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The book Fist Stick Knife Gun by Geoffrey Canada is a compelling personal account of growing up in some of the most dangerous areas and how he decided to take what he learned on the streets to create something different for future generations. The first story starts out when Geoffrey was four years old. That is the age he realized violence was a part of life. He tells a story of his brother’s jacket being stolen at the playground. Geoffrey assumed his mother would intervene and help get the jacket back.
Life’s what you make it Can you imagine not being able to choose whether or not you want to be a part of a life filled with violence? Some people are just sucked into it because of choices other people make. For instance, Geoffrey Canada’s mom moved him & his three brothers into to the south Bronx where the journey of violence then began. In the memoir Fist Stick Knife Gun the narrator Geoffrey Canada goes through a series of events that eventually influences him to become the man he is today. Geoffrey Continues to reflect on his experiences and shows how he learned from them being that he grew up very poorly compared to an average kid in a rough neighborhood in the south Bronx where he went through a number of life-changing or eye
Violence doesn’t always lead to bad things. Fist,Stick,Knife,Gun by Geoffrey Canada is about how violence in South Bronx, New York. It tells us how violence had became more deadly and dangerous in New York and how he had to deal with it. Soon he became aware of it and decided to help make a change in his community. Geoffrey Canada’s main message for the story is that the effects of violence on someone’s life can influence them to make change in their community.
Geoffrey Canada does an excellent job of bringing his readers to the streets of the South Bronx and making them understand the culture and code of growing up in a poor, New York City neighborhood in the ‘50s and ‘60s. In his book, Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun, Canada details, through his own childhood experiences, the progression of violence in poverty plagued neighborhoods across America over the last 50 years. From learning to be “brave” by being forced to fight his best friend on a sidewalk at six-years-old, to staring down an enraged, knife wielding, “outsider” with nothing to defend himself but nerve, Canada explains the nightmare of fear that tens of thousands of children live through every day growing up in poor neighborhoods. The book
The book Fist Stick Knife Gun by Geoffrey Canada is a memoir of his early childhood in the slums of south Bronx. Geoffrey’s single mother did the best she could with the little she had to raise him and his four older brothers. She provided them with street knowledge that would later help them survive and not be victims even in the most violent areas of the south Bronx. Geoffrey and his brothers would go on to move from place to place with their mother until they finally settled on Union Avenue, the area where they would spend most of their childhood growing up. Union Avenue became their school of life, there they learned everything they needed to know in order to survive in the ghetto.
While literature doesn’t always transform a person radically, violent passages in books can lead to aggressive acts in real life. The type of violence found in books and committed by criminals can be defined as anything which causes harm, such as hostile
At the age of ten, Edward Isham threw the first punch that led down the long road of a violent lifestyle (Bolton, 1). He grew up without a mother and with an alcoholic and a womanizer role model of a father (Bolton, 102). Unlike most, Isham was uneducated and not involved in the church after being kicked out of both (Bolton, 2). His far from average and tumultuous childhood mirrored his far from average life (Bolton, 101). Edward Isham’s life was not one of a typical poor white man because of his work circumstances, his relationships, and his extremely violent lifestyle.
While in the forest, “Each had a rifle in his hand, each had hate in his heart and murder uppermost in his mind… but a man who has been brought up under the code of a restraining civilization cannot easily nerve himself to shoot down his neighbor in cold blood” (4). In the story as they held the weapon in their hand, there was a slight hesitation with the overwhelming thoughts of violence roaming their minds. They knew violence wasn’t the answer but they were letting the tension surrounding them and their emotions get to them. Even though they knew one would die, they still risked their lives because of this this
Corey was walking home from school one afternoon when he saw two men arguing in the middle of the road. In the beginning he was entertained by the argument so he figured he would stand there to find out what the brawl was about. After a couple minutes passed the two men began to get louder and a fight broke out. Back and forth, the two men exchanged punches and one man was tackled to the ground. The stronger man got up and pulled out a gun and began to shoot the other man.
One of the most interesting factors in McDonagh’s The Pillowman is the different types of violence in the play those are somehow justified and are treated in such an intricate and complex way that it becomes really hard to know the boundaries between who is the victim and who is the perpetrator. During the play, these types of violence can be touched by the audiences easily. The only thing that is necessary for people, is just to understand the different types of violence. As it mentioned before, violence is the use of physical or emotional force so as to injure, abuse, damage, or destroy something or somebody and it can be classified into nine different types.
In the article “Everyday Aggression Takes Many Forms” the researchers conducted an experiment to see how aggression affects people’s everyday lives. People from different age groups were used to answer many questions pertaining to aggression and conflict. This experiment talks about what aggression is, the types of aggression, and the people affected by aggression. The researchers started this experiment by explaining the meaning of aggression and how it is sometimes misunderstood with the word assertiveness.
According to the World Health Organization, violence in healthcare settings can be physical or psychological. Physical violence is the use of physical force such as kicking, slapping, beating, shooting, punching, biting, against any other person or group, which causes harm to the victim. On the other hand, psychological violence is verbal abuse, that is; hounding, harassment, threatening against another person or group. To sum it up, violence, in whatever form, results in the harm of the mental, physical, spiritual, moral, and social development of the victim. (World Health Organization
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated”. Do you know who says this quote? It came from a famous person from India, Mahatma Gandhi. Nowadays, many animals are abused and injured. The worst thing is when they become experimental material for chemical products experiments.
(sources used) i. Violence (criminal behavior) ii. Aggression iii. Mental
The violent conflict approach is defined through coercion, threats, and destructive assaults. Galtung’s, model suggests that each of these components influence one another, and while each
