Fritz Lang’s film, “M”, showcases the power, influence, and negative side effects that mob mentality can ultimately lead to. Mob mentality is not new to this world and our modern culture, which is evidenced in both “M” as well as in the culture of Nazi Germany. To start, Nazi Germany was flooded with Hitler’s personal beliefs and ideals and those beliefs made their way into the minds of many German citizens. WIth Hitler as their leader and controlling dictator, many people felt an actual need to agree with him and support his beliefs by looking down on anyone that did not fit their “perfect”standards. People would go around feeling pressured to hate those “lesser” than them and proceeding to fake their actions in order to please those around them.
There’s a hierarchy to gangs. There is the top dog, or the one who is above everyone and got there by his own means. This could mean he killed the original top dog, or he created the gang himself. The second would be the OG’s of the gang; they make sure everyone is on task. Then there are the members who know their place and know their jobs.
During the peak of the Nazi regime in World War II, concentration camps were crafted to efficiently and systematically exterminate the Jewish race. The American director and actor Tim Blake Nelson directed a film depicting a gruesome story out of one of the concentration camps called “The Grey Zone.” The movie, which was released to American theaters on October 18th, 2002, takes place in the concentration camp “Auschwitz-Birkenau” in autumn of 1994. One of the prisoners, Hoffman, became part of the kammando inside the camp.
Rodriguez speaks for most of the gang population when he assumes that most of them were involved because they had very few resources both at home, school and in the workforce. Rodriguez spends a lot of time demonstrating his experience while in school. He is often kicked out because of his violence issues, however even when he is in school the
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.
When involved in a gang you feel there is no way out, nobody understands your struggle and your chances of dying is 60% more than the average person. It is important to reach out to the youth and Art Rodriguez has done a great job contributing to that cause. The gang life I can relate too. In my experience and in the music that the older homies use to influence their young recruits always explain the struggle that once you are in there is no way out.
When the narrator was in Harlem, the narrator garners a better articulation of himself. The Brotherhood, which is a fictional version of many civil rights groups that sought to achieve social and economic equality, held many acts and speeches. The narrator was at one point the leader of the Harlem division, which shows a similarity to Nation of Islam. The narrator was peaceful, like Martin Luther King, but his competing ally, Ras the Destroyer was more aggressive, like Malcolm X. He believed that they had to “fight for the liberty of the black people” (Ellison 375) and that the power must be placed back into the hand of black folk in order for them to form their own identity. Ras evened envisioned the identity when he highlights “black intelligence” (Ellison 375).
Robinson joined a neighborhood gang because he was discluded from all activities. After graduating from his previous high school, he enrolled
Analyzing Hoss’ childhood to his time in prison is very important because it shows how Hoss was shaped into obeying orders from higher authority and how he developed a sense of duty and devotion to protecting Germany. Hannah Arendt, the author of Origins of Totalitarianism, explains that National Socialism was a totalitarian ideology that built itself on the idea that higher authority from Himmler and Hitler was never to be judged whether they were right or wrong because by following these orders
In the United States, every year there are around 2,000 gang-related homicides and in the realistic fiction novel, The Outsiders, by S.E Hinton, it explores the issues of gang violence, and teenagers in gangs. Around 40% of all members in gangs are teenagers, who are getting involved in some dangerous things very early in life. In the novel The Outsiders, the “Greasers” which is a gang of all teenagers, fight other gangs and commit serious crimes such as murder. We as a society need to pinpoint why teenagers join gangs and stop them beforehand. We also need to help people get out of gangs if they are already in one.
However the gang did bring some sort of structure to the Robert Taylor Projects, the only interest that JT, the gang leader, has was profiting off of the drug addictions of his community. Often throughout the book Venkatesh contrasts the effects of having low and high level of gang activity, arguing that teenagers with “appetites for crime” would have possibly been involved in misdemeanors, small crimes such as vandalism and shoplifting but with the emergence of JT and the heavy gang activity, they are more likely “to be involved in the drug trade”(72). One of the effects of having high gang activity is how more
C. Wright Mills C. Wright Mills played a very large role on society in the past, as well as now. He critiqued sociology, causing people to see it in a different way. Multiple things played a role in his reasoning for doing this and why it actually worked. His upbringing was one of the largest things that caused him to see sociology in this way and actually speak up about it. His many books and ideas, then impacted sociology by showing this new perspective that he had created.
Him and his gang would do all sorts of Relates to the prompt because: he joined the gang so he didn’t feel lonely. By him joining the gang, his future was destroyed. An example about when my cousin lived in Colombia, she grew up in the middle/poor class. Many of the women there were prostitutes. They were very beautiful, had money, didn’t need an education.
Gang violence is a growing problem in this world. No parent would like to imagine their kids dealing with weapons or being threatened by them. These violence’s affects each child individually and their families as well. These gangs recruit multiple different individuals for many reasons such as bribery, family traditions, or even threatening. Although, many kids feel like they have to be a part of it but there are many resources out in this world to prevent them from believing so.
Even though some members face incarceration the street culture is most often transferred into the prison system and gang operations continue which often results in hits being called on people from within the prison walls. Although a major concern of residents is the more organized and violent gangs, the start-up gangs also instill fear in residents when troublesome behaviors involve intimidation, vandalism, graffiti, and occasional drug sales (Weisel, 2002,
