Innovate Your Life In the book‚ Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh‚ a sociology student from the University of Chicago starts out simply trying to understand “how it feels to be poor and black‚” and ends up spending years and years figuring out the ins and outs of a gang society (Venkatesh 14). Sudhir receives the chance of a sociologist’s lifetime to see first-hand what life is like in the projects. He follows gang leader‚ J.T. around and studies his life at the Robert Taylor homes for
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State and society: Case- ‘Hand in Hand’ Date:- 1st November‚ 2015 Submitted by:- Prashant Dass Q 1:-What are the institutional voids/deficiencies highlighted by the case? The institutions played a crucial role in shaping and structuring the organization. These institutions define the rules that need to be inducted in order to get free flowing and sustainable growth. HiH made its inception in a country with a billion marks and where majority of the population thrives on the inefficiency of the institutions
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Chris “Gang Leader for a Day” This book is about a Sociologist named Sudhir Venkatesh who is a graduate student at the University of Chicago and was interested in the poor black neighborhoods that surrounded the university and he wanted to study them. He wanted to explore how the black folks lived in the projects‚ he wanted to know how life was like the challenges it took for those folks to live in there. The sacrifices it takes to move forward and how poverty affects the way of living
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There are many reasons that gangs form themselves from the readings and the research that I have done I have drawn my own conclusion as to why the individuals involved decide to form an alliance together. Most of these kids come from broken homes‚ and sometimes they do not even have a home; due to dysfunctional contact that are prevalent in most of today’s children and teenage relationships. When a disruption transpires or comes about in these kids lives they are completely perplexed as to how to
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Gifted Hands This story is about a black man named Benjamin Carson‚ who started as young boy who struggled and became a neurosurgeon. Detroit‚ Michigan‚ some call it the slums‚ some call it the ghetto but it has been named one of the most dangerous cities in America. Ben Carson‚ born September 18th‚ 1951 lived in Detroit. As a young eight year old‚ him and his brother Curtis‚ who was ten‚ struggled in school. In school Ben was teased because he failed a lot of tests. But his mother having a third
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sensation of pain. But then when I looked down at my injury it was the size of a plum‚ and the color was in a velvet red shade. I was confused‚ I asked myself “Is my hand broken?....” my sister in law was infuriated‚ she hated seeing me being so wrathful. She took me to our bedroom‚ and laid my hand on the pillow while rubbing the hot oil on my hand to ease the pain. We laid there for thirty minutes; I began to cry and wimp over and over. She was so worried she couldn’t help and just took me to the hospital
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Since the late 1960’s‚ the “Crips” have been synonymous with gang violence and crime. Despite being started as an organization utilized to defend itself and its’ neighborhood from other violent gangs‚ the “Crips” have evolved into a fierce organization that draws its’ standing from murder‚ drugs and a bountiful number of active members. It is a prime example of how an organization could allegedly start as something positive for a community and eventually devolve into one of the most feared criminal
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can become a gang member. Gang members come from every social class‚ can be of both genders‚ and of most ethnic or religious groups. They can also be found in the most unexpected places. According to The National Gang Center‚ in the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth‚ the racial ethnic differences in the proportion of who joined gangs were not as large as previous research had suggested. About 12 percent of Hispanic and black youth‚ respectively‚ reported having joined a gang by age 17‚ versus
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The Street Gang the Bloods Violence is a substantial problem that has attracted increased attention over the past decade. Many forms of violence are seen on a daily basis however; street gang violence has grown to become the most pervasive form. Street gangs refer to groups of individuals who share a common identity and‚ in current usage‚ engage in illegal activities in a particular area. According to data presented by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)‚ there are at least 30‚000 street
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Fair is foul‚ and foul is fair —The witches’ philosophy of life. he unseam’d him from the nave to the chops —The bloody Sergeant’s description of Macbeth’s killing of the rebel Macdonwald. Let not light see my black and deep desires —After being honored by King Duncan‚ Macbeth wrestles with his desire to murder him. Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. —Lady Macbeth‚ after receiving her husband’s letter about the witches’ prophecy
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