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Inner City Violence Essays and Term Papers
Film Review Of Do The Right ThingThe Reality of the Melting Pot
Tempers explode, emotions take charge, and a Italian-run pizzeria in a black Brooklyn neighborhood becomes the center of a violent conflict on a hot summer day in Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing.
The film is a day-in-the-life of the Bedford-Stuyvesant community and ...
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Mein Ghetto: Black Racism And Louis FarrakhanRace can be defined in terms of physical features (skin color and other anatomical features), and sometimes also with respect to language, behavior, ideas, and other "cultural" matters. Racism is a belief in the superiority of a particular race; prejudice based on this or antagonism towards, or ...
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GangsI'm doing a report on . I need to start off by saying that
a lot of the stuff I'm about to say, I think is bull shit. I think this
because I am in a gang and do, or did drugs. I also have to disagree with
some of, no actually a lot of the stuff I am about to say.
Before I babble on ...
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GangsI'm doing a report on . I need to start off by saying that
a lot of the stuff I'm about to say, I think is bull shit. I think this
because I am in a gang and do, or did drugs. I also have to disagree with
some of, no actually a lot of the stuff I am about to say.
Before I babble on about I ...
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Broken Blossoms: SymbolismBroken Blossoms
Many directors would have found it difficult to follow such blockbusters as the controversial and monumental The Birth of a Nation (1915), the spectacular Intolerance (1916), and the epic Hearts of the World (1918). However, in the film Broken Blossoms (1919), D. W. Griffith ...
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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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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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History Of RapRap 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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Billy Bathegate By E.L. DoctorBilly Bathgate is an important American novel in it’s portrayal of one young man’s evolution from boyhood to maturity. The novel is about a fifteen year old boy that gets taken under the wing of Dutch Schultz, a 1930’s gangster trying to keep a hold of his diminishing empire. As the novel unfolds, ...
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The Barber Shop and Modern RacismThe Barber Shop and Modern Racism
The Barber Shop
* I accompanied a friend of mine, Phillip, to his barber shop in his neighborhood at 49[th] and Prospect Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. In this neighborhood, I was instructed by Phil to carry my legal weapon being the lone Caucasian in the ...
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The Homeless In EnglandIntroduction
I decided to study the homeless' situation before we went to England, so I tried
to get information about it via the internet, but it was so much information
that I soon gave up...
When we got to England I thought about changing subject to the pub culture
because it seemed easier to ...
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Preventing Chronic Delinquency: The Search For Childhood Risk FactorsTogether, these findings on the characteristics of chronic delinquency suggest that one important way to decrease overall crime rates among youths is to prevent chronic delinquency, and that early childhood may be an important developmental period to target for its prevention. The remainder of ...
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Decriminalize Marijuana For The Good Of AmericaCurrently, drugs remain high on the lists of concerns of Americans and
are considered one of the major problems facing our country today. We see
stories on the news about people being killed on the street every day over drugs.
To many people drugs are only an inner-city problem, but in reality ...
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The Drug War In Americahas many elements to it that ranges from education of the public not to use drug such, a teaching grade school children to “just say no” and the D. A.R.E. program, to intervention and treatment for drug users. Protecting United States borders from incoming drugs and trying to keep other ...
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Teaching KidsThe issue of morals and values being taught to our children is one of the most pressing problems in our society today. The responsibility of raising children with a strong moral base has been lost in the chaos of the modern world. With an increase in single parenting and more homes where both ...
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School Uniforms And DisciplineSince the recent outbreak of enraged teenagers, an overabundance of profesionals are giving their opinions on different ways society can overcome and lessen such instances. Robert Coles, a proffesor of psychiatry and medical humanities at Harvard Medical Center, offers his opinion to readers how ...
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Antisocial Personality DisorderHistory of Antisocial Personality Disorder
In the past people with an antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) have been termed psychopaths, sociopaths, and dissocial personalities. The term psychopath referred originally personality disorder in general; it was replaced with the term sociopath to ...
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A Three Generation Comparison Of DisciplineThe disciplinary act of spanking can be very controversial. In some eyes, the act of spanking is unheard of. There are also those who feel it is a necessary aspect of parenting. Children all over the world receive spankings in compensation for punishment. There is no social norm when it comes ...
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The Push For Legalizing MarijuanaCurrently, drugs remain high on the lists of concerns of Americans and are considered one of the major problems facing our country today. We see stories on the news about people being killed on the street every day over drugs. To many people drugs are only an inner-city problem, but in reality ...
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Juvenile Crime: Crime RatesIt is comforting to know that, according to recent crime statistics,
crime rates are dropping among adults. However, for teens the crime rate is
soaring. Between 1990 and 1994, the rate at which adults age 25 and older
committed homicides declined 22%; yet the rate jumped 16% for youths between ...
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