...Big Brother Big Sisters or The Bowery Leadership Academy are attempting to enact changes by helping at risk or minority youth and students but in different ways. Before they can be successful there has to be a way of making sure there is a set of steps for them to follow in order to reach this goal. Social change theories are what give social changes the structure or it’s backbone allowing it to make some actual progress to achieve their goals. There has to be a sense of communication between those who are helping and those who are going to be helped. Communication is the active engagement with the participants, helpers, providers and the receivers of any or all the products or effects that the organization or agent of...
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...A novella: Maggie a Girl on the Streets written by Stephen Crane discusses the impact of social environment through symbolic characters and setting. Crane describes the tragedy of individuals who are destroyed by their environment. This demonstrates the impact society has on us and shows how easily subjected we are to becoming products of our environment. Crane presents hopeless people living in harsh conditions. He integrates images about city dwellings such as the bowery. It is made up of 14 city blocks which includes 82 saloons. Therefore, someone living in the bowery is inclined to depression and fighting. Furthermore, it reveals a dark reality of life including poverty, sex, and prostitution. It is defined as a concrete jungle where only...
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...It was very obvious from the readings that freedom means different things to people. Few women sought independence and freedom from their husbands. Some women expressed their freedom by gaining notoriety on stage. Enslaved women longed for freedom from their masters. Sadly enough, some women of the time saw death as the greatest freedom from a cruel world. One of the most touching stories this week was Charity Bowery’s. After she learned that her son had been killed Bowery said “Well he’s free now. God be praised, he’s free now; and I shall soon be with him”. Bowery and her family lived difficult lives especially after being sold to different people and separated. In her interview Charity explained that she attempted several times to buy her children’s freedom but was refused. While slavery is a very literal absence of freedom, many people...
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...Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant on April, 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio, near the mouth of the Big Indian Creek at the Ohio River. His famous moniker, "U.S. Grant," came after he joined the military (Bowery). He was entrusted with command of all U.S. armies in 1864, and relentlessly pursued the enemy during the Civil War. In 1869, at age 46, Grant became the youngest president in the United States. Grant was an American hero in the eyes of Americans because of his leadership in the Civil War, and leadership in our country. When the Civil War began in 1861, Ulysses S. Grant jumped at the chance to volunteer for military service in the Union army. His first command was as the colonel of the 21st Illinois Infantry, but he was quickly promoted to brigadier general in July 1861, and in September was given command of the District of Southeast Missouri (Waugh). His 1862 triumphs at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in western Tennessee won him the nickname “Unconditional Surrender” Grant, and placed him before the public eye (Bowery). He...
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...The definition of new type of gangster In article of Thomas (1993), he stated that ‘Jay Gatsby effectively overturned the dated assumption that gangsters were lowlifes from the Bowery and replaced it with an upscale figure who was enviably wealthy and fashionably stylish.’ In other word, Thomas (1993) means that before the age of Jazz, the typical image of gangsters was a person who born in lowlife, and he used ‘Bowery’ to describe the place where gangsters used to live, it is a place always located in farm or suburban, where always crowded with alcoholics. However, Gatsby was an ‘high-status’ figure in some extent, who wear high-priced clothes all the time such as silk and luxury clothing, it is true that he did altered the image of the traditional gangsters’ characteristics, since then gangsters could...
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...Strakhov 1 Taylor Strakhov Professor Brian Torff MU 102: The History and Development of Rock 5/6/15 The Formation and Development of Punk Rock When the word “Punk” is thrown around in conversation it usually is interpreted differently by different people. A general definition of punk rock typically associates it with extremely loud noises, unorthodox fashion style, and often offends the people who hear it. This is not necessarily all true. Yes punk rock is loud and it may offend people, but it does have a purpose and conveys its own meaning. Punk formed and developed as a reaction against oppressive figures of authority and as a musical and social outlet for teens that strayed away from the mainstream. Punk rock music has an extensive history. “While punk’s anti-authoritarian and rebellious imagery has its antecedents in both the 50s and 60s, the music itself was very much a product of its environment and decade - the 70s” (encyclopedia). The attitude of punk has been around almost twenty years before the music and the music was able to communicate the messages of athese rebellious teenagers. The roots of punk are disputed constantly. Some believe it started in U.K., while others claim it started in New York City. Regardless of where punk started it still has the same foundation anywhere in the world. John Savage brilliantly explains this concept of punk in Pre-Punk Rock: Strakhov 2 In fact, what became known as Punk during 1975 and 1976 had been floating around in...
