarez, Sinaloa...
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...taken in order to “fix the skids”. A few issues that will be discussed include: the cost of drugs, harm reduction, drug rehabilitation programs, drug importation, revisal of criminal justice system, and criticisms. According to Wikipedia, Vancouver was for many years the main port-of-entry for the North American opium supply resulting in the rise in popularity for the usage of opium and heroin. During the Great Depression, a pattern of social decay became well established in the Downtown Eastside due to the gathering of the unemployed and poor amongst the area. During the 1970’s, the alcohol and poverty problems in the area was made worse by the expansion of the drug trade which included the importation of crack cocaine. Currently, Downtown Eastside is infamous for its open drug trade and drug-related deaths. Wikipedia explains that Vancouver's Skid Row has the highest per capita heroin-related deaths and the highest rate of HIV and Hepatitis C infections in North America. Contrary to many beliefs, drug addiction is not...
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