Finding Support for the Youth Gunshots, drugs, violence, and crime plague the streets not only in Chicago but in many of the inner-cities across the United States. This is just an everyday occurrence for most young kids and they have just accepted this. A young black male, age 15 and whose name cannot be mention due to him being a minor, was walking to school casually on his phone. Until he heard the first gunshot, he stopped and quickly made his way back to his house. While traveling back he heard multiple gunshots which turned his jog to a full-on sprint. He checked his body to see if he was potentially hit, luckily, he was not. Barbara Herron, the young boy’s great aunt, speaks out how raising her nephew in a battlefield that she calls …show more content…
From Trauma Narratives with Inner City Youth: The Storiez Intervention by Megan Corrado she gives insight how these urban communities effect young children’s mindset. Research shows that inner city youth are being exposed to trauma at alarming rates. Not only are youth exposed to a certain incident of trauma but, they are often victims of complex trauma. Students tell their unique stories on what they experience in their community. As a result of those experiences that lead most of the students to feel more trauma in their lives than most. One of the kid’s stories was told by a girl who felt alienated because she came from a low-income family, this soon made her highly depressed throughout that term. This is exactly why Youth programs are important for children and young adults who come from battered down communities that don’t support them. Parental guardians are not always home, due to the low wages that many experience in inner cities there is a demand for work around the clock to be able to support the children. Jennifer G. Roffman, Ph.D., Maria E. Pagano, Ph.D., and Barton J. Hirsch, Ph.D., authors of Youth Functioning and Experiences in Inner-City After-School Programs Among Age, Gender, and Race Groups, claim afterschool programs held for urban children will help them physiologically and help them develop a brighter attitude. One certain article even goes into detail that outdoor programs can improve a child’s emotional status. The article, Measuring conflict management, emotional self-efficacy, and problem solving confidence in an evaluation of outdoor programs for inner-city youth in Baltimore, Maryland, written by authors Stephanie Caldas, Elena Broaddus, and Peter Winch claim that analytically assessing the outdoor programs they preform can help them understand if the
Rios describes how patrol officer didn’t really care, or to help these youth. Instead of helping out, law enforcement targeted these young deviant boys. Rios shows us a depth overview of Oakland Police Department. In doing so, he shows us how the miscommunication, and the inequality these law agencies in the inner city ghetto
Geoffrey Canada, the author of Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun; A Personal History of Violence, grew up and worked his entire life near or in the underclass society. Through his keen observation on behavior of children in these regions, he has noticed how with the introduction to guns, in particular to children created even more dangerous neighborhoods. Throughout his lifetime in New York, he tells us that violence has changed to be less organized and the social stability of the children is tested with (fire) power that they are too young to fully understand, it was an evolutionary decent. His observations on the violence that children can commit to each other parallels well with fictional story Lord of the Flies written by Nobel prize winning writer, William Golding. Golding, like Canada, looks what kind of environment is needed for violence to prevail in children. Although Golding’s 1954 book Lord of the Flies is fiction, it describes our current impoverished America’s epidemic on violence very well.
At the outset, during one cloudless afternoon in South Central, Los Angeles, a five-year-old juvenile by the forename of Anthony, cycles his training wheel down the pavement of the road while he unwearyingly waits for his mother Ronnie and her boyfriend Caine to finish transporting their properties to the van for their perpetual relocation to the metropolitan city of Atlanta, Georgia. As the adolescent voyages further on down the pathway, a green Pontiac LeMans Sedan comprised of four men with black masks obscuring their discrete identities, deliberately cruise alongside the curb contiguous to the last house on the street. As the four men approach the residence of Anthony and his mother Ronnie, one of the vehicle’s passengers bellows out the phrase, “Yo, what’s up now partner,” and immediately begins to discharge massive gunfire from his Beretta 92F (MIIS). An immense array of blasts erupted at the residence. Caine’s childhood friend Sharif, who was assisting them in the moving procedure, shot, and tumbled onto the lawn instantaneously.
