Inner City Essays and Term Papers

Music Censorship

During the Doors concert in Miami, in 1969, lead singer Jim Morrison, "did lewdly and lasciviously expose his penis and shake it. . ." (Rosen et al. 90). Today, Billy Joe Armstrong, lead singer of Green Day, bares all at his concert in Philadelphia (Bernstein 95). The eccentric Courtney Love ...

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Legalization Of Drugs

Each year 1,600 innocent people are needlessly killed each year at the hands of drug criminals (Ostrowski 27). Enormous amounts of money are spent each year in the fight against drugs. Furthermore, there are actually sick people that need marijuana to ease their suffering. These are a few of the ...

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Book Review: Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America

In Laurie Abrahams’ book she follows an African American family living in inner city Chicago for one year to explicitly detail their struggles with the American health care system. The focal points of the story are Jackie who is the main caregiver to Mrs. Jackson her mother who suffers from a ...

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Race, Gender, Ability, Ethnicity, Class, And Sexuality Matter Because They Are The Basis For Discrimination In Today’s Society

Race, gender, ability, ethnicity, class, and sexuality matter because they are the basis for discrimination in today's society. If there was no discrimination in society, none of these elements would matter, unfortunately we do not live in a perfect society and discrimination does exist. Many who ...

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War and The African American Community

The importance (and lack of importance) of war in the African American Community In the lived, non-fictional reality of today's present, many individuals such as the African-American politician Representative Charles Rangle of New York City have called for the reinstatement of the draft policy. ...

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Ebonics

, also known as Black English, is a nonstandard dialect spoken in many homes in the inner cities of America. This nonstandard language is often looked upon as low-class or lazy talk. This is not the case, however. Due to consistencies found in the dialect, there seems to be an order. It has ...

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From Village To City

Over the years of history, there have been many civilizations. We will look at the earliest of all civilizations known to man. From Village to City began in 8000BC and spanned all the way into 3000BC. Throughout this report we will look at the 6 key features of this civilization as outlined in ...

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Kuwait

"After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby ...

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Juvenile Crime

The essay is writen using the (Kolb and fry model) Concrete Experience Many different types of projects in different countries have reduced levels of delinquency and violence by tackling the causes - to the extent to which crime is reduced through many different types and forms of crime prevention ...

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Black Female Bodybuilders

"Yo, Yo, Yo -- go girl!" "Hey, over here -- We here for you, girl!" "You look good! REAL GOOD!" This is family and neighborhood pride at stake on the stage tonight. Sisters, mothers, boyfriends, husbands, cousins, and friends from the outer boroughs, Jersey, Philly, the deep South, and everywhere ...

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Motown’s Evolution And With Emphasis On Its Women

Inside, the front office near the receptionist’s desk there are vintage copies of Jet and Ebony, magazines geared towards the black population. The switchboard looks like something out of the original “Dragnet,” with quarter-inch plugs and manual phone patching to route calls. Upstairs, Gordy’s ...

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Amazing Grace A Book Report

As part of the summer reading assignment this year, I read the book Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol. In this documentary-style book, he told about the horrible yet completely realistic conditions of the most poor, rundown neighborhoods and districts in New York City. Kozol wrote the book for the ...

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Tha Screets 4-life

“Tha day before today I was gang banging around tha ‘hood in tha Screet. Chillin’ at tha crib making snaps wit them old heads.” Unless you where affiliated with a gang in some way you would not have a clue of what that meant. Gangs have been around for hundreds of years. ...

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Amazing Grace A Book Report

As part of the summer reading assignment this year, I read the book Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol. In this documentary-style book, he told about the horrible yet completely realistic conditions of the most poor, rundown neighborhoods and districts in New York City. Kozol wrote the book for the ...

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Western Films

are the major defining genre of the American film industry, a eulogy to the early days of the expansive American frontier. They are one of the oldest, most enduring and flexible genres and one of the most characteristically American genres in their mythic origins - they focus on the West - in ...

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Understanding The Cause Of Hom

"Being homeless is often defined as sleeping on the streets. Although this is the most visible and severe form of homelessness, there are many other types of acute housing need. These include living in temporary accommodation, poor or overcrowded conditions, or being in mortgage arrears and under ...

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History Of Rap

Rap Music, a genre of R&B that includes rhythmic poetry put over a musical background. The background consists of beats combined with digitally isolated sound bites from other recordings. The first recording of rap was made in 1979 and the genre began to take notice in the U.S. in the mid-1980s. ...

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Crooklyn: A Review

Crooklyn is the story of how one family (The Carmichael’s) struggles to survive and stay together, as they experience one very special summer in their crowded, but cozy Brooklyn neighborhood nickname “Crooklyn” for the magical, crazy, remarkable experiences in their hometown. Told from the ...

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Bleeding Ireland And Black America

Fall Road is deserted. Only a few dirt-caked, barefoot, Irishmen can be seen shivering in the adjacent park. We walk past the Catholic neighborhoods knowing, at any moment, buildings might explode and automatic weapon fire could lacerate the air on every side of us. Belfast is charming, apart ...

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Industrialization American

Between 1865 and 1920, industrialization caused significant changes in many people’s lives. First, the development of a new railroad system help settle the west and made it more accessible to people. Second, public transit systems in big cities provided an outlet from congested cities. Last, ...

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