I’ve heard of many streets that involved many crimes‚ and the toughest streets of Newark‚ New Jersey is where the three kids in We Beat the Street grew up. The setting of this nonfiction story is just like the real world‚ it brings in normal crimes that would happen today. Some neighborhoods are very wealthy and rich‚ but some are also like the ones in the book. These streets include drug use and gang violence everyday‚ and the three kids had to grow up surviving these exact streets. The book
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By: Nnamdi Anige In the book We beat the street Dr.Hunt‚ Dr‚ Jenkins and‚ Dr‚ Davis show how you do not have to get caught up in everything your friends do. When you do make mistakes‚ learn from those mistakes. These 3 doctors beat the hood‚ stealing‚ and jail in their neighborhood by staying positive. One thing they show in the book is how they beat the hood. For example “Quit throwin bottles in the street‚ man” (21). This shows how they would not let their neighborhood be destroyed and
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We Beat The Streets Chapter 1: “You Don’t Have to Cut My Foot Off‚ Do You?” - In this chapter Sampson is trying to be like the older boys‚ he hangs with his older brother and his friends pretending to be tough. They go try to fix the benches in the park. Sampson ends up holding a brick which ends up falling on his foot. Sampson goes to the doctor and starts to gain interest in the doctor’s job. Reflect: After reading this chapter it reminded me when I was a kid playing with the plug
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The story We Beat the Streets by Sharon M. Draper is the remarkable true story of how three kids from bad neighborhoods that were just full of drugs‚ gangs‚ violence‚ and crime and how they banded together to overcome these disadvantages to become doctors. They made a pact to do well in school‚ get good grades‚ go to college‚ and become successful doctors. They did this by always being there for one another and supporting each other whenever they needed it the most. Without the support of one another
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There are so many avenues for kids to take. Peer pressure is tough! Friends can take their vulnerable friends down the wrong path. No doubt about it. Life on the street is full of distractions. Many kids on the street do not have the love at home and when that happens‚ they look in the wrong places. Three boys‚ without fathers‚ working mothers‚ living in the hood of Newark New Jersey faced these very issues. Drugs‚ gangs‚ and prison were a reality for their friends. They flirted with this type
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AA00218MN3 Beat Street is a 1984 drama film‚ following Wild Style in featuring New York City hip hop culture of the early 1980s; breakdancing‚ DJing‚ and graffiti. Set in the South Bronx‚ the film follows the lives of a pair of brothers and their group of friends‚ all of whom are devoted to various elements of early hip-hop culture. Kenny Kirkland (Guy Davis) is a budding disc jockey and MC‚ and his younger brother Lee (Robert Taylor) is a hardcore b-boy who dances with Beat Street Breakers (the
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it gives people a sense of independence‚ and even if someone doesn’t achieve that dream it will open up more doors for them in the future. First off‚ I believe that it is worth it to dream because it causes people to work hard. In the book‚ We Beat the Street by the three doctors‚ three young‚ african american‚ boys growing up in “the hood” make a pact to all become doctors. They struggle through gun violence‚ drugs‚ alcohol‚ and being in poverty. They all have to work extra hard to go to college
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collective identity based exclusively on Reardan fosters Junior’s sense of insight of unity and purpose. As seen when Junior states‚ “We beat Wellpinit by forty points. Absolutely destroyed them.” (194) Junior identifies himself as a student who attends Reardan‚ who plays on the basketball team and not as a hopeless child on the reservation with the declaration of “we”. Junior’s insight of purpose was to defeat a part of himself (Wellpinit) in order to hope (Reardan). The loss of individual
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Links: iler 333). From this we can see that meat alone will not help to build strong bones. But meat plus dairy is an excellent combination. Now that there have been many pieces of evidence that point towards a meat-filled diet‚ we must also consider what makes vegetarianism a possible alternative. There are many different opinions on these two different diets but mostly questions
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the tenement blocks‚ black teenagers created hip hop‚ a celebratory subculture with its own language‚ its own music‚ dance‚ fashion and graffiti.” (Rap: Looking for the Perfect Beat‚ Shaw). Once I went through all of the documentaries and readings we did‚ I decided to correlate Beat Street and Rap: Looking for the Perfect Beat because they both were perfect examples of using a part of hip hop as a form of expression. The Hip Hop culture was a way for minorities to express themselves in a way that had
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