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...Elements of Naturalism In their stories Frank Norris and Stephen Crane use elements of naturalism to put you into the story and see what the characters are going through. The term naturalism describes a type of literature that attempts to apply scientific principles of objectivity and detachment to its study of human beings. Unlike realism, which focuses on literary technique, naturalism implies a philosophical position. Frank Norris and Stephen Crane are key authors that used this way of writing. In Frank Norris’s story Fantaisie Printanere(921-927) this story shows naturalism by highlighting characters’ actions that were based on environment and experiences, not their free will. In the story it talks about how McTeague and Ryder were both drove to start drinking because of the past where they had basically failed. The book says that “McTeague had once been a dentist, and had had “parlors” up at the respectable end of the street. But after a while the license office discovered that he had no diploma; in fact, had never attended a college of any sort, and had forbidden him to practice. So McTeague had taken to drink. Ryer, some years back, had been a son of small stock-dealers on the outskirts of Butchertown, and had done fairly well until the Health Board reported him to the Supervisors because he had fattened his hogs on poultices obtained from the City and County Hospital. The result was a lamentable scandal, which finally drove him out of business. So Ryer had taken to...
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...a housewife and the daughter of Alexandro Morales from Tula, a town north of Torreon. Antony and Alexandria had two children Antonio and Anthon Cesar. The Cesar family Moved to Los angles in 1917 and settled in Compton. Cesar showed promise as a student, but had trouble with the ruled at his strict Catholic school. He dropped out of school when of school at the age of 16, after being expelled for hitting a male teacher with an object across the head. He worked odd jobs around LA, including a car washer and a candy store. During this time, Antonio Cesar was influenced by gangster John Dillinger, whom he came to regard as a mentor. After his initial stint with small-time gangs that included the junior forty thieves and the Bowery Boys, Cesar joined the Los angles Killas and then the powerful bloods based in lower Los Angeles. During this time, he was employed abd mentored by fellow racketeer Frankie Yale, a bartender in a Coney Island dance hall and saloon called Harvard Inn. Cesar received the scars that gave him the nickname ‘’Young Scars’’ in a fight. After he inadvertently insulted a man while working the door at a LA night club, Cesar was attacked by the guy’s cousin frank Gallucio; his face was slashed three times on the left side. Yale insisted that Cesar apologize to Gallucio, and later Cesar hired him as bodyguard. When photographed, Cesar hid the scars on his face. He said the injuries were war...
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...Ramiro Martinez-Quintanilla Professor Radzikowski US History 2A 08/05/2016 American Blackface Minstrelsy of the 1800’s The Minstrel Show offers us an abnormal, intriguing and dreadful marvel. Minstrel shows rose up out of preindustrial European conventions of concealing and festival. Be that as it may, in the US they started in the 1830s, with average white working men taking on the appearance of plantation slaves. These men mocked black music and dance, joining brutal parody of black Americans with bona fide affection for African American social structures. By the Common War the minstrel show had gotten to be world popular and respectable. Late in his life Mark Twain affectionately recalled the "outdated nigger appear" with its vivid comic blacks and its stirring tunes and moves.(Lott 68) By the 1840s, the minstrel show had ended up one of the focal occasions in the way of life of the Democratic political party. Of course every beginning has its end, but by 1890 minstrelsy had shaped a little part of American excitement. Blackface minstrelsy was the first particularly US showy structure. In the 1830s and 1840s, it was at the ascent's center of a US music industry, and for a very long while it gave the lens through which the white US saw the clack people of the US. From one perspective, it had solid views; on the other, it managed white Americans a particular and wide attention to what a few whites considered huge parts of dark American society to be. Minstrel shows where...
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...Dangerous Women They fight with power, speak with persuasion and play with seduction. Their humor is cold and wet and they strive to make a name for themselves. They nurture and take care of their followers but they also make time to get down to business. Don’t worry, I knew what you were thinking, but this has nothing to do with any sort of political election, well almost nothing. For once this is about the women. For many centuries, women would seldom leave their houses. They weren’t tied up, or locked in, so why were they always there? Women worked and spent most of their time cleaning the house, doing dishes and taking care of her children because that is what society and men expected from all women back then. “They did what they could to assure that women carried out their supportive roles as faithful and deferential helpers and nurturing companions” (Hoffert, 15). Men were the breadwinners and were physically stronger than any women, or so they liked to believe. For men, their physical strength is what made them so powerful in the world and amongst the opposite sex. But unfortunately for the men, they forgot that women posses a strong sense of mental and emotional strength, making them extremely dangerous in any situation. Women were stepped on for so many years, and they were tired of being treated like flies. Of course they all wanted the perfect love story with the perfect family, but had ambitions to accomplish so much more. Women wanted to make it known to all...
