A Look Into Inner City Poverty Inner city distress in the American economy is not the only pressing issue facing the nation. Lack of businesses and jobs in most inner cities fuels a crushing cycle of poverty and crippling social problems like crime and drug abuse. As the condition of inner cities continue to worsen, debate on how to improve them through such measures as education, financial and technical assistance has continued to grow. The sad reality is that efforts from the past decades to address
amazing opportunity to inner-city children. Most inner-city students do not graduate from high school or even have a chance to pursue a higher education due to the detrimental public school systems located in cities. Children who are more privileged have the option of attending boarding schools that provide an exceptional education for students. However, these private or boarding schools have an astronomical price tag associated with them. Unfortunately, a majority of inner-city students who have the
even though the majority of his students were Caucasian. The comedic aspect is illuminated by Mr. Garvey’s stereotypical nature when pronouncing names through roll call. The video reasons his nature through his “experiences” in substituting at inner city schools. Ironically, a majority of the students in the classroom possess a middle-class socioeconomic background. Parodies such as “The Substitute Teacher” seem hilarious; however, it causes audiences to feel remorseful after becoming aware of these
seem like a pretty ordinary event at most grocery stores, but it really exemplifies a bigger problem in our society which often goes unnoticed, food insecurity and it’s correlation to obesity and other health problems. Hunger in our society is an enormous problem that often goes unmentioned, but this problem is not going away on its own, and in fact is causing significant issues in our society. The issue of hunger is not always about the quantity of food, but also about the quality of the food supply
goal of this paper is to determine the overall impacts of all aspects of police brutality. Part Two: Discussion Five
Despite their unique perspectives and social attitudes of freedom and control, both George Orwell and Fritz Lang explore issues of class struggle and the impact of technology on humanity through their medium of choice, expressing these serious concerns by forming a dystopic outlook of the future world. Lang’s science-fiction film Metropolis encapsulates the tensions of his wartime experience, and the political situation of the 1920s Weimer period in Germany, in which Lang tapped into the country’s
decision making. Majority of the time these factors are unavoidable. Factors such as environment, family, and music are key to the teens decision making. Hip-hop is believed to have a huge negative impact on teens decision-making and we are to blame for this false allegation. In the 1980s inner cities were filled with the notorious crack epidemic and they experienced poverty on a larger scale than ever before. President Ronald Reagan cut down on social services benefiting people in low socioeconomic
self-expression without limits, allowing artists to freely communicate their journeys and struggles. In addition, Rap sheds light on current political/social issues in a relatable, digestible way; allowing youth to be more conscious and involved in society & its struggles; resulting in improved race relations and narrowing the gap between the rich and poor. Since the beginning of written language, poetry has been a form of literacy “in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings
documentary exploring life in inner-city Chicago during the late 1980’s. The book follows the lives of two African American youth, Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers, who live in Chicago’s Horner Homes over the course of two years. It tells of a lifestyle that is a reality for many Americans and forces the reader to acknowledge a broken system that so many turn a blind eye toward. Kotlowitz does not sugarcoat the struggles and hardships that the citizens of the inner-city face every single day. The Rivers’
explores the struggle Puerto Rican residents of inner city Harlem face in surviving both economically and socially as they use selling crack as a vessel to find meaning and value in their lives. His ethnographic approach to understanding the culture and economy of the inner city in Spanish Harlem reveals the deeply entrenched values and ideologies in dealing drugs. Bourgois found that rather than simply an economic means of survival, selling crack had an impact upon dealers’ lives and identities. Far from