http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0002716215579823

In the article “Gentrification in Changing Cities” Jackelyn Hwang  a PhD candidate in sociology and social policy highlights the relation between gentrification and the rise of immigration in changing our society. According to the article  “Gentrification—middle- and upper-class residents’ movement into and renewal of neighborhoods that had experienced disinvestment and decline” (As cite in Hwang 2015, p. 1). The article Uses crime data, surveys, and new gentrification measures in order to illustrate the impact on racial and ethnic changes to gentrification. Hwang notes that the rise in immigration increases the favorable characteristics in certain neighborhoods which eventually leads to gentrification. The article uses multiple researches to provide a credible source to support her claim on the connection between immigration and gentrification.

Researchers believe that the opioid epidemic killed more than thousands of people last year. Drug treatments programs was handling out medicine like water. The opioid epidemic will continue to grow because the doctors did not continue to look for other treatments or testing the medication to see if the medicine is good for people to continue to take.

In Jamila Scott’s 3 Ways to Speak English, Scott argues that the English Language “is a multi faced orientation subject to indefinite transformation”. Scotts talks about the ways she communicates with others in the English language. At school, at home, and with friends Scott speaks in different “tongues”. Being able to speak in these tongues make Scott articulate because she is able to apply the rule of English depending on her setting. “So when my professor asks a question and my answer is tainted with a connotation of urbanized suggestion…” In this sentence Scott gives and example of how at school she speaks proper English as most would call it, but because she also speaks in her urban language she may confuse the two as well as as her “broken English”, the form of English she speaks at home with her parents. Scott’s poem is stating that there are many forms of the English not just one, and as a “professional”, she is no different from others who may speak one form of English but she is articulate because she can differentiate her English based on the environmental setting.

http://www.coldtype.net.09/pdfs./1209.JimCrow Lock down by Michelle Alexander how it is incredible the lock down an excerpt from the new Jim Crow mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness.  she  talked about how the criminal justice system works he spoke about how television is over loaded with the fictional drama about police, crimes, and prosecutors in some of the shows like Law and Order. the shows focus on more of the crimes to convict people. when police officers were dealing with  they own demons once they found something on a person they would try and force other crimes that the people did not do, once they solve the crime that they caught people doing because they were dealing with other demons police officers would try and put them other crimes on them also.people that knew that what really happen in the court system knew what to expect in the shows or movies.

In the Fourth Amendment of the United States the police could not just search people, homes, paper. the new Amendment have the right to make the paper feel secure against unreasonable searches. they should have not been violated because there were no reason to have a warrens to search they personal things. warrens could not be issued unless they could give a reason why they need the warren to search people things. Back in the late 1800’s to 1900’s the police officers could search people homes and businesses without the law enforcement given the permission to do so because when they came they bring the permission to search without any reasons to search, if the officers decided to check because they had an idea that them houses was doing criminal activates.  the criminal justice system had all types of people filling law suits against them for searching the homes without the system giving a reason of permission to do so. after people were putting them threw situations and had to give up millions of dollars for searching that they claim were dealing with drugs activities or criminal activities. one a officer did not find nothing in the homes or in they processions after they tore up they things to find something and did not find nothing. people had the right of way to file a suit against the law enforcement for destroys they personal things. people felt that having no cause of searching they personal things and tear they things that they worked hard for because they had a thought of people doing criminal activities. when the new Amendment came in place police officers could not search homes, cars, and businesses without the system given a reason to do so. if people denied them not to search they needed to contact the system and give a good reasons why you need to search somebodies personal homes or businesses. in the new Amendment the law enforcement were suppose to protect the americans citizen from un reasonable search. when people were stopped by a officer they would tell them they pulling them over for a traffic violation or you were speeding just so they would have a reason to search them for other reasons. they made it possible for officers to search anybody ay anytime. she wanted people to know that how the law enforcement treated us and wanted us to sit back and toilets what they were doing. from now until 30 years ago the police system lock up millions of people most of them were innocent from doing nothing but the system were against us so they had nobody to talk for our people. even when people was innocent they could still take the plea because they had lawyers that were there to protect them was against them would tell them to take the plea bargain. how we was teated in the criminal justice system was unfair in our eyes and still being most of the time treated not with respect. when they changed the civil rights rules they place officers still find ways to try and search without a good reasonable cause. we did not have no say so about how they would try to search out personal things and make it seem that we are in some criminal activities. how drugs was a politician and became a war because all you had was officers pointing out people and just target them for no cause of anything. it were times that police officers did not have any kind of warren and still tore a hole in people belongings and did not find anything in the processions or in they property.

