: The Get Down focuses on 1970s New York City broken down and beaten up‚ violent‚ cash strapped dyin. It turned to rubble‚ a rag-tag crew of South Bronx teenagers are nothings and nobodies with no one to shelter them - except each other‚ armed only with verbal games‚ improvised dance steps‚ some magic markers and spray cans. From Bronx tenements‚ to the SoHo art scene; from CBGBs to Studio 54 and even the glass towers of the justbuilt World Trade Center‚ The Get Down is a mythic saga of how New York
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Never Back Down Have you ever had one of those moments when you wished nothing more than to just give up and leave everything behind? Stupid question‚ everybody has those moments. Well‚ for me it was more like I couldn’t simply lie down and give up. This big realization came to me when I was about ten years old‚ during the third practice football game of the season. “TWEET!” The whistle to start the game finally came. My stomach was buzzing with angry butterflies. However‚ in my case they felt
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initiation is “jumping in” or getting beaten by all the gang members and/or committing acts of theft or violence. In 2011 the National Gang Intelligence Center of the Federal Bureau of Investigation asserted that "There are approximately 1.4 million active street‚ prison‚ and outlaw gang members comprising more than 33‚500 gangs in the United States." In this paper you will read about gang types and gang structure‚ why people join gangs‚ typical gang activities‚ gang violence‚ and how gang members identify
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Words from The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros Arranged by Searching for a New Home Down‚ down Mango Street we go Across the boulevard Three long blocks Look at that house‚ I said‚ it looks like Mexico! It’s small and red with tight steps in front and windows It has wooden stairs And there are no closets I can hear the wooden door as it opens and lets loose its sigh of dampness!! I don’t belong! I knew then I had to have a house A real house‚ One I could point to One with
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Suicide and humor are two words not often associated with each other‚ but Nick Hornby takes the pair on in his novel A Long Way Down‚ a dark comedy about suicide and life after a failed attempt. The book is narrated by four characters taking turns telling the story in their voice. The resulting hodgepodge gang includes Martin‚ a quasi celebrity who loses everything after an affair with a fifteen-year old girl; Maureen‚ the middle-aged mother of a severely disabled son; Jess‚ an obnoxious teenager
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The novel The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck is all about the invasion of a little town by the Nazi’s. It was many years since the town has fought a war‚ no one seemed to know how to act‚ especially the invaders. But‚ all in this entire novel proves that the invaders are human and only want to be liked. The reason they are not liked is because they are following orders from their leader. So‚ the townspeople start to plot against them and plan to win. Towards the end of the novel‚ Doctor Winter says
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better. Usually people think of heroes as people who fight crime in movies or comic books‚ but those people don’t exist in the real world. In our world‚ anybody can be a hero like police officers‚ firefighters‚ doctors‚ or people you walk by on the streets. A hero is not someone that hurts another person or does bad things‚ but they help people. A hero doesn’t always fight crime or always have an opposition. They don’t even have to work with people; they could be designing a product that helps many
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2.0 Key Success factors for a Commercial Bank in Dar es Salaam. 2.1 Branch network One of the most important factors that commercial bank must possess to be successful in Dar es Salaam is branch network. Branches are the distribution channels for the bank services and a well spread network of branches provide the bank with ability to reach the mass population of the Dar es Salaam city. As important as the number of branches is the location of these branches. Those banks that have managed to
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Yet‚ for Quebec‚ an amount of people are displeased with the city’s relationship with other provinces of Canada and want to secede. The issue of succession is not new; in fact‚ the citizens voted on this very same controversial subject‚ began a “Quiet Revolution”‚ and had protests. Canada is bilingual‚ meaning it has two official languages. Although most Canadians speak English‚ a sizable number of Canadians living in the province of Quebec primarily speak French. The French Canadians who live
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In “Today Will be A Quiet Day” by Amy Hempel‚ a father spends some quality time with his son and daughter. He’s canceled their music lessons‚ giving them a day off to bond with them. The trio is on the road‚ and while on the road‚ they exchange a few words. They’re driving through a bridge when the son makes a comment about an impending earthquake. The father reprimands the son for trying to scare his sister‚ and the conversation seems to dwindle down again. Then‚ the conversation picks up again
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