D. H. D Nation Book Report

The final stage of drug use is the aftermath. Once someone can no longer get the drug, they are left with serious side effects and the life that they had before the abuse, is not a figment of their imagination. Once these boys get football taken away from them, they are left with nothing. If one is injured and cannot return to play, they are left without the college ball or professional league. And many times, their academics have been put on hold, which results in little to no academic future for them. We see this when Jerrod McDougal is thinking about his future. “I’ve got no idea what I want to do. I’ve got no idea what school I want to go to. My SAT won’t be worth a shit. And no football school wants me” (Bissinger 308). Jerrod is now in the position where there is not football future for him, and he has no academic future to fall back on. Any chances for a good life have vanished for him, all because his addiction to football blinded him from reality. He got so wrapped

Chapter 14: Chapter fourteen focuses on ADD and two commonly prescribed ADD medications: ritalin and adderall. Apparently, many non-ADD students are using other people's prescriptions to get a competitive edge at school, especially during testing periods or finals. Even more shocking is that some parents actually push for their non-ADD children to be diagnosed so that they can get them drugs. They will shop around for doctors and go through visit after visit until they find someone willing or prescribe. In the lives of the students, as SAT scores come out, one of the kids Robbins was following describes the different types of “score weasels” at her school – kids who spend all their time comparing and trying to find out each other's scores. Another student reacts angrily when her mother talks to other parents about the students score report. This “age of comparison” phenomenon extends to students' choices of schools where they apply – they are constantly asked where they've applied, where they've been accepted, and they feel as though they are being

Permian high school has little to no academic expectations for their student athletes, especially the football boys. If someone was injured on the team, the coaches didn’t expect them to go to class. Bissinger states, “There was no point in coming to school just to go to class” (Bissinger 49). These boys are being taught that academics aren’t important because football will be their only future. If these boys do attend their classes, their academic ability is way below average. ‘“Even though you have trouble reading, I think you read good. I hope that you become a professional football player, said Shauna”’ (Bissinger 50). Isn’t it sad that a high school boy’s reading ability is so bad that a young girl knows that that isn’t normal? The academic system for Permian athletes is setting up these kids for total

Journalist Alexandra Robbins ventures back to her old high school to examine the competitive efforts students are having to take to compete on the battlefield that is the education system in her book, The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids. Robbins explores the lives of multiple students who are stressed and pressured to maintain good grades and get into an Ivy League college. This text allows for intriguing insight on how the educational system has “spiraled out of control” and displays the different measures students must now take to be the best. Robbins’ The Overachievers is an eye-opening bestseller which exposes the social pressures and anxieties students must overcome in their high school lives as they attempt to impress and prove to colleges they are worthy of acceptance.

everyone breaks the rules or regulations at some point in their lives. It could be because of pedestals, marijuana, or any other supplement that helps you perform better than normal. William is only comparing the academic side and the athletic side of taking pedestals because that is the most common places you hear or see people using them. The reason why students are using them because they have grown up with their parents bickering in their ear about getting good grades to become successful. Since William has been a part of pedestals, William said, “Just like every other person on this planet, I was giving in to the incentive scheme that was presented to me. The negative of doing poorly on the test was far greater than the negative of getting caught, discounted by the anesthetic of low probability”. The athletes are using them because they think they need to be better than everyone else and that they should be the one that stands out during an event. William gives us an example of Alex Rodriguez, “And at the deepest level Alex Rodriguez want, craves, fame. More than that, really, he wants to be

I’ve participated in 3 sports teams since freshman year. I tried out for and joined Cross-Country in August of 2015 and was put on the Freshman-Sophomore team. This year I made it to the 2016 IHSA 2A Cross Country Sectional Champions. I tried out for and joined the women’s basketball team in October of 2015 and this year I was nominated for and became captain of the Junior Varsity team. I tried out for and joined Track & Field in March of 2015 and I have been on the Varsity team since freshman year. I participate in the 100 and 200 meter dashes, low and high hurdles, long jump, triple jump, and shot put. I made it to the 2017 Indoor City Championships for long and triple jump. I am in Key Club, African-Culture and Dance, Recycling Club, Science Olympiad, and Latin Honor Society.

Overachievers, by Alexandra Robbins, is an exposé about the lives of driven high school students at Walt Whitman High School in Maryland. Throughout the book Robbins argues the point that college admission expectations have made high school a very cut-throat environment, leading students who try to meet these expectations to have deteriorating mental and physical health.

