Analysis Of Last Hope For Peace At Brooklyn's Big Party

“Silence can become complicity in oppression,” articulated Carol Guzy, as her eyes, filled with compassion and wisdom, scanned the audience. A four-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, she radiated ethos, and my fellow National Youth Correspondents at the Washington Journalism and Media Conference soaked up every carefully crafted word. She touched on what it means to wield a camera or a pen to fight for the things others would wield a gun to defend, and how personal values make the journalist, not expensive technology or flashy gimmicks. During the half hour she spoke I realized that the personal impact journalism has is just as important as the societal effect. Carol Guzy’s voice was shown in images of tragedy-stricken places: New Orleans in 2005, Haiti in 2010; mine is shown in the words I string together as I try to better understand the world around me.

Ritual Murder is a play by Tom Dent in 1967 and it is considered a hopeless tragedy because it depicts New Orleans as one of the most violent cities in the United States, especially amongst the poor African-Americans. It is about murder. It is a ritual murder because “it happens all the time in our race on Saturday nights (Dixon 474). More specifically, Ritual Murder is about Joe Brown Jr. who killed his best friend, James Roberts, on a summer Saturday night. It is a heartbreaking, chilling, and violent crime in New Orleans considering it's with black-on-black-- black people killing black people. Sadly, the problem Dent recognized decades ago in Ritual Murder portrays is still ongoing with us today (473). This paper will explain Dent’s Ritual Murder phenomenon of black urban crime by delving into the victims and perpetrators, as well as reasons that lead to the murder.

For winter the mayor is moving the deprived off the streets and into the hospital. “The New York Civil Liberties Union is watchful. They question whether the rights of these people who live in our parks and doorways are being violated by involuntary hospitalization.” “I think the mayor’s notation is humane, but I fear it is something else as well. Raw humanity offends our sensibilities. We want to protect ourselves from an awareness of rags with voices that make no sense and scream forth in inarticulate rage. We do not wish to be reminded of the tentative state of our own well-being and sanity. And so, the troublesome presence is removed from the awareness of the electorate.” She agrees with the mayor, but sees a fault; we just want the poor out of the way, out of the streets. We want to get them out of our sight so that can stop bothering

In April of 2015 a man named Freddie Gray was taken into custody by the Baltimore Police Department. While he was being arrested police officers beat Freddie Gray to the point of hospitalization. The next day Freddie passed away and the city of Baltimore erupted. Protesters flooded the streets which caused violent riots and looting. Soon cars were being set on fire, as well as local businesses and even retirement homes. Fox News and CNN both attempt to provide insight on the falling apart of the city of Baltimore, but CNN covers mainly one aspect, goes for the reader’s emotions, and lacks analyzation of the problem to do so persuasively. Fox News, on the other hand, analyzes the problem, offers a solution, and presents an overlooked cause for the riots.

The Los Angeles riots in 1992 did not stem from the beating of Rodney King but stemmed from a much larger problem. Individuals were frustrated with being placed in a social hierarchy based on the color of their skin. The beating of Rodney King was the "cherry on top" for the bottled up frustration people felt. In the United States, there is a social hierarchy, and the judicial system works differently depending on where the individual is placed within the hierarchy. The riots were a non-constructive way to fight for equal rights within the judicial system, but many individuals were fed up with society telling them where they should be placed. A social hierarchy has existed since the beginning of time. The inner workings of the overabundance

A journal article’s goal is to inform the reader of a subject, but it also attempts to conjure a response or thought of any kind. “Housing, Baseball, and Creeping Socialism The Battle of Chavez Ravine, Los Angeles, 1949-1959” by Thomas S. Hines causes a reaction from the start by failing to include an abstract to aid the reader. Had I not had a background in Chavez Ravine, this would be a crucial negligence. Once the essay begins, Hines delves straight into Chavez Ravine, the architects behind the housing project there, and the socialist controversy that doomed the project, provoking a number of responses from me ranging from frustration to sympathy.

