With no father figure or even a biological mother to help her in her adolescent years, Beli depended on La Inca to look to as a teen. In school Beli was an outcast to her schoolmates until she developed her womanly body, which helped her to attract the guys of her choice. As a woman her feminine curves attracted the likes of the Gangster, signifying the beginning of her tango with the curse. Becoming pregnant with the Gangsters child quickly alerted the attention of Trujillo’s sister causing Beli to be brutally beaten in the cane field, representing the violence of the “fuku” due to the dysfunctional love between Beli and the Gangster. “How she survived I’ll never know.
Written by Rachel Dretzin and starring Willy Lyman, the documentary explored the lives of the teenagers lost in the darkness of drug, group sex and sexual promiscuity unknown to their parents. Teen Sexuality Presented through the Film Outbreak of syphilis in the economically sound demography of outskirts of Atlanta is a consequence only. The deeper implication of this catastrophe is hidden in the myriad level of socio-economic and socio-cultural phases of American society. The documentary explores this hidden social curse into deeper end and explores the actual reason of the aftermath. The program captivates Rockdale county and its solitary town Conyers.
All it needed was a spark- the elements were already there” (Police 1). School officials knew that this spot was the perfect spot to commit crimes, extra precaution needed to take place to prevent such things from happening. According to Kevin Fagan, “The courtyard where the attack erupted was the most infamous spot on campus, an out of the way, poorly lit venue for gang initiations and dopers lighting up joints” (2). The city of Richmond is a poor, gang filled city with high crime and the 15-year old girl was an innocent victim of it just trying to fit in and feel accepted by her peers. “As for the suspects: They were a mix of the bad boys, the wannabe bad boys, and the hardened, grown-up bad boys who had aged out of school” (Fagan 2).
It is more common that street gangs are made of males, but the author takes in the prospective views of a street gang made of females. The story revolves around Noemi hanging around her little sister Olivia and the gang Las Chicas Chuecas. In the short story the character named Olivia is one of the gang members that is very tough, which is a character portrayed having masculine dominance. Secondly, another issue with living in East L.A. are the drugs. In the short story it shows that their mother is a recovering addict.
Page one (1), line thirteen, states “Harlem is not an easy place to grow old” – and this is very much backed up throughout the story in her case. Junice first explains to us how her life became turned upside down, her mother (a current drug dealer), had been caught on the corner “holding”, and was placed in jail. And, to ice the “big happy family cake” her father was “non-existent, and that is how it had always been. Thus, Junice and her sister Melissa were taken from their home and went to stay with a woman by the name of Miss Ruby for the time being. In addition, following Junice’s mothers conviction, Junice became acquainted with a young (well rounded) man, by the
“Innercity Girl Like Me” is a novel by Sabrina Bernardo, originally from Winnipeg. She gives a frightening, fascinating look at the world of gangs, in an innercity where only the smart will survive. It shines a bright light on the dark streets in Winnipeg. The novel tells the tale of Maria who survives her gang initiation - being beat on by four people for five minutes and not crying - and becomes known as G Child of the Diablos at the age of thirteen. This is a gritty look at the desperate, dangerous world of 'thugs'.
In "Boner McPharlin's Moll", Jackie goes east and gets herself an education before moving on to "the things I dreamt of, some diplomatic stints, the UN, some teaching, a think-tank". Her narrative, however, tells us almost nothing about her dreams but instead circles obsessively around her doomed relationship with Boner, the local misfit she befriended during her adolescence. Boner's brief, hopeless trajectory assumes, in this context, an emblematic force: caught up in a web of drug-related crime and corruption, he is found one morning on the beach with both his legs broken and ends his days hospitalised and confined to a wheelchair. "Get me out," he pleads when Jackie visits. "Let's ride, let's just arc it up and go."
What is Megan’s law? And how can this seven-year-old save you and your family from becoming a statistic? Megan Kanka was a seven-year-old second grader with a candid smile and pudgy cheeks, who was violently raped and killed by a known child molester who moved across the street from her family (crime.about.com/od/sex/a/megans_law.htm) along with his roommates who were also known child molesters. Back then child sex offenders could leave prison and quietly slip into the anonymity of any neighborhood without raising an eyebrow, their checkered past remaining a well guarded secret from unsuspecting neighbors (www.pennlive.com/news/express times/stories/molesters5_main bar.html).
Working With Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Trauma: The case of Brenna Marissa Bowman Walden University In the case of Brenna social and economic injustice was present in the areas of housing, education and healthcare. Brenna became a victim of sexual assault at the age of 15 by her mother’s boyfriend. When she disclosed to her mother about the sexual assault Brenna was asked to move out. There was an immediate lack of concern for Brenna’s well-being by her mother virtually kicking her out with no regard to how she would survive or continue going to school. Freud’s theory regarding the ego and psychosexual development states that: “perceiving welfare recipients as victims of psychologically abusive histories can result in character disorders
TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD; HARPER LEE The Pulitzer Prize winning 'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Harper Lee is a memorable and poignant novel. It is based on a young girl's view of the events that occur in her town during the time her father is appointed to defend a black man accused of the rape of a white girl. The book is split into two parts, the first deals with setting, development and the introduction of characters as well as Scout's thoughts about them. The second part of the novel is based on the drama that occurs just before and during the trial and the events afterwards that involve a drunken Bob Ewell and a shy but heroic Arthur 'Boo' Radley. The story is based in Maycomb, Alabama in the deep south of the United States during the