Earth a place where we can all call home, a world in which we all want a piece. It’s a vast world, ignore the propaganda spread by Disney, expect the part about world peace. This world that we must share doesn’t treat us all the same. The world is full of people who we must interact with, co-exist with, obey, and idolize. The vastness and perspectival influence of the world affect everyone differently. The world I can from modeled me like a blacksmith. At times it hit me hard, but it was to make me tough. I was given details, and scars. My speck of the world gave me my desires, my faults, my dreams, and nightmares. Also it gave me a personality and mentality thats adaptive, egotistical, and hunger. A hunger that could not be filled with all …show more content…
It was up to my absolute freedom to pick my own personality, and presentation. I decide what to pick by what I saw. I was raise in a place some people would consider the hood, me it was called home. Yes, my neighbor does sell drugs and has been behind bars. We were once robbed when I was around the age of eight. The sirens are heard more in my street then in the other neighborhoods, something I didn’t notice till someone pointed it out to me. I didn’t have a hard time believing people were shot outside my house. The Los Angeles Times has ranked Inglewood the 40th most deadly neighborhood out of L.A. County 's 270 neighborhoods. A dynamic change from its neighbor the west and east, Westchester ranked 134th and Watts ranked 2nd. Even with all the discomfort and havoc, I have never felt scared or anxious from this place I call home. I did however, has a harder time believing I live a few blocks away from a place where championships where won, where history was made, where legends would shoot hoops. My home gives me hope. If people I admire like Kanye West, Anthony Davis, and Kendrick Lamar came from neighborhoods that are rougher then the one I was raised in, then I have a everything I need to make a name for
Kody Scott was born into the gang life weither he liked it or not. Born on 1963 in South Central Los Angeles Kody?s life would be affected by the growing number of gangs inevitably. Kody knew he had a choice to be made, be a gang member or be a pedestrian. He viewed pedestrians as spineless nerds who were always victims of someone?s ridicule or physical violence, who never responded to an affront of any type. He himself had a taste of pedestrian life in grade school were he was picked on and had his lunch money taken from him. ?Early on I saw and felt both sides of the game being played where I lived. It was during my time in elementary school that I chose to never be a victim again, if I could help it?(Shakur 100). Being in a gang gave Kody a feeling of security in a city of violence. ?I felt very different, older, more attached than any of...
Everything for a year had been leading up to this point and here I was in the middle of the happiest place on earth in tears because my friends had abandoned me in the middle of Disney on the senior trip.
Throughout the article “The Code of the Streets,” Elijah Anderson explains the differences between “decent” and “street” people that can be applied to the approaches of social control, labeling, and social conflict theories when talking about the violence among inner cities due to cultural adaptations.
This text also persuades readers about how race is an issue of gentrification. The author’s claims on the issues show that gentrification is mainly influenced by race and income. The writer wrote the text also to show how the media can be influential to be discouraging poor colored communities, criticizing the views on gentrification in those areas. There are some persuasive appeals that are supported by the author in the text. The first is Ethos, he is a credible source in his claims retelling his own experience as a paramedic and how his patient impacted his criticism on how the media portrays the “hood” as being atrocious and worthless in the community. The author also attempts to convince his readers through his own emotions, including specific evidence and claims for his appeals. The second persuasive appeal used is pathos when he explains how these communities are dealt with moving place to place being invaded from their own residence and businesses. The third persuasive appeals he presents is logos, which he describes the situation of the the people being affected by this issue first hand to show the reader it is a mistaken
I received a voice mail today from Sean McKnight stating he has a meeting setup with Ken Barber and some other individuals on the executive board of Illinois Joining Forces (IJF). I felt it was my duty to inform the group about some important facts that Mr. McKnight is very good at hiding. I met Mr. McKnight during my time at NIU. I just served my time as the NIU Veterans Club president and decided it was time to let someone else take the helm. Matthew Galloway the current Veterans Club president introduced the club to Sean McKnight at a veterans club meeting. Sean came in and presented himself as a seasoned veteran’s advocate who has many connections throughout the state of Illinois and Washington D.C. He promoted his organization that he was starting Warriors Guarding Warriors as a revolutionary concept that has not been thought of as for yet throughout the veteran community. Finally, he offered his services to any veterans having trouble with VA benefits or the medical process. At the time we did not know that he was not officially certified to help veterans, and nor did he actually know the proper process or paper work needed to help our fellow veterans. Sean offered to be the Veterans Clubs mentor. The club held a vote and
On February 21, 2016, I, Deputy John Arnold, went to 11747 West 105th Street South to assist another deputy in reference to a fight in progress.
