The Plight of Inner City Youth

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This paper is a comparison between a film and a chapter out of a sociology book. They both focus on the perspectives of poor minorities in inner cities. "Light It Up" is a movie about inner city youths and their fight to improve their public schools. "Race And Fate", a chapter from the book, "Inner Lives And Our Social Worlds," looks at residents of a poor black neighborhood and provides various looks at history. Many topics are covered in this paper, including the conditions in which these people live and work, the curse that seems to make misconceptions about minorities worse, the cause of the suffering that is endured every day by the social underclass, and how the depressing atmosphere of the film helped to illustrate the sadness and frustration that these students feel everyday.

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"The movie "Light It Up", written and directed by Craig Bolotin, provides a very powerful perspective on how conditions in a Queens, NY high school led to a student uprising which eventually escalated to a hostage situation that would make national headlines. Incensed and disillusioned by budget cuts, a negative perception of the students, and the firing of a well-venerated teacher, six students went to great lengths to have their voices heard. What began as a voicing of their displeasure leads eventually to a standoff with the police, a wounded police officer, and the battle of a lifetime."

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