...Peterson 2 As a young girl soon to begin her freshman year of high school, my father, Ernest W. Bettis would always lay stress on; emphasize - the universal condition of human existence - life. His most profound words were: “Patty Cakes, it is not the quantity of life; it’s the quality.” Perplexed, clueless and a bit giddy, his words went one ear and quickly out the other. I am thankful that as I matured, so did my understanding of his guidance. By the same token, when I was assigned to research Dr. Elizabeth A. Peterson, I was somewhat startled to learn that she had passed away at the young age of 52; in any event, her accomplishments exemplified my late father’s noteworthy testimony, and I am grateful to have been introduced to this...
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...During gentrification the economy in the district changes such as, “a related increase in rents and property values…” (Poitras). Since the price of living has increased, it only brings more hardship on low-income families. There are citizens who have been in DC all their life and now has been pushed out to accommodate the ones who are moving in. Only a few are able to say that they have seen the city migrate before their eyes. That person is Ernest Peterson who has been a Washingtonian for 40 years. He has witnessed his neighborhood shift into a place he does not recognize. A place he has called home and developed relationships with family and friends at for over 40 years is now, Peterson is now “starting to feel like an outsider in his neighborhood.” (Gringlas). Therefore, Peterson felt out of place in a place where he calls home which should not be the case for someone or something to make you feel out of place where you live at. As more people are pushed out their homes and neighborhoods, there has been an actual physical change that is visible in DC. Illustrated in “DC Demographic Map (1) 2000-2010 Comparison”, it shows how in the 2000s the African American population is now the north west region of DC which was still considered to be a region where the wealthy would live. Now in 2010, it shows a drastic change in that area where now it is only about 51%-75% of...
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...United States more than one million teenage girls become pregnant every year (Plotnick, 1997). Only 13% of those pregnancies are intended (Plotnick, 1997). Teen Pregnancy has been defined as a teenaged or under aged girl becoming pregnant. Getting pregnant as a teenager gives her a higher risk of running into social aspects and economical issues that surround today’s teenage parents. Teens today are not educated the way they should be on safe sex or teen pregnancy. There are some consequences, big decisions, and great responsibilities a teen has to face once she is pregnant. Most girls seem not to care about being pregnant and overlook the matter that they are carrying a human being. Having a baby at a young age affects the life of the teen as well as the life of the child. Teen pregnancy has been a major concern in society today because of the lack of education and guidance teens have about safe sex and also the effects it brings upon the child and the mother. One main cause of teen pregnancy is the lack of education ("Lack of Parental Guidance," 2004). The lack of education on safe sex is a cause of teenage pregnancy, whether it is from parents, school, or a friend ("Lack of Parental Guidance," 2004). Teenagers with less education about sex and teen pregnancy are more likely to have an unintended pregnancy. Some teenagers chose not to discuss sex with parents because they feel uncomfortable discussing the matter. Teens that are uneducated about sex tend to have unprotected sex...
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...UP (2009) Cast: Edward Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Negal, Bob Peterson Director: Pete Docter A 3D animated film named ‘ Up ‘ which directed by Pete Docter, produced by Pixar Animation Studio and released by Walt Disney Pictures portrays the adventure of an old widower named Carl Fredrickson (voiced by Edward Asner) fulfilling his lifelong dream along with a young Junior Wilderness Explorer named Russell (voiced by Jordan Nagai) and a talking Golden Retriever named Dug (voiced by Bob Peterson) Carl Fredrickson always dreams to become an adventurer ever since he was a kid. He then met Ellie and both of them became friends. Both of them idolized explorer Charles Muntz (voiced by Christopher Plummer) and Carl has promised Ellie he will move their clubhouse, an abandoned house in the neighborhood to a cliff beside Paradise Fall in South America. In just 8 to 15 minutes, the film has shown how Carl and Ellie grew up and got married. As both of them grow older into their old age, one day Carl decided to surprise Ellie with two flight tickets to South America but unfortunately Ellie suddenly becomes ill and passed away. Sometimes later, a court orders Carl to move to a retirement home because he accidentally injured a construction worker for damaging his mailbox. However, instead of moving to a retirement home, Carl decides to fulfill his promise to Ellie by tying balloons to his house and make it fly. A young Wilderness Explorer named Russell accidentally...
