The Lost Generation Research Paper

Growing up in the early 1960’s to 1970’s was a tough time for my parents but not just them everybody. This was because of all the negative that was around them. There were many things for kids their age to do, and they took the better route in life. Compared to now, the gang banging is not something that you see a lot of today. Both my parents grew up in this time period and my dad has a different outlook on life. The things that are going in today’s society are from when my father was child. It was never an easy to travel down being a young black man with a family at the age of sixteen. Some people even label Generation X as the lost Generation, because there was so much going on in life and who what would come out of all. There was even a show here in Little Rock Arkansas called “Banging in Little Rock”. Due to this show you can really see why they are being nicknamed the Lost Generation. The mayor at the time was Jim Dailey, and he didn’t think Arkansas had a gang problem until they aired the show on HBO. Then he started to look at things differently and wonder how he let this get out of control. Mayor Jim Dailey thought …show more content…
I myself have firsthand experience the issue, my little sister created one of the gangs called “Trap Girls.” She and a few of her friends would do things that a normal girls their age would do. My sister at the time was only fifteen years old, but she didn’t seem to care about anybody in the family that she was hurting. Trap Girls was only the beginning I started seeing others gangs that were being brought into the community for younger children to join. These gangs that were being made up was not like the early 1960’s and 1970’s, they didn’t just go around killing people because of the colors that they were wearing. They did however start a lot of fights at different schools, which was the worst part because they would become a