Ghetto

Kendrick Lamar, a rapper born and raised in Compton, California, declared “I’m trapped inside the ghetto and I’m not proud to admit it, institutionalized, I keep running back for a visit” in his most recent album. As a successful artist who has undoubtedly acquired the means to escape the ghetto, why would he ever return? Ta-Nehisi Coates would say this is one of the common problems that affects African Americans today according to his article The Case for Reparations. There is a genuine need…

Eric Tang’s “Unsettled”, shows that Cambodian refugees being treated unfairly and put in the hyper ghetto is an important literature that shows that the resettlement in the camps was not the solution for a better living standard. This is the denial of human rights against Cambodians in the US or is not that different from the Khmer Rouge. In this paper, I will argue about there are not that much difference in treatment inside the settlement camp and the Khmer Rouge. First, the reason that…

17th and Broadway in Indianapolis, Indiana, informing them of King’s untimely passing. Kennedy, who had been in Indianapolis for the Democratic Presidential Nominations, went to the rally, which was set in the heart of Indianapolis’ African-American ghetto. Kennedy makes the claim to this captive audience, “we have to make an effort to understand, to get beyond, or to go beyond these rather difficult times”. It is believed that due to Kennedy’s speech, Indianapolis was one of the only cities…

which everyone has blonde hair and blue eyes, and his high rank of power in Germany. In 1933 Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany which is when the Holocaust destruction plans began to be made. Not long after Jews began to be placed into the ghettos. In 1938 the "Final Solution", Hitler 's plan to exterminate all Jews, took its first step of the process. Hitler’s…

to wash their hands. He lives in a mansion with his grandmother and 4 birds, where he spends his nights crocheting bird socks for his Etsy store named “Flock N’ Socks.” Makya Mitchell, also a star on the “Real Housewives of Lux,” somewhat on the ghetto side. Her best friend, Amiyah, eventually starts running around with her ‘boo’, JD Winda. Makya and…

Often times being alone can portrayed as loneliness but in this particular situation, this is not the case. Growing up as a child in Bakersfield, CA was not the easiest due to the abundant amount of ghetto neighborhoods. Yes, the ghetto was my environment growing up as a child and I am not proud but I am not embarrassed of it. I found out early on in my childhood that my freedom wouldn’t be galore; I recall a time where I had asked my father if I could ride my bike around the block instead of…

day the Nazi soldiers tell you that you are being transported to Auschwitz because you are so sick. You say farewell to life and give up on the dream of being saved. But, finally your prayers have been answered. American soldiers storm into your ghetto and start to shoot the Nazi soldiers. Someone tells you to run and you don’t waste a second. You run as fast as your frail, starved body can take you. You round a corner and see soldiers summoning prisoners into a truck and they tell you to…

their car and drew their weapons and ordered them to get out of the car. Without properly identifying themselves as officers of the law, how would Bell know he wasn’t simply experiencing a typical carjacking like the everyday things that happen in the ghetto, so Bell rammed a Police Officer to escape and the officers unloaded over 50 bullets into the van. Bell was shot 4 times in the neck and was pronounced DOA, while his friend was shot 20 times and survived, the other victim was shot 5 times…

The Holocaust, which was also known as the ‘Ha-Shoah’, that is the Hebrew word for ‘catastrophe’. The Holocaust was the genocide ran by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime in which killed six million Jews during World War 2. The word ‘Holocaust’ originated from the Greek words “Holo” meaning whole and “Kaustos” meaning burned (The Holocaust). The Holocaust began in 1941 and lasted until 1945 during the time of World War 2 and originated in Germany, which then spread across Europe. The Holocaust is…

usually fenced in with barbed wire or were surrounded by walls. They did not want people leaving or entering. All of them were eventually destroyed as the Jews were deported to death camps. In these ghettos, there were thousands of people confined in a very small area. The Warsaw Ghetto was the most famous ghetto holding nearly 400,000 Jews in a three and a half square mile area. This place normally had about 160,000 people living there on average. They did not get enough food and the Jews were…