Understanding The Roots Of Crime

The language that Sylvia uses give the reader sense of her personality and her attitude when she describes Miss Moore’s arrival to her neighborhood, “this lady moved on our block with nappy hair and proper speech and no makeup” (Bambara 337). Throughout the story, Sylvia expresses hatred toward Miss Moore and criticizes about how Miss Moore is educated. This tells the reader that Sylvia is not used to being around educated people and feels threatened by Miss Moore’s arrival. Therefore constantly expressing hatred towards Miss Moore by saying, “I’m really hating this nappy-head bitch and her goddam college degree” (337). As Miss Moore is determined to teach and show the children a different side of the world, Sylvia tries to distribute her negative attitude on other children by discouraging them with her rude remarks. For instance, when Rosie Giraffe showed an interest in the microscope in the show window of F. A. O. Schwartz, Sylvia made comments such as, “That there” You don’t even know what it is, stupid. Whatcha gonna do with a microscope, fool?” (340).

on the day the sun came out the kids laughed at her. They laughed at her when she said today was the day. After this they locked her in a closet because they were jealous. They surrounded her and shoved her into the closet and locked her in there until the sun went away for the next seven years. Margot’s classmates did mean things to her out of jealousy like locking her in a closet.

Due to the lack of entertainment, Lizabeth and her friends have to resort to bothering Miss Lottie for fun, and they compel Lizabeth to ransack the marigolds Miss Lottie pours her love into. At first, she is hesitant to perform such an immature act, but her friends continue to taunt her, jeering, “You scared, Lizabeth?”(Collier 3). Their attitude influences her negatively;not only does it encourage behavior that is pointless and problematic, it also makes Lizabeth feel as if she is somehow less of a person if she does

Sara Smolinsky is the youngest of four sisters; the eldest is Bessie, whom everyone calls the “Burden-bearer” because the whole family lives on her pay check. “I knew the landlord came that morning hollering for rent. And the whole family were hanging on Bessie’s neck for her wages. Unless she got work soon, we’d be thrown in the street to shame and to laughter for the whole world.”(1) The second eldest

Their outwardly pristine appearance juxtaposes with the drab, unkempt town with peeling paint and rusty fences, where spousal rape, adultery and paedophilia lie just below the surface. Through this leverage of the ability to transform and astound, Tilly is able to gain ‘information’ to achieve her objective of discovering the truth behind the events of her past. The promise to transform Gertrude into the ‘most striking girl in the room’ and Marigold’s] dress looking ‘better than everyone else’ are the beginnings of the truth being unravelled and ‘rubbish’ revealed.

With all the troubles in the adult’s world, the children seek a refuge from adult supervision and harassment. Monkey Garden is that refuge; it is a place where the neighborhood kids can misbehave, play and still be kids. In one instance Esperanza is pressured into changing herself because of the different situations that Sally, Esperanza’s sexually bold friend. Sally puts her in these situations by lying or abandoning Esperanza. After feeling ashamed of not understanding why Sally flirts with the boys in The Monkey Garden, Esperanza comes to a realization with the following quote, “And the garden that had been such a good place to play didn’t seem mine either” (Cisneros 98). Sally puts Esperanza in a situation where she feels ashamed and uncomfortable being in her own skin and not understanding how Sally acts with the boys. Whereas Esperanza initially pays close attention when her and Sally discuss things, including boys and sex, when Sally abandons Esperanza at the fair, she discovers that how Sally describes sex is not how Esperanza first encounters it, because she is raped and, clearly it is a horrible experience. She says, “Sally, you lied. It wasn’t what you said at all. What he did. Where he touched me. I didn’t want it Sally.” (Cisneros 99) Sally is not a loyal friend to Esperanza. She has been left on her own to deal with this horrible experience that is forcing her to shed all childhood innocence.

