The movie begins in New York‚ in 1843‚ with a gang fight. Bill "the butcher" Cutting’s gang of "nativists" have challenged the "dead rabbits" (a gang of mostly Irish immigrants) to a fight to settle once and for all who is the most powerful gang in the area. After an intense battle the "nativists" win by killing the leader of the "dead rabbits"‚ also Amsterdam’s (the main character’s) father. Amsterdam is then led into an orphanage where he grows to be a man‚ all while Bill Cutting runs the Five
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A History Lesson Alex Moir/February 13‚ 2001 Mrs. Neitling/Per.4 Kody Scott grew up in South Central L.A. during the nineteen-sixties and seventies‚ soon after the creation of the Crips. Raised in poverty without a father‚ and a full family raised solely by his mother‚ Kody Scott led the stereotypical "ghetto" life‚ a poor and broken home. However he does not blame this on his own personal decision to join the Crips while only eleven year’s old. The allure of the respect and "glory" that
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How does Turner explain the recurring need for communication and transportation along the American frontier? What Turner wants to point out here is that the American West is the most important feature of American history‚ and of the development of its society. He refers several times to a process of “Americanization” and we will see that the definition he gives of it is a very peculiar one. He gives a definition of the frontier: “it lies at the hither edge of free land”‚ meaning that he considers
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His mother dying of a terminal disease‚ David (Benny Moshe) runs away from an abusive father and lives with other homeless children in a series of large concrete construction pipes. A few years later‚ David‚ who now goes by the name Tsotsi (Presley Chweneyagae)‚ is the leader of a gang which includes his friends Butcher (Zenzo Ngqobe)‚ Aap (Kenneth Nkosi) and Boston (Mothusi Magano). After getting involved in a murder committed by Butcher during a mugging‚ Tsotsi and Boston get into a fight which
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Sociological Analysis of “Crash” Paul Haggis created an excellent film that depicts stories of subtle racism showing through in today’s America. In his film‚ characters with different racial backgrounds collide with each other. He ingeniously titled his film “Crash” (2004). I believe this movie is telling it’s audience that social stereotypes exist in just about all of us; social stereotypes in this movie typically are learned from specific incidents or collisions between people. An example
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Frederic Thrasher: Gang and Gang Typologies Frederic Thrasher was a sociologist at the University of Chicago. He was a colleague of Robert E. Park and was one of the most prominent members of the Chicago School of Sociology in the 1920s. He took a PhD in Chicago on gangs. The Gang‚ a study of 1313 gangs in Chicago‚ was published in 1927. It said that “neighborhoods in transition are breeding grounds for gangs.” (Thrasher‚ 1927) His work on gangs was a series of outstanding doctoral studies completed
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From my experience the most effective prevention approach for dissuading youths from getting involved in gang activity is early intervention. Law enforcement and other positive organizations are competing with the glorification of the gang lifestyle. Movies‚ music‚ clothing‚ and social media promote and may appeal to youths that are already high risk into entering the gang lifestyle. Individuals may be pushed into gangs because of negative outside factors‚ barriers‚ and conditions in their social
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Gun Violence Gun violence‚ in the United States especially‚ is a growing concern and highly debated topic when the discussion of gun control is brought up. Here are several facts that I found to be troubling‚ and even disturbing. * The average of guns deaths in the annual is less than 50 in Japan compared to more than 10‚000 in the United States. (http://www.heedinggodscall.org/content/pfctoolkit-10) The number of gun related deaths in the United States dwarfs that of Japan annually‚ perhaps
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The title of the book I selected is “Gang Leader for a Day”. In this story‚ Sudhir Venkatesh decides to pay a visit to a low poverty-stricken project in hopes of getting people to complete a survey poll on urban poverty. Venkatesh portrays himself in the book as an inexperienced and unaware graduate student looking to gain inside information on living life in the projects of Chicago. Sudhir Venkatesh was determine to gather information that would explain what life was like for people living in these
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An important theme from the film “Freedom Writers” directed by Richard LaGravenese is the theme of understanding‚ respect and tolerance. “Freedom Writers” is an amazing and inspiring film set after the Rodney King Riots in L.A. the film is based on a true story about the experiences that the students from room 203 at Woodrow Wilson High School went through. The variety of camera work used throughout the film helped portray how the characters demonstrated the importance of showing tolerance‚ understanding
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