Manny Salazar Jennifer Wiley WRT 101 M-W 10:40-11:55 November 26‚ 2012 “The Setting of the House on Mango Street” The short story‚ “The House on Mango Street‚” is a story that is centered within a particular neighborhood‚ which is evidently inhabited by middle-to-lower class folks. Although the introduction of the story does not state a specific location‚ it is safe to say that it is not the typical neighborhood where you would find rich white folks living. For example‚ the house where the
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the Streets Culture in urban communities‚ also referred to as inner-cities‚ are growing increasingly violent. In the article‚ The Code of the Streets by Elijah Anderson‚ he begins to take an in-depth look at the root of the evil. He deduces that economic factors‚ parenting and the troublesome environments largely influence the violent norms within this culture. Anderson notes that two groups coexist simultaneously in the inner-cities which he labels as the “decent” and the “streets.” Although
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Problems the Children Faced The book “How the Other Half Lives” by Jacob Riis focuses on how people of other races or poor lived their lives in tenement houses. The most disturbing of all examples are the children and the problems they faced. In chapters 15‚ 16‚ 17‚ and 20 of “How the Other Half Lives” describes how children slept on the streets‚ had no homes or heat‚ and in a lot of cases‚ died. Imagine a life where a child had little food to eat‚ no where to sleep‚ savaging the streets‚ and looking
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on a door and was coined in 1944 after an NBC documentary was made on this occurrence of children forced to live in this manner during and after the second World War‚ when ‘Dad’ enlisted and ‘Mom’ had to go find work (Mertens 57-61). The term might not be used as loosely as it was back then‚ but ‘latchkey children’ still exist today. Although unsupervised children can potentially cause harm to other children‚ and have long lasting effects towards how authority will handle these young people once
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Poor Victorian Children -Since a large part of the poor children had to work public jobs to help support their families many parents thought of children as income‚ and having more children who worked raised the income of the home. Many parents had 10 or 12 or even more children for this reason alone. How old did children have to be to work in Victorian Times? -Victorian children would be made to go to work at a very young age. As unbelievable as it sounds‚ sometimes even 4 or 5 years old. Actually
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Growing Up in Poverty In the novel‚ The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros‚ a young confused girl has trouble finding herself as she grows up in the Latino section of Chicago. Esperanza and her family move to a small‚ crumbling red house in a poor urban neighborhood. Determined‚ she decides that someday she will leave and move somewhere else and totally forget everything about Mango Street. Throughout the novel‚ Esperanza significantly matures sexually and emotionally. The many stories of
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Nava 5/2/12 Race in Down These Mean Streets “Éste es un mundo brillante‚ éstas son mis calles‚ mi barrio de noche‚ con sus miles de luces‚ cientos de millones de colores mezclados con los ruidos‚ un sonido vibrante de carros‚ maldiciones‚ murmullos de alegría y de llantos‚ formando un gran concierto musical (Thomas‚ Down These Mean Streets‚ 1998‚ p. 3)”‚ is how Piri Thomas describes his birthplace‚ East Harlem. The diversity of cultures‚ the vibrant street life‚ the passion and conflicts of everyday
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Abstract Email to: worgenkid@yahoo.com (Ryan) Our research question states “Is the moon habitable by life forms?” which is us trying to see if life can live on the moon such as we do on Earth. Our hypothesis was that the Moon would not be able to inhabit life forms and our hypothesis was correct‚ we were able to show that the Moon was uninhabitable. We had taken a water bottle and filled it with water and sugar‚ then we put yeast in it and got as much air out as possible to give it the
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Location: Melbourne is located in Victoria Australia‚ the Melbourne CBD is located south central in Victoria. Collins Street is located in Melbourne’s CBD‚ it is one of the oldest streets it is also Melbourne’s traditional main street with some of the finest era buildings. Collins Street was designed by Robert Hoddle; it is 2 kilometres in length. It runs parallel to flinders and Bourke streets in a south-west/north east direction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collins_Street‚_Melbourne banks As a resource:
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CODE(S) OF THE STREET Put simply‚ the "code of the street‚" which according to Anderson is prevalent in the inner city ghetto‚ functions as a way for African American youth to maintain social order in neighborhoods that have been abandoned by formal institutions such as the police. Unlike other social codes that informally regulate public space in mainstream American culture (in Jacobs’ era or our own)‚ a violation of the code of the street can put an individual at potentially life-threatening
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