Birth, Growth & Development. Gregory A. Justice Also-Known-As

Chapters 1–5 introduce an average boy who would become a remarkable man. Born in 1917, Louie Zamperini was the child of Italian immigrants. Growing up in Torrance amidst poverty and anti-Italian bias, Louie got in the habit of running outside the law. He started smoking when he was 5 years old and drinking when he was 8. He stole anything he wanted—mostly food, money, and whatever else he could find. He ran small scams and vandalized property. Pete, Louie’s older brother, became concerned.

In the article “The Prisoner” by Skip Hollandsworth tells the life story of Edwin Debrow, a young boy who grows up in the streets and fell into an out of control spiral when he joined the neighborhood gang. Edwin Debrow will go on to kill a taxi driver at the age of 12 and would now spend most of his life in jail. The author who has done numerous stories about kids and their tragic life has now focused on the case of Edwin

The protagonist of the story is an unnamed male whose experiments with alcohol and weed at fifteen years old lead to harder drugs and greater consequences that threaten his safety and security. For example, the narrator says, “Donny said he saw me standing sorta wonky in the back and said I need a hit. Donny was the first to get me high”, he implies that his friend Donny got him high because of how he was standing. The use of drugs did not just stop at marijuana, the narrator also indulged in alcohol, he goes on saying, “The rest of the kids would watch as Mark and I shotgunned Schlitz beneath the bleachers of the stadium”. Which eventually led to him dropping out if school and focusing on his habits and not his well-being. The protagonist constant influences from his friend and associates increased his use and encouraged the damages that were being done to him and his body. His habits started to heighten and the stronger drugs were amongst him,

The first Moore, the author, began his deviance in school through failing to do his assignments and performing extremely poorly in class. The second Moore, the prisoner, began through the use of a knife to solve conflicts as a child. Another case of defiance in the two children is evident when the first Moore, the author, started vandalizing public property. On the other hand, the other Moore was busy helping drug peddlers in supplying narcotics in the neighborhood. The mother of the first Moore became concerned of his son’s behavior and enrolled him to a prison school, where he would later become a leader of several cadets. It was while at this school that he gave his deviant behavior after several attempts to escape failed. The discipline levels in the school were extremely high, resulting in the young Moore changing his behavior for the better (Moore, 2011).

Everybody’s felt it. That tingling sensation making all the hairs stand on the back of your neck. The sweat slowly rolling down the spine. The consciousness that everyone is staring at you, and knows the horrible deed you’ve committed. The guilty conscience of a six-year-old is a terrifying experience, and Gary Soto portrays it perfectly in his short autobiography reminiscing on when he plundered an apple pie many years ago. As we follow young Soto through the pressures of being a young criminal, he enhances the readers understanding of what it was like by using many different rhetorical devices and strategies. Soto uses a combination of imagery, symbols, and intriguing diction that allows the reader to peer into the life of his younger self.

“Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever,” declared by past President William Howard Taft. Dated in 1789, the Judiciary Act by signed by Congress, which was demanded by the United States Constitution. This past principal court was ruled by a Chief Justice and five Associate Justices, accordingly today we still have a Chief Justice, but we currently have eight Associate Justices. The current Supreme Court has John G. Roberts, Jr. as Chief Justice, and the following are the current Associate Justices: Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr., Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan. Clarence Thomas, a conservative, best known as the second

The book True Notebooks by Mark Salzman highlights what our youth behind bars are going through while waiting for decisions on their lives to be made. Two interesting characters that stood out the most to me happened to be Mr. Mark Salzman because he embarked on an incredible journey of finding himself while helping others at the same time and Kevin Jackson who grew as a person throughout the book. Mr. Salzman’s character grew a lot from a man who was afraid of entering the steps of juvenile hall into a role model for the incarnated youth. While on the other hand, Kevin Jackson’s character grew from a shyboy to somebody who became very expressive of himself and appreciative of things around him. An article that helped me better understand Mr. Salzman’s charcter and Jackson’s was Synthesized Macsunlties by Victor Rios from our unit two reading due to the fact I was given an insight on Salzman’s and Jackson’s character traits.

The Baltimore Sun newspaper supplied an article about Wes Moore, a local who had just earned a Rhodes Scholarship. The same paper also ran a series of stories about four men who had robbed a jewelry store and allegedly been involved in the killing of a police officer. The police were still on the hunt for two of the suspects, who were also brothers. One of the two was named Wes Moore. After the newspaper ran the stories about the robbery, the manhunt, and the trial, Wes, the scholar, wrote a letter to the other Wes, a now convicted murderer who was serving a life sentence at Jessup Correctional Institution. His letter contained a jarring question: How did their lives end up so different? That first letter led to an ongoing correspondence in which the two discovered that a teens’ success is decided by his environment, education, and the expectations held to him.

When reading this autobiography it reminded me of my adolescent years; I remember feeling like I knew all there was to being a grown up, I also felt like my parents didn’t know much because they didn’t go to college. I strongly feel like they could have always done more than they were doing. Upon reading this, I felt as though I was reading Richard Rodriguez’s journal and he was a very unhappy kid living in the ghetto. He was also embarrassed of his own life and he seemed unhappy in his own skin... “(Ways of reading pg.339) A primary reason for my success in the classroom was that I couldn’t forget that success was changing me and separating me from the life I enjoyed before becoming a student”.

Although both men were affected very traumatically over their wives' passings, they both eventually remarried and found that life's filled with happiness.

The judge of his trial had been at his job for over 31 years and carried great weight over the town. As a result, he had a hand-picked, all white jury that would agree with anything he said or did. In James’s defense he had John S. Robinson, a 30 year old white lawyer, who believed that Richardson’s case was being handled unfairly as the judge constantly claimed James as guilty without a second thought and all the jurors were handpicked by the judge. Despite John Robinson’s best effort, he was unable to secure James an equitable trial. Against Richardson were three of his cellmates that he had met in the De Soto county jail.

Being the longest serving Chief Justice in Supreme Court History, John Marshall had plenty of opportunity to be influential. Out of all of his court cases, I believe that Marbury v Madison was his most important court case. This court case has always been one that was taught to us since we were in high school, along with more, but out of the ones talked about in the Modules. This is one that I am most familiar with and believe it is most important. This court case is a landmark court case and it established judicial review. This is important because it makes sure that whatever is decided does not go against the US Constitution.

Thesis: Transracial adoptees family situation affects many aspects of the adopted child’s life. Do these children have identity formation difficulties during adolescence and are there any significant differences between adoptees and birth children?

With Justice Gonzalez’s upbringing he was an incredibly relatable and inspiring person for many people with similar backgrounds which at the time he was being raised was. Despite the struggles he went thorough growing up as he was constantly moving he was still able to become a successful and extraordinarily influential person throughout the community.

Nationally, some students based on their behavior(s) in school are guided out of the school system, mostly public schools and led into the juvenile and criminal justice system. According to one study from 2010, over 3 million students were suspend from school in K - 12th grade and more than a quarter-million referred directly to the police for situations that were “non-threatening”. The majority of the students disciplined were students with disabilities, minority males, and surprisingly LGBT populations. Studies show music can be used in early education to improve cognitive development and positively influence and shape a student’s future. Additionally, studies show teens with either psychological, emotional, behavioral, social or another developmental challenges are working with music and art in the private industry to communicate and overcome personal struggles and fears because music has been proven powerful,