...Second Chances Cold blooded murder is cold blooded murder no matter if a 17 year old commits the crime or a 40 year old. When you are holding someone’s’ life in your hands and deciding how long they should serve in prison for their crime, I would imagine it to be a very difficult situation, especially if the person is under 18. But I also believe that the punishment should fit the crime. The Supreme Court ruled that it violates the 8th amendment for a minor to go to prison for life without the chance for parole. I agree with the Supreme Court’s decision because there are many extenuating circumstances that need to be taken into account, no matter if you are dealing with a minor or an adult. First and foremost murder is murder no matter who commits it, but when you are young and you commit such a heinous crime, I believe that you are mentally unstable. I think that these people should be helped psychologically. This does not mean that they shouldn’t go to prison and that they just get a pat on the back and a referral to a psychologist, this means that they should get a chance for parole if they mature and get mentally stable. The character of a juvenile is not as well formed as that of an adult so that person should get a chance to prove that he or she deserves a second chance. Secondly, juveniles are very easily influenced by peer pressure. They are forced into situations in which they don’t really know what to do, which could force them to act out and do something horrible...
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...Second Chance: Plot: A young man contemplating about what led him to the edge of the cliff. Characters: The main character is only known by his nick name Babs. He talks about his family and refers to his dad as Baba, (which is Arabic for dad). Conflict: A man with a conflicting mind contemplates and reflects on the past few years in his life that led him to the edge of the cliff, on his back, covered in blood, overwhelmed with regret, fear, and pain. There’s two ways off the ledge, either way, someone dies. Setting: This story takes place in both Chicago, Illinois in the winter of 2014, and in Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska in the summer of 2019. Point of View: The 1st person point of view of Babs. When death is lurking in your veins, your life presents itself to you through your dimming, and regretful eyes, in the way you lived. In life, every couple years or so, you reflect on yourself, seeing what and who you are versus what and who you wanted to be. I’ve never been where I should or wanted to be. I’ve made some mistakes, just like every other human being. What I’ve done in my short twenty four years of life on gods beautiful green earth has led me here. Lying on the edge of this cliff, with my neck and torso over this mountain top, blood slowly flowing up my shoulder and down my neck like a stream of interconnecting rivers; one river ending at my mouth forcing me to swallow my own blood, the others getting in my eyes and going throw my gaping nostrils gasping...
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...I was grateful when I graduated High School. School was a social event for me, not a learning experience. I don't know how I passed anyways considering I never went and when I did I never paid much attention. Needless to say I hated reading; actually despised it! It was such a waste of time. I decided to take a year off school to relax and then enroll in college. Little did I know that one year off was going to actually going to turn into seventeen years. A series of bad choices started a downward spiral that I needed a lot of help to get out of. I never thought that I was going to get most of my help from reading and writing. For many years, I followed the path that many generations of my family had gone down. It was in my blood and I knew it but I didn't think it would happen to me. This disease was not only destructive but it was fatal. I'm talking about addiction. It started slowly at the age of thirteen. It helped me take my mind off of my life and some very traumatic events. At first it was a here and there thing. Gradually it went to weekly using; before I knew it, it was daily. I didn't even realize that weeks, months, even years were flying by me. My whole day and night was consumed with the getting and using of drugs and alcohol. If I wasn't under the influence I acted like a bear woken up from hibernation. Noone could stand to be around me. My family Swecker 2 wouldn't even step into the same room for fear of an attack. With...
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...because of the way they live their lives. In Groundhog Day the main character Phil is an arrogant, sarcastic weatherman absorbed in his own discomforts, without hope, and cut off from other people. He is forced to relive the same day, groundhogs day, over and over again. In “The Metamorphosis the main character is Gregor Samsa, a man who spends his time working to pay off a debt for his father. Gregor wakes up to find that he has turned into a beetle. Throughout these two works the main characters try to go back to living their life as before not realizing that this is their second chance at life to make things right. Phil manages to do so only by breaking through and becoming a person of intimacy, creativity and compassion which sets him free from his exile of living in the same day over and over again. As for Gregor, going from someone everyone depends on to something no one wants to care for, he doesn’t get a chance to have everything go back to normal. He dies and his family, for once, is relieved. Groundhog Day lets us experience what it would be like to make a breakthrough like this in our own lives. The movie shows us a character that is like the worst in ourselves. Like us, he finds himself in an inexplicable situation, something like fate. But, unlike us, he gets the luxury of being stuck in the same day until he gets it right. Where most of us go semi-automatically through most of our days, he is forced to stop and treat each day like a world onto itself, and decide how to...
