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Ways Of Life Gang Violence
1,375 wordsThe movie Friday is a comedy, but it also depicts many important social issues. The story is set in the city of Los Angeles, California, in what could be called a high-class ghetto in my perspective. The main theme of the movie is about a young black man who looses his job and is influenced by his best friend to smoke marijuana. The movie also shows the relationships of his family and other members of his neighborhood. With a zany cast of characters and a hilarious script this movie touches on e...
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Tupac Shakur Tupac Amaru
1,172 wordsFrom cool jazz to Chicago blues, gospel to R&B, reggae, and gangsta rap. For a century, African-Americans, Blacks, Negro's and or Niggas, or (what ever label or category is decided this millennium), have been in the vanguard of recorded music in every style imaginable. Rap's origins stretch far back to African oral tradition; it has a more immediate predecessor in the spoken-word expressionism of 60 's activists like the Last Poets, or Le Roi Jones (later known as Amiri Baraka), who performed ac...
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Mythic Patterns In Movies
1,146 wordsMythic Patterns Within Movies Often in literature there are mythic patterns that can be seen throughout stories and fairytales that make reading more interesting. However this is also true for many movies. It may not be apparent to avid movie viewers that there is a similarity that can be linked to most movies that are available to watch. A considerable amount of them contain one, if not more, mythic patterns that make the movie more interesting and provide a higher level of insight to the viewe...
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One Hundred Dollars Strongly Disagree
601 wordsJune Stephenson's passage is about how men commit the most crime in America and women are still expected to pay their unfair share for male pursuit. June suggests that since men outnumber women ninety-four to six men should pay one hundred dollars more in their IRS returns. The author carries a chauvinist tone through out the passage and really gets carried away when she starts blaming all men because we are all brothers. I strongly disagree! We can not start pointing fingers and say men commit ...
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School Violence 000 Students
1,040 wordsThere are many fatal and nonfatal crimes in our schools today. We have got to put an end to all this unnecessary violence. School violence effects the way students perform in school, hurts many students, so we have to show the solution to stop the violence and teach the awareness of violent kids in our schools. School violence effects the way students perform in their school. Students do not want to show up to class, because of being afraid of fights, stabbing, or shootings. Due to all the schoo...
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West Side Story Romeo And Juliet
1,677 wordsAndy Warhol once said, "They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself. " Two hundred fifty years passed between the original Romeo and Juliet and the premiere of West Side Story on Broadway in 1957. However, time did not change the message of the story, simply the creators unique visions evolved. Shakespeare's delivery of the timeless tale of desperate love in his classic Romeo and Juliet proves to only intensify through retelling and modern interpretation. Aud...
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Drugs And Alcohol Gang Violence
1,938 wordsAlthough a lot of todays music deals with problems in society, hip-hop stands ahead of all other forms of music in dealing with social problems. Predominantly black, hip-hop music deals with issues and problems facing the black youth mostly in the inner cities. More commonly known as rap music, artists such as the Notorious B. I. G. , Bone Thugs N Harmony, and 2 Pac have lead rap music into dealing with social issues. These artists rap about welfare, degradation of women, gang violence, poverty,...
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Prejudice In West Side Story
511 wordsIn the book West Side Story by Arthur Laurent's there were many prejudices. Prejudice is a favoring or dislike of something without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge. There were prejudices in West Side Story that had to do with the types of people, their races and sex. Sometimes prejudice can be in small doses and can be meaningless, other times prejudice can be very serious and cause death. Prejudice was the theme of this story, there are many examples. For instance, an act of prejudi...
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Grand Jury Al Capone
698 wordsAl Capone grew up in New York and became involved in a gang very early in his life. Later on he became a very popular mob leader. For all the crimes he committed, he was taken to jail for not paying his taxes. He Al Capone was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1899, of an immigrant family. He quit school after sixth grade and became a member of a street gang that was lead by Johnny Torrio. About 1920, Capone went to Chicago and met up with Torrio, who had become a lieutenant in the Colosimo mob. Th...
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Common Occurences Of Racial Profiling In America
839 wordsDriving eastbound on highway 18 around 12: 00 a. m. , me and four other friends were targeted by the Iowa State Patrol. As they were enroute to my house, a state patrol car whipped around and followed us with the lights flashing brightly. Five teenagers early in the morning were prime targets. All of us fell victim to a police bust practiced throughout the nation by police officers. This nasty police procedure is called racial profiling. With this tactic, everyone behind the wheel can be conside...
