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    becoming more violent now because they are using more than just their body parts to beat up people. These gangs are killing and raping people. It used to be about colors and different language but now it is about something different. It used to be about just being in the wrong neighborhood and getting jumped in. For some time now, one has to kill someone or rape someone to get in and stay in a gang. Along time ago, each street had a known gang but all a person had to worry

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    San Francisco beats like a heart with too much blood. The city on the bay provides homes and shelter to the free-thinkers of America. If you are looking to expand your consciousness you should travel there and consider making it your home. The city is full of life and death with its inhabitants high and low. Look around and see faces born in wombs from around the world and see the same light in each one of their eyes. The mighty bridge that connects land with land and people to people stands tough

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    Goodreads “Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure”. This relates to a chapter “Right to the streets of Memphis” in the novel Black Boy by Richard Wright. The first step is to know what his fear. in order to overcome the fear, you have to face it. Richard fear of getting beat up the gang distracting him from getting his food for his family. Fear is what we feel when we are scared or afraid of something or someone. In this story “Right to the streets of Memphis” by Richard Wright. Richard

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    brutality is so important to our because Police is brutality is so big right now and we cant people have innocent people in the streets getting shot for doing what they're supposed to be doing. Why we are talking about this is because we have to make a change and stop what is going on. Police have been targeting black lives and there a holding them at gunpoint and shooting them before they even get a trail or can go to court. We as in all of us shouldn't be scared to walk outside or they shouldn't be scared

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    “Stand back! Move!” yelled the police officer surrounded by other officers. Feet echo through the streets matching the rhythm to the repetition of the words “Pro-black isn’t anti-white!” Protesters continue to walk forward and the next thing “Bang!” and wailing starts filling the streets. However, if you can listen closely, you can hear one of the most influential songs in the 90s that is still significant in today’s society. Sung by the King of Pop, Michael Jackson’s piece “They Don’t Care about

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    is fighting leaving her loved one. "When I go away from you, the world beats dead, like a slackened drum."(Lines 1-3) My interpretation of this section in the poem is her feelings of her loved one departing from her. As they leave each other "the world beats dead" (line 2) She feels lost and incomplete without her other half. If you compare this to a drum it is like her love has no more rhythm as to a drum that has no beat. "Like a slackened drum" (Line 3) when I read this line I pictured a drum

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    involved the black youth or young black adults who tend to rebel against or resistance towards, the dominant white American society. Hip Hop was initially formed by black youth itself in the 1970s, on the streets of the Bronx, a crime filled poor neighborhood in New York. Back then the streets of New York were ruled by African American and

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    they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street.” This quote was said by Woodrow Wilson on the evening before declaring war on Germany. I agree with this quote because war changes you. Being a part of a war, killing other people for your country gives you a strong sense of nationalism

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    In the novel The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros tells the story of Esperanza, a young girl who lives in poverty. Esperanza experiences connections with others to help her become more accepting to living on Mango Street, regardless of her initial thoughts of the house. Throughout the novel, Esperanza accepts her life on Mango Street due to new friends and good experiences. Esperanza is a young girl who moved to a small, red, beat-up house on Mango Street. Although everyone has to share a

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    songs from his recorded works. The lyrics are taken chronologically and examined for showcase of violence in different forms. Rap music emerged from the streets of New York in the 1970s. A scattered moment of spitting bars and having rhymes caught on with

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