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About me

Hey, my name is Tra’Von Jones and I'm a full-time college student.I might not be the smartest person in the world but I believe I am smart in my own right. I might decide to play video games over doing my homework but I will eventually do it. I Love playing basketball. If I could play basketball all day I would. I like hanging out with my friends and just playing video games or going out and working out. I would rather be with my friends rather than being by myself and doing the same thing I would have did if I was with my friends.

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Reflection of The Semester

` The class has taught me a lot of things that I will take into my future writing courses. It has taught me how to format my papers right. Such as making a good introduction paper. It also taught me

Tra’Von Jones

Prof. Shelby Hallenbeck

WRTG121

15. April 2018

Reflection of Semester

During the winter semester, I decided to take Writing 121. During the class, I had A great time. In this class, I learned how to decide on a topic. I also learned how to choose a topic that I will be able to write about for a total of seven plus pages. This has prepared me a lot for the rest of college because I will eventually be ready to write an eight-page paper if I have too.

I enjoyed this class because of how the teacher taught us. She did not try to hold our hands like we are little kids and do not know how to do anything. She also did not just let us go off into the wild by our self. In my opinion, she had the just the right amount. She told us what we had to do and she made sure we knew how to do it.

During the class, we were asked to do a project for the C.S.W. I liked the idea of the project but I did not like our theme for the project. In my opinion, I wish I did not have to have such a sensitive topic and have to make a game out of it. I wish we could have a had a different topic but it was not that hard as I first thought.

If I had a chance to change something I did in the class I would. One of the things I would change is my topic I wrote on. I would change my topic to something more light-hearted because of C.S.W project. I liked the topic I did but in my opinion, it was too sensitive of a topic to make a game out of.

The class has taught me a lot of things that I will take into my future writing courses. It has taught me how to format my papers right. Such as making a good introduction paper. 

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Writing Prompt 3

Tra’Von Jones

Prof. Shelby Hallenbeck

WRTG121

15. April 2018

Writing prompt 3

For my Csw project I decided to make a Guess the facts game about the dangers of opioids. I decided on this because it was a good way to give people facts about the opioids crisis that they probably would not have known otherwise. It also was a sensitive way of explaining it to people without offending anyone. I took a lot of thought between this and making someone go through a injury and eventually getting addicted to opioids. I did not choose the other option because it was not sensitive to people who could have been addicted to opioids. It was not sensitive because in that option I was showing them that anyone could be affected by opioids but once they would become addicted  to opioids some of the things they had to choose between going straight into doing heroin or asking a family member to get it for them which could have hurt people feelings or making them remember events that affected them.

During my project I through many stages of how i was going to do my project. At first I thought about doing it like jeopardy. I decided against that because if I did that one I would want to give out a prize to the winner. Also i'm not the most creative person so i would not be able make the squares big enough to cover up my words without cutting out multiple pieces of paper over and over again until I did it right for one. I also had the idea that I would make a board game where the only way they could roll was to guess if the card they just read was true or false. I did not pick that one because I knew I would not have enough facts and lies for someone to go around multiple. After i came up with this idea I came up with the idea that i could come up with a game of 2 truths and a lie with a twist.

In the 2 truths and a lie i came with the idea that i would have two sides one side is considered the easy side and the other the hard side. On the easy side there would be 5 truths and 5 lies and on the hard side there would be 7 truths and 7 lies. On the easy side you could not work with a partner while on the hard side you could. All people had to do is figure out the lies and truths on the side they were on.

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Writing Prompt 2

6. “Opioid Overdose Deaths and Opioid Overdose Deaths as a Percent of All Drug Overdose Deaths.” The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, 31 Jan. 2018, www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/opioid-overdose-deaths/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22%3A%22Location%22%2C%22sort%22%3A%22asc%22%7D.

Tra’Von Jones

Prof. Shelby Hallenbeck

WRTG121

12. March 2018

Most dangerous drug

Healing and killing is the sole purpose of this drug. The drug I'm talking about is opioids. The drug was made to benefit humanity but it also has another use. That use you might ask is destroying a human every day that has to take it. This has left many Americans is confusion on rather they should take the drug when they have a chance of becoming an addict. Americans should not be left with this choice when the drug is ten times more dangerous than many of the drugs we allow. Opioids should not be legal if its intended purpose is not what it is used for the majority of the time.

Imagine seeing someone you have known for years acting differently. Watching your whole community being affected by the destruction of a single drug. A drug taking families and friends one by one every day. Thinking your whole life that people that did drugs did it voluntary not because it was prescribed to them by their own doctor. Thinking of them as a something below a human being just to find out that it was not their fault.

When I was a kid I would walk around my hometown of Detroit Michigan and see heroin addicts everywhere. I would walk around and see people stealing, just to get money so they could get some heroin. I’ve seen addicts do sexual favors just so they could supply their addiction. I have seen that for years and all that time I thought they just did it voluntarily until I got to sit down with an addict that was apart of my family.

