The Shawshank Redemption The film, The Shawshank Redemption directed by Frank Darabont, is based on the lives of several prisoners at Shawshank State Prison. All of the prisoners and the prison itself are somehow redeemed or changed in the duration of the film. They battled against institutionalisation and fear and some learn to hope for a better future. The main character in the film is Andy Dufresne. He is a young banker who is convicted of the murder of his wife and her lover and is sentenced to life at Shawshank State Prison.
The movie has some very interesting narrative elements. The plot is about a man who is wrongly convicted of the murder of his wife and her lover. He is sentenced to serve out a life sentence at Shawshank Prison. The movie is set during the years of 1947-1966 and follows his experiences once he arrives at the prison. In act one, although Andy profusely claims his innocence, he is convicted anyway and sent to Shawshank.
Invoking fear to one another has been a necessity to survive. On the first day of Ms. Louanne Johnson, she was not welcomed by her students because at the back of their mind, even if they learn or not, the culture where they grew up instilled in them that they will not accomplish anything outside of what they grew up with. They will be that kind of person sooner or later, they will eventually be one of the drug dealers or notorious gangsters of their neighborhood. Ms. Johnson, had a hard time surpassing the barrier between she and her students. Ms. Johnson had to think outside of the box in order to connect with her students better.
However “Tookie” was most famous for the four brutal murders he was convicted of in 1981.2 Stanley “Tookie” Williams III was later executed on December 13, 2005 at San Quentin State Prison in California.2 He was as violent behind bars as he was on the streets but “Tookie” revealed his humanistic characteristic through the children books he penned in effort to stop gang violence. He also wrote a national street peace initiative, known as the Tookie Protocol for Peace. This protocol helped achieve “Tookie’s” last wishes which included violence
The narrator’s environment reveals the despair in being an African American. The narrator thinks of his brother saying “He had been picked up, the evening before, in a raid on an apartment down-town, for peddling and using heroin.” This is already a sad fact. When someone has to turn to illegal crimes it shows a major issue. To make matters worse the narrator states “these boys (his students), now, were living as we'd been living then.” The state and condition that led to Sonny to a life of drugs and crime isn’t unique. In fact it is almost perpetual to all in the community.
Mario Loredo ADC PD 100 (B) Instructor: Jose Ochoa “The Focus With Gangs And Drugs” Gangs and drugs have seemed to have always been associated with one another. Street gangs and prison gangs are the primary distributers of illegal drugs on the streets of the United States. Gangs also smuggle drugs, produce and transport drugs within the country. The relation between drugs and gangs Gangs primarily produce Marijuana and methamphetamine. In addition, gangs increasingly are smuggling large quantities of heroin, cocaine, and MDMA (also known as ecstasy) into the United States.
To help explain their reasoning of a serial killers mind, Wolf and Lavezzi provide two cases of serial killers to analyze. Case one describes the serial killer Gary Evans, a white 43 year old man. Out of South Troy, NY, Evans had a bad reputation with law enforcement. Evans’ main priors had to do with the robbery of antiques, a small offence compared to serial killing. He had a group of close friends that he would commit robberies with, and when three of them went missing in 13 years Evans was thought to be involved with their disappearances.
Kids are highly influential especially at a young age. A child who sees a father abusing his mother might grow up and find it acceptable to beat on his own wife and kids, alas the cycle continues. Society also play a very big part in this, we now see and accept divorce and broken families as a new normal. Since many fathers generally are not the major caretakers of their kids after a divorce, bad feeling are formed with the kids. These negative feelings are due to dads not regularly seeing and interacting with their kids.
There are certain cultural practices that came to America with the enslaved Africans that have long been forgotten as the years went by. A good example of these differences is the conflict between American born Blacks and the immigrated Africans in Bronx. According to the Oscar Johnson research Both African immigrants differ from their black predecessors, not only culturally, but in experience and perspective. Those differences are rarely discussed but widely understood to be at the root of a great divide. While some African Americans are "very nice," he said, "The difference is the way we have been raised.
He was the most important person that led Emily’s behavior and made her act the way she did. Even when her father had died, Emily was still under his control. Because of the pressure that Emily’s father put on her, Emily’s mind and even her actions became very strange and altered. Emily’s father not only controlled her actions and how she felt about things, but he also affected her love and relationships with other men. Her father had said, “None of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily and such.” (364) Her father never allowed her to make her own decisions even when she was almost 30 years old.