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...audience commonly wants to know about. The screen time of the movie is of 106 minutes, but the duration in the movie’s story is less than a month. The movie took these weeks to explain and emphasize each scene correctly. This time was to show exactly scene-by-scene since the beginning of the story, how the character discovers something and his struggle to prove it. The setting of the story is in a neighborhood, where the main character lives in. This neighborhood is located in Culver City, California in the United States. Most of the story takes place in that neighborhood, the key moments of the movie happen in there. The genre of this movie is comedy and horror. Fright Night movie uses horror to scare the audience, but in most of the scenes comedy was involved. Characters are critically important for the creation of a good movie. The protagonist is a teenager called Charlie Brewster, acted by the great actor William Ragsdale. The antagonist is a vampire called Jerry Dandridge, interpreted by the actor Chris Sarandon. Some other main characters are Charlie’s girlfriend Amy Peterson, Charlie’s best friend Evil Ed, and Dr. Vincent, and old man who had a program about how to kill vampires. The plot of the movie is that Charlie discovers there was a vampire living in the house next door, he told his friends but no one believes him. During the movie Charlie tries to find a way to prove his friends that vampires exist, but when the Jerry the vampire finds out that Charlie had discovered...
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...fast food chain restaurants. The McDonald’s corporation is the largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving over 68 million customers in over 120 countries daily. It all started out as a BBQ restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald in California, later purchased by business man Ray Kroc, who started as a franchisee agent. He oversaw its worldwide growth potential and bought the franchisee. Jack in the Box, also an American fast-food restaurant chain with over 2200 locations mostly throughout the west coast of the US. Founded by Robert O. Peterson, he mainly focused on the drive thru intercom perspective to increase his business. In this paper, we will discuss the target markets and an ideal opening location for both of these well-known American fast food restaurant chains. McDonald’s has a vast demographic target which is every segment of the demography. This demography is based on family life cycles, age, gender, sex, nationality, income, generation and race. Since McDonald’s is a world-wide corporation, they have different demographics in hundreds of countries. Their main target is towards adults and teens looking for a quick meal also, families with young children. McDonald’s main goal is to target anyone and everyone. Jack in the box started targeting young kids in the beginning of the franchisee to compete with industry giant McDonalds. They set out to change that motto in the early 1980 to target and attract older, more affluent ‘yuppie” customers...
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...Scott Peterson's attorney, Mark Geragos, now has to contend with more than a guilty verdict for his client - and the penalty phase of the trial, now delayed for a week by the judge. Geragos is also facing a bar complaint related to the case. In the complaint, Florida attorney John B. Thompson - who has no reported connection to the case - argues that Geragos violated a key ethic rules forbidding communication with jurors. According to Thompson, Geragos did so by putting a replica of Scott Peterson's boat two blocks from the courthouse. Geragos, who remains under a under a gag order preventing him from discussing the case with the media, has not been able to respond to the allegations. Thompson says that Geragos's alleged boat display not only broke the California ethics rule barring juror communication, but also broke the California ethics rule against extrajudicial communications about a case. (As a recent column by Jonna Spilbor for this site noted, the penalty phase of this case - in which a death sentence could be imposed - has yet to occur.) Reportedly, the boat contained homemade concrete anchors - such as those the prosecution alleged Scott used to weigh down Laci Peterson's body - and a dummy representing the body. The defense's theory was that Scott could not have thrown Laci's heavily pregnant body over the side of the tiny, anchor-filled boat without swamping the boat with water and tipping it over. The display was apparently intended to illustrate just how tippable...
