Blog 20 Exit Interview

Content:

(1) What is your essential question and answers?  What is your best answer and why?

•  How best can society reduce the levels of drug-related crime
• Legalization/Decriminalization 
• Increasing penalties
• Creating Local Projects 
• BEST ANSWER: Legalization

(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?

•  Through multiple pieces of research I have been given many valid arguable points I arrived that it would be the answer that would bring our society more positive outcomes. Also local projects can be included in legalization.

(3) What problems did you face?  How did you resolve them?

•  When beginning this research I was presented with a lot more reasons to why legalization was better so it was hard to try to keep my biases aside to look for more reasons to not legalize drugs.

(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?

• "Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do," by Peter McWilliams 
• The Pros and Cons of Drug Legalization in the U.S." by Palash Ghosh

Be prepared with evidence and specific examples to support any response.  It is also significant to cite sources as you explain.

Blog 19: Independent Component 2

Content: 

LITERAL
(a) Statement: I, Arianna Castellanos, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
(b) Cite your source: Antonio Bestard Law Office, FBI website
(c) Provide a digital spreadsheet: k
(d) Researched files and cases to compare if the penalties set on these drug crimes were truly justified.
INTERPRETIVE
When starting this component I really had no idea what to do, so I decided to try what I did for the last component, but instead setting my focus on just drug crimes. In my first component I looked into multiple cases, whatever caught my eye. Thinking back on it, I knew that not centralizing myself took away from me actually learning something to help me answer my eq. So again, to show evidence I'm turning in a folder tomorrow morning.(okay Monday morning, I forgot my folder in the office and yeah ._.)
APPLIED
How did the component help you answer your EQ? My question addresses how to lower drug crime in our society, and in order to understand why people would get prosecuted for these crimes, I wanted to understand how affected these people were by the drugs, and if the whole legal process was giving them a harder time at recuperating.

Grading Criteria
Log on a digital spreadsheet
Evidence of 30 hours of work
LIA submitted to blog