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Chapter Three Summary Slater introduces chapter three with telling us that David Rosenhan was greatly ill towards the end of his life. Slater later tells us that Rosenhan and eight of his friends fake they’re way into different mental hospitals just by saying “I’m hearing things”. In fact, Slater wanted to see how the psychiatrist can see the sane from insane. Later, Robert Spitzer gave Rosenhan rude criticism about his experiment.
I believe that Steve Harmon is innocent. There are many reasons to believe this. For one “bobo” Evans placed him at the crime scene but Mr. Evans and Mr. King according to Mr. Evans testimony were on drugs. So Steve Harmon could have just happened to be their. Since both Mr. Evans and Mr. King were on drugs i don’t believe that their statements are valid.
During his time studying these boys, he found that most cases of conflict were resolved without the use of weapon(s), but rather with “harsh conversation”. This observation highly contradicts the typical view of gang members who are commonly stereotyped by their local community and justice system in Oakland. Rios describes how the boys “Conversations often involved references to guns as analogies for resolving conflict and demonstrating manhood”. The fact that most conflicts are dealt with in non-violent ways, highlights the negative role
It means that Steve wasn’t guilty and he is still innocent because there wasn’t enough evidence. Steve is innocent until there is enough evidence to prove him guilty. The author wrote, ‘“He is innocent until proven guilty.”’ (Myers 26-27). He is not guilty because he didn’t go into the store that day.
Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers is a novel that will keep you on your toes. Inspiration, courageousness, nervousness, and depression are all the emotions you feel while reading Lockdown. A topic based around someone making a mistake and ending up in jail isn’t easy to digest, but when the prisoner is only fourteen it’s unbelievable. While reading this book it was quite obvious Walter Dean Myers arranged a lot of research for this novel, it was written very well and full of facts. Hearing stories of gang violence, drug abuse, and shootings is a big wake up call for anyone who interprets this novel it reallys make you realize how grateful you should be for what you have.
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
Was Steve Harmon guilty of felony murder? I think it is possible that Steve Harmon is guilty of the crime. But, it is equally possible that he is not. He may of lied but, that doesn't say he did do the crime. some reasons why he could be guilty are that he did know King and Bobo, but he claims they were only acquaintances.
If you were blamed for a crime you didn’t do, would you let that accusation go and let it tarnish your reputation? Would you let it fly by and have others judge from every angle? No, right? Normally people who get accused of crimes demand justice as they know they did not commit the crime and only justice can give them the freedom they deserve. But let’s look at Steve Harmon, the main character from the book Monster by Walter Dean Myers who was on trial for murder.
How well Wes Moore describes the culture of the streets, and particularly disenfranchised adolescents that resort to violence, is extraordinary considering the unbiased perspective Moore gives. Amid Moore’s book one primary theme is street culture. Particularly Moore describes the street culture in two cities, which are Baltimore and the Bronx. In Baltimore city the climate and atmosphere, of high dropout rates, high unemployment and poor public infrastructure creates a perfect trifecta for gang violence to occur. Due to what was stated above, lower income adolescent residents in Baltimore are forced to resort to crime and drugs as a scapegoat of their missed opportunities.
Early memories of violence play a significant role in Geoffrey Canada's Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America and Richard Wright's Black Boy. Both had experiences being rob as very young boys and both found this memory crucial enough to include it at the beginning of their memoir. While their stories echo one another in many ways, there are also important differences. Both Canada and Wright experience a share of violence and fear, however Wright had to fight his own battle and conquered his fear but Canada still suffer with fear and constant violence.
Scott Monks introduces the reader to his book about boys and gangs, growing up in an area where it is a norm to be in a gang and leadership in a gang. Introducton: The story of the book, Boyz “r “us deals with Mitchel, (Mitch) and gangs in the 1990’s in Marrickville, an inner suburb of Sydney. The toughness of boys growing up in extreme circumstances, poverty, one parent families, dysfunctional families. Juvenile delinquencies of boys and siblings, assaults and wilful damage.
Although humans are complicated species in terms of behavior, there are guidelines that differentiates between them and classifies them to either a good person or a monster. Turning a person from one to the latter is possible though by a sequence of events that can take a person’s life south and change him into a monster even though he was good in the beginning. Being a monster is really dependent on the perception of what you do, what you act like in the eyes of the people, and the social organizations like schools, clubs, courts, and ….etc. . It is dependent also on the perception of the person himself to his acts and what he is. That is what happened in the novel Monster to Steve Harmon who was merely a teenager at the time that was in the middle of judging a murder case which he was
The two possible themes would include self-doubt and reflection on past decisions. The story line within the book includes Steve Harmon’s misconception in himself and who he has become. This shows the doubt in the screenplay of the story and Steve’s journal, where he mentions whether or not knowing himself as a normal human being versus a suspect on trial for murder. “They say you get used to being in jail, but I don’t see how. Every morning I wake up and I am surprised to be here.
In this novel, Steve is affected by his culture especially in the courtroom. This is widely portrayed towards the end of the book where the text says, “It’s probably those crack people. They say they’ll do anything for that stuff.” (Myers 118). This shows how culture affects the novel because in that community it’s common that people have drugs.
Americans the past few years have started switching to satellite radio whether it is Sirius or XM radio. More cars now are being built with satellite as a feature and buyers usually can test it out for free the first three months of the cars life. Both of these types of radios are around because of investors ( Vivian, 2013, pg.57). Even though there are many different pros and cons to satellite and local radio, people have their own preferences that don’t seem to change.
