The Code of the Streets IN THIS ESSAY IN URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY A SOCIAL SCIENTIST TAKES US INSIDE A WORLD MOST OF US ONLY GLIMPSE IN GRISLY HEADLINES—"TEEN KILLED IN DRIVE BY SHOOTING"—TO SHOW US HOW A DESPERATE SEARCH FOR RESPECT GOVERNS SOCIAL RELATIONS AMONG MANY AFRICAN-AMERICAN YOUNG MEN By Elijah Anderson Of all the problems besetting the poor inner-city black community‚ none is more pressing than that of interpersonal violence and aggression. It wreaks havoc daily with the lives of community
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The expository text What’s happening to our girls? written my Maggie Hamilton presents the issue that girls all over the world feel pressures at some stage of their lives. Hamilton presents this idea to the reader in a negative way in comparison to how popular culture and wider society encourages it. As girls are growing up‚ they feel pressures regarding their desires to be a woman‚ body image and pressures from parents and teachers. Hamilton expresses these ideas through the use of expository conventions
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Street Children "People don’t love us‚" says Tigiste‚ a 12 years old street girl from Addis Ababa. A small example of how these kids suffer everyday‚ as Tigiste‚ there are many kids like her all over the world. One of these countries that has a huge problem in this issue is Egypt. But who is a street kid? how can we classify these children by that name? and what is the number of them? "A street child is defined as any boy or girl for whom the street in the widest sense of the word
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STELLA STREET How do narrative strategies of point of view/focalisation‚ reader positioning and closure work together to produce the class politics encoded in 45 & 47 Stella Street? The story of 45 & 47 Stella Street and everything that happened (Honey‚ E 2000) is written from a first person narrative perspective. This is evident from page 5 of the book when the narrator‚ Henni introduces herself to the reader and does not from change from Henni to another narrator throughout the text. The
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The Irony of The Jungle Between 1870 and 1900 Chicago grew from a population of 299‚000 to almost 1.7 million‚ the fastest-growing city ever at the time. This surge in population was largely attributed to immigrants coming from European countries seeking a chance for employment and new freedoms associated with moving to the United States at the time. 1905‚ in particular‚ was a historic year when a surge of over 1 million immigrants came to the city. During this time‚ author Upton Sinclair
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Who are the Street Children? Street Children are young people who spend a considerable time living and/or working on the streets of the world’s cities. Different countries describe street children in different ways. However‚two general categories have been frequently used to describe them: • Children living and working in the street. • Children working on the streets who maintain regular contact with their families. Reality Situation of Street Children • The working
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Maggie Smith is a 21st century American poet and author. She received a BA from Ohio Wesleyan University and a MFA from Ohio State University. Besides being the author of Good Bones (Tupelo Press‚ 2017)‚ her other works were‚ The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Press‚ 2015)‚ and‚ “Lamp the Body (Red Hen Press‚ 2015). She has accumulated numerous writing awards‚ and has been a freelance writer‚ teacher and editor. She resides in Bexley‚ a suburb of Columbus‚ Ohio. (“Extending Bio”) Good Bones
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Maggie Doyne’s efforts have been highlighted in the news as of late due to her upstanding willingness to make change. She was 18 on a backpacking trip before college when she stumbled deep into the Nepalese hills. She witnessed first hand the effects of the insane poverty‚ and the ruins of a civil war‚ and knew she had to help. Doyne then went on to fund this small community’s push to survival. She used her college savings to buy a piece of land and built a school for these kids who had no further
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The Novel Miguel Street has been variously classified as a group of short stories‚ as a series of sketches‚ and as a novel. The latter classification is supported by the fact that it is unified by a single narrator and by several patterns and themes. Furthermore‚ although each chapter is dominated by a single character‚ those major characters reappear as minor characters in other chapters. At the end of the book‚ all the characters who still live on Miguel Street gather to present to the narrator
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poem “Barbie Doll”‚ by Marge Piercy‚ the use of imagery‚ symbolism‚ and irony expresses a tragic‚ cruel society that emphasizes appearance above personality and unrealistic beauty ideals above health and happiness. Throughout the poem a young girl is raised and bullied to believe that her appearance is the most important aspect of her self. Her self worth is torn apart until she dies. The use of imagery‚ symbolism‚ and irony works to deliver a heartbreaking message about the flawed society that existed
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