As of 2016 there has been a population of 7.4 billion people on planet Earth, America alone makes up 323 million people; this also happens to be the third most populated country in the world with China being the first with approximately one billion, three hundred eighty-two million people. India following in second place with one billion, two hundred fifty-one million people. However this isn 't the only thing we have one of the highest numbers to , we are also known for the highest incarceration rates in the world. Nevertheless, this dilemma has become a serious problem that is mainly affecting minority groups and also the poor. In the book The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore we get to see how much these statistics affect the stories of two …show more content…
One of the first reason would have to be the lack of a father figure. For Wes Moore the author his father didn 't have much of a choice when it came to his faith, yet for the other young boy named Wes his father abandon him at a young age. His father made the decision to leave ,and not be apart of his life.On a website called the National Center of Fathering statistic shows that children with without a father figure are more likely to end up doing thing like drugs , alcohol, they are also more prone to have behavioral issues either at home or school. For Wes we get to see just how much these statistic affected him “To Wes,Tony was a “certified gangsta.” Tony had started dealing drugs in those shadowy hallways of Murphy Homes before he was ten” (27). So by the age of ten Wes older brother Tony was a Really dealing drugs. Nevertheless Consequently the most common offenses are actually drug offences that actually make up 46.5% of the inmates in prisons. In many cases the reason why people sell drugs goes back to the reason of poverty, and there needs to support their …show more content…
In most of the case the reason people end up in jail has to do with a lack of money. In Tony and Wes case they began because of where they were from and that would be a poor neighborhood where what they grew up seeing was drugs and violence. So my question is how can you expect a lot for somehow who only know a limited amount of thing? We couldn 't expect a lot out of “the other Wes Moore” because they there wasn 't a lot that he knew about. Wes only knew what he had learned on the streets and that was about drugs and violence. Unfortunately there are many others that are in the problem that Wes was in and unless they someone like the author 's mother, Joy who was willing to send her son to military school for his own good, we can only assume they will just be another number to add to the statistics of the increasing incarceration
Therefore, one of the two Wes Moores became a prisoner, convicted for robbery and murder. And the other one is Rhodes scholar and become a famous author. Even though they grew up in the same environment, but there is a big difference: the author Wes’s parents graduated from college and well educated, while the other Wes’s parents even didn’t finish school. So, according to the book, the most significant effect in the two Wes Moores lives is the education level of their parents.
The novel guides you through the 8 crazy years that led to Wes Moore 1's success and Wes Moore 2's life sentence in prison. Wes Moore 1 definitely did not have the perfect life but his life had more positives than Wes Moore 2. Wes's family, friends and the military impacted his decision making and life choices that make him successful today. But the more he tried to be like his brother, the more Tony pushed back.”
The other Wes Moore (Imprisoned) had a fatherless childhood. His mother, Mary, wanted to pursue a higher education but do to funds she was unable to to continue went funding was cut for various programs.
Wes was abandoned by his father soon after he was born and Tony, Wes’s brother, who was often at the Murphy Home Projects left Wes to be the “man of the house”. The absence of an older male figure made Wes more independent and, with Mary’s low paying job, made him have to provide for himself. Having to equip himself for day to day life built the base for Wes to experiment with the drug trade and, eventually, got him arrested multiple times. Tony wanted to keep Wes from the drug trade, in one instant he beat Wes up for being involved, but he knew that “his mission as a big brother was to toughen him up for the battles [he] knew Wes would have to fight as he got older”. As a young boy, Wes wanted to be exactly like his older brother, but as a hypocrite, Tony wanted Wes to stay out of the drug trade while he, himself, was deeply involved in the trade. The older Tony got, the more he realized how inevitable it was that Wes would engage in the drug trade. Once he realized Wes would become involved, he began to prepare him through fights and him protective advice. By being a drug dealer, Tony injured Wes’s future, and when Tony associated Wes with the jewelry store robbery, he destroyed Wes’s future. The men that influenced Wes Moore throughout his lifetime were the ones that made him the human destined to spend the rest of his life in
His grandparents were strict on him which gave him the opportunity to have a better future in his life without making bad decision into worse. In the other hand, the other Wes Moore didn’t have the opportunity to have strict parents that gave him a limit and didn’t get him in trouble. The Other Wes lived in a bad community that affected him with no support from either her mother or no one. He lives where there are lots of bad influence lots of drug dealing and gangsters. Since Wes Moore moved with his mom to the Bronx he realized there were rules that had to be done because his grandparents figured that they worked with her children’s and figured it would work with their grandchildren as well. Wes took a serious surprised when he moved to the Bronx, “I had thought my mother’s rules were strict but soon realized that my grandparents’ were many times worse.” (Moore 42). This shows how Wes mom and grandparents cared about him and would look out for him so he can stay out of trouble. But Wes would have liked it if they wouldn’t have been strict because he would have liked if he had more liberty. His Parents and grandparents were just doing what is their responsibility to take care of what they love the most. The Other Wes Moore didn’t have parents that were strict and grandparents either, if maybe they were have been strict his life would have change a lot with different. He would have been in better
Wes & Wes Moore could’ve of easily ended up with the same fate. It is the choices they made, the environment they were provided with, the support and choices of their families and the mind set they chose to have the set them apart from each other. The two Wes Moore’s paths went different ways for many reasons but some were more significant than others.
