Alcohol And Violence In Townie By Andre Dubus

Culture in urban communities, also referred to as inner-cities, are growing increasingly violent. In the article, The Code of the Streets by Elijah Anderson, he begins to take an in-depth look at the root of the evil. He deduces that economic factors, parenting and the troublesome environments largely influence the violent norms within this culture.

In Lisa McGirr’s book The War on Alcohol it is hard for the reader to pinpoint one central thesis. One thesis however, can be simply marked down to the title of one of her chapters entitled “Selective Enforcement.” During the Prohibition period police were cracking down on speakeasies and bootleggers and people smuggling alcohol across state lines. However when police would make these arrests the people being arrested were mostly of minority origins. Although poor whites from the South did get arrested as well, most of the jails and prisons were made up of blacks, hispanics and latinos. McGirr said that “Uneven enforcement was the hidden reason the white, urbane upper-middle class could laugh at the antics of Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith, while Mexicans, poor European immigrants, African-Americans, poor whites in the South, and the unlucky experienced the full brunt of Prohibition enforcement’s deadly reality” (McGirr, 71).

Millions of people worldwide take part as spectators to the sport of prize fighting: better known as boxing. In a 1962 essay entitled “Who Killed Benny Paret?” the author, Norman Cousins, writes about the dangers that come with the sport of boxing. He especially talks about a match that resulted in the death of a boxer named Benny Paret. Cousins argues that boxing is just a show of violence and that boxers put themselves in the ring just for the simple purpose of entertaining a crowd. Even though investigations reflect the role of the referee, Paret’s manager, and the doctor’s examinations as the main cause of Paret’s death, Cousins blames Paret’s death on the people that attends boxing matches to see a man get hurt or knockout because he

The story “The Strangers That Came to Town” is primarily a story about freedom. In his short story, “The Strangers that Came to Town”, Ambrose Flack is showing that true freedom is about being accepted. In the beginning of the story Mr. Duvitch and his family couldn’t walk around the town being judged or feeling uncomfortable. This was also a big problem for Mr. Duvitch’s children. They deal with bullying and not being welcomed as well. Although at the end of the story Andy’s family changes things for the Duvitch’s. The town begins to realize that they aren’t as bad as they thought and weren’t actually that different from them.

Our Town is a play that takes place near the turn of the century in the small rural town of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire. The playwright, Thornton Wilder is trying to convey the importance of the little, often unnoticed things in life. Throughout the first two acts he builds a scenario, which allows the third act to show that we as humans often run through life oblivious to what is actually happening. Wilder attempts to show life as something that we take for granted. We do not realize the true value of living until we are dead and gone. The through-line of the action seems to be attention to the details of life. Wilder builds up a plot that pays attention to great details of living.

Janie Porter Barrett born in 1865 in Athens, Georgia was the daughter of Julia Porter, and her father is unknown but is believed to be Caucasian. Julia worked as a live in housekeeper to the Skinner family who pampered and educated Barrett as a child. The Skinner family taught Barrett in the subjects of literature and mathematics. After her mom decided to move Porter was raised by the Skinners’ who were Caucasian. Janie was sent to Hampton Normal Institute and Agricultural Institute, a vocational training school for freed people. Attending this school allowed Porter to gain love for her race, fellow man, and her country. Later Barrett married a guy that worked on the railway and gave birth to four kids following this marriage. In later years she attributed her desire to serve her fellow African American women and girls.

Boxing, an official sanctioned sport in the early 20th century, is a sport that is known as one of the most violent and physically demanding sports on the earth. Professional boxers that get paid to fight must be in top shape in order to preform at the highest level. Being a professional boxer is a tough life. Boxers train hard for many months leading up to one fight and either win, lose, knock out the opponent or even get knocked out. The sport has been around for centuries, but has most recently taken off over the last 100 years. It is a multibillion dollar industry with fighters taking home hundreds of thousands of dollars if not even millions of dollars for big matches. In his novel Papa Jack, Roberts tells the story of the famous African American boxer Jack Johnson. He details the boxers rise to fame and fortune and his downward spiral that would soon follow. In Papa Jack, Roberts displays life of a professional boxer through firsthand accounts with events that happened during Johnson’s life and shows how boxing not only influenced his life but also how he influenced the African American community.