Speaking with addict changed my whole perspective on the situation. He had explained to me that they had first become an addict after he got into an accident. He then said they were prescribed painkillers in which they became addicted to at first. He mentioned how at first they would just keep buying painkillers from a local dealer. He told me that he had tried to stop popping pain pills because they had got to expense but he could not do it because of the withdrawals he would face every time he went more than a day without it. Saying how he would sweat all day, vomit everywhere, and would have hallucinations whenever he went without it.

My family member told me how he changed from pills to heroin because it was less expensive to get. He explained how it gives you more of a better feeling and it cools his withdrawals down. He told me how he has to go out and do certain things just so he can get money to supply his addiction. He told me how everytime he goes out to go get his supply, he is playing a game of life and death because if the dealer is having a bad day he could lose his life. He also explained that the dealer keeps making the drug stronger and stronger which can kill someone that has never done it before very easily.

Having this talk with my uncle showed me that things are not how they always seem. Things have a deeper meaning to it you just have to search for it. He showed me that doctors are the reason why a lot of America is addicted to the drug.

   Knowing the info I know I started to see things for what they really are. I noticed how a doctor can destroy a city person by person. I have seen how they can destroy a community. I have seen how one drug can flood a lot of money into a community too. That many being put into a circuit of addicts to the dealers to the government to the doctors who start the cycle over again.

   When Ever I listen to music I hear a song making it acceptable to drink Lean or Percocet. They also talk about sipping lean which also contains opioids inside of it. Before the talk with my uncle, I would think that the songs were cool and it would be cool to just try some of the things they were talking about. Now that I know what I do, I know that all of the people rapping about popping pills are just addicts in disguise trying to justify what they are doing by making it cool to do

   Now when a person tells me what I think of the opioids crisis I tell them I believe we should just get rid of opioids all together so we can stop all the addictions that are happening in the country. I tell them about how it destroys a community and how it will eventually destroy the nation completely. I tell them how I have seen the effects of opioids up close and personal.

Opioids are used in medicine such as painkillers, Oxycontin, Percocet, morphine, and codeine (National Institute of Drug Abuse). All of these drugs can be prescribed to a person via their doctor. Opioids are not just used in medical supplies they are also in one of the most addictive drug in the world which is heroin. You may not think the two are related but they are because many people who become addicted to painkillers after they had to take them because their doctor prescribed it to them. At a point, a doctor can no longer prescribe a person medication anymore. The people who are cut off from getting their daily dose of opioids move on to heroin because it is the closest thing they will get to the pleasure they were having when they were on their medication.

The drug is affecting more than just an older person who body hurts. It is also affecting the youth.According to National Institute on drug abuse (In 2012 more 100,000 young adults in America ranging from eighteen to twenty-five admitted they did heroin) .This shows that the youth is in danger of becoming addicts of a drug that can be easily controlled. They admitted that the drug they first got addicted to were pain relievers. They later would become addicted to heroin because they could not get their hands on their medication anymore. Majority of the people who admitted they did heroine admitted to only doing it because the prescription drugs were more expensive and harder to obtain.

Drug overdose is the leading cause of accidental death in America with 50,000 while opioids overdose is the leading cause of over 20,000 deaths yearly(National Institute of Drug Abuse). The drug is easily one of the most powerful drugs in the world that's why it leads to so many deaths. Deaths that some people do not even mean to happen, such as a person who is prescribed to take morphine overdosing. The person overdosed because the drug is too powerful for some people's’ bodies.

Doctors have prescribed more than 200 million people with opioids. Twenty-five percent of the people who are prescribed it will improperly use the medication(CDC). If this is the case why do doctors keep prescribing it? Why should they even be allowed to prescribe a drug like this?

Why should doctors be allowed to prescribe that much of a drug? Not everyone in America needs to be on painkillers or morphine. Doctors should not be allowed to do this. They are one of the main reasons why people are addicted as badly as they are. They are also the reasons opioid usage is at an all-time high. They should not be allowed to prescribe as much as they do. They should not be allowed to prescribe any at all.

As of 2013 opioids use it at an all-time high(Mark Edmund). People are also getting addicted to it at an all-time high. A reason for this is because opioids are supposed to treat severe pains people are having. It keeps people from feeling pain which is not a good thing because they could be injuring themselves without them knowing. Some people will do things such as playing in traffic or worst.

Opioids purpose is to help stop pain after someone has had an accident. It is intended for that purpose but a majority of the time people are prescribed it without even showing signs of being injured or even hurt. These doctors are killing a lot of people because they give regular people medicine that is way too strong for them which will lead to them becoming addicted.

Since 1999 opioids usage has increased by thirty percent(shatterproof). This increase has lead to a lot of people dying every year. The increased amount of people who become addicted shows the future generation and they will eventually follow in their footsteps.  In 2015 the rate of teens that had an overdose of opioids increased by 19 percent from 2012.

Opioids are not just a drug it is a murder. It will destroy the country by itself because as more people keep getting addicted to the more people will die from it. They will die from overdose like more 1.500 people did in Michigan in the past year (Kaiser family foundation). That number will only increase as time goes on if we do not do anything about this.

This generation is more likely to become an addict just because the people who are abusing opioids are having kids and the kids are born being addicted to it. The kids will then become more susceptible to become an addict.

