Gang Book Reviews Samples For Students

Many have rated the book Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness In The West (1985) as an artwork in American literature and even as Cormac McCarthy continues to publish books it has remained to be his masterpiece.
Blood Meridian is regarded as one of McCarthy’s best writing as it is a multilayered and complex reexamination of the American West mythology. Blood Meridian is defined as a historical novel as it adds in events that are documented chronicling the gang of Glanton who are hunters between the years of 1849-1850 before evolving to a band of ragged villains who murder and ...

Abstract:

This is a review of the book Monster – The Autobiography of an LA Gang member in which the principal character Monster Cody relates his experiences as part of a gang in Los Angeles in the 1970’s and 80’s

Summary:

The book is a classic firsthand account of a gang member called ‘Monster Cody’ who was active in of the notorious black gangs in Los Angeles. He was active in the gang from the tender age of 11 to 27 and some of the experiences he recounts are pretty harrowing. Naturally some of the narration is rather gruesome as Kody relates several instances ...

Alex Kotlowitz follows the lives of two young boys, Lafeyette Rivers and Pharaoh Rivers, in their Chicago neighborhood, living in the Henry Horner Project, a housing scheme for underclass black people. The boys grow up in a rough neighborhood, where the only option is to join a gang once they enter adolescence. Their mother is 35 years old, and she had eight children, among whom, one is serving a jail term and the second born, an eighteen-year-old, has been arrested for a record forty-six times, making him a strong candidate to serving jail terms like his elder brother. When ...

“The Monkey Wrench Gang” is a novel that was written by Edward Abbey an American famous and fictitious author who lived between years 1927 to the year 1989.The novel was published in the year 1975. The novel is important as far as environmental issues are concerned as it talks about the use of sabotage to protest against environmental damaging. The environmental damaging activities had been witnessed in the Southwest United States. Abbey was influenced by the term “monkeywrench", and this was interpreted to mean any sabotage machine that was used to fight for environmental conservation in the Southwestern United ...

The Outsiders is a two weeks narration of a 14-year-old boy’s life. The novel narrates the story of a boy named Ponyboy Curtis, and his struggle to differentiate between good and bad within a society that he believes views him as an outsider. Ponyboy has two brothers named Darrel, aged 20, and Sodapop, aged 16. The three are recently orphaned, having lost their parents their parents having met their demise in an automobile accident. The two minors, Sodapop and Ponyboy, are allowed to live under Darrel’s care, on condition that they maintain good behavior. The boys are ...

Federico’s Ghost by Martin Espada is an intriguing poem of advocacy which attempts to give a voice to those who do not have a chance to speak and who are alone in the world. This suggests an intertwining of aesthetics and politics especially in this poem which refers to the ghost of a child who appears to help those which are currently oppressed.
The poem deals with the story of a young boy who is called Federico and who works tilling the land in tomato fields, back breaking work for almost no pay in a desperately poor family who do not have ...

The book revolves around two young men both with the same name Wes and who happen to share the same challenges of growing up in a poor neighbourhood, the people they interact during their growing stage and how those people shaped their lives in contributing on the decisions that they made that changed their fate.The book is divided into eight chapters, each chapter discussing the development stages and the changes that the two Wes encounter in life as they grew up. For the purpose of his paper I will consider two of the concepts which we can learn from this ...

Project DARE has been developed in the nation as a school-based drug-education program that receives an annual funding of over $200 million, with the aim of equipping elementary school children with skills for resisting peer pressure to experiment with tobacco, drugs, and alcohol. In my opinion the idea is great, and is effective for the first two years but then wears off and hence is not effective with high school and college where peer pressure and contact with drugs is seen amongst juveniles, this is explained in the book “Juvenile Delinquency”, Eighth Edition, by Clemens Bartollas and Frank Schmalleger. They ...

Book Review

Williams, S. T., & Barbara Cottman B. (1998). Life in prison. New York: Morrow Junior Books.
The book is a non-functional preface by a Swiss legislator explaining why he nominated Williams for a Nobel Prize, and an effusive if evasive foreword by collaborator Becnel, quickly get out of the way for the real appeal of this volume. A cofounder of the notorious Crips gang in California gives an account of his life on death row, convicted for four murder charges. Williams opens his account of what it feels like to be in a death row at by stating, “Prison is hell. This is ...

Question 1:

Kennedy and his team have created a data-driven approach. They aren’t just guessing or using their best judgment about what makes sense. Explain how Kennedy and his team use and rely on data in designing the violence and drug intervention programs and – once the programs are functioning – to evaluate whether they are working.
Kennedy’s team are very much data driven in their approach as they tend to focus on the rude statistics which indicate that criminals have a lot of avenues to choose when it comes to rooting out the causes and effects of crime in the various ...

Patrick Murphy’s leadership style focused greatly on accountability; he wanted to make sure people were held responsible for their actions and those under them. (p. 33). When Murphy took over the police force, he “considered himself a reform agent,” deciding he needed to clean house to get rid of the ghosts that were rampant in Leary’s tenure as commissioner. Believing that there was too much splintering and division within the department, he sought to bring everyone back together and eliminate this sort of waste.

Murphy also took special effort to curb corruption any way he could; he opted ...