Random Family By Adrian Nicole Leblanc

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.

Individuals should learn to accept themselves for who they are, not what society wants them to accept. As we continue to evolve, we build up our own characters, and they are typically a mix of the ethnicity and culture we inherit from our family, various encounters in our life, distinctive identity and personality we have. Our character and identity is not something that we get easily, it's an intricate process. The story “The Other Family” by Himani Bannerji is based on a mother and a daughter who immigrates to Canada. They belong to a black family, but after the immigration they are living in the dominance of the white society.The school is considered as the hegemony of Canada and teacher is considered as the mainstream, it is a sort of social institution that a hegemony shape but they does not know the awareness of marginalized groups. The mother feels anxious when she sees a drawing of a white family by her daughter. It was the misperceptions of the kid that lead to forget her identity or she was too small to identify it. So to examine about the identity of the marginalized individual the beginning is to focus on the quality of the education. It is necessary for every school system to teach equality and inclusions of every group status so that the marginalized group are not left isolated from the society. Secondly, the fear of the marginalized parents from losing their kids in the mainstream society shows their lack of confidence in their own cultural pride. Since

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.

The movie Boyz N the Hood is an illustration of how a group of early adolescents’ lives was affected negatively due to the environment they lived in. These adolescents lived in an environment where drugs, gangs, and shootings were the center of their community. Living in a predominantly African American community these adolescents were faced with many misfortunes. Ricky one of the adolescent characters I have decided to evaluate for this particular paper was faced with adversity.

Elijah Anderson’s novel, Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City, offers the reader a glimpse of what life is like being a black youth living in the inner-city. Living by the “code of the street”, a term Anderson uses to describe the unwritten rules many youth in the inner-city when interacting with others, these young people often find themselves on the destructive path to delinquency. Through a lack of role models, a sweeping change in the global market, the ever enticing underground drug trade, the constant institutional discrimination towards African Americans, and the corruption of the criminal justice system, the people who live by the code of the street become a part of an alienated subculture. Through

After critical review of all three different criminological theories, Life Course Theory was the theory that was most effectively represented the issues discussed in Code of the Street. Life Course Theory embodies many of the issues that occur in black inner-city neighborhoods. It precisely explains how delinquents are prone to implicating themselves in criminal activities. It gives rise to an explanation behind the initial crime. The theory then presents an oversight to the different motives that delinquents might have for escalating or de-escalating away from the crimes. An individual’s desistance from their crimes also explains why many perpetrators age out of crime. Life Course Theory can be applied to most of the characters, especially John, Robert, and Angela as they want to follow a decent life, but have persistent trouble

A person's childhood will ultimately determine the course of the rest of their lives. Statistically, children who are born into poor locations are more likely to commit robberies and to engage in gang-related criminality. The people who are most at-risk are African American youth, particularly males from single-parent households (Wheelock & Ugeen 2006, page 2). Within low-income areas, there are many associated hardships including lack of educational opportunities, health care, potential employment, and an influx of

In Odd Couples, Anna Muraco interviews intersectional friendships between gay men and straight women as well as straight men and lesbian women. The author is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Muraco is careful to incorporate gender, sexual preferences, and age each time she mentions interviewees. Most of the intersectional friendships involve a gay man and straight woman; however, she makes a great effort to interview friendships between a straight man and lesbian woman, though sometimes these friendships may be difficult to find. The author aims to challenge two large assumptions. The first assumption she confronts is that men and women are fundamentally different. The second assumption is

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He interviewed 20 boys per area and for every 80 percent, he also interviewed a parent or primary caretaker. Harding explains his focus on boys because of their greater involvement and exposure to street violence and to allow a gender match between subject and interviewer. To understand the boys' neighborhoods, the interviews investigated how the subjects conceptualize their neighborhoods as not only geographic but as social spaces. The differentiation of the three neighborhoods is a key aspect of his study's design. Asking similar questions and discussing the same topics with the individuals in different neighborhoods revealed significant differences in the daily lives of adolescent boys across the neighborhoods. It was only through these comparisons that Harding’s findings about the differences in experiences of violence, threats of victimization, and the role of older males in social settings was discovered. According to Harding (2009), among the adolescent boys of Franklin and Roxbury Crossing, neighborhood violence is simultaneously structured by neighborhood identities. Nearly all of the subjects in these poor, violent areas use neighborhoods as categories to distinguish insiders from outsiders. “In Franklin and Roxbury Crossing, 32 of 40 boys (80 percent) reported that more than half of their friends live in their immediate neighborhoods, and 22 of the boys (55 percent) had no friends from outside their neighborhoods. Only three of 40 boys reported no neighborhood friends. In Lower Mills, 13 of 20 boys (65 percent) reported that more than half of their friends live in their neighborhoods, and seven of the boys (35 percent) had no friends outside the neighborhood. Four of 20 Lower Mills boys reported no neighborhood friends” (Harding, 2009, Page

Kenly Ramirez Period-3October 19, 2017Lady Lazarus and Daddy are poems narrated by Silvia Plath who is a Jewish victim of theHolocaust, in both poem they commonly shared the same purpose of suicide, as well connected with religious theme. This poems illustrate the struggle finding her identity against the oppression of a male which she faced throughout the poem. In the poem “Daddy”, she describes how her father impacted her life. The uses of phrases as “I have always been scared of you, your neat mustache, and your Aryan eye”. These characteristic reminds her father as a Nazi and devil person. Through the poem, the author use many literary devices such as “He is like a black shoe, like a statue, like god, like Nazi and as a vampire”. The tone

Stacey’s father grew up in the Santa Ana, Ca. in a rough neighborhood. It was not a community that had many good influences, especially since it was a difficult time in the 1990’s; the gang wars. The streets were never calm or quiet. Fired shots, police sirens wailing and loud aggressive arguments can always be heard, no matter how hard a person tries to escape it. Stacey’s father grew up with no father and his mother gave him up to to a woman who did not want him either. Stacey’s father was a smart and resourceful young man, but he still got in trouble with the law. His other family members was no better

For many reasons that have been much of the focus of this book, many African American children and teens live in lower class neighborhoods. Working with delinquent gangs in Roxbury, Massachusetts, a poor neighborhood within the city of Boston, Walter Miller developed a theory to help explain delinquency by lower class youth. Miller’s theory seeks to understand how the “culture of poverty” and America’s underclass produces delinquency, especially in gangs (Regoli, Hewitt and Delisi, 2014).

Technology is the use of technical knowledge for practical purposes. Genetic technology on the other hand is the discipline of changing and duplicating genes to create a new feature in a creature or to make a genetic stuff, like a hormone. Hereditary engineering chiefly contains the formation of recombinant genetic material DNA, which is after that put into the hereditary material of a cell.

The lessons and values I have been taught to withhold and keep surfaced throughout my life constantly float within my brain, signaling me when opportunities present themselves for practical uses. Growing up an African American male in the middle of Houston, Texas, the surrounding influences of gun violence, gangs, and drugs are real threats, capable of molding me into a dysfunctional member of society. However, a more powerful influence, the place where the values I have been taught stem from, is my family.