As previously stated, Wes Moore, the detainee, started satisfying his societal "desire" of delivering drugs in the city corner and doing so at an exceptionally youthful age. By applying Ferrante's definition, Moore's money related and notoriety-based achievement would subtitle him as an individual with high wage. Nevertheless, such a lifestyle did not concede Moore’s presentation to a better living conditions in an overall
The factors that surround us when we are young create the people we become in the future. Usually the people and area that surround us influence the people we become in the future. If we grow up in an area with lots poverty crime and with parents that rarely give a care what we are doing with our lives. We are expected to probably lead a life of crime and violence. Unlike a person who is born in a well adjusted place with parents who concerned for their future are expected to lead better lives. We see in the book The Other Wes Moore the path both men end up taking is because of the many factors that influenced their lives during their young age. One huge factor was their mothers. Each were similar that they both raised their kids as single
Why have the two boys, with the same name and grew up fatherless in the similar poverty-stricken neighborhoods, developed into two dramatically different individuals: a Rhodes Scholar and a convicted inmate? While the book The Other Wes Moore goes to great length to answer the question profoundly, I also mull over just how and why the two Wes Moores have chosen their own paths to the opposed destines. According to the book, environment, family, education, others’ expectation, and opportunities are the primary factors contributing to the two Wes Moores’ failure and success. On the top of those factors, I find that the role models, the supports of their mothers, and the choices they made are surely worth
According to statistics since the early 1970’s there has been a 500% increase in the number of people being incarcerated with an average total of 2.2 million people behind bars. The increase in rate of people being incarcerated has also brought about an increasingly disproportionate racial composition. The jails and prisons have a high rate of African Americans incarcerated with an average of 900,000 out of the 2.2 million incarcerateed being African American. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics 1 in 6 African American males has been incarcerated at some point in time as of the year 2001.
In the United States, the rate of incarceration has increased shockingly over the past few years. In 2008, it was said that one in 100 U.S. adults were behind bars, meaning more than 2.3 million people. Even more surprising than this high rate is the fact that African Americans have been disproportionately incarcerated, especially low-income and lowly educated blacks. This is racialized mass incarceration. There are a few reasons why racialized mass incarceration occurs and how it negatively affects poor black communities.
“I guess it’s hard sometimes to distinguish between second chances and last chances” (Moore 67). This is a powerfully central theme to the book The Other Wes Moore, written by Wes Moore. For the two men this book is about, it all begins with a wide-open future. The mothers that gave birth to them and the influences they had, along with their own powerful choices, sealed their fate . People don’t ever stop growing or improving and the two Wes Moore’s are no different. Throughout their lives, they are constantly changing and in some places calling the shots. One chose correctly, and one did not.
This could be due to that they might have had an unpleasant upbringing and being neglected by their parents. Children learn by observing the environment around them. If they see someone do something, they will attempt to emulate that behavior. By watching their parents or other family members in the act of drug use, the likeliness of them doing the same thing increases.
The Cocaine Kids: The Inside Story of a Teenage Drug Ring is an intriguing narrative of the experiences Terry Williams witnessed first hand while observing the lives of “The Kids” and their involvement in the cocaine trade. Throughout this piece, there are numerous behaviors displayed by the drug dealers that are each examples of and can be attributed to well-defined criminological theories. This paper will explore how such criminological theories are associated with how and why individuals are introduced into the world of drug selling, as well as, why they leave it. I will elaborate on this by revealing the motivations and conditions that seem to pressurize these individuals to be drug dealers. Although there are multiples shown, the specific theories I will explore are all based on the same idea that an individual becomes a criminal by learning how to be one through experiences, examples, role models, etc. Such theories include the theory of Differential Association, Subculture of Violence Theory, and the Social Learning Theory.
The word Drug abuse is a rising factor in the word and the youth of today. With numbers of addicts caused by drugs, is rising thru roof and we got to ask why? Well the youth and people today can find their hands on it easily. They find in the places that you could get easy access to like bars, clubs, parties and even at school. The drugs are so called club drugs which most of