Brief Summary Of The Story 'Street God'

Situated predominantly in urban areas, gangs are becoming a major problem in today's society. The youth and adults are turning into gang members often times to leave behind the current situation they are living now. Many people who aren't familiar or affiliated with gang members are known to be curious as to why it is that the youth and adults join a gang. Some answers might be the current situation, obtaining social status, sense of protection, amongst other personal reasons. Everyone who joins a gang has different situations about why they decide to associate with gang members. In the novel, G-Dog and the Homeboys by Celeste Fremon, focuses on the gang members about East Los Angeles. This book draws the attention on the youth residing within the East Los Angeles territory and a look at the East Los Angeles gang members and how they play a major role in the book as one of the Latino gangs in East Los Angeles.

In Randol Contreras’s The Stickup Kids, Contreras explores the South Bronx through the lens of a sociologist. He describes the lives of the stickup kids such as Gus, Pablo, and other teenagers living in the South Bronx. Contreras uses the research method of ethnography to provide a sociological analysis of the drug trade and business in the South Bronx. His research shows how social factors impact the lives of these stickup kids to become active in the drug trade. Through his field notes and interviews with the stickup kids, Contreras examines in depth of how social factors such as, socialization, social class, the thrill of crime, deviance, and culture affect the individual.

Prior to being assigned the reading of the memoir “Always Running”, by Luis Rodriguez, I had never given much thought on juveniles involved in gang life. Rodriguez achieved success as an award-winning poet; sure the streets would no longer haunt him - until his own son joined a gang. Rodriguez fought for his child by telling his own story in the vivid memoir, “Always Running.” “Always Running” is the compilation of events Luis experienced during his youth in San Gabriel. The theme of the book is to always strive for the best things in life and to always take a stand for what you believe. Lured by the seemingly invincible gang culture of East L.A., he witnessed countless shootings and beatings, as well as senseless acts of street crime against his friends and family members. As a Latino in a poor neighborhood, Luis struggled through criticism, stereotypes, and mistreatment. With the help of his mentor, Chente, Luis saw a way out through education and the power of word to successfully break free from years of violence and desperation.

In Always Running, Luis J. Rodriguez recalls his time growing up in Los Angeles during the 60s and 70s. Rodriguez writes of the hardships that his family had first encountered while trying to assimilate into American society and how he would often, while growing up, be criminalized by his teachers, law enforcement, other people, his peers, his community, and eventually people who cared most for him. Rodriguez recalls the times where he and some friends came together and created a family, a brotherhood of sort, in order to fulfill his need of belonging, but as other people in the community had also formed groups to consolidate power, thus marked the beginning of rivalry and the introduction of gangs. Rodriguez’s gang life had been filled with tragedies and filled with great times, but ultimately he tried to leave the life of crime and commit to an education. Rodriguez tried stepping away from the gang lifestyle by going to school and writing poetry, but ended up back in the life of crime after a serious altercation with the police. When Rodriguez went back to his gang lifestyle, he found the same gang that treated him as a brother, had shunned him away after Rodriguez had offered a solution to wither away the gang violence.

In his critically acclaimed motion picture, “City of God” director Fernando Meirelles depicts the growth of organized crime throughout the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s in the Cidade de Deus favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil via the lens of a young boy named Rocket. The film culminates in the death of the two rival gang leaders in the aftermath of a shootout between police and conflicting locals, we as the audience only experience through Rocket’s untimely habit of seeing too much. Applying the modern Psychoanalytical approach to literary analysis, understanding the City of God hinges upon both an audience's knowledge of Meirelles’ biography; which serves to explain the idiosyncrasies and nuances expressed within

Wes making a critical decision in his life, without a voice around to say otherwise entered the drug game. Both Wes Moore’s shared a common thread while growing up. They both grew up in single parent environments, both were raised in inner city neighborhoods, and both had run-ins with the law. As author Wes Moore states in the introduction, “The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine . . . .

In his novel Tattoos on the Heart, author Father Gregory Boyle S.J. shares his experiences as a pastor in the gang capital of the United States, Los Angeles, in an attempt to persuade his readers to look at gang members with a more humane perspective. To help his readers relate to the gang members, Fr. Boyle recounts personal anecdotes about the many gang members he works with and their journeys towards changing their lives. Through his use of colloquial language and informal diction and his narration of personal stories, Fr. Boyle creates an intimate tone accomplishes his purpose of discrediting the stereotypes associated with gangs and depicting a human face worthy of respect and sympathy. Though Boyle published this novel in 2010, his insight and wisdom on the state of gang violence still hold true today, and he continues to inspire his readers to recognize the tragedies many gang members face in their everyday lives.