It all started when Ms. McCrystal began a lesson on how evolutionary changes impacted the lives of other organisms. Allie knew something interesting was going to happen, because Ms. McCrystal was the most engaging teacher on team 8-1. The very next day Ms. McCrystal had all of her Students do an assignment on the five fingers of evolution. Then she announced that the class was going on a class trip to the science museum.
“Tout de suite Entrez!” She says, looking at the alley entrance, watching the dead soldiers, and then pointing at him to go in.
We arrived at the FLL meet at around 7:00 AM. Filled with excitement, we quickly filed off of the bus. We got set up at the gold pit, and waited for our time to head towards the first event, the team building session. Then, it was time, and we quickly walked towards the band hall, where the event was located. As soon as we went in, two things became obvious. First, we had to build something out of marshmallows and uncooked pasta. Second, we were going to be quizzed on our team. I think we did well on both, and we walked out, confident that we did well on the first event.
Moving from a highly diverse community to a less diverse community has to be the weirdest yet interesting culture shock I ever had to deal with. As a young child, I did not know about the outside world. I thought everyone rides the bus or the metro, graffiti on the wall is normal and traffic wouldn’t matter as much since everything I needed was within walking distance sometimes. There were shocking things I learned once I moved to Nebraska.
All my life ,I’ve always wanted to be someone in life who can actually make a difference to this world in a positive way. Ever since I was a little girl I pushed myself to always best I can be just . I lived in a town outside Los Angeles, California , it was called Van Nuys,California.The elementary school (Kittridge Elementary) I had went to was in a low income area, mainly spanish community had lived in the area I was living in at the time .I had a lot of friends (mainly mexicans) I focused a lot on being on time for school , staying on task in class, and finishing my homework. At such a young age I had felt such ambition and was doing very good for myself. At the age of 10 was when reality start to really hit me , even though I was very young I started to see things differently.
For almost my entire life, I have lived happily in Ethiopia with my parents, my sisters and my brothers. Because my dad is extremely religious, I started practicing Christianity at an early age. My father took the whole family to church services almost every day. He was very strict and all of his rules are Bible-based. He read the Bible aloud to us and everything was related to God’s word. He made us read the Bible again and again. Our dad was always telling us, “No sex before marriage”, which is biblically right. We were always mindful of the Bible’s teachings, which helped me deal with the emotional and physical trauma of when my ex-boyfriend raped me.
After countless hours of uncomfortable naps and tasteless meals between flights, we finally arrived at the unfamiliar land of America. Leaving all our dear friends and families behind, I was told that we came here in hope of a better future, my future specifically. I was never really socially active and at the time, English was a whole new concept that I have yet to understand. The inability to communicate with other makes it even harder for me to express myself and it mold my personality to become more antisocial than I ever was. There’s always this uneasy feeling that linger when someone talk to me and I cannot give them a response and it’s even harder to say something because I was afraid of making a mistake and make a fool out of myself.
One morning I woke up and got ready to go to the park. I wanted to find a sport that was fun and would help me get in shape. When I arrived at the park I tried several different sports. I would have to try playing different sports to find out which one is going to be my favorite. I like a sport that offers me enough exercise to stay fit and doesn't cause pain in my muscles.
The two neighborhoods that I chose to use for this assignment are vastly different. The main reason is because they are on opposite sides of the country. The first neighborhood that I visited is the one that I grew up in. This neighborhood is in Connecticut, on the East Coast, all the way across the country from the neighborhood that I currently live in here in West Hollywood. Most of my family lives in Connecticut and Massachusetts and I’m the only one who lives on the West Coast. A big difference is that the neighborhood in Connecticut has houses that are more spaced out, have larger lawns, and very many more trees. There are very few apartments there, unlike where I live now where my entire street is almost all apartment buildings.