I. Lifestyle

From this week's assignment, I learned about the street life in Harlem. Before reading this book, I did not know how the life was for people who smuggle drugs and do other illegal things. In many ways, this book provided glimpse of life that I personally never experienced before. In a way, the fact that Malcolm lived a life so... low in the class surprised me that people like him could be one of the most influential people if they wanted to. Maybe because he went through all these, he knew that African Americans must stand up and fight against the devils, or the white men.

http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=SNJ0252-0-393&artno=0000105349&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=&title=Cocaine%27s%20Effects%20on%20Users%20Linger%20for%20at%20Least%20a%20Month%2C%20Study%20Says&res=Y&ren=N&gov=N&lnk=N&ic=N

The article proved how hard it is to break addict, especially heavy drug users, because of the affects the drugs do to people. However, the way Malcolm was able to become an influential leader of the African American society is amazing. It must have been very hard for him to stop it immediately. Although I never have tried any drugs whatsoever, I am addicted to computer. Every time I have free time (and even when I don't), I cannot help myself from reading novels posted on Internet. Also, I have recently got addicted to tetris from facebook. I know I should stop going on to computer so often but it is so hard to break the habit. These things are affecting time management, which leads to dropping of grades. I sure hope that I can break the addict soon as how Malcolm did.