Understanding the criminal behavior system and crime typologies that the book demonstrates; it is kind of hard to distinguish what type of serial killer Robert Durst is. Judging from the book examples of different type of serial killers, I would have to say Robert Durst is a hybrid serial killer. While some of his actions from the video series, “The Jinx”, lead me to feel as if he was an expedience killer who wants to protect themselves from a perceived threat as the book states. Some of Durst’s actions also lead me to believe he was a mission killer, who had a vision for killing someone. None of his victims seemed as if they were some random act of murder. I feel as if he had a mission to kill all of them.; one reason making me suspect

Despite all her rebellious actions, Sylvia feels slightly uncomfortable when everyone is about to enter F.A.O. Schwarz. She states, “…but when we get there I kinda hang back. Not that I'm scared, what's there to be afraid of, just a toy store. But I feel funny, shame.” (Bambara 4). The quote signifies that for some reason, Sylvia is feeling insecure. She is not afraid of a simple toy store, but it is something different. She knows it is embarrassment. In this context, the cognizance is coming to Sylvia in the form of embarrassment. After witnessing the immensely different lifestyles on Fifth Avenue, she starts to understand Miss Moore’s ideas. She is slowly learning just how big the cavity is between the different economical classes. She feels like an outsider. The child in her is slowly growing up, absorbing the harsh reality of the world in the process. In addition, when the children are at the store, the exorbitant prices of the toys compels Sylvia to question herself of the social and economic differences. She states, “Who are these people that spend that much for performing clowns and $1000 for toy sailboats? What kinda work they do and how they live and how come we ain't in on it? ” (Bambara 5). According to the quote, all the children have arrived at the toy store F.A.O. Schwarz and got a look at the inflated prices of the toys. Sylvia is questioning herself about

In the short story, "Eleven," by Sandra Cisnernos, Cisneros describes the birthday of Rachel, an eleven year-old who was humiliated on her birthday. Her teacher, Mrs. Price, claimed that an old sweater belonged to her, when in reality, it was Sylvia Saldivar's who ironically claimed it belonged to Rachel. Rachel was left crying and depressed the rest of the day, when she was commanded to wear it. Cisneros best characterizes Rachel through her well use of her diction,imagery, and repetition.

The children in the neighborhood are probably the most influential people in Sylvia’s life, since she is around them most frequently, and they are her peers. They too seem to come from the same kind of background as Sylvia—poor, defensive,

“The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara is about a young African-American girl who is born into a poor society. Her name is Sylvia. Sylvia has not had experienced much outside of her neighborhood. She believes her family’s way of living is the way it is for everyone. This changes when a college educated African- American lady moves into the neighborhood.

When rumors accusing Sylvia of stealing candy that she had bought were created by Gertrude, Gertrude because more abusive with Sylvia including when she kicked Sylvia in the genitals and accused her of being pregnant. Then Sylvia was accused of spreading rumors that Stephanie and Paula were “whores”. Sylvia was friends with Paula Baniszewski, Gertrude Baniszewski’s daughter, and they even went to the same school. When the rumor came out, Sylvia

a. Imagine asking 100 strangers to describe a criminal. Predict whether those descriptions would be likely to focus on street criminals, or the variety of topics covered in this video.

An impoverished child is likely to pick up on some bad habits, the most common being foul language. Additionally, Sylvia refers to her friends as “Big-Butt, Flyboy, June bug, Rosie Giraffe, Sugar, Mercedes, and QT.” This combines with the cursing demonstrates a lack of propriety afforded those of a higher economic class This aids in revealing that Sylvia simply does not want to draw attention to how unfair the world really is because she is on the wrong end of the stick.

Opposing to widely held outlooks for example, both victimisation and authorised crime presented specifically sharp drops from 2007 to 2009, when being without a job rates ascended. Robbery, burglary, and household theft oppressions had been dropping by a rate of about 4% per year from 1993-2006, but fell by an ordinary of 6 to 7% per year for the duration of the Great Recession. This is not for the reason that crime is distinct to economic situations, but for the reason that crime is correlated to so many other things. Criminologists Richard Rosenfeld and Robert Fornango propose that consumer confidence and the view of economic poverty may have an explanation for as much as one-third of the topical decrease in robbery and property crime. On the other hand, despite the fact that economic recessions and consumer sentiment are in the cards to play some character, they cannot account for the extensive and firm drops, crime rates have been falling for twenty years. In addition for this motive, most criminologists feature only an insignificant portion of the crime drop to economic conditions, (Richard Rosenfeld, 2007).