In The Book of Unknown Americans the Author, Cristina Henriquez, gives us a real life insight on a family’s story about coming to America and adjusting to the American way of life. Henriquez put the words “It’s not paradise, but at least here I can be at peace” (Henriquez 47) in the mouth of Benny Quinto, an immigrant from Nicaragua. Benny, like many others in the story, came to America to find an “escape” from their native countries. America is sought after by many immigrants for better living conditions, a better life for their families, and like we see in this book, medical treatment. America is seen by immigrants as a place of freedom, promises and opportunities but, that isn’t necessarily true.

In the novel, “A Hope in the Unseen” written by Ron Suskind explains the journey of Cedric Jennings from the Inner City to the Ivy League. Throughout his journey Cedric Jennings has had to navigate many challenges first at Ballou High School, then MIT in the summer, and finally at Brown University. During his High school career at Ballou he received many backlash from his peers because of his devotion to his studies. In Ballou High School, “the school’s dropout/transfer rate at nearly 50 percent, it’s understandable that kids at Ballou act as though they’re just passing through”(Suskind 3) but not Cedric. He had a determination like no other to succeed academically where he would often stay after to finish his homework and work on SAT practice

West By West, by Jerry West and Jonathan Coleman, is a 338 page sports autobiography about Jerry West from 2011. This autobiography documents the life of Jerry West, from his poor childhood in West Virginia, to his prestigious NBA career. This book is written by Jerry West himself, which gives the reader a very detailed look into his life. The authors of this book, as stated before, are Jerry West himself and Jonathan Coleman. Jerry West has no other books published, as his basketball career occupied much of his life, and this is his only published work. Jonathan Coleman, however has been an author for quite some time, he resides in Charlottesville, Virginia, and has written several books, for which four have been pretty successful. The four

During the Holocaust, many townspeople were aware of the events occurring within the concentration camps. In the book, Night by Elie Wiesel, the townspeople remained complacent with the Nazis. Some people even went as far as taunting the Jews when they were transported through towns. The Nazis during that time had a very strong influence and used fear to incite citizens to remain cooperative.

This book is set in Bethesda, Maryland. One of the four best friends, Carmen, buys a pair of pants from a thrift shop. Before they all go on their summer vacations, they all try on the pants. Despite their very different body shapes, the pants magically fit them all. Because this is the first summer that they are spending apart, they decide to send the pants to each other through out the holiday.

And similarly to the young boys of the Oakland study, I rebelled against the unjust punitive social controls punishing me despite my innocence and restricting my freedom, and I withdrew from the school despite its second place state ranking and the spot it would have guaranteed me at the number one high school in Tennessee. I started home-schooling instead, a decision that helped my stability but has also handicapped me to this

Being a pediatric operating room nurse, I often take care of patients who are diagnosed with ADHD and is undergoing medical and behavioral treatments for their disorder. In my ten years of nursing experience, I have not encountered a patient who has misused, abused, or diverted their stimulant prescription, or at least not that I know of or it is not noted in their charts. According to Harstad and Levy (2014), misuse and diversion (i.e. giving away, trading, or selling) of stimulant medications are more widespread problems than abuse or addiction. Although methylphenidate and amphetamine both have abuse potential, there is very little evidence that these medications are abused by the patient to whom they are prescribed for. Moreover, about 16-23% of school-aged children have reported that they have been approached to by another person to give, sell, or trade their prescription stimulant (Harstad & Levy, 2014). Friends and family members are the most frequent source of diverted medications (Harstad & Levy, 2014).

But Still blamed the behavior on biology and made a connection between the children’s behavior to their family members who had psychiatric disorders. For majority of the twentieth century, ADHD went unrecognized, but towards the later part of the century it became recognized as a mental disorder in the second edition of “ Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.” During the twentieth century, those who were suspected or diagnosed with ADHD often were apart of poor families or had family members who had been diagnosed with another psychiatric disorder. Therefore the stigma at that time was that, those were the causes of ADHD, this changed when it formally became recognized, the said to be cause was brain damage. The first treatment was discovered in 1936 and was the drug Benzedrine, which was used by Dr. Charles Bradley, who noticed an improvement in both academic and behavioral performance in the students he gave it to. The second treatment came about in 1955 and is one that is currently used in modern day medicine, and it is the stimulant Ritalin, the main difference between Benzedrine and Ritalin was that Ritalin was officially approved by the food and drug