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A highlight of my best work:

            My essay on education and public safety was one of my highlighted works that showed my growth.

            I had to write about the public safety in Boston or in the country and what were the important matters that had to be mentioned. In my paper, I mentioned that violence is happening all over in our communities and in OUR HOMES. The second paper discussed youth activism and how the youth can/is involved in their communities.

            The public safety in Boston has gotten terrible and the violence is still increasing. In my paper, I mentioned that the youth were part of the majority of violence was occurring and how we need to make an effort to change it. In the beginning of the paper, I stated how the majority of the violence is happening due to the youth and gang involvement. There are tactics that can be done to stop the problems but without understanding the people involved, we are not going to be able to stop it.

            I stated how the youth need motivation and guidance to overcome the negative things in their lives and they need a positive role-model to help them through the right path. The youth have too many adults looking at them in a pessimistic view that they [themselves} also think that way which needs to their involvement in gang violence.

            In attempt to stop the homicides in Boston, the police and other associated organizations had come together and organized the Boston Gun Project and Operation Ceasefire. These organizations main goal were to: focus in deterrence strategies to prevent gang violence and direct law enforcement attack on illicit firearms traffickers supplying youth in guns. Their strategy was to prevent “gang violence by reaching out to gangs,” and understanding why they are involved in violent acts. With Operation Ceasefire, homicides, results had showed a large reduction of violence of 63%, displaying a positive outcome of their action plan.

            In the youth activism essay, I cited the active youths around the world. There are many problems that this nation has to deal with; a majority coming from the racial differences that people have against each other.

  

         The stereotype, ephebiphobia (extreme fear of youth) has caused adults to keep themselves isolated from the youth. If adults keep the fear of youth then we are not ever going to work together to get things accomplished. Society does not focus on0 terms, like Americanization, positionality, essentialism and hegemony used to today. Americans are openly racist or take part in practices that maintain structural racism. A lot of people benefit from it and help continue its existence by following society's conventions and participate in its routines. Illustrations of this truth are accepting the negative stereotypes, moving to segregated suburbs, taking advantage of limited job networks, etc. In so many ways, Americans are agreeing to structural racism without knowing it.

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