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...committing crimes, and even prostitution. This only makes the people who already label these homeless individuals deviant as even more deviant. I argue that homelessness is not a form of deviance, that it is not a personal choice to be homeless but that there are conditions that are out of those individuals control that can lead to homelessness. It is more of an economic and lack of information issue than it is an issue of whether it is deviant or not. Homelessness itself isn’t deviant, but under certain circumstances it can lead to deviant behavior. As Jeffery Chaichana Peterson states on his article on homelessness (2012), “As a result of urban deprivation, economic decline, a rise in housing costs, and a decline in blue-collar wages, homelessness remains a major problem in the United States” (p. 248). Peterson then goes on to provide several statistics and estimates on homelessness throughout the years. Peterson (2012) states “The National Alliance to End Homelessness (2012) estimated 636,017 people experienced homelessness in the United States on a given night in 2011 (approximately 21 homeless people per 10,000 in...
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...moved through Moore, Oklahoma, in the southern part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, CNN affiliate KFOR reported. Meteorologists warned residents to go underground to survive a direct hit from the tornado. "It's just destroying everything. There's so many homes in the air right now. The motion on this storm is sickening," said storm chaser Spencer Basoco. More than 171,000 people could have been in the path of the storm. The severe weather comes after tornadoes and powerful storms ripped through Oklahoma and the Midwest earlier Monday and on Sunday. Forecasters had warned that the destructive weather, which killed at least two people, wasn't over. "Today could be potentially as dangerous as yesterday," CNN meteorologist Indra Petersons said Monday morning, pointing to a wide swath of the country spanning from Texas to...
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...English 104W November 29th, 2013 Strangers and how we perceive them. I was appalled by the sight of a young girl, malnourished, dirty, in torn cloths crying and begging for money on Ahmedabad Street in India. Just as I reached for my purse to give her some money, my host, Dr. Dalal pushed me aside, gestured me inside our parked car, locked the doors and exclaimed “I should have warned you! Haven’t you seen the movie “Slumdog Millionaire?” I was left shaking, words cannot describe the horror I felt for not helping out a poor desolate child. How could this helpless child be a victim of an organized crime of self-made beggars? To answer this question would be an essay in itself, however, I describe this, as one of many etched incidences in my life to illustrate that I misrecognized the beggar and was influenced by someone else’s preconceived stereotype image of “other, a stranger described as a beggar” that was different then us. The notion of “other and misrecognition” is described in Toni Morrison’s essay “Strangers” (1998) when she explores this concept by depicting a stranger as an image of a bizarre fisherwomen dressed in men’s clothing; while Brent Staples portrays his own image as a stranger and depicts how he is perceived as a threat to others in his essay “Black Men and Public Space” (1986). Although both Morrison and Staples offer differing accounts of their experiences and feelings, they both share the same vision, the correlation between “how we see strangers” versus...
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...generates questions of cultural property and appropriation. In a black-dominated rap venue called The Shelter, Jimmy begins his rap battle with Lil Tic. We see that white involvement in black art forms are immediately problematic when Lil tic raps “they [audience] don’t laugh cuz you’re whack, they laugh cuz you’re white with a mic”. Jimmy’s presence in the battle is scorned because he is white and rap is considered to belong to black people. Lil Tic calls him a “wigger that invented rhymes for money”; a “wigger” is slang for a white person who tries to emulate or acquire African-American cultural behavior and tastes. The suggestion that Jimmy “rhymes for money” is the ultimate assertion of phoniness because for black people, rap is a way of life, not money. This rejection however envisages rap as part of an oral heritage, one that preserves a cultural past and signifies the social code shared by the oral community. Rap and hip-hop are an articulation of black culture, clearly declared when Lil tic raps “cause this is hip-hop, you don’t belong, you’re a tourist”....