The only way we can fix the problem is by banning opioids in the medical field altogether. We must vote on the issue in order to get rid of the problem. We have to vote to get rid of the drug completely. We must also put the people who are addicted to the drug in rehab as soon as possible. That's not the only thing we can do we must completely erase the drug from our societies in order to protect the future generation from becoming addicts just like this one.

We must stop what they are doing because they are influencing the next generation to become addicts. They are making it seem cool to be an addict instead of trying to get help.  They are influencing the youth to become just like them.

American rappers must stop rapping and be singing about the use of drugs. They are destroying whole communities through their lyrics. They are one of the main contributors for why opioids is on the rise  

America as a whole has to change in order for this crisis to be over with. We must all band together to stop this crisis. Until then people will keep getting addicted to it and they will keep dying from it.

Reference page

1.“Opioid Overdose.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 30 Aug. 2017, www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/epidemic/index.html.

2. Abuse, National Institute on Drug. “America's Addiction to Opioids: Heroin and Prescription Drug Abuse.” NIDA, 14 May 2014, www.drugabuse.gov/about-nida/legislative-activities/testimony-to-congress/2016/americas-addiction-to-opioids-heroin-prescription-drug-abuse.

3, “Opioids | Shatterproof.” Stronger Than Addiction, Shatterproof, www.shatterproof.org/about-addiction/substances/opiods?gclid=Cj0KCQjw7Z3VBRC-ARIsAEQifZTljIR8EjiBmYLwc8szn-pnS1WNscEqxEwvNJGo_ZD4fAYPVKLYYJAaAl1rEALw_wcB.

4.Rose, Mark Edmund. “Are Prescription Opioids Driving the Opioid Crisis? Assumptions vs Facts | Pain Medicine | Oxford Academic.” OUP Academic, Oxford University Press, 27 Dec. 2017, academic.oup.com/painmedicine/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pm/pnx048/3583229.

5. Abuse, National Institute on Drug. “Opioid Overdose Crisis.” NIDA, 6 Mar. 2018, www.drugabuse.gov/drugs-abuse/opioids/opioid-overdose-crisis.

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writing Prompt 1 part 2

Tra’Von Jones

Prof. Shelby Hallenbeck

WRTG121

17. January 2017

Gun Control

There were more than three hundred mass shootings in the United States in 2017. The most famous out of them all was the las vegas shooting. On October 1st 2017 Stephen Paddock opened fire from His hotel room in las vegas where over 800 people were shot. Paddock was able to use twenty three different weapons in order to commit this crime. Paddock was able to get his hands on automatic rifles without being put a watch list or getting a physiological test to see if he was fit to have these weapons.

Guns have always been on a list of things on what people want to be harder to get. Thanks to Paddock it was reopened based on how every year mass shootings are getting worse and worse. It is also opened for debate off of the principle that it is in People's constitutional rights that they have the rights to bear arms.

Gun control shakes the very grounds that everyone walks on because of huge political powers going out of their ways to prove their side is right. Groups such as The N.R.A ( National Rifle Association) are some of the biggest supporters against gun control. They have a lot of money to which gives them a lot of political power in which they influence votes. They do not have complete power because as times like the Las Vegas shooting happen more and more they will have no choice but to give more reason on why gun control should not be a thing besides their money.

Gun control has a lot of political power in the argument such politicians MIchael Bloomberg, Gabrielle Giffords, and Chris Murphy who are who want gun control no matter what. This will always lead to the question on should guns be harder to get ahold of?

I will look up how many people die from gun violence every year. I will also look up how many guns are purchased every year. Finally will look up how long it takes person to normally get ahold of a gun.

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Writing prompt 1 part 1

Tra’Von Jones

Prof. Shelby Hallenbeck

WRTG121

12. January 2017

Opioids

MIllions of people are assigned prescription medical drugs to solve issues they are facing. The most controversial one of them all is painkillers. Painkillers have lead to a lot of people faking injuries or getting into a accident in order to be prescribed the drug. They want to be prescribed this drug because they want to sell it for a higher price or they are trying to fulfill their addiction to it. Majority of the time people are prescribed the drug in order to fix a injury they got. Little do they know they are making people into addicts of opioids which will lead them into wanting more of the drug by either getting injured again or going into harder drugs that use opioids such as heroine.

Medical staff do not intend to make people addicts. It usually only happens when people take to many pills. If people didn't try to stop their pain by taking a lot of pills then they would not become addicts.

Opioids is not only in painkillers but is also in morphine which has been around and used since the civil war. This drug has more than two million people addicted to it in the United States. Doctors usually give the drug out for people in pain in which they might give that person to much then what they need so they will just give it to their family and friends will eventually get them addicted. Due to this Morphine addicts visits to the emergency room have increased over the last 4 years dramatically. Morphine overdose is the third leading cause in visits to emergency room in the United States This has also costed the united states billions of dollars every year due the increase violence by people who are addicted to the drug.

All of these factors have lead to the question  should use opioids in medication anymore due to overwhelming amount of people who have become addicted to it?

I will do this by looking up how many people die from opioid overdose every year. I will also look up how many people were prescribed it every year