.... Drug users are parasites, feeding off society's money, taxes and insurance. Every type of insurance goes up because of drug abuse, including auto, health and homeowners. Worst of all, the crime rate will sky rocket if we let this behavior continue. Illegal drugs and their abusers are a plague to society for many different reasons.. Drugs have very harmful effects on the user and the people with whom the user interacts. The user is affected in many ways. The most popular drug in America, alcohol, is generally thought of as socially acceptable and relatively harmless. But it can have devastating effects. Alcohol might seem very harmless but it can harm the user ....

.... people. As long as exists in our society it will continue to spark the injustice which it has failed to curb. is immoral and unethical. It does not matter who does the killing because when a life is taken by another it is always wrong. By killing a human being the state lessens the value of life and actually contributes to the growing sentiment in today's society that certain individuals are worth more than others. When the value of life is lessened under certain circumstances such as the life of a murderer, what is stopping others from creating their own circumstances for the value of one's life such as race, class, religion, and economics. Immanual Kant, a great p ....

.... households. The problem of drug and alcohol is a major one. Teenagers feel a need to drink and do drugs to fit in to peer groups. The problem is widespread. The common thoughts that drugs are only in the city where the poor live but that is wrong. Any single person can get drugs from the inner city to the small rural towns of Texas and Nebraska. It doesn't matter where you are. There is a major need for adults to intervene and stop the problem at its beginnings, the adolescents. If we sit here and deny the fact that the problem is there then we are just setting ourselves up for disaster. II.) Review of Literature: A Source 1: The first piece of liter ....

.... allowing capital punishment for the crime of murder (n.pag.) Since then, the courts have sentenced over 2,500 convicted murderers to death (Tushnet 1), and 494 of these have been executed (Bedeau n.pag.) Although many see capital punishment as a useful tool, . It is true that the death penalty is becoming increasingly more popular and widely used in the United States. Ever since the death penalty was ruled constitutional again in 1976, the rate of executions per year has risen tremendously fast, especially in the last few years. There were no more than 30 executions nationwide in a single year until 1992, and that number jumped up to 74 in 1997 (“Execution” n.pag.). ....

.... states that do have it, then those that do not. In order for capital punishment to work as a deterrence, certain events must be present in the criminal's mind prior to committing the offence. The criminal must be aware that others have been punished in the past for the offence that he or she is planning, and that what happened to another individual who committed this offence, can also happen to me. But individuals who commit any types of crime ranging from auto theft to 1st-Degree Murder, never take into account the consequences of their actions. Deterrence to crime, is rooted in the individuals themselves. Every human has a personal set of conduct. How much they wil ....

.... is one step in the right direction towards curing this seemingly unbeatable disease. How does legalizing one of the most deadly substances known to man actually eliminate it? It sounds ironical, but in fact, it makes perfect sense. First, by making drugs legal, you eliminate all source of profit made by dealers in illegal trading. Destroying that aspect of society will reduce the amount of drug related crime. Then that money will be used to set up treatment centers and rehabilitation clinics across America to help the already addicts. Keep in mind, is not the only answer, yet is a definitive step in the right direction. Education is the key to battling drug abuse, ....

.... is the death penalty will act to discourage other criminals from committing violent acts. Numerous studies have been created attempting to prove this belief; however, "all the evidence taken together makes it hard to be confident that capital punishment deters more than long prison terms do."(Cavanagh 4) In relation to the times in the French Revolution where murderers and thieves heads were thrown into the guillotine, our society today is at a much higher level of thinking. Why should we bring ourselves to the level of thinking that was used almost two hundred years ago? The executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, has stated that "…people are increasing ....

.... helps that my parents are both avid seatbelt wearers because drivers who do wear belts are three times more likely to buckle up their kids. Of course, I had to wear my seat belt and sit in the back seat. I did not always do what my parents asked, but I did tend to wear my seatbelt all the time. It became habit to jump in the car and buckle up. Without a seatbelt, I feel as though I am missing something and I feel completely naked without it. In the past fifteen years, I have, unfortunately, been a passenger in approximately ten car accidents. A few of these were significant enough to cause minor injuries. But in two specific cases, the police officer reminded the dri ....