Michelle Alexander was incredible because she sat down and learn how to come together and write a book about how the law enforcement tried to break our americans citizen into pieces. how she wanted the system to change and also wants our americans citizen to be protected in the united states. a police officers did not have a unreasonable search to search anyone or any of the property . she also spoke about how we as americans were getting treated poorly in the united states. the law enforcement thought that  it was ok to just search people that they thought was dealing with criminal activities. they put innocent people behind bars because that how  they felt that moment.

In the New York Times article, Can you get over an Addiction?, Maia Szalavitz writes on the importance of changing the way we view addiction. The author begins the article telling about her past struggles with drug addiction. She then shares that there are “two schools of thought on addiction: The first was that my brain had been chemically “hijacked” by drugs, leaving me no control over a chronic, progressive disease. The second was simply that I was a selfish criminal, with little regard for others.” Treatments are made using these schools of thought on addiction. It is important to change the way we view addiction because many existing forms of treatment doesn’t work. Szalavitz says: “Addiction is indeed a brain problem, but it’s not a degenerative pathology like Alzheimer’s disease or cancer, nor is it evidence of a criminal mind. Instead, it’s a learning disorder, a difference in the wiring of the brain that affects the way we process information about motivation, reward and punishment. And, as with many learning disorders, addictive behavior is shaped by genetic and environmental influences over the course of development.” With this revelation, people can view addiction in a different light.

Understanding addiction from a neurodevelopmental perspective offers a great deal of hope. Scientists are now starting to recognize which brain regions are involved in addiction and how. “In essence, addiction occurs when these brain systems are focused on the wrong objects: a drug or self-destructive behavior like excessive gambling instead of a new sexual partner or a baby. Once that happens, it can cause serious trouble.” Drugs like heroin are sometimes used when someone is feeling alienated, unlovable and stressed. When they are using drugs, they feel temporary relief of their problems. Once the person is used to feeling the relief that the drugs can give them, they become addicted. Once we understand that addiction is just different brain wiring, we can begin to teach recovery.

“A linguistic celebration,” is what Jamila lyiscott states when she describes how she is articulate in today’s society. Jamila shows how articulation can be shaped by a persons surroundings.

“And when I’m on the block I switch it up just because I can. So when my boy says, “What’s good with you son?” I just say, “I jus’ fall out wit dem people but I done!” 

When she is around her peers she is able speak in a way that is still articulate. Even though people that are not familiar with that form of english may say they are speaking is inarticulate, it is still articulate within that certain group.  The idea of articulation can be controlled by the environment. She addresses the question of conflict: What may not be understood and logical by one may still be to the other, so who is really the articulate one?

3 ways to speak English by Jamila Lyiscott explain how she is articulated. an example on how she is articulate is when somebody speak to her in English she have 3 different ways she could speak back. she decide to treat her English the same that is why she were articulate. the reason why she felt that she would speak in different English how our English was broken so she would not treat the Briticism language any different. she made it clear that her English language was broken so she would use other language as if it was her English language. i think that her being articulate is knowing that articulate people still speak the broken English and that still make them articulate. being articulate does not mean you cannot speak the broken English it just mean that you could speak the broken English just as if it is the right kind of English.

she wanted people to know that just because our English is broken does not mean to treat the 3 ways of English different, she did not treat them any different that is what made her articulate.