Discipline vs Violence final project

Discipline and Violence Just like in the Book titles “The other Wes Moore” me and I best friend SB grew up in jersey city new Jersey with both parents in the household same opportunities of being outstanding talented basketball that had a gift that could change our obstacles we face everyday going up in the poverty stricken community of hudson county. I, jamar curry attended one dominant basketball high schools in jersey city, named Saint Anthony's High School with the well known high School Hall of Fame coach Bobby Hurley Sr and on the other hand SB attended one of the top 5 high schools of jersey city named Ferris high School.Often when Sb had a game i would go attend and watch him dominate the basketball game and win but he would have a attitude that shook the referee in the wrong with his sometimes poor sportsmanship and disrespect towards his teammates and coach. Nevertheless we would always hang out after me attending his games and him attending my games. We always joked with each other about our play and when we met in the state finals against each other and what we were going to do. We always talked about our house based on his parents being strict and my parents having a drug addiction. Sb would be so frustrated about his parents being so strict that sometimes he would skip games ,and school just so he had time to be outside. Me on the other hand i wanted to go to school and never miss a game because of the addiction, domestic violence and chaos that was happening at home around me and my other siblings. There's was a time right before we both had games on the same day, same time and i called SB just to see was he ready to play against the #2 high school in the county which was Syndner High School but when he answered all you could hear was his parents yelling at him and I can tell it bothered SB but he tried to laugh it off on the phone. All SB kept saying was “see bro i told you, see bro i told this is why im doing my own thing for now on because i see right now this being on punishment every week has to stop” What i had to be very honest with my best friend that there's a parent guideline bro and its simple, they feed you, put clothes on your back, provide a roof over your head so you have to be respectful and discipline enough to see they mean well. Now my household took on the form of a different monster. I just knew for sure that my life will not be determined by my parents' addiction and I will definitely set an example for my baby brother and sister. My other siblings did their best here and there to stop by or stay a couple of days but they also had their own problems to handle. Often stuck as the babysitter after school or after games because of my mom's out doing god knows what in the streets of jersey city but one thing for sure two things for certain she always made sure we were well fed, dressed, house cleaned and we went to school. Now this is where the plot thickens for my bestfriend SB because once the season was over and our sophomore year was approaching SB called me and just said I'm out of this house bro and I'm never coming here and me being naive he just said didn't register because we were only 14 years old. Well that summer while I was perfecting my craft of becoming one the best basketball players being recruited by top colleges, I was hearing around the city that my best friend was robbing people and hustling narcotics. When I say my heart was tearing apart, that's an understatement, so I made it my mission to find him and do my best to stop it all. Let me tell you that with all my love and consistency, trying to keep SB from the path of destruction did not prevail. Now years had past of me going to SB home, High School and places I heard he was hanging out but I could never run into him. My senior year signing day was the best time of my life not only for me but for my family. If I would have known that through basketball, and my discipline of making out of my poverty stricken community at the time which unfortunately many of my peers didn't, would stop my parents from doing drugs based on my accomplishments man oh man. Moving forward upon signing to the University Of Oregon the next day in the jersey journal upon me purchasing the paper to see what was written about high school signing day, there it was promising hudson county basketball star SB sentence to 20 years Federal prison for every violent crime you could name. Now you can only imagine how I felt about signing a Letter of intent for the University Of Oregon and the very next day reading in the jersey journal, my best being sentenced to 20 years to Federal Prison. Now I must say I didn't want that for my best friend but I didn't want to hear he was killed due to the violent crime he chose. Discipline gave me an opportunity to open other doors of success vs while SB violent choices landed him in Federal Prison for 20 years. During my Zoom the end results are going to have you saying wow.