Drug Story: Mindy
1) Her story
Mindy, her life and story of painfulness everyday all began with one party. Her parents were always out of town and Mindy always had the house to herself, she could do whatever she wanted and her parents wouldn't have been there to stop her. One day when she was 15, she went to a party and some people offered her some meth, she started to take it and get high at school but soon, she got kicked out because she was cutting class. She felt that school interfered with her drug life and she also became pregnant with her son, Isaiah. She lived with her boyfriend who was a meth cook so she could easily abuse the drug.
2) What does Meth do?
To find out what happened to Mindy, we need to look at what meth is and what meth does to you. Meth is a synthetic chemical that acts like a stimulant. Meth can be snorted, injected, smoked or swallowed. It increases your energy and gives you a feeling sort of like being the happiest person on earth (referred to as “high”). Other effects of meth can be: Euphoria (happy feeling, confident), increase in energy and attentiveness, insomnia (inability to get enough sleep), fidgeting, and anxiety or panic attacks. Long term effects are addiction, weight loss and damage to the brain due to lack of sleep and chemicals from the drug itself. However, Mindy made a miraculous recovery when she checked herself into a rehab center. It was hard for her but in the end, she did it.
Prostitution Story: Jessi
1) Her story:
Jessi was a girl that lives in the streets of Reno, Nevada. Her home life in California was unstable so she ran away joining the Navy. For a few years, she felt happy but soon she was discharged and she became homeless and started to take drugs. She started to sell herself after her drug dealer suggested her to do it since she needed the money. When she got tired of working on the street, she advertised herself on the internet. She used many aliases to do business and most of the time, they would be in plain sight but only the ones that looked for it found them.
2) Background information:
Most of the time, the women involved in street prostitution have a man behind it, one that's controlling her, and he is the pimp. The pimp is the man that makes the girls think they wont ever need to work again, they'll always have enough money, if they work for him, in prostitution and dealing drugs. In most cases, this would sound very appealing to women that just got bankrupted or is on the verge of bankruptcy and is homeless. The police are trying to arrest the pimps behind all of it but they would always need a witness to arrest them since there are no other evidence that can prove pimps force the women to do it but usually the abused women would be afraid to testify fearing their family and themselves would be in danger. Outside street prostitution, there are places where selling your body is legal. One such place is Moonlight Bunny Ranch in Carson City. When investigated, the women there are quite happy with their work, they make more in a day then most people do in a week.
Casino Story: John Soares
His Story:
John Soares was your average everyday working man. After getting married, he opened a shop selling donuts, however it ended up in failure and his wife left him due to debt and finance issues. John first started cheating in casinos when a friend of him asked him to help with a job, which he did not add, was illegal. John made an additional $100 every week which was quite a lot in the 1960’s. He got busted a few months later and was sentenced to five years in prison. In prison he met a man that would change his life forever, Ned Coleman. Ned was in prison for the murder of a gaming official and he taught John everything there was to cheating. John would practice everyday, two hours in the morning and two in the night. After being released, John traveled to Las Vegas to test his skills and that's when he was recruited by Glen Grayson, to a team that cheated casinos. Everything from 21 black jack, to slots, to craps they would cheat.
Background information:
Over the years, they made millions and none of them were ever arrested. All of this ended when Grayson was on his way to meet John to talk but his plane crashed and he was killed. The team dissembled and never got together again. How did they do it? For craps, they took a picture of the die, and they would make rigged dices and switch them. In black jack, they would learn tricks with their hands to hide cards and to distinguish them. For slots, they would rig the machine with small unnoticeable tools.
Conclusion:
In this world, there are all sorts of sins people do, most of the time they cant help it since they need the money, or they become addicted and can’t stop. There will continue to be sins in this world since their will always be the richest and the selfish ones that wouldn't help with homeless forcing them to do illegal things to survive. Until the day where everyone becomes equal, the rich and the poor, there will continually be sins in this world.
Bibliography:
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=4495721&page=1
http://panachereport.com/channels/more%20short%20stories/CasinoCheats.htm
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Thursday, May 14, 2009
I Believe Paper
I Believe this World is unfair…
Why are there drug dealers, and prostitutes evading the law? Is it because they enjoy doing what they do? Getting abused and always on the lookout for the cops? No, it is because they have no other choice to survive. This world is not a fair place, there is no happy ending for some of us, there are people starving in third world countries while we complain about how much homework we have. I have learned this through reading Sin City and interviewing many ex-prostitutes and drug dealers in jail and this is what I believe.
