Improving Society

I will prove to my audience that many ways exist to improve society by giving examples what can be done to improve equality, the justice system and child welfare because my essay might help my audience realize that things can be done to make the world a better and safer place.

Discrimination, drugs and child abuse. From these three things many of society's ills stem out from. Numerous tragedies have resulted from them and will continue to do so if something isn't done.

Not as prevalent as it was in earlier times, discrimination is still a major problem in society. For example the Columbine school shooting. While many people blame guns and violent media I think the root of the problem is discrimination of those kids because they where "different". Many racially motivated problems also occur, like not hiring someone because of their race and stereotypes of certain cultures. The only way to stop this I think is educating people on other races and cultures. Have you ever been asked by a tourist "How often do the Indians attack?" that is just ignorance to the modern Native American lifestyle. Children often learn from their parents. If the parents have a "grudge" against a group of people, out of loyalty the kids will probably also. By education it is possible to stop this cycle.

I also think that our society would vastly improve if the court system was redone. There really should be tougher penalties for drugs, drunk driving and other crimes. Currently some of the penalties for possessing drugs is sometimes only a couple of months or a fine. This should be sharply increased. Most likely these people will just go out and do it again. They need to be shown that great consequences exist. Drunk driving needs tougher penalties too. This is a serious crime and many of this type of offender is habitual and will continue to put others' lives at risk until they can be stopped.

America's prisons need to be altered. Some of then are simply too pleasant. We should just feed the inmates just enough to keep them alive like other countries do. No entertainment such as television would be allowed. That way prison would be a greatly feared place.

Child welfare needs to be of more importance. Many criminals and gang members turn out the way they do because their parents just don't care. The ideal solution would be for people needing some sort of license to have kids and have it mandatory for them to attend parenting classes. Since this is obviously not ever going to happen I think birth control should be readily available to everyone. Child welfare agents should be more aware of what is happening with the families of troubled children. If that 6 year old child who shot his classmate wasn't living in that sort of environment, that incident could of been prevented. Good foster homes should be available to anyone who needs them.

Things can be done to improve society. They just need to be acted upon and the people need to be listened to. Solutions exist and authorities need to take notice and act upon them.