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Huck Moral Runaway Slave
847 wordsThe main character of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn undergoes a total moral transformation upon having to make life-defining decisions throughout his journey for a new life. Huck emerges into the novel with an inferiority complex caused by living with a drunken and abusive father, and with the absence of any direction. It is at this point where Huck is first seen without any concept of morality. Fortunately, Huck is later assisted by the guidance of Jim, a runaway slave who joins him on his jour...
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Heart Of Darkness Chain Gang
994 wordsHeart Of Darkness Exploitation Of The African Natives Heart Of Darkness Exploitation Of The African Natives Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad, is an intriguing and extremely disturbing portrayal of man? s surrender to his carnal nature when all external trappings of civilization are removed. This novel excellently portrays the shameful ways in which the Europeans exploited the Africans: physically, socially, economically, and spiritually. Throughout the nineteenth century, Europeans treated th...
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Huck And Jim Shows That Huck
1,435 wordsIn Mark Twain s novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain develops the plot into Huck and Jim s adventures along the Mississippi River. The two main characters, Huck and Jim, both run from social injustice and both are distrustful of the civilization around them. Huck is considered an uneducated uncivilized boy, constantly under pressure to conform to the humanized surroundings of society. Jim, a slave, is not even considered as a real person, but as property. These two characters grow bo...
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Back Into Society Huck And Jim
1,603 wordsAll modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn, according to Ernest Hemingway. Along with Ernest, many others believe that Huckleberry Finn is a great book, but is the novel subversive? Since this question is frequently asked, people have begun to look deeper into the question to see if this novel is acceptable for students in schools to read. First off subversive means something is trying to overthrow or destroy something established or to corrupt (as i...
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Pre Civil War Outlook On Life
839 wordsMark Twain's Imagination In the 1885 classic, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, two boys distinctly separate imagination from reality. Mark Twain has Huck Finn represent reality while his best friend, Tom Sawyer, represents imagination. In a Mississippi River community Twain makes sure that Tom and Huck differ so the strict separation of imagination and reality is identified. Huck Finn takes ideas and theories of his own and imagines what Tom would do before he acts. Toms ideas and aspirations...
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Jenny Jones Television Violence
1,274 wordsTelevision Violence Society was changed forever through the invention of the television. We now have access to information across the globe and entertainment around the clock. At what point has the industry crossed the line in television entertainment? Mentally or physically we all at some point or another want to be like the television personalities we see on a daily basis. No one is more influenced than the impressionable youths who are raised by the television rather than their parents. After...
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Wearing Uniforms Wal Mart
2,569 wordsMandatory Uniforms in Public Schools Do you want equality among students in your childs school? Do you want less violence within your childs school? Would you like your daughter to concentrate more on her schoolwork and less on what name brand jeans she is wearing? All this is possible with mandatory uniform policies in public school districts. School uniforms may seem outdated for some people, but in many cases they can improve school spirit, attendance and student behavior. According to The Hu...
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570 wordsRusty James is the leader of a small, dying gang in an industrial town. He lives in the shadow of the memory of his absent, older brother The Motorcycle Boy. His mother has left, his father drinks, school has no meaning for him and his relationships are shallow. He is drawn into one more gang fight and the events that follow begin to change his life. Rusty James is an up-and-coming street hoodlum, lamenting the salad days of the gangs when his older brother, The Motorcycle Boy, ran things as Pre...
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19 Th Century Oliver Twist
686 wordsBOOK Oliver Twist OLIVER TWIST BOOK SUMMARY Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. New York: Longman Edition, 1981, pp. 353 This book is a fiction novel set in the 19 th century. I found the main theme of he book to be about the social problems at that time in England. The main character in the book is Oliver Twist. He is a young orphan boy. The book tells his life story and his struggle to find his family and a good home. The other important characters in the book are Fagin, Bet Dawkins (Dodger), Mr. ...
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U S Supreme Court Sexual Abuse
1,366 wordsWe all know that our prisons are the final frontier for the socially rejected criminals and violent offenders. We know that our prisons are so overcrowded that the Supreme Court of California issued a court order to reduce the number of inmates. We know that since there are more inmates in prison the chance of getting rehabilitated is very slim. And we also know that the ratio of supervision of guard to inmate is extremely high. But do we know what goes on in our prisons and jails? We know we ha...
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