Gary Barker Analysis

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Sit back and think, about the day you was born. Was you really born a killer? If you grew up in a house full of violence you're going to be violent. Everyone knows that your parent/Guardian teaches you right from wrong if your parent teach you the right way you will have some type of knowledge of how to act. If they don't then of course you're going to grow up violent. So ill ask you again, was you really born violent.

Some people say that its genetic others say its inherited others thinks its caused by the environment that they are in. Well Ii thinks its environmental because you wasn’t born out the wound wanting to kill someone. The anger that some young men feel in the face of poverty and discrimination may be natural or normal; using …show more content…

On the other hand, people think that people are violent because of their genes or as some people call it the “warrior gene” .which is when you are born with that violent gene. I think this statement is 100% wrong because when a baby is born the child doesn't think: okay when I start walking i'm going to get a gun and shoot someone. In the article “Violence does not come naturally to men and boys” it states that from primatologists to evolutionary anthropologists, we know that neither woman nor men are killers be nature.

So in Conclusion, some people thinks violence is inherited from there family others like me think its environmental. You choose whether to be a leader or a follower you choose whether or not to become someone and achieve your goals. You don’t let people define who or what you are you

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