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    My theme for this web-text will be based on the inner-city life and inner cities themselves. Many of us who grew up in the inner-city have gone through a lot in life, many of us are lucky to be here, right here, right now. Inner cities…
  • COMM 101 (genre 1)
    In this this speech which I listened to in my other class, COMM 101. I watched a student give a speech on Inner City life and how the government don’t help fund these schools. Within his speech he gave a lot of raw emotion. What was very compelling about the speech this speech was that…
  • Conclusion page
    As a nation, we can make changes by bringing more awareness to this. Being from these parts of the world and of this country, I have learned and fueled my mind with much of the differences between living in the inner cities, as well as living in the suburbs of Bellevue. Things can be changed…
  • About the author page
    My name is Nery Cardona, I am currently a student at Western Washington University. I chose this theme because this is what represents me, the inner cities and the people in the inner cities is what I am. I also chose the inner cities because I grew up in an inner-city lifestyle living in Guatemala,…
  • The Inner-City Mother Goose (genre 2)
    With the poems within “The Inner-City Mother Goose” Eve Merriam explained and emphasized on these different styles of writing in their poems. Many of these are controversial, in a way they go deeper into the meaning of black and brown neighborhoods. Eve Merriam was able bring these two worlds together and make this book which…
  • Boyz n the Hood (genre 3)
        When I was thinking of which films would be the best to represent a life in the inner-city, or best explain how bad the inner-city life is, Boyz n the Hood came straight to my mind. This hood drama written and directed by John Singleton, director. Boyz n the Hood. Sony Pictures Home…
  • My Bloody Life (genre 4)
    In genre 4 in a book written by Reymundo Sanchez titled My Bloody Life. He writes plainly and powerfully, about his tragic tale living in the inner-cities of Chicago. In this book he goes into detail about the things that these young runaways must go through in their daily lives, in their life all they…
  • Tupac Shakur "Changes" (genre 5)
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G6ro-c0C5E   Changes by Tupac Shakur is a hip-hop song, this song makes references of the treatment of black and brown people by the government, racism, the war on drugs, and the perpetuation of poverty and the difficulties of life in the inner-city (the ghetto). Changes has been one of my favorite songs that…

My theme for this web-text will be based on the inner-city life and inner cities themselves. Many of us who grew up in the inner-city have gone through a lot in life, many of us are lucky to be here, right here, right now. Inner cities have a big problem, and many are blind to the problems they have. The inner cities are of controlled by the government and in the end they don’t help fund nor support the inner-city schools, in the same way they don’t help the people/community whom are living in them.