Of the prostitutes I interviewed, most of them began with their parents being divorced or separated or being alcoholics. This probably led to abuse, which would probably lead them to either foster parents or influencing them to become like their parents or in the case of separation, the parents would have less control over their kids. Without a loving family to care for them, they start down the path of darkness and without parents to guide them, they go in further and further. If their parents were drug dealers, they would’ve easily gotten a hold of the drug and may have started using at a very young age. Later, they would sell everything they had to get the drug because they were addicted, some would even steal things just to get money for drugs.
For them to survive, they needed money, that is when some of the to-be prostitutes become what they are, the drug dealers tells them that they could earn money by selling their bodies. They would sell their bodies working under the drug dealer and they would get some drugs and some money to buy food and other necessities. After they started this path, they cannot stop, it becomes steeper and steeper. Becoming a prostitute for some was forced upon them, the world was not very fair to them.
Casino cheaters and drug dealers, some became these by greed and they deserve the treatment they got but others, the ones that have been scammed out of their life savings, the ones that are threatened by “bad guys” to bring up money to pay for blackmail, or threatening to kill them. Is that fair for them? No. They might have been random picks off the street, innocent parents with kids and they just happened to leave their kid unattended for just a moment and that is when they made their move. Not all the people in the world has enough money to pay for a blackmail so they need to find alternatives to getting money.
However, it is also unfair to the people that casino players cheat off of. They are losing hundreds of thousands of dollars by just one person or one group of people planning it and I don't think it is quite fair for them either. The police that have to catch the drug dealers, they may get hurt or even killed sometimes, is it fair for them? What about their families? One day your son is fine and he goes to work, at 3 in the morning, you receive a call that you never want to get.
If you are born in a good standard family and you have a happy childhood, that's pretty much starting at the halfway point in the race. If you do something wrong or step off the race, you get disqualified already. You have to run more, you have to try harder, work harder and they will probably still win. Life isn’t without flaws and this is why I believed that this world is not fair to each and everyone of us.
Why are there drug dealers, and prostitutes evading the law? Is it because they enjoy doing what they do? Getting abused and always on the lookout for the cops? No, it is because they have no other choice to survive. This world is not a fair place, there is no happy ending for some of us, there are people starving in third world countries while we complain about how much homework we have. I have learned this through reading Sin City and interviewing many ex-prostitutes and drug dealers in jail and this is what I believe.
Of the prostitutes I interviewed, most of them began with their parents being divorced or separated or being alcoholics. This probably led to abuse, which would probably lead them to either foster parents or influencing them to become like their parents or in the case of separation, the parents would have less control over their kids. Without a loving family to care for them, they start down the path of darkness and without parents to guide them, they go in further and further. If their parents were drug dealers, they would’ve easily gotten a hold of the drug and may have started using at a very young age. Later, they would sell everything they had to get the drug because they were addicted, some would even steal things just to get money for drugs.
For them to survive, they needed money, that is when some of the to-be prostitutes become what they are, the drug dealers tells them that they could earn money by selling their bodies. They would sell their bodies working under the drug dealer and they would get some drugs and some money to buy food and other necessities. After they started this path, they cannot stop, it becomes steeper and steeper. Becoming a prostitute for some was forced upon them, the world was not very fair to them.
Casino cheaters and drug dealers, some became these by greed and they deserve the treatment they got but others, the ones that have been scammed out of their life savings, the ones that are threatened by “bad guys” to bring up money to pay for blackmail, or threatening to kill them. Is that fair for them? No. They might have been random picks off the street, innocent parents with kids and they just happened to leave their kid unattended for just a moment and that is when they made their move. Not all the people in the world has enough money to pay for a blackmail so they need to find alternatives to getting money.
However, it is also unfair to the people that casino players cheat off of. They are losing hundreds of thousands of dollars by just one person or one group of people planning it and I don't think it is quite fair for them either. The police that have to catch the drug dealers, they may get hurt or even killed sometimes, is it fair for them? What about their families? One day your son is fine and he goes to work, at 3 in the morning, you receive a call that you never want to get.
If you are born in a good standard family and you have a happy childhood, that's pretty much starting at the halfway point in the race. If you do something wrong or step off the race, you get disqualified already. You have to run more, you have to try harder, work harder and they will probably still win. Life isn’t without flaws and this is why I believed that this world is not fair to each and everyone of us.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
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