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...Teen suicide in male Native American teens Elizabeth Nather Teen suicide in male Native American teens Community can be interpreted and defined in a variety of ways depending on the group, it’s purpose, size, their interests, makeup, history, and bonds. Some communities have a history together while others form for just a short period of time. Because of these variables, a community can exist for different reasons, and have a unique make up with its own particular standards and goals. While one community may exist to counsel its members short term, another may have existed for many years with the goal of promoting future generations and preserving the history and traditions of their community. Webster defines community as, “a group of people with a common background or with shared interests within a society (Meriam Webster, 2010). The Native American Indians are an identified community. They share a common history and have shared interests within their society. Theirs is a unique culture with rich traditions and beliefs that have been passed on through many generations; a culture very different from many typical US ones. Historically, Native American communities have encouraged interdependence among Indian youth, families, and community connections (Long, et al.,2006). As these communities foster interdependence, many Native American youth are faced with a one sided knowledge of American society. The reservation is all they know so they cannot acclimate to...
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...l Race and Juvenile Delinquency by Dubien Tshimanga SOCIOLOGY & ANTHROPOLOGY CAPSTONE PRINCIPIA COLLEGE APRIL 2015 ABSTRACT Throughout history, the struggle of minorities has been seen in many facets of life such as in history, literature, music and film: Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi fought for the right of unrepresented minorities. Books such as Too Kill a Mocking Bird spoke to the prejudices of a community. Movies such as Roots illustrated the hardship of the slaves. From the Roman’s persecution of Christians to today’s rap song lyrics about economic disparities the plight of the minority has been fought for millennium. This research examines the struggle of minorities within the juvenile justice system and the differential rates of adjudication and length of sentencing between the white majority and the black minority juvenile offenders. During the course of this research, additional insights were gained from an internship at a youth correctional center as well as drawing on my own personal experience as a refugee from Gabon. The findings of my research demonstrate that minority offenders do receive harsher sentences than the whites, and that there are several factors contributing to higher rates of juvenile delinquency among African Americans; primarily education and community. To consider the struggle of minorities is important because it creates awareness that the maltreatment of a minority group by the dominant majority often...
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...American Scavengers Antonio Felix English 102 Section #27058 May 11, 2015 “This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that” John Perkins. In the past decade the government has been pushing for a welfare reform time and time again. This reform is disliked by many politician, complaining that federal law is overly prescriptive and are willing to take less federal money in return for more flexibility. The public thinks that the current reform is anti-work and anti-family and is keeping the public under poverty line. However welfare programs are set in place by the government in order to ensure a certain quality and standard of living for everyone in the country. These programs are mainly focused on children, making sure that their parents are able to feed and clothe them properly. The truth is that in today’s society The Welfare system creates more problems than it solves, creating a sense of welfare dependency, a feature of advanced industrial societies with developed welfare states, whose citizens enjoy specific “social” rights (e.g., to social security, health care, social support, and education). Bill Clinton said: “I used to get up in the morning and watch my mother get ready to go to work. And we had a lot of trouble in my home when I was a kid, and she still...
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...This crime may be of individual or social nature. It includes making laws, breaking laws and attempts to break the laws. Criminology focuses on the social, cultural and individual causes of the illegal behavior. Criminology is directly related to sociology and psychology in all disciplines that deal with a group or individual behavior. However an act that is immoral or indecent can be criminal act unless it is not outlawed by the state. Criminology consists of our organized ways of thinking and talking about crime, criminals and crime control (Garland and Sparks, 2000, 192). Personal and neighborhood income are the strongest predictors of violent crime" (cited in "Wasting America's Future (Arloc Sherman, 1994, p88). Demonstrates that glaring social and economic inequalities in our society impose correspondingly high costs in the form of street crime. (John Hagan & Ruth D. Peterson, Crime and Inequality, 1995, Stanford U, p4) Causes of Crimes: Causes of crime may be environmental, hereditary or psychological. Environmental causes are ruled out as independent causes of crimes. But psychological conditions are said to be determinant of an individual’s reaction to persuasive environmental influence. Criminologist says that certain offenders are born to create crimes in the environment. Other cause may be the poverty. Due to low condition of their living, they are enforced to commit crimes. Discrimination against minorities may become the cause of crimes. Emotional disorders...
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