What Does Street Fight Mean

The book We Beat the Street by DRS. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck hunt is a captivating autobiography about three boys, Sampson, Rameck, and George, who overcame several obstacles and became important doctors. This story took place in the dangerous location of Newark, New Jersey, in the 1980-1990’s. Violence, peer pressure, and drugs were often found in this location, so the majority of people were greatly impacted by the negativity around them. In this book, Sampson and Rameck were involved in unfortunate situations, and often had to face severe consequences, some as serious as being arrested.

The memoir known as, We Beat The Streets, exemplifies just that The memoir shows that we can “ beat the streets”, by overcoming adversities, the power of being positive, and making decisions that positively impact one’s future.

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 harmless fist fighting has now turned over to

James is confused and does not know how to choose between writing and music and also whether to identify himself as black or white. An example of him overcoming this situation is when he says “there are two worlds bursting inside me trying to get out. I had to find out who I was and in order to find out who I was, I had to find out who my mother was” (266). This is important because James wants to know what the right decision to make is. He wants to make the decision that will make him find his path in life and make him happy and successful. At the end James chooses both careers and identifies himself as biracial, which makes him feel

abusing drugs and robbing people. Later on in the story, we discover that James is angry but does not know his reason for being angry. This only seems to perplex him even more. Soon, James accepts his family’s strategy for getting beyond racial identity by focusing on religion and education. He tells his friends that racism will be just be a thing in the past by the time they graduate, but later comes to this the realization that it will not be as he states, “instead it smashed me across the face like a bottle when I walked into the real world” (p. 204). It is only when he takes a journey into his mother’s past that he is able to balance his background and learn to love it, as proven when he says, “privileged to have from two worlds…a black man with something of a Jewish soul” (p. 103).

Thurgood Marshall was born in Maryland in 1908 on July 2. He attended Frederick Douglass High School in Baltimore, Maryland and was placed in the class with the best students. He graduated high school a year early with a B average and was in the top third of the class. He intended to study medicine and become a dentist, but on his application for Lincoln University he stated that he wanted to be an attorney. At first he did not take his studies seriously, and was suspended twice for pranks against fellow students, nor was he very political. Thurgood wanted to study in his hometown University of Maryland School of Law, but did not apply because of their segregation policy. Thurgood became the first colored attorney and started a private law

When James was a child, he was homeless. He was in and out of shelters, sitting on park benches at night, and hoping he will find a warm place to stay. His parents were drug users and lost custody of James when he was a freshman in high school, and he went to his grandmother's, where he started his athletic career.

The 2002 Newark mayoral election was a hard-fought campaign between Cory Booker, a city council member, against the 16-year incumbent mayor Sharpe James. On January 9, 2002, Cory Booker announced his campaign for mayor of Newark rather than running for re-election as councilman. Sharpe James, who had easily won election four consecutive times, saw Booker as a threat. In the campaign, James and his supporters resorted to mudslinging, and questioned Booker's suburban background, calling him an outsider who did not understand the city.

There he hopes to glean some spiritual inspiration before returning home to start life as a pastor. However, things do not quite work out for James the way he envisions them. Immediately upon his arrival in Israel and before he can even make it to the famed city, he is unjustly thrown into jail, then "sold" into a kind of paid slavery to the business man who ponies up his bail. James is forced to live in a kind of community barracks with other young men in his situation and is sent around town to do cleaning, gardening and an assortment of other odd jobs. As James toils at his labors and interacts with both his "superiors" and peers, he learns a great deal about life in a land where the weak are taken advantage of by the strong and where friendly words and acts of seeming kindness are doled out with an air of class-conscious racism and condescension.

James and His Mother had two very different experiences in public school. Ruth was racially divided in her schooling and James went to a school that was racially diverse.”In Suffolk, they had a white folks’ school and a black folks’ school and a jewish school.” (McBride 79). Some people didn’t consider the jewish school to be an actual school. When Ruth was finding a school for her children, she would search for a primarily jewish public school. “We grew accustomed of being the only black, or ‘Negro’ in school and were standout students, neat and well-mannered, despite the racist attitudes of many of our teachers” (McBride 89). James did not feel like he did not belong in the school he was in. “The Jewish school didn’t really count with the

James Jr. was unable to understand his father’s internal perspectives and like the white men, judged his father for being quiet, passive. In this moment, James Jr. does not see the value in his father’s controlled actions. He needed to take a step back and see the situation through his father's eyes in order to

He was born in La Marque, Texas and would go to college at Southwest Texas State University and got a B.A. in Political Science with honors. Later on, he would study law at Notre Dame and got a J.D. degree also with honors in the early eighties.

He attended public schools in Brooklyn, scoring a perfect 1600 on the SAT, and graduated as class valedictorian from James Madison High School, in 1967. Schumer competed for Madison High on the It's Academic television quiz show.[13] He attended Harvard College, where he became interested in politics and campaigned for Eugene McCarthy, in 1968.[14] After completing his undergraduate degree, he continued to Harvard Law School, earning his Juris Doctor with honors, in 1974. Schumer passed the New York state bar, in early 1975. However, he never practiced law, choosing instead a career in

Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4th, 1961. He went to Harvard Law School. After his graduation, continued his legal work as a civil rights lawyer and a professor teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago. He was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996. He served there for three terms (1996-2004). Later on, he started his campaign in 2007 for the presidential election in 2008. He won the presidential election against John McCain, his Republican opponent and started serving in the office in January 20, 2009. He became the 44th President of The United States of America. He is more well-known for being the first African-American who ever served in The White House.

That man could have easily said that it was not his business and their parent should have them better to be fighting in the street but he knows it takes a village.Now the other kids who were laughing won't go back to school talk about whose,who they got beat up instead it's a more positive