Terri Steward Informative Speech

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On Monday, April 25, 2016 our guest speaker Terri Steward shared her life story in Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi in a criminal justice course named American Prison and Prisoners class by Professor Dr. Dorothy S McClellan. Terri Steward grew up in an environment as being the first child .She was the first grand baby, oldest child from her brother and sister, and oldest niece. For being the oldest one for everything, she learned how to take care of others but she didn’t know how to take care of herself. She will try to escape from her pain that was haunting her by drinking and smoking. Drinking and smoking it’s all she knew in her life. She did not know people who didn’t do drugs excited. Terri Steward is a victimized …show more content…

Her first time in jail was when she was 38 years old in Fort Worth Texas. Then her second time in jail was when she was found at a doping house .She was also arrested for criminal trespassing. Most of her charges were misdemeanors. She went in and out of jail and she was known to always running from her issues .Living the experience in jail she mention that men get treated like royalty in jail. She gave an example that when men are cold they get like 3 to 4 covers and women get nothing. They get the best of everything, so she advice women to not to go to jail because women are not going to be treated like men do. After living in and out of jail and going to intuitions lead to a broken …show more content…

Child molesting really bothers me, so I decided to write this to share how Terry dark life began after being molested. It at all began in her childhood. I believe childhood should be the most important thing in life. When Terri was molested it change her behavior. She was mad at the world, emotionally and physically hurt. Terri was mad at the world because she didn’t know why this had to happen to her. Then she became very addicted to bad habits because of her drug attic. In my opinion I believe she became a drug attic after being molested to ease her pain and run away from her problems .Her addiction caused her to make bad choices and bad decisions. I believe Terri was not thinking straight, so she tend to make wrong choices. She was trap in eradiation, which caused her problems in her family structure, and contribute to the delinquency in society. I was content to hear that she went to seek help, spiritually and emotionally. Knowing that she is now control of her life once again is a wonderful blessing to

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