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...n discussing banditry in Chinese history, Barrington Moore, Jr. suggests that gangsterism as a "form of self-help which victimizes others" may appear in societies which lack strong "forces of law and order"; he characterizes European feudalism as "mainly gangsterism that had become society itself and acquired respectability".[6] A wide variety of gangs, such as the Order of Assassins, the Damned Crew, Adam the Leper's gang, Penny Mobs, Indian Thugs, Chinese Triads, Snakehead, Japanese Yakuza, Irish mob, Pancho Villa's Villistas, Dead Rabbits, American Old West outlaw gangs, Bowery Boys, Chasers, the Italian mafia, Jewish mafia, and Russian Mafia crime families have existed for centuries. According to some estimates the Thuggee gangs in India murdered 1 million people between 1740 and 1840.[7] The 17th century saw London "terrorized by a series of organized gangs",[8] some of them known as the Mims, Hectors, Bugles, and Dead Boys. These gangs often came into conflict with each other. The members dressed "with colored ribbons to distinguish the different factions."[9] Many poor orphans in Victorian London survived by joining pick-pocketing gangs controlled by adult criminals.[citation needed] At the beginning of the 19th century, child criminals in Britain were punished in the same way as adults. They were sent to adult prisons, transported to the various Australian penal colonies, flogged, and sentenced to death for crimes such as petty theft.[10][11][12] All the major...
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...“Never judge a book by its cover.” This was written by Edwin Rolfe in 1946. This quote is still used to this day and is one of the most insightful sayings to exist. By saying this, you are saying that you can see what's on the outside. But you won't get the full experience until you see what's on the inside. This quote has a deeper meaning than what it conveys. All of these stories have a deeper meaning in them and they express them in many different ways. You can fully understand the meanings by comparing the figurative language, poetic devices, and the subject in the stories. First, in the story “Watermelon,” by Charles Simic, there is plenty of figurative language. The story starts by implying that the “Green Buddhas,” are the watermelons....
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...At any sporting event, fans not only are there to watch the teams compete but they’re also there to enjoy the cheerleaders. Cheerleaders became part of a sporting event back in 1898 when Johnny Campbell a student at the university of Minnesota tried to energize the schools football team and crowd (Bowyers 34). Since then cheerleading has became a crowd favorite for both males and females to participate in. cheerleader’s stunts, cheers, and tumbles are to hype the crowd up a little while the games are going on. The question some people say is weather or not cheer is actually a sport. Cheerleading is a sport because cheerleaders have to stay fit, tryout, and they also compete and can go to nationals. Cheerleading is a sport because you have...
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...Buy a temporarily discounted copy of Acousmatic Sorcery Buy tickets for the Principles of a Protagonist tour ABOUT To say that 27-year-old Willis Earl Beal has lived a colourful life would be a serious understatement. The Chicago native will tell you that his life has been one of "monotony" - which it has at times - but stints in the army, an ongoing desire to be a superhero, bouts of serious illness and a stretch of sleeping rough in an unfamiliar desert town would suggest otherwise. As an outsider artist, Beal's career always existed just beyond his imagination, with a history of leaving homemade novels, artwork and CD-Rs across America to promote his work, suggesting a desperate desire to be heard. This practice of "gifting" - matched with a natural booming voice, rich with range and a talent for penning raw, beautiful melodies - led to early features in both Found and the Chicago Reader that changed his life's course. Beal's creativity caught the attention of Hot Charity / XL Recordings who released Acousmatic Sorcery in March, 2012 - an 11 song set Beal wrote and recorded on a discarded karaoke machine while living in Albuquerque, NM. Since the release of Acousmatic Sorcery, Willis Earl Beal has toured the world, performing in clubs and festivals with nothing more than his guitar and back-up tape machine to support him. Delivering soul baring performances night after night, Beal has been lauded for not only his vocal mastery but the intensity with which he performs...
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...According to the official site of the Kentucky Derby, the majority of the time since 1963 the University of Louisville marching band has performed the song as the horses transfer from the paddock into their lineup at the starting gate. Also according to the official website of the Kentucky Derby, in honor of the composer Stephen Foster--who died in New York’s Bowery District January 10, 1864 at the age of 38--Churchill Downs teamed up with the “Stephen Foster Handicap” foundation in 1982. The Kentucky Derby website supports details on this support foundation in which it states that Churchill Downs and their partnership with the Stephen Foster Handicap has raised $1,750,000 for the handicap. This is noted to be one of the richest and most successful events tied taking place at Churchill...
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