Monster by Sanyika Shakur yields a firsthand insight on gang warfare, prison, and redemption. “There are no gang experts except participants (xiii)” says Kody Scott aka. Monster. Monster vicariously explains the roots of the epidemic of South Central Los Angeles between the Crips and the Bloods that the world eventually witnessed on April 29, 1992. As readers we learn to not necessarily give gangs grace but do achieve a better understanding of their disposition to their distinct perception in life.

Once upon a time, there was an a unknown creature named Robert walking down the street. Robert turned the corner and accidentally bumped into Fred the bully. Fred is a big brown talking bear that runs Grape Street. Fred has weird super power that activates when he’s angry. Fred doesn’t know that Robert has unrealistic mind control and can control what anyone does.

The non-fiction book, 50 Cent: No Holds Barred is a writing describing the story of 50 Cents rough beginning and come up in the rap game, “After years of struggle 50 cents perseverance is finally paying off” (Prologue) Throughout the book three main points were made very clear: Know one's surroundings, Finding ones meaning in life, and Perseverance pays off. These are key points that can influence anyone reading the book. The three points presented have universal meanings and aid to one's life that is dealing with a struggle. One would benefit tremendously by getting a new perspective on a life that they might not be accustomed to.

In the movie “City of God” takes place in Rio de Janeiro during the 1960’s to 1970’s which is also based on a true story of some boys that were brought up in a poor neighborhood who ran the streets, murder civilians, steal , and sell drugs while doing other types of crimes. While these characters were doing crimes there is one type of character who is very important to the story who is named rocket while he grew up in a very low class place he ended up pursing his dream into being a photographer instead of doing crimes like his brother clipper who also advises him to stay in school and not be like him. In this movie there is a lot of theories that could possibly explain why some of these boys ended up to commit these crimes. The theories that would be explained is general strain theory by Robert Agnew, social control theories by Michael Guttredson & Travis Hirschi, Classical School by Cesare Beccaria.

Are you looking for that beastly house that just jumps right out at you? If so prowl on down here to the corner of 13th Street and Devil Road. Just the exterior of the house will be sure to rattle your bones. The rows of the shambles of barren trees on either side of the road, that lead up to your impending doom that lurks within the caverns of the fractured house that will  surely collapse at any given moment. The mangled arms of the barren trees  you grab you by the neck, they will doubtlessly leave you hanging. If that isn't enough to put you in a gruesome mood just take a look at the dismantled remains of the old rose bushes. They line the morbid fence, which surrounds the house keeping those naive children, that had no soul, away from

Phillipe Bourgois’s study of social marginalisation in inner city America in his ethnography ‘In Search of Respect – Selling Crack in El Barrio’, won critical acclaim when first published in 1995. For the first time, an anthropologist had managed to gain the trust and long-term friendship of street-level drug dealers in one of the nation’s roughest ghetto neighbourhoods – East Harlem (Bourgois, 2003). He had originally come to study poverty and ethnic segregation, the political economy of inner-city street culture, ' but found himself mired in a world conditioned by drugs, a world on which the literature is surprisingly sparse (Clatts, 1997). The people who inhabit it--men and women with names like Benzie, Little Pete, Gigi, Candy, Primo,

As a Tailgate Ambassador, I walk across the parking lot the of smell of barbeque, gumbo, beer and the fervor of what lies out front, a finish, intense game, a blow out or a Houston Texans win befalls in the breeze. Houston Texans fans fired up the barbecue pits to concoct some unusual treats. The tailgaters adorned their tents with the game day theme and memorabilia. Simultaneously, “The Preacher” sounds his siren signaling all the tailgaters, no matter if you are for the home team or visiting team, to take part in the pre-game sermon and toast. I continue to walk around the parking lot observing the Mad Cow Tailgaters playing life-size Jenga, corn hole or game of touch football with the Baggers Tailgate Party. On occasion, a friendly game

The Hero/Heroine’s Journey begins with The Call To Adventure. Paradise Lost contains no female characters, however its theme of free will portrays the basis for feminism. In The God of Small Things, Ammu follows Milton’s perspective and starts her Heroines’s Journey by expressing her individuality with her forbidden engagement with Velutha. Ammu’s choice to pursue Velutha with no bounds, displays her unchained uniqueness and the full control she possesses on herself. Similarly, in The House of the Spirits, Rosa expresses her own identity in her choice of marrying Esteban Trueba. Rosa’s beauty holds second to anybody, internally and externally. Her numinous qualities causes her to be an admirable person upon many, however, although Rosa contains