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...A Second Chance at Life Have you ever prayed for a second chance at life? Well I have been asking God every day for another chance to change my life. I have made many terrible decisions in my life and I’m still suffering from them today. A second chance at life allows you to learn from your mistakes and give you the opportunity to make a better decision the second time around. My mistakes and decisions didn’t discourage me from my goals but it made me a stronger woman. God has brought me through so many obstacles to open my eyes, but I do know he wouldn’t have put me through anything I couldn’t handle. I will like a second chance at life to do better in high school, do better my freshman year in college and stayed home with my parents until I was ready to leave. Before Hurricane Katrina, I would only care for academics. I was an “A” student and was placed in all gifted classes. During the hurricane, I was forced to attend any school available and I didn’t get alone with my teachers. At the time, I was a junior, the school’s counselor couldn’t find my records and I was placed back in the ninth grade until they found them. The hurricane discouraged me and I was no longer focused; furthermore, I gave up and became a follower. I began to careless about my grades and GPA. I was the class clown and I would pick fights for childish reasons. There were times when I wanted to drop out of high school and get a GED. I will like a second chance to at life to have...
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...No Second Chances Here Can prisoners be rehabilitated? My preliminary response to this question is yes, prisoners can be rehabilitated, but prison is not the place for that to happen. I believe that people want to change if they are driven to change within themselves. Never have I seen or heard of a man who changed because someone else told him he should. He had to want to be rehabilitated. It is my personal opinion that you can’t take every man in prison and expect him to be successfully rehabilitated. He has to prove that he truly wants to change, and then the process can begin. What do I mean by rehabilitation? I believe that rehabilitation, when referring to prisoners, is taking an inmate, finding his or her weaknesses, and strengthening them to better him or her permanently. By permanently I mean to the point where they could be released back into society without any concern that he or she would relapse and cause a disturbance again, whether it be the same crime they previously committed or a new one altogether. For example, in Scott Antworth’s essay “The Tower Pig”, he discusses how he has tried to better himself during his time in prison. In the end of the essay his guard takes him to his grandmother’s funeral, where he lets him out of his chains. He didn’t do anything stupid, and both he and the guard trusted his judgment. That is rehabilitation. Every person on the face of the earth has a weakness. In general, a weakness is viewed as a flaw that causes one to fail...
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...Second chances. Life gives everybody second chances whether they want to acknowledge it or not. In Jane’s case, she had many of these chances that were bound to change her one way or another. Jane became more at rest with her soul as the book continued, then she proceeded to get her identity taken away from her as she started to fall more and more in love with Mr. Rochester. She started off so proud, but as the story progressed, she became humble because of the life she was living before and the things she had to face in the past. That was when she was most at balance with herself and with her life. Then slowly but surely, she started losing herself in her husband’s arms in an artificial version of happily ever after. Looking back at one’s past, there may have been many instances when words pour out of one’s mouth like a waterfall and one just can’t stop oneself. One knows whatever one is going to say is truly horrible, but there’s the thing, you just don’t care. This is what happened to Jane. Threads have been wearing thin for a while and all of the thoughts that she had been keeping in her...
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...Children in the United States who commit serious crimes are no longer being tried as juveniles but are being tried as adults and are getting life in prison. Kids as young as the age of 13 are being given life in prison with no opportunity at a second chance. The court systems are failing to recognize that these juveniles have their whole lives ahead of them.. Juveniles in the United States deserve second chances; they are not old enough or fully developed to know any better. Juveniles in the United States who are sentenced to life in prison still deserve a second chance at life, even if they commit a serious crime. Children in the United States, especially younger kids, are easily influenced by media and what type of home environment they live in because of their age. Kids tend to copy what they see, that means if they see something they should not be doing around them or on media, there is a chance that they will replicate it. The way children learn and behave is drastically different from the way adults do, which is why they should not be tried as adults and get sentenced to life. Children have the potential to change more than adults do. While kids are young they view the world differently. As Garinger mentioned adolescents are “less...
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...Juvenile Offenders: Children Worth Giving a Second Chance Sarah Kee COM/156 June 13, 2012 “Young people are not only disproportionately the perpetrators of crime; they are also disproportionately the victims of crime”—Kelly Richards. When I think about the severity of crime, my last thought is that a child would commit such thing. When that does happen, it comes as a shock to me. Although I do agree that a juvenile should be punished for their wrong doings, I don’t agree with that way the law handles things. Juvenile offenders charged as adults are being robbed of their lives and deserve to get a second chance to make better decisions. My Take on How the Law Handles Juveniles Offenders From a personal standpoint, I can’t help but disagree with how the law sometimes takes its course. In this case, my matter of contention is juveniles being charged as adults for severe crimes. That’s not the only problem, not only are they being charged as adults, but also they are being sent to these adult prisons to serve time. I don’t want to give off the wrong impression that I feel it’s alright for children to commit such severe crimes and not have some source of consequence. The controversy here is to look at the big picture and consider another alternative for the problem. I’m aware of the severity of one committing a homicide or even a sexual assault, especially for it to be a child. That intuition comes from somewhere though. Causes of Juvenile Abomination There are a few...