In “Reducing Crime, Eliminating Blight Among Issues Addressed During Duggan’s State of the City,” the Mayor suggests a “5-point plan to grow the city’s economic comeback” by bringing down violent crime but doesn’t say how this will be achieved; or maybe the media did not incorporate this. Despite this, the article mentions that the speech was interrupted a couple times by “hecklers,” suggesting that interruptions by hecklers are inevitable as if the city is familiar with such behavior. It does not say what the matter of issue was and why they had interrupted. The article is politically centered and the information itself is not convincing because it sounds like a typical political platform that merely addresses issues without a solution.

Summary of “No Courage, No Peace in Brooklyn” is the mayor isn’t really trying to stop the violence in Brooklyn. During the West Indian American Day Parade that happens every year. The elected officials needed to defend the “innocent lives” that have to live in Brooklyn during this violent event. The police department’s in Brooklyn have to double up their security, there police officers, and their

Overcoming internal barriers is a struggle humans typically endure. The novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles focuses on the friendship between two teenage boys, Gene and Phineas, who are the exact opposite of one another. It is told from Gene’s point of view as he journeys through adolescence while attending one of the most prestigious boarding schools in America during World War II, Devon. Gene learns that when times are difficult he can move past his struggles by latching onto an idea, hope, or an essence of peace. As he matures, it is clear that his friendship with Phineas has played a key role in helping Gene discover and accept who he is because he helped him to unveil the enemy that was inside the whole time

Those topics interest me because something different than to know what is happening nowadays in repeats. Starting from April 8, 1968 where it marked the beginning and the end of the riots in DC, which it happened after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. These riots have changed many of the city's business, paths, buildings, neighborhoods, and its history forever. The big impact upon is U Street area, which where the history contain in DC’s northwest that received its name, where at that the time people were worrying about history. Like the H Street, the neighborhood’s identification agreed with a blueprint for an assassinated of residential projects and a retail makeover that would change the face of the area. Despite the transformation

What happened during the riots, it is something that won’t be easily forgotten. For African Americans, Koreans and Caucasians as well, this was a tough experience where they all were involved and affected. For some of them the peace came to their minds, but for others, the hatred remained in their lives. There is always a chance that the Riots may happen again. Considering the disparities of thoughts among people and cultures, it may come a moment where these can turn the lasting ashes into flames. However, there are some strategies all communities can do in order to prevent the riots.

Davey begins the article with "CHICAGO — In a city wrestling with a rise in gun violence and turmoil in its police department, August seemed like the longest month." With this opening statement, she pulls the audience in with the ultimate question of "Why?" It entices the reader to go down further in the article to figure out what the turmoil is and why Chicago is in a time of desperation. As a reader myself I instantly began to wonder what was happening within the city. Fellow Americans need to understand what they are going through, and she wrote with a tone that would cause the readers to become concerned.

#1 conflict “I felt betrayed.I felt more alone than ever. By the end of the fourth day at military school, I had run away four times” (Moore 90).

The silence is deafening. Other than the occasional screech of a cat fighting with a raccoon, there is no sign of human life. The nighttime is no time for neighborhood adventures, there is no one to save you from the dangers that lurk around every corner. Here, there are never any witnesses to avenge the victims of horrific crimes. A couple of weeks ago there was string of arson attacks; I watched the flames rise from the house across the way. I observed all the residents on the block as they stood outside asking each other, “Did anyone see anything?” After several weeks of investigation the answer always seemed to be no. Jane Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities and E.B. White’s Here is New York are writings that both

“And even so, life is stronger than everything. Life is once again pulsating in the Vilna Ghetto. In the shadow of Ponary life is happening and there is hope for a better morning. The concerts that were initially boycotted are accepted by the public. The halls are full. Literary evenings are full and the great hall cannot hold everyone who comes.”