How The Tv Shows A Low Poverty Area In Baltimore

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In the TV show “The Wire,” it illustrates a low poverty area in Baltimore as its economic standpoint, which thrives on hustling on the streets and drug money is sweeping in. “Nay” who is going to school and works under a guy name “B” (Drug dealer) asks money so he could purchase school supplies, but “B” degrades him as a uneducated male, then gives him the money. In addition towards the social institution, the education isn’t all that great as they are low in staff. In chapter 1 in the book that we are reading, it talks about the segregation of people. “The rise and decline of cities correlated with the fate of the empire of which they were part;” and “Cities have always been places where distinctions based on wealth, power, and prestige are