Questions:
1)
Where
were these drugs or alcohol consumed?
2)
Who
was present at this time? Were there parents supervising?
3)
Who
supplied the drugs or alcohol?
4)
Was
this individual peer-pressured to consume these drugs or alcohol?
5)
How
much of these drugs or alcohol were consumed?
6)
Where
were these drugs or alcohol purchased from?
In this video of a news story it goes about explaining a heroin overdose
of a seventeen year old boy. This heroin overdose came as surprise to his
family, school and even his mother. Kiet Nguyen was an outstanding football
player that managed to be involved with athletics, maintained good grades and
had a balanced social life. This unfortunate death was caused by the one time
use of heroin that had been offered to Kiet and his friends by a girl in their
group of friends. If only this girl would have known what permanent damage this
offer would have on Kiet’s entire life. Kiet as well as some of his other
friends did this heroin for the first time that night although Kiet’s body was
the only one that reacted to it in a sense that it left his body lifeless the
next morning. A few days after Kiet passed away, one of his brave friends
admitted to Kiet’s mother that they went out together to smoke marijuana that night
but ended up doing heroin laced drug called cheese.
After watching this news story it
made me think to myself who would be responsible for the death of this
teenager. Would it be Kiet himself? His friend that sold the drug to him? Or
the actual drug dealer that had supplied the drug to Kiet’s friend? It slightly
mentioned at the end of the video that there was a lot of finger pointing about
who would be taking the blame for Kiet’s death and even if there was going to be
charges pressed. I believe that there are a lot of questions to be answered
before the blame is thrown upon one person. I personally think that there is a
partial blame on both the girl that supplied the drug to Kiet and on Kiet
himself. It would be hard to be in Kiet’s mothers position where she had no
idea that Kiet was involved in such activities then have such a thing take away
his life. This situation will be hard for the police to investigate further
into.
This article here is presented along
with a news story about a 14-year-old girl that had possibly died from alcohol
poisoning. Takeimi Rao had invited three of her friends to sleep over at
her house one night where they were presumed to be mixing vodka with soft
drinks. During the night two of Takeimi’s friends were found throwing up by
Takeimi’s mom, she didn’t think anything of it and only thought that it was
food poisoning. She helped these girls, cleaned them up and put them back to
bed. The next morning Takemini’s mother found Takemini lifeless lying on her
bedroom floor. Paramedics came to the house and pronounced her dead on the
scene. Unlike the other girls Takeimi did not throw up once during the night.
As the bottle of vodka was found within the house it was said to be the
landlord’s old bottle that was just left in the cupboard. In this situation I
believe that the parents take responsibility for these four girls, especially
their own child. Although these parents did not supply these young girls with
this alcohol, they consumed the vodka in their house and under their
supervision. It is the parent’s job to check up on these girls, especially if
two of them were puking. This article and unfortunate situation shows how even
under parent supervision accidents are bound to happen. The parents should take
the blame and responsibility for their daughter’s death and should be thankful
that it only happened to one out of the four girls.
I declare this a decent response. Decent job Marie, quite decent indeed.
ReplyDeleteSuch a decent response indeed, that I must expand on it to show how much your deep and intellectual response has made me feel.
ReplyDeleteFirst off, I'd like to mention your six questions at the beginning of the response. They were very well written and thought provoking. They really got my mind thinking about these topics before diving into the response, which gave for more connections being made and also gave me greater insight on such topics as it required me to brainstorm about these issues prior to reading the actual response.
Some other things in this reponse that got me thinking was your position on both of the articles and who is to blame. For the first article, although one is his friends was the one that offered the drug to Kiet, don't you think that the majority of the blame should be on him? It mentions that he had a very healthy lifestyle, and that he maintained good grades in school, but don't you think he should have considered such things before doing drugs in the first place while we have no background information on the girl that provided the drugs and what her motives were? Not to mention that he is a 17 year old individual that is perfectly capable of making correct decisions himself.
Other than some grammatical errors, I think your response was very good. Your positions on both the articles made me consider viewing the situation in another way and really made for a good read. Great job!