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...I would need a time machine to make my first impression better. I believe in second chances because maybe your first chance wasn't quit right, or maybe you know you're capable of doing better. Everybody makes mistakes and deserves a second chance to redeem themselves. As a girl that goes through an anomaly of situations I May sometimes be in need of a second chance, but I choose not to be the girl that people show pity to. I could've told my teachers that my ongoing arguments at home are the reason that I didn't complete my homework or the reason that I am tired at school is because of restless nights. I choose not to be the girl with the million excuses and sob stories. I want to be the girl that prevails through it all without a care in the world. In the beginning of my high school carrier second chances were the bulk of my grades. I felt too independent to tell people my weaknesses. During mid-terms I fell behind and my teacher told me "If you promise to do your best and work hard for the rest of the school year then I will give you a second chance." From that point on I took advantages of my second chances. I grew to learn that second chances weren't just ways to ignore assignments or to be careless, they were to help you build yourself and show that I have potential to be a scholar. Since my freshman year didn't go very well I figured my sophomore year would be my all time second chance. I assumed that since I knew some of the teachers and my pears that the year would...
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...Do Inmates Deserve a Second Chance? Cari Adee, James Crooms, Latandra Sain, Taylor Cotter, Rodney Henry, Breanna Johnson, Latonia Pitts BCOM/275 7/20/2014 Do inmates deserve a second chance? Every time that you turn on the news you see it: School shootings, babies being left in the car by parents, people selling and doing drugs, people being murdered, raped and assaulted. According to the inter press services, in the last three decades people that are in prison have increased almost 790 percent, in the last 30 years the inmates count has risen from 25,000 to 219,000 and is still rising at a disrupting rate. The question that we need to ask ourselves is if the people that get out of prison deserve a second chance at a normal life. Everyone has a different opinion on this topic. Some people will agree that once a person serves time for the crime that they committed then they deserve a chance to start over. While others think that those who committed a crime should have thought about their actions before they did the things that they did. This paper will not just go over to the pros of why inmates deserve a second chance but the cons as well, in hopes that whoever reads this paper will make their own judgments based on all the information and not just part of the evidence. There are many pros for why a criminal deserves a second chance at life. For instance, many criminals have families that are in need of their assistance, financially, physically, and emotionally. There...
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...Should juveniles who commit first or second- degree murder receive a mandatory sentence of life without parole? That is a question that many people are asking themselves. This is a very debatable question due to the fact that if a juvenile does change, then he/she wouldn't have a chance at a new life because of the life sentence. I believe they should be granted a second chance, but if they take that second chance for granted, then they should be sentenced to life without parole. On the other hand, there has been cases where a teen who was sentenced to life got a second chance, but decided to take it for granted for being immature and emotionally unstable. Many teens make reckless decisions while growing up, some don't know better but others do. Where I stand in this situation is that juveniles should not be sentenced to mandatory life sentences without parole. Not many...
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...characters life turned out completely different. One becoming a Rhode scholar and the other in jail for the rest of his life. One page 67, the author Wes wrote, “ I guess it's hard sometimes to distinguish between second chances and last chance.” Both Wes Moores had second chances in their life and could of redeemed themselves easily. But the difference between the two realistic characters was the author Wes Moore, took the the second chance as a gift and the other Wes Moore, just took advantage of it and let it slip away. Overall, both Wes Moore’s received many second chances that affected both in different ways. To start off, the author...
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...influences in Encanto as well as look at some nursing diagnosis that apply to this community. Role of Community and Public Health Nursing and Community Partnerships In Encanto the role of community and public health is not in the forefront of the community. Although services are available though the city of San Diego for those in need at no to little cost depending on your income very few residence are aware. There are other community resources and partnerships that can refer families of my community such as the second chance that helps homeless, ex-drug addicts, felons, adults, veterans, youth (16-18). Second Chance offers programs for reducing unemployment; repeat crimes and homelessness, empowering our clients to make sustainable personal changes that positively impact society. “Second Chance also delivers wrap-around services that include rehabilitation, housing, mental health and financial literacy, to get people off the streets and into the workforce” (Second Chances Program, 2014). Another public health partnership that could be useful to my community is the Black Infant Health Program (BIH). (BIH) program provides services to African-American pregnant and postpartum women with infants up to 3 months of age. The BIH program works to ensure that African-American babies are born healthy and have the opportunity to grow into healthy children. (County of San Diego, n.d.) Influence of Cultural Diversity...
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