Boyz N the Hood was a film created to convey an anti-gang message as well as to provide societal members an in-depth look at life in “the hood” so he or she can expand their culturally awareness of identifying societal issues (Stevenson, 1991). Upon the debut of “Boyz N the Hood” violence erupted at theaters across the nation, resulting in multiple shows pulling the film from scheduled showings to alleviate future violent behaviors (Stevenson, 1991). The film profoundly illustrates the realty of the events revealed within the storyline that frequently occur on a daily basis within every impoverish community; however, is overlooked by the individuals who are not directly involved and or affected (Leon-Guerrero, 2016) Children of lower socioeconomic status often are raised in ghetto neighborhoods where they often witness, crime, violence, gang activity, abuse, and drugs (Leon-Guerrero, 2016). Ghetto communities envelop tumultuous cycles of violence and substance abuse creating a pervasive occurrence within the residents of the community. This is prevalent in lower developed communities that unfortunately many children and the youth populace indirectly inherit and sadly conform to, as there are no other means to an end for them (Leon-Guerrero,
The film, The Interrupters, explains about a group of people in Chicago that are fighting for a ceasefire (Kotlowitz, 2012). This group of interrupters is comprised of ex-gang members that have been recruited to stop the violence (Kotlowitz, 2012). For many years the streets of Chicago have been full of violence; the incidents that were occurring involve many fatal shootings that have taken the lives of many young people in the community. According to the film, “nine people were shot in five hours” and there was a thirteen year old boy that was shot twenty-two times (Kotlowitz, 2012). The consequences of actions are not thought about, and many people in Chicago are acting violently in retaliation instead of thinking about
Living in fear and trying to survive to be last man standing is a way of living in many cities around the country. In a world where men have to wear their manhood on their sleeves and solving their problem with violence, lives are not as meaningful. In “My brother’s murder” the author Brent Staples narrates the story of how his brother Blake choses to be part of this violence to survive in a dangerous neighborhood in which they were both raised. These decisions leaded to his early death at only 22 years old. Blake could of leave the toxic environment, chose a different lifestyle, or accept his brother help when he offered. All the differences decisions he could of take instead of following the violence path could have save his life, making him responsible for his own death
What our inner city youths need is to see first hand how their decisions can
Johnathan Friedman, PEN America’s Director of Free Expression and Education programs, testified in the Senate on October 19, 2023 in the hearing titled “Protecting Kids: Combatting Graphic, Explicit Content in School Libraries.” In his argumentation, Friedman alternates between building his credibility with ethos and providing multiple concrete examples and legal precedents with logos. Only after those two levees are constructed for each point does he introduce pathos, through sympathetic anecdotes, into his testimony. By bolstering his anecdotes before he introduces them, Friedman ensures that his anecdotal examples are not shot down before they can produce their designed emotional impact. By equipping his pathos with a bulletproof vest of
"Children, Youth, and Gun Violence: Analysis." Princeton. The Future of Children, n.d. Web. 27 Jan. 2014. .
Despite taking place on opposite sides of the world, Beah and Lamar both explore the idea of how violent communities strip children of their innocence as a result of constant exposure and desensitization to crime and death, using personal anecdotes to meaningfully convey the extent of the impact. In Sierra Leone, Ishmael Beah witnessed firsthand the impacts of civil war in his country. The conflict that he initially thought to be distant quickly spread to his home, where he found himself face-to-face with widespread starvation and death. Beah rapidly went from living peacefully, going to school, playing soccer, and listening to rap music to being
Now as a grown-up, he experiences the lives of innocent children being taken by police brutality and the lack of knowledgable preplanned defense, and conformity. Smith hides the fact that he is talking about racial violence by using allusions, he talks about defying gravity. When he's frankly about how young black individuals have the burden of having to take extra precautions around cops. Smith added hyperbole to emphasize the significance and toll that this information took on his present
374). Based on this concept, girl’s life course trajectories will be impacted by limited access and opportunity, health disparities, and disparities in socioeconomic opportunities (Hutchison, 2015). Evidence of how the program seeks to promote resilience among girls was found through several related research articles. The programs web-site offers results one study, Girls on the Run: A longitudinal Study of Program Impact, which was implemented to evaluate the effectiveness of youth development outcomes in: competence, confidence, connection, character, caring, health and most importantly if these life skills were learned and transferred to other social situations (Weiss, n.d.). Despite reported research discrepancies, a positive correlation is shown in regard to the program’s effectiveness.
How does childhood trauma affect health over a lifetime? To answer this question, let’s dive deeper into childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime and really try to dissect this complex question. The key points that will be discussed in this essay are: The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study, defining emotional trauma on a child, defining physical trauma on a child, and the role trauma plays in our relationships. Also, discussed in this essay is the effects of trauma on our mental and physical health.
Troubled Youth Despite many obstacles in my life, my experience performing community service stands out as the most memorable. I was sixteen at the time, and just beginning my first job at a fast food restaurant. I had to learn how to balance community service in the morning with my employment at the local Wendy’s. It was very stressful and influential at the same time.
The wild world we live in is full of so many different things that affects us everyday especially on the many different experiences we go through that teaches us things that we learn and grow from. I want to focus on the subject of gangs and different aspects of the gang world and correlation with the concern of drug abuse and addiction. The important topics that I want to bring up that I really think connects gang life and their personal experience and addiction issues. The first topic that I think is very important is the individuals might be in for different reason. The second topic I will also be focusing on is trauma.