Chapter Summary Of 'We Beat The Streets'

The book that I am nominating for the NCTE Orbis Pictus Book for Outstanding Nonfiction for children is Ghettoside: A true story of Murder in America. I nominated this book based on four key factors accuracy, organization, design, and style. These factors were inspirational in creating a piece of literature that will amaze and inform its reading audience. Ghettoside was published January 15, 2015.

Eric Larson pulled me in once I read the title of the first chapter, “The Black City”. What locked me in, however, was when Larson expressed women in the city and the dangers of being a female during the specific time period. Public warnings addressing that “advertisements upon their face bear the marks of vulgarity, nor do we regard it safe for any lady to answer such unseemly utterances” (Larson pg 11) make it clear that there is a problem. Although it seemed like a lot of information to grasp in the moment, looking back I’ve noticed that the author left room for me to picture what these criminals wanted from such innocent women.

Until reading this chapter, I was unaware of just how many people were actually in poverty. Our textbook states that poverty rose from 2007 to 2008 being that 39.1 million were living in poverty of the year 2008. It is unbelievable to think so many people are living in poverty and struggling to live day to day. It really makes me stop to think about every person that I walk by daily could be living in these conditions. Whenever I look at charts and view socioeconomic history at work or during clinical hours, over half of patients are unemployed due to being laid off or being unable to work due to a medical condition. Working in the emergency room will really open an individual’s eyes to see how many people come in because they cannot afford care or are found on the streets. Working in the medical field you always strive give the patient the best care possible no matter what. However, when you see someone who has it worse than you, there is nothing I want more than to help that patient in every way possible whether it is to give them a bath or provide them with a warm meal. Our books also mentions that race can affect poverty, stating that Caucasians have a lower poverty rate compared to African Americans, Hispanics, and Asians. From a personal experience, I have not had an Asian patient dealing with poverty and the rate of Caucasians I have dealt with

Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas is a novel that focuses on the struggles a dark skinned Puerto Rican goes through, whether it is due to race, financially, and even social issues. Piri Thomas tells the story through first person. The novel begins with Piri’s father loosing his job and having to work for the Works Progress Administration. The work requires hard manual labor which meant he became more distant from Piri since he would return from work more worn out than before. This caused Piri to runaway from home to “teach” his father a lesson but all he really wanted was his father to love him just like he loved his siblings. Piri began to question as to why he didn’t receive attention from his father like the rest of siblings would.

12. List the three types of plate boundaries and describe the relative motion at each of them.

The Whites felt that Blacks should remain in their own neighborhoods, like in the Ghetto or Black Bottom. But the Sweet family wanted more as a Doctor he felt he deserved more and didn't want to allow fear to make his decision. He stated on page 21 "This house was supposed to have been one more grand accomplishment". Mr. Sweet asked for help friends and strangers knowing and preparing for the worst. He knew they would attack his home. On day two, his fears came to light when hundreds of whites from the neighborhood stood at the house across the street and began to throw rocks and break windows. He also heard people surrounding his house. The fear of sitting in the dark, waiting for the worst took over. They wanted to stand their ground and

On Black Sisters Street recounts the unpleasant story of four ladies who like so many immigrants today, have left their African country, political turmoil and family risking their lives to reach the lands of opportunity. Desperate to overcome poverty and hopelessness for a better life they become victims of human trafficking sacrificing their bodies to the pleasures of men. Every day, men, women and children are sold into slavery, prostitution, and forced to work in agriculture, domestic work, or factories and sweatshops producing goods for global supply chains. This is happening on almost every continent and country. Thousands of foreign nationals arriving in this and many other countries are allured with promises of a better life by promising

There I was cooking in one of the four kitchenettes at 540 Beaty Street. The area around me is filled with aromas of garlic spinach, charred tomato’s, and crushed herbs and fingerling potatoes. But it’s missing something, the smell of seared lemon butter halibut. I am busy fileting the piece of fish when my knife slips and slits my index finger on my left hand, right in between the second and third knuckle. Almost instantly blood rushes out like and over flowed damn. My partner Sasha look over after my sudden gasp of pain and cries out “MEDIC!”

In the first part of this article Anderson talked about the interpersonal violence and aggression in the black inner-city community. He talked about the environment people grow up in and the two groups they are classified as decent, people with good morals and want to be good people, and street, people who have evolved into the way of the streets and using violence to gain respect. After that he talked about, “the code of the streets”, which is when the street group does anything to be socially on top of their peers. For example if somebody disrespects them, they have no quarrels with attacking a person over the smallest thing and if they lose the attack they will continue to retaliate until they are superiorly respected.

In chapter 10, Germany was receiving food from other countries. This is because the disagreements between some countries divided Germany. Joseph Stalin liked the idea of “collectivization.” As a result, many people died due to the lack of food. Mao Zedong did the same thing, and even more people died. Both of them wanted to promote communism, but they ended up killing millions of people. I thought this chapter had a lot of interesting facts like when it talked about Americans feeding the children in Berlin by flying and dropping candy into the area. I had no questions about the chapter.

While reading chapters 8-13, I made two predictions. Firstly, I predict that Tony will attempt to part company with his “rescuers”, Denver and Sean. The reason I believe this will happen is partly that Sean made it very clear that he does not enjoy Tony’s company. This might be because this camping adventure was supposed to be a simple and fun camping trip between Sean and his friend. In the chapter, Sean advertised that it would be so much more fun if it were just him and Denver and that he wished that Tony hadn't tagged along and that he was also slowing them down. All of these negative comments could lead Tony to leave and continue the hike on his own. Also, Tony had flashbacks about how he always depended on people to make decisions

The day of his third anniversary, John Marsh returns home only to realize that his wife Lisa is missing. Notes from Lisa’s diary revealed that their marriage had crumbed. Following the recession John lost his job and became uninterested, unfaithful and an abusive alcoholic. Being the CEO of a leading Canadian advertising firm Lisa’s disappearance receives heavy media coverage. Detectives uncover evidence of financial debts, a gun and a medical report stating Lisa had a miscarriage.

Long ago, at a minute village adjacent to Roc-A-Fella peaks, there lived three puerile boys. Jermaine, Nas, and Kendrick. Kendrick was a scion of the lightning district of the village, Nas was born and raised in the fire district, and Jermaine was a simple village boy who grew crops and raised cattle. Ever since the village was established it was divided into four main groups. The fire district, the lightning district, the village folk, and the All Mighty’s. Mostly all lived in placidity until one day.

The purpose of this film is to show the true struggles that youth face if they are alone on the streets. The information provided in this film will give youth the truth about living on the streets, and hopefully will decrease the amount of runaways.

The night grew to an end and she’s still traumatized by William’s words, prostate cancer. It was a spell without a known cure; one that bewitched even the stalwart. The corrosion builds up, leaving you breathless and left without a clue. Will you survive or retreat? If only I knew.