The Book "Fist Stick Knife Gun" by Geoffrey Canada is a biographical account of his childhood in the south Bronx. He and his 4 brothers were raised by only their mother. She would survive on no more than ten dollars a week. He moved several times as a child until finally landing on union avenue, the place were many of his life lessons were learned and at times applied. He learned about the ranking process of kids on union Ave. and how the only way to improve your status was to use your fists to fight your way up the chain. Looking back Geoffrey Canada notices the major shift in attitudes concerning the rules of the streets. What once was

The documentary, “Unforgivable Blackness” directed by Ken Burns casts light on the extraordinary life story of legendary boxer Jack Johnson. The documentary is about the barriers Jack Johnson had to overcome to satisfy his hunger for becoming the best and living “The American Dream.” Johnson had humble beginnings in Galveston, Texas and it was in those beginnings that glimpses of his bright future were slowly but surely beginning to show. Through out his life, he showed independence, relentlessness, ability to improvise, call attention to himself and get around rules meaning to tie him down. Jack Johnson was a self made man who had the drive to go forward and achieve what he wanted to achieve

Do you think of Biddeford as a bad town? Some people think of Biddeford Maine as a bad area because of crimes committed in the past, but when 8th grade students from Biddeford Middle School went downtown and interviewed different businesses in Biddeford Maine they interviewed Biddeford Police officer Normand Allaire who says differently.

At an early age, Muhammad Ali showed that he wasn’t afraid of anyone or anything, inside and outside the boxing ring. Ali started sparring with Martin then he soon started his boxing career. His father earned a poor amount of money. His father earned money by painting billboards and signs. If you wondered it was a Louisville police officer that changed

My father did an amazing thing for this town and all you people can do is be judge mental and disrespectful for me. I hear all the whispers around this place. I am writing this so you guys know the real story. I did not pay the taxes because I could not afford them. However, I felt the money my father gave to this town was more than enough to pay for his taxes and mine. I believed my father was a good man, but he did not know when he crossed his boundaries. He drove every man I brought home. After several times I brought possible suitors, I realized that my father did not think any man was not good enough for me, he was afraid of being alone. So I decided to stay with my father until he died. When my father died, I

Based on Andre’s background, the criminological theory that best explains his behavior is the social bond theory. The social bond theory states that if an individual’s social relationships are strong, then the individual is less likely exhibit deviant behavior. The social bond theory is comprised of four main components: attachment, commitment, involvement and belief. Attachment refers to how connected we are to the people in our lives, be it with either one’s parents, peers, school, etc. It is apparent that Andre had a lack of a relationship with his

At no point did I witness the city’s residence pulling together as a whole to restore Justice and peace. The city was basically run by the most powerful drug lord who was only interested in one thing more power and wealth for himself. The authority in no way tried to restore the law back into the streets of the city of God because they used the wealth and power of the drug lord for their own personal gain. With no community-based controls the residents of the city of God were forced to adapt to its abnormal social conditions of crime. The people were forced to adapt in order to survive. A prime example would be what happened to knockout Ned in the movie. He had a job and wanted no part of the delinquent acts of the gangs but was forced into it when Li’l Ze attacked him and his family. He did what he had to do to survive by adapting to the conditions around him.

Most people are discouraged from hitting others; I, however, was taught how to throw a punch properly. I started kickboxing when I was 15 years old, and I fell in love with it immediately. I relished the feeling of pushing my body past its limits and feeling my muscles complain the next day as validation of my hard work. As a kid I had never played team sports like most of my friends did; while they had soccer practices I stayed home and read books, because my mom taught me to cherish my education over all things. Kickboxing had finally given me an activity to call my own; not to mention it was a much more effective stress